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Perhaps you will agree with me that the story has its dubious side. A more logical conclusion is that the "torpedoed" vessel in convoy met with an accident of a quite different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
...training program is the high spot of Canada's war effort; the Air Force has sometimes hogged both limelight and money, to the harm of general military cooperation. Canada's best military men reason that the Air Force's chief war chores (training, coastal patrol and convoy) lend themselves to separate direction. But they feel that the U. S. air services (Army and Navy) still have much to do in common with land and sea forces, therefore should not be separated now. A further reason heard in Canada for the U. S. keeping its system: once...
...broke out, peace-loving Canada had a Navy of six destroyers, five minesweepers and 37 small auxiliary craft. Last week it had 120 vessels (including six ex-U. S. destroyers) and was growing fast. And though its vessels had long been engaged in the humdrum work of convoy and patrol, and distinguished themselves in the hell of Dunkirk, last week for the first time the Royal Canadian Navy gave the world a good, smacking sea brush of its own to show it had no barnacles on its bottoms...
Last week the crudest episode in the war against civilians had a happy sequel. A lumbering Sunderland flying boat on convoy duty sighted a lifeboat 600 miles off the Irish coast. Aboard were 46 survivors of the City of Benares, in the sudden sinking of which fortnight ago 83 children and 210 adults were thought lost. The 20-ton flying boat, running short of fuel, signaled her relief plane, which in turn signaled a warship...
Through a smashing Atlantic gale 600 miles off the British coast ploughed the City of Benares one night last week, bound under convoy for Canada. Below decks 90 children evacuated from the heavily bombed slum sections of London were asleep in their bunks. Other passengers were playing bridge in the lounge, chatting in the ship's bar. It was just 10 o'clock...