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ALEXURET

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SELSVE

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AT

Next Change THE LIBERTY

The pleasure steamer Royal Daffodit, which rescued and brought home nearly 9,000 British and Allied troops out of the famous Dunkirk in 1940, returning to the hell of beaches as part of the 1950 celebrations. The Daffodil made seven trips during that memorable week when the fate of And tes eventually the British Army lay in the balance, damaged by an aerial torpedo which eat through three decks and entered the engine room. Between 1941 and 1945 she operated on the Stanrser-Larne service, and then the Calals. Dover leave service for BAOR troops, she travelled 170,000 miles on her war service and carried' 3.443,073 Bervice and civilian passengers.

The ramshackle wooden jelly of Dunkirk from

1940. Gaps in thousands of troops were evaousted in

structure were made by German bombs.

which

the

In

flowers is cast bica A wreath of red, white and memory of the men who drowned and died of machine gun.. nior and bombing during the historia evacuation. From right to left: Mr C. Hosking, the Mayor of Margate, Mas Hosking, the Lady Mayoress, and M. Gustave Robelet,

Mayor of Dunkirk,

The Hunt Is On

A

the

BEACHES OF DUNKIRK

but it was Margate which remembered them

15

By Peter Lovegrove

It cannot be easy. Her plories-the beautiful Town In the 10th Century Gothic church of St Etel, the historic belfry, and her great museum which can only just be identi

HERE was low cloud. poor visibility, little wind and a calm sen the pleasure steamer, Royal Daffodil, neared the Rand dunes of Northern

trips 10 These waters and William Bleasdale, 5th King's fed by a bomb-splintered facade France and Belgium bought back nearly 9,000 men own, one of the last to leave on here, a solitary doorway there

could make before an serial Gradually we

shabby through three decks out the narrow,

breaking

torpedo cut June 2

into the

Ex-RASC

on

summery peaceful,

160 BEF

have re-

unscarred-the

French boat, and fragments of wall Half Goating basink of her docks and Head Robert

still twisted masses of wooden jetty of Dunkirk, cagine room, had shed her war Reading, in a wheelchair, for are

looking her the oil tanks of France's Paint, and was

best all he will never recover from his concrete and steel; sunken ships repairs lle drunkenly on their sides. third greatest port, and the dressed with bunting, her decks apical injury; he now surf

thoes at the Star and Garlor on Only 15,000 of har prewar the crowded with day trippers.

population of 10,000 bouches of Malo-les-Bains,

It was the first time she had Richmond HIL

mained to cke an uncomfortable and been back to Dunkirk. Bray and La Panne.

Neg Wenham, of the 7th flying

prefabs. in American were aboard her The weather was the veterans of all ranks and arms, Royal Tank Regt., who had to wild grass grows on every ruin, weather of May 31, 1940 from all walks of life and parle transfer four times from boat to in every street. Only one land-

of Britain.

They had two things boat before he got away. Major mark remains but 10 years to the day had in

common;

zel up in they had lived W. Harrington MBE, RA who Statue of Victory,

inferno of the

of travelled by the Royal Daffodil memory the unsuccessful passed, That ramshackle through that

52-year-old jetty-it sounds better as beaches and were revisiting the

slege by the Duke of York the East Mole, Ra the scene of their ordeal, and they herself;

evacuated Vin Rickleft, a sergeant with the 1593. had all been

First Tank Brigade, who had French call it had not Margate.

dropped few years off his oge changed much, though the breaches made by German Jetty of Oars

to go out with the BEF-and PUT if Dunkirk looked sombre

of cock sparrow

D and unhappy, Margate was bombs were no longer cover-

Chelmsford postman, ex-RASC gay and rejoicing. The French THERE was Sapper Major D.

now a keen Then he had been with the 2nd Albert Taylor, Division in the rearguard, and Terrier, whose shoes had to be

ed with improvised bridges made out of stretchers. There was not a soul on it:

A. Goldfinch, for Instance.

cheerful

Fred

10 years ago It had been spent two days at Male, where hacked off his raw feet when he dark with patient men with his unit built an improvised jetty reached Morgale,

of derellet oars. He had left on bleeding feet and smoke- the Gracic sore eyes.

Fields and trans- Sovereign ferred to the Royal

Moving Talo

them and the

Rejoicing

in

tricolour fluttered by the side of

the Union Jack as we tied up at the pier.

Royal Marines

The Band of the WAS there to welcome the Daffodil and her

with

detachments passengers,

when Gracie went up in flames. LL these and many others, from the destroyer Bleasdale, Не also served in Iceland. Night Into Day

Ahad a moving tale to tell as the Gunner and Buffs Territorials Middle East, Persia and Iraq. Today he is architect to the once nightmare scene unfolded forming a guard of honour,

of Margate And the people NEW oil tanks stood where Birmingham Regional Hospital again before

their predecessors had blazed Board,

memories came crowding back. were there too. Many of them furiously, turning night into day with vivid hungry flames, There was Hugh Duckett, a

These men were the guests of had worked night and day and day into night with a thick RAMC dispenser with 2nd Field Margate, which received 40,000 decade ago to make certain that pali of oily

smoke. A few Ambulance, who got away on British and Allied soldiers every man who landed received children played with buckets Scottish coaster. After service during

on beach evacuation

town, who transformed

that momentous week, hot drink, food and warm cloth- and spades. Workmen in blue in West Afrien, he has been overalls were putting up beach

each employed on

allon and with them on the trip was ing, transporting the wounded the amusement huts on the sands where long of casunities on the Normandy Mr C.B. Hosking, the Mayor of and rendering first aid. They had snake-like columns of men had

ad Meaches Tuday he deciphers the Kent seaside then made great dark fissures doctors' prescriptions in Margate. cast a wreath in the waters of park, Dreamland, into a casualty

water's

Or Walter Paltenden of the Dunkirk where men leading down to the

had clearing station, the concert hall edge, and even jutting into the 4th En. Royal Sussex Regiment, drowned and died of machine of the Winter Gardens into a sea. And the only other ship

hip who collected a lump of shrapnel

where

to be seen,

hordes of in his left arm before degunning and bombing as they first aid post, made a rest centre midgets, lugs. barges, colliers, stroyer whisked him away.

He awaited help.

huge dormitory of the Ball- motorboats, yachts, skiffs, baw was later wounded again and In the harbour Itself, on leys, paddle steamers, eelboats captured at El Alamein, as was rubbie-strewn dock still carry room.

and waterbuses had helped to Gordon Ward, of the 5th Queens. ing the ravages of war,

the snatch 337,000 men from

of the Sunshire Cafe and 1

#1

he

10-Year Wait

kirk' in the pages of history, was hundred yards to a conl barge sellon in 1943), containing son THEY had not been allowed to

ot a casket made handed jaws of imprisonment and death And James Barnsley, of the oak from Holy Trinity Church, and Inscribe the 'Miracle of Dun- 8th King's Own, who swim a Margate (destroyed by enemy

a bloated rail and car ferry after his four days' "plenic" at from Margate beach, the plodding slodgily in our wake. Malo. Jack Costin, n corporal Mayor of Dunkirk, whe Even our Royal Daffodil, in the Royal West Kents, reciprocated with a casket filled which made seven memorable brought home in a minesweeper. with sand from the famous

beaches,

to

welcome the men on the front then, because of the risk of the Luftwaffe attacking the ports of disembarkation They had to walt 10 years to express their pride and their thanks to them, Wants To Forget And on the night of May 31, 1950, with the pler and the Was the seafront a blaze of thousands of only visible French reaction to lights, with every ship, yacht, our visit. A few idle dock and

Skylark dressed with THE WHISKY sales to Ameri-hands lounged about and made bunting, they

For Jungle Treasure THIS, incidentally,

NEW YORK, he has sold the Alm rights of GROUP of fortune. ais book "Remmel" for "quite NEWELL

substantial price." Kirk Doug seeking Americans is

ins is to play Rommel. "I am ROGERS' trying to raise £12,000 plus told they are going to make a

that is," AMERICAN the price of a hover plane superduper, whatever to search for a lost goldfield raid Young.

up the Amazon River. ONE CONDITION laid down COLUMN

the

New

"A very

Metro-

prominent

Indus-

by Rudolf Bing when he They any the original dis- movet from England to coverer, 120 years ago, was an York to manage Englishman nazed Robertson, politan Opera was that he could trialist" is to be its head, and he and the goldfield is "as rich as bring

his along

dachshund, will be the personal representa- tive of the Dollar Exports the Rand."

Pip. When Me and Mrs Bing

Board. dret vis! home, sail for their Pip will go along. But if he en

n

were there in en slump is not because

signs as the 1,500 Britishers on

thousands lining the Americans have last

taste

board the Daffodil cheered and their for Scotch, says Harry Lourie, waved. Some children smiled toute along which the Dunkirk executive vice-president of the and waved as two coachloads veterans marched to a civle National Beverage Importers from the ship toured the city reception. Associatioil. Dealers cut down Otherwise, the population staged

orders in

they dully, woodenly,

And

those

Last

April because

Shattered

reputedly hope Congress will cut down Dunkirk, grim, sad and tired undemonstrative common men the tax on it. It Congress does after her hammering in 1940, and women of Britain at this. an average bottle, now years of occupation and eight gave vent to their feelings. It costing 30s, would sell for months alege in 1044-45, was was a moment which everyone 355.

Just not interested. She wants who was fortunate enough to be to forget her wounds.

present will never forget.

Robertson, whose first name is not known to the fortune hunters, returned to England tered Britain he would have to Drillsh Export Trade Research the importer gave a tea at the

а British To- INTRODUCE

custard powder as a dollar- The Washington staff of the

carner (at 2s. Bd. a 12 oz. lin)

They English Speaking Union, to into quarantine. So Pip will Organisation will be moved to and raised money to develop his

Paris and slay with New York in line with the ar

served English tea, too, but are And. ile died in the ship that co on to

Canisation's recent link-up with

not expecting to get a volume was taking him back to Brazil, friends,

the Federation.

of sales of this particular blend. But Jamaican geologist belleved he

And the British Chamber of knew the Eeneral THE FIRST robot department

in New York will It costs £1 35. 2d, a b. area of the goldfield. It was in store his opened in Boston, Commerce

perfume, jewel- move into the centre, which, TNRAGED baseball fan James the middle of a "lost world," Nylons, toys, Burrounded by disease-ritiden levy, neekties, and baby food will be almost opposite the Bri-Roundtree aimed bis pistol tish Empire building in Rocke at James McGowan, umpire of swamps, hostile Indians, water can be bought from slot ma-

+

feller Centre.

1

a game between Negro teams at Greenwood, South Carolina. The Kun would not fire. McGowan

chines. But the gadget industry fails, and rapids,

The geologist disappeared into is not rafisfied. It has invented

At the centre will be a com- this wilderness in January 1917. rehot which starts a rales Inik He came back with maps of his when a curtoner walks through plete office service for visiting drew his pistol and shot Round-

of gold, and a

beam at the shop British business men who want travels, 4 Tb.

to interview American custom- handful of diamonds,

crs. Last October he went Into

au electric counter.

the unknown again. The fortune DRITAIN

A GRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME! Hunters who

TERRIFIED...

is moving are backing him Fifth Avenue In quest and want to finance a scientile. dollars. exploration have taken out 12,500 prospecting licences on acres of Brazilian jungle.

into uf

marketing problems. general of the Federation of

HOW BUSINESS: Carol Reed

tree dead.

is the first British director

for the quarterly

Screen Directors' "The Third Eugene

It.

Secretaries will be on hand to take their letters; and start to be chosen will be there to advise on US award of the

Gulla. His Alm,

won Mon," Sir Norman Kipping, director

The Federation will send over O'Neill has approved a music- British Industries, announced

Britain for six- alised "Desire Under the Elms." from by the man THE DEVIL MOUNTAIN! Bthors are selling books to centre Is

and American au- that a new trade promotion staff

to pass оп

Margaret Truman cancell- in monthly periods

On opened being

summer concerta she loved!

famous Hollywood again at good prices. America's

of first-hand knowledge of British ed her street

Helen Traubol's Before sailing in the Polish fashion as soon as partitions nods, and take back first-hand volee-teacher liner Batory for Scandinavit, and air conditioning can be in- knowledge of selling problems advice to rest between spring

and autumn engagements. In America. Brigadier Desmond Young said stalled."

From

Veterans returning to the scene of their ordeal. left to right: RSM A. Lacoy, with the 7th Field Regt.

Division) RE (in 2nd at Dunkirk, Major D.. A. Goldfinch Major W. Harrington, MBE, BA, of the 10th Field Kert., and

Royal.. Pte A. E. Taylor, RASC, on the sun

Daltodo,

deck of the

Hook, Line and Sinker

M

Haned

CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN

NANCY

I'LL BET THE FISH ARE BITING

OUT WHERE IT'S DEEP

By Ernie Bushmiller

-ERNI BURMMILLA

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INSECT SPRAY WITH DOT

When there's bif

[needn't use my fist!

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