No. 1 Nor FOR PUBLIC.{ITION, BR0.1~DC/\ST, OR USE ON CLUB T.l\PES BEFORE 0830 E. S. T. (i.e. FOR EVENING P/\PFRS) ON . MO.ND..\Y, ./\UGUST P• 19~ S/.J:LOR PR.t1CTISES B_l\11.ET Dl\NCING ON THE QUJ1RTERD:EDK John Osborne must be the only sailor who p rDctises b0llet dancing on the quarterdeck of his ship. Osborne, D rating in the destr oyer H. lVI. s. /1THERSTONE, pr esented himself recently ot the famous SDn Corl o OperD House in Naples, and 8 sked the l11Dnager if he might do some b.sillet steps and J.imbering•up in the p r nc tice rooms. He Wns given permission to do so, and it so happened thot Signor oir i'i!lS jus-:~ thick -,-,;ith it, one the l1oise -.ws incloscriboblc". But the British troops continLl.ccl t l1eir odvonce w1til, ofter Elbout t-;.,.-o hol1l'S hond ­t0-hDnd_fighting of extreme sovogery, only o sm.'.111 pocket of enemy resistnnce r c·,:ioined ;;_n the extreme northern po~'.'t of the villngc •)ehind the sh.;.;ltcr of o -.wtcr tonk. The J:-ipc:11eso here hoJ t·;vo r;inchi rfc guns firi11g "t right on.::;les olong the sides of the tcnL:. one of the compnny c0'1T,w11ders, 25-yeor:-old Mo jor J . Lull ins, of Grceh:-icrcs, Lsillcy Grc(_;n, Chcsho;:-i, Bucks . , -.-rith f our other 1~1en, ~ncluding on experie nced jungle fighter, Scrgcont E. EvcretJ~ of 14, Long Thorn-ton Rot1c1 , sti.·cothnm, s.-"d. 16, "bcgon to stolk one of the ;-,1.'.!chinc guns . Slipping olong w1dcr cove_· of o bonk: moving in short so1'.'."1ribles froin tl'.;.;c to tree, they opprot1chccl to 0:v-i thin 20 y.'.lrds of their objective ~ Conplctely cut off nnd -,-;ith no mor e thnn ten r oulxls of :-i·11nunition eoch l eft, they -.;ror.eiecl the Joponesc so bnc}ly thot the Vihoilic p._'1rty -nbout 20 strong -retire,, in confusion, toki ng tho two o uto~:10 tic w-eopons -.-;i th then. Some -,-,-ere shot £1s they rnn. Mojor ~·.full i ns -i;i.11 Jon0 r emem­bcr his :;.1ightr111ro Ct'D"v'rl nlonp_; thot rod~ly "bunJ • He hos t-.. 'o nen t bullet holes in his stt.:Gl helmet to remind hin of it. The bnttolion comr;wndcr told me : "I hove been in nttocks off ond on clur:;.ni::; ~-.t:ist of tl1c ·1mr, but for shca~ cn:J urnnce .'.ind [; uJcs I h.'.:lvc never se ~ ?ny.t hing like it. I or,1 very prou:l of r,1Y bfltfolion. , I c1L~11 t 1c think t h.'.1 t t:>cops cCL~d be :.::o gnou flS th~t". ~'lw J Clpt.11'.BDe l ost 33 killtd, inclt.ilins t:1oir lesder, [1 ·.~1:iJ0r_, ei ncl on Ul1kl.10-,iin nur.ibcr of -,-,uundecl . T"vro one·.-_i,y ;1wchiJ1c e; uns onc1 one beovy mor tor -aer e cnp:ibllr,;~; ., SOUT ~-:..\ST .~SL CXTt'!JNTJ • 6 • .8.~5 --No . 6 •. ~SUICIDE ATT:iCKS IN INDIAN COEflN CRUISER Th\lfllRTS TiVO i\TTEMI?TS How Japar.ese suicide bombers recently made the first attacks -unsucoessf'ully ­on warships of the British East Indies Fleet in the Indi a.h Oc ean, is tol d by an Official Naval Reporter in this eye-w:i tness nccount from the bridge of the .destroyer,. . . H. ~S~ P llLADIN. We vrnre part of a Task Force operciting off the MalDyEln Isthmus for nearly three days. Destroyers had -.vorked as ·.vetch dogs to onr r i ers far out at seD, Dnd vve . :bad ci~so steamed close inshore to cover the busy mineS'irnep ers. : A cruiser two miles away on our starboord beDm l'lrah workers ever 8sser:tbled within our borders. In one National Research Council lo.boratory in ' Hontreal there is a staff of about 350 -~he list of reseuch scientists nurJbers 140 and includes r;mny internationally known names. Over half of the staff are Canadian; the others have been sent here by the British GoV.ernoent and include ., a few distinguished French scientists. In -~ddition the r e are sizeabl e scientific groups working in the divisions of.chemistry,physics, and engineol:.'ing of the Na tionsl Research Council at Ottawa, and in the metallurgical lnboratories of the Departri,ent of Mines -and Re sources, Ottawa and par ticular problems sre being wo:iiked on et Mc Master, Toronto and McGill Universities. The other universities have 1 co-operated in lending important members of their st aff and the University of Montreal has r.1ade valuable space available for the laborotory I hove mentioned, Can:J.da has also undertaken, as pa:rt of the co:-operntive offcrt, to build a pilot plant for the purpose of investigating one of t he methoc1..s of HA.king r.mter ial ..-~i1ich is required for the atomic bomb, and 10 ,OOO acres vvest of the :ee t~ms.wa IIilit ary . " Caup v-rere expropriated and the necessary industrial f 1?cilities, townsite and laboratories are nearing completion. As part of the overall enterpr ise Dnd in order to guarantee o. gover mien t sup~•ly of uranium, which is the raw 'material on which this new scurce of power at pr esent depends , the Goveriment 1 with the knowledge and approval of the gover11I1.en ts of :the United Kingdom, and of the United states, took over the Eldor8do Hining and Refini:; Corrrpc: nY,. The Gover nr1en t also took steps to provide fo:r new surveys and explora tions ih search of uraniam ores. Arrangements wer e made with mo~ t of the pr ovinces to the end thBt all su.pplies of uramiam might be obtained for the crown and ultimately used under whatever arrangements are made for controlling the releElse of at oi:1ic ener gy in the intel:'est of mankind. St eps -} Steps hove been taken by the three gove:cnments concer-nEtl to s.'.'lfeguarcl the patent position by acquiring the rights to any inventions made i11 this field by their persornel engeged on the »'lark and by other eppropriate measu:ces, Canada l'le\s been associated with scientific development in this field since the days when Rutherford ma.de his fir st discovery at iVIcGill Universi -'..y. Unti:! recently / scientific activities were confined .to the ·nark of indivic1ua1 u;:~iversity professors and some smell scale experiments at the National Reser0ch Couu:d.l in 194D~ but our scientists had follo-vVed the work done in Turope, where the phemmcnon of fission vlas discovered in 1939, and the subsequent developments which took place in many different ·countries, . When it be;:,ame ap:p _____', ~:. of British Bnd Canadien scientists have been operating in 1Vbntrc2l for the past tno cind 8 half years. ·By 1943 progress h8d been so successful that it beccime p:cobDble o bomb could be produced Dnd during that sumner the three p0rtner governments;; the Unitec1 States, the United Kingdom 8!'.d OEJnoda; regDrding the closest co-operotion to be in the interests of the Allied pcrv1ers, agreed thot all work should be more intimetcly integrete::1, Dn::s set up unde'.'.' the chairmansbi.p of Secretary of _War Stimson to excrcise general supervision of the joint effort of the countries cor.cernea.. The Honourci"cle W.1r. G.D. Howe ·.vc:is n8 med E'S Cimo© 1 s representotivo on this Conuni ttce, .A Joint Technical Sub-Cormnittee, consisting of Sir James 0hEJc1:-.v:L'·k of Engl.'lnc.1: M_'ljor· GenerEJl L. R, ~roves of the u. s. ~ and the Prcsidcn t of the N8tion[ll Rese8:cch Council of 08n8d8, was 8ppointed to assume responsibilities for the scientific polioy of the project in Cenada, which became a joint UniJced States, United Kingdom, OEJnadiE'n project ·ni th responsibility for one phosc.of the overall project~ Steps were then taken to _design and construct the pilot plant mentioned 8boveo . The Ncitional Reseflrch Council StAff "NEJs IDDde responsible for the bosic design date. Defence Industries / Limited. , • ,. -4-­ Limited undertook the general engineering on .:i no fee bosis, onc1 the Fraser Broce Co~Dny wore a7lardeU. the construction contr£ict: the work 11c'1S gone on at a repic1 rnte And the plant is now nearing 0per1:1tion. It hes been neo:oss8ry to take ext".cDordinary security precoutions Dnd while wo Dru anxious to give the people Gll .possible information it is obvious that until some appr opriate methods ar e a.evisec1 to contr:'ol this new source of enffi'gy that has been develop ea. it -ni11 not be possible to divulge the tec.bnical lJrocesses of production or of mi.litary applicati.on. The President ha.,s <'.lnnouncec1 thDt he will mek,.e recomnendotions to Congress cis to how future control of production end use of atomic bombs m1:w be achievec1 onc1 the Crmadian Government has similar studies unc1er way and will be preption in this most significant scientific development. I w:::iuld like to Glq)hasise, ho·nover, that quite op art from the military end polical aspects we cen all, I think, take pride in the fact that for the first time e sizeable group of Canadien scientists under the C1Uspicos , of a Ceinedi an institution have been Dctively engage:l in the pioneering phases of wha t m2y well prove t o be one of the major scientific ac1vonces in history. + + + + + + + + C.tifilNET OFFICES :r WWW ......... "'°"'. ;ww• "" '7+= 6.8.45~ No oi 3 11ffi.. BEVTN .Al'ID U. N. R. R'. .A. The Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, vrlll. extend a formal v1elcome on behal f of H· M· Government to the Delegates of the 4li-Nations assembli ng at the. County Hall for the third session of the Council of U. N. R. R. A. opening at 2. 30 p •. m. tomorrow. U. N. R, R. I\.,