· THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.-
ARMLESS, KEY
A
MAN 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 duty with him tells how this great-hearted little man does his bit for his country).
ASKS "HOW He LONG?"
Joe is armless. He was born that way. 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!
To
Joe, as his neighbours call him, is Horace Line- hamn, aged thirty-one, of Stone, Dartford, Kent. 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 datts. With his left foot he flicked the first dart into double top to open the game.
Then the banshee wailed. That left foot went into action, whipping on tin hat, whisking out whistle.
Into the street he ran, blow.
ing the alert. Then back he
came to mark the log.
"Hello, Son," said the boys as they hurted in. "You're here first again!"
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- mun 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- teered 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. 1 live just round the corner.
Joe isn't scared of anything Jerry cares to aend-and has only one complaint.
he
"The boys want me to do all the inside work," he said. "But 1 want to be outside-in the front line."'
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' tour- ing in a show, performing with
his teet 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.
BOMBER DROME'S TWO V.C.'S
A Hampden Bomber drome Somewhere-in-England now boasts of having two V.C.s stationed there, though, they are not in the same squadron,
The two heroes are Sergeant John Hannah, who was awarded the VC for most conspicuous bravery and Flight-Lieutenant Learoyd, who received the V.C. for his part in the attack on the Dortmund-Ems Catial, N
The bomber, squadron to which Sargeant Hannah-belongs formed in Scotland in 1917
and
Whe
a few months later, it began
operations in,
oper
"He's the most useful man Baid. I've got," Les Couchman "He did a grand job when we took the gas mask census. Не Baw that everyone's mask fitted properly."
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-
how tends to continue, and for
long, flying over and bombing
Germany,
10 The Berlin Press is trying console the population of the capital by claiming that the all- thorities are going to use the win-
Joe smiled -- and got on with hister to consolidate the positions ac- job.
ana
quired in foreign territory "Here, 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 earplugs. rigours with the same courage as
was displayed last winter.
"Right." replied Joe there." And he will.
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