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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1941. -
ROWED THROUGH ICY SEAS TO FIGHT GERMANS
TWO YOUNG NORWEGIANS who fought KILLER
against the Germans in Norway, and then escaped
by rowing for six days and nights through freezing SPARED A Arctic seas, have just arrived in Canada to resume BOY OF 7
the fight against Hitler.
"Don't shoot me!" a boy The elder of the two said that he gave up his
aged seven pleaded after law studies at Oslo University to fight for the Finns he had seen the lodger- against Russia. When the war was over he return-murder his mother and ed to find the Germans attacking his country and sister. the Oslo airport being bombed.
He and his companion woul nof believe it until they saw a truck, in which were three Ger- man soldiers, driving furiously through the streets spraying the pavements with machine-gun bul- lets.
"We did not know what to do," the young Norwegian said, "but that night I ran into a Norwegian officer who told me to collect all the men I could find and meet him at an agreed rendezvous with our skis.
"For the next three hours walked about the city, rounding Up my friends, pulling some of them out of bed. and just after
midnight we ski-marched into a town and received cur orders."
Three days later the men were
issued with arms and ammunition, and heard King Haakon's drama- the radio speech, in which he said: the 1 have twice refused German demand to surrender. All of you should now fight
however and wherever you Can"
The young adventurer then de- scribed the guerilla warfare against the German invaders, the sallies and the retreats, the bitter fights in the mountain passes and of the treacherous slopes glaciers.
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"Those Courageous Countrywomen"
Four brave Norwegian girls fought with them. "They cooked all the food," he said. "They were wonderful, those courageous coun- tywemen of mine. We were proud
of them."
At length word came that the Germans were executing repri cals on the civil population, "My friend and 1," said this youngster. "made our way back to Oslo after 30 days' fighting.
Later we managed to reach
Greenland."
There the two adventurers chartered a 10-foot rowing boat.
"Early in the morning of Sept. 11 my friend and I set out, row- ing in our shirt-sleeves," said the Norwegian.
Icebergs Were
Terrifying
"Ice was grinding against the sides of the boat as we rowed, and once there was a terrific crack. It was an iceberg splitting in two about 100 yards from us.
"One part turned completely over in the water. We thought our end had come, but we kept rowing.
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"Every now and again were startled by the car-split- ting crack of ice. In' that awful silence it was majestic and ter- rifying. We shall never forget
it.
TOM-TOMS
TRAP WOP CAR ACE
The lodger spared his life committed suicide.
David George Martin, nged seven, gave this evidence in clear tones at the inquest at East Grin- stead on his mother, Phyllis Pre- teria Martin, forty; his sister Alice Elizabeth Martin, twelve, and the lodger, John Bankinghurst, twen- ty-nine, all of Sackville Gardens, East Grinstead.
downstairs room.
After Bankhurst had hed his breakfast and his father, David had
Leslie Martin, a gardener. left for work, Bankhurst walked
David said that because of air his Native tom-toms throb-raids he was sleeping with
sister in a bed on the floor in a bed messages through the Swaziland bush when na- tives joined the police in searching for Mario, the Italian racing motorist, who attempted to escape through Swaziland into his side. Portuguese Africa with clothes but he fire twice.
four other internees in a stolen Government car.
into the room with a gun,
As his mother screamed he shot her and he then fired two more
shots at Betty, who was lying it
Betty tried to hide under the
Threatened The Girl
The internees were on their way "I said, 'Don't shoot me, John,'' te military hospital at Kimberley and he then went upstairs and i when they overpowered the sol-heard some more shots.
them, bound und dier driving gagged him and left him. by the roadside,
Mario, travelling almost at the speed to which he was accustom- ed on graded tracks, tore across country, over the Union border into Swaziland.
Police barricaded the roads. King Sobhuza of the Swazi was asked to help in the hunt and tom-toms sent around a mesa. age to Swazi runners.
A lone policeman saw the car approaching at a terrific pace. It tore through a barricude, and al- though the policeman fired, the driver kept on his mad course.
Hours later the car was found abandoned with the body of one of the internees, an Italian car. penter, who had been shot dead, Inside.
Swazis and police encircled the hills and the fugitives were caught in the wild, lon-infested bush.- Associated Press.
Bank- "Betty told me that hurst had tried to kiss her and the old not like him. He had threatened to shoot Betty be- fore."
David Leslie Martin said that Bankhurst came as a lodger and that about twelve months ago he started to kiss his daughter.
He had warned him if he did it again he would have to leave.
"He tried to kiss her again," Martin said, "and told him he would have to find fresh lodg- ings."
The jury returned a verdict of Murder by Bankhurst in the case of the mother and daughter and of falo-de-se on the man.
The jury gave their fees to the boy and complimented him on the excellent way he had given his evidence.
OF
EDDIE GUERIN, DEVIL'S ISLE, IS DEAD
EDDIE GUERIN is dead Eddie Guerin who rowed to freedom from Devil's Island thirty-six years ago, and gradually fell from spectacular crime to petty thievery, till even the underworld lost respect for him.
He
Edward-died Eddie Thomas in hospital, in Bury, Lancs. was eighty.
He had a stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage followed. Before he
In
"On the sixth evening we saw signs of habitation on the main- land. As we made for it a num-sank he whispered that he had a ber of kayaks put out, and when wealthy sister in America.
His we drew ashore we were greeted
last conviction by nearly 200 Eskimo men, wo- February; he was charged with be- men and children,"
ing a suspected person loiter- ing with intent, and the sentence was six weeks' gaol.
SENIOR V.C.'s SON KILLED
Lleutenant-Commander Thomas Harry Hill-Walker, younger son of Major A. R. Hill-Walker,of Maunby Hall, Thirsk, Yorks, senior holder of the Victoria Cross, has been killed in action.
Wis
In 1900 Eddie Guerin, who once said he, was an Irishman, broke into a Paris bank and blew up the safe with dynamite. That was why they sent him to 'Devil's leland for life, to be com panion of Dreyfue.
vienne
Churchill, known 23 Chicago May, was charged at the Old Bailey with shooting at Eddie with intent to murder him.
Had Betrayed Him
Mr. Justice Darling sent her to prison for Bfteen years, and her companion, Charles Smith, to pen- al servitude for Ulle, Smith red the shot in Marchmont Street, Russell Square, W. C. the court · was told, to stop Eddie's ven- geance; he believed Chicago May had betrayed him.
The police kept on Guerin's. track to such an extent that they could nearly always pull him in He escaped four years later on a before a planned crime had been. raft with six other fugitives, all of committed. He became pick- He was thirty-six. Five years whom died of starvation and fati- pocket, bug-snatcher. ago he married Miss Catherine gue. Eddie rowed on, eventually He declared that the story of Balston, of Maidstone, Kent, A reached France, then doubled Devil's Island followed him "liks a ghost," and that the police kept daughter was born nearly two back to America,
on arresting him to get: cheap nō-, years ago,
toriety. Some years ago Guerin wrote a book entitled "Crimes The Autobiography of a Crook,
Major Hill-Walker was twenty- one when he won his V.C. in the Boer War
In 1906 he was in England, and next year was suddenly, the centre of i startling trial, this * time" as prosecutor. May Vi
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