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...Convention prohibits mining coasts or ports "with the sole object of intercepting commercial shipping." It also requires that warnings be issued about mine fields dangerous to neutrals, and that floating mines or mines breaking their moorings shall become harmless within one hour...
...mine field. Second Officer Thomas Gerard Green was guilty of wrongful default in not transmitting to Captain Fairburn messages received about the mine field, whose location was not marked on Sirdhana's chart. Second Officer Green was censured, Captain Fairburn deprived of his master's certificate for one year (but permitted to act as mate meantime...
...Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, sandy-haired citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when he was 15, designed his first plane in 1916, became chief engineer of Bayerische Flugzengwerke at Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with...
...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...
Design, performance, endurance are the true criteria of air superiority as between antagonists of nearly equal factory strength. New types, new maneuvers, new arms as developed by one side or the other will determine balance-of-power in the air from time to time, rather than sheer quantitative production. Meantime, with clearing weather and clearer plans last week, the air forces of both sides went at each other in the greatest numbers yet. As usual, claims made by both sides diverged widely...