Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally carry 571 men, this feat almost made up for the loss of Royal Oak, certainly...
¶ Last week 19 Allied and neutral ships were sunk by mines, torpedoes and airplanes. Of the 19, 9 were British, 10 neutral.
†The others, all indicted by Germany: loss of the battleship Royal Oak (786 men), the aircraft carrier Courageous (579 men), the armed merchantman Rawalpindi (265 men).
"The Russian troops the Kremlin High Command has thrown against the eastern side of the Karelian bottleneck are probably the most miserable-looking creatures to be seen in uniform in this part of Europe since Napoleon's half-starved soldiers straggled back from Moscow. This is not anti-Bolshevist...
So wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the...