Word: deutschland
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What distinguished the actual occupation was that the Führer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler...
...Atlantic, expects no reward for the rescues its ten ships so frequently effect. Last week, as luck would have it, the U. S. Liner American Traveler was just 70 miles off when fire broke out in the hold of the 21,046-ton, U. S.-bound Hamburg-American liner Deutschland 200 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. At the Deutschland's SOS the Traveler doubled back, stood by with the Norwegian Europe until the Germans whipped the fire...
Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...
...week's end, when the Dentschland reached Manhattan under its own steam, Captain Karl Steincke pooh-poohed the sabotage talk, left cause-finding to marine fire inspectors. A troublemaker since she was built in Hamburg in 1923, the Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
...starred as the Deutschland, but almost, was Passenger Thomas C. Smith, special disbursing officer of the U. S. Legation at Copenhagen, whose voyage home was his first vacation in ten years. Uncrossing his fingers when the ship pulled in, Vacationist Smith recalled two other vacations in the last 20 years or so. In 1917 he took a holiday in Petrograd, soon found himself sojourning in the midst of the Russian revolution. To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history...