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...crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist at Oslo...
Icelandic waters were infested with German so-called "fishing steamers" whose mother ship was the 5,400-ton Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations...
...Netherlands border from Emden down to Minister: 18 divisions...
...editor who wrote your story of Emden (TIME, Oct. 16) drew freely on his imagination, particularly in respect to the escape of the crew on board the Ayesha. Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mikke's account in his book Ayesha relates that the landing force of approximately 56 men, sent ashore by Capt. Miller to destroy the wireless station on Keeling Island (English), did just that and was caught ashore when the cruiser Sidney engaged and sank the Emden. Contrary to your romantic "jungle hiding," the landing party which was, of course, now in command of the island, outfitted...
...clock. At midnight coffee was served (also Christmas cookies), but not until 3 o'clock in the morning did anyone think of the time or of moving from their places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous exploits of the Emden and the unbelievable heroism of the trip from Keeling Island to Turkey. . . . The thing that struck us all and made the deepest impression was the almost complete lack of appearance of the pronoun "I" in any of the narrative...