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the georgetown herald wednesday even december 24 1941 uttjor why british churches are burned while factory buildings escape this u the firth of a moles of articles ahoat conditions hi great britain and other countries visi ted by a roup of canadian news paper editors it was written for the weekly newspapers of canada by their special representative on the delegation hugh tempun or the fergns newsrecord in a previous story i told something about the bomb damage in london the subject of bombing and jts results on the people of england istoo large to dismiss in a few sentcncevlt is or has been the most important tea- ture of the war since dunkirk london has been seriously bombed the raids on the city began more than a tear ago and continued until april or may 19 when daytime bombing became too costly for the germans the enemy turned to night bombing i which cannot be so effective in hit- ung particular targets since earry summer the night raids on london have stopped hitler no longer has wit v planes to spare the rajf has vommand of the air over britain ajd around the coasts island defences are more numerous and better or ganized air raids continue but they are mostly along the eastern and southern coasts j i think londoirlqoked much as i had expected to kind it- 1 did not ex- pect see such a large area east of st pauls cathedral so thoroughly laid waste in two other areas both south of the river the damage struck me as terrible in both these cases it was- little houses by the score that had ghdered whtch seemed to me worse than old office buildings or ancient landmarks that was simply because there must have been so much loss of luejtr for the houses them selves some of them are better gone and tlie butldirfgs that replace them n will improve trfesejustricts why churckesar burned i have been asked hundreds of ques tions about bomb damage perhaps other readers would like to know a lew of the answers is it true for instance that churches are almost invariably destroyed ana important factories escape t it is ture it is so obvious to a can adian in england that it stems un canny until one knows the reasons in london and other badly bombed cities it is obvious that most of tlm damage wa done by incendiary thej are smalrskpd light i notice glen textile industries limited hereby gives public notice v rf i balloons brought parts of one home with me it is cylindrical not over two inches in diameter and about a foot long something like a tat roman candle the head is oat not pointed like the up of a high explosive bomb that is the heavy end the tail has fins on it to keep the bomb upright as it falls dropped from a height of 10 000 feet or so an incendiary bomb will pene trate through a slate roof or the ren der of a car leaving a small hole it will not go through a brick wallptrie bomb ignites two minutes artor it strikes and develops a flame said to have a temperature of aboui5 000 degrees a large bomber might carry thousands of incendiaries and drop them out literally bythe ton nowadays the brltlshsnow how to fight the incendiary botnlbr x volunteer fire watchers art always on the look out for bombs they have the simple equipment to render bombs harmless before they can develop heat but even yet the churches are not safe the beautiful old buildings de signed by christopher wren and other great architects have slate roofs in side the building is another false roof often of lead the incendiary goes through the slate but hasn t force enough to penetrate the second roof before it can be reached it has ex- 1 ploded and started a fire sometimes there was an oak ceiling as well no matter how faithful the wat lers at the churches might be it wa impos stole to rip of the slates and ac lead in time to reach the bombs it wasn t that churches were dsitd- erately attacked everything was at tacked it was simply a matter of tn way the churches were built factories i lave really escaped the story or the factories and the production of wax materials is some thing else again it is literally true that many of the important ones have never been bombed i saw a greai aero engine factory in the midlands built since the war started it was undoubtedly the finest factory i ever saw it was built by a large auto mobile company solely for the pro duction or radial engines of l 500 h p or so it ib several miles from the ntares city every precaution has been taken to see that a bomb drop ping nearby won t affect the people inside if one rnakus a direct hit a bt hes of blast walls w ill minimize the damage but there has never beeti a direct hit twice i passed the original hurri cane factory tli ii u an older one and still makes the iambus fihtint plants winch the rcaj3 uses it was pom ed out to me by a ferrj pilot who was going to the factorj lo t ikt a now plane to a fighter station above the factory floited i group of barrage the stutusv of the people st large it is said that it was s great help to morale when a householder came to ilia front door after a night of terror and found both the daily paper and the bottle of milk on the doorstep at buckingham palace only one small building has been hit but the iron fence is being removed to be used to make munltlpns many stores on oxford and regent streets have suffered tenants in rich apartments in the west end have lost everything they owned just as thoroughly as the poor in the dock areas though not such a large proportion perhaps it surprised me to find many lon doners still sleeping in air raid shel ters after four months of immunity from bombing i visited the greai underground station at piccadilly circus twice during my stay some 300 people were still sleeping there but they seemed to be mostly men and women who had been bombed out of their own homes and preferred the semi in dependence of this life rather than being billeted with strangers coventry lias sutured mott it wasn t until i visited coventry that i realized how bad a concentrated bombing can be coventry was lana is an industrial city about the size of hamilton ontario twice the ger i mans concentrated the full weight of their air force on coventry in an at tempt to demonsjjate just what they could do toxsome extent they suc- i eded but they did not stop pro ductlon to such an extent as they had hoped and they did not terrify the people they did not even kill a many as one would expect we drove from loudon to coventry one fine september morning the british council supplied us with cars that had canadian ensigns on the radiators i admired the beautiful english countryside and wondered at the patience of the british farmers cutting their second crop of hay in nd best wishes for the new yjb from your neighborly news reporter rxur-v- final meeting of esquesino township council last week esquesing township their regular meeting council held monday fluds dotted with plane trapy v v coventry s city haurtlrsais almost cnber 15tuy deputy reeve c h untouched on the border of acres or maj counciuors g w murrav ed- inins the car in whieh i was riding harrop and geor e cleave were was the last to drlvt up to the door present reev wm a wilson pre curious crowd mostli women with slded a u meeting the minutes market baskets had feathered as stepped out i heard someone ask l of the last meeting m an u11 changing i the large cities i would hav it was an important factor yet the pilot told me that the germans had never found 11 it sounds mystlfjing actuallj it i simple the cartoonists love to show a man or a building so camouflaged that it looks ludicrous that is actu the village of glen williams in the i allv tthat happens at night these county of halton and province oi j ketones literally cannot be found bylaw for the purpose the location of the head office of the company the following being a truo copy thereof glen textile industries limited bylaw no 3 whereas the head office of glen textile industries limited now is at who an they i anwwered can adians rhe nearest woman with a basket over her arm lespondcd to my sm prise with god bless canada laur i understood major mosley welcomed us in a room which had at model tank and a larfcc vegetable ni u row on tlie table svmbols of greater production mis pearl 11 de head of lie women s voluntary faeiuces told me that many of the people of cov mtrj were clothed in canadian tari menus ind tliev had been fed for enjs from fleeu of mobile canteens dcni cd to cities around bj various ci nadian war funds cantda links hiirh in the estimation of covenirj a few minutes later i stood amid the rubble 1 ca hedral on one side stood mrs hde and on the other captain s a h oi chiel of police both i learned li tr are members of the order of the bltlsh empire because of heroic services performed m ijor cnn lie of st john n b moi ed through the rubble w i th the piovovl ot the cathedral and laid on moved and seconded by cleave and maj that the relief accounts as prc suited be paid bj the treasurer s192sji carried movtd and seeonded by harrop and murray that the treasure pu town of milton fifth dk lsion coui t fees s4 bp corporation ol georgetown hall div s on couil lees jj 00 acton p iblit utilities commission ciesecnt tint lihls to dee 17lh slo 00 bell tut out compinv k o nit sjog dpi ninuii of ouiik ind fisheries pe ul huntinj ncen i 1t i m bennett supple- 00c s imps intl ie istration w84 total 4 44 j san oi iihtf acioui i it due siooo sup ei i sioou niiuu l 1- touli so ltn owen ae uins of coventry i fouu lor cluntj 1798 thorn is dear mri suvwi mr ii oi chum tn wm j uninjt wect in pecloi account for 11141 1 do han robeiuson stamps st 00 carried mod inel eeonded bj hariop and maj that hie tremitr pi wm a wilui mettiufes 36 00 mileage 3 90 tonun sj8 00 total u7il0 c h may ntttnus sj9 00 mill it s10 40 comm telal 129 40 oounty ui tmiiuu anu nuuw ontario i and whereas it has been deemed expedient that the same should be changed to the town of mount forest in the county of wellington in the said province of ontario therefore glen textile in dustries limited enacts as fol lows 1 that the head office of glen textile industries limited be and the same is hereby changed from the village of glen williams to the town of mount forest 2 that this by law be submitted with all due despatch for the sanction of the shareholders of the company at a general meeting thereof to be called for con the same enacted this eighth day of de cember 1941 glen texti in limited m 8telnbero president a a steinberg secretary dated at glen williams this 12th oay of december 1941 glen textile industries limited a a steinberg secretary 2t notice to creditors some of the bomb damage it is impossible to mention manj of the buildings that have been dam aged but i might list a few by this time the streets hav e all been re paired railways are in full operation and there is little or no s ot bomb damage in the railway stations the docks which must have suffered are in operation again barges drawn by tugs are continually golnc up and down the thames at westminister i saw a convoy going out the mouth or the thames one day that i visited the east coast as i said before all the bridges over the thames escaped damage on one of our first days in london the editors were conducted through the houses of parliament by two in teresting and humorous guides lora snell representing the house of lords and sir patrick hamon from the house of commons they took us even into the basement rooms wner guy fawkes stored the gunpowder to blow up parliament centuries ago and into the underground chapels here cromwell stabled his horses to show his contempt for the institution of parliament the chapels are lovely there is no longer any horsey smell here and there i saw the damagt done by bombs in the great west minster hall where the bodies of lhe kings lie in state workmen were r pairing a broad hole in the roof where a bomb came through big ben has a most escaped one corner of the clock tower and one face were dam aged but the clock still goes the worst dimafte ls in the house of commons chamber itself it simply does not exist an longer there is no roof and only a small pile of rubble andtwisted girders marks uiw spot where many a great debate na taken place yet strangely enough the roomsaround it are almost un touched st pauls and westminster abbey it seems impossible that st pauls cathedra should have survived when improvised altar a wreath whlchi e harrop the editors had brought from lon intelim wood milt ue 13 00 tomm don m t were molst and 1 thought i s70 rm k0 g w m inai the chief wiped away a tear two days met tines 39 00 mileage 13 00 comm 700o total 12200 c f cleave meetings 39 00 mlleic 6 10 lomm guarding quality a woman worker in the rrownsburg pq small arms ammunition plant 11 hown inspecting shells canada la now turning out shells and bombs of 1 si7es in large quantities in the matter of the estate of annie lane late or the town of george town in the county ot halton widow deceased notice is hereby given that i all persons having any claims or de mands against the late annie lane who died on or about the eighteenth day of november 1941 at the town of georgetown in the county of halton and province of ontario are required to send by post prepaid or to deliver to the undersigned solicitors herein for jf janet ncdougall and william george marshall the executors of the last will and testament of annie lane ai the area behind it is bare and widow deceased their names and ad- dreary i visited the cathedral and dresses and full particulars in writ- found only one large hole in the roof tog of their claims and statements of made by a high explosive bomb that tbelr accounts and the nature of the shattered the altar beneath again 1l securities if any held by them 1 was explained that the roof structure and take notloe that after the supplied the answer the incendiaries tenth dtay of january 1942 the said bounced off the great dome and the janet mcdougall and wlluam george arched roof fire engines and fire marshall will proceed to distribute the fighters are massed all the time in assets of the said deceased among the the square in front of the cathedral demons entitled thereto having regard j if westminster albbey was hit the np to the claims of which they shall damage- must have been repaired al- aoau then have had notice and that though one portion was closed on the the said janet mddougall and william sunday afternoon i visited it george marshall will not be liable tor fleet street with most of the dally the said asms or any part thereof newspaper offices grouped together to any person of whose claim they shad sufferedmuch yet not on dally paper not not then have received notice ever1nlsseaa single edition the 1 ontaitoithu editor of one of lord beaverbroots ninth day of december ad 1041 papers told me that 75000 had been rai nd wonrarnr i spent to j f buildings h dale and bennett j fjma m lba ftre 1 saw the results ooudtora for the said janet mcdougad the record of the newmoers a st and wlluam george marshall i markble but no more amating than later prime minister churchill visited coventr and asked about the wreath i iie thought it a splendid idea and the next da two more arrived to place beside our own one from winston churenili the oiher from mrs chur- 1 lull the buildings in the heart of cov 1 entry art literally wiped out in two great raids one in november 1940 and the other in april 74 000 housca out of a total of 91 000 in coventry were damaged it was a bcautilui moonlight night said mayor mosley the most beautiful i think i ever saw in my life i a visit to coventry now is depress ing here it would seem the ger man luftwaffe really succeeded but they dldn t even though they sent over 800 planes to bomb for ll hours in the moonlight and even though the had immense luck for the large water main was broken by high explosives and three lucky shots hit the canal bank and drained away tin secondary water supply the buildings which made up thb business section are gone and so are many of the houses the hospital and the cathedral and the roman cath olic church are but shells but amaz ingly enough only 1246 persons were killed in both raids and i saw with my own eyes the war factories going again at full speed that afternoon before we left to visit a bomber station lady served tea to a dozen editors isked if she lived in coventry during the raids she did she wasn t in a shelter either it was her turn that night to be on air raid patrol bhb travelled through those streets wltn flames and death all around and the sky full of enemies she was terri fled she admitted but she never thought of taking shelter anyway she had no home u go to that night one of the first bomfas got a you cant defeat people like that read a second and third times and passed and the blanks filled in with the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars and the seal of the conoration be attached thereto treasurer pa board carried ilth itcounts h c mecluie moved and seconded by may and 11 tf indigent irom guelph gen cleave that leave be granted to in hospital to hospital loi incur 1 troduce a by law to issue debentures ables toronto oet 22nd 18 00 de- n behalf of school section pi 1 men of health of ontario in esquesing to apply on the building sulm supplied 2 indigents 1 40 c r of a new school house and that said ambulance fiom milton to si by uw be now read a first time 7000 total 115 50 carritd mm id ad se onded bv muir harrop that the reiro help canadas seaward defence war savings ty certificates jatph s ha pi til hamllon n huh ml faep 20th 10 00 dr r r paid ittendmg m o h convention at to ronto 1000 j h blnghim meetings 24 00 m leugc 2 70 total 26 70 wm a w4ison meetings 4 00 mileage 1 b0 total 25 b0 dr r t paul meetings 24 00 mileage 120 total 25 20 i m bennett meetings 24 00 total 24 00 j sanjotd account to date 4 81 carried moved and uconded b cleave and hart op that treasurer pnv sneep claims mrs kathleen y sutherland 2 sheep killed 19 00 2 sheep injured 13 00 total 32 00 harry presswood 3 sheep killed 4j 00 ray mcenery 1 sheep kiucd 15 00 herbert ander son 1 sheep killed 16 00 d e kil- gom l purebred lamb killed 25 00 wm a wilson 1 sheep killed 15 00 k c lindsay vahiatoi 12 00 victor mccallum 4 sherp kllcd 54 0ffun- can waldie valuator 2 00 victor mc- callum shoot 114 dog in act of killing dainty yming t 00carned 1 moved and seconded b ma and clt avc that the treasurer pay lhe road accounts as presented by thfe road superintenoent 638 16 omti- eu moved and seconded b murray and cleavt that the treasurer pay cana dian geierai insurance co g c brown ntent renewing tax collect tors boid to dec 9th 1942 3750 dale a 1 bennett legal fees 160 00 jisbursemenls 20 24 lotaj 18024 carried moved and seconded by may and cleave that leave be granted to in troduce a bylaw to provide for hold ing municipal elections for the year 1942 and that said bylaw be now read a first time carried moved and seconded by murray and harrcp that bylaw no 947 to pro vide for holding municipal eqectlona for the year 1942 having been road a first time be now read a second and third times and passed and the seal of the corporation be attached there to oarried moved and seconded by harrop and muray that leave be granted to ln- troduce a bylaw to grant permission to the reeve and treasurer to bor row money to meet the current ex penditure of the township and that said bylawjje now jtad a first time carried moved and second by clsavs and may that bylaw no 948 to gnpot permission to the reeve and tress- 1 urer to borrow money to meet the current expenditures of the tovnship j having been read a first time be now j carried moved and seconded by harrop and murray that by law to issue deben- tuies on behalf of school section no 2 esqucslng to apply on the build ing of a new school house having been read a first time be now read a second time carried moed and seconded by cleave and harrop that the reeve do now va catc the chair and it be taken by the deputy reeve carried moved and seconded by murray and cleave that the thanks of this coun cil are hereby tendered to reeve wm a wilson for the courteous and im partial manner in which he has pre sided over the meetings of the council during the oast year carried moved k 1 seconded by harrop and cleave that this council do now ad journ carried ballinafad last week mrs m bmh had ier hand badly crushed last week when a heavy stick of wood fell on it it required hospi tal treatment for a few days mr norman sinclair attended tno ranger leafs hockey game in toronto saturday night master ross short ill is at present guelph hospital where he is re covering from a severe scalding he accidentally fell into a pail of hot water last tuesday morning we all hope he will soon be able to return home the joint christmas meeting of the vfms and mission circle was held wednesday evening at the manse the canadian friendship carol ser vice as outlined in the missionary monthly w as follow ed with w mb members taking the leaders part and circle members lighting the friendship ndles one for each of the nationali- s which go to make up our new canadians the reports of the dif ferent departments will be given at the january meeting the financial re- jxjrt was very encouraging the re port or the nominating committee was accepted as follows for the wm8 presiden t mrs r warne 1st vice presidents mrs a o w foreman 2nd vice president mrs d russell recording and corresponding secre- tar mrs f w shortill treasurer mrs robt mcenery christian stewardship and finance mrs p j shortill siipl mrs a mckay community friendship mrs w wy ie literature miss b hilts temperance miss b hilts press mrs j klrkwood organist mrs b vannatter associate helpers mrs jesse mc enery mission circle leader mrs a o w foreman mission band ethel swlndlehurst baby band mrs f j shortill during the ibusdness part of the meeting the circle elected the follow ing officers for 1942 president margaret sinclair let vicepresldentethel swindle- hurst treasurer marguerite kentner corresponding secretary florence sinclair s recording secretary ann snow supply betty perryman christian stewardship lena perry- man community friendship betty perry- man temperance edith warne press lillian shortill pianist reta allen refreshments were sedved at the close of the meeting and a social time enjoyed don t drive carelessly unless you are not fussy about living in 142 new years eve frolic wednesday dec 31st oddfellows hall brampton gibson boyd orchestra lucky dances hats noisemakers lunch bv brampton rebekah lodge dancing 10 till 2 200 a couple dress optional regular wednesday night dance will continue in the new year g hockley manager