ON THE THAMES FRONT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 169, 5 June 1940, Page 6

ON THE THAMES FRONT

A. P. HERBERT AT THE "MIKE" "We all know that Admiral Hitler dominates the ocean, with the exception of a small patch off the River Plate," said Mr A. P. Herbert.. M.P., tjie English humorist, in a recent broadcast. "Field-Marshal Boring controls the fresh air, and I>r Gibble-Gobble is master of the rest. London is starving, and England is t living on seaweed torn from the rocks, the last bastion of British sea power. All this we know. And if there were any answer to these assertions, the censor, no doubt, would forbid it to be mat', 1 . I Jut we may shyly say that one or two ships still creep, with du>' apologies, into the Thames, bringing xti from time to time a sandwich or two, a bag of nuts, a tin of petrol or a sack of coal . . . Oxford al tne end, Southend at the. other. Westminster in between—in this old river flows the history, Tie heart, the harmony of our race* and we arc content indeed to be 'standing by' ;;t the heart, llig "Ben, the clock on the mantlepieee, and Hie watermen of London river our com oanions. And if Admiral Scuttler and Field-Marshal Boring and Dr. Colly-Wobbles himself propose to bring the war' this way, then every servant of the Thames will answer: ; Confe on! for London river i> ~caciy.'"'