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. Tact, level. "about. Canadians Seize Submarine Crew Two Leap From Corvette "Onto Sinking U-Boat Two- Canadian naval a cap. tured-the crew of a sinking German submarine by leaping from the Canadian' corvette Oakville to the deck of a sinking U-boat and shoot~ ing it out with the Nazls, the navy revealed recently. The two-man boarding party was made up of Sub-Lieut. Harold Lawrence and: Stoker Pettye Officer Arthur Powell. The U-boat was first sighted #5 bombed by an American patrol plane as it lay in wait for the con- voy. It was damaged. The Oak- ville dropped a depth charge which drove -the sub to the surface, Im- mediately it closed in and struck the. U-boat a glancing blow. The corvette kept close to the oppo- nent, blasting it with gunfire and ramming him twice again. A flare dropped from a plane lighted the scene, - Shoot Two Nazis The Oakville's first shot, fired point-blank, blew the sub's for- ward gun oft its deck. "After we landed on the sub deck," Lawrence sald, "we started along the deck toward the conning tower. We could see Germans coming out the escape hatch. We yelled at them to keep back, But two in front kept coming. "I remember shouting, 'Sprechen sle Deutsch? and then correcting myself, 1 sald 'Sprechen sle Eng- lish?" and we repeated our orders to halt. But the two men came on to attack and wo were forced to shoot. . Ordered Over the Side "There was another man left trying to keep out of sight on the upper deck. I ordered him over the side to protect our position for there were only two of us and we didn't know quite how many of them. He wouldn't go of his own accord. So we knocked him over. "I told Powell I was going below and left him with instructions to try to talk to the crew, to find out if anyone spoke English, if any were officers, if there were any others aboard alive and {tf any demolition charges had beén set. "By this time the sub was lower in the water. A sea took us broad- side and I went completely under. I thought 'my gun's wet,' and I pulled the trigger to test it. It worked, and when three of the Germans heard it, they must have thought it was a .signal to dive." They camo out in the open and jumped overboard." Crawling past the body of a German who had been killed in the conning tower by the Oakvllle's fire, Lawrence went down to first around his legs and gas began to spread he made a routine search of the captured hip. Then he went through anothét hatch to thé Inky blackness of the lower deck level. "I could feel the submarine begin to settle by the stern," he reported, "and at the same time Powell was shouting somthing down to me about a time bomb. to the deck above. I went out onto the conning tower and we started to muster the Germans on deck. Seas were breaking right over the conning tower and Powell was hanging on in the lee, but the * Germans were In a complete panlc. They were dropping off. I pointed to the Oakville and told them to swim for ft. When they were all off Powell and I went over the side." While they were swimming the quarter of a mile, the sub reared upon, one end, then slid to the bottom, New Depot Towns Appear In Britain __ New towns have sprung up in Great Britain almost overnight, _ built to serve as supply depots "for military stores, the British "Radio reported. The biggest of these new towns handles Britain's stores and it covers many square miles of what was once known as open country- side, There are miles of roads, of railway tracks, or streets and neat semi-detached houses, = Many of these houses - are the billets of Auxiliary Uniterial service, girls who work 'along with the men on some of the toughest jobs, such as driving .electric 'trucks and cranes and packing war materials, The depots handle stores rang- ing from bullets to the biggest guns at a rate of thousands of tons a week, the B.B.C. said. w To Know Your Own Bombs Merchant Seaman J. C. Cour- 'son, who has made the 'perilous convoy voyagé to Russia, has a formula to tell whether a bomb will hit your ship. "All you have to do. is watch ft. If you can see any part of the tail and if the bomb looks oblong there's' nothing to worry IVIL miss, | "But if you see only the points and it looks like a perfectly round . dot... well ., . then it's time to stand from under." While water swirled . I went back . ~~ Chronicle; -- / ., BOMBS Alay} This remikable picture was taken from the bomb bay of an American Flying Fortress, just as two bombs were simultancously released and sent on their mission of destruction toward the German submarine base at Lorient, France. In the city's pattern, | between and around fe bombs, can be seen the smoke puffs of previous hits «during the raid VOICE THE PRESS THEY'LL GO OVERSEAS The question is frequently asked; "What happens to the young officers who are employed as instructors at the 0.T.C.?"" The answer is: "If they are physically fit and otherwise qualified, they go overseas like everyone else." This is proved by the recent ar. rival in Britain of a group of these instructors who will now join ac- tive units on duty in that coun- try. . --Brockville Recorder and Times NE SAME IDEA Chaplain Forgy- of 'Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' is a bit apologetic over-his. immortal outburst at Pearl Harbor. He need not be. When Oliver Crom. well's troops were about to cross a river to attack the Royalists the great Protector ended an address by saying: 'Put your trust in God; "but mind to keep your powder dry.' "Montreal Gazette Los FINEST HOSPITAL Families of men in the armed forces overseas will take comfort from Viscount Bennett's descrip- tion of the Canadian Red Cross 3 Waspital at Taplow in England, He says it Is by common consent the finest hospital in design and equip ment over there. The Canadian wounded and sick are assured splendid attention, --Windsor Star ime NO REPORTED CASE Motorists think that magistrates are too inclined to take the side of the pedestrian in disputes, but they should remember that there is no recorded case of a pedestrian running down a car, with fatal results, --Peterborough Examiner 0 SIMILAR TACTICS Why is a Jap like a girdle? They both sneak up on you and it takes a good yank to pull them down. --O0ld Bill of the Dunnville --0-- REAL LEMON-AID "At a benefit auction in Wales to help the Red Cross a lemon sold for $132. That sounds like real lemon-aid. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald hi J ---- J WHY DON'T THEY? If only the women would use their heads while buying-a hat, --Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Hitler Orders Extra Holiday Food Ration / Germans will recelve a small extra food ration as a special Christmas gift, according to a de- oreo published in the German Of- ficial Gazette, D.N.B., the official German 'news agency, announced in a broadcast. The extra ration will include one pound of flour, a quarter-pound of butter, a half-pound of sugar, about 'two ounces of coffee, two and one- Halt ounces of cheese, a quarter pound of candy and a small bottle of spirits. In place of the coffee and spirits, children will receive a haltpound of candy. The special ration also will in- clude between four and six eggs. ~100-foot " Boy Scout days." . "cles; SCOUTING Boy¥ Scouts of Queensland, Aus- tralia, did not let diflicultles stand n their way when thelr country needed old rubBier. Heading up the drive the boys made an amaz- ing showing. One country troop rigged up tackle at the top of a precipice and hauled up 200 old tires which had been thrown over in palmier days. One pack of Wolf Cubs borrowed a pony and canvassed ~ the farming country, returning many times with their cart full to capacity. * . La It may not be generally known, but Lord:Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, was in. duced to give up his army career to lead the Boy Scouts organization by King Edward VIL. King Ed- ward also Instituted the King's Scout Badge, the hallmark of the finest among Boy Scouts, . . * Boy : Scouts of Toronto are as- sisting In a salvage campaign which Is expected to supply enough wool for 44,000 military uniforms. The boys make regular colleetions of wool clippings from some 240 To- ronto clothing stores, The money raised by the sale of these clip. pings is being donated to the Citi zens' Committee for, Troops in Training. J . LJ In a recent radio broadcast J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Ameri. - can F.B.I, stated that most of his men had early training as Boy Scouts. He told the story of one former Scout who "for months, with fellow agents, maintained a dally radio contact with Nazy spy head- quarters In Germany. At any mo- ment there was the possibility 'of his identity being revealed and his lite snuffed out by the agents of a natlon that long ago strangled its Boy Scout movement. But this was no deterrent to him or to other special agents who have car- ried with them the lessons of thelr . . Across Canada_ just now Boy Scouts are opening up thelr Toy Shops, and at Christmas thousands 'of toys will be distributed to In- stitutions and to the children of soldiers serving overseas. In Mont- real last year 8,089 articles were distributed through 63 soclal agen. 'In this total were included 690 dolls and 507 stuffed animals, repaired by the Girl Guides of the city. Tiny Gadget One of the tiny assemblies in the gyro horizon and directional gyro indicators. for warplanes, says Pathfinder, weighs only 16- 100,000 of an ounce; 3,000 of them could fit into an ordinary needle, - THE. UNCONQUERABLES Nurse Becomes Underground Reporter In the early winter of 1039 a wounded Polish officer picked his way through the ruins of Warsaw to the apartment he had occupied before the German invasion. It, was in ane of the few buildings that had escaped destruction or serious damage. Waiting in the apartment was a nurse who had cared for him as a child, The nurse immediately as- sumed her former authority and took him off t to a workigman's home. The Germans, she said, would take his apartment. The next day the officer's quarters were requisitioned and the nurse was ordered to serve the German occupant. In a few weeks, his wounds healed, the Polish officer became the editor of an "underground newspaper, He proposed to "steal" his own excellent short-wave radio from his apartment in order to obtain foreign news. But the nurse had a better idea, The Gers man was away from the apart. ment all day. She would listen to the British broadcasts in Polish, take notes, and relay them to the officer. At first the Polish officer was dubious. But the nurse was in- sistent and finally he consented. From the first the scheme was a SUCCESS. The amateur reporter provided much valuable informa- tio and was greatly pleased when she read her "news" in the "un- derground" paper. She felt she was making an important contri- + bution to 'continued Polish resis. tan ce, One day, however, the German returned to the apartment earlier than was expcécted, and she was caught red-handed. The Gestapo subjected her to a severe grilling, but she kept her silence in spite of all threats, The German authorities sen- tenced her to twenty years at hard labor, The nurse went to prison with" her head held high and a smile on her face. She knew that her one-time charge was still at liberty; that he had found another source of foreign news, and that the sceret paper was still giving the Polish people a reason for the unquenchable hope that was in them, English Farmers Praise Canadians Farmers in south-east England, having reaped and stored the fin- est. harvest in history, are now paying tribute to the magnificent help given them by Canadian sol- diers during the summer. Lord Monsell, South-East Reg- ional Commissioner, told report. ers: "Our farmers would have been' in very great labour diffi. culties if it had not been for the help of the Canadians. Most of the men had experience of Cana- dian farm work, and our farmers regard them as. thundering good fellows." The Canadians worked in large forces from the first haysell to the carting of the last load of corn. Since then they have been lending a hand at threshing and baling, and many are now help- ing to lift potato and root crops. Some of their work has been performed as part of their mile itary duties, but many of them devoted their leave-days to vol. untary work in the harvest fields. In a few cases, so eager were they to help, they walked from farm to farm until they found work, Lord Monsell said that apars from their land work the Cana- dians have rendered grand ser- vice in civil defence. "At every bombing incident," he said, "the Canadians have been among the first on the scene, anxious to lend a hand, ready and willing to take instructions from whatever officer was in charge. "Fine fellows, fine workers and fine soldiers." Rabbit Same By Any Other Name The recent announcement of the price board that henceforth dyed rabbit must be called dyed rabbit and nothing more sent a Toronto reporter into the trade to find out under what guises the rabbit had been operating, states The Ottawa Journal. His list fol- lows: Arctic Seal, Australian Seal, Super Seal, Electric Seal, Baltic Fox, Beaverette, French Sable, Lapin, Squirreline and many oth. ers. The reporter also found out while he was at it that Alaska Sable now becomes natural or dyed skunk, Genet is dyed or na- tural cat, Moufflon is goat and Wolf Fox is dyed dog. We can just hear Mrs. Jones calling out the window to her friend in a waiting car: "Half a jiff. I'll just throw niy skunk over my shoulders and be right down," Piods May Be Sent To Prisoners Certaln types of food now may bo Included In parcels sent to pris. oners of war by their next of kin, External Affairs Department an- nounce' recently. Previously only clothing, small personal items and chocolate was allowed to be sent. " Under the new arrangements, lim- ited amounts of dehydrated fruits and berries, dehydrated soups, shelled nuts, hard chocolate and cocoa, coffee, tea, sugar or hard candies, 'dried chipped beef, spices and curry powder may be sent. LIFE'S LIKE THAT YUM, 3} FLD Ney rem 5-8 \50 By Fred Neher = = PSY ns "If you don't march right up to bed this instant, General, you may - which « THE WAR + WEEK -- Commentary on Current Events Political Policy Of United States In Campaign In North Africa This 1s a good time, says the New York Times, for a llttle pa- tionce, and confidence as well, about the political policy our-Gov- ernment, is pursuing in North Africa, The situation is admitted. ly a strange one. Our friends the Fico French are nowhere in the picture. Instead it is Darlan, until a week ago the colleague of Laval, who is organizing North Africa on our side; Darlan who appoints General Giraud as the Command. erin Chief of the French forces; Darlan who uses the American- controlléd Algiers radio" to broad. cast, «in the same breath, a call to arms against the Germans and a claim that his authority to make war upon the Germans derives from Petain, who is a puppet in terman hands, It is in these per- plexing circumstances that the de Gaulle committeo in London an- nounces that it is "taking'no part" in the present situation and will accept no decisions made by the Americans and British "should the negotiations result in arrange ments which would in effect con- firm the Vichy regime in North Africa." Criticism Premature There will be some bowllder- ment in this country also, and no doubt the charge will be made in certain quarters that our Govern- ment has once more embarked on a policy of "appeasement" at the expense of {ts real friends. But such criticism, in our judgment, will be premature. It will also be made without full "possession of the facts in a complex situation, A great military operation Is un- der way in North Africa. Whether it succeeds or fails is a matter of touch-and-go. Only the military commanders. in the field, and the Government officials in Washing- ton who receive from them the first-hand information which they have gathered on the spot, know what problems we face in North Africa, what obstacles must be overcome, what risks must be tak- en, what means must be used both to save the lives of American boys and to- assure the success of the vast military enterprise which we have Ilnunched from a distance of three thousand miles. Surely there "Is quly one thing that counts at the moment. This is to obtain control of the whole north coast of Africa, Tunisia included, as the necessary first step toward the liberation of France herself. Patience Urged Whatever obscurities or appar- ent contradictions there may be in the present American political policy in North Africa, we do not for a moment believe that the course our Government 1s follow- ing means that we have mistaken our enemies for friends, or lost Interest In the real cause for our friends are flghting-- namely, the life of the French Re- public. We wrge patience, and con- fidence, on the part both of Am- oricans and of their French col: leagues in arms. The French Re- public never had a better friend than President Roosevelt who dir- ects our polley in this crisis. Battle of The Solomons Though we do not know, the New York Times continues, and for reasons of safely cannot be told at this time, how many Am- erican ships were damaged in the Solomon Islands battle, in addition to those which were sunk, there can be no doubt that we have won a naval victory which will have far-reaching consequences on) 'the covreo of the war In the Pacific. We have sent a Japanese baltle- ship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five destroyers and eight transports to the bottom of the seas, and In doing so we have struck a blow that has sent the enemy reeling from the. scene of action, so badly confused, In. the later stages-of-the-battle;- is] reported to have fire on some of his own ships. Full' Details Not Known More time must pass before we ean learn the full detalls of the battle, but It is already clear that we made skillful use of hoth our seapower and our airpower, The Navy notes tho great assistance it received from General Mac. Arthur's heavy ralds on the in- vasion fleet at Rabaul and at Buin. The bare outlines of last week's communiquo carry their that he- own evidence of the ability with which our 'surface ships were fought and of the gallantry of the crews that 'manned them. The vie- tory is all the more promising be cause' it was won within a few hundped miles of the great Japan ese mmval base at Truk, by an Ame erican fleet operating from an {me provised island base which was in turn. far from the centré of our naval- power at Pearl Harbor, Enemy Will Come Again Sharp and punishing as this blow has been, we must: assume that the enemy will return to the scene of battle to renew his chal lenge. He is drawn irresistibly te the southern Solomons hoth by his desire to command an alr base fmportant to the defense of Truk itself and by the inability of the Japanese military to accept a loss of "face! He will come again, but when he comes ho will sail with. out some of his finest ships, We have won a victory that brings approciably closer the supremacy of American seapower In the Pa cifie, Report To Britaln Mr. Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons last week, re. viewed the battle of Kgypt and the American-British invasion of North Africa, He dwelt on the amount of time and careful pre- paration necessary to these entee- prises whose initial success, re- quiring a delicate precision in the combination of so many elements, seems to the layman almost mle aculous, Mr. Churchill's account was ao- companied with a reproof and ad- monition deserved by many well. meaning persons in Great Britain and the United States. Where is the second front? Why is nobody doing anything for Russia? What's tho matter with the British? Well, Russian was told that a landing on the Continent would he made this year if it could be. When this turned out to be impossible, the North African expedition was fit- ted out. Mr. Churchill went to Russia and explained the situation, Ho and Mr. Stalin parted in "mu tual understanding." But foe months a hullabaloo of censure was made in titiro ignorance of the facts. Thanksgiving For Victory The President's wise and goms erous course after the fall of To bruk in letting the British have our best tanks and a lot of 'selfs propelled 105-mm, forgotten by Mr. Churchill. The Prime Minister's stole detormln. ation to look forward unafraid to blunders and disappointments inevitable in war was reiterated. From his sober prose a touch of poetry stands out pleasantly. He sald the church bells would ring out all over England. Instead of an air rald "warning they would be a thanksgiving for victory. One thing of the old, quiet, "greon and pleasant land," of cathedral clos. es, of peaceful villages and parish churches, A Wartime Holiday In Great Britain A young married couple in Eng- land recently determined to spend thelr first wartime holiday on the western coast. A huge crowd was at the station, but they managed to get into a crowded compartment when, to the wife's dismay, she dis. covered that she had left her ration cards at home. Returning home and collecting the books, they gathered up their luggage once again, only to discover that their "macks" had been left in the first train. The next train not being due to leave for an hour, they adjourn. ed to the statfon buffet for a stime ulant. In the crush at the counter, a th fellow's elbow ed first-aid. -When at length the by now disgruntled couple arrived at their destination, they learned that the landlady was too jl to accommodate them. The new ad- dress given to them was halt a mile farther from the sea. Nothing further happened to up. - set thelr peace of mind until on reaching home madamo found that she had once again'left her ration hooks behind--and on the mat ia tho hall reposed her husband's calling-up papers! expect an attack from the rear!!" REGLAR FELLERS--A Low a By GENE BYRNES WHAT 7/4; Eli Hades i eau / 1 know / L TOLE THAT 10 BEANO GOLDEN AN! HE COULDN' HAROLY SLEEVE IT/ -- U8 Pa Offs AR Feds | pewered EI) 13 / $0 ------ guns, was not was fabbed- ---into.-the hushand's eye, which needs ~ LT, -- a SN