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...submarine bases working along the long coast line they took from France in June. Startling was the official British admission last fortnight of 146,528 tons (plus 51,502 neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week was followed by the loss of the Empress of Britain on Oct. 26. Last week, in a report to Parliament which was otherwise fairly cheerful. Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced the black facts about Britain's oversea supply lines by saying...
...Admiralty claimed in 36 hours the air bombing-from Duncansby Head to Eastbourne and from Norwich to 325 miles west of Ireland-damage of not less than eleven ships (including two cruisers), totaling some 34,000 tons. They claimed to have bombed the 26,032-ton Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Japan, with several hundred Japanese aboard, but the Empress reached port safely with minor damage and no casualties...
Facing a classic pavilion near the Palace. 52,000 hand-picked Japanese waited. At the scheduled moment a crimson Rolls-Royce, preceded by the Imperial standard (sun flambant d'or, on field gules), crept out from the Palace grounds. The Emperor and Empress were greeted by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. With Imperial humility the Emperor bowed to the crowd. Finally Prince Konoye stepped to a microphone and. waving his arms, led all Japan, gathered from Hokkaido to Honshu at millions of radios, in the Japanese equivalent of three cheers: "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" Then the assembled 52,000 bowed toward...
Meantime the blazing Empress, her belly billowing smoke, paint sizzling off her like strips of bacon, was taken in tow. Up slipped a German submarine and finished her off with two torpedoes...
Since the British overhauled and the Germans scuttled at sea the 32,000-ton Columbus (TIME, Jan. 1), the Empress of Britain was by far the largest ship sunk in World War II. For Germany she was a huge and tasty morsel to top off a feast of British tonnage which U-boats and bombers have lately claimed in the sea lanes north and west of Ireland. Last fortnight's claim of 327,000 tons in one week was upped to 490,000 tons in ten days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress...