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THE CHINA AIL: SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1951.

The lifeboat is

a family affair

Bowman Alfred Stephens

semaphore

ARLY in the war

cheque for £5,000 collected by schoolgirls

all over the Empire-mein-p hers of the Girl Guittes of

by

Vivien Batchelor

A

the Empire Association--; Pictures by H. V. Brees was sent to London to the pull the boat over the headquarters of the Royal shingle down to the sea. National Lifebout Instili- Others had launched the Lizard lifeboat, for the crew of this boat, too is made up by the Bons of Cadgwith.

fion.

The girls asked that it should be used to provide difesaving equipment. The In

stitution decided to build a

Was

Auntze Feszte "-78-year-old Ara raste Arthur--has memor

of a fetime's shipwrecita og ta Lizard const Now her chief interests are her daffodil beds.

So it was decided that the new lifeboat, completely up gift of the Empire _Girl to date, with a watertight Guides should go to Cadg- "engine, and so ballasted that with. But the boat

even if a rough sea capsized destined for her first major urajt, it would right itself in job of rescue work before

a few seconds.

she had completed her The Lloyd's of London trials in the shipbuilding velgird station at the yard in Essex. Lizard in Cornwall were There came Dunkirk and sending

reports the call for little ships. Off fremmen of ship in trouble off the from the stocks in Essex trencherry reds and seas went the Cadgwith lifebout, ractice launch and a "reward" they go out for a service call. She was shot up, her engine

But though they receive le humired and was damaged, and the crew for risking their lives to save venty* lives had finally got her back to Bri- ilves from the sen All these by the tain using their blankets as men earn their living from the Cadgwith. a sails. Later she was found sea.

the Lizard. adrift in

in the

the winter During the mud

months with only 150 iphabitams, Thames.

nets and crab pots.

weaned the headland.

By t vi

1h-Fashioned sail-

lifeboat. l'ufailingly,

n on the wilde.. night,

Permanent Home

they sit in their shes making

A skilled fisherman can make two pots in a day and plenty of reserve stocks are needed. Last Win the arome sounded, So, eventually, she came to year Fred Stephens lost 800 pots her permanent home in in the rough weather, in nod)- the fishermen of Cadywith,

was chris- tion to the many fathoms of hustounds, brothers, Cornwall-and

rape with which they are homes and tened Guide of Dunkirk. their

attached. Withies cost 153, n Her coxswain is Fred bundle and rope is 28. 4d. a to the rescue. The women Stephens 49-year-old fisher- b A fully equipped fishing Henry Jane adjusts his Hebell. f the village had helped man

The alarm: Second coISIÓN

led f nets and crab pols and gone

The launching-and the women of Cadgwith help the men.

have had the boat in the water in 11 minutes.

They

The crew return-and beaching the boat is as tricky as launching. They are unpaid, but receive in jelo ahillings for a practice larneil

Call For Aid

.

whose father and boat costs £1,000-so fishing is grandfather were members not all profit, though in some a bost earns as of the lifeboat crews before good weeks

much as £90, him. His son Henry, who is 20, is also a member of the crew. Fred's brother "Lammy" is coxswain of IN the only bar in the village, where Mr and Mrs Timmins the Lizard boat, and three

preside.

the talk has turned other brothers, Benny, lately to the suggestion of na- George and Willie are mem- tionalising the lifeboat service bers of the crew; Willie is a suggestion which ja unfavour- the mechanic and Benny is ably received in Cadgwith. the bowman.

"Lammy's" son Llewellyn is also a member of the Lizard crew.

another

"Can't make civil servants of fishermen,' said head launcher

AH. Wylle.

"We don't need Whitehall to tell us when to take the boat out," added Fred Stephens. We've never been found want- ing yet."

"That makes seven mem- bers of the family between the two lifeboats," Fred said

A call for aid is pleked up by proudly, "and

the coastguard station and nephew has just

been phoned to the secretary Mr appointed to the lifeboat at S. R. Watson, a retired railway Margate."

official who has come to live in Cadgwith. He phones the cox- There are. two other wain and the crow-and quick- brothers in the Guide of jy the men are ready in their Dunkirk crew, Will and yellow oft-skins and white "Buller" Arthur, mechanic thigh-length Wellingtons.

If it is decided to launch the mechanic. assistant

Lizard Heboat the crow are Henry Jane, one member of rushed there, by a special car whose family was coxswain which is always standing by. of the old boat for 50 years, is second coxswain.

and

Special. Crew

"Most of our calls are small craft these days," said Fred Stephens. "The bigger ships are so well equipped with rodar and mechanical aids to navigo-

NORMALLY the lifeboat on that they seldom get into

her special crew of

launchers, men whose job it

difficulties."

Most lives saved at one call was -227 when the Sulvic sank

is to get the bout from the 1007 and the title Cadgwith boathouse down the steeply sailing lifeboat put lo sea. Cauf- sloping shingly beach to with have

They been lucky. the sea. But during the have no record of a casualty war, when the younger men among the crew since the station

was equipped in 1868, - were away, and always dur-

ing 312, emergency the women of Cadgwith rush to the ropes to help. They have had the boat in the water in 11 minutes from receiving the call.

And after a trip the crew hava á glass or two at the mud. `Coxrafts

Fred Stephens, 40-year-old fisherman, is in the centre.

"Auntic Bessie, who is 78 and whose nephews are "Buller"

and Will Arthur, re- members the old days when the women al- ways got there first,

"It was in the days when fishing was bad monoy W 35 scarce, she said, "We the used to

ruch to

*

beach and grab a life- belt and wait to put it

round our men. There

was no regular crew

ww

in those days and if man once had a life- bolt on he could claim few shillings tho allowance for going out with the boat, We needed those Dow

shillings.fi...

Nowadays the crew,. except for the chanie, are all un- pald, but they recelye a few shillinga fora

During the winter Will Arthur geta busy making crab pOIR.

London Express Beroics,

HAVE YOU KENY FREAMED “S

HAP WERE¬PHY MIG AND WORMS SWARMED OUT OF 'THE GROUND **: ALL WITH

FACES OF PEOPLE YOU

*KNOW." -

-THIS DREAM MEANS:

This dream is an indication that your relation- ships with people are in na hòalthy stato, and that you are in danger of gotting into a vicious circle of suspicion, resentment, frustration, solf- mortification and what not..

The people in your circle are symbolised as slimy and unclean things that are unearthed by the spade, and who swarm to your undoing. Tho world is not WITH you, it is AGAINST you.

GND THAT YOU HAD TO PIE HOLE BY EATING THE SOL AND | MAN TIPPED IN BOIL AS FAST AS

You are in danger of becoming one of those "paranoidal" blokes who think that every man's hand is against them. You have to humiliate yourself by "eating dirt,” and there is no end to it. The more you eat, the more there is to eat, and you are slowly digging yourself with your own teeth-your aggressivo weapons-into dogradation.

A bad dream: time you want for a short holiday—or at least a long walk-in tho country, away from people.

Civilisation, take it away!

A GROVE OF FEVER TREES. By Daphne Rooke. Cape. 10s. Gd. 256 pages.

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

spasms.

11

that no

ment? What is the secret which Mrs Eillot hints↑

at

It does not come out until the night that Edward dies. He snake, herself gored by a cow, had

married a girl as unlike and all the rest) seem to have Prudence a possible. He had left little impression an her vast, made her miserable and she had Jelly-like bulk. She stands in left him: Now he comes back the midst of the turmoil, a to Prudence, although he still monument of sanity and re- does not love her. And Danny

homleida onlac, Yet the story develops such

how the sheer, inherent render realises he is listening to strength of a story can words of a madman he is far ton

notice engrossed to triumph over difficulties madman could command such sigintion. some of them perversely thoughts or such language. created by the author- should rend A Grove of | Fever Trees. But there are better reasons for reading it

JOHNNY HAZARD

·WELL, MYHHEER.

DRENNER, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HAPPY.

WE ARE TO TURN

| THESE STONES OVERZ

TOYOJA

than that.

This blazing melodruma from South Africa Is onc of the strangest and one of the most. gripping novels .of recent months. And it is so although Daphne Booke's ability to ex- press her will and passionate theme is not always equal to her power to conceive it. There is a crucial page or two where it is touch and Hu whether you laugh or are appalled.

You are meant to be appalled.

WORST of all, the author, with the audacity of inexperi- ence, has chosen to narrate her novel through Danny, a leading

character in

Love:

Up on the barters of a native reserve in Zululand, the Lebom- bo mountains look down on a small white settlement amon the yellow, shuddering trees of the thornveld,

Here Ilve, in hard-won "pro- fammers sperity, a handful of Who have survived the destruc- tion of their collon crops, the death by mysterious illness their fine imported cattle.

of

woman

Chief among them is named Mrs Ashburn, a widow with two handsome sons (one half mad, the other a drunkard) a daughter-Danny and Edward and Vera.

and

Aft

portrait Mrs Ashburn's never drawn. She just emerges and comes alive. She is not the

great ploneer mother, gaunt and berole. She is fat, weak, human, allly, maternal and abiding. Ali "the terrible happenings of her

(a child the story and, by life"

altacked by

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

This appealing shot was made by a mother who recognised the subject material for a good picture, when she looked in on her

young sons to make sure they were properly covered.

Mother Pictures the Youngsters

WITHOUT a doubt, mothers should show the child working have the very best opportuni- or playing as he does each day. ties for making good informin! He must never be posed standing shots of their youngsters, and stiffly and

the staring into

think there many of them are keeping photo camera, Also, I graphic records that will be should be no distracting objects priceless in the years to come. in the background or near the Recently, I've had lotters from child and that the image of the several young mothers in which child should be large enough to they state their views on pictur- be the important thing in the ing the youngsters. They cer- picture. Also, of course, the pic- tainly have some good advice to ture must be very clear,” offer.

The writer of these wise words One of them, a Wisconsin farm is speaking with the volco of mother, wrote:

The children love nothing experience, because the 'takes cach year of better than to roam through the about 200 shots

her six-year-old son. She also fields and woods. Since they

the summer too young to go alone, I take writes that in them for walks when I find time they often have other children and, of course, never forget my to visit and adds, "This, of for special ple- era. In this way the children course, calls have fun and mother gets pictures."

camera.

Tares.

Sho-keep-her-plotures in al-

"I consider the most important bums and has one for each of point by far in taking pletures the five years sho's been an of children is having the child ardent snapshooter of the small appear natural.. I think, except try.

for some

"NAHİ VE HEARD OF YOUR

EXPERIENCES WITH "THEM!

- VOLFARE A DRAVE MAN), . MYNHEER HAZARD/

close-ups, a

picture

AND VE HAFF CONCRETE WAYC TO DEMONSTRATE OUR APPRECIATKI DOT MORSI ABOUT THWAY "TOMORROI

NOW YOU ARDA OUR GUESTS,

John van Guilder.

strangles him as once he had strangled his pet dog,

ANNY loves to wear Zulu

One man knows what has costume and live with the happened, Ronnie Machngen, a natives. He does not want to painter, who is madly in love leave Lebombo, Civilisation, with Prudence. He also knows Loke it away! He has inherited, Mrs Elliot's secret, that her

"ONE OF THE STRANGEST NOVELS OF

1951-A STORY TOLD BY A MADMAN'

with their good looks and glant sister, was hanged for murder stature, the dark streak in the on her mother's testimony. And Mad Ashburns--once notorious with this knowledge he black- in Jo'burg-which put his grand- mails Mrs Ellot into giving father in a lunatic asylum. hmm Prudence in marriage.

him.

fear animal

or It should be the climax. But anguish is mixed with devilish

Rooke overdraws her Daphne mischief. Sometimes he howls villain, makes him talk lice like a beast-thus frightening

"Come, dear lady, the nway the young man who has this:

ba settled come to court his sister Vera whole thing can

without scandal." One can see and sometimes he kills like a beast.

His hatred is fixed on the hand twisting the moustache his elever no-good brother Ed- and hear the hiss rising from ward; his love is given to the the pil. beautiful Prudence Elliot, who loves Edward.

A stagey story? Certainly. Improbable? No doubt. Yet this The Elliots are a neighbouring torrid tale of love and madness,

its setting in the melo family with some money but and

why should people with money dramatic landscape of Zululand live in Chaka's penal settle- somehow make sense together.

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