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Next Change THE LIBERTY
The pleasure steamer Royal Daffodit, which rescued and brought home nearly 9,000 British and Allied troops out of the famous Dunkirk in 1940, returning to the hell of beaches as part of the 1950 celebrations. The Daffodil made seven trips during that memorable week when the fate of And tes eventually the British Army lay in the balance, damaged by an aerial torpedo which eat through three decks and entered the engine room. Between 1941 and 1945 she operated on the Stanrser-Larne service, and then the Calals. Dover leave service for BAOR troops, she travelled 170,000 miles on her war service and carried' 3.443,073 Bervice and civilian passengers.
The ramshackle wooden jelly of Dunkirk from
1940. Gaps in thousands of troops were evaousted in
structure were made by German bombs.
which
the
In
flowers is cast bica A wreath of red, white and memory of the men who drowned and died of machine gun.. nior and bombing during the historia evacuation. From right to left: Mr C. Hosking, the Mayor of Margate, Mas Hosking, the Lady Mayoress, and M. Gustave Robelet,
Mayor of Dunkirk,
The Hunt Is On
A
the
BEACHES OF DUNKIRK
but it was Margate which remembered them
15
By Peter Lovegrove
It cannot be easy. Her plories-the beautiful Town In the 10th Century Gothic church of St Etel, the historic belfry, and her great museum which can only just be identi
HERE was low cloud. poor visibility, little wind and a calm sen the pleasure steamer, Royal Daffodil, neared the Rand dunes of Northern
trips 10 These waters and William Bleasdale, 5th King's fed by a bomb-splintered facade France and Belgium bought back nearly 9,000 men own, one of the last to leave on here, a solitary doorway there
could make before an serial Gradually we
shabby through three decks out the narrow,
breaking
torpedo cut June 2
into the
Ex-RASC
on
summery peaceful,
160 BEF
have re-
unscarred-the
French boat, and fragments of wall Half Goating basink of her docks and Head Robert
still twisted masses of wooden jetty of Dunkirk, cagine room, had shed her war Reading, in a wheelchair, for are
looking her the oil tanks of France's Paint, and was
best all he will never recover from his concrete and steel; sunken ships repairs lle drunkenly on their sides. third greatest port, and the dressed with bunting, her decks apical injury; he now surf
thoes at the Star and Garlor on Only 15,000 of har prewar the crowded with day trippers.
population of 10,000 bouches of Malo-les-Bains,
It was the first time she had Richmond HIL
mained to cke an uncomfortable and been back to Dunkirk. Bray and La Panne.
Neg Wenham, of the 7th flying
prefabs. in American were aboard her The weather was the veterans of all ranks and arms, Royal Tank Regt., who had to wild grass grows on every ruin, weather of May 31, 1940 from all walks of life and parle transfer four times from boat to in every street. Only one land-
of Britain.
They had two things boat before he got away. Major mark remains but 10 years to the day had in
common;
zel up in they had lived W. Harrington MBE, RA who Statue of Victory,
inferno of the
of travelled by the Royal Daffodil memory the unsuccessful passed, That ramshackle through that
52-year-old jetty-it sounds better as beaches and were revisiting the
slege by the Duke of York the East Mole, Ra the scene of their ordeal, and they herself;
evacuated Vin Rickleft, a sergeant with the 1593. had all been
First Tank Brigade, who had French call it had not Margate.
dropped few years off his oge changed much, though the breaches made by German Jetty of Oars
to go out with the BEF-and PUT if Dunkirk looked sombre
of cock sparrow
D and unhappy, Margate was bombs were no longer cover-
Chelmsford postman, ex-RASC gay and rejoicing. The French THERE was Sapper Major D.
now a keen Then he had been with the 2nd Albert Taylor, Division in the rearguard, and Terrier, whose shoes had to be
ed with improvised bridges made out of stretchers. There was not a soul on it:
A. Goldfinch, for Instance.
cheerful
Fred
10 years ago It had been spent two days at Male, where hacked off his raw feet when he dark with patient men with his unit built an improvised jetty reached Morgale,
of derellet oars. He had left on bleeding feet and smoke- the Gracic sore eyes.
Fields and trans- Sovereign ferred to the Royal
Moving Talo
them and the
Rejoicing
in
tricolour fluttered by the side of
the Union Jack as we tied up at the pier.
Royal Marines
The Band of the WAS there to welcome the Daffodil and her
with
detachments passengers,
when Gracie went up in flames. LL these and many others, from the destroyer Bleasdale, Не also served in Iceland. Night Into Day
Ahad a moving tale to tell as the Gunner and Buffs Territorials Middle East, Persia and Iraq. Today he is architect to the once nightmare scene unfolded forming a guard of honour,
of Margate And the people NEW oil tanks stood where Birmingham Regional Hospital again before
their predecessors had blazed Board,
memories came crowding back. were there too. Many of them furiously, turning night into day with vivid hungry flames, There was Hugh Duckett, a
These men were the guests of had worked night and day and day into night with a thick RAMC dispenser with 2nd Field Margate, which received 40,000 decade ago to make certain that pali of oily
smoke. A few Ambulance, who got away on British and Allied soldiers every man who landed received children played with buckets Scottish coaster. After service during
on beach evacuation
town, who transformed
that momentous week, hot drink, food and warm cloth- and spades. Workmen in blue in West Afrien, he has been overalls were putting up beach
each employed on
allon and with them on the trip was ing, transporting the wounded the amusement huts on the sands where long of casunities on the Normandy Mr C.B. Hosking, the Mayor of and rendering first aid. They had snake-like columns of men had
ad Meaches Tuday he deciphers the Kent seaside then made great dark fissures doctors' prescriptions in Margate. cast a wreath in the waters of park, Dreamland, into a casualty
water's
Or Walter Paltenden of the Dunkirk where men leading down to the
had clearing station, the concert hall edge, and even jutting into the 4th En. Royal Sussex Regiment, drowned and died of machine of the Winter Gardens into a sea. And the only other ship
hip who collected a lump of shrapnel
where
to be seen,
hordes of in his left arm before degunning and bombing as they first aid post, made a rest centre midgets, lugs. barges, colliers, stroyer whisked him away.
He awaited help.
huge dormitory of the Ball- motorboats, yachts, skiffs, baw was later wounded again and In the harbour Itself, on leys, paddle steamers, eelboats captured at El Alamein, as was rubbie-strewn dock still carry room.
and waterbuses had helped to Gordon Ward, of the 5th Queens. ing the ravages of war,
the snatch 337,000 men from
of the Sunshire Cafe and 1
#1
he
10-Year Wait
kirk' in the pages of history, was hundred yards to a conl barge sellon in 1943), containing son THEY had not been allowed to
ot a casket made handed jaws of imprisonment and death And James Barnsley, of the oak from Holy Trinity Church, and Inscribe the 'Miracle of Dun- 8th King's Own, who swim a Margate (destroyed by enemy
a bloated rail and car ferry after his four days' "plenic" at from Margate beach, the plodding slodgily in our wake. Malo. Jack Costin, n corporal Mayor of Dunkirk, whe Even our Royal Daffodil, in the Royal West Kents, reciprocated with a casket filled which made seven memorable brought home in a minesweeper. with sand from the famous
beaches,
to
welcome the men on the front then, because of the risk of the Luftwaffe attacking the ports of disembarkation They had to walt 10 years to express their pride and their thanks to them, Wants To Forget And on the night of May 31, 1950, with the pler and the Was the seafront a blaze of thousands of only visible French reaction to lights, with every ship, yacht, our visit. A few idle dock and
Skylark dressed with THE WHISKY sales to Ameri-hands lounged about and made bunting, they
For Jungle Treasure THIS, incidentally,
NEW YORK, he has sold the Alm rights of GROUP of fortune. ais book "Remmel" for "quite NEWELL
substantial price." Kirk Doug seeking Americans is
ins is to play Rommel. "I am ROGERS' trying to raise £12,000 plus told they are going to make a
that is," AMERICAN the price of a hover plane superduper, whatever to search for a lost goldfield raid Young.
up the Amazon River. ONE CONDITION laid down COLUMN
the
New
"A very
Metro-
prominent
Indus-
by Rudolf Bing when he They any the original dis- movet from England to coverer, 120 years ago, was an York to manage Englishman nazed Robertson, politan Opera was that he could trialist" is to be its head, and he and the goldfield is "as rich as bring
his along
dachshund, will be the personal representa- tive of the Dollar Exports the Rand."
Pip. When Me and Mrs Bing
Board. dret vis! home, sail for their Pip will go along. But if he en
n
were there in en slump is not because
signs as the 1,500 Britishers on
thousands lining the Americans have last
taste
board the Daffodil cheered and their for Scotch, says Harry Lourie, waved. Some children smiled toute along which the Dunkirk executive vice-president of the and waved as two coachloads veterans marched to a civle National Beverage Importers from the ship toured the city reception. Associatioil. Dealers cut down Otherwise, the population staged
orders in
they dully, woodenly,
And
those
Last
April because
Shattered
reputedly hope Congress will cut down Dunkirk, grim, sad and tired undemonstrative common men the tax on it. It Congress does after her hammering in 1940, and women of Britain at this. an average bottle, now years of occupation and eight gave vent to their feelings. It costing 30s, would sell for months alege in 1044-45, was was a moment which everyone 355.
Just not interested. She wants who was fortunate enough to be to forget her wounds.
present will never forget.
Robertson, whose first name is not known to the fortune hunters, returned to England tered Britain he would have to Drillsh Export Trade Research the importer gave a tea at the
а British To- INTRODUCE
custard powder as a dollar- The Washington staff of the
carner (at 2s. Bd. a 12 oz. lin)
They English Speaking Union, to into quarantine. So Pip will Organisation will be moved to and raised money to develop his
Paris and slay with New York in line with the ar
served English tea, too, but are And. ile died in the ship that co on to
Canisation's recent link-up with
not expecting to get a volume was taking him back to Brazil, friends,
the Federation.
of sales of this particular blend. But Jamaican geologist belleved he
And the British Chamber of knew the Eeneral THE FIRST robot department
in New York will It costs £1 35. 2d, a b. area of the goldfield. It was in store his opened in Boston, Commerce
perfume, jewel- move into the centre, which, TNRAGED baseball fan James the middle of a "lost world," Nylons, toys, Burrounded by disease-ritiden levy, neekties, and baby food will be almost opposite the Bri-Roundtree aimed bis pistol tish Empire building in Rocke at James McGowan, umpire of swamps, hostile Indians, water can be bought from slot ma-
+
feller Centre.
1
a game between Negro teams at Greenwood, South Carolina. The Kun would not fire. McGowan
chines. But the gadget industry fails, and rapids,
The geologist disappeared into is not rafisfied. It has invented
At the centre will be a com- this wilderness in January 1917. rehot which starts a rales Inik He came back with maps of his when a curtoner walks through plete office service for visiting drew his pistol and shot Round-
of gold, and a
beam at the shop British business men who want travels, 4 Tb.
to interview American custom- handful of diamonds,
crs. Last October he went Into
au electric counter.
the unknown again. The fortune DRITAIN
A GRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME! Hunters who
TERRIFIED...
is moving are backing him Fifth Avenue In quest and want to finance a scientile. dollars. exploration have taken out 12,500 prospecting licences on acres of Brazilian jungle.
into uf
marketing problems. general of the Federation of
HOW BUSINESS: Carol Reed
tree dead.
is the first British director
for the quarterly
Screen Directors' "The Third Eugene
It.
Secretaries will be on hand to take their letters; and start to be chosen will be there to advise on US award of the
Gulla. His Alm,
won Mon," Sir Norman Kipping, director
The Federation will send over O'Neill has approved a music- British Industries, announced
Britain for six- alised "Desire Under the Elms." from by the man THE DEVIL MOUNTAIN! Bthors are selling books to centre Is
and American au- that a new trade promotion staff
to pass оп
Margaret Truman cancell- in monthly periods
On opened being
summer concerta she loved!
famous Hollywood again at good prices. America's
of first-hand knowledge of British ed her street
Helen Traubol's Before sailing in the Polish fashion as soon as partitions nods, and take back first-hand volee-teacher liner Batory for Scandinavit, and air conditioning can be in- knowledge of selling problems advice to rest between spring
and autumn engagements. In America. Brigadier Desmond Young said stalled."
From
Veterans returning to the scene of their ordeal. left to right: RSM A. Lacoy, with the 7th Field Regt.
Division) RE (in 2nd at Dunkirk, Major D.. A. Goldfinch Major W. Harrington, MBE, BA, of the 10th Field Kert., and
Royal.. Pte A. E. Taylor, RASC, on the sun
Daltodo,
deck of the
Hook, Line and Sinker
M
Haned
CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN
NANCY
I'LL BET THE FISH ARE BITING
OUT WHERE IT'S DEEP
By Ernie Bushmiller
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INSECT SPRAY WITH DOT
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[needn't use my fist!
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