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...confiscated by the Japanese authorities. Upon Farkas' return to Paris, Garganoff borrowed a French warship, made action sequences in her gun turrets, on her decks, on her bridge, with Japanese actors impersonating Japanese sailors. To piece out the action U. S. newsreel shots of battle maneuvers, gunfire and torpedo practice were purchased from...
...final touch the Italian film of the St. Stephan's sinking (also to be seen currently in The First World War) was obtained. On June 11, 1918, the St. Stephan, flagship of the Austrian Navy, was attacked in the Adriatic by Italian torpedo boats. A torpedo found its mark and the St. Stephan began to list and sink with terrible rapidity. Frantic Austrian sailors are to be seen clambering up her steep deck and over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay...
...long. One day in September 1917 Captain Claret was standing on the bridge of the Minnehaha when a German submarine drilled her with a torpedo off the Head of Kinsale. Within two minutes the ship literally sank beneath Claret's feet and left him kicking in the water. Forty-three lives were lost. Captain Claret and more than 100 others floated more than an hour before a British patrol boat sighted them. The skipper of the patrol boat recognized the Minnehaha's captain in the water, boomed out: "I say, is that you, Claret...
...sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains; a U. S. division crossing No Man's Land through machinegun fire; the captain of a German submarine ordering his crew to discharge a torpedo; Lenin waving his hands and snickering. The picture ends in a scornful flicker of contemporary newsreels superimposed on the background of two soldiers shaking hands on Armistice...
Scott & Black, keeping up their sensational pace, flashed into Charleville, refueled, sped toward the finish where waiting thousands cheered their progress, reported over loudspeakers. With one motor dead, with only two hours sleep since leaving England, the Britons triumphantly set their scarlet torpedo down in Melbourne at 3:34 p. m. In 71 hr. 1 min. 3 sec.-just under three days-they had flown halfway around the world...