[Homer_J_Simpson]

‘Crisis Exceeds ‘17’ – 2-3
More Favor Sending U.S. Ships to Britain – 3
The International Situation – 4
Nazis Claim 3 Hits – 4-5
Reich Bishop to See Pope; Bombing Issue Discounted – 5
Lake of Fire Seen in Wilhelmshaven – 5-6
Tobruk is Guarded by Wide Tank Trap – 6
French Ship Creeping Up Brazilian Coast; Covered by British Outside the 3-Mile Limit – 6
Auto Show Here This Year is Abandoned to Let Manufacturers Push Defense Task – 7
Air Corps to Form a Negro Squadron – 7
Bomber Long Overdue in West Coast Flight – 7
Nazis to Increase Raiding in Pacific – 7
U.S. Potential Foe, Rome Press Says – 8
Italians Report Germans Ready for Final Victory – 8
Reich Views Hull as ‘Master’s Voice’ – 8
Gen. Argentino Captured in Cave by a Sergeant – 8
Homeless Children: A Spanish Rehabilitation Problem (photo) – 9
Four U.S. Naval Observers in Mediterranean; Fifth Will Join British Soon as Air Attache – 9
Two British Ships Report Torpedoing – 9
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 10-11
Citrus Growers Ask Help in Palestine – 11
Spain to Tell People of U.S. Gift of Food – 11
A U-Boat Hero (photo) – 11

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jan41/f17jan41.htm

Vichy warships victorious at Koh-Chang

Friday, January 17, 1941 www.onwar.com

The Franco-Thai War... A Vichy French squadron defeats a Thai naval force in the battle of Koh-Chang in the South China Sea. Three Thai ships are sunk.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Southampton_%28C83%29
HMS Southampton

[Tank-FL]

I just noticed that Stimson used the term “first World War” (page 2).

Have I been asleep or is this a new term that is showing up in the 1941 vocabulary?