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This is the sixth of a series of articles about conditions in Great Britain and other countries visited recently by s group at twelve Canadian editors. It Ins written {or the weekly newspapers 0! Canada by their own representa- tive on the tour, Huh Tammi. of the Fergus News-Record. Our hosts were most obliging in every way. I! there was anything we wanted. we had only to ask the British Coun- cil, and it was arranged. We wanted to see the Canadian Corps in action and we saw it travelling over the country- side on large-scale manoeuvres, We de- sired to meet Prime Minister Church- ill face to face: in two days came word that we would not only meet him but we would also hear him speak in the House of Commons. We wanted to see a blitzâ€"but it seemed that the British Council wasn‘t able to manage that for us. As the days passed in London and no German bomber ever came near the city. the Canadian editors grew res- tin and impatient. They did not want to go home again and have to admit that they never heard a bomb burst One night. I sat in the office of Mr. Robertson, editor of the Daily Expx‘cs‘i A messenger came in. "The yellow ligh: is on." That means that an enemy plane has crossed the coast ~‘omewhere. It happens nearly every night. A few minutes bur. there was morn excite- ment. The purple light. had gone on. That indicated that the plane was deâ€" finitely headed towards London. All over the city. in ARP. posts and newspaper offices. men watched for the red light to come. That would be the one that would send the sirens schoching through the streets. There had been no red light for months” With the Watchers on the Roof The editor. who had graduated from the University of Toronto in 1914, thought we might see a raid after all. so we hurried up to the roof. George? Drew was there and John Collingwood' Reade, as well as several of our own, party. With the light of electric torches' we went up metal stairs, past greati tanks of water in the top storey and' out on the roof. where two men in steel 3 hats kept a constant vigil. i I stayed with them for an hour. but the Jerry never reached London. Out to the eastward we saw flashes from the anti-aircraft guns. but that was all. The others went below but 1 re- mained. listening to stories of the days when London was the hot spot. These men veterans of the last war. were in the thick of it then. but they had the same philosophy that carries all Lon- don through its dark hours: "If a bomb hasn't got your number on it it won't get you: if it has. it doe< not matter where you are." On my last night in London. I came out of the brightness of the Royal Aut- omObile Club into the blackness of Pall Mall. For the first time, I saw the long fingers of the searchlights waving a- cross the London sky. In daylight. I had seen the guns and searchlights in Hyde Park. but this was the first night there had been any sign of life. The purple light must have been on again. They faded out after awhile but I walked lwpetully along Pall Mall and PAGE 6 of tents 6. Game of chance 9. Egg-shaped 10. Persia 11. Cray 12. Scene of anything 13. Little mass 15. A mero 14. Siamese um 33, and-shelted 34, A title: 25. YOU!!! salmon 26. Kind of duck 28. Chief of Ms!- Canadian Editors Bombeii u?» islands 45. Sole 46. Emmets parrot. 28. Encountere 4. Walk slowly 30. Ferry boat. 5. Pugilistic 33. Wretched- 6. Tunes ness 7. Intelligent 34. Extreme 8. Undlvided 36. A demon 15.011 37. Drawing 16. A planet room 2. beclared 3. Kind 6! 1. Mountain 17. Marsh 18. To foster 19. Layer 21. Knock 24. Regret 25. Remunerate 27. Pertaining to land: 28. Encountered So it went everywhere. At the Press Club one night I listened to amazing stone-\- of Fleet Street in the blitz. It had been hammered almost to destruc- tion. when a land mine came floating winwn on a parachute. If it had gone off, every building; for blocks around mould have gone over like a row of Edominczs. The parachute caught on a !wire {tress the street and the great [mine swung in the breeze till the de- ;mollt.oli squad look it carefully down. 3 'Ilu-n 111830 was the woman who sold fDUIS'C'S to Major Christie and me in lLibei'tis. Somehow the talk drifted a- i . ;round to bombing. ito me that I can't go in there. 1 says. .I am going in: I live here and my sis- :ter lives: here and we're going to keep on living here. And we're there yet, ithough it’s inconvenient in winter not having a roof on your house.” through Trafalgar Square and down the Strand, and nothing happened. It wasn't hard to get stories of the blitz second hand. Nearly everybody had been bombed. Nobody bragged a- bout it. It was weeks before I knew that Toby O'Brien, our host from the British Council, had been carried into a hospital after being blown out of his car one night. The Savoy itself had six or seven bombs, one of which blew the end of the restaurant. Canadian Military Headquarters in Cockspur street had suffered more than the Ac- tive Army in the field. It was nearly one o’clock when I wakened suddenly in my bed in the Savoy. I thought I heard the guns go- ing outside. Carefully. I went into the bathroom, shut the door, turned off the lights, opened the window, and looked out.. There was nothing to see and no guns to be heard. Half an hour later, 1 wakened again and dressed. After all, it was my last night in London and one more walk in the blackout would be pleasant. But outside all was still and I walked to Waterloo Bridge with 2 Canadian sold- iers hurrying to catch a train, then went back to the hotel. Survivors of the Blitz "I wont Mme one night and the roof wa» off my house. The constable says The amazing understatement of all these people was what impressed me. I found it, high and low. One night, a Canadian editor suggested to Col. As- tor that we would like to see a bit of bombing. Said the Colonel: “I would not advise it, We have found it a slightly uncongenial experience." On a Train in an Air Raid We left London on a Southern Rail- way train without hearing a bomb burst. With their usual thoroughness. the British Council had reserved two compartments. Five editors took one of them: Major Christie. Grattan O’- Leary and I had room to spare in the Other. Outside in the corridor, a man from the Royal Army Ordinance Corps and his girl stood in the corridor.. We invited them in. The girl was able to knit by the dim radiance of a tiny light in the compartment and the man talked to us rather guardedly. We must have been near the South Coast when the train slowed to a crawl and the white light went out. leaving only one dim blue bulb burning. "You're in an air raid," the young soldier said. We didn‘t believe it, There had been 39:184.!!!” 40.61113 nickname 42. Footlikc org!!! 0N ANOTHER SOLUTION 0F \VEEK'S PUZZLE PAGE '8 too many false alarms. “All right,” he said, “but if you hear machine guns, lie on the floor.” It must have been half an hour be- fore the lights came on and the train speeded up. In no time we were out on the station platform at Bournemouth. An Imperial Airways officer was there to greet us. ”There has been an air raid, but the All Clear has just. sounded.” Perhaps he thought we looked dis- appointed. light swept across, picking up one of them didrectly overhead. That was strange I thought. They don't put searchlights on our planes. Could it be another German? Had they returned? Bishop Renison and Dave Rogers went. away in the officer’s car. The other six of us piled in a station wagon and followed. A few blocks away, we came over the top of the hill and saw the Channel in the moonlight. Twa Planes Across the Sky Just then, two planes went over, quite low down. The long finger of a search- Suddenly there was a terrific explo- sion and a great fan of yellow light covered much of the sky ahead. It had come. I knew it as surely as I knew we were in Bournemouth. I wasn’t frightened in the least. That seems strange, looking back, but per- haps we were all newspaper men now on the path of a big story. Not one of the others seemed nervous either. I thought: “This is better than any fireworks at the Toronto Exhibition.” In less than a. second, there was an- other blast. That made it certain. I thought of the words of the King: ”We’re all in the front line now, We are rmlly into it at last.” A.Warm Welcome to Bournemouth I wondered what the driver of a car did in a blitz. The driver seemed to wonder, too. An A.R.P. warden on the corner shouted: "Put out that light." He might have been shouting at our driver (who didn't pay any attention) or a boy with a white lamp on his bi- cycle. Water seemed to pour down out of the sky ahead. It was incomprehen- sible, but the gutters were full on the sides of the. road. For the first time somebody spoke. “He must have smash- a water main.” It wasn’t until next morning. I heard about that. One bomb had burst in the sea and sent water into the sky for a quarter of a mile inland. They were not bombs, either, it seemed, but two or the dreaded land mines that had floated down on great parachutes and exploded on the beach, one in the water and the other on the side of the cliff. Next morning, I picked up a pocketful of splinters and part of the parachute cord. The cord was over an inch in diameter. The mines must have weighed 1,500 pounds each. The station wagon drew up at the Royal Bath Hotel and we stepped out on broken glass and entered. Inside there was chaos. The Bishop and Mr Rogers had been knocked over by the blast but were on their feet again. Two women were trying to calm little dogs. The door leading to the lounge had been blown looee from the stone arch- way, frame and all. There was no light except little pen- lights which we always carried. I walked to the arch where the door had been and stood beside a stranger, We looked back into the huge lounge, and as we stood there. half the fancy plas- ter ceiling dropped past our faces. A few feet farther in and we would have had very sore heads, if not worse. My unknown friend said: “It's not too se- cure in here." I laughed. There it was again: that British understatement. Four people in the hotel needed hos- pital care. Onem an was nearly scalped by flying glass. A young girl was car- ried out on a stretcher. She was not unconscious. Through it all, the old grandfather clock in the lobby kept going. The Airways peOple weighed us in the only room on the ground floor where a candle could be burned. The lady who managed the hotel brought excellent sandwiches and coffee within an hour, She apologized because she had no beds for us. They were full of glass and most of the windows were out, Those on the side next the sea were soaked with water. B. K. Sandwell and I decided to sleep on mattresses on the floor. The lady manager led us upstairs with the lady manager led us upstairs with the occasional light of a torch. She apolo- gized that we had to sleep on the floor. “You see." she said, “We’ve been a bit pushed about here tonight! " There it was again! Half her hotel was wrecked. Plaster continued to fall here and there at Intervals. yet they had been “pushed about!” After an hour or so, we slept well. The only disturbance was the sound of men shovelung up plate glass of! the streets all night. Every window within a mile was gone, if it faced the sea. Five miles away, windows were When we came to think it over, we agreed that u the German had pulled his bomb lever halt a second sooner, THE DURHAM CHRONICLE (Intended for Last Week) Pte. John Cousvoisier, Petawawa, also Helen and Marjory of Toronto spent the Christmas holiday with Mrs. Cousvoisier. , Messrs. Alexander and Russell Tay- lor, Lorne Eccles and Wallace Matthews of Oshawa, spent the hollday at their homes. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Henderson, Gra- venhurst. also Miss Marian Hender- son of Hamilton and Miss Laura Hen- derson of Guelph spent Christmas at Mr. Gordon Henderson's. G. R. Moogk, Sperling, Man, now of St. Thomas R. C. A. F. training school spent Christmas leave with his aunts. Mrs, W. J. Philp, Dromore and Mrs. D. S. McDonald, Hopeville. Clarence and George Patterson. and Russell Hadley, Edwin, Man., now of Trenton and Toronto R.CA.F. train- ing schools spent the holiday with their uncle, Mr. and Mrs. S. Patterson and visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. W. Renwick. Mr. and Mrs. Norman mimmle and family of Elora spent the holiday with his mother, Mrs. A. Drlmmie. ’5 Mr. Clarence Walker spent the week with his parents at Walkerton. Miss F. M. Renwick, who has spent the last three months at Dunnvflle re- turned home on Tuesday of last week. Rev. G. M. and Mrs. Young spent Christmas Day with Rev. and Mrs. Young and family of Fergus. Mrs. J. McMurdo and Alex. spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Lorne McMurdo and Jackie of Owen Sound. Messrs. Harvey Leith and Howard Keith, of the Aircraft School at Gait spent the week-end at their homes. Private (finding a wasp in his stew) Hi! What‘s this? Mess Orderly: Vitamin bee. not one of us would have survived. Evi- dently those bombs did not have our number on them! Angel F001! each :09 Kellogg's Christie's Cake Dromore Sunkist Emperor Grapes 2 III: for 27¢ | [world Tonto; PORK BEANS «.1... 3%25‘: SPAGHETTI 3 2.225c APPLE JUICE» “ii: :°' 222:. 15¢ Baking Powdero... 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