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Mgt 140Ala one or them. Tbey„TFOUifi not
bold more than two -Or three persens,
Cuddled close -togilliter, but they do
give protection from blasts and flying
taplinter.
The constable teemed surprised
when I asked if 1 was headed in the
right directioe for the Savoy„
"Yes, sir," he said. "You. are—but
it's 'a long way, sir. You wouldn't be
thinking of walking that far!"
I assured him I was and wondered
1f any constable in any other large
city in the world would have been so
pdlite about it.
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I had imeneed of it. Thirf V1409n,'fiateii
light- emeugh.
The-maire streets- 1w -the -West WI,
have suffered •from the bombing. As
walked along, it seemed .that tho.
vacant spagegt were at more or less re-
gular spades. It seemed as though
a German pilot -might • have gone .op
one side of the street and down the
other,- letting his high explosives
drop as quiekly as he could tufa the
bomb lever.,
I was passing a block of stately
apartment houses. Most of them ape,
Peeredto be intact. Then there was
a gap where several had been blown
out into the street. The rubbish had
been cleaikal away, but the 'Omen
shone down en a blank white wall,
studded here and there with little
fireplaces and against the sky a row
of about 20 chimneys stood silhouet-
ted against the midsight blue.
In the next block, it was stores
that had suffered. Sometimes the
window was just a great gaping hole
and the inside of the store wasn't
there. On either side, the windows
had been boarded up, but the stores
were evidently. carrying on, though
I couldn't read what was on the little
signs nailed to the hoards.
No lights of any kind- were to be
seen except the traffic lights at the
main corners and • the single, shaded
headlamps of approaching cars. The
traffic lights were tiny red and green
°teepee cut in 'sheets of metal that
bad been fitted,over the lenses. The
red and •green looked rather decor-
ative, but when 'the yellow came on,
it looked unlawfully bright for the
five seconds it remaieed; The car
lights made only dun moving circles
on the pavement as they passed.
I found myself, bye and • bye, in
Piccadilly Circus. Loyal Londoners
'claim that this has the busiest traffic
of any place on earth in normal
times. it certainly hasn't now. Oc-
casional taxis slipped past, and buses
with their' windows ,covered with
some opaque substance with tiny
holes scraped in the centre of each
window pane so that a passenger an
look out with a single eye. The statue
of Eros is no longer seen in the cen-
tre of the Circus. It is covered with
a cone-shaped ,protection against
bomligeand the boards pn the outside
are plastered with signs advising the
onlooker to buy bonds. (I saw them
in daylight several times).
I had missed a tour of the air raid
shelters a few nights before, but I
recalled that the most famons'of them
all was .in the Underground station
below Piccadilly Circus. I went down
the stairs and into the bright light
of the station.
• My travelling before that time had
been above ground. This was my first
visit to the Undergronnd. The streets
may have seemed deserted but there
were lights and action and crowds,
below the surface. A long line moved
slowly past a window marked 11/2 d
and another line past the 2d wicket.
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The approach of enemy U-boats to within a few miles of the Can-
adian coast has placed new responsibilities upon the hard-working
Canadian Navy. A gunner on one of the R.C.N.'s 'patrol vessels is
shown loading an antiaircraft gun.
Moving stairways seeined to go down
into'the bowels of the earth in every
direction. Evidently this was just the
vestibule.
Sleeping Under the Ground
I appealed to another constable. I
,explained who I was, where I had
come from and what 1 wanted to see.
He called to, another man in " blue
uniform: "Here, mate, will you watch
things Tor me for a few minutes,"
and 'then herded . me past a • ticket
turnstile and down an escalator. It
Was 75 feet long, or more, but that
was jtiest the beginning, We walked.
down some stone steps and took an-
other escalator • for another. 80 feet
or so, past rows of theatre Paters
and other advertisements.
I really wasn't prepared for what I
saw. London hadn't been bombed in
months, yet the te were several hun-
dred people' sleeping -beside the sub-
way tracks. The trains came racing
out of the dakness, lige great cater-
pillars, stopped a moment, and went
on again. The platforms were none
too wide, but• all along the walls were
rows of men and women sleeping on
„
the tiled-,floors,,,with blankets oyer
and under
In some parts of, the "tubes" there
were rows of double -deck cots along,
the walls. The cots bore numbers and
the same people occupied them night
after night. Some of them had been
fixed up a bit, with blankets hanging
down in front;like the 'curtains of
a berth on a trein.But most of them
were open to the gaze of hundreds
who passed by.
There were more women than men
and they were in various stages of
undress. Some never took 'off. their
clothes at all; other women were
coming out of the lavatories with
Pyjamas or nightgowns showing be-
low their -dre'ssing gowns •I saw no
children over a year old, but there
were three babies, one of them very
tiny. An old couple, well, dressed, sat
together on the stone floor, taking
their' things out of an expensive -
looking suitcase.',
A stone stairway ran up 20 steps
or so. Lying on it were six or seven
men. They weren't crossways on the
steps, because that would have im-
peded traffic, but they were lying up
the stairs. The sharp, metal -bound
edges dug into their sides in three or
four places, but they slept on, while
hundreds walked past them and the
trains thundered by -20 feet away. I
'would not have 'blleted it' if. I had
not seen it.
!My guide took me down to a lower
level, There were more -bunks. At the
end of the row was a temporary first
aid post; With two nurses in uniform.
At a counter nearby, three girls were
Selling 'tea, 'coffee, cakes and sand-
Wiches.
I was more moved by these things
than 1 had been since I arrived in
London, but to the constable it was
an old story. He was scornful: "A.
lot of foreigners what hasn't got. any
guts, sir, or lodging house 'folk, what
wcin't iiay. their rent. You can see for
yourself, sir!"
I could see --a strangely assorted
'folk. They looked different to me
than they did to him. He may have
been right, but I thought I saw be-.
hind it the homes that had been de-
stroyed and people with no .place to
go where-111eY felt safe: Surely• it
took more than an ordinary terror
to make people live like that. Vet he
May .have been right: after all. it
was five months since the last bomb-
ing of that part of• London..
As we went back upstairs, my new-
found friend and guide complained
about the Government in a way that
sounded thoroughly Canadian. The
income tax was unfair, he said. Here
he ..was, working for two days out
of every week for the Government.
He had been retired ona pension and
they called him back to work—and
then taxed his pay and pension as
well. Yet he had a young nephew on
the south coast—a publican, he was
—that didn't have' anything to do be-
cause his pub was in a prohibited
area. He got a job- as, a carpenter,
though he had no training. Building
defence works, he was, and still at
it, abd be gets £8 or gio a week.
He keeps .changing from one job to.
another .s,nd, nobody ever checks him
Up and he never paid any taxes. They
say Bevin favors the .trade Unions
anyway.
It sounded familiar. I thought of
tib.e carpenters at Camp Borden and
a 'number of other coniolaintS back
home.
The constable had other criticisms.
to make while, lie bad, the -ear of the
Press. The Army should be helping
the Russians. He had a eon in the
army for two years, just doing noth-
ing. donseription wasn't fairly en-
force& A lot of young fellows get
free, though they are calling up men
of 46 now. 'He pointed t� two young
chaps in evening clothes (about the
only ones I saw so dreesed, in Lon-
don). They were drunk and leaning
on each other. The constable ,said he
saw the seine ones every day. Why
,weren't they in the army?
I didn't know, so .1 said good-bye
and *ached the upper air again.
along passed,
eevcr a 1 group s of loving couples. The
men were mostly sailors. Some .of.
them were singing. They had their
arms around the girls. It was just
dark enough for that.
I caught up to a'paii not so loving.
There was mobulight enough to see
that he was an offleer In the R.AtF.
The -woman said: hope you
are proud of yourseltf.lafter that ex-
hibition!" The voice was tail of bit-
terness. I thought lfe might hit her,
but they turned in a doorway and
were gone. At
,Leieester Snuate, 1 paused, tor
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War "Effort
A Weekly Fieviet Of Developments
On the Home Front!
1 -Prime Minister Mackenzie King
and Conservative Leader Haesoneirge.
-aff4rinettive answer in owning plebis-
cite. Question in 'plebiscite: ...Are
you in favor of releasing the Govern-
ment from aoy obligation arising out
of any' past commitmentsrestricting
the methods of raising men for mill-
tarl service?"
• Plebiscite Bill before Commons pro-
vides that persons in armed services.
may vote even if under 31 years of
. age.
2. Japanese Government indicates
1,689 Canadians taken 'prisoners it
there are several streets. (You know
the 'lees of the song, of course --
"Good-bye. Piccadilly; farewell, Lei-
ceater Square.") I stood at the 'Out%
looking at the streets across the
circle. A shortish lady came along
and bumped into me.,,t There wasn't
any need; the sidewalk was wide
and it wasn't really dark.
"Sorry; sir," she said, so I asked
her which way to the Strand.
'"Dowa that way," she said. "But
I am going this way. You coming this.
way?"
"No thanks!" I said and continued
on my way south.
Trafalgar -Square was familiar to.
me, day or night. I turned down past
a bombed church and an ambillance
passed me in the darkness with its
bell clanging, and stopped! at the next
corner. As I walked past, a lady on
a stretcher was taken in the little
door. The last time I had, been past
that 'corner, a friend had pointed to
that same door. "That's where they
took me .the night I smashed up my.
car in the big blitz," he had said.
That was the first time I' had known
he had been hombed...
I caught up to a very fat man at
the next corner. He looked congenial.
"Is this the Strand?" I asked. I
knew it was, but that might be an
Opening.
"It is that," he said, "though it's
not like it used to be in the old days
when it wasr so full of traffic that
you couldn't cress it anywhere here-
abouts."
He turned to Ine. "You're an Amer -
lean and, don't 'remember it?"
I explained 1 was a Canadian. .
"I knew it was .one or the other,"
he said, evidently thinking there was
no real difference.
On ,a beautiful night like that; it
was natural to turn to 'the weather
next.
"Last year," he said, "they came
over every night, moon or no moon."
(Hitler is never mentioned by name
and the, Germans seldom: it is
or 'they.') "About, half -past eight, it
was. You could set your watch by
it. One hundred and sixty-eight
nights Without a break. Hell, it was!
But I'd rather be in, London in a blitz
than have te rive anywhere less. No
place like London! And I'11 live here
while they leave two houpes stand-
inga•But there's the entrance to your
hotel across the etreet, sir."
We parted and I edged my way
carefully across the Strand, and
passed •through• -the revolving door
into the bright lights.
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Hong Kong. As 1,985 embarked, fig- with written permission of Ilfetelli
ores mean 296 regarded as either dead rgontrcdler.
or misiiiig. •
3. Removal of about 3,500 Japanese
nationals from "protected" area Bri-
tish Columbia announced as first
phase of Government's plan for deal-
ing with Japanese problem on Pacific !
Coapt. (Protected area in British Co-
lumbia is" coastal' belt between Cas-
cade Mountains and the sea includ-
ing all islands off British, Columbia
isoast).
4. Power given to the' Minister of
Justice by Order in Council to ex-
clude any or all persons from "pro-
tected areas" as defined under De-
feece of Canada regulations.
5. Secret session of the House of
Commons held February 24. "The
sitting," says official report, "was de-
voted to the question of-.4he defence
of Canada id its widest qualifications.
Statements were made by the Hon-
ourable Messrs. Ralston, Power and
Macdonald, the ministers in charge of
nation -al defence. A variety of ques-
tions dealing with different aspects of
the war were asked and answered.
Many details were given the mem-
hers of the House."
6. All scrap rubber in Canada to be
taken over by a Government agency
known as S -c -rap' Rubber Division. Ob-
jective 25,000 tons in 1942. E. M.
Proctor, Canadian representative to
Bureau of Industrial Conservation in
Washington, heads division.
7. Five officers and 52 men of the
Royal Canadian Navy believed lost
when Canadian corvette Spikenard
sunk by enemy action. H.,111.C.S. Sin
sunk by enemy action. H.1VI.C.S.
Spikenard is third - Canadian corvette
lost. since war began.
8. Air Vice Marshal A. A. -L. Cuffe,
air, member ..for Air Staff at R.C.A.F.
headquarters appointed • 0.C7 Eastern
Air Command, Halifax.
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