TORONTO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940 NAVAL BALANCE OF WORLD CHANGED IN FEW MINUTES .

The glorious and indomitable courage of the -Navy' shines not only in such conflicts as the battle , , with the Graf Spee and the taking of Narvick, where ships that are built for battle go to their appointed tasks, but it is found on the bridge, engine room and stokehold of every merchant vessel which sails the sea. Transformed into armed auxiliaries, liners are ready to take on the best of the enemy's battle fleet. The story of the Jervis Bay which steamed straight for a pocket battleship so that the convoy with it could separate and escape is one of the annals of the sea that will live. Canada's Navy is proud to . have had representatives on board her, and thus to win that day's events as part of its tradition. The action of-the Jervis Bay was self sacrifice, but .it was not sacrifice in vain. The escape of thirty of the thirty-eight vessels in the convoy from a raider so well equipped to destroy them all was the , measure of the, accomplishment of the gallant crew. After German reports of the sinking of the entire convoy, the real facts came as a golden lining to the cloud. It was this gallant courage which enabled the -'fleet air arm in a matter of minutes to change the naval balance in a manner felt in every quarter of the globe. The destruction visited on Italian battleships and cruisers at Taranto will echo on the Atlantic and across . the Pacific . It will probably send the raiding- pocket . battleship heading for home. As if the feat at Taranto was not enough, the Navy followed quickly with the breaking up of an Italian supply convoy in Italy's private waters of ' the Adriatic. One vessel known sunk, two fired and probably sunk, still another and a destroyer damaged. All of which was accomplished without any casualties on the British ships. Hearts of oak are our men! Truly to glory they steer to add something new to this,glorious year!