THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.-
ARMLESS, KEY MAN
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AT ONCE CHINA TEA
A.R.P. POST BERLIN
(An armless, unpaid volunteer warden goes to it for eighteen hours a day in Britain's front line. A Special Correspondent who spent a night on duly with him tells how this great-hearted little man does his bit for his country).
ASKS
"HOW
Joe is armless. He was born that way. He LONG?"
does everything with his feet, answering the 'phone, keeping the log, putting his tin hat on, stopping buses when there is danger, testing gas masks. And he wants to be a roof spotter!
Joe, as his neighbours call him, is Horace Line- ham, aged thirty-one, of Stone, Dartford, Kent. To the boys of the Welsh Tavern A.R.P. post he is Son. He was opening the post when I met him. Out of the shoe came his left foot, neatly lifting the key from his breast pocket. In a flash he had the door open and the light switched on.
1 challenged him to 201 up at darts. With his left foot he thicked the first dart into double top to open the game.
Then the banshec wailed That left foot went into action,! whipping on tin hat, whisking) out whistle.
Into the street he ran, blow ing the alcrt. Then back came to mark the log.
he
"Hello, Son," said the boys as they bumied in, "You're here first aga!"
The floor is Joe's desk. On the book which lay there he ticked off the squad's names as they arrived for the 191st raid among them Les Couchman and his wife Mary: Taffy Young, an aircraft- man on leave, Dick Fisher and Frank Lusher, landlord of the Tavern next door.
The phone rang. Joe picked it up fixed it in a gadget in the wall and dictated a message.
18-Hour Day
I've been a warden for near- ly a year," Joe told me, "I volun- icered on October 28 last year.
I'm unpaid.
"I'm no good to the Army. But I can do anything at A.R.P. that other people can do.
"I'm registered as a part-time worker, Most days I put in eighteen hours. I live just round the
corner.
Joe isn't scared of anything Jerry carts to send-and he has only one complaint.
"The boys want me to do all the inside work," he said. "But 1 want to be outside-in
the front int."
When things get too hot, Joe warns the bus drivers to stop. They take his advice. He shep- herds the elderly and children to shelter."
He'll Be There
Joe had eighteen months' four- ing in a show, performing with his feet tricks many men cannot do with their hands. The war killed that. Now he has no job except A.R.P. And that is un- paid.
He lives with his parents.
The Berlin correspondent of the "Hufvudstadsblad" reports that Berliners are becoming resigned to
a second winter of war, and are only asking whether decisive mili– tary action may be expected next year and whether the R.A.F. in- tends to continue, and for how,
long. lying over and bombing
Germany.
"He's the most useful man I've got," Lea Couchman
said "He did a grand job when WC took the gas mask saw that everyone's mask fitted capital by claiming that the au- properly.
thorities are going to use the win-
The Berlin Press is trying to population of the He console the census
Joe smiled and got on with hter to consolidate the positions ac-
job.
"Here.
quired in foreign terrtery ana Son." Les called aby stressing the people's ability minute later. "I've got a new job to sustain the coming winter's for you distribution of carplugs."
"Right." replied Joc
berigours with the same courage as there" And he will.
was displayed last winter.
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