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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...
Last week came explanation of a mystery which had puzzled the U. S. Maritime Commission and the U. S. State Department: where was the Commission's freighter City of Flint, which cleared New York City for Manchester on Oct. 3, and never arrived? One of her passengers, James G. McConnochie, popped up in Bergen, Norway, to explain that on Oct. 9, at about mid-Atlantic, City of Flint was overhauled by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, which put aboard her 38 survivors of the British freighter Stone-gate, torpedoed earlier by Deutschland. Finding that Flint carried oil in large...
...trim, single-funneled, 5,809-ton German freighter, deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...
...Only other raider to return to her base was Count Dohna-Schlodien's Moewe (Gull), a converted freighter like the Wolf and deadliest German raider (her bag was about 50 ships, including the battleship King Edward...
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...