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...bathed in flames, but not until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members, six men and seven women out of 100 passengers...
...will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer-were thoroughly shot...
Berwick v. Hipper. Somewhere in the North Atlantic on Christmas morning, the fast 10,000-ton British cruiser Berwick gave chase to a Nazi raider which attacked the Berwick's convoy with torpedo and shellfire. In stormy murk the enemy, which the British guessed by its speed to be a cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, got away, but not without an 8-inch hit amidships from the Berwick. The latter also sustained damage (five casualties) but remained at sea. During the chase, the Berwick came upon the raider's supply ship, the freighter Baden, which set herself...
With its hands full in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Royal Navy has an insufficient force in the Pacific for an all-out raider hunt, although the Australian press has been hollering for one for months...
Disguising Raiders is a favorite sport of the Germans. Ashore in Manhattan last week was Captain Cornelius Arundele, master of the freighter Haxby, which a German raider sank off Bermuda last April. He spent 64 days aboard the enemy as a prisoner. In that time he saw her fly the Greek, Brazilian and Dutch flags. Of "much more than 10,000 tons," she had a telescopic funnel and a lot of light steel plates which she shifted like scenery, to change her silhouette from day to day. Her superstructure was repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, she had slipped...