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Last week the Frankfurt radio station made Germany's first admission of her U-boat losses: 35. Unless work has progressed far more rapidly than is believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...
Germany's Rev. Martin Niemöller was immured nearly two years ago in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for his leadership of un-Nazified Confessional pastors. Pastor Niemöller, who was a U-boat commander in World War I, offered the Fatherland his services in World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). His offer was refused. Last week Pastor Niemöller's second offer to fight was rejected, by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder himself...
...Avila Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...
...German censor proudly released the war's most perfect picture, taken by a U-boat commander, of a torpedoed freight er doing her last curtsy...
...Nazis as high as No. 2 ("Man, what a picture it is to see Hermann's birds soaring swiftly overhead! Boy, are they fast!") and sneeringly of Britain's Churchill ("First Lord of the Admiralty, past master of the waves"). One night he dismissed British claims of U-boat sinkings with "Every German U-boat. . . bears the number K-9. Canine, Cat. Because every cat has nine lives...