Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, retaliatory raids by Leftists from the mainland came first. A squadron had already bombed Palma, damaged an Italian ship, killing six officers. A new raid on Palma came in from a different angle, flying high over Iviza...
...Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship was reported to be the Admiral Scheer, sister of the Deutschland. For over an hour this squadron proceeded to pour high explosive shells into the stucco & light brick houses of Almeria. Leftist shore batteries replied until they ran out of ammunition. Then under a smoke screen the Nazi fleet, honor satisfied, steamed off towards Melilla in Rightist Morocco...
...tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were progressing behind the scenes of the League of Nations...
...greatest mass evacuations of children in history. Many of them carried their Sunday clothes in little bundles. They staged a healthy, yowling child-riot when forcibly washed, given haircuts. Next day in a tent city in which they had been installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could hide. They were not quieted until a Basque priest had said Mass, a Basque chef stewed up steaming caldrons of their national dish, bacalao Bilbaino...
...heretofore been the special privilege of the challenged club: that of picking the fastest available yacht after a trial series in U. S. waters. En route to the U. S. last week were two yachts, with one of which Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hopes to win this summer the prize that U. S. skippers have successfully defended since 1851. One was Endeavour II, built a year ago and raced by Skipper Sopwith in English waters last summer. The other was Endeavour I, which Rainbow defeated...