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...them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which radioed that it had been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed his course westward. (Word came later that the Miguet's crew had been rescued by the Black Diamond freighter Black Hawk...
...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...
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...