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State your Doy at camp By KIRKE L. SIMPSON "Washington ISritish lioprn of ultimately swopping Axis Torres out of North Africa keyed to the port of Tobruk as the second week of the Libyan offensive waned. (Jrimly held by an allied Jlrilisli garrison for months against encircling German-Italian FBI TO TRAIN ISLAND POLICE St. Thomns, V. T.

UX! Tho United States Fcdrrnl Bureau of Investigation has initiated a special course of training for the Virgin Islands police force, it was announced yesterday. Arnold W. Miller. FBI agent from Corpus Christl, and Washington, D. arrived here recently to take charge of the training, which includes instruction in anti-espionage and anti-sabotage methods, and modern scientific techniques.

Other specialists will give lectures in their fields. The Virgin Islands, American-owned territories lying closest to lCurope, are the locale of important defense bases. A Marine air field r.nd submarine base are at St. Thomas. An Army air field is under construction in the neighboring island of St.

Croix, and a listening observation post is being estab INITIALS Without Extra Charge Boston C1 The frelKhter Africander, formerly the Itnllnn ship Aussa, taken under the Ship Seizure Act, returned to port damaged yesterday after putting out on a defense mission Nov. 17. Other than admitting the vessel had been damaged, the Waterman Lines, which control the ship, which flies the Panama flag, declined information Immediately. The Africander was seized by the United States during the roundup of Axis vessels in American ports last March. She had been badly damaged by the crew at that time.

After being repaired and armed the vessel again was placed in service. foes, that best harbor of the east- ern Libyan coast is a vitally im- portant supply northeast corner of the Libyan hump) would be a long-haul operation. Matruh, British railhead on the Egyptian coast, is 200 miles bridgehead for further prompt eastward of Tobruk. Sidi Barrani, British advance westward. a similar highway advance base, yl beautiful Miniature of his "gal" Convenient si2C for camp because it fits in kit, in bunk or in his pocket.

The picture is hand colored in life-like oils and beautifully framed. once held by an Invading Italian With reported British comple-tion of the Bezegh Tobruk army in Kgypt, is only no milcd i Waterfront sources said that the she 'Junction at El west of Matruh. Seaborne Supplies- Assured With Tobruk firmly held by the damage would indicate that had hit an obstruction. -il ii ANOTHER NATURAL Duda to slam shut the western gateway of the British trap on Axis forces east of that line, the first British and its nearby siege zona cleared of AxU forces, however, direct British seaborne contact with Alexandria would be possible. It would free the desert highways Blanchester, Ohio (UP.) A provision company truck loaded with hams collided with a farmer's JilKKK I.

BIMl'HON from mew picimrt taken in iut stmtioijtr'from Mm phtmrtl im gad ctwdiiiom wbicblbel particnLtrfjX Lieu .95 and the Matruh-Alexandria rail 5 truck filled with eggs near Blan chester yesterday. JPUWUDTT Luggage forlttes road of much of the war traffic burden to sustain the British westward drive. CENTER BASEMENT rilOTO STUDIO. AISLE A hammering westward attack lished. MTVINOFF CONFERS Singapore iff1) Maxim Lltvl-noff, new Soviet ambassador to Washington, yesterday conferred with Sir Robert Brooke Popham, commander-in-chief.

Far East, and Viceadmiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, commander-in-chief, China Station, and other British leaders before resuming his journey to the United States by clipper plane. phase of the fight was near a conclusion favorable to British hopes. There were indications, despite sharply conflicting British" and Axis accounts of what was happening within the' trap, that German-Italian forces were making desperate attempts to break out westward for retreat into the mountainous Libyan hump. A Cairo announcement said To- from Tobruk along the main road, which is under flre of British naval guns virtually all the way to Derna, also would be calculated to force German tank concentration in that area, and thereby lessen their availability for relief of their trapped bruk's relieved garrison and com 7f Hot 1 FITTED WITH CANTILEVER SHOES WILL RELIEVE PRESSURE ON THE SENSITIVE BUNIONS. CALLOUSES AND CORNS.

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British westward coastal push from Tobruk marks the inception of the second phase of the Libyan battle on British initiative, even before re rades who cut their way to the El Duda junction have now struck out westward from the Tobruk front. That means they are endeavoring to clear up the deep ring of Axis fortifications built up about the port, leaving the mopping-up of Axis resistance centers east of the Tobruk-Rezegh line to other forces. Without Tobruk's harbor facilities as an advance base, a British coastal surge westward toward Dcrna (100 miles away on the sults of desperate tank battles in the Rezegh region are fully known. Tobruk, where the British navy managed to land tanks at night for MAIN 4487 use of the besieged garrison, is as EAST AVE. vital for quick reinforcement of the Rezegh line as for a base to sup port a drive at Derna.

Tobruk Lives Not Wasted British determination to hold Tobruk for such ultimate use, even when Wavell's army was being hustled back to the Egyptian border by Axis armies, is now plain. The garrison at Tobruk was ordered to hold out at all costs for MAN'S that reason, relying on its sea supply route. British lives lost in that prolonged siege were not wasted if the port can now be converted into a springboard, for a driving attack to pen Axis Libyan armies into the mountain hump west of Derna and north of Bengasi. There is still no British word of the whereabouts of the column tar to the south aimed at cutting Axis communications west of the hump. We've been planning Christmas ever since last Christmas For a solid year People's have been making ready for this year's Holiday Buying The resulf of our long range planning is to bring you a great, big store full of the grandest furniture and gift ideas you've ever seen under one room More than that, our early buying is going to mean a much more economical filling of your gift list! ROSARY AND CROSS Choose from our 95 large selection.

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