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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-07-09, Page 124 4 PAGE TWELVE` THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL; LUCKNOW, .ONTARIO Sanellicholson �lVrit Oversei.'s T0'p Bridal Shower Sandy Nicholson, a native of this community and a frequent .visitor .here, is presently on, an overseas trip and The Sentinel asked him to pena few lines on his experiences Hs -firs letter�fnliows; Dear Don ,, Although the Orkney and Shetland . Islands:.are a., most.. interesting part of -United Kingdon),; very_few• Cana- dians visit the area. During both World Wars Scapa Flow in .the Orkneys, Ywas an impor- tant naval base, rarely, mentioned in news dispatches. At the conclusion of World War I the treaty required that the German Navy,be sent at once to Scapa ,Flow The order was obeyed. However, • after the ships'arrived they were all scuttledwith the.officers and. men • returning"safely to Germany. Now, More' than ,50years later , . parts of many of these ships, badly rusted,. Can be seen in many.places Sal vage work, still contilues . To ,the east: of. Scapa. Flow, there were until the second' world war , . four channels,leadinginto the• naval anchorage, :These were blocked with sunken , German World •.War:1 ships and it was thought that. •attack from the East•was.impossible • However-:in=October.:1939; Ger-.' Man U Boat Commander.took ad vantage. of a gap,in the defences of. Holm: Sound and an exceptionally high tide He ,penetrated the . Flow , sank' the.Royal`Oak, the. flagship • of the''British Navy: and got away Safely. More. than 800 men perish- ed: One man managed.to swim ashore and.was rescued by a' ` • farmer. Later he married the farm- • er's. daughter and/now lives near :where so; many of his comrades lost their ;lives..00ne very small fishing boat ,was ;;near •y: ible• for 200: to 'reach shore. ,Had .it beenrealized' on such a dark night. ''that theshore was;so.close, More. • 'might: have reached land The'navy •:having learned a hard lesson left it's Orkney anchorage until the entrance could be . securely sealed., The method 'chosen was to.larmassive barriers. •;of stone and cement on the "sea bed . from island': to . island. When cmpleted--theJrbee-know- 'the ')Churchill Barriers". They are.' about a mile. and'a half in' length and'required more than a 'quarter of a• million. tons of stone' and' rock Mrs ..John C..;, Mac :na eli and Corinne were hostesses for a shower for Sharon,Norman whose marriage to Gary Courtney takes placelater* this month; About sixty; relatives: and neighbours from the Second Concession gathered tq 'shower Sharon:w'ith many useful gifts..A program. consisted of musical num bersay Margaret Anne, Mary Jane,, Wendy-ancEShannon.l,ee- Courtney accompanied by Mrs.., Bob \ Courtney;, Nancy . MacKay , .Bertha• Scott; ..Gerry'MaaLeod. and .Corinne MacDonald. • Readings. were given by Mrs.. Howard Thompsonancl-Mrs-.- COnttney: Kingsbridge Cubs 'by AkeTa . On July 3,. 24 cubs attended a meeting. HenryNan Dyke led in the Grand 'Howl. The cubs were then paired off and each: pair gave a :different safety reminder. When .. to do•.artificial respiration was dis-- cussed. Ron had his doon buggy at the meeting and we also watched an; airplane spraying Weplayed: baseball. Dewayne• Rising led in; the Grand, Howl and Akela closed with prayer and O Canada.. years of captivity`on'Larnbholm.• "The camp still lacked a chapel.. Eventually a new commandment .authorized enough scrap material' . and two Nissen huts to be available•:. The prisoners included'. Signor: Chiocchetti,, now a well known Italian artist and many skilled arti sans The corrugated iron •of: the hut waJ covered, with plaster board and pain- ted ter reseble well known Italian The: altar and altar rail were beautifully designed 'and moulded in concrete :. Behind ; the : altar, the madonna and the -child; were 'painted-by-Chiocchetti • Another *painting of St. Francis of Assisi has: -a translation of the' following prayer of ,St . 'Francis. ' "Lard:, make me a.n.instruinent of Thy peaces where there is hatred; let rne` sow love; where there' is n -as— i n jury.,_pauloA; ier_e there is • darkness, •light; where there is sad-. ness . 'goy'' on the. sea .bed, Borne places bu '`sr;rr fI'xa� feet deep. -The causeway on top was built of huge blocks of concr'e:- te weighing between 5 and 10'tons'. ,'' •They were placed in irregular pos= )tions to preventthe tide from sweeping over :the road which runs,. alongthe top. Vey early dtiring. the`;first World Some fifteen years later .theeB$C War,.' the ship which'was carrying beamed'several broadcasts to Italy `Kitchener to Russia went down in . `i to try.to locate the artist. • He was this-s-ame:area . #'o und-w-ith-his- Wife..and ch; lci The Orkney Island's have always '. living in Moena, a village in the, Do attracted many tourists wishin to rough g fomites In 1960 through. the -`- efforts-ofthe-BBC.and-a-cert-i-tt e ,,,see the stone age huts built, at least .; • a thousand_ years before the Romans.. in Orkney,' the travelling..expenses :, were `in Scotland;. The Italian, were raised to bring Chiocchetti Chapel,` built during World War back for a three'weeks visit when'. two is `now the.most popular -tourist '' he 'restored the' paint work of `the' ' attraction' in Orkney. ; interior and made other important • • '.'; repair's. Again in 1.964 the artist. Several hundred`ltalian prisoners- .;'wasabfe f'o visit Crk`ne• s"cYe`'` during the., North African campaign ',guest of the Preservation Commi were: sent to' Orkney to help build 'ttee, ThiS't•ithe his wife Maria the Churchill Barriers, Thirteen . ',accompanied him. They brought huts were provided to house the ;.gifts from the Mayor. and' comm - Men.' Flowers; 'Concrete •paths'a.nd a unity of Moena, theatre were soon pl ovic e3" to•. make ; In a country which has paid such' life. tiiore interesting, a price for wars through many ' • An artist and a cement worker de..4 hundreds of years it is encouraging 'signed :ind built of barbed wire and, to find this.workof prisoners of jr c'melit 1 11remdr4al in concrete of war helping to create internation- St.. t;c"�ir�;c ,laying the Dragon, ' i al good 'all in an''uneasy wor iviiiholical of their triumph over defeat and lonelinessduring 'their 5andy,• 'After, the 'war;,the whole camp except the, cement paths, the 'hut ;foundations,Yhsappeared with the exception of 'the Chapel • and' Si. George with. his dragon. Tape. people :of'Orkney had heard of the'beauty. Of the Chapel and 'began to visit it. Gradually it' becarne a :place of pilgrimage 'for thousands' of visitors each year. • 'WEDNESDAY, JULY 9th, 1969 re S Seo`k Nt%ofp1us �`��OPfN ALl DAY! T.HURSDAt PRICES SLASHED Copyright — Wm. E. Loeber 1963 PflICES SLASHED? L .McBR!NE LUGGAGE Reg. $39.95 iGG cBRINE Bargain! Reg $10.95 MEN'S. DESERT .BOOTS: • RATHWELL SHOES LUCKNOW