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Night Raiders

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London Anti-Aircraf

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Barrages Make Few Hits, But Keep Spirit Up

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Joseph P. Kennedy, U. B. un-

lmuzsiulor to London, examines a rmzin bomb fragment that mrrii-ti his initials. The bomb

hit near Kennedy's country honie. Later n. disabled McSBTDChIDIV-l fight»: gkiznmad within inches of the some dwcllinl-

after bait-m into the sky in M- tut yrs -‘ lt-r to hit or to drive off lone raiders.

In one instance, u. German piano was forced t0 veer 310m l" 0011199-

but not for long. 10v HERB‘ executed a. great uric and re- turned to drOP . m mwndlary

bombs. They landed near three

Iiritislt lion still sinnils di-iiuni 0H‘) iillllfiilli in Lilllllllll inn-w- t-ry blur-lull to hits by (icrmati bombs.

Elude

Guns

This is how the library o! the London 'l‘cmplc, u center of Eng- lish legal profession, looked after being hit.

the nose of anoihor Nazi ship.

to catch up wzth the planes. Despite tiic lira: of more and big- ger guns and a system of predict- ing a ulzttit-‘s ftittwe position with- out searchiights, the number of German picnics brought down during the ltours I wdtcucd was —

npartlnent buildinflfi and B10118 P119 Park's edge, and they started fires] which became beooonl. “11115118; the area almost to daylight bright- v ness. Before fast-working police Nldi firs-men could another the flames‘, wzth rnlitl, the light guided a Ger- , man plane back to the spot. It; released at bomb which scored a; direct hit 0n one or the 1m"- merit buildings. The force of the xWslon was so great that the s 01v buildimz was demolished. Wuulouxs were shattered for blocks. l

GUNS BOLQITIR MORALE

Standing h the flin/dclw of m: Marlalc Arch one could N689 me gt-ncml ln-rflcctivcttcss of the antl- nircruli puns beénuse it pwggeftli};

l ‘ ermrm ' xeylriglissigltlasesed each others Nth qhéy flew some 15.000 feet in Th? gkv, above the nhell bursts (which resembled explodlml Sims‘ that. followcrl each plane in the hcaugiis, from one end of the Cit!’ W -°,

otlilflie ohella never quill seemed‘

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RAF Espies Nazi “In vasion Fleet”

zero.

it ‘was reported, however, that earlier in the evening three planes had been hit by the barrage.

It was the same story down on the Thames embankment. Anti- nircraft guns thrr-u’ tons of stcel into thr- sky from midnight to 3 in tne morning, yct this proved no obstacle t0 a bomber" which sud- denly dropped down in a quick thrust end utilondecl a large bomb.

Despite this gi-xcral inability to hit airplanes at fllllii, London's anti-aircraft bar r is valuable if only for H5 cfiut on the popu- latlon.

Night after night, moat of the 10,000.00!) people of gills city hud-

dle into air raid shelters while German planes bomb the city. And wlzcn ilic antl-aricrtift uuns

stopped film: lur mun}.- llillll‘: on . l rwon; uluiits lwcuttsc . chiiglils could not. pierce the layers of lncavv rltnttls to allow gunners to i ' a bead bu the

planes overh sonict ng rc- 5e , \ o.‘ tic. snvcpt over l , , .c.

Tito . lr-fisncc chit-is im- medltrc u "ed thc anti ir-

One of Gcmumy‘! new-type bomben, the I088, photographed over

craft strategy of London. All ‘available guns in the LOiltlflli area were ordered by conununding offi- cers to fire ‘what communlques and newspapers here later termed a "screen of lead."

“A IIYMN 0F BLESSED RELIEF"

The reaction was spontaneous throughout the city. Morale rose to o new high.

And when I toured two repre- sentative public air raid shelters to see if tlicrc was any reverting back to the feeling of gcncral lielp- i lessnt-ss at klnglandls inability t0 strike back, I found lliOl'LllS still good

In one place, beneath a modern department store, most people who packed me shelter were of the opinion that the nnti~alrcrait guns (which were tiring the- lli’\\‘ screen of loud uurilit; the long zuglu hours) were saving the day.

In another shelter, which dur-l ing the day ivas a. subway platform, were men, women ftnti cliildnen who had strcumctl thcrc from their bomb-torn homes in Loudoifs East End. They had brought their piti- fully few possessions.

Seeing the night's respite from the high explosives which usually continue to fall with deadly regu- larity thcsc nights. they called Londoifs hail of anti-aircraft. shclls into the sky "a hymn of blcsled relief ” .

general emergency steps

. botnbe

. London.

llewsmen Tells llow Fleet St. “Carries 0n”

d lte N zl bombs. A news m" esplatcra three bombs

-ooup e of ours fell almost on the doorstep of the building housing the Canadian

Prws otice in Tudor Street. around

the corner from Fleet. and Himter cabled the News. His st keen] tn;

e newspapers, mailed before the

Tudor street bombing, follows:

By LOUIS V. HUNTER Canadian Press StMi’ Wriifl‘

LONDON, Sept. 25.——<CP)——- (By mam-The old stage adafle “The show must go on" never proved truer than in Fleet Street where Londons great morning newspapers carry on despite the nightly attacks of Nazi rs.

This imperturbable sanctuary c1 British journalism has refused t0 lose poise-or production of a single issue-under the nightly pounding 0i

Some newspaper off ccs have been hit but the stream uf papers still roll off the M65565»

Fleet Street pioneered the "r00!

. watcher" system whet-obi‘ ll": 4mm

is treated onlv as an ‘alcrt" and no

. one takcs cover untl the watcher re-

t. * l ncs lose overhead. g1; tilllllindoggaffs fake cover, with

been affected to n. certain extent by these “stops? The papers first edi- tions guy; to press at nine 06k. two hours earlier than usual. If no further work is newbie. that DIP" ,in circulation.

The Daily Mail send: m other - ency ediflgn w press at 8.30 ocloc at night. If it is lm lblo to work afterwards, this edi ion is brought out, however, if the raiders stay suf- ficiently far away from the Mail o!- flce, fresher news is put in the Rele- ton and it comes out as usual.

Pope Urges Fight Against “lmmodesty”

VATICAN CITY, Oct. 6.—(AP) — Pope Plus urged 14,000 Italian girl: gathered in a Vatican Cit court- yard today to fight “immu eaty" of present dav fashion, likenin young women who "risk their chas lty" by bowing down to the "twanny pf style" to insane persons w o unwit- tingly therow themselves into fires and rivers.

He urged them t0 keep their faces free 0i‘ “artiflcesf and quoting from First. Corinthians, Chapter l1, verses 13 and l5, he said hair was given to wcmcn for a veil.

The discourse touched on the war onlv ‘trrieflv when the Pope charac- terized the present hour as one of devastation and pointed his hearers toward a task of Christian recon-

to the itt uwwy. ‘Ilhen came the heart-breaker. After the drip had pulie"! fllWflav to return ‘.0 Britain, it was discovetrcd other

mediately called l 111994318 0! 1"?- ortesezitativea of the other scrviccs @114 offered to shore his 6111191105- His ‘P1801218 cards. Chinese checkers cribbace boards, house shoe He. soft bulls and bats, tbwdnc slum-

oiminoes, ooccaer balls and Sid/liltin- ery were split four ways.

Otlhei- difficulties presented llhem- sejivm in quick order. It was learned that outdvflt‘ WOW! W01" befewundfarbchty l, Itisduflc vwenhy tam- hours aday and. i; axl- dition, there was not an available

, “Good %-mund [is

1311c] , t is lam." ox wroe. ausl "ionic oi’ conversation among the Ctmnditms, Box added, is the weather. For several days it ralncd steadily. As if that were 110-3 bad qmough, the tempemtviue rung- (d daily from freezing to 45 above.

The hoops “Yew wultchmz the snow ootne and go on the moun- tain tOps, but at the time Box wwle they were still waiting, \v.ih not too much DlBflmJYNii-lle antdclpatron. for the wind storms which come with winter. Lost winter. they \\'<‘I'e tom mm W215 a period of izwo Wfvks “then the alvcmgc wind vel- Qcjiv was 80 mllPs an hcur, and tho maxlnum 60. 4 _

With this mndv weather m tull- smt, we Y.M.C.A. has hm to nan a twins.’

oeocdingly . v Indoor ententnininctit Z.‘~ H c. _v

the rcstilt that time lost is cut to a strut-lion to be undertaken at tiecuplamled and famlliks M“ iiblllxws‘

miuitnutn.

Main effect so m 0i the nlclwtli‘ raids has been lonncr hours for the men and women producing the

They come to work earlier"

pet's. irget as much work clone as pos- sible before the blackout and the start of the raids. Press limes have been advanced and 1n many 011595 deadline-s have igonc by the boards- Oftcn actual publication has been delayed until the all clear.

The drivers on the newsPflPiqf trucks keep on going‘. A Dally M511 spokesman called _t cm the u r8111 hcrocs. Supplied with tin hats tile)’ limit cnrc for folds or anything clsc" and ronr nightly through thc Sil‘(‘f‘it\ in stations they know are “hoi" targets.

The naners obtain a steady supply of news during the raids. Press tickers kccp rattling away after l1 slight interruption when the sirens go and the operators work from a sliclu-r. The Ministry of Informa- tion icletype system contlnuts to funvzion, either from its Ofdlflflfi lccatioti or from an elaborate ‘wor room" deep under‘ the great build- ing housing the ministry.

The News Chronicle has a natural shelter in its bascii1e1tt._“'hfl"° m‘? stall rctlros whcn the sirens 20- I“ that basement arc tlcski. telephones, a supplementary battery of llnotypcs, a canteen and evcn an emergency electric power plant.

An air raid shelter in the base- ment liOllSiniZ the Canadian Press and Associated Press is fitted with ccmmttnicaiion facilities for use when the staffs are driven under- ground bv ncarov bomb blasts. 0r- dinarilv, the staffs work in their usual third-floor and second-floor offices.

In Lord Beaverbrookk Daily Ex- press the key men - the editors- stay at their dcsks even lf thc roof Watcher's warning sets off an in- tcrnal alarm sending other mem- bet-s or the staff to the basement. _Deqdllncs on the express have

our out: WAY

end of the conflict. Enumcrating the “beautiful work" which awaits the end of the wanhe

listed: ' rebuild society on Christian

‘To bases.

"To replace the Bible and its moral in esteem and honor.

“To revise the family, restoring to matrimony the halo of its sacramen- tal dignity. to spouses a sense of their Obligations and a coraeious- ness of their responslbili .

"To reaffirm in all great society agenulne notion of authority, dis- cip inc, respect. for social orders and the reciprocal rights and duties of thc human person,

"There is your tomorrow!"

With Canadian Troop In Iceland

TORONTO, October 7 In his first. NDOYE from a land where there isnt‘ flmtv dmm and where its -' mid- night all ailemtoon." Charlie Box_ Toronto Y.M.C.A. secneta with the Canadian irorm; in rlcelmid, gives an outline of some or tine din. 101111-185 bciuz encountered 1n that. island by f-ilc “lllllliaijv services and tells o! wcpemtive efforts to pm. vide entertainment and qjgnjqrhg for Oanadas ovcrscas Tommies. From the outsrt tile ‘Y’ officer scmns to have sensed trouble. At the Scottish sraiporg whoa-e u“, Canadians embarked for their Ice. land adventure. he arrived on the dwk riding 0n the truck which carried Y.M.C.A. and re~ nrcaticmrtl equirpunent He watched it stowed away ln the shin. kept an eye) on it during" the voyage and, on arrival. prodded seamen to make sure it was unloaded. Then he sat

being dot/cloned. Pianos, 13-‘ are a luxury in Icclnnil, s» arrnilitc. means are being mttd¢ to ship one from Toronto. A fllrillci- dffu-i 11y in Iceland, Box writes. is the I71 lom of distances. At pmscn. the l! scent/my is oovcrinc his rrtmw with horses but plant; rlrr- beinfl madc to send a. mobl‘o uni’. sillilltt‘ t those being used by flu: ‘Y' in Britain. Mr. Box's report scnrt to the Nat~ ional War Service; Commit-ice, is the first rcdevcd from Iceland s: .0 he left for the island some llltll..lls‘ ago. HELP TllEll L‘ (‘ANNING PRODUCE REGINA, Oct. 7 —(CP) ~At Pierceland. 350—milcs northwest of this provincial capital, tht- fllllli Saskatchewan co-nporaiive catmcry is carrying on an intercs .. pcriment in commututy sclf 01p. In this comparatively new dis- trict. with most of its development glnrc i027, largo quatullics of vege- tables are grown annually. Wild strawbcrrics. rnsphcrru“ 11nd blur-- berries come in ])l'0ill.\l(n1 (ind are noted for ithrii" cxccllctit flavor. Distance of inakets and lack of proper canning equipment have to date prevented the settlers from taking full advantage of fi‘c na- tural product-ion resources of the district.

At a mccthtg last May, attended and advised by provincial agricul- turcal officials , the Plci-celand lhult and Vegetable-Growers‘ As- sociation was organized and plans made 1'0? the purchase of canning equipment. It was arranglil the work of canning was to b4» tlllfflcil on by mowers‘ themsolvos, thus embhaslzing the self-help prin-

guard o'er it, on the Iceland qua-y until azn emvy vehicle Wm securqj

By J- R. Williams

ciple .

UOUIIJB HIGH QCIIOOL Honor Roll for September:

Principal’: Do mt Grade X-i. Mar on MaaKnnzie.

2. Muriel Richards; 8. Kenneth Murphy. Grade IX-l. Charles Holland;

2. William Pierce; 8. Lillian Poole.

Grade VIII-l. Doreen Dunlap; Edward Cheveric; 3. Melvin Mac- Kenzle.

Perfect attendonce: —Dorothy Poole, Marion MacKenzie, Elmer MacPhee, Charles Holland, Doreen Dunlap, Leo MacLellan, Wallle MacKenzle. Melvin MacKenzle, Ed~ ivard Cheverle, Alan Macbcan.

Miss Mauliellan‘: D nt

Grade VII-l. Hanoi: Oheverle, 2. Clarence Parquet; 8. Billy Poole.

Grade VI—1- Nicholas Paquet; 2. Billy Crockett; 3. Vernon Poole.

Grade V-1. y Poole; 2. Spurgeon Hazelde ; 8. John Mac- Donald.

Perfect attendance: Francis Chev- erie, Clarence Paquet, Billy Croc- kett, Elmer Cheverie, May Poole, Alton MncKenzie, Francis Lewis, John Stubbert, John MacDonald.

Mia Burke's Department Graxie V-l. Albert M. Cheverie; 2. Louis Cheverie; 3. Damien MacDonald.

Grade 1V—1. Colin Jarvis and Leonard Doucette (equal); 2. Jos- eph Perry 3. Jackie Poole. Perfect attendance: Albert M~ Chevcrte, Iiemiard Doucette. Kent Ellis, Colin Jarvis, Cecil Mur , Merlin Murphy. Ralph Mos or, Leonard Gallant, Howard Glover.

Miss ilolland's Department Grade III—1. Vernon Jarvis; 2. Daniel MacDonald; 3. Ruth Jack.

son. Grade II (a) — l. Francis Perry.

2. Ivan Cheverie; 3, Sylvgnus

Arsenault.

Grade II (b) --1. Hazel Crockett

and Doreen Ellis (equal).

Grade I (a) —l. James Cheverle,

2. Eunice Croucher; 8. Reggie MacDonald. Grade I (b) —l. Donny 1,3-

BITCH: 2. Harriet Jackson.

Perfect attendance Vernon Jar- vis, Basil MacDonald, Kenneth Paquet. Walter Paquet, gjvanus Arscnault. Roy Perry. Harold La. Vile. James Cheverie, Charles Chev. er c, Eunice Croucher, Fred P mm Crockett. aqua’ E James MacDonald, Principal. ___________________

F?! ill’? 5131i. SHEET. syrup and 0.. supplies. The rowers bring lhcir fruits and vege ble; to the plant, can their produce under m. Dcrvlslon and take one-half of "he Canntd Produce home with them. ‘The association retains the other half for resale to meet operating exprnses and to pay for the equit).

umuit. Any surplus will be d13- trlbutcd. The Obiect is to observe all

standard methods with respect, u; quality so that no difficulty will b1- exilcrienced with regard to sale Most of thcrproducts have been disposed of m tiearby towns. Pro. ducts canned have been chiefly. Com- DPBS, beans, cauliflower, car- rots and blueberries.

‘This experiment to assist grow- gusto become more self sufficient had encouraging msulg u, Incidentally, the district has s. flourishing w-Operatlve store and

The Association furnlshcs the

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Bomb Splinter’ ° Pit-HEW.»-

f IONDON. Oct. Q-(OP) — splinters from the Battle of :

"And which bomb to hear about?" ask

ties.

Probably drowned by bombing was the opinion expressed at the inquest into the ticutn or u woman whose

woman was blown into the water by a bomb explosion.

souvenir [hunters are wlmod aaalnst picking up parts of or German ulancs. Wreckage of enemy aircraft is wanted bv the govern- ment, not only for salvage p but also for study by aeronautics ex- beris.

Residents or the Pitcairn Island: sent. a message to the g 1nd glueen expressing their relief at

elr Malt-silos escape from death 0r injury in the bombing of Buck- ingham Palace and saying they “are Drayina {or your continued safety."

Shock from a bomb explosion re- stored to J. Brooker, an ext-soldier, the sight he lost in the last war. .111: first act after regaining eyesight was to do the shopping his wife who became serious _v l as n result of the some bombing.

Refuses Demand For Union Recognition

OTTAWA. Oct. 'l-—(CP) —DI mand for union recognition wnl turned down in the majority re- port of a board of conciliation ap~ bointcd to dcul with difference: between the John Inglis Company of Torontomnd its boiler makers, iron ship builders, welders, maching hands and helpers.

Judge GI‘. Mahon of Windsor, Ont., chairman of the board, when report was released today by Labor Mlllifilfl‘ Mcliaiiy, took the position that the war emergency justified declining the employees’ demand; for union recognition.

“At this juncture," he Add "de- spalcli in the production oi war materials is paramount and all alg- nals should b0 $.43! straight ahead."

NINE lillLEilr

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Report for Scptvmbcru-

Grade X-. ar.— Catherine Betta; Grade X.. .lr. — Glen MucDouglJl; Grade VIII.—Reia Gorveatt: Grade VIL-Annie Currie; Grade V1,_ Robot-tn Currie; Grade V-Granger Mitchell. Joey Mitchell, Eileen Campbell; Grade III — Lois Mac- Eflvhem; Grade It-Melvln Currier Grade I 512, Preston Mitchell; Ahlill MacDonald, pscymoiti" Currie; Grade 1., jn-Lctitia lVIaCDClnald; Leslie Mitchel‘. ‘ Perfect attendance: Cathe Bells. Granger lyiitchel, Preston h chlglllicslic Mitchell,

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Preston Mitchell. m ‘h. Rae MacNclll, teacher.

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