Sherbrooke daily record, 4 novembre 1941, mardi 4 novembre 1941

[" \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 liprlirnokr iailu mwnrî) THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy and cold«r, TEMPERATURES Yesterday: Maximunï, 46; minimum, 43.Same day last j^eari Max., 43; min., 40.Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941.Forty-Fifth Year.MAJOR RUSSIAN BLACK SEA PORT IMMOBILIZED 4?- German Shelling™™ Lowers Of Sevastopol Base German Bombardment of Port from Land and Air So Intense as to Render It Valueless for Refuelling and Servicing Russian Warships Which Control Black Sea Shipping Lanes\u2014Major Assault Due Soon.London, Nov.4.\u2014\u2014German bombardments were reported here today to have immobilized Sevastopol as a main base of operations for the Soviet Black Sea fleet.A fortified city of 80,000 population, Sevastopol is a major objective of the intensified German drive into the Crimea.The invaders liave reached a point close enough to harass the city with artillery as well as bombers, London military observers said, so that it would no longer * CLAIMS CHINA Ü.S.DESTROYER United States Navy Department Releases Account of Brush of Destroyer Kearney with U-Boat.British Vessels Place Boarding Parties On Vichy French Ships Running Contraband For Germans Springfield, Mass., Nov.4.\u2014(&)\u2014 Dr.Russell Henry Stafford, President of American Board of Foreign Missions, said today that Chinese resistance to the Japanese may well be a pointer \u201cfor our own decision in contingencies not unlikely to arise on the domestic scene.\u201d Asking \u201ceven to protect our country from destruction, is it ever right the Old South Church, Boston, told the Board\u2019s 132nd annual meeting in a prepared address: \u201cThat is a qüestion that puzzles and distresses many upon our own ground.\u201cYet I have still to meet even ;an extreme pacifist who queries the right of our Chinese brethren to resist Japan by any means available at the present juncture.\u201d afford practical shelter for refuelling t0 take up arms?\u201d the Minister of and.servicing of the Russian warships which control Black Sea shipping lanes.Without detailing exact positions, the Nazi high command claimed yesterday German troops were proceeding from Simferopol, the Crimean capital, forty miles North of Sevastopol.\t.,\t,\t, Another Berlin claim said a land assault on Sevastopol was expected to begin \u201cin a very few hours.\u201d Russians insisted, however, that the defenders would take full advantage of the rough terrain and military fortifications about the city, which resisted a British-French-Turkish siege for eleven months m 1854\u201455 Soviet warcraft moving out between the chalky cliffs of the Sevastopol estuary for another base probably would head toward Novorossisk, a Caucasian commercial port of 100,-000 linked by railway with the menaced city of Rostov, on the Don, and Baku, a'Caspian Sea port.Even Novorossisk, however, may lie in the path of a German drive.The second fork of Germany s forces in the Crimea is aimed toward Kerch, on the East coast only eighty miles bv sea and land Northwest of Novo-j rossisk, in an apparent attempt to ; strike \"at Russia\u2019s Caucasien oil, fields.\t,\t\u201e .v : Complete control of the Crimea by Germany also would furnish a pos-> sible by-puss to the East and elim , inate the necessity for a tlecisive engagement at Rostov, where Axis armies have been halted by stiffening Russian resistance and autumn : Washington, Nov.4.\u2014(JP)\u2014A vivid story of the torpedoing of the United States destroyer Kearny and of her labored voyage 'to safety has been released by the Navy Department, more than two weeks after the stricken ship sailed into Reykjavik, Iceland.An account of the Kearny's brush with a submarine in the North Atlantic was written by Drew Middle-ton, Associated Press staff writer stationed in Reykjavik, on October 19, the day the ship reached port.The tale was gleaned by Middle-ton from members of the Kearny\u2019s crew \u2014- chiefly from Ensign Henry Lyman of Ponkapoag, Mass., as he lay in a United States army hospital at Reykjavik recovering from shock and exhaustion.At the time of the attack\u20141 nil a.m.on October 17, Lyman was on the bridge as junior officer of the deck.The Kearny, he explained, had been on escort duty with a Westbound convoy the day before when she received word ;hat an Eastbound convoy escorted by Canadian corvettes had been attacked by submarines.She immediately started to tlva rescue at top speed of thirty-six knots.When the destroyer reached the scene, Lyman said, the attacks had ceased\u2014temporarily\u2014