1960-06-18 — Page 12

A different

refreshment

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY

JUNE 18

JACKY'S DIARY&

JACKY Mendelsohn

Age 32

So Pretty Soon the ball fell in the Boff om of A Deep Well. So being a GIRL SHE Started into CRY

But Oliver Sudden a FROS Apeared

So The Princess

Said

Boo Who

SURE

Last Night MOMMY read me aNoTheR

GRIM FAIRY Tal. It WAS Call-

ed The FROS Prints

at was About This BEAUTY Full PRINCESS WA

WAS Playing in the GarDEN With A Golden Ball,

Amy Name IS ALICE come FROM Ala

Баман

my Beauty-full

golden Ball is

LOST

if i get Your Ball

Will You Let me STAY IN YOUR PALICE?

refreshingly

different

last drop

BULMER'S

UDBEECER CIDER

to the very

BULMER'S WOODPECKER CIDER

BULMER'S

after he got the

Ball the Frog Said

and She Said

Now Lets go to

Your Palace,

Ok, but! (ONLY for A

(COUPLE a MINNITS

e she propped him

AS Soon as they Had finished Ear outra The Window. ing The Princess SAID.

Now that

You have ATE in the

But The MinNit his feet ToucheD The Ground He CHATRED

into a HANSOM Prints

So After He EXPLANED | The Princess how he WAS. Under The Spell of a Wicker Which Who had Turned him into AFRO

They Got Married fel

in Love

1960

Palace, I'm gonna THROW YOU BACK in The GARDEN!

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SNATCHED FROM THE JAWS OF DEATH, TO FIGHT AGAIN AND WIN!

FOOEY!

NINE-DAY WONDER THAT THRILLED

GERMAN machine-guns were stuttering in the streets now. But still, silhouetted by the glow

of the burning town, the old British destroyer clung grimly to the quay.

a

In her wireless office an operator tapped out signal that held the whole drama of the Nine Days' Wonder now about to end.

Send two small ships or one transport stop situation desperate stop enemy three miles away stop...

Three miles. No great distance, even at walking pace, for a jubilant Nazi army. For armour ed cars and tanks, a matter of ininutes, 42

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screaming fury of the Junkers Miracle of the Beaches, had be- had a seagoing boat and could

of their retrest.

gun to work.

handle it....

bombers challenged every yard

It was a blueprint hastily com-" At 6.57 on the evening of Mercifully, they found await- piled, out of the critical need, at Sunday, May 26, a signal from By 3.40 a.m., her

decks ing them a bobbing armada of a War Office meeting as late as Ramsay put the plan to work. By crammed with every last man fantastic improvisation.

the evening of Sunday, May 19, Monday, the great flow to the who could squeeze aboard, Not H.M.S. Shikari was nosing her weeks beforehand, but fleets of Bertram Ramsay, with his hand.

troopships, deployed By the time Vice-Admiral sea had begun. way out of the shell-racked lifeboats and motor yachts picked staff of 16; had establish harbour

Dutch skoots and French fishing ed headquarters in the "Dynamo She was the last ship to leave boats; British coasters and Room," in the Dover chalk,

Channel ferries; minesweepers; things were already happening. sloops and destroyers.

Dunkirk.

..

It was no sinall honour.

Fantastic

A miracle of deliverance in- Red tape was slashed ruthless deed. Even the Prime Minister, ly. Ramsay had no sooner asked Mr Winston Churchill, had not for destroyers and minesweepers dared to hope for it, when he than they were provided. warned the House of Commons

There was little hope of more transports now. Everyone aboard H.M.S. Shikari must have realis- Here, had been no carefully ed this by 3.1 a.m, an' June 4, planned, orderly withdrawal. 1940- just twenty years ago. Here, under the black smoke pall the previous week to expect He had no sooner asked for, By 3.30, machine-gun fire was of a smashed town, a battered "hard and heavy tidings." small craft to work the Dunkirk raking the harbour, Every other Army, 337,000 strong, had been But now, he was spared having beaches than the Admiralty's ship had left. The astonishing snatched in the heat of battle to announce "the greatest mi- Small Vessels Pool had set about miracle of an Army's deli- from the jaws of death, verance, on a scale hitherto They came to the beaches lary disaster in our long history," the enormous task of raising unknown, was practically com- weary, weak and helpless from Operation Dynamo

plete.

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It was to continue until the ast British soldier was clear of the shell-torn beaches,

Anniversary · Story

By GUY JONES

The Spirit of Dunkirk, they On Sunday morning, June 2, called it. This was the spirit that a BEF. chaplain celebrated Holy inspired a naval stoker, com Communion on the beach at manding a 15-foot motor boat Malo-les-Bains. Five times bis and equipped with a Bren gun, a dog-weary congregation were did not know how to use Lewis fun, and compass he scattered by dircraft and ve

„„timés returned to; pray.

Ran with blood

glare of Dunkirk, destroyers Already, offshore from the red

Sleering towards the blaze re- were taking aboard human loads flected in the sky, he took they were never meant to carry, aboard forty soldiers who swam Heeling at fantastic angles, they out, including several wounded. somehow got back to safety, Then, as he could see no large while returning the hellish fire craft nearby, he brought them of shore batteries and zigzagging home himself surviving air at against the bombs of power tacks and several hits.. diving Junkers.

the and were hammer-

Ing Ird at the gates of the town by now. They could baya broken through at almost any hour.

Seeds of victory

But still, after three weeks' fighting, the rearguard marched in periect order on to the narrow ple, singing as the flames, lit their exhausted faces. T - Amid- the litter of little ships The piermaster, Commander Terrifying hazards around the beach all was flame, Clouston, N., guided nearly exploding petrol tanks, the thun- 200,000 troops le, safety down them.

And part of the miracle too der of bombs, the confusion of the five-foot lifeline of the Male plankway. Then, on Sunday, be It was no small part of the

-the threatened gale that could raised voices.... miracle..

Many à deck ran with blood," was drowned · ad he returned Instead, to a surge of cheering

have cost thousands of British

and many a ship sanks quietly from a "Dynamo Room" pon- that held already the spirit of

From Teddington, in the lives never really broke.. an awakened England, he was placid reaches; of the Thames,

The little craft met the same in the gloom. But still, as Opera- ference.

After the British came the last able to tell of the courage, along the East Coast to the deadly fire. Last year had tion Dynamo gathered momen- stubborn persistence, and iron wash: along the South Coast and been "Round the lighthouse for a tum, the great deliverance went of the French soldiers. And then

it, was over. discipline that became the Nine into the West, owners of amall bob!" Now it was machine-gun o

Of the total number saved, Days Wonder of Dunkirk, motor yachts and pleasure craft bullets that sprayed their decks. And still, as the Army's

and not trippers, but soldiers evacuation gathered, momentum, some 90,000 had been ferried were contacted, listed and re- half-dead and sometimes half the thin black lines across the back in astonishing loads, day Only 10 days earlier, on May crafted.

drowned, that they took aboard.

after day and night after night, Dunkirk sands grew longer, 25, the plight of Lord Gort's

Paddle steamers, yechts' with After six days, there was be the frail, 600-strong'armada British Expeditionary Force. Dunkirk's red glare converted car engines, trail river still no slackening in the flood, of little ships.ca withdrawing along the Dyle Front, had seemed hopeless. Throughout the Port of Lon- crate driven wildly beyond their But now the men struggling to Not the expected 20,000 to So hopeless, indeed, that Gort den, liners and steamships were makers claims, civilian sailors the boats were almost helplessly 30,000 buzt 337,000 had returned had ended a telegram to the stripped of their lifeboats and who need never have left safety weak. There remained only the to England's shore to fight an-

and British other day, War Office with the sombre tugs were requisitioned.

together they faced terrify gallant French

The Germans called I a'de- Ing navigational hazards, and rearguard. words: "I must not conceal from

Losses were heavier now. On feat. And so it was. But out of more than half a chance of

June 1, within little more than it sprang 6 new pride that held death.

Time after time they brived an hour, three destroyers, a the seeds of the mighty victories it all and went back for more. minesweeper, a gunboat, then a of the future, th The full story of their heroism French destroyer were lost, and This was the real miracle of

four destroyers were damaged.

the Nine Days of Dunkirk, will never be told.

..

you that a great part of the As word spread, amateur B.EF, and its equipment will weekend sallors left their offices Inevitably be lost even in best and packed their bags Pro- fessional men as well as Hghter- circumstances.":

But that was before Operation men and dock labourers, manned Dynamo, the blueprint for the the rescue fleet, anyone who

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