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Opposed to these men are Admiral Rolf Carls, whose slight acquaintance the British made off Spain in 1936-37 when he was there in the Deutschland, and Admiral General Alfred Saalwächter, a former U-boat commander, sent out to assist Carls in Adolf Hitler's cold-blooded act of sacrificing his scattered Navy to gain windows on the Atlantic. Opposed to that sacrifice, on the ground that the situation it would create could not be maintained, was the German Navy's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, again reported last week...
...neutrals was made to feel that they would not hesitate to dash in if they sighted a German warship. One German submarine, a 250-ton U-21-type with a boyish crew of 28 aboard (apparently for training) hugged the coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with...
...Norwegians fumed last week when the motorship Cometa, bound from Bergen to neutral Argentina, was reported torpedoed by a U-boat right in Kirkwall, Britain's contraband control port in the Orkney Islands. The Admiralty quickly denied responsibility, said the sinking occurred "hundreds of miles" from Kirkwall in the North...
...that she needs her bottom scraped and cannot get through the Panama Canal. Chances were Canada had some men & munitions to be carried before another Australian contingent would be ready or needed, so Halifax seemed a likely spot to send the swift* Mary first. Germany might be launching another U-boat wave (see col. 1), but nothing last week would have better suited the fighting British heart, as well as Mr. Chamberlain's political necessities, than a gesture of defiance...
...Denmark, Norway and Sweden were to meet in Copenhagen to consider forming convoys armed by themselves. From Sept. 3 to Feb. 15, Norway alone lost 47 vessels totaling 103,121 tons, nine of them in the last month. Last week she demanded from Germany compensation for damages, prosecution of U-boat commanders who machine-gun unarmed crews, set them adrift on the high seas...