It is announced that the mud of Southend-on-sea at the mouth of the Thames, known for over a century for its health-giving properties, and later as a beauty treatment is going to be used for the purpose of defeating Herr Hitler. Not along the lines of throwing the stuff at ^im or the Germans, for the pleasant little occupation of mud-slinging is best left to the "nomy who appear to delight in it, but it has deen announced that chemists have found that rom this mud and the seawarer they can er. tact one of the most vital metal elements in armament construction. Those familiar with ha Thames' estuary will remember that large stretch of mud exposed at low tide from Shoeouryness all the way to Canvey Island, and at Southend-on-sea anything up to a mile wide. it is not stated what particular element that ^uge deposit is rich in, but it is apparent that vast quantities of the mud are available to be had simply for the dredging. Well over a century ago Royalty visited the town for the Pur, Dose of reaping benefit from the ozone which it was said emanated from the vast expanse of slimy black mud. Ailing children have gone thera to paddle out on it and recover from the Us that afflict them, and of recent years it has deen stated that beauty specialists have been treating their clients with packs made from the alluvial deposit of old Father Thames, which only goes to show that women in search of beauty will stop at nothing. Southend mud has an odorous quality entirely its own which only goes to show that none but the brave deserve to be fair. It is something of an irony that a cosmetic for milady's boudoir should now be mobilized for the grim arbitrament of war, and yet on the other hand so completely appropriate, if what is going on in Europe is regarded as something in the nature of Beauty treatment, removing from the German complexion that blotch which is the Hitlerian system.
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