Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile" to Russia. These attacks redoubled in fury last week as Soviet stations screamed that the pint-size Russian freighter Metallist had been "torpedoed in Estonian waters" with a loss of five proletarian lives by a "mysterious submarine...
...Captain Schultze" also said he was the man who torpedoed the Royal Sceptre on September 7, whose 32 survivors turned up last week in Bahia, Brazil aboard the British freighter Browning (minus their Captain Mestre, who apparently went down with the ship). "Schultze" said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message...
...replied with new menace to Britain's step of mounting guns on merchant vessels. "On the ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
...German theme is the familiar one that Britain is an imperialistic aggressor, but the favorite targets have been Britain's inept Ministry of Information (see p. jp) and Winston Churchill. Berlin last week caught Britain red-handed in a BBC report of the torpedoing of the freighter Royal Sceptre (see p. 34), in which it was said that, according to a message, all hands had drowned. Who then, Berlin asked, survived to send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared...