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...flag came down from the White House staff; a haggard, grey-faced, weary President was whisked over slush-bound streets to his special train on the lower concourse of echoing Union Station. Prying newsmen had discovered Franklin Roosevelt was headed for Pensacola, guessed he would there board the cruiser Tuscaloosa. But every movement had been shrouded in gloomy mystery; trainmen acted as if they had sealed orders, knew only that they were headed south. For the first time since his Administration began, Franklin Roosevelt had not furnished the press with an exactly detailed itinerary of his trip. ". . . Submarines," said...
Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S. employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral...
...chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled a hot lava of diplomatic hate on Great Britain over a comparatively microscopic incident - the stopping of the liner Asama Maru by a British cruiser while 21 German reservists were taken off (TIME...
...Foreign Office. Britain had deliberately insulted Japan by halting a vessel "almost at the base of Mount Fuji" - i. e., 35 miles off shore. The Asama's unfortunate Cap tain Yoshisada Vatanabe was relieved of his job for "misconduct" - i. e., stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked her captain if he had heard...
...British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...