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COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The captured American freighter City of Flint, in command of a Nezi prize crew, tonight was reported racing at full speed through Great Britain's naval blockade off the southern coast of Norway in an attempt to reach a German port...
...This week Tass, official Russian news agency, reported that a German cruiser had seized the U. S. Maritime Commission's 4,963-ton vessel City of Flint (which rescued survivors of the Athenia), bound from Manhattan to Manchester with a contraband cargo of foods, cotton, sewing machines, plows, tractors, coffee, hair and feathers. The report said that 18 Germans had boarded the City of Flint and sailed her up around Scandinavia to Kola Bay, where Murmansk lies. The German Admiralty denied all knowledge of the incident...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The United States Government today asked Germany and Russia to surrender the American freighter City of Flint and her crew of 41, captured by a sea-raiding German warship in the Atlantic last Friday and taken to Kola Bay in the Arctic...
Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...
...other event brought the war over seas. At 9:25 on a grey morning a black-hulled little freighter called City of Flint, usually carrying six passengers, sailed into Halifax with 223 survivors of the torpedoed Athenia. The flag was at half-mast...