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...British heavy cruiser and the aircraft carrier Hermes were ordered to immobilize, by persuasion or force, the one remaining capital ship of France's Navy not already knocked out or taken over by Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting eight 15-inch guns and a bristling mass of lesser armament, lay somewhat ahead in the tropic darkness, inside a net-boom in the harbor of Dakar. Smaller French warships lay there, too, to protect her, and all were well warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander...
Huge crowds jammed the docks in Montevideo harbor one morning last week, cheered loud & long as the sleek, grey U. S. S. Quincy steamed slowly up to the quay. No automobiles were permitted within two blocks of the wharf and heavy guards kept the crowds far from the cruiser's berth. But when sailors came ashore they were greeted with enthusiastic cries of "Viva Roosevelt!" "Viva los Estados Unidos...
Last week Spanish fishermen quit working off the Irish coast because they saw too many U-boats to suit them. One torpedoed the 13,950-ton British merchant-cruiser Andania...
...through a vast 40,000-mile theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining the approaches to Venice and the waters around Italy's heel...
With three echoing cheers for Juliana, three more for a free Holland, the plump blue-clad jack-tars of the Dutch cruiser that brought the war's first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible...