In his weekly broadcasts, the Government commentator is attempting to make the public better acquainted with all phases of Canada's war work, not only of the more spectacular movements of her troops overseas, but of the watchfulness of her own defence forces on the coasts and particularly on the Atlantic. The task of organizing the large convoys of merchant vessels carrying food, munitions, and war materials across the Atlantic to the Mother Country and her Allies is mainly perfor by Canadian naval officers who must gauge the speeds of various vessels awaiting for the trans-Atlantic journey and help speed up shipping as part of the economic warfare.
These convoys leave their carefully protected anchorage only after Canadian mine. cepers have carefully swept the danger-zone waters adjacent to the coast. Planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force conduct a never ending patrol far out over the ocean in their hunt for submarines or surface raiders and Canadian destroyers escort the convoys at sea, past the danger "focal hrough which all trade routes converge.
While Canda has never constructed great cruisers and battleships, she has acquired a number of modern highly mobile destroyers, armed to the teeth, and capable of performing their primary task of protecting merchant shipping in North American waters, hundreds of miles off the coast of the Diminion. Through Chief in i is one thing, a Lolo chief in the same attire is quite another. I once turned a corner in Tachienlu and met a Norwegian wearing a tall hat. To take such an appurtenance into Lololand tani, and Yongden Lama, a Nepalese. A young Chinese from Shanghai, another from Nanking and Namka's Tibetan wife made up the party, Sulphur Spring Parties
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