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RUSSIA-FIRST
-AND
RUSSIA, in sullen sus- picious silence, grabbed the vital materias of war with one fist.
on
LAST
the aerodromes of North
Norway.
b. unfortunately the Rus- sians were able to deliver only took one small attack, which place after the enemy's main attacks on the convoy had been completed.
Yet her leaders failed to stretch out the other hand to help the Allied seamen who "Owing to the evident in- drowned off the northern coast; | ability of the Russians to pro- when delivering the munitions. vide air co-operation in the By this time several thousand | Barents Sea I had asked for
reconnaissance wartime Navy men, in accents R.. A. F.
and from the Shetlands to Shoe-| long-range fighter aircraft to be buryness, will be emphasising stationed in North Russia" forcefully, perhaps blasphe-writes the C.-in-C., Home Fleet.
hints of their old
But mously, the
to follow. chief, Admiral Sir John Tovey, Tovey had received a “disquiet- K. C. B., D. .S. O., to anybodying report about the conditions who listens.
in Russian hospitals in which They are the men who made the seamen from the escorts the convoy runs to Murmansk, and merchant ships of these to Archangel in the White Sea.
convoys were treated."
HEAVY PRICE
As-the-Commander-in-Chief the Home Fleet of nearly of eight years ago suggests in his dispatches even then the men in the Kremlin put Russia first and last. With everybody else nowhere.
Somewhat belatedly, the men of the Murmansk run will say bitterly, the Admiralty has told the official story
they talked about with shipmates only in the uneasy Anglo-Russian operation of the dark days.
worse
was
Medical units were sent to Archangel and Vaenga in the Kola Inlet.
KEPT STORES
On instructions from Moscow the men for Archangel were re- fused permission to land while the Vaenga party was ordered out after a short stay. But the Russians kept the stores they brought,
a
Pro-British M. Maisky, then co-Soviet Ambassador in London, paid a glowing tribute to the Forty outward-bound convoys men of the Murmansk run..
"The Russian convoys are cargoes carried to Russia war
northern saga of heroism, worth £428,000,000.
bravery and endurance. This world's worst saga will live for ever, not only Through the weather, in the face of attack in the hearts of your people,
on the but also in the hearts from above, below and
took Allied ships
5,000 Soviet people, who rightly see scu, tanks and 7,000 aircraft to the in it one of the most striking frozen north.
expressions of collaboration be- price.tween the Allied Governments, two without which our common vic- three
tory would have been impos- cor-sible."
men.
of the
Britain paid a heavy The Royal Navy lost cruisers, six destroyers, sloops, two frigates, three vettes and three minesweepers
Maisky no doubt meant it. with 1,840 officers and men.
To the half-million men who The Merchant Navy sacri-
then Jan ficed 90 ships, 829 officers and sailed past Iceland,
Mayen, then Bear Island-to And as the reckoning
their who lost mounted up the, Russians called the thousands for greater efforts while doing best friends among the pack ice
hundreds still to the
living little to help.
grim dis- With the customary under- out their lives in a
abled twilight like the endless the senior naval statement of
night there is mockery refers Aretir officer Admiral Tovey
now in his words. briefly to the lack of co-opera- but
John Drummond tion
the Kremlin, from
other page of his every
dis- patches has some reference.
"I was unable to obtain any increase in the meagre
(anti-submarinc)
A/S
escorts of
these convoys... except for a
promise of Russian long-range fighters at some future
specified date...."
LITTLE RESPONSE
un-
Ho called on the Russian naval authorities to help by at the reinforcing the escorts eastern end of the 2,000-mile passage, by providing long- range fighter or A/S air escort and bombing the German aero- dromes, and by disposing their submarines south of the voy route to discourage surface raiders east of Bear Island in the Arctic.
"
expected
con-
long-range Bighter escort when the cruiser Trinidad was bombed and lost. They did not materialise.
BACKGROUNDS:
"GRAND FIELD
MARSHAL
OF PHILIPPINES'
THIS TITLE, FIRST IN HISTORY OF ISLANDS,
WAS CONFERRED UPON GENERAL
MACARTHUR
BY
PRESIDENT MANUEL QUEZON
After mopping
.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
US May Have To Grain Trade
Curtail Its
Steel Production
Washington, Nov. 5.
Lack of shipping and iron ore may force the nation to content itself with only a 10 percent in- crease in steel capacity in the next two years, a Bureau of Mines expert indicated yesterday.
Watching War News
Chicago, Nov. 4. Grain futures were mostly firm today except corn. Grain traders continued to watch the
news from Korea.
Wheat closed up % to 4, corn was off 3⁄4 tô 1, oats up
to 4, rye up 1% to 23%
and soybeans up 1% to 3.
Prices closed today as fol- lows :-
Wheat-price per bushel
May
The expert, who would not programme. permit the use of his name, Mr Davidson has been plug-
Spet noted that steel now is flowing ging for expansion of the steel December from the mills at a capacity of capacity to 125,000,000 toMarch (1951) 100,000,000 dons a year.
130,000,000 tons by 1953. He July But the steel industry has acknowledged that shipping Corn indicated it is ready to in- and iron ore supplies are an Spot
capacity 10,000,000 | obstacle
December to expansion tons by the end of 1952. Some but said the industry can lick May Government officials fccl the it with enough ingenuity
crease the
plans, March (1551)
industry could do botter,
The Bureau of Mines CX- is pert said the big obstacle
imagination.-United Press.
lack of shipping to get the Rubber
iron ore to the milis.
and July
Futures
In Singapore
Singapore, Nov. 4.
Ryo December
| May (1951)
Date
July
December
March (1951)
May
July
2.10 2,2716-44 2,31%
231-%
3.2215-98
1.604 1.5834-5%
1.01% 1.023% -1.03 1.03%
1.504 - 1.50 1.57 1.5934
00%'%
8876 bid 0336-34 82%
New York flour-per 200. Ib. sack,
The
of Assistant Secretary Interior, Mr C. Girard David- son, and some other Federal officials claim the industry
Prices in the rubber futures (912.40.-Uplted Press. does not want to expand pro-market here closed today as duction because it is afraid
follows:- prices will drop or a depression No. 1 rubber, per lb. will set in.
They accuse steelmakers of not keeping pace with the ex- panding United States economy. The industry counters that it has been the "whipping boy" of Government economists who, during the past 10 years, had not been able to decide whe- ther it should expand.
Industry officials also claim post-war demands for steel are excessive and not a good long- range goal for an expansion
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South marked with
Three Diamonds, North bid Three Hearts and South Four Hearts. North now bid Four Spades as a slam try, and after such strong bidding South was right to call Six Hearts.
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continuation. West, howe
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London Erpress Serpice.
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up
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November
201 -203 Number 1 rubber, De-
190 -191
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rubber
Number 1
January (1051) Number 2 rubi
November Number
3 rubbor
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November Number
November Spot rubber, unbaled Block crepe No. 1 pale crepe
170 -179
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195 -196 203 -203 165 -170 205 -206 United Press.
New York Metals
New York, Nov. 4. Erices in the metal market here. closed today, unchanged with the following exceptions:- Tin, Grade A (99.86 "per-
cent
higher) New York, per ib. Iron Ore, Messabi Bes-
or
130-120
semer, per long ton
electrolytic ex- Copper,
port) F.O.B. New York, per Ib.
$7.05
2316-24
Scrap Steel. F.O.B. per ton. (No. heavy smel-
ting)
34-3415 Press.
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By MELVIN WETTELEATHER & NORMAN'MYERS
father - and son. Another
Here Douglas got his father's took place in episode:
1005 last reprimand. During the ****The response,' he notes, Philippines, General Arthur the sword of an insurrectionist during the Russo-Japanese "was disappointing."
MacArthur (Douglas' father), named Manuel Quezon. In 1936, War. The Lieutenant General Battle of Mukden, the Japanese *Tovey
six tinyog: failed to take a hit official US, started a public school system; his
named an
In from the Russians. Then the put in American law and jus- gold baton of Field Marshal of observer of the Aghting tice and organised the Filipino the Philippines from the same
Manchuria and with him went cathusiastic" shave-tadt i raga, do
Second this'
Lieutenant non, the hiead of the Japoršena kubogi, In 1800 he became Scouts.
were of US Army Manuel Quezon then President, They
to be Frezident led the seventh charge and commander Philippine Department, a post who chose Douglas MacArthur Theodore Roosevelt's cycz, and captured the hill That was too
to organise a Philippine Army.ears. his son held 28 years later.
About this time the Russians
promised to cover the passage of the convoys with a big-scale offensive by 200 Army bombers
ajrelacious for Isther,