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Show Pride of German Navy Lay at Bottom of Atlantic BERLIN The pride of the German Ger-man navy, the 35,000-ton battle ship Bismark, lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Tuesday night after a gripping, three-day running run-ning battie with British naval forces and with her rested a good deal of the slugging ability of the German sea power. . The last word of the two-year old Bismark, which in her first major engagement Saturday, sent the powerful British battle cruiser Hood to the bottom off Greenland, Green-land, was a proud message of Admiral Gucnther Luitjens, fleet commander: "We are fighting to the last shell." A few hours later came the brief official announcement that the Bismark had been sunk in a fight with "superior forces." |