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Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...
British hearts sank. The Rangitiki and Cornish City were members of a big convoy, perhaps 30 or 40 merchantmen, that had left Halifax a week prior, bound straight across to Great Britain. Even allowing for rough weather and zigzagging, they should have been nearly across instead of only halfway between Cape Race, N. F. and North Ireland. They were in a stretch between where their warship escorts from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed...
...Survivors of the British merchantmen King John (5,228 tons) and Davisian (6,433 tons), picked up near the West Indies last week, revealed the roving presence of an Axis raider-an armed merchantman, flying the Swedish flag-which sank their ships. R. N. at once started a painstaking hunt...
...Bank. Neder-landsche Handel Mij., Nederlandsche In-dische Escompto Mij. and Nederlandsch Indische Handelsbank). There also have moved the headquarters of the two larg est steamship companies (Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Nederland) in the Indies trade. In London, Manhattan and Batavia, operators of the Dutch fleet of 1,500 merchantmen have already set up joint offices and Dutch shipping is doing business as usual, except that Holland ports have been dropped from call, except that in war zones its ships join Allied convoys. Up to the time Germany invaded the Low Countries, Holland had lost more merchantmen to mines...
...squadron of Heinkels swooped on a British convoy near the Orkney Islands. They let go several tons of their "problem children." The British said three neutral merchant ships were hit and two had to be abandoned. The Germans said they dispersed the convoy, sank nine warships and merchantmen, totaling some 42,000 tons, damaged two merchantmen totaling 11,000 tons...