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Show LONDON'S AIR 1 RAID DESCRIBED J. G. McKay Tells of War Times in England of Mormon Mission The whole truth of the German air raids over Iondon during the world war was not communicated to the World according t.. James (iunn Mc-Kay Mc-Kay who told of his missionary experiences ex-periences In London during the period of th world war, in an address deliv ered in ihf Fourteenth ward chapel, Sunday night Mr. McKay said the reports of the raids w r. ex.igger 1 1. . for the purpose of drstgglng America into the war. Whan Kngli-h alt-planes alt-planes were destroyed the report went forth that they were German planes .and every morning following a raid the buildings destroyed were, placarded with notices that the buildings w. re torn down for repairs.' Elder McKay who had charge of the London conference, told of his oxpe-j riencea, humorous and tragic. Tho meeting was held under tho auspices' of the. ward mutuala with Miss Edna , Beus. president of the Y. L M. I. A.,! c onducting. Vocal selections were ren-l dered by Miss Eva Porter. Elder, McKay told how "Deeeret,' the L. ), S. church headquarters In! London, which had been used as an1 air raid shelter, had recently beer. de- stroyed by the prejudice of tho people peo-ple who Were worked up to a pitch of frehtj bv .. ntl-"Mormon" agitators. During the air raids, thousands were' given shelter in this building which was unharmed although surrounding! buildings collapsed under th radii j of b .. nibs from the German ulrplum A graphic dlscrlptlon of the detJtmc-1 tir.n of t huge German 7,"ppeli:i cor London was given by Elder McKay, who told of his regret when eight millions mil-lions of Londoners sang "God Save the King" ng 35 German airmen wero I burned to death in midair. He gave a thrilling account of his walk thr-.ugh iho streets of London flHlr during one of the air raids, -when ssniNi bombs roll all around hlrn and build- Hbv incs were crumbling to pieces and ho HRUg escaped without a scratch. He attrlo- H uted this fact to the protection of God who he said, gave similar protection H to all the numbers of the L. D S. LH church In that great city. Ho lnti- BKffl mated that the stories published ir newspapers of babl.s being killed in the rails were eaggerated To drag LbVh''" America Into (he war. H Elder McKay said he had had th pleasure of preaching the gospel aa accepted by the Latter-day Satnta to everj membei of the British cabinet. JH with the exception of Premier Lloyd Georg. whom he 1 mild approach only BBSi through hi- Becretari The speaker H i- son ewhal Jubilant during his re bKx'V cltal of his efforts to have the "Mor men" church recognized as a rolig-Ions rolig-Ions organization, and how he finally succeeded after tho case ha I been heard before the British courts on different . nMon It was Lord ME Birkenhead, then lord chief justice of aWw" England, who handed down the fle- HtS clslon that the "Mormon church wad Hsp ': B religious organization and Itn or- BSic Iders were ministers of tn.i MSS l"'l ami . xc t; pj ironi military serv- KfV ice MM!-1 How h escaped the hangman a HPfc-''" noose which was hung over his head BjP at the Instigation of a ministerial as- Sb soclation. was nun of tho thrilling ex- MITo perlences Of Elder McKay while en Blft-v in miasion in South Africa. On an- awfeo other occasion he told how a mob In Bafv South Africa unmercifully t-.ca.t him. Hgtyy hi- missionary- companion and a young . Hp i! woman who had accepted the faith ( of the "Mormons." HJ on "aW" |