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...story usually starts with the teller being convicted of a felony. In a temporary prison at the citadel of St. Martin-de-Ré, in the Bay of Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English Tanker were hit, and the British oil tanker Maryat was destroyed. Although some British captains were reported as ready to give up the lucrative Spanish Leftist trade, in which handsome bonuses for safe deliveries have been handed out, off the ports...
...shipments to Germany since 1935 is $1,634,227-barely enough to kill 65 soldiers, since the average cost of a war death is estimated at $25,000. Last week, 20,000 bombs, sold by Atlas Powder Co. of Wilmington, Del. were hoisted aboard North German Lloyd's freighter, Frankcnwald, before the freighter upped anchor for Bremen. The bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would say but the best informed guess predicted...
Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...