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...scrupulously to satisfy Secretary Knox. It published a picture of a British sailor being invalided home (he came into New York Harbor aboard the Empress of Asia) and captioned it "a bearded British tar whose ship was sunk in the Battle of Crete. . . ." All readers who glanced at the nameband on the sailor's hat (see cut, p. 45) got the erroneous information that H.M.S. Warspite had been sunk in Crete...
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