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...held from June 3 to 14. Athletic equipment, old clothes, magazines, and textbooks, especially in elementary language and science courses, are particularly needed. All of the material collected will be given to college men who need it, and to the Cambridge Family Welfare, the Red Cross, and the Seamen's Fund...
...Allied column for this purpose was landed at Fagenes, in Beisfjord to the south. Norwegians plodded eastward through the mountains from Gratangen, to head off German retreat through Björnfjell near the Swedish border, and preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl, famed skier, organizer of winter sports at Garmwisch-Partenkirchen. The latter, called "The Bull" by his men (for his stubbornness), was said...
...Naval Reserve Officers' Corps is very similar in its general organization, but it differs in details. It is divided into four branches: the Organized Reserve, who meet to train every week and correspond roughly to the National Guard; the Merchant Marine Reserve, made up of American seamen and officers on American ships which might be converted to auxiliaries in time of war; the Fleet Reserve, composed of men who have served in the Regular Navy; and the Volunteer Reserve, which class the graduates of the Harvard Naval Science courses and the courses of the seven other colleges which give...
...Nazis and remove the temptation of invasion, the Swedish Government, over Norwegian protests, allowed a trainload of German food and medical supplies-at least so it was described-to be shipped through Sweden to the beleaguered Germans in Narvik. Also for "humanitarian purposes" the Swedes allowed German merchant seamen marooned in Narvik to return home through Sweden. If any plausible excuse could be provided, Sweden was prepared to placate Germany to avoid...
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...