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Since that battle the "Newcastle" has been on the South Atlantic patrol, preventing German and Italian merchantmen from reaching South America, and now she is reclining at leisure in the Boston Yard
Down at the bottom of the sea lay the merchantmen Robin Moor (May 21); the Sessa*; (Aug. 17); the Steel Seafarer (Sept. 7); the Montana*; (Sept...
Soon in this new undeclared war a U.S. warship may sink or capture a Nazi sea or surface raider. And soon, if more U.S. merchantmen are sunk, the President must ask that merchant ships be armed. The Neutrality Act now forbids their carrying any arms beyond officers' pistols, but at the White House this week the President discussed with his Congressional advisers the advisability of asking Congress for a repeal of this section of the Act. Although no decisions were reached, this conference foreshadowed events to come. Eventually the Neutrality Act must be whittled down to the size...
Cheering news to the London-Washington Axis was Argentina's purchase for $12,000,000 (not transferable till after the war) of 16 interned Italian merchantmen, totaling 88,000 tons. Most of the vessels will go on the U.S. run, releasing American freighters for lease-lend service...
Although warning against undue optimism, Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee could not keep cheerfulness out of his voice last week when he reported to the House of Commons on the war at sea. "July was a good month," he said. Axis merchantmen to the tonnage of 459,000 (92 ships) were sunk, damaged or put out of action. Of these 291,000 tons were hit in the North Sea or the Atlantic; 168,000 tons in the Mediterranean...