Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Brauchitsch who left last week for the Western Front, the agony of Warsaw only increased. As the Vistula flows through Poland's former Capital, Warsaw was sliced by the Military Division theoretically into German and Soviet parts. But the whole city continued to resist while the High Commands carved it up on paper...
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...
...timers said it surely must be another great sea battle. Firing sounded either deep in the Skagerrak where a line of British destroyers had been reported, or farther east on the Kattegat. The police chief of Laesö Island said he saw, through field glasses from a high hill, a thin line of ships in the northeast. Two reporters ventured out in a fast motorboat but found nothing...
...Finnish and one Swedish vessel, all carrying woodpulp to Great Britain, were torpedoed by U-boats during the week. Woodpulp (cellulose for explosives) is high on Germany's contraband list. The week's losses attributed to U-boats were 25,452 tons (a decline of 41.416 tons from the week prior), bringing totals for all flags to 47 ships, 196.925 tons. > Great Britain's Ministry of Information last week claimed that their seizures of war materials destined for Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates...
...Chamberlain" himself, darkly muttering a ditty, who stole the show: I'm Watty the warden from Wandsworth With helmet and gas mask complete. . . . When the bombers on high Drop their gas from the sky I'll waggle my rattle until they pass...