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By DAVID ZINMAN "Associated Press Staff Writer 'lthe hold," the British skipper roaied in, Lieut. Luigi Durand de: la le knew what the British skipper had tried desperately to fiiid out. De.la Penne had rid- time bomb below the 32,000-fon warship. "Take the frogmen down to|Vailant, Sailors hustled the _Italian|into position, When he got back plode, prisoner down into the bowelsido-vn to the torpedo, Bianchi of the battleship Valiant moored|was gone. He surfaced again.|befcre Capt. Morgan. "lin Alexandria, Egypt. Locked|No sign of Bianchi. Manoeuvres By Italy attleship by himself, Hc made a few inches with avd take him along. den a "human torpedo" into the each pull. Alter 40 minutes, he! where the warhead was. No an ' ted a stopped to rest and his head|cwer, Back he went. to th 4 British harbor and plante baaged against the ship's hull.|tyn, of the battlewagon. e bot ts i Yas Wa Wa iY Was Why didn't Morgan move the ihe dragged the torpedo the were put out of action by six Since none of the frogmen es- caja' to} report their success, the British camouflaged the damage to the ships, listing in shallow water. "Most Daring Of Naval Perse: 2 a RRS 2 MO ie THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, December 18, 1961. @ houor, his country's highest combat decoration. Among those present was Capt. Morgan, who he'ped to pin the medal on the breast of -the man who had blown a hole in the ship, Itahan planes took: reconnais- the propeller. De la Penne sur- head remained undetected on}, faced about 45 feet from the|the sea floor. Sap parang and auxiliary craft were along NEWS IN BRIEF ,| D la Penne glanced at his/side the two battlewagons--sig- He and Bianchi would have to|waterproof watch. Ten minutes|nificant evidence of rep..ir work detach the warhead and drag it)before the charge was to ex-|to an expert--Mussolini was not he hammered on the|impressed by the pictures and docr. In a few minutes, he was|sa'd he could see n damage. Over the protests of uis navy "Thé Valiant will be blown up/secretary, the supreme moment yanthe min.|.. ere Was only one thing he|inside 10 minutes," the Italian) "2S allowed to pass. The battle- Penne started counting the min-| o41¢ do--drag the quarter-ton,|officer said, hoping the captain|shirs were repaired and went utes left in his life. slightly buoyant warhead to the|would order the ship abandoned|»ack on-duty. The second sequel took place Morgan asked him again|after Italy fell. De la Penne re- ceived a post-war gold medal of HISTORIC SITES QUEBEC! (CP)--Laval Uni- versity historian Marc Trudel has published the first historical atlas of French Canada. It con- tains 93 maps, dug out of old books and archives, including the travels of Jacques Cartier, Champlain's maps of the St. Lawrence River Valley and the forts of New France with their plans, . SMOKE, DRINK MORE IONDON (Reuters)--Britons spent more on smokes and drank more beer and liquor dur- ing 1960, the annual customs aud excise report showed Fri- day, The report, for the year ended last March, said tobacco earned the British treas- pry £825,000,000 ($2,310,000,- 000, a £37,000,000 ($103,000,000) increase "'due wholly to a higher rate of duty imposed by the 1960 budget." Britons quaffed 27 500,000 barrels of beer, about 1,000,000. more than the previous year. Consumption of liquor was up by 1,600,000 gallons, to 15,- te op te te ty > at ts a Pofp fF CPE te te feo ie fe tect ie fey 80, gallons. ST. In a colorful ceremony dat- ing back to the 13th century, St. Nicholas, patron saint of of children, recently arrived in Metz, France; to visit Ca- nadian children in the DND's General Navereau school. Taking advantage of secing "Santa Claus" a little ahead of his famous annual visit is little Susan Green, 5, daugh- ter of Corporal and Mrs. Bob At this moment, two more "human torpedoes' glided through the murky waters of the naval base toward the bat- tleship Queen Elizabeth -- the only other Allied battlewagon in the Mediterranean -- and a tinker. ii was Dec. 18, 1941--20 years ago Monayd--the night a half- fozen brave men carried out what was perhaps the Italians' most daring naval manoeuvre of the Second World War. If the power scales in the Mediter- ranean. : Down in the hold, de la Penne knew escape was impossible. they succeeded, they would tipjaboard a mooring buoy, There final few yards and set the fuse. He did not clip the charge to the keel. It. was beyond his strength. He left the warhead on the shallow harbor bottom below the Valiant. CAPTURED \' the surface, a sailor spoited him and the ~harbor came alive with searchlights. A machine-gun opened up. De la Penne swam under the Valiant's bow, and climbed was Bianchi, who had been over- come underwater and eventually haa hidden behind the buoy. eotee The blast came. At first, there wa.: a gentle shudder. Then the Valiant heaved, listed to port and settled slowly in the mud. ESCAPES UNHURT In_ the hold, de la Penne thought his life was over. The deck came up to crush him. But, luckiiy, the door was blown open and except for a_ painfully| py wrenched knee, he was unhurt.| un deck, he found Bianchi. He, too, had been blown free. n roe ys Ss basta $ : a chip? Apparently he figured de| ae la Penne had attached his|"se : charge to the hull, thus making|#q movement futile. N O ON ALL | FIREPLACE BRASS ~7 A Wide Selection To Choose From! JANUARY SALE PRICES IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS : LES EVENISS SALES A: a £oon a searchlight picked NICHOLAS IN METZ Green of Peterborough, Ont., with the CCAF's NATO Air Division in Metz. Looking on is "Black Peter" or 'Pere Fouettard', which means 'Father Whip', who tradition- ally punishes children who have been naughty in the preceding year. The Saint Nicholas tradition, faithfully maintained in Metz, goes back to the 13th century There was nothing to do but wait CLUMSY CRAFT , The Alexandria operation had started 15 days earlier. when Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Greece, suffered torture and imprisonment for his faith. His subsequent gifts to impoverished people is | (Qn Dec. 3, 1941, the crew of held by some authorities to |the submarine Scire at La have originated the old cus- |Spezia naval base in northern tom of giving presents on the /Italy hauled three top-secret hu- Eve of Saint Nicholas, sub- |man torpedo crafts aboard, sequently transferredto| Tue human torpedo was a Christmas Day. clumsy psborry po aarp | _ i cruising partly submerge: sl esse tie pilot's head and shoulders By-Elections Factor In National Events out of the water or fully sub- merged. If the two - man crew succeeded in slipping past har bor craft, depth charges and un- derwater nets, they detached a id pound charge -- which formed the torpedo's nose-- fixca it to the ship, and set a fuse . Then, they glided off on them up. A launch came up and plosl igre ogee oe Capt mt and a tanker. Three British . . st i Charten Maio SOM al tatar: shiys totalling some 80,000-tons Aquarter-mile away, giant ex-|# $s ripped the Queen Eliza-| 15 PRINCE STREET PAB ASD a8 a8 ae Bet eh oN a 8 IB Re? a 725-4632 bch dh) AY hd heh d hhh) hd hd preter to explain that if the frog- men did not tell where their charge was, they would be locked in the deepest compart- ments in the hold. Sience. "Take them below," Morgai: stormed. Sailors separated de la | Penne and Bianchi and locked| thein up. Aching and cold, de la Penne knew he was over the spol where he had planted the charge. FRANTIC SEARCH On deck, there was a frantic at'empt to find the charge. Sail- | ors passed a line under the ship's keel. They swept her from | You Can WIN... : A $50 Canada Savings Bond Simply fill in the coupon below and send it along with your dry cleaning order to any of the qualified Dry Cleaners Listed below. You could be o winner! 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The Sis and Dis inelanlag mourNe: in determining the future course|now have no members in the/first three seats were formerly |*hcir sea horses. of national events. |federal house from west of the|held by Conservatives, the lat-) As they neared the harbor en- Conservative party sources lakehead. ter two by Liberal and Liberal-|trance, protected by a subma- say the outcome of the Ontario| But the spokesman conceded| Labor members. ; jrine net, fate sulle. lights MARIE MURDUFF byelections may prompt the gov-|a Conservative source's claim| The byelections are being re- of the harbor-gate flashed oni] as veers' Experie ernment to call a federal gen-|that the Conservatives were|garded here as both a test forjand the net boom swung back perience eral election early next summerj|really responsible for the Lib-jthe various provincial party|to permit three approaching de- will tinh Deka on the i is Or " umn. jeral victory in Weyburn. 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The wash scattered for appointment on these dotes the thrée torpedo teams. They vi PHONE 723-4641 | jal] got through, but they lost fcontact. Inside the base the first series fof bad breaks occurred. De la ee body. Then the torpedo sank Peune's suit punctured, chilling 'to the bottom. A wire had fouled jin the two Toronto ridings of'per-cent sales tax Sept. tive politica! element, did not) enter candidates in either of the, Quebec contests. Nor did the a! Progressive Conservative party -- put a candidate into Saskatche- > DELICIOUS s s Coming Up with... wan's byelection in Weyburn constituency. POULTRY FARM and "The Saskatchewan Liberals pulled an upset by winning the PROCESSING PLANT. 117 BLOOR ST. EAST Weyburn seat held by former 723-4722 CCF premier T. C. Douglas for 17 years. 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