26 SEPTEMBER 1941, Page 4

Two answers, I hope and believe accurate, to questions received.

Why are E-boats called E-boats? Short, I am assured, for Enemy-boats. Why this type, more than cruisers, or destroyers, or anything else should get that name I don't know, but apparently someone called them that, for lack of anything better, when they first appeared, and it stuck Secondly, why are so many- American-owned ships ranging the seven seas, or some of them, under the Panama flag? Because it enables them to go where, under American neu- trality legislation, ships flying the American flag could not.