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...harbor (top right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away...
Last fortnight a mine got the destroyer Hostile and this week the Germans claimed two more destroyers were torpedoed. Last week the armed merchant cruiser Dunvegan Castle (15,007 tons) was torpedoed and sunk in the north Atlantic.* German submarine commanders apparently had orders to press boldly against British convoys. Refugees arriving in Canada last week told of four ships in their group being sunk far out in the Atlantic the day after their armed escorts left them. A ship carrying 320 British poor children to Canada was sunk off Ireland, all hands being saved except the purser. Italy last...
Assumption Day. On the morning of Aug. 15, the old Greek minelaying cruiser Helle dropped anchor off the Aegean island port of Tinos, carrying an official delegation to participate in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and bathe in the holy waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour...
...Mathematics for the Million, Dangerous Thoughts) who arrived in San Francisco from Norway after a 17,000-mile detour via Siberia and the Pacific; courtly, friendly Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, with his six children (they traveled on the U. S. cruiser Trenton, left the Grand Duchess in Lisbon); Genevieve Tabouis, fleeing from the Petain Government which had ordered her arrest...
...hook ranges east to Anegada Passage, between the Virgin Islands and the Leewards. Farther from major U. S. establishments, this defensive sector of the Caribbean is proportionately more vulnerable, but is currently being strengthened. Its strong points are Puerto Rico and St. Thomas. At San Juan a cruiser dock and naval workshop are in construction, and off San Juan Harbor at Isla Grande, a naval air base is being built. Completed, the U. S. defenses at Puerto Rico will also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable of operating more than 1,000 miles...