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...North Atlantic into Norwegian territorial waters one day last week came a bulky grey German vessel of some 12,000 tons. She looked like a merchantman: some said she flew the Nazi naval flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims...
...version was that Norway's customs authorities at Bergen went aboard the Altmark but, honoring her service flag, did not search her. Norwegian officials claimed that the ship was stopped first outside of Trondhjem Fjord, did not call at any port. A Norwegian gunboat was assigned to escort her through Norway's territorial waters as she made for her home port, Hamburg...
...British Navy has sharp-eyed friends in Norway. The Altmark had not proceeded more than 100 miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her. Soon after, with express Admiralty orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead...
LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...
Bearded Zdansky was a pioneer in modern skiing technique. According to the Widener exhibit he invented the Lilienfeld binding, which is allegedly the first efficient harness. Zdansky, moreover, was an ardent exponent of the Alpine School, which came to blows more than once with the Norwegian school. At the turn of the century the dispute between the two schools was partially mitigated by a mutual acceptance of the telemark and the open christiania as the only proper turns. A photograph of the Kandahar race of 1930 shows innumerable different schools, all acceptable...