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Show Foreign Jottings . . . Four Nazi vessels, heavily loaded, load-ed, sailed from Tampico, Mexico, for European ports. Only one was heard from. She was the Phrygia, which "committed suicide" by scuttling scut-tling rather than surrender to British Brit-ish and Canadian war vessels. She was hardly outside Tampico when caught. The other three were said to have headed back and to be lurking lurk-ing outside the harbor bar. The British used 2,000-pound aerial aeri-al 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 occu-pied France report bribery, gasoline bootlegging and the existence of a "black bourse" for dealing in foreign for-eign exchange.' |