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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1942-01-22, Page 7Thursday, January 22, IOU WINGHAM, ADVANCE,,TIMES 177-.7"'101:#0 ' 01=10) ,, ligOno Conditions In Great Britain and Other Countries As seen and written by Hugh Templin, Editor of the Fergus News-Record, 0111.041.0.11111 1•110,, 11.40.41.111.0111•Wil...”"0:..90.1•0.;•••911.1.0... Bombed .and Understand British Sentiment Command attention igo IRA 110 This is the sixth of a series of .articles" about .conditions in 'great .Britain. and other countries. visited recently by a group of twelve Can, adian editors, It was written for the weekly newspapers of Canada by their own representative on the tour, Hugh Templin, of the Fergus News-Record. —• As the days passed in O fi O 11 0 0 The sale actually' commences after the order is closed and the product has left your premises. It is the function of good printed matter to enhance your sale and stimulate interest so that your pro- spects will want more merchandise just like it. No piece of printed matter is too small to create a good impression, and this organization is prepared with facilities and knowledge to help you in creating printed mater- ial that commands attention! II hospital care, One man Was nearly. scalped by flying glass, A young girl Was Parried out on A stretcher, She was not unconscious. Through it all, the old grandfather clock in the lobby kept going, • ,• The Airways peope weighed PS 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 apologied because she bad PO beds, for us, They were full of glass and nibst of the windows were out. Those on the side next the sea were soaked with water, 13. K, 'Sandwell and I decided to sleep on mattresses ell the floor, The lady manager led us upstairs with the occasional light of a torch, She apol- ogized that we had to sleep on time 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 shovelling up plate' glass off the streets all night, Every window- within a mile was gone, if it faced time sea, Five miles away; windows were cracked. When we .came to think it over, we agreed that if time German had pulled his 'bomb lever half a second sooner, not one of us would have sur- vived. Evidently those bombs did not have our number on them. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT DIES IN 92nd YEAR Was Former Canadian Governor- General . O O O ,Let us help you with your next problem. The Wingham Advance-Times 0 Telephone 34 O 0 O 1FX4 O O ( 0=0=10= 1=0 S220 0=0 0=0) 0=01 The Duchess Of Connaught, before her marriage Princess Louise of Prus- sia, died in 1917, Their only child now living is Princess Patricia, who became Lady Patricia Ramsay on her marriage in 1919 to Capt. A. R. M. (now Admiral Sir Alexander) Ram- 'say. She is the colonel-in-chief of the fainotis "Princess Pats" Regiment. Lonr4on and ;no German bomber ever came near the city, the Canadian editors grew restive and impatient, They did not want to go home agaian and have to admit ;that they had never heard a bomb .burst in anger. Our hosts were most obliging in ,every way. If there was anything we wanted, we had only to ask the Brit- ish Council, and it was arranged. We wanted to see the Canadian Corps in Action and we saw it travelling over • the coutnry-siclt on large-scale man- oeuvres: We desired to meet Prime Minister Churchill face to face: in two ,days came word that we would not only meet him but we would also hear him speak in the el-louse of Commons. wanted to see • a blitz—but it seemed that the British Council wasn't Able to manage that for us. One night, I sat in the office of Mr. Robertson, editor of the Daily Ex- ,press. A messenger came in. "The yellow light is on," That means that An enemy plane has crossed the coast somewhere, It happens nearly every 'night. A few minutes later, there was more excitement. The purple light had gone on, That indicated that the plane was definitely headed towards London. All over the city, in A,R.P, posts and newspaper offices, men watched for the red light to come. That would `be the one that would send the sirens screeching 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 torch- es, we went up metal stairs, past great tanks of water in the to.p storey and out on the roof, where two men in steel hats kept a constant vigil. 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 I re- mained, listening to Stbries of the days when London was the hot spot. These ',Canadian Editors VV ere .nion, 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 haen't• go,t your number on it, it won't get your if it has, it does not matter where you. are," On my last night in ',widen, I came out of the brightness of the Royal Automobile Club into the blackness of Pall Mall. For the first time, I saw the long /infers of the searchlights waving across the London sky. In daylight, I had seen the guns and the 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 hopefully along Pall Mall and through Trafalgar 'Square and down the Strand, and nothing happened.. 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, turnectoff the lights, opened the window, and look- ed out. There e was nothing to see .and no guns to be heard; Half an hour later, I 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 two Canad- ian soldiers hurrying to catch a train,• them went hack to the hotel, Survivors • of the Blitz It wasn't hard to get stories of the blitz second hand. Nearly everybody had been bombed. Nobody bragged about it. It was weeks before I knew that Toby O'grien, our host from the Brifish Council, had been carried into a hospital after being blown out of his car one night. He didn't tell me till I asked him. The Savoy itself had six or seven bombs, one' of 'which blew the end out of the restaurant. Canadian Military Headquarters in Cockspur street had suffered more than the Active Army in the field. So it went everywhere. At the Press Club one night I listened to amazing stories of Fleet Street in the blitz. It had been hammered almost to de- struction, when a great land mine came floating down on a parachute. If it had gone off, every building for blocks around would have gone over like a row of -dominoes. The parachtfte caught on a wire across the street and the great land mine swung in the breeze till the demolition squad took it carefully down. ' Then .there was the woman who sold purses to Major Christie Wand me in Liberty's. Somehow the talk drifted around to bombing. "I went home one night and the roof was off my house. The constable says to me that I can't go in there. MATCHES ENDANGER SOLDIER'S MAIL Fresh Case of Matches Igniting In Package At Base Post Office Kitchener, has secured a position with Lawyer Dancy of Goderich. Mr. Ray' Vincent of Stratford Nor- mal, taught in the Westfield School last week. Mrs. Tipling has gone- to Toronto, where she will make her home for the remainder of the winter. Reeve R. R. Redmond attended a meeting of the Good Roads Commis- sion at Goderich on Saturday. Miss Jean Campbell of Goderich, spent the week-end with her parents? Mr. and. Mrs. W. A. Campbell. Owing to the-severe storms of the past week, time school was closed for a couple of days, and the church serv- ices on Sunday were postponed. School was closed again on Monday, Some clays the roads were in such bad condition time maial carriers were unable to make their rounds. Office, one of the parcels burst into flames. Examination of the parcel re- vealed that among other things were six boxes of matches, one of which had become ignited and caused the fire. Such a blaze might easily have resulted in huge loss to other mails, and the premises, while had it oc- curred when the bags were stowed deep in the hold of a Mail steamer time outbreak could have caused the loss of the ship and of a valuable cargo, not fo mention Injury and loss of life to the heroic personnel who are risk- ing there lives to get arms, supplies and mails safely overseas. The Postmaster General requests time public to give him their co-opera- tion in safeguArding the mails to our armed services by ' never mailing matches of any sort, lighter fluid or other articles likely to cause a fire or damage. WESTFIELD London, — His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, K.G., the last surviving son of Queen Victoria and Canada's governor-general during part of the First Great War, died Friday at Bagshot Park, Surrey, at the age of 91. The end of the Luke's long career as a soldier and statesman carne as a sur- prise to the public although he had been in failing health for some tune. His last official appearance was at the christening of Prince William, son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, who was born last December 18. The Duke's life spanned' four gen- erations of the Royal family and he lived to see his 'elder brother reign as Edward VIII, his nephew as George V, and his greate-nephews as Edward VIII and Geotge VI. His death leaVes Princess Beatrice, seven years his junior, as the last survivor of Queen Victoria's nine children. , The Duke would have been 92 May 1. One of his last official duties was a few days before his 90th birthday when he inspected at Aldershot two regiments of the Canadian Overseas Army, He was their Colonel-in-chief. Of all the members of the Royal Family, time Duke of Connaught's as- sociations with Canada were perhaps time closest. As a soldier he served tin- der Garnet Wolseley in putting clown the Canadian Northwest Rebellion in 1870. Twenty years later he again visited time Dominion and in 1911 he became governor-general. In their five years in Canada the Duke and Duch- ess and their younger daughter, Prin- cess Patricia, endeared themselves to the Canadian people. Born on May 1, .1850, and given time first name of Arthur in honor of the Duke of Wellington, who had time same natal day, the Duke joined time army at 18 as a lieutenant and became a full general 25 years later. At the time of his death he was time senior field marshal of the Empire. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after an- ! other, not for time sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may of go higher.—H. W. Beecher. (Too late for last week) Miss Jean Campbell, formerly Notwithstanding time repeated warn- ings of the Canadian Post Office De- partment against sending' -matches, lighter fluid or any other inflammable substance through the mails, a fresh case of a parcel bursting into flames at the Base Post Office, Ottawa, has just been reported by the postal authorities. A few days ago when a bag of ord- inary parcel post was being emptied on the opening table at Base Post 147. 1f IN QIUFVEC CONSTRUCTION C.AIIIP CY"IS FIFirEEN LIVES ' I ,says, I am foing in: I live here and my sister lives here and we're going to keep' on living' here. And we're there yet, though it's inconvenient in win- ter not having a' roof on your house," The amazing understandment of all these people was what impressed me, I found it, high and low.. One night, a Canadian editor suggested to Col. Astor 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 ill an Air Raid We left London on a Southern Railway train without hearing a bomb burst. With their usual thoroughness, the. British Council had reserved two compaelments.t 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 Ordance 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 father guardedly, We must have been near the South Coast when the train slowed to a crawl and the white light went out, 1paving only one dim blue bulb burn- ing, "You're in an air raid," the young soldier said. We didn't believe it. There had been too many false alarms. -4%11 right," he said, "but if you hear machine guns, lie on the floor." It must haVe been nearly half an hour before 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. "No bombs were dropped," he add- ed. Two Planes Across the Sky, Just then, two Planes went 'Over, quite low iotown. The long finger of a searchlight swept across, picking up one of them directly overhead. That was strange, I thought. They don't put searchlights on our planes. Could it be another German? Had they re- turned. -Bishop Renison and Dave Rogers went away in the officer's car. The other six of -us piled into a station wagon and followed, A few blocks away, we came over the top of the hill and saw the Channel in the moon- light. Suddenly there was a terrific ex- plosion 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 perhaps it was because 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 another blast, That made it certain. I thought of the words of the King: "We're all 'in the front line now. We are really into it at last." 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 at a boy- with a White lamp on his bicycle. A Warm Welcome to Bournemouth' 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 smashed 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 quater of a mile inland. They were not bombs, either; it seemed, but two of the dreaded land mines that _had' floated doWn on great white para- chutes and exploded on time beach, one in the water and time other on the side of the cliff. Next morning, I picked up a pocketfuil of splinters and part of the parachute cord, The cord was over an inch in diameter. The mines must have weighed 1500 pounds each. The station wagon drew up at time Royal Bath Hotel and we stepped out on broken glass and entered, Inside there was chaos. The Bishop and Mt. Rogers had been knocked over by time blast but were on their feet again. Two women were trying to calm little dogs. The door leading to the lounge had been Woo it from time stone arch- way, frame and all, There was no light except little pen- lights which we always carried. I walked to time arch where 'the door had been and stood beside a stranger. We looked back into time huge lounge, Arid AS we stood there, half the fancy plaster ceiling dropped past our faces, A few feet farther in and we 'Would have had very 'sore heads, if not , worse, My unknown Mewl said; "It's not too secure in here." I laughed, There is was again;- that British ,ure.. derstatement, Four people in the 'hotel needed, BARCLAY Lima and Cabbage Soup 1 cup dried Limas . 2 quarts cold water 1 end of pork shoulder 1 teaspoon chopped parsley 1 pound stewing beef, cut in small pieces 1 beet bone 1 onion, sliced 1 quart cabbage, sliced % teaspoon carrot, diced 1 teaspoon salt 1/.1, teaspoon pepper Cover Limas with cold water, bring slowly to boiling point, drain and rinse with cold water, Pat in large kettle, add told water, meat and bone, cabbage, onion, carrot, parsley and seasonings, Bring 1,1 boiling point and simmer 3 hours. -Remove meat and bone. Cool, then remove fat, Re1teat, Savory Lima Soup 2 cups cooked, dried Limas 4 cups or 1 quart milk 2 tablespoons chopped carrot 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 2 slices onion 2 tablespoons butter or bacon tat 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper Pitt Limas through food chopper. Reat milk in double boiler, add Limas, Heat fat in frying pan; add onion And carrot and cook 5 wily rtes. Add to hot mixture, cook 10 minutes', then strain, Add telt, pepper and orsloy. Fire which swept through the bunkhouse of a ConStruction camp aeath for the 15 who died in the inferno Which completely razed the. Shipshaw, Que., claimed the lives of 15 men And serious injury to bunkhouse in which they were site Ninety-two men used the , 3 others. Two of the 33 irjui:.1 mln are nr.t •(•:',)ncted to retover. A building as sleeping Rescue workers are shown smelling ilfrotters tare, investiaatinu the iite, brought in a verdict or accidental s the ruins toe bodies of the Vieille+, By BETTY There are thousands, perhaps millions, of homes in which soup is seldom if ever served. Yet, when the residents of these homes order a restaurant or hotel meal, they 'invariably accept the soup course, In fact, they order it and loudly praise it. If it is not on the menu, they complale. Why? It's easy to ask the (pes- tle% but impossible to give the answer. Soup is an .economical dish, easy to prepare, light, health, fill, a wonderful "warmer" on a cold day and it can be varied as almost no ,ether dish can. Surely, house• wives are not too — shall we say "tired?" to prepare it. SOup is an excellent balances* for any dinner, 'Through it, those who eat few greens, may be given everything from chopped parsley to peppers, It's a dish that should appear on every table at least twice Week. Oceasiostally a heavy Soup May be served as a main-course dish. 'Here are two recipes for soling Made with Lima beans as an ingtt' dient. One calls for dried Limas and the other for cooked dried Limas which may be proeured In cans almost anywhere. Lima beans alone are rich in protein and carbohydrates, and are a Valuable source of iron, potassium and Otticitini salts, Their are aim) 'high in alkalinity. •A soup of this type is a P.usluftble addition td the menu.