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Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

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From today’s lead story – Is the White House involved here?

A.J. McCarthy, vice president in charge of operations of the United States Lines, said last night at his home that he was surprised to hear the report that the freighter City of Flint had been seized by an armed raider and taken into Kola Bay, north of Murmansk, Russia, with a German crew on board.

He said the City of Flint, which left New York on Oct. 3 for Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, had no passengers on board. Mr. McCarthy said he had received no news concerning the fate of the City of Flint, since she was reported in the Maritime Register to have arrived in Manchester, England, Oct. 15.

What is the Maritime Register? The Flint was seized on October 9. The prize crew took her first to Tromso, Norway, arriving on October 20. I doubt the German prize crew stopped in Manchester for provisions.