Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 2, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 November 1940 — Foreign Joltings . . . [ARTICLE]

Foreign Joltings . . .

Four Nazi vessels, heavily loaded, sailed from Tampico, Mexico, for European ports. Only one was heard from. She was the Phrygia, which “committed suicide’’ by scuttling rather than surrender to British and Canadian w r ar vessels. She was hardly outside Tampico when caught. The other three were said to have headed back and to be lurkmg outside the harbor bar.

The British used 2,000-pound aerial torpedoes in sinking the vessels of the Italian fleet at Taranto, they reported. The planes fly low to the water, drop the torpedoes pointing at the ships. It’s a dangerous job. Americans returning from occupied France report bribery, gasoline bootlegging and the existence of a “black bourse” for dealing in foreign exchange.