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PHONE CALL FROM THE CRIPPSOSCOPE, UNDER THE ATLANTIC:

'IT IS COLD. THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE WORLD DOWN HERE - STRIPED STAR-FISH, CONVERTIBLE SQUIDS, DEVALUED DEVIL-FISH......... A SHOAL OF LUMINOUS ANTI-SOCIALIST

SHRIMPS MADE FACES AT ME BUT

I JUST MADE FACES BACK AND

THEY TURNED RED AND

RAN AWAY.....

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The endl of a chapter

the

story of

Too many babies-that's Malta's worry

AND EVERY YEAR THEY ARE JOINED BY 8,000 MORE.. says James Cameron

VALLETTA.

AM becoming a pretty subjective' reporter on, Malta now. I have been here so often, acon the island pull itself slowly from a ghastly tangle of destitution among the debris in '1945 to a surface illusion of pros- perity today.

I have seen how IIM Government In London has varled its treatment of this "island fortrern" from all the effusive, fulsome heroica of the George Cross palaver to a casun! attitude in face of dianster that seems almost cynical,

We know that it is not, in fact, cynical. We know that much jof Mulin's trouble her own fault. Nevertheless, every Maltese with sumcient sense to read a few statistics looks aliead with something like horror.

The suck n of the dockyard matles is, of course, a major blow to a community that depends on the Services for almost every penny of its livellhood.

The withdrawal of the food subsidies in a serious matter to n country with an nüverse trade balance of more than £3 million,

BRAVEST OF

THE ALL MEN

URGEONS expect to

complete in a

few

months the remaking

of the body of the last "Guinea Pig"the only onc of the RAF's most maimed and disfigured men who does not yet know it he сап become ↑ useful citizen again.

He is Lending Aircraft- man J. Weston, aged 45. His legs, chest, arms, hands and face were badly crushed and burned when a Lancaster bomber landed on him.

He has been in the

famous hospital for plastic

They faced life and

they conquered it

against terrible odds

by

SIDNEY

RODIN

They are earning wages, running businesses, rearing

families, and often beating

where heavy indirect taxes keep the cost of living high for the average Malteso wage of £4 a week.

Mr Mintoff goes further, and says that it is downright impos- sible for Malta even to survive without outside help. "Unem- ployment and starvation," he says, "are stalking the land,"

The one thing Dom Mintoff known very, very weil Indeed--- as Dr Boffa knows, as the Com- modore Superintendent of the Dockyard knows, as the C.-in-C, Gallop Mediterranean knows, as every-

Warrunt-Olcer Leslie Good- Flying-Omrer Sum

when on instruc- lost both his legs. He is now one knows-is that the dockyard

non crashed

for pilot, His face WDS 5C- a student in Brasenose Col-sackings and the withdrawal of verely burned and he lost the lege, Oxford, and is fond of the subaldies are only the final

fingers of both hands.

dancing.

they

But at East Grinstead gave him the

courage to pick up a penell pgain.

He is now an engineering

draughtsman in Belfast.

Became A Cartoonist

named

Calvert

An airman blow his left hand to pieces. is index finger was

used to make a thumb. He is working as a cabinet-maker.

One of the worst injured of all was Reginald Hyde. They operated

50 times-

תזhן ונס

fuse

to a far bigger bomb. There is nothing whatever the matter with the Maltese, except thuit there are far too many of them. Right now there are 300,000 people living on a barren rock. Every year there are 8.000 more. In a very short time there will be standing room only on Malta.

No purpose

FLIGHT-SERGEANT HENRY believed to be the record num-THE island produces nothing. provides nothing. It is, brie!.. almost ber of operations and he was ty, not a viable proposition. It burned alive when his bomber given a new face. He has hard-does not work. It has no excuse He was Laken to. East Grin- crashed roturning from a raid, ly use of what is left of his for existing. A community of this

stead with his face and hands almost burned away.

new

Was

lands.

•

He has a new face, the use

Hyde married his nurse and of one eye and has little more The surgeons were then not than the stumps of his hands. Is now a surveyor in Dorset. sure how successful would be

But he has risen to be ex-·

In a their

City oll plastic technique, port manager

firm. The proximity of nor- They were in the process of mal young men and girls in evolving by trial and error a the same revolutionary method for treat ment of large burns.

He Studios For A Degree office has not hin CERGEANT JOCK MORRIS dered the resolution of this naturally shy man.

bursting size, in such a place, has

no purpozo whatsoever than the simple one of geography.

. It has strategic point, and no ether thing at all.

surgery at East Grinstead fellow-workers who have no only the wrecks of faces be- has taken such pains to learn of remaking his life. He is dockyard workers: fis budget is

for three years,

Slowly his body is being rebuilt. A new nose has just

been grafted on to the remodelled face.

But

such bodily handicaps.

Ordeal Thoy

Had To Face

Adams could see round him

longing to Battle of pilots.

They called

No Guinea Plg then know. If

Shy Of Strangers

[WARRANT-OFFICER BILL

stand

the

strain

Warrant-Omeer

was badly

John Dun-

lost both his cars and maat of his face. After 30 opera- But the surprise in that he lions he was won back to hope

for the technique of drawing that studying an agricultural Britain he is now a first-rate amateur degree in Fife.

cartoonist.

Alan Morgan lost his fingers themselves At least three badly smashed- as a member of an air crew. "Guinea Pigg" because they up men have since qualified By untiring tenacity he do- the living as doctors. Their training only veloped sufficient flexibility in Weston is walking about. MANY, it is true, were realised they were

aided by very generous material on whom surgeon Sir began after they were injured, his hands to resume his old

T'wo have very little left of job as an engineer. a further operation grants of money from the Archibald McIndoo must ex- their hands. must be performed.

One man who RAF Benevolent Fund. This periment.

scarred across his face hos fund bought them land.

become an actor, When Weston leaves to shops, houses, paid their he would ever be recognisable take a civilian job as he fees and expenses, and did as a human being again. FRANK PAYLEN - TOM, TULLY :

surely will-the story of the all in its power to assist,

can, of Keith lost the finger tips of both hands after being Return of the Guinea Pigs

As Adams began to undergo ▼ WARMAN,

of Finchley, shot down But most had to start life 35 operations which were will be virtually closed.

to N., was so gravely disfigured -again-beyond-the-protection give him the use of his stumps that once he felt he could A new-face -was-grafted-on

of a uniform, in a world of hands and No Longer

to provide Debris Of War

rapidly forgetting its heroes, new left side to his face, new meeting strangers. and with unnatural man- eyebrows, a new eyelid, a new He is now driving a hiro

Gradually he was taught to Two blind airmen are made masks of skin and mouth and nose. Adams often car and willingly meeting differ-

ent people daily.

do things for himself. Today still under treatinent- bone instead of their faces, despaired.

Flight Lieutenant William felting axe with skill. one, a pilot, has hopes of with stumps of arms and

He is a Cockney young man

the regaining the sight of ono fingers, instead of their with 'chceriness of the Simpson was shot down in ac- Cockney, but the face that tiun over Luxemburg in May- eye, but he has a job waiting hands..

1040. He Wus

from lonkert

dragged at him In the he for him which

test of bror between operations was hands, arms, and face alight.

with It has been a

the cookpit

his legs, nlready tackle the other, rourage.

so hideous that Aduins felt despite crippled hinds, is

that his life could no longer These young men, on

He was in seven hospitals be of use to him. busy at St Dunstan's learn; seeing themselves for the ing how to make rugs and first time in a mirror, were baskets.

often depressed into com- Many men will go back to plete demoralisation. East Grinstead for periodic "trimming" of their phy- sical repairs.

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And now, in the age of new wartime potentials and an ob- scure future for navies, nobody very sure whether Malta hus even that much justification.

The Navy protestu bitterly that it is not ita fault if it has to sack

limited by the Treasury and, if they have to pay higher wages, they must use fewer bodies.

etch to

the Molta dockyard payroll is £24 million this year, as against only £800,000 the year before the war.)

The Maltese reply, with even greater bitterness, that if the Services won't hire them there isn't anyone else in the island who can. The secondary Indus- tries now existing are trifling.

There is only one answer to this problem of over-population, and everybody knows It: and quicker emigration.

The Government is budgeting for a £200,000-a

D-a-year" grant" to emigration help

passages to Aus- tralia. At present hardly 3,000 Mallere year are going; there are enormous waiting lista.

more

All the arguments and pro- posals that are now going on boll down to that simple fact--that unless chips are provided to take the Maltete out of Malta, the Island, is going to bursta

Moral point

A Record, "No Failuro" UINEA PIGS are now civi-MALTA'S desperation is historie -too many people, too little lian armen, civil servants, room, too few resources, a place ITI France before spending

Others created purely and hardheadedly three years at East Grinstead. farmers, shopkeepers.

nose, have emigrated. Some are do- for the convenience of a navy He was Manager Of

a now given

eyelids, new eyeing humble jobs. A few have that now is beginning to wonder three new The Tavern brows, and a new left chcelt. gone back to the RAF.

whether it is worth it after all,

There rises the curious moral. It was a great effort on

But Mr Bernard Arch, secre- hands of his TODAY, after four years of

point! What responsibility

does other he has tary of their club, told me: the stump, on the 19 the part of the surgeons, T

"I can think of no failure. an imperial Power hold towards nurses, and brother Guinea tenant of the General Napier parla of a few Angers.

While

Sometimes a mán makes se- community of 300,000 when, between recovering Pigs to bring them to face public house at

falsc starts at a job,

having created the conditions for operations he wrote two books, veral But not a single one, no the ordeal of re-entering the

"One of

Our Pilots is Safe" but he is eventually settled. their presence, it is unable to increase matter

their maintain the conditions for their how terrible his world outside the hospital. He can tap

Way of Recovery" Their Injuries a barrel, serve and "The

survival? drink and injuries, is

among the great determination to succeed. regarded any

that follow any The facts

dexterously They rank debris of illustrate what happened is left of his hands.

handle bar change with what war books.

In new face emphasises The quality

books of these

their minds that they are new once they came among ve

tron him in 1944 a post

men making a new start for longer Air Correspondent -

the life." Amazingly considering again with their shuttered

no longer Sunday Express. Last year he these

the most bodies, their shocked per- show fright. Adams la married left to take a high executive

sonalities.

and has a pretty, five-year-old post with British European East Grinstead sald: "Many grievously injured of the RAF-all 650 Guinea Piga

more war.

as merc

were

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Two years ago Malta had self- government restored to her. That is to say, self-government except for defence.

When a matter affecting the welfare of the working people, And one of the surgeons such as dobkyard rackings, is in- volved, it is the Imperial Government that has the first, last, and intermediate

have married-usually a prot- ty girl and the companionship of a woman has speeded the recovery of self-assurance.

have been ehlidren

normal. DONALD PRETTY.

adlight lovely children. sergeant air gunner who his own is the

One - Handed Car Engineer "There

daughter of his own.

In an article he has just written for the benent of other Guinea Pigs on how to run a public house, the man who Battle

ROBERT once lost faith in himself ad- was the only vises: "The landlord and his Pigs in 1941, have been survivor when his Hampden staff must always try to have reabsorbed into the stream bomber crushed on returning a welcoming smile on their lost one hand in action, is anal proof of le normality." Cabinet.

from his 10th operational flight faces and a cheery word on motor enzincer in Scale, Nor- of active life.

in May 1941.

their lips."

of Britain Gulnex AIR-GUNNER

ADAMS

NANCY

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MY AUNT BOUGHT ME

THAT LI'L LAMB--- ISN'T SHE NICE

· AND WHITE?

JUST LIKE THE POEM--- MARY HAD A LITTLE. LAMB, ITS FLEECE WAS WHITE-AS SNOW

SHE'S MORE LIKE THE OTHER POEM***

folk,

By Erale Bushmiller

BAA-BAA BLACK SHEEP

say,

If that leads to a mess, to trouble, to anti-Government or many even possibly anti-British explo- healthy, sions, the Imperial Government A child off will not be able to sort it out by Guinea Pig's referring it back to the Maltese

-(London Express Servic)

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