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With Italy's oversea supply line to Africa more vulnerable than ever after Taranto, all these actions suggested the beginning of a British effort to smother Italy before Germany can help her out in Greece or anywhere else...
After three days the German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk, not even SOS signals were caught by American radio stations." British authorities called the whole story "unlikely." They said that "a number of ships successfully eluded the raider." But day followed day with no further word from the Rangitiki, Cornish City or any other ship that had been with them...
...neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week was followed by the loss of the Empress of Britain on Oct. 26. Last week, in a report to Parliament which was otherwise fairly cheerful. Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced the black facts about Britain's oversea supply lines by saying...
...days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress. The disappearance of heavy long-range bombers from Britain except over Liverpool and other west-coast ports revealed the latest Nazi stratagem-to add planes to U-boats in heavy autumn offensive against Britain's oversea supply lines...
Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...