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...commission. First British air raid of World War II was on battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North Sea raids by sending bombers to Helgoland. The British story about this was: "In spite of formidable anti-aircraft fire, the attacks were pressed home at low altitude [i. e., dive bombing]. Some of our aircraft have not yet returned." The Germans claimed they shot down five out of six British planes, suffered no damage...
Hearing that the British Fleet was being divided to protect its coasts from submarine raids, Admiral Scheer of the bottled-up German High Seas Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled...
Ecstasy. Two-and-a-half hours later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb...
This was flattery. What followed was intended to impress Hungary's dictator. In a grand review 117 ships of the German Navy sailed past the Führer and the Regent. Admiral Horthy was then permitted to inspect the brand new, Nazi-rebuilt defenses of the island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, once dismantled under the Treaty of Versailles, now again a potent naval base...
...final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance is there that Germany may be appeased by being given some British mandated territory? Is anything going to be done about Germany's refortification of Helgoland in violation of the Versailles Treaty and in direct menace to Britain? Is Germany coming to the next Locarno Conference to which are also invited Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium? As these questions emerged in debate, Captain Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor...