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the georgetown herald wednesday evening december 10 1941 the georgetown herald ncwi of georgetown norvaj glen williams li m choose stewarttown baulnafad and terr cotta subscription rates m and the united states 2 00 a year single copies 5c advertising rates will be quoted on application walter c biehn garfield l moqelvray reginald broomhead phone no 8 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec division of the cwna ie the editors corner we know where we stand j the news oi the vicious japanese attack last week end on hawaii and the philippines came as a shock to the american world at the same time japan declared war on the ujiited states and britain which formally lined that country up with the totalitarian axis powers whose dreams are eve of word conquest that america will meet he challenge was seen in the rapidity with which the united states put its re sources on a war footing gone was all isolationist talk such sterling anti war advoca es as lindbergh and senators wheeler and nje issued statements in which they pledged utmost support to the battle which lies ahead there are no illusions in the united s ates of a quick and bloodless victory over the oriental satellite of europes terrorists the treachery of a nation which talked peace while its warships and aircraft carriers were speeding on their grim mission of war has re suited in the loss of many american lives and arge quan ltjes of supplies but in war as in ever thing ele it is not the first blow that wins the battle the day is coming when japan with germany and italy will bow before the righteous might of a democratic world which has right on their sde more apologies we seem to be in a perpetua apologetic mood lately arid once more this week we shall hae to shoulder the blame for the paper being late there was nothing we could do about it at presen we are in process of printing some very important job work which must be out as soon as possible we have been work ing night and day on his and consequently have not been able to devoteas much time to the herald as usual some of our subscribers seem to have the very mistaken idea that all we do in the herald office is print a newspaper this is far from the case equally important to our livelihood is our commercial prin ing letterheads sale bills factory forms circulars tickets intact everything and anything in the printing line at times when we have certain printing jobs to do in a given time it takes a lot of work and a lot of worry ing to satisfy everyone sometimes the herald is late as it has been for the past few issues we dont like to have this happen any more than you do we do assure you that it is ready every week just as soon as it pos sibly can be london in the blackout amazingly black and quiet this is the rourlh in a series of articles about eondlumu in great britain and other countries visit ed by a group of canadian news paper editors it was written for the wefcly newspapers of canada by their own representative on the tour hush tentptln of the fergus news record first impressions miy not be ac curate but they are always interest ing the first thing that any visitor to england wants to see ls the damage done by the bombs i was no excep tion the airport where our pane had dropped us down on british soil was interesting in its wa but much i i n ipn others i had visited in canada there were only two appar ent dlfferincls the planes were or different types though there were a rv familiar avro ansons and the he tins were protected against the blai s from bombs dropping nearby lit customs examination was brief il gli the examiner did show some mi t in hip hings x had thought i iularv to take to england with me i had a short brush with the ltf censor she took away all the m- i had earned from canada ana or ci to be horrified that i had ik i j ion- a map of the british is es apparentl i had unwittingly committeed trrave crime and she said she must confiscate it evident lj a few girls get that way when given some brief authority i met censor- several times during u n i w k bu none like that tounz nch she even ftent so tar as o ttk awai two picture postcards i 1 id lit in tht azores on the might aci os the atlantic atr a brisk arsri meni in allien the customs man took mi part i eot t he map back the letters and post cards arrived by mill at m hotel in london a week liur ifter being censored first impressions of bombing i is onh a fin mills to the near e t i seipirt on the west coast c t incl i li id nun 1 ii icrofws seem like a railway station outside not a light allowed in the city somehow our hosts from the british council found us and they knew what to do in a fow minutes they had a porter hunting for a taxicab where he went 1 11 never know but he came back with two and in the light of later experience that was something cf an achievement our taxi driver was old and bis cab mas ancient pour persons and their luggage seemed like too much of a load but we entrusted ourselves him hoping he knew what to do the only outdoor lights in london are the traffic signals and the shelter lns even the traffic lights are mired except a tiny cross in the centre the shelter signs have only a dim s showing on them an uncanny quietness the feeling persisted that this could not possibly be- the worlds largest city sometimes the taxi would stop and a bus or some more taxis would go across tbe intersection bach had one dim headlight fitted with shut- tecs so that it threw a circle of semi- darkness on the pavement the win dows of the buses were covered they were just dim outlines as they passed the tiny red cross at the corner would disappear and be replaced by a green one and the driver would start up again some of the editors familiar with london in the past asked him questions tmut local ities only once athhe corner of hjde park did one of- them guess correctly a i am told that london in normal times is noisy at night though not o bad as now york in the blackout u is quiet there seem to be no pri vate cars taxi and bus drivers must find their way largely by instinct the cab stopped under some kind of roof a man with a tiny pockeb flashlight helped us out and called tor someone to take the bags we parsed one by one through a revol- v ing door and emerged suddenly into the bright light of a hotel lobby there was something familiar about bad punianfmol in too ptaeat i vacant lots puad high that most ban coma iron hundred or houses but the docks were attu m operation as usual with oanvora gotnc out the thames was obrloua thai tower bridge itself bad never been hit the tower of london has lost only a corner of one small there hasnt been any london lately it is now five noth- since the last bombs have fallen on the capital only once while i wa in london did an enemy plane ever come near the city prom tie roof of a newspaper office i watched the flashes of the antiaircraft guna away to the east the oerman never got through there was bombing going on all that time but it was around tbe coasts of britain i came through a bomb ing one night in bournemouth and will tell of it in a later story but con ditions have obviously changed the germans no longer have superiority in tbe air defences are stronger it doesnt seem likely that the british will be blitzed again as they were last winter actual invasion seem impossible h thin 7 tod i u thc o eral o oluntlu mill lit ids j lid lot kid lout o oil b hi i tin lit lie loccntotivtts pulling uains of tin wagons nothing i nrd stru t for plio rihv nidi i hem all familiar only the billoons lottin our the hi 1 showed that fnlind had i od jui en inttrer ui il wt all r mm canadian red cross society georgetown branch financial statement january 1st to november 25th 1941 disbursements 1138 40 fi insurance 2 60 campaign expenses 220 290 75 equipment 9816 536 76 h q for wool 1wi 220 50 h q for other 4520 186601 8200 receipts tanuary 1st 1941 balance donations cash pledges refugees blankets special fund raising lamehouse bingo ice carnival net garden party net euchre and bridge net balance rummage sale gladioli sale s s booth uptotou sale open house cash on hand unpaid pledges 193s 25430 1m0 36666 finished goods on hii 14100 banr material on band 28900 113000 work room materials bought 329 12 remittance for 64joo 484 55 113 08 1100 2580 1503 175 01 v 100 1007 69 171 stirpui 915 71 3277 80 327780 liabnjtn 91571 due headquarters for materials est 300 00 due on blankets 1800 43000 313 41 burplu o w ucuntook treasurer for sums of id that i i t i it w i i vtti ill d c geiman vtrslons said that k i i i w is rtudered useless d i b- dt over tli nur kid i i shipp ii and mi no d n to tlit ks f bhid ho ise stood on a corner or it had stood on the cor ner for not a thing as left except i i jncks in tin bxsement the i el hci sidt smiled undam i i 1 xcept for a lev boardedup windows but the corner one was gone as clanly as though it had been ta ved om with a bi knife i thought to myself this is ex- a t what i expected to see it looks jl like the pictures i ic next bo- another house had been hit it wasnl as thoroughlv c roed one side ftall remained aiij up it it irregular intervals were the fireplaces wfifch bad once sup plied a bit of heat to its rooms part of the floor of one upstairs room hung in tht a r vlth a bed on it again there was that feeling that j after i hid been taken to my room and liad looked into the bathroom 1 with its roman bath and royal doul- ion fixtures remind rs of past splen dor thtn i remembered i had seen t ls f imous hotel in moving pictures on ago bomb damage in london i the next morning i saw london for tht first turn our hosts from the bi isli council came around m an old t ir and droit us around the central art of the city particularly that part old london w hlch had been de- strojed b the great flr or 1666 and itbuih better than it had bum now it lias been destroyed again east of st paul s oathedvl and north of fleet street there is 1 almost a square mile i building standing perhaps you have seen that remarkable photograph which shows the great dome of st paul s standing up above a mass of smoke and flames while in the fore ground the walls of ruined houses are silhouetted against the fire i had wondered sometimes if that photo graph was not faked in a room of the press dub in london i saw the ori ginal walking through the ruins of the old city of london it is still easy to picture that terrible night man of the walls which stood up in that blackened area since the big blitz last december have been torn down by demolition squads where tht re arc basements they have been cemented and turned into water re- more aircraft will brins quicker ohy directory f r watson pjd mja georgetown office hours 9 to 5 except thursday afternoons dr j burns milne dental surgeon xray georgetown phone 89 a m nielsen ttth tear af fraettoa chiropractor xray drugleu therapist lady attendant office over dominion store georgetown hours 28 730 930 pju closed thursday clifford g reid ldi dds dentist phone 410 mam street georgeown ihls was just hat i had wa njhung future tires it remained while we drove down long street with half a dozen houses mussing at more or less regular ln- tervils after that m feelings began to change perhaps it was the ruined churches several of them had noth ing left but blackened walls on the main business street many stores were without windows others were hollow shells it made me angry before long thl wanton damage seemed so senseless o nousl military targets had not been hit or they had beenrepalred o quickly that the effect was slight it was the houses that had suffered moit and the churches tie train to london was crowded but uie six of us got a compartment to ourselves on the wall was a de tailed map of the railway line i thought of the girl in the censors office and my map but i never saw another one on a british train most of the railway stations have had the names obliterated or the signs torn down irl the hope that invaders might get lost london in the blackout the train was about halfway to london when blackout time arrived at about halfpast six the guard came in and pulled down heavy blinds over all the windows and doors even the door out into the corridor had a blind on it it w as the first hint that there ls nothing half-hjeftrled- about the bntiah blackout its black inside the railway carriage two dun lights kept the compartment in a state of semidarkness one was a white light set high up in a deep tunnel in the roof the other light more exposcd was blue and did not give enough light to make it possible to read a newsjaper of all the first impressions none is more vivid than that of my arrival in london in the blackout there was some doubt about whether the train had reached paddington station or not but everybody seemed to be get ting out one of the editors opened the door there wasn t a thing to be seen except three scattered blue bulbs in a celling high overhead moving shapes came past the door and one of them answered the question is this paddington with a short yes sir nobody who hasnt been there will evr hellwe hqwdaxt in the blackout at the time of he new moon three blue bulbs reallx slve no light at all they just intensify the darkness and london was not only dark but quiet as well this dfdnt this was an area of office build ings and publishing houses with a number of fine old churches and some of the most famous administrative jaulldlngs it was burned in a con centrated blitz one weekend before the londoners had learned how to fight the incendiary bomb i dont think it could ever happen again an incendiary bomb ls small and light a large bombing plane might carry a thousand of them they are showered down by hundreds and are just heavy enough to go through a slate roof it is two minutes or so before they burst into flame every second counts the incendiary bomb can be conquered in the first two or three minutes after that it takes the fire brigade to do anything about it strangely enough the things that touch the heart of the observer in desolate areas like this are the small things in ruined houses it ls dolls or other toys lying around in former office buildings it is battered type writers piled up a docen or so to gether or some other evidence of the normal life that was once carried on there yet even in the midst of this desol ation i had the feeling that the ger man bombers had failed they had not even tried to hit military targets it is thought that they tried to wipe out the whole of london s fire fight ing apparatus they didn t succeed the fire brigades were massed in that small area and more bombers came over dropping high explosive bombs suddenly they stopped fining it 18 said that a mist arose beck over the channel and it was feared they could not return safely whether that was the reason or not london s fire fight ers escaped to fight another day seeing other parts of london later i felt again and again that the ger man bombers had failed they de- troyed thousands of houses and stores and offices and dozens of churches they did get many fac tories along the thames but they not only failed to mghten the british people they also missed many of the most tempting targets por instance every bridge over the thames is in operation it is said not one has been hit though thousands of bombs have gone into the water in an attempt to out traffic there are jsem- popary b wh can b qui brushed u any bridge ls destroyed they have never been needed i wandered through the dock area near tower bridge one day the little house in the east end have taken a le roy dale kc m sybil bennett ba barristers and sotfcttors mill street georgetown phone 19 radio repa we specialize in this work 15 team experience j sanfordson kenneth m langdon bantoter saudtor nau07pnl first mortgage mcney to loan olbca gregory tbeatee bmg mill street sa jcooke cement and cinder blocks brick and tile bstcraunjuu with apta nat pawer laanhlai all 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