Word: send
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been released. That would suggest that the ship should sail under her German crew within 24 hours. Ambassador Steinhardt pressed for more information, tried to telephone Murmansk, sat at his desk till 5 a.m., daily prodded the Foreign Commissariat, tried to get permission to charter a plane to send an Embassy secretary to Murmansk, once got Murmansk on the telephone, only to be cut off-all for information about the welfare of the crew. But this information Russia apparently could not or would not provide...
...aboard her 38 survivors of the British freighter Stone-gate, torpedoed earlier by Deutschland. Finding that Flint carried oil in large quantities, the German boarding officers asked Deutschland's commander what to do. He kindly decided not to sink her, but to put aboard a prize crew, send her to Germany...
These ships combine speed, range, armor and gun power which would make it unwise for Britain to send out anything less than a Hood, Repulse or Renown, battle cruisers which could shoot Deutschland to bits with 15-inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...
Another entry from Thomas Beck's stable meanwhile made news of a different color. To its staff of European correspondents Collier's added a cartoonist: brilliant, New Zealand-born David Low, political caricaturist for the London Evening Standard. Low will send Collier's a weekly drawing from London via radio...
Last week the London press still printed cheery little notes from city children evacuated to the countryside. A small boy wrote: "Dear Mum and Dad, please send Colin and me some more trousers. We have been blackberrying. I have scores of mosketoe bites. P.S.-Please send some more muney. I have 4d. and Colin only has 2d." A small girl: "The lady's little girl is three weeks older than me, but I'm bigger. ... She says I talk funny. I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too. Tell Dad to look...