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Last week when the Ancon made an anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment of $366,650,000 in ditch digging...
...were murdered at Marseille in 1934 by a professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...
...able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will, in turn, be reinsured to a certain extent by the Government, to cover British merchantmen, their cargoes and the stock of goods stored in the country...
...have been attacked. Nearly half of these have been damaged or sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment to these attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While...
...command, the two-decker Sutherland- but the winds of romance blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets him ?5,000, storms.a French battery on the east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon...