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WHISKY
RACKET FOR MOTHERS.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1941.
SCANDAL OF THE JOY-TRIP'
EVACUEES MACRAE
A FREE-TRIP-TO-THE-COUNTRY RACKET AT THE NATION'S EXPENSE IS BEING WORK- ED BY. SOME MOTHERS, SENT WITH THEIR CHILDREN TO THE SAFE AREAS.
According to investigations, certain mothers have gone to five different districts within twelve months.
Backwards and for- wards they go the shuttlecocks of evacua- tion-coolly picking the pockets of taxpayers as they joy-ride around Bri- tain.
is
Here The trick is simple. the way it is worked. Registering for evacuation in their home dis- triels, the racketeers are sent to
Hets by special train,
If they like their new homes and the weather is fine, they
week. a fort may stay for a
If it night perhaps a month. does not suit, or they grow tired of the country
or seaside, they quit.
sheets, the occupants packed up
GIVES NEW LEGEND
Angus Macrae, at 70, all the things and took them has given the legend- haunted isles a new legend.
back to their homes.
"No Room”
has re-
The rector of Horham
Round the peat fires of Mull, on signed the chairmanship of the wild winter nights, when Atlan- Appeals Tribunal set up to deal tic winds howl in the chimney 3, with evacuation problems. "I children of generations to come
the tribunal my-will learn may be before selt," he told me.
"I have no time stories. room here at the rectory for evacuees."
on
of him in their, bed-
And this is what their mothers will tell them:
It's many years ago now, way back in the time of the second Great War, that Angus set out one in April night from his cottage the village of Ards.
So it goes
through the Hartirmere area. Recently, when 115 mothers and children were short notice, the chief sent on
had to resort to billeting officer compulsory billeting.
Even then sume householders refused to take in
mothers and children. As a result the coun- Scorned The Dark cil are taking proceedings against some people.
dark.
All the lights had to be black- Is it all the fault of the led-out then for fear of German
I put that question to bombers. evacuees? Mrs. A. Stephens. a W.V.S. worker
But Angus scorned the office for Hoxne. and away he went along the beat- and billeting Here is her reply:-
en cliff-top path that leads to the "Most of the mothers we get ruined rock-built fortress of arc decent working women. Lords of the Is'es. Here and there, of course, you
It was
darker than usual
Once again it is usually the taxpayer who foots the return fare. A woman need merely apply for a supplementary allowance to Unemployment Assistance Board officials in the evacuation area.
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Return Home
Few come back.
--it may be mother and one turn home.
set
As
to
On the grant
at 25s. for a child-they re- one official put they usually me, enough for rail fares "and a bit over for beer."
it
have
Having found how easy it is
to work the trick once, many try
it again. All they have to do is re-register
evacuation, join
for
make billets comfortable."
REFUSES TO LEAVE PRISON
The "forgotten prisoner the next party sent out, and go of Kansas" U.S.A., refuses gaily off on another sightseeing
to leave gaol because "he is so comfortable and is
tour.
Are the Ministry of Health and local evacuation authorities not bothered by people."
Far this racket? from it. Yet they are helpless to stop the scandal,
ignorant of
On humanitarian grounds alone
register and they
re-register Not for the sake! these women. of the mothers, but solely to take young children from
of air attacks.
the horrors
Fourteen years ago Eric Blom- berg, eighty-seven, was sentenced to a year
in Washington Prison and fined £12 for shooting at trespasser on his farm.
a
"I'll stay in gaol all my life before I
insisted pay a cent," Blomberg and stay in gaol he
did,
Then, as years. passed, Blom- "Suppose there has been a heavy berg's farm was sold for a sum blitz on London and one of these that made him rich, his wife died mothers comes to the evacuation and his only child left the neigh- officer," said a Ministry of Health bourhood. official, "Maybe she has two or three children. Naturally we want to get them away.
"The officer knows that she? has been out four or five times. Should he refuse to re-register her? No-he cannot penalise the children that way. For their sake the woman goes off again."
This official pointed out that these cases are a minority.
Back Next Day Now switch to a typical evacua-| tion aren, the rural district of Hartismere, with its seventy parishes and 17,000 population, on the Suffolk-Norfolk order.
I was told of East End mothers who had arrived one day and gone back after a week end of country life.;
"Why, they go back almost; as soon as they step. off the station platform," said the Rev. J. E. Soden, rector of Horham 'and chairman of Hartismere Council".
Forgotten Man
Swam For It
the
on the
Down he fell, 100 feet into the swirling waters of the Sound. He hurt himself badly during the fall --but he struck out boldly, swam to a rock and climbed on to it.
There he lost consciousness. For two hours, wet and cold, he lay on the rock.
Then he came round. Cutting his hands and clothes, he slowly climbed up to the top of the cliffs, And for all his 70 years--he walk-
ed home.
to children, off
Now, good-night.
HARRY POLLITT,
BOILERMAKER
bed,
Mr. Harry Pollitt, who adds a proletarian flavour to the up- per level of the Communist Party. registers under, Mr. Beyin's scheme as an ex-dockyard
:. worker.
The legal authorities forgot all about him until a newly
Mr. Pollitt served an exacting appointed Judge found refer-
was ences to the case in some old re-made a first-class member of the
apprenticeship and in 1912 cords and ordered an inquiry. Boilermakers Society. The finding was that Blomberg should never have been imprison- ed and that he was free to leave gaol immediately.
POTATO NIGHTCAPS AT THE MILK BARS
At the initiation, ceremony he was enjoined "to remember not to set class against class, and to become a loving husband
and well, tender father,....... as
as a strict observer of morality, and the laws of the land." The branch president, Mr. Pollitt re- calls in his autobiography, laid special emphasis on the latter part of the promise..............
Britain's 1,000 milk bars may also become potato bars, it has
A Mother's Letter been decided at a meeting of the Milk Bars Association in London. If Mr. Bevin wants Mr. Pollitt „Already between 30 and 40 the Communist leader will find pare-serving potato dishes his old equipment in good order. A.R.P. and other night workers Mr. Pollitt's mother, a Lancashire can be soon on late buses and woman of great character, sent trams pulling hot potatoes out him a letter during the Com of their pockets, splitting them,munist turnabout of 1930, when putting a pat of butter or mar Mr. Pollitt, having committed garino on top, and having their himself to support of the war || potato." nightcap. Ahhh
had to cease to bo secretary With the disappearance of the the party. Do meat sandwich, milk bars are "One thing. I do know," h's hoping that potato and coffee mother wrote. "I would not lose will take the place of sandwich my dignity because your mark- and coffee. dvomimarieling-off, tools are here, and I have
Mr. Arthur Binsted, an official, kept them in vaseline ready for.. of the Milk · Bars Association, use at any time.!TNÍ Hartiamere has had bitter said: "Milk bars are probably Mrs. Pollitt had been a political experience of many London experiencing their busiest time. worker too long not to know the mothers, For instance, when | Throughout the winter some bara uncertainties of party leadership. the council furnished cottages have been talking their service She died very shortly after writ and
supplied blankots" and to the shelters,"
ing this letter.
"Some just stop a night. Others malce, something of a holiday of it, staying till they have seen all the scenery and grown tired of the country quiet.
“I consider that the Government is wasting no end of money under the present system."
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