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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1940
HOW NAZIS TOOK' JERSEY TOLD IN THE FIRST FULL STORY:
FLIGHT IN A BOAT RUN ON
BUTTER
A GLIMPSE OF German soldiers swinging the daily dash of along a Jersey street, shouting and bellowing the Horst Wessel song in chorus, was one of the last incidents of the invasion of the Channel Islands to catch the eye of a refugee who told his story in London.
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"My wife left Jersey immediately the Lieuten- ant-Governor-the King's representative-announ- ced that the island was to be demilitarised," he said.
"The last of the troops and jured, and the skipper had taken guns were leaving the harbour as him to hospital.
vomen
and
the first of the stream of civil'ans "In his absence the crew had boarded the ships awaiting them. gone off with the ship, leaving the|
"There were thousands--men,jcaptain stranded.
children-carrying "Another man pointed out a mʊ- every ounce they could. My wife tor-boat left by an Englishman, and I, and our daughter, who went who had gone in the general with her, had been up all night evacuation. We decided to take it collecting things for the journey.to England and hand it over to it we found "There was a limit on luggage its owner. Then of 28lbs. We went from room, to wouldn't work, room, picking things up and set- "A mechanic from a garage |ting them aside as we came across said he would mend it. He took
other things of greater value and
away one or two parts, but less weight.
never came back.
"Things were quiet for a day or two after they had gone, but everywhere I met people who had tried to get away from the island, only to find there was no more ship accommodation. The mail boats were crammed to the rails.
No Chance
"I knew the Germans would be with us in an hour or two. The Dutch skipper and I went to work together.
"I went on a scrounging ex: pedition, and came back with the spark plug WC needed and a length of rubber tube,! with which, somehow, we mend- ed the engine. Then we hid In- side the boat, and walted for! "Then, last Friday, the German
darkness and high water. 'planes came over, bombing and
"We got two loaves, a large jar machine-gunning, killing and of water, and a chart of the Chan- wounding civilians indiscriminate-nel. A man on the quay begged a ly. We didn't have a chance. passage. I knew it lessened our "There wasn't a gun, not even chances, but we agreed to take a revolver, left in the island, him.
was in a car on the coast road "I told him to come back later, when two bombers came roar and not to breathe a word to a Ing low at us from the, direc-soul. He promised to bring morej tlon of the harbour.
provisions.,
"flung myself down 'by the sea wall. The bullets spattered all around me.
On Her Knees
"On Saturday morning they "A woman of about fifty drove} came over again, but did no dam-up in a car. She begged a passage, age. On Sunday they came skim-went down on her knees to me, ming over the housetops--huge|pleading. Heinkels-singly, at intervals of Thalf an hour.
THE MOUTH FRESH & THE BREATH SWEET
Gill's
SOLID DENTIFRICE
"At 5 a.m. I was awakened by the roar of a dive bomber. He
"She told me she had a son
1.R.A. MAN
WITH BRITISH MILITARY MAP
Á man who claimed
to be a soldier of the I.R.A. was fined £100 at Hendon and 'sen- tenced to three months' imprisonment with a further three months in default of payment.
He was charged, un- der the defence re- gulations, that he had in his
possession a military map. which might have been of use to the enemy.
He was John Barry, twenty-four, described a blacksmith, of Mason's Avenue, Wealdstone.
It was Barry had been work-
as
stated that
ing at an: R.A.F. station with a firm of contractors.
LIGHT ON LAVAL
The American war cor- respondent, Mr. H. R.
a lleutenant in the Navy. I said Knickerbocker, who came she could come. She turned to a to London from Bordeaux,
man lounging on the quay and
swooped very low and droppedcald, 'Do you want my car? You tells of a conversation he something on to a roof.
"Some one climbed up and found it was a Germon flag. At- tached to it was an ultimatum from the general commanding the Nazi air force in Normandy.
can have it.'
had with. M. Laval, Mar- "The man said, "What's the
use of a car? I can't even drive. Shal Petain's Vice-Prem- But he said he would have it, asier, which sharply illum- it was free. 'Perhaps I can sell it,' he said.
inates the attitude of the "It was taken to the Bailiff, Mr.just seen the Germans in the town.
"The woman told me she had French near-Fascists. Alex Coutanche, who ordered it to
Mr. Knickerbocker was? dining She said they were lined up, be printed and posted up all over heavily armed, with motor-cycles, in the Chapon Fin Restaurant in the island. It said:
'As evidence that the island will with which they had landed from Bordeaux the Sunday night that
'planes.
M. Reynaud was overthrown. M. surrender the military and other!
Laval and some half dozen of his "I gave orders, 'No smoking, no establishments without resistance talking, no moving about. If you friends were at a nearby table. and without destroying them, don't obey these instructions it's He invited, Knickerbocker to join large white cross is to be shown, the finish for all of us." as follows from 7 a.m. July 2,
The talk turned on the propos- "Twilight was coming on when
and M. Laval and peeped out. I saw I heard voices. I crept to the hatched capitulation,
between asked Knickerbocker for his fifty and eighty German soldiers opinion. swinging along shouting and bel- lowing the Horst Wessel.
1940:--
In the centre of the airport in the east of the island;
On the highest point of the
"They marched past within ten! or fifteen yards of us, and went)
After that I saw up to the fort.
him.
Hitler's Real Aim
Knickerbocker replied: "If France continues to resist she will
fortifications of the port;
'On the square to the north of the inner basin of the harbour.
If signs of peaceful surrender are not observed by 7 a.m. heavy
motor-cyclists patrolling. Other- ultimately be saved by Britain and bombardment will take place. wise there was not a soul to be the United States, but if she capi--
'Radio traffic and communica-
tulates it will be the end of tions with authorities outside the The boat started to float. We France for ever." island will be followed by put up the sails, but there was Several of M. Laval's compan~ | bombardment.
not a breath of wind. We Fotions nodded their heads in sor- Every hostile action against my hold of a pope tied further along rowful agreement. M. Laval, with representatives will be followed by
the-quayside,-and-tried-to-haul- bombardment,'
"The proclamations were posted un at 1 p.m. that day. By the even-
ing there were white flags, show-
seen.
ourselves out.
I
Lack Of Oil
a curious air of detachment in ‘a man whose country was about to- surrender, said:
"You exaggerate the importance jof what is happening hero; Hitler's
ing from houses all over the is- "It took us almost an hour to real aim is to smash Bolshevism land. The Germans were already travel fifty feet. We thought we and the Soviet Union, and that is in the streets. They had arrived should be caught in the middle of what really matters.'
at 5 p.m.
"By that time I had made my For brighter teeth and a healthier
had mouth. Its clean foam gives the plans for escape, though I
ittle hope of their succeeding. At whole mouth a grand feeling of 9 a.m. I had gone into the town,] freshness.
where my lawyer told me of the German ultimatum, and of the oc- Because it is. solid there is no cupation of Guernsey. spilling, no waste.
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owner wanted £50, then backed
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the harbour. We dared not start the engines.
ran the whole day "We had just got through the The engine harbour mouth when we started until eight o'clock that night on the engines. We took a circuit-Jersey butter.
"We were within twelve miles oua, amateurish route.
of the English coast when dark- "North-west of Guernsey the
ness fell. There was a big swell engines seized-up for lack of oil. We heard scores of 'planes air raid started.
and our engines failed. Then an
-and expected them to spot us
at any moment. We heard the flares. Searchlights swept the sky, "The German bombers dropped sound of many explosions from then coastal. guns blazed into
action. "We thanked heaven for a mist
"At daybreak a cutter spotted
the island.
had made all preparations to which came up at that moment us and towed us in, more dead
But we had to have oil. I searched than alive. Some one made us...... "I met the captain of a Dutch among our provisions and found coffee. Everybody shook hands, cargo vessel which had come to 3lbs. of butter.
thanked everybody else, and then collect potatoes. In the air raid! "We melted it on the exhaust drifted away-perhaps never to of Friday his cook had been in-pipe and poured it into the sump.]meet again.”
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1940