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AN ACTUAL PICTURE OF the destruction Axis shipping off the coast of French Tunisia is given by a French sailor who was a member of the crew of a naval. patrol vessel between Bizerta and Sfax on the African coast and has recently arrived in the United States to join the forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.

For some months British Admiralty communi- cations have laconically mentioned the sinking of Axis transports and freighters trying to run the blockade between Sicily and Tripoli and using the coast of French Tunisia as a safety channel. Al- though some have got through, the description of this hundred miles of coast line, from Cape Bon to Sfax, as a cemetery of ships shows how many have failed.

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Close inshore, he reports, in freighters of every size and men shallow water so that their masts of war. At the point off and the tops of their funnels break island of Kurla a convoy of six the the surface there are scores of merchant, ships had been sunk ab Italian · khips,' sailing schooners, well as two escorting destroyers.

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-Loolding down through the clear Mediterranean waters he could see which the. number. the havoc which had been caused

by what must have bech an air Words will be strictly men and sea aftabit. Equipment of sured in ounces may be every sort whe^scattered about

the ocean floor tanks, aero en appearing before long gines, drums of oil, trucks, motor- They will represent the cycles, heavy and light guns all kinds.

Italian Convoy

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publishers solution of the problem of reconciling Radiolocation, Britain's new

rising book-sales with the device for the destruction of night bombers, cost the Germans here was an Ithillan convoy

A few miles south of this scene increasing shortage five bombers when they made a sisting of four neighters and one paper. thort, sharp raid on the South-destroyer which had been sunk ampton and South-East Coast. The hulls of the freighters were technical advisory committee of Meanwhile, the plan which the Two churches, two banks, fiddled with shell holes and a the Publishers Association is several schools, licensed premises, well directed hit must have land considering is business premises; and many ed on the destroyer's magazine private houses were destroyed or since the front part of the ship damaged.

had been blown away. A number of people lost their About a mile distant the mast lives, and many others were taken of a British destroyer appeared to' Huspital.

above the surface of the sea. But shat she must have been abandoned in He good order as there was so sign had of any loss of life.

One night Oghter pilot down two German bombers. not the second after he landed to reload.

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A rather lower ratio may be de- every ounce of its bound weight. creed for educational, technical and juvenile books, in which pro- vision must be made for-illustra tions or diagrams.

The scheme does not touch the question of prices. The new "words per ounce" In the French harbour of Sfax book would not only provide several other Italian freighters more books from the same tonhage were lying sunk or damaged as a of paper, but would also save result of the R.A.F. bombing at-storage space and provide the tacks on that part. - Four other reader with a light, easily handled ships, carrying large consignments volume.

of war material for Libya, were "What we shall have to im- sholtering there afraid of continu-press on the public," said a irat- ing their journey to Tripoli. Ing publisher recently is that The French sallor estimated to buy a book consuming a large that the total loss of heavy equip- quantity of paper will be uh- **Preaching his first sermon since ment along this hundred mile patriotic." his return from a tour of Britain stretch of coast line was very the Rev. Dr. John Sutherland" considerable. There were be- Bonnell, who fought in the last tween 40 and 50 ships all fully |"war, sald in New York that no loaded with military stores either Ahing he saw of the spldiers then sunk of abandoned in shallow

could equal the amazing courage water. of British civilians now ne

They were standing up un- complainingly, he said, through an ordeal worse, than that. faced by American soldiers in France. "Having personally inspected

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and factories of Britain, and having seen the défented or the British Isles, I am confident that When the final ordeál comes theseil people will give a good account! of themselves," he declared.

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They&mon Britain's front line. And a curious: front line it is. I saw one gun in a cottage garden with its muzzle knowing above n privet hedge. Another is on: What The Syracuse Chapter of the holidaymakers once called "un Sons of the American Revolution Caplanade. A third peeps but or has decided that the British Prime a wood, and a fourth is in the Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, is eligible for methbership becrute two of his Amerléan ancestors fought against Britain.

Mr. Churchill's mother the late Lady Randolph Churchill, was an American:

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