Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was 23 years ago. Last week, into Kola Bay, north of the Russian harbor of Murmansk, the U. S. freighter City of Flint dropped anchor and thereby posed for Russia a far less crucial test of its neutrality, the skill of its diplomats, the wisdom of its foreign policy. City of Flint was flying the German flag. It carried a German prize crew. Dramatic was the story of its seizure and flight. But last week the swift routine moves of the Russian Foreign Commissariat, the swift routine countermoves of the U. S. State Department, unexpectedly turned into something bigger...
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...
...Mess-boy Frank Elders of the British freighter Heronspool described that ship's running night fight with a U-boat. Excerpts...
...British cruiser last week chased the German freighter Havelland into Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico where she evidently intended to pick up gas and oil supplies. Same day the German tanker Emmy Friederich slid out of Tampico on Mexico's other coast, carrying 39,500 barrels of oil and a lot of livestock, lumber and cloth. She said she was bound for Malmö, Sweden, but observers guessed she had a U-boat rendezvous...
With German U-boats now sinking a Scandinavian freighter every few days in the North Sea, the angry question was being asked by Norwegians, Swedes and Danes, "Where is the British Navy? Is it leaving us to the mercy of Germany, or what...