R.C.N.

But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N. as "Dr. Cyr."

He served in R.C.N. hospitals in Nova Scotia for three months last spring, and became a registered practitioner in Nova Scotia.

The Navy last week held a court of inquiry into the worst peacetime disaster in R.C.N. history: six men killed, five "missing," 16 hospitalized.

Last fall, when the tide turned in the Battle of the Atlantic, the R.C.N. and the Royal Navy sent 33 U-boats to the bottom.

The force that Vice Admiral Nelles will direct from London is vastly different from the R.C.N. as it was when Cadet Nelles signed up in 1908, the second of seven original officer candidates.