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...surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew of the Royal Sceptre. The joy and relief of those in the boats surprised us. Did they believe us to be barbarians? Taking to the boats in a panic like that as soon as a German U-boat comes in sight! The captain...
Unnamed Captain. Another broadcaster from Berlin last week purported to be the U-boat commander who sank the carrier Courageous, for which feat he was said to have received, besides the Fuhrer's congratulations, the Iron Cross, first class, his crew the Iron Cross, second class. Excerpts from his account of that performance...
Germany, still denying the loss of a single U-boat, replied that her shipyards can now build a seagoing submarine in six months and that plenty of them are being rushed to completion for a fresh drive to counter-blockade Britain. A. Hitler made a point of visiting the submarine base at Kiel last week and saluting "the men who sank the Courageous...
From Norway and Sweden, Britain gets wood pulp for explosive cellulose and newsprint. Fortnight ago Germany warmed to its work by sinking one Swedish and two Finnish pulp boats. Last week two more Swedish freighters got it (one of them after the captain had been taken aboard the U-boat, given a cup of coffee and sandwiches), and it became Norway's turn, too, with three Britain-bound pulpsters sunk, two by torpedoes, one by a mine. Sweden protested bitterly, shut down her pulp business temporarily, threatened as sharply as she dared to cut off her shipments of iron...
...U. S. freighter Steel Mariner (Isthmian Line) told of seeing a U-boat off the "Scilly Islands, apparently unable to dive, limping along disguised crudely as a fishing boat. Up rushed a destroyer and sank...