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Brussels 4. o�N:N:44,•e:e4+ n4 +~i♦.'Nle':W:N:♦°:N♦••♦♦♦r♦N♦N♦N♦+4.444♦~♦N♦Ne London in the Blackout Amazingly Black and Quiet Written for the Meekly newspapers of Canada by their own representa- tive on the tour, 'Hugh Templin, of the Fergus News -Record. First inspeessions may not be ac- curate, but they are always interest- ing. The first thing that any visitor to England wantsto see is the damage done by the bemlbs. I was no excep- tion. The airport where our plane had dropped! its down on British soil wasinteresting to its way, but much like a dozen *there I had visit- ed in Canada. Therewere only two apparent difference; the planes were of different types, though there 1 Were a few .s'inrilar Avro Ansons, and the .buildings were protected against the blasts from bombs dropping neadby. •The customs examination was brief, 'though the examiner chid show some interest in the (thew, I had thought it necessary to take to Eng- land Nv h rue. I had; a short brush wits the lady censor. tSlhe took away all the letters I had carried fronv Canada and appered to be hor- rified tiluat I had tat -ben along a maP *f the British Isles. APparentlY, I ;had unwittingly commuit'ted a grave cringe and ,site said, *e must con- fiscate' it. Evidently, a few gitn's get that way when given some ;brief anther- ity. I met .censers several times dining the neat six weeks, but none like that young lady. Sthe even went ah far es to take away. two Picture Postcards I had bought' in the Azores on theg rose the Atlantic. After" a• brisk erg whtelt the customs 'man took my Pert, I got the map tback. The letters and post cards arrived by mail at lily hotel in London a week later, afar tering censored. First Impressions of Bombing ,11 was only a few miles to the nearest city, 'a seaport on the west roast of England. I had never been across the Atlantic ,before, so I watched with interest for the things I had been told about eo often—the small fields enclosed by hedges, the 1 slated or tiled roofs, the little loco- inotives pulling long .trains of tiny wagons. Noting really seamed strange. for photography had made thein all familiar. Only the. barrage bal00nls floating over the nearby Mills' 'showed, that • England had changed. As our gar entered the City,.we all looked around curiously for signs of damage. ''etuinors in Canada said n • eti- that this; ancient 'port, was Calle destrrpyed. German versions said that the dock area was render- n,e•'dg e ed useleste. As we crossed a at the over the {;'ver, I looked shioping and saw no, dtgn of damage to the ,colts. ' The first blitzed benne stood on a corner. Or it Arad stood on the cor- n'er, for not a thingwineelefbasement. a pile of hiioles in The houses on either she seemed undamaged, except h•oard•ecbup windows, but the corner one woe gone as cleanly as. though it had been carved out with a big knife. 1 thought to nos�eef: "This ie ex - locks just like the pictures." In the, next black, another house had been hit. It wasn't as .thorough - by destroyed. One side wall remain- ed, and up it at irregular intervals were the fireplaces which had once .supplied a bit of heat to its rooms. Pact 'of the floor of one upstairs room hung in the air, with a bed on 11. - Again there was that feeling that this was just what I lied• expected. It remained while we drove down a long 'slu•eet, with a half a dozen hoese8 meeting at more 'or less regular intervals. Atter that, mY feelings' began to change. Perhaps it was ,the ruined churches. Several of them had nothirg left but black- ' wane. On the main business ! street, many stores were without 1 whelowsr; others were hollow shells. 1 It made me angry .before long. IThis wanton damage ,seemed 50 senseless. Obviously, military targets had not been irate or t1teY bad been repain•ed so quickly that the effect was stlighit. It was the houses that had suffered most, and tbvechurches. The brain to London, was crowded, hut tate six of pe ' got a cennoantanent to ourselves. On the wall was a .de-. tailed map of the railway line. I thought al the girlin the Cen er's office feel nuy maP• But I vee naw another one on a British train. \Poet of the railway stations have had the names olettenated or the sign's lore down in the -hope that in, waders miglut get lost. London in the Blackout Tlie train was about halfway to London when bleekowt time arrived at a'b'out half -past six. The guard came in and pulled down heavy blinaba osier all the windows and ones.. Even. the dem, out into the nali•ilt7al'l.eU aUUlrt the Meese b axle Jere,* Peep e r musamr out, It a Ulaclt, flown ,by demolition squads. Where! =any or the most testees 'target,. Inside the railway carriage, two dim ltgetts kept thei compartment is a state of suer darkness, One whirs a white light, set high up in a deep funavel in! pee roof, The other 110t, more exposed, was' blue and did not Silva enough. light to make it possfple to 'read a newspaper, OL' all the fleet impressions, none As more vivid' than that of my arrival do London in the blackout, There was some doubt about whether the train had readied 'Paddington 'statien or not but everybody seemed to be geltting out. One of the editors opened the door, There wasn't a thing to be seen except three scat- tered blue bulbs le a ceiling high overhead, Moving tehapes. came past the door and one of thepn answered the 'question: "Is this Paddiington'?" with a abort, "Yes sir." Nobody who .hasn't been. there will ever bench's hwo dark Lendom can be in the blackout at the time of the new moon. There blue bulbs a'ea.11'y give no light at all: they just le- tewsiify the darkness. And London wasnot only dark, but quiet ae Weill This didh',t seem like a rail- way :station. Outride, not a light allowed in •the city. Somehow, our frosts from the British Connell found us, and they knew what to do. In a few moments; they had a porter hunting for a taxi- cab, Where he went, fell never know, but he came back with .two, and in the light of later experience ,that wasi something of an. achieve- ment. One taxi driver was old and his cab was'aneient, Four persons and their luggage seemed like too mecih of a load, but we entrusted ourselves to him, hoping he knew what to do. The only outdoor lights. in London are tete traffic signals and the shelteh' 'signs. :Even the traffic ldglhts are covered, 'except a tiny crests inthe centre. The shelter signs have only a dire "S" showing on them. An Uncanny quietness The feeling :persisted that this could net possibly be the world's' largest city. (Sometimes the taxi would stop and a bus' or some more •taxis would go acroea the intersec- tion. Each had one dim headlight, fitted with .ehubtere so that it threw a circle of semi -dankness on. the Pavement. The windows 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, fanmliar with Landon in the past, anted hien huebliousabout tie local- ities,. Only once, at the corner of Hyde Park, did one of tines guests correctly. I ani told that London in normal tinier isi noisy at night, though not so bad. as New Yortk. In tate blackout, it is quiet. There sewn to be no- pre - vete cants. Taxi and bus elevens must find their way largely by instinct. The cab stopped. under some kind of roof..A man with a tiny` pocket flashlight helped us out and called for sten:m ne to take the ''bags. We passed one by one through a revolv- ing door ani' emerged suddenly into the bright light of a hotel lu1by. There was . •sometlhing familiar 1, about the place, The feeling persis- ted even 'atter I had been,taken to My room and had looked into the bathroom with '115 Roman bath and, Royal Doulton it:dai'es, rennindens of. past splendor. Then I remembered I had seen thisfauuous hotel in moving pictures long ago. Bomb 'Damage in London The next morning, 1 saw London fpr the first time, Our heats tram the Meech Council caste around in an old car and •turove us around the central part of the city,'; particularly that pent of Old London which had been destroyed by the Great Fire in 1.1'Ge and rebuilt better than it had been. deo'W it has 110811 destroyed '1' corridor had a blind on it. It wag aptly what I expected to roe: kt the first luint that there is. nothing SUB AMERICA 1 • ,f>r�n rl hii000e DRgAMS•_• • where are basements, they have beenIcor inelawce every bridge over the eeme.nted and. turned into water re", Thames, 151 in eeer.'u'tion.. It to said not aervairga for fighting future fires. 1 one has been S,st tihoughr thousands Tete was en area of .office build- I of bomlhs luavo gone unto the water figs and prvlullehdng houses, witha i• in ani attenvpt to cut traffic, Tluel'e nnmlber of fine old' olturdliee and a ane temporary bridges which Can be coma of the most famous adnndnis- , tido ey aniseed if any bridge is tralitve buildings. It was burned in destroyed, They have never been. it oonlcentrated blitz one week -end needed, before' the Londoners had learned I wandered tl,ronglu the dock area Trow to fight the incendiary bomb, 1 near Tower Bridge one day. The don't think it •could ever happen 2 ilttle eeesee in the East Dad ,nave again. An incendiary ,bomlb 18 ( takes a bad, punishment. Int two 0180 - small and Hglht, A large bombing es. I saw vacant lots piled high witiis plane might carry a thousand' of j1 brooks, that must have 'come from them. They are showered down by I hu'adrede ahouses, But the docks hundreds and are just heavy enough were still le aplieratiaw as usual wb lir to go through a slate roof. It le �, convoys going out the Thames. It two minutes or .so • before they buret I .was obvious' that Tower Bridge it - into flame. Every second oouuts. self had never beenhit, The Tower The incendiary boom can be hone of London has, lost only a comer of quered in the drat two or threeone email ba5t'on, minutes. After that it takes the There 'basset been any bomtrin.g in fire brigade to do anything about it. Leedom lately. It 1s, now Ave months 'Strangely enough, the things that ,since leis levet bombe eave 1811 n 0, touch the heart of the observer in tum Capital, Only once while I was decollate areas like this are the in London did an enemy plane ever .sanall things. In reined Amuses, it is a came near the city. From the roof da111s or other toys lying around; in of a newspaper office, I watched the formes office bulidings, it is battered . flashes of the anti-aircraft guns away typewriters piled, up, a dozen or so I to the east. The German never got together, or some other evidence of , through. the normal life that wets •once carried •There was bombing going on all on there. that time, but it was around the Yet even in the midst of this demi- coasts of Britain. tI oaane through. latiions I had the feeling that the a bombing one night in Bournemouth G'ermtan bombers had failed. They load not even tried to hit nvtlttary targets.. It is thought that they tried Beet of St. Panne . Cettedral and north of Fleet street there et an arca of almost a square ni11e with hardly a bttiliding sitartd'ing. Perhaps you . have e'Oen that eemarloable photo- ' gnetelt which -sleeve the great ,cute ell 51, penes standing up above a manse of .snrolte and flames; whale in the toregronnd 1-isP wails. of ruined houses are siiltonotted against the fire, .1 had Wondered sometimes, 11 teat. pluotograiph, viae riot faked, Te. • a roam of the Press' O1ulr le Lon'd n,, a: 1 saw tree os'igiinitsl. 'Walking through tee miles of the' old City of London, it is still easy to picture time terrible night. Many at the walls wiliiah ebbed up in that 'blackened areal eines the big blitz legit December halve been tont and Wal tell of it in a later story.. But conditions. have obviously changed. The Germans, no longer to wipe out the whole of Londonts have superiority in the air. Defences fire fighting apptartus. They didn't are eti+onlger. It doesn't seem 1ike1Y succeed. The fire huligades' were that the British will be "blitzed' massed in that smell area and more again as they were lash winter; ac- bomilbers carne over, dropping high tual invasion ,seeans impossible. explosive bombs. !Suddenly they stopped coming. It is said that a mist arose back over the Channel and it was flared they could not return. safely. Whether that was the reason or not, London's ' fire lightens escaped to fight .another day.. Seeing other parts of Louden. later, I felt again : and again that the Ger- man benchers had failed. They de- strayed thousands of houses and stores'and offices and .dozens of churches. They did get many fac- tories along the Thames. But they t ni failed to frighten: the Zurich Man's Narrow Escape Harold' Finlay, of near Zurich narrowly escaped serious inure' waren he was hit by a .20 calibre rifle bullet whle be was operating a manure spreader. The bullet Arlt one lens of his glasses, 'shattering it completely, but the only injury suf- fered uffered by Mr. Finlay was the expense of a new less'. Investigation has failed to reveal who fired the bullet. It was believed to the a stray shot fired by someone hunting in the area. . eSNAPSNOT GUILD PICTURE COMPOSITION Good arrangement makes this picture striking. A few simple rules, wisely applied, will help you improve your own snapshots. ANY vet -times have been written center of interest. See that each on composition—some of them excellent treatises on the subject-- and ubject-and there have been an Witold num- ber of discussions of what makes a picture pictorial. Unfortunately mucin of this material is so compli- cated and involved that it frightens the average amateur. Genorally.. sneaking,' the "comp- anion" of a picture 1s sirnply a pleasing arrangement—an ar•range- ment that "feels" right and satis- fies the aye. In taking pictures,: a, little thought and common sense are better than .a whole encyclope- dia. of rules. 111very pietnwo subject is different, and no mile or set of rules can cover everything. When you choose a pic- ture subject, simply ask yourself— "What rirrangemorit of ilia will be most pleasing 111 the print?" Visual- ize the possibilities, then arrange the parts of your picture so that they carry cut that idea, Akar that, simply frame your subject properly in the viewfinder, and release the shutter. pictorial eornpositton,there are a few basic points that, it re- meiubered, will aid anyone In mak- ing more attractive pictures. Have but one brain or dominating picture tells only one story. Tlie principal subject may be flowers, one person or several, a nearby pond, or a distant mountain; but whatever it to,; give that ,subject proper prominence. Then there should be objects of secondary importance, unless it is a closoup portrait. If the picture is a group of trees, a second grotip, a little farther away, will help toward balance. When people are in a pkc- ture and tate principal thing you wish to photograph is a distant mountain, have them leek—not at the camera, bat toward the mown tain. Backgrounds the aro important in contp0sitipu. Be sure that no tree branches are apparently growing out 0f a person's head, or an un- covered tenet or clapboard besets is used foe a background. Organize'the component parts of your pictures jnat as yen would e. room: "in :your arouse. Spend a few -• exert minutes in planning, anti' Werk out the details before you shoot. It's net ditlteult just ar- range your enapshots dh the view- finder to please the eye, and you'IL get better ptoturea. 349 John van Guilder I