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...stunts such as his aluminum-collecting campaign, is tight with legitimate ministerial news. The Beaver says: "My job is to produce airplanes, not publicity." He picked his own public-relations man, silver-haired, hard-boiled J. B. Wilson of the Express, to filter news from his Ministry, not to funnel...
...sprinkling of refugee women & children for evacuation to England. Nine Stukas dived on her, three at a time. The first two waves missed. The third connected, but none of the three planes came out of its dive. All crashed into the sea. One bomb went down the Lancastrians funnel. The liner heeled over, trapping hundreds of victims below decks. The water was filled with floundering survivors when the other planes returned, savagely machine-gunning lifeboats, rafts and swimmers. Fuel oil covered the water so the Stukas dropped incendiary bombs, set the entire scene ablaze. Dead: more than...
...Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed 21 others, all of them able-bodied seamen of military age, former Standard Oil employes being returned to Germany via Japan and Siberia. Japan promptly kicked...
...promenade deck, and afterwards a few more had managed to get in from the boat deck. The lifeboat itself was eventually freed from the ship and stood a good chance of safety. But as the Yorkshire sank she listed heavily to starboard and this lifeboat was capsized by the funnel, and we believe that the occupants were drawn down it by the inrush of water...
...taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there is not necessarily a hit, and the picture may have told the truth even...