THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1941.
Robert Stack in Franchot Tone with Deanna Durbin and Universal's romantic comedy. "N ce Girl?" The picture is Dean- na's ninth starring vehicle show ng to-day at the King's.
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THE DEAD
KIDS LINE UP FOR A BATTLE
(By A Special Correspondent)
JUTTING OUT in black relief against the water A hun- around the island, stood Watson's Wharf. dred and fifty people lay huddled in the shelter underneath one night, praying that the rain of bombs might cease.
And a band of boys who had grown up together in the slums of Wapping Island were laughing and joking in the middle of the shelter.
They went out into the might to see if they could help their neigh- bury And from that arose Land of fellowship called the Dead End Kids of Wapping.
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In the next months all Wap ping Island thrilled at the ex- ploits of the Dead End Kids.
There were eighteen of them, all shapes and sizes, fran bargee's buy. They aspistant to grove's were led by Patsie Duggan, a young lorry driver
Night after night this unofficial) defence
has SOLVID action
Kune 11t
KNIT YOUR HAT
AWAY - IT'S
LATEST IDEA
Hats mode skeins of wool war knitters are sell-
of
for
in
New apiece.
York
at £1
ing in hundreds They have forgotten the
Number of fires they have put out, but they know the shelterers of Watson's Wharf rely on them
They have formed themselves into four squads, and they stand by in the shelter.
When incendiaries start to fall, out goes Squad No. 1. Each man wears two pairs of gloves and carries a stirrup pump.
Unwritten Law
a
If it is
big job the other squads are called out. But the unwritten law is that no frematz is called unless the whole band can't handle the fire.
The "law" has never been broken. Through every kind of raid, in all weathers they have, fought those fires.
The hat looks like a bird's nest of wool and has space in the crown for decorative knitting needles and a sweater or other garment that is in the making.
The knitter simply takes the needles from the hat. Then, as she knits, the wool gradu- ally unwinds itself from the head, mak- ing the hat smaller Once a time bomb felt near a
and smaller until it shelter. They strainco heaved at the bomb,
vanishes. but it wouldn't come out of the ground.
A time bomb fell fifty yards from a fire they were tackling! The Dead End Kids went on,
and
But with the great fire came
their first casualties. Two of the EGGS FOR SHAMPOO boys were killed as they rescued horses from a burning building. Asked in the Commons about Then one was drowned when he slipped from a barge.
Three more boys stepped into the ranks.
The Aremen around Wapping say that the boys ought to be re- commended for their valour.
FOOLSCAP SHEET-
TWO LINES
the use of eggs for a shampoo at a West End hairdressers, the Par- liamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry said the use of fresh eggs for this purpose was in his opinion an offence, and inquiries were being made.
GAVE LIFE FOR SAILOR
A whole foolscap. sheet was used for a letter of two lines in Commander Charles F. Hallaran, correspondence produced in the R. N., former Irish Rugby inter Court of Appeal. "I suppose soli-national, has died on active ser- citors know there is a shortage of vice in attempting to rescue a "paper" said, the Master of the saller who had fallen into the sea, Rolls
It was disclosed in London,
SIX DAYS OF AGONY AT SEA
Far out in the Atlantic a ship was bringing a cargo to Britain. A Bri- tish ship.
From out of the grey sea came a torpedo, In a few moments the ship was sinking.
Ten men got away in time-ten men leit by the enemy to die.
They had time only to lower a raft,
All they had on bourd to ste- cour them were six tins of con- densed milk and half a gallon of water,
They had taken bearings short- ly before the ship was torpedoed. The nearest land was 800 miles away from Ireland.
Between them and that land lay 800 miles of sea, freezing winter weather..and a few struts of
wood.
And so they started six days of agony.
One by one the tins of condens- rd milk were opened 21 sip
taken,
At night, they fastened them- selves with their belts to the wooden struts while they snatched an hour's sleep. Even so two were washed off by the heavy seas and vanished.
Two more lost their reason, and died.
Life Sailed Along
On the sixth day a warship sighted them drew near.
--
Within hailing distance a life. line was thrown from the ship's deck over the raft... the men on the raft stretched put their arme to catch this line of life. it fell True and the men were lifted abourd, nearly stiff with cold.
The men reached England; a few hours later they had applied for another ship. Now they are sailing again.
Of such is
the stamp of the
men who man the Merchant Navy .. such is their magnificent con- tribution to Victory.
"SEND BUTTER”-
SUMMONED
The censor opened a letter to Dublin written by Mr. G. F. Fox. of South Road, West Drayton, Middlesex, m which was the sentence "Send some more but- ter: just tell us the cust, and 1 will send a P. 0."
For trying to ubtam rat.oned Food without ration coupons Fox was at Uxbridge ordered to pay 20s, custs.
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