Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another possibility: the Germans were getting supplies from the Dominican Republic, whose dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has been called pro-Nazi. It was reported last week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a French cruiser." Private advices in Manhattan were that the cutter had been caught piping fuel into German submarines, and was sunk by gunfire from the French ship; that furthermore, stations had been set up on shore for submarine repairs...
Yesterday the head of the German Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, officially informed the American Government, through the United States Naval Attache in Berlin that according to information on which he relied, an American ship, the Iroquois, is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast...
With regard to the submarines sunk, the Admiralty said only that some of the survivors were resened...
...There you have the twisted and diseased mind of this infamous profiteer and specialist in stinking lying. Naturally those British ships have not been molested; they have been sunk...
...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...