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...problem was first hinted to the public five weeks ago when the sale of torpedo boats to Britain was canceled (TIME, July 1). It was dismissed for a time by Congress' objections to that sale, perhaps dismissed forever because it would take at least three or four weeks to get the destroyers across to the English Channel and train British crews to operate them...
...Russia, that Baltic power, was ready to flex her muscles. On National Navy Day there were demonstrations, maneuvers, parades on all Russia's seas. People's Commissar for Navy Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov declared that 168 new Russian "warships"-many of which may be mosquito torpedo boats, which the Russians love-would be launched this year; and newspapers boasted that soon the Red Navy would be second to none other...
...struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo boats based just across the water in sight of Britain's headlands. Last week the attacks reached crescendo...
...place for Graziani's attack is Tobruch, Italy's coastal base near the Egyptian border, protected by nearby air bases at El Aden and El Gubbi. These three spots have been targets for incessant British air raids, to prevent an expeditionary force from getting organized. Last week torpedo-carrying Fairey Swordfish planes of the Naval Air Service climaxed these attacks by striking transports, supply ships and a tanker in Tobruch harbor...
...submarine torpedo which drops depth bombs along its course...