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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There won't be any adequate shelters provided until there is a change of policy after the first raid. Probably there will be 500 or more dead. That would be nothing in an indiscriminate bombing of 5,000,000 persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: ARP Bombed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...hard to grip war's facts. Most tangible important fact of last week was the statement (upon being landed safely in Great Britain) of Captain F. C. P. Harris of the freighter Clement, sunk early last month off South America's east coast. Captain Harris and his first engineer, W. Bryant, certified that the Nazi raider which kept them aboard five hours after sinking their Clement was the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. This identity could still be doubted by people who know that German sailors wear bogus hatbands some of the time, to confuse their victims; but English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Next most important claim of last week was that the British Home Fleet was not in Scapa Flow; had not been there, in good probability, since before Royal Oak was sunk by Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's submarine raid. Testator to this probability was First Flying Lieutenant Hermann von Bülow of the German Air Force, who explained in Berlin that the air raid on Scapa Flow, three days after Royal Oak was torpedoed, was a "cleanup job" left to his crowd by the Nazi naval arm. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...First Lieutenant Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...When the first torpedo struck, most of Royal Oak's officers & men scurried to battle stations beneath the ship's armor, thinking a plane must be bombing; a submarine attack was unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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