Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central platform were General Shirakawa, commanding Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, Ambassador to China Shigemitsu, Admiral Nomura, commanding the Japanese Third Fleet, and several other army and navy men, consuls and vice-consuls, Woosung Road bigwigs...
...during the week children, mothers, the sick and aged were rapidly evacuated from Helsinki (see map) until this capital of 300,000 was half empty. Viipuri was also evacuated and blacked out nightly to match Helsinki, as though Soviet bombing raids were expected. A fleet of 21 Soviet planes was seen roaring over the Gulf of Finland, with Soviet warships cruising just outside Finnish territorial waters, and President Kallio promptly closed all Finnish ports in the Gulf. The entire Finnish merchant marine-Finland has the largest fleet of sailing ships of any nation-was ordered to take refuge away from...
...Churchill's declaration that Britain, France and Russia have a "common interest" in checking German agression. Moscow press and radio descriptions of Allied pulling of punches on the Western Front gave most Russians the definite impression that a truce to World War II was already at hand. Red Fleet, organ of the Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres can lead...
When the last Armistice was flashed, a minesweeping force sped into the Dardanelles and in 24 hours removed 600 British and enemy mines, to let the fleet move in to Istanbul. At home, Britain's mine-sweeping fleet contained 17,000 ships, with Great Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept...
...another American-the U. S. Naval Attaché in England, Captain Alan G. Kirk-to give Britain the last, happy word in the Ark Royal dispute. Capt. Kirk reported to the state department that in the course of a "routine official visit" to the Fleet, he attended church services and ate lunch aboard the Ark Royal, found her "not scratched...