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«THE CHINA÷MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.
ARMLESS,
A
KEY 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).
Joe is armless. He was born that way. He 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!
ASKS
"HOW LONG?"
The Berlin correspondent of the "Hufvudstadsblad" reports that Berliners are becoming resigned to
Joe, as his neighbours call him, is Horace Line- ja second winter of war, and are ham, aged thirty-one, of Stone, Dartford, Kent. To july asking whether decisive mili- the boys of the Welsh Tavern A.R.P. post he is Son.tary action may be expected next He was opening the post when I met him. Out of ly and whether the R.A.F. in- the shoe came his left foot, neatly lifting the key onl from his breast pocket. In a flash he had the door | open and the light switched on.
1 challenged him to 201 up at darts. With his left foot he flicked the first dart into double top to open the garne.
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 het came to mark the log.
"Hello, Son," said the they fired in, "You're here first again!
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The floor is Joe's deck. On the book which lay there he trked off the squad's names
They arrived for the 191st raid among them Les Couchman and his wife Mary Taffy Young, an aererat » man ou leave, Dick Fisher and Frank Lusher, landlord of the
avern 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
y 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. I live just round the
corner.
Joe lun't scared of anything Jerry carps to send-and 'he has only one complaint.
"The boys want me to do alt the inside work,” he said, “But I 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 fest, tricks many men cannot de avitir their hands. The ', war Killed thắt,Now he has no job 'except AKP "And that” 45% un-
paid.
his parents,
BOMBER DROME'S TWO V.C.S
Hampden Border is laero-
onte Sothe whare "in - England
V.C.s
now boasts of having twa stationed there, though they's arm not in the same squadroni
The two bérdes” are Sergeant Joha... Hannah,, who was awarded the VC for most conspicuous -bravery, - and -Flight Lieutenant“ Léaroyd, who received the V.C, for his part in the attack on the Dortmund-Emis Canal
The bomber, squadron to which
Hantial belongs was in Scotland in 1917, and
Job
"He's the minst useful man
I've got, Les Couchman sald
"He did a grand job when
we took the
Census gas mask
He saw that everyone's mask fitted properly."
Joe mold and get on with hi
"Here Son 1. valled Ive got a news
FOR YOU
Right
d. tribut not earplugs."
replied Joe
And he will
The
to continue, and for how
lo, dying over and bombing
Germany.
The Berlin Press is trying to population ol the console the capital by claiming that the au- thorities are going to use the win- ter to consolidate the positions ac- quired in foreign- territory and aby stressing the people's ability to sustain the coming winter's rigours with the same courage as was displayed last winter.
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