Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tragedy loomed. Two squadrons of British submarines had been on maneuvers in the Irish Sea. Early that morning, plowing through a thick fog and a choppy sea, the semi-obsolete H-47 had been rammed by the large, modern L-12. The H-47 had rolled over, sunk almost instantly...
...Only two of the sunken crew escaped, her commander, Lieutenant R. J. Gardner, and Telegraphist Sydney Cleburne, who happened to be in the conning tower. Three men were lost from the L-12, which was sucked down 40 feet after the collision but bobbed up again and made port without assistance...
Correspondent Knickerbocker, unimpressed, went to the Berlin military police with his story. Very quickly it was proved that the Borah letters were forgeries, that bald M. Orloff himself had forged them. Imperial Orloff, whose secret traffickings enabled him to own two houses in Berlin and a country place on the Elbe, was hastily jailed to await trial; jailed with him was Michael Pavlovsky, his "errand boy." Rumors were insistent that not only the Borah letters but the more important Zinoviev letter were the work of Orloff...
...Investigation of the conspiracy continued today. A certain August Stojka, a former Colonel of fantastic personality, hr.s been attempting for two months to create a Fascist organization...
...authorities have known of the organization from the very first. Recently the chief of the organization called two night meetings to which members were asked to come armed. After such a proceeding had taken place in defiance of the law the authorities decided to arrest these persons...