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Jean Chiappe's pilot had time to send this message over his radio: "We are being machine-gunned. Plane on fire. SOS." Three days later Vichy announced that the body of Anglophobe Jean Chiappe was lost in the sea that washes his native island...
...German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk, not even SOS signals were caught by American radio stations." British authorities called the whole story "unlikely." They said that "a number of ships successfully eluded the raider." But day followed day with no further word from the Rangitiki, Cornish City or any other ship that had been with them...
Long familiar to landlubbers has been the distress signal SOS. Contrary to landlubber tradition, S 0 S is not an abbreviation-either for "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Ship." It is simply one of the clearest, simplest signals that could be devised from the Morse Code: Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash...
...Parents Associations and teachers' organizations thereupon began to raise alarms. They distributed more than 2,000,000 pamphlets among the State's citizens, made 54 radio broadcasts. When the Legislature convened last month, it got thousands of letters from indignant parents. To Governor Herbert Lehman were presented SOS petitions with 500,000 signatures. Result: several official and unofficial investigations to determine how badly the city's schools" had been damaged. By last week these investigations had established that the SOS was no false alarm...
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