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...best supply line that the Greeks have had in the last months has been a little Turkish steamer, the Kurtulus, which sailed weekly from Istanbul to Peiraeus with wheat, corn, vegetables, dried fruits and a few medicines. A fortnight ago the Kurtulus struck a reef just off the Turkish coast and sank...
Eight-hundred miles south and west, other Japanese raiders shelled Johnston Island, an eight-mile-long coral reef and subsidiary base for naval aircraft. Said Imperial headquarters: destruction of "most important defense facilities." Said the U.S. Navy: a weak attack, no casualties...
...damaged at least 14 enemy submarines." In the Pacific, he added, "our naval forces have already effectively dealt with several Japanese submarines." Off the Pacific Coast, 200 miles north of San Francisco, a submarine sank the tanker Emidio by gunfire and torpedo a few miles off Blunt's Reef, then sank three lifeboats as the crew fled. The Navy said 22 crew members were missing. Farther south the tanker Agwiworld, 20 miles off Santa Cruz, was attacked by a submarine which appeared 500 yards away...
Most of their recording was done on a big expedition (backed by NBC, the Carnegie Corporation, the American Museum of Natural History, etc.) which ended a year ago when their 137-ft-schooner foundered on an uncharted Australian reef. The records and the Fahnestocks were about all that was saved...
Magistrate Pinto, sighing, last week dismissed the charge, shooed out the massive Methuselah. "Go along now. Try to behave from now on." The iron man breathed heavily, took a reef in his galluses, clumped home to his dogs and cats and the 21-ft. snake in the dusty...