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...destroyers which had been reinforcing the Japs on Guadalcanal. She found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then the Salt Lake City returned to her first target, the damaged light cruiser, and pumped more salvos into...
...when the enemy turned around. Unlike the Battle of Java, where Allied naval forces potted Jap merchantmen, were themselves knocked off by Jap warcraft, the fighters in the Coral Sea concentrated on the enemy's warcraft. They were at it until Saturday night...
...years blowing up its forts and moles. Britain suggested that the island, inhabited by 2,000 fisher folk, be turned into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British complaints that Adolf Hitler was refortifying Helgoland, rebuilding its moles, were audible but ineffective. Sand suckers re-dredged the anchorage to accommodate warcraft. Near the southeast foot of the headland was built an air base. Lieut. Colonel Schumacher claimed that his Messerschmitt 110s last week prevented British planes from bombing Helgoland. Britain claimed to have bombed Helgoland as well as Sylt...
...Roosevelt has said that the duty of the U. S. neutrality patrol is to keep tabs on far-roving warcraft in American waters. His obvious, implicit premise last week was that submarines, since the sneaky creatures cannot be watched, had best be kept clear away. When a reporter asked whether armed merchant ships also might be barred from U. S. ports, the President said that comparing such ships and submarines was like trying to add pears and apples. Orally amplifying his proclamation, he explained that belligerent submarines may not come within the traditional three-mile limit of U. S. coasts...
...Chile announced that submarines as well as surface warcraft could find haven in her ports. Off Brazil, well within the unbuckled "safety belt" projected by the U. S. and her sister republics three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 9), British and French cruisers last week continued to look out for German or contraband shipping...