Word: torpedoed
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...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...
Benito Mussolini used them to scare Stanley Baldwin, who received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered...
...pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under way, coming all the long way round the Cape of Good Hope. Nervous about Japanese torpedo-boats before they passed
...exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo saw the Russian battleships, their formation broken, turn in desperate circles, watched four of them go down. Next day he got the cruisers. Against 10,000 casualties and practically the entire Russian fleet sunk, captured or beached, Togo lost three torpedo-boats, less than 1,000 killed and wounded. Banzai was the word for it. Togo lived a long time after that, but never so fully again. By the time of the World War he was no longer on the active list. His battered old Mikasa, laid up too, was made...
...Douglas and its subsidiary, Northrop Co., had $4,500,000 in orders. Today they have $15,000,000. About $8,000,000 of this came in Army contracts awarded month ago. Some $3,000,000 more came last week from the Navy in a contract for 114 torpedo bomber planes. The remnant is made up of orders for the DC2 and the new DC-3, better known as the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport...