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CHINA MAIL A Secret Agent In France
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Peter Churchill an unassum) He had only been back ined to advance the movement. ing young nian in the carly-Britain a fertnight when he set | huge sums of money, which, in, thirties with the mild appear off on his second - missico, to turu would be gradited then ance of a bank clerk, lived the same area and again. by at a very favourable rate dangerously during World War submarine, but this time he -II.
Look two radio operators and An Intelligence Corps cap their equipment. This was a tain, who belonged to the Con- norve-wracking landing, as he sular Service and knew France had to make three trips by well before 1939, he made four canoe from the sub, to the shore secret trips to French territory
in, the Bay of Antibes, with between 1941 and 1943 to help Ashermen all about in fishing organise the Resistance Move-smacks equipped with, search- munt under the very noses flights. On his third trip, back the Gestapo. On his last mis- from the shore, with a Resis sich, he parachuted onta atance man whom he was taking mountain top 5,000 feet high to Britain, he missed the sub and spent a year in solitary was captured by the Germans, confinement awaiting the death penalty. His daring activities have earned him the D.S.O. and the Croix de Guerre,
`BY PETER *LOVEGROVE
marine and only found her in the deep night by exchanging light signals. It was not his last thrill, as on the way back to Gibraltar, the submarine look part in a fighting patrol in the Western Mediterranean, and it was ten days before they reach
Captain Churchill, who once captained Cambridge at ice hockey and played 15 times for England. gave the France British Society in London the other day a glimpse into the the war-time secrets of "S.O.E." (Special Operations Europe), ed the Rock.
he hazards Allied agents Tan enemy-accupied territory.
It cannot be urged that the formal statement issued by the military authorities on the recent border shot incident is notably more informative than its brief predecessor. The sequence of events prior to the accident i elaborated, effectively disposing if the fabricated border-violation allegations, and showing, indeed, that but for the menacing attitude of armed Chinese civilians follow ing unwarranted interference with freedom of traffic over the Bri- rish military bridge, there couldn have been no incident. To ask Land Forge H.Q.. to explain the reason for the presence of these pistil-waving civilians, the au- thority with which they were in vested, and by whom, would per haps be placing the inquiry in the wrong quarter, but further in
Sabotage
Disaster
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The mood was very different in Occupied France in those days. Although the Maquis g:cups were often indiscreet. very few were ever given awar to the authorities, and, whole families participated in :heir of one activities. He knew family, composed of husband and wife and ten children, all of whom participated, the children acting as couriers.
Capt. Churchill's. 'Tourth trip ended in "disaster. and but for the courage of Mra. Odotte Samson: a Frenchwemax whe had married an Englishman, he been would undoubtedly have shet by the Gestapo. Mrs. Son. of three girls. son, mother
George. with recently received the
The third mission was of a different character. The under ground movement had spread extensively, and he was para chuted into Occupied France to act as liaison officer with one of the biggest groups,
aud the organisation of France's Underground Army which, in the wards of General Eisenhower, "shortened.
the way for France by six months.
His first venture, at the end of 1941, was to contact four of the handful of British, agents which he spent seven months. Cross; she shielded him and re- 1 formation might well have been ting in the Daoccupied Zene His main task was to instruct tuned to disclose his identity
of these desperate men in the art to the Germans
of blowing up railway lines and torture. trains in preparation for "D" Cupt. Churchill's address, and to buy out 10 French Resis-Day, and arrange for the recep: also spoke briefly, pointing cut tance lenders who were
then tion of parachute deliveries of that she had had the unusual and explosives from distinction of being twice sen-
2015
and saboteurs who were overn
under the instructions Colonel Buckmaster give item erders and funds, and sitempt
from
even under She was present at
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
SET IT UP QUICKLY
If a defender is going to Sir Philip pick off a trick or two in some
the ace, he usually must begin work en setting it up just as soon as he can. If he delays
for a
given of the circumstances pro- viding "incontrovertible proof that only one round was fired and that | accidental.” Knowing some- thing of the way in which the minds of our authorities work. it can copfidently be asserted that the anission is without significance of a dubious nature. but, it is an omission, and in our view, a mistaken one. There is odiously, too, something highly unsatisfactory about the refusal of the Chinese officials to permit inspection of the lady of the un
He made his contacts-one an fortunate victim. The
aged professor at Antibes; an- that the one round fired was a third was mixed up with the other an American girl in Lyons; the cause of
It the death of a Black Market, and he also visit bystander on the Chinese side of ed Marseilles the border has been accepted by the military authorities, the Hong Kong. Government has associated {itself fully, with the expressions of segres and has asked The Chinese authorities
anguishing in a Vichy prisou. arms
Britain. Suitable dropping tenced to death by the Germans A submarine took him
were radioed tonce for France and once for Gibraltar to within two miles! points.
his secret wire- Britain. of Cannes, the famous Riviera London on
with details less, together
Air Marshal he paddled a canoe report, and lead the rest of of requirements and then they doubert de la Ferte, who wsuit in which the dummy has
the way to land undetected.
were advised when the planes also present, appealed would come by apparently in close understanding between nocuous messages sent out on France and Britain, and urged the French service of the BBC a wider exchange of visit be messages such as "Peter is in tween the youth of the two good health," or "the pen of countries. He concluded with an nights, during the moon period, picked up during a recent visit my aunt had run dry" Some amusing story which he had
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they received as many as forty to Marseilles, was of especially, the defender should
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give up a club to the Q. Much too late. East now offered 巋 spade, but the A won and the club 4 brought a discard of the spade 10. So the defenders got ne trick in spades and saw South make his contract
sound de··
A courageous and fender would have seen the danger of the club suit, especial- ly since he held exactly three himself. If the hidden ones also were divided, he could have nused, Scuth would be able to
correct action on the third trick
nct help the declarer by lead do exactly as he did. West's ing the very suit on which the discards are to be had-barring the chance of a defensive ruff.
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as a shade, lead, hoping his pirtner had the Q. That would Fave established the Belting trick, promptly, rendy for rak- ing in as soon as the defence regained the lead, as it wouldl on a club: But you won't find. that play either made.or·åd=" vised very much 'except in the most advanced circles. Fear of South having the Q would prevent it, though on the bid- ing that danger was 'nolas great na the one West seerned to prefer facing.
Tomorrow's Problem
without in-visits from Allied planes... middle-aged-Frenchman, in drance. He was well equipped On his first trip, Capt. Chur-town near the southern coast, with the necessary identifica- chili had travelled to France who was known to be paid by tien papers, but not having an with a huge wad of notes, the Germans to go down to the up-to-date ration card, his big amounting to over two million shore every night with a pair gest problem turned out to be francs, wrapped round him in of binoculars to keep a lonk how to get food. This Wax a money belt. This method of out for the Allied invasion flest. to cover solved by the king of the Lyans financing the underground's He admitted to a friend that sympathy to the relatives and to undertid Doviding him not
activities was both unwieldy the pay was not very substay- arrange for the Batment of aponly with an apparently perfect and dangerous, and by 1943 tial. "But," he added. "the great propriate compensation.
They genuine card for himself, sign- new system had been devised. thing is that I get a pension | SKJ.34 could hardly have been expected el by the Mayor, but also sam- Patriotic Frenchmen were ask when I reach the age of 75.” - to do less, had all the facts been ples of every other category of | "incontrovertibly" established. As ration card in existence, which it is, the British authorities havi were successfully imitated in provided a typical illustration of London en his return, and what. Fiat Justitia termed "lean- proved invaluable for all future ing over backwards" to be fair. agents. reasonable and just. The usual
King Of Underworld procedure, that is, the normal in-
In those early days, there was ternational usage, in affairs of a general belief in Vichy France this nature is a joint investigation hat Britain would lose the war, and a settlement on the basis of but there was a fanatical sec-1 an agreed finding «submitted by tion who refused to give up the representatives of both sides. ·hope, and they formed the
Railway. Eighteen Office, effective December 31, was Hankow The result, in the end, is gen-
nucleus of the growing Resie-announced on Monday. Mr. Mar- locomotives, 1300 railway wagons,
West led his diamond K and One erally the same, but it is reached tance movement. of the tin leaves Canton after more than 240,000 Sleepers and 45,000 raile by methods which serve
meu he contacted to assist him
UNRRA. have been received. Some of the seeing the 8 from East, decided a year's service as Įprovide a juridical basis for the
in rescuing the imprisoned itey Chief Representative in Kwang- locomotives and railway wagons it was probably an encouraging action taken,
men was at that time in charge tung and six months as Chief Ac-are types which had not previous-card, so followed with the A to satisfy public
Hut the 9 completed a low- of recruiting far the
of Ae-ly. operated in Canton. French countant, later Director opinion on both sides beyond Legion which was being formed counts and Audits, at Chungking
Medical supplies and equip-high, discouraging a third lead. muibble and diminish the
pas to fight side by side with Ger Headquarters. He will return to ment have also been received, in Went decided then to switch to sibility of an
uncomfortable nuans against the Red Army. Hong Kong to take over direction cluding a 500-bed prefabricated a club, because he felt uncomDealer North. Neither side! atmosphere remaining. It is Thie Frenchman had been of his firm of Public Accountants, hospital unit now in process of fortable about leading away vulnerable.)
from his minor ten-ace In After Enst takes two hearts, West leads one out of turn, spades.
Stuth won that with the then declarer calls, a spade lead club A finessed the heart | from East. What card should caught the K in the next two he pick, in striving to beat 3-1 rounds, led a club to the K, then No Trumps?
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Mr. T. A. Martin's resignation
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.N.R.R.A. Kwangtung Regional tation of the Kowloon-Canton-
relief: supplies for
Out
in Canton. The rather a pity that this procedure staunch friend of Britain and No announcement has been made erection was not followed in this case. won the D.3.0. in World War yet as to his successor.
patient Department of this new Mr. Martin's arrival in Canton | hospital is already serving the His mission successfully con- concided with the arrival in community. NEW GUINEA'S
cluded-London,was advised by Hong Kong of the first ship of Eighty Ships FUTURE
the despatch of an inncesous UNRRA.. nesage through the ordinary Kwangtung-the 'S.S. Wingsang, Within the last twelve months Australia's application to
the telegraph service which remain which carried 800 tons of flour. some 80 merchants ships arriving United Nations for a trusteeshiped open between Vichy and Bri- Since that time there has been in Hong Kong carried U.N.R.R.A.. agreement covering the mandat.nin-Capt. Churchill found that steady stream of supplies chan-supplies for South China. All
it was a much more tricky nelled. to Canton, both for distri-U.N.R.R.A. supplies coming to i ed territory of New Guinea business getting cut of the bullon within Kwangtung and for South China are trans-shipped ir which will confer rights-previous country than entering it. The trans-shipment
ly denied her, is a logical sequel "fisherman" he was told to con Kwangs!.
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to Hunan and Hong Kong and sent to Cantor and other China poris by rall function through Hver boat or junks. This has re-
to the experiences of the war jagainst Japan. Under the "C" him into Spain had just been out the relief operations in China sulted in millions of Hong Kong mandate from the League of arrested for his previous large-is to advise C.NR.R.A., and other dollars being disbursed in "the
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naval bases and bribes to the authorities when- and operation of relief and re- fortifications, although it had even he took a human cargo habilitation work. On November Marlin sald in commenting on the responsibility for the defence of
out of a French port. Eventual- 30 this year there were 53 for future of relief and rehabilitation the, territories. This anomaly was
ly, however, Capt. Churchill was eign personnel on the UNRRA work in Kwangtung, "for great starkly exposed when
Put in touch with a guide al staff in Kwangtung, 31 of whom strides to be spade in rehabilitat. the Perpignan by the US. Con were assigned directly to ing Kwangtung, Supplica have Japanese forces swept into New sulate-Generai in Lyons, and CN.R.R.A. as programme person- been neguret for carrying out Guinea and New Britain almost made his way on foot over the nel and who, under the direction widescale dyke repairs along the unopposed and prepared to
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the work, baving been started on a work relief basis at the end of November involving same 21,000, In reviewing the work of the tons of UNRRA, rice, Water last twelve months, Mr. Martin buffaloes, farm supplies and tool. states that U.N.BR.A has brought are forthcoming for the tigricul-
seeking their classification in the geographic citity", which they to Kwangtung 55,000 long tops of tural rehabilitation programme. trusteeship agreement as strategic indisputably are. The artifia foodstuffs, about 1,850-boxcars of Among the industrial rehabilita areas, which, under the barrier between the Crown food or about 200 complete train-tion supplies already definitely Charter of the United Nations, territory of Papua and the loads of food. In addition, 35,000 scheduled to be shipped to Kwang defence installations, may be ser mandated territory to the im- ton of food have been transtung are one 2300 KW, power up. An important, provision in the mediate north-east of it, has shipped from Canton to Kwangel planti draft agreement put forward by undoubtedly made for wasteful Province.
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