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May 5 Commemorates Battle Of The Atlantic OF A UBOAT Two of five Canadian warships which com- marine after it had been forced to to destroy the cut off the attempted escape of the sub- in the North Atlantic A1 surface The action took place National Defence photos I mined complement of 0000 men and women It had started with than men The of the war to the Can- adian navy was nearly 2000 dead and 319 wounded A total of warships was lost Most of this tolJ of men and ships was exacted on the Atlantic yet it was on this ocean that the made safe the crossing to Britain of voyages of merchant ships burd ened with tons of sup plies On May of this year todays navy will honor that Of the Se cond World War Many of those The Willing Workers will visit Manor on Wednesday May so please all members be pre sent Mr Johnson North visited his cousins Mr and attend the services and ob servances will have served and in looking back they will be able to compare and find their purpose he same In some ways the naval role today is even more vital to the defence of the country Fifteen years ago the battle was against the attackers of shipping in Can adian waters and in one instance of miscalculation a torpedo ex ploded ashore on a comparatively remote Canadian shoreline Today it is not a misguided tor pedo exploding on the beach near a Gaspe peninsula village that is the threat but rather the long- range guided missile with which the modern submarine can send destruction into the heart of Can adas major industrial areas The naval personnel manning the ships equipped to deal with this threat today have as their in heritance the memory and the reputation of those who fought so hard and so well in the Battle of the Atlantic Mrs James Hope Sunday supper guests at the home of Mr Murray in cluded Mr and Mrs Peterson Aurora and Mr and Mrs J By- StouffviHe At the Greenwood home for Sunday tea guests included Mr and Mrs Earl Foster and Larry Ireland Aurora also Mrs Isaac Johnson Miss Viola Johnson and Mr Elmer and Max Johnson School reopened Monday after the Easter vacation Miss Wices junior room has two student teachers Mrs Gordon Calvert and Mrs George Mrs Youngs senior room has Mr Moore and Mr Kennedy On Thursday April little Miss Dale Waltho celebrated her third birthday by entertaining some wee folk and their mothers from to pm Includ ed were Susan and Danny Wil liams Carol Ann Walker Debra McClure Dinah and Johnny Proc tor and Susan Welch On Saturday April Mrs James Hope entertained her granddaughters Misses Jane and Donna Hope Pine Orchard and and Lynda Sheridan market the Newmarket Era and Express Thursday May TAKE OVER PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY Bottles of honey and milk are served for dinner to these bear cubs being mothered by Wilbur and Ronnie Strength of Graven- hurst They adopted the cubs after Wilbur shot their mother when they stumbled on her den near Gravenhurst the mother bear was within a few feet of Wilbur when ho felled her With a Sho through the head ATLANTIC INFERNO Scenes such as this will be recalled by many naval and former naval per on Battle Of the Atlantic Sunday May 5 An inferno of burning oil s p e 1 1 s the aftermath of strikes by enemy submarines against a convoy in the North Atlantic This photo of a torpedoed tanker was taken from the Canadian frigate Lanark There were few survivors DEPTH CHARGE ATTACK The prime weapon against the UBoat during the Battle of the At lantic was the depth charge containing more than 300 pounds of explosives In this photo two of a pattern of ten depth charges explode astern of a Canadian frigate carrying out ar attack on a sub marine Naval Headquarters Announcement Annual observance of Battle of as it ran on to the beach and the Atlantic Sunday commemor ating the services of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadas Merchant Navy in the Second World War will take place this year on Sunday May On that day in naval establish ments from coast to coast in ships of the fleet and in numer ous churches special services and observances will be held and tri bute will be paid to those who served and gave their lives Battle of the Atlantic Sunday this year falls almost years to the day after Nazi Uboats first pressed the sea war up the St Lawrence River and Canadian sailors fought and died within sight of the shores of their home land In St Lawrence Uboats struck In the St Law rence at a time when escort Ves sels could be spared only at great sacrifices from the North Atlan tic convoy lanes The first attack occurred on the night of May off Cap Hosiers on the coast The British freighter and the Dutch freighter Leto were sunk The survivors woun ded shocked and coated with oil landed on the hitherto peaceful shores of the St Lawrence Later that summer an enemy exploded after missing its mark A hastilyorganized convoy sys tem was brought into force but Canada could provide only make shift escorts A few days after the sinkings the inaugural con voy sailed from Sydney Cape Breton Island for Quebec City A lone minesweeper Drummondville guarded a lone merchant ship A lull of nearly two months followed and then the Uboats struck in earnest Shortly after midnight of July three ships of a convoy of escorted by the same single minesweeper went down off Cap Chat Corvettes destined for the North African campaign destroy and more minesweepers were despatched to the St Lawrence area and United States warships guarded convoys routed through were sunk by the n my the Strait of Belle Isle Lives That summer merchant ships were sunk in the St Law rence River and Gulf area the armed yacht Raccoon was lost with all hands and the corvette went down with a loss of nine lives As the winter approached a Uboat torpedo sank the Sydney Port Pas- ferry the Caribou with a loss of 130 lives One of the torpedo shook the surrounding victims was the only woman district of that same Gaspe vil- member of the Canadian Navy to die as a result of enemy action The St Lawrence campaign had brought the war home to Ca nada even more strongly but its bitter cost was only to strengthen the will to win And yet it was but a part of the whole battle The Battle of the Atlantic was not simply a naval engagement it was a campaign which filled years of time and involved more merchant vessels than it did na val vessels The courage of the merchant seamen many of them Canadians who sailed In their slow heavilyladen ships was a factor without which t five- yearlong struggle could not have been won The losses on the North Atlan tic were heavy In month of July alone merchant ships totalling gross tons This represented a loss of more than three ships a day for 31 days The Atlantic battle on the first day of war It did not end until the last enemy submar ine had surrendered It was the longest battle of the war and it was fought sometimes- against great odds The Canadian navy entered the war with no more than effect ive fighting ships including five minesweepers It was to expand to a force of nearly ships sup 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