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...German planes crashing in flames. . . . Trails of smoke tell the tale." Newsmen went around to Planet's office, demanded the original print, rubbed wet fingers over it. Three of the planes, most of the smoke disappeared. There remained a dark spot which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke. Reporters who had seen the air battle from the cliffs, two days earlier, were of the opinion that the smoke streaks came from fragments of a burning balloon...
...Survivors of the British merchantmen King John (5,228 tons) and Davisian (6,433 tons), picked up near the West Indies last week, revealed the roving presence of an Axis raider-an armed merchantman, flying the Swedish flag-which sank their ships. R. N. at once started a painstaking hunt...
Afire, one of her twin 1,150-h.p. motors out of action, her altitude ebbing, the crippled raider wobbled in over the waterfront at Clacton-on-Sea, an Essex shore resort (pop. 17,000) about 50 miles from London. When they heard her circling for a flat spot to alight, excited Clactonians forgot blackout rules, turned out to watch. Clacton firemen, ambulance drivers, air-raid workers, long rehearsed, were soon ready. Above, four Nazi airmen passed indescribable minutes as the flares they dropped showed no landing place. The plane came lower and lower...
...mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
Northern Blockade. Basic point made by the Allies in last fortnight's Altmark affair, when the British destroyer Cossack raided a fjord of neutral Norway to liberate 299 British seamen taken from the late raider Admiral Graf Spec's, victims, was that German use and abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland...