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Show Germans Seize Belgian Church Bells for Metal LONDON. Germany's occupation forces, desperate for metal to run the Nazi war machine, now are tak-ing tak-ing Belgium's church bells. The massive 15th century bells of the Church of St. Michael at Ghent, capital of East Flanders, were taken after a priest barred the doors and ordered the bells rung as the German Ger-man forces battered at the portals. The bells tolled their own dirgo with each stroke of the battering ram, for the Germans finally entered, arrest-ed arrest-ed the priest and removed the bells. Underground informants in Belgium Bel-gium managed to get to their friends here the story of bow children gathered gath-ered about the church at Termonde, in Flanders, to sing an old Flemish song forecasting doom to thos who touched the bells. The song did not halt the workmen stripping the tower, tow-er, however. In Liege and in Brussels the "Story was similar. It was learned the metal waj sent to the Cockerill works at HobOken, near Antwerp, for melting and casting cast-ing but that the officials of the fao-tory fao-tory refused to touch it. |
