THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1940 ́
SAVED BROTHER AT DUNKIRK
CHILDREN TEST HIS "PEASANT DIET"
BRITISH DOCTORS are advocating the values of a peasant diet in wartime. One, Dr. Griffith By a million-to-one Evans, of Caernarvon, believes he has found it. chance a young man who So that it may be tested properly, he is went over to Dunkirk in a giving £700 towards feeding poor children in the small boat saved the life county on his "perfect meal.” of his sailor brother.
The County Education Commit- Standing on the beach at Dun-tec. of which he is a member, hus↑ kirk helping to embark B.E.F. chosen sixty, pupils attending men amid bombs and machine-large central school in the county. gun bullets, a young British sailor, These are divided into equal! Jim Parker, of Margate, turned as groups. One is provided with the] someone slapped him on the "health meal" free during the shoulder and said:. "Well, fancy school lunch hour. meeting you here, Jim'"
The other is given the ordin- When Jim turned he found it ary school dinner, which is re- was his elder brother Ted aged garded as a midday meal of high twenty-eight.
standard. The experiment is to go. Unknown to each other the on. brothers had been working like heroes with only a few yards between them, getting the tired, troops aboard their ships. Neither brother had
any idea
After a week of the meal the children said they liked it.
From Soya Beam
that the other was at Dunkirk. This is it: Two-thirds of a pint and it was this amazing meeting of pasteurised milk, baked whole- which saved Jim's life. For after meal stone-ground flour, enriched chatting for a few minutes Ted with "soyolk" and additional cal- asked his brother to go along|cium and phosphorus for with him to a small motor-boat formation, vitamised off the jetty for a drink of water cheese, and a choice and some food.
apple or fresh salad. "While I was aboard the mo- "Soyolk" is made from the soya tor-boat the part of the jetty bean.
bone margarine. of orange,
"on which I had been standing Dr. J. C. Drummond, professor| was smashed by German dive of biochemistry at London Uni-j bombers," Jim told a reporter.]versity and scientific adviser to the "When Ted went home mother Ministry of Food, has told the Ro- was overjoyed when he told her yal Institution that the present he had brought me back home German rations are based on the| safely with him.
principle that a "peasant dlet" Jim, who is aged twenty, and provides all the essentials of sound his brother are the sons of Ted nutrition. Parker, the Coxswain of thel Margate lifeboat. Their father was)
actually passing them in his le boat on his way to Dunkirk as they were coming home in their motor-boat,
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