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Converted German merchant raiders, long on speed and cruising range, have harried Allied shipping with painful success. Last week the German merchant raider Steiermark met the Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Sydney had survived 60 attacks by Axis dive-bombers, covered 80,000...
In the half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion.
He proclaimed his defensive intentions ("Herr Roosevelt has commanded his ships to shoot as soon as they see German ships. And I have commanded German ships, whenever they see American ships, not to shoot thereupon, but to defend themselves as soon as they are attacked"). At about this time German...
> Of Italian air stupidity the Admiral also had something to say: "On Oct. 11, 1940, Italian planes sighted a British naval force near Sicily, heading west. The observers reported the force consisted of one aircraft carrier and several destroyers. A small contingent of warships came out to attack the weak...
"What is the latest about Aaron Burr?"; past Louisville, a 120-house metropolis. In December he sighted St. Louis.