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...came. Through the ship's corridors ran the call "Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian...
...German High Command claimed a total of 327,000 tons shot out of British merchant convoys by U-boats last week-26 ships out of one convoy. The Germans claimed a foray by their motor-torpedo boats close to the British coast which sank more tonnage, took 40 Britons prisoner. They claimed another raid by German destroyers in the mouth of Bristol Channel, in which they engaged a British cruiser squadron, torpedoing one vessel. They said they sank a British submarine off Le Havre. They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled...
About 70 miles southeast of Sicily (both sides agreed) the action began. This had always been a likely spot for an Italian hit-&-run attack, within easy range of the torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto...
First an explosion "threw the vessel violently on its beams"-something like a car being tipped over on its sides; your nautical editor take note-"next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room." Whence the torpedoes, TIME? Did anyone see them? Or are they just part of the British report...
...Morrow approved her daughter's daughter but not her daughter's thesis. She hastened from the hospital to address a meeting on the need for flying fortresses, torpedo boats, all aid for England...