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...Tactic." The German war communique of Saturday, July 27, told of successful air attacks on "port facilities at Cardiff, Aberthoaw and Hastings . . . the railroad junction at Tunbridge Wells and big oil tanks at Thames Haven." Significantly Telegrafo, the Leghorn daily owned by Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, who visited Hitler and Goring in Berlin last fortnight, observed over the weekend: ". . . To those- and they are millions-who are asking, 'When will the great hostilities against the British Isles begin?', yesterday's communique seems to reply, 'But don't you see that it has already begun...
They smashed at Copenhagen's docks and shipyards. They played havoc at a favorite old spot, the many-railed freight yards and junction of Hamm. At Bremen they smacked the big Focke-Wulf aircraft plant where a new twin-tailed fighter with "swallowed" engine is being turned out, said to fly 400 m.p.h. Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant...
...lawyers turned up in a U. S. district court, slapped down a suit for $1,000,000 damages, got an injunction restraining LIFE from publishing Dictator Chaplin's picture. To news dealers and subscribers had already gone 1,802,325 copies, which were not included in the in junction. In the 1,112,625 copies still to be distributed, LIFE'S editors substituted a news shot of Henry Ford inspecting Army pursuit planes...
Canal above Liege and the Meuse below it, slanting across north of Namur to reach the Flanders plain and drive for Louvain and Brussels, the French took action. They sent in their own tank regiments. Around the highway junction of St. Trond one fine May day, and around Gembloux, 100 miles northeast of the Somme where nine British tanks first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported that 1,500 to 2,000 tanks milled, in scenes which, from the air, looked like a giant's parking lot gone mad. Both sides claimed the best...
...railway junction, 40 miles south of Cambrai, Henry found a place in an auto mobile bound for Paris. Thin, tall Scots man Philip waited for a train, caught one four hours later. A few miles down the line the train halted while customs officers examined his credentials. Cried one, noting Timesman Philip's strange uniform, his blue eyes and sandy hair: "You're a dirty German parachutist!" A crowd collected, screaming imprecations. Ordered to undress, Percy Philip stripped to his under wear while soldiers inspected the soles of his boots, felt the lining of his tunic. Then...