Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...
...distributing subversive pamphlets. A decree law of Sept. 26 makes illegal "activity having the direct or indirect object of propagating the watchwords emanating from or relating to the Third International" of Moscow. Daily arrests of Communists are now the rule, and French police have made over 11,000 raids on suspects since break of war, have seized as much as two tons of Communist propaganda in a raid...
Except for the predominance of khaki in the stands and air-raid instructions on the programs, there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...daughter of the discoverer of radium particularly praised the manner in which the schools and universities were continuing on a virtually peace-time basis. As soon as air-raid precautions were supplied the educational institutions resumed with women filling many of the important posts...
That the R. A. F. was still well satisfied with its estimate of results in last fortnight's raid on Sylt was shown last week when the man who planned that attack was promoted. Lean, hound-jawed Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, 54, Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command, was made Inspector General of R. A. F. and one of its four Marshals. To make way for him, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, 62, stepped out voluntarily.* Both men are air veterans of World War I, younger Sir Edgar having the more brilliant record as a fighting pilot. Sir Edward...