THE CHINA MAIL;, SATURDAY, MARCH · 5, · 1955,
CHAPTER TWO.
Exploits of the
of the Cloak
Cloak and Dagger Squadron
HOW BRAVE CABBAGE' ESCAPED
THE GERMAN SPY HUNT
*LL always remember the night dropped my first girl spy. We hud been waiting almost
hour when CATE blacked-out car jerked to a half bestide The Halifax standing on the runway at Tempsford.
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Before it had restarted, we were rumbling down the runway, with a spy aboard. She sat on the floor of the plane and chatted to mem- bers of the crew.
[ Arvo at list A bulky Jumping suit hid
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conce; and than +1 he Mire going shoppuk
At the Prech past, a lone searchlight Awoyed begun whe moonlit sky.
W evaded it and thunde,ed towards the dropping.
Zolle
*Ten minutes la pin-point," The navigat
wa da fut
through the brutte almueplvere In the Halifax.
The girl mood up, crushed her cigarette, and stepped past bulky paret is full of propaganda kut- Jets.
the return journey to hide the purpose of our real mission.
Carefully, she sat near the "Jve hole" thivugh which she would shortly vaugh. patcher effvcked her pusselvirte.
ERED LIGHT
* Licen
The Dis
Suddenly,
light winked ch, and the door over The girl ine tele swung vin. dungled her feel out of the air-
The green light turn
eral, red.
"Gor The Dispatcher‘N shou! emmended with the gai vanshi- mg through the alch.
un the
ground, but
stowed
SADU
MONTGOMERY
By LESLIE
(AS TOLD TO GORDON THOMAS)'
German soldiers stop the hearse.... the driver is questioned .... but they
Desperately.
overlook the coffin, in which the spy is hidden.
The small
on their heads---serumbled with their
pres
girl in
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hearse, placed the of patrols- DURA with u price in, and drove to meet the Lysander. Three times the transmitter heirse was stopped by patrolfing through the back door just as the Germans, but the coffin was Gestapo burst in through the passport for the spy. front.
Eventually. the hearse It was now stopped by a fleid. early in the morning, and the muon made the clouds look like silver shawls.
"Cabbage"
kupt cool. She dumped the rude in a dustbin, and walked the oppure way to which her friends hud run,
They
captured, and ended before a firing squad. She stayed free
dida'i junerve her.
Such 4 close brush with death That nghị she ne kex back and removed
in stifer lite transmulácn Then, she somied and Joked her Inv juchute
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that was bushes, in Ure way she had been way on lo Laught
leaving the unit 201 atmy clie
cfive on had h's Ground her wait, But it beller than having end-
All tee weeks of hard train- ing, those hours fourning how t lup telephone.
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fortni was
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savatage railway lines, how pond 9,81 maturinalin in tude- it whe alt now going to be put
to the ca.
She changed inkı akut, nwester and tekistute the athug af French country
girl. With joisen pull and revolver in ensy reach, the act art.
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Her task was radio informa. - lan back to Belain on enenty movements.
cuffs on. and his company meant that when passes were chocked, he was able to vouch for her~~
she freed herself of her persistent sulton,
and transin.ted her information to England.
und the sulicase!
Eventually,
SA RISK
But the hunt was on for her. This was the most dang roụi
The officer hod become 11 staspit a kis, and told the Gestapo, ut any syp's work. meant she would terve bu operate ann FLOW the whole country-
heavily-defend military s.de
וגן
areas. And the queing used every
device ic pussible eliminate radio operators De- Lors, trap, alreraf, ships, Informers - all were employed!
"Cabbage" Locepted these risks calmly. She worked potdently. Within a week, helped by men
and women of the Resistance, sne collected highly important iniormation
But hardly had the girl started transmitting it when the Bry went up: "The Germs are coming down the road!"
The
"Cabbage,"
Here
Courage
faint humming Suddenly, a could be heard. The Lysunder looking like a giant moth, was coming down.
The nearses headlamps flushed the recognition signals. Within moments the aircraft touched
picked up "Cubb.go. uun. and was airborne again.
The girl spy's ordeal was over,
because it 13 typical of the Linaz.ng courage of these women
gents
I have told this story In deta.
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asiat si el trips were as ensy
hers Late April 1943, I took a Norwegian girl back to young her country.
Tw This weather beat us. But Br:lish Intelligence urgent- ly wanted the vital information and could collect, so we set off
third time.
a slovakia, leaded down with four
tight-lipped agents and supplies.
But 21 range ot mountains were 20 when we baulked us m.nutes from ป drupping point. Glumly, we turned for home.
the gleaming Wes before we the truck taking him to prison roared into the safety of open when they were crossing in a country.
ferry over the Stina.
But now we were lost. The weather had deteriorated, and Tho swift current swept him the navigator's sensitive instru- out of rifle range. But he found
it hard swimming.... ments refused to function.
Petrol was running low. Our
Then a bagy houk pierced his track Was being plotted by jacket and within minutes he ground radar.
The aples and was aboard a boat. Luckily, it supplies weighed the aircraft belonged to a member of the down. Bus we pressed on, drop- Resistance. From then, bis nd- ping steadily lower and lower, venture followed the ususi
ECRIPPLED
Tempsford
Was told of his plight, and
Lysander picked Battered and crippled,
him up. He spent weeks In crawled sluggishly towards the hospital, but insisted on return- English Channel." Thankfully,
Ing by boat to France, where he
we
no night nighters appeared. Sud. again became a valuable spy for denly, after what seemed hours us. Such bravery was typical
uf ying acres of mud flaia of wartime agents. glistened below. We were over
ne heavily detended Cherbourg peninsula
Brilliant while starshell! flashed in the sky around us. Nose
down, the Halifax thundered through the fials, and screamed over the English Channel....to safely!
IL was only then What I realised that the four eples had not shown 4 trace of panic, or murmured a wordi
The bravest agent i ever mei was vivacious Odette Churchill. She even managed to look glamorous in w buggy Jumping
She chewed raisins on the trip teloss, and looked us relaxed
115 T she was going to a Sunday school treat. reception committee waiting for her on the ground.
But there was no
She made another trip-but unce more there was no recep- tion committee awaiting her.
BY BOAT
Undaunted
Odette
insisted
For weeks the pace had been getting lougher. We now carried civilian clothes and faked pass- ports under our flying kit. The she be allowed to try оке
So we parsports were changed every more.
the set off on three months.
hazardous journey again. But Finally, we slowed cyanide still no reception commitice pills within easy reach. It would All Odette mid was: "10 have
shot be a quicker end than a Gestapo u
She by boat."
diki, Luture chamber.
and eventually ended up in Without
aboard, we Ravensbruck concentration camp,
narrowly ruped might have been able to bluff where she
the comparative death. Cur way
But rajoty ufa pikon temp Now we would have no diance ,und the weather WES worsening.
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OVER SKODA Suddenly a blinding explation reeked the
port wing tre Haltiax, Then the solid impact et exuding met peppering the squat belly of the aircraft rasped
vn my morves
settled
To get better secret airfields we brought Frenchmen and showed them what we wanted,
on the Contrast,
bark
Then we ferried them home again, where they resumed their under tha normal occupelions muses of the Germansi
But une Frach agent was
the up by picked
Gestapo. though Handcuffed, he went the usual methods of Gestapo interrogation.
First he was punched by his Ave
cxx miners. Then threy kicited him. A pause, while one of them shoutca: "Tat us whe brought you here, and who is helping you."
A probing chlight groped, and fixed its unblinking eye on the bomber's port wing.
Another finger of light zig- zagged OCTUSS the sky, and ONL 15. Then another, And this time she jumped and another, We were over being WLK
combed for when the aircraft was travelling Skuda, the post heavily defend- The spy's stubborn headshake at 100 miles an hour-46 miles ed armaments factory in Eastern bought another thade of abuse
Europe!
on him. There was only one thing to above safe jumping speed. do-risk detection by wirejeeing She cuited with the tall. The Halifax plunged over on Then his feet were pressed for long minutes Its side. In the cruel light that between a crude press, end his buse al Tempaved for a Lysander wwal-and lu pick her up.
swung underneath
the aircraft, bathed the Injured aircraft i oniales broken........When he come She did and
within beurs stunned end in grave danger,
Scon saw the plot struggling to hold to, he was in a cell. une took off hom the airfield. The pilot juggled the
there were more questions, mero But
The spy fell
ground rushed ever beating. moro spells of un- countryside WELS alive with clear. She landed on half closer, and the flat increased. conscloumess. Gemans. Desperate. "Cabbage" purchate-but her information It was like diving into hell! He prayed for death took another risk and contacted helped greatly in
in D Day plans. Crumph! Another binding release him of the strain of not the head underground.
Another unforgettable ad- flash burst round the aircraft. betraying the secret base of They responded magnificently venture took place for me on In all my trips, I had never "The Cicuk and Dogger fo the occasion. The head of the night of January 20, 1943. seen such a barrage as this. Squadron." the local Resistance
Then came escape. It was a underloker. He got Dul his with freak lee atorms to Czecho- over the factory roofs. I saw simple one, He rolled out of
how by
the
whole and the semi-conscious illax, the plane on its crazy plunge.
an was
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For four hours we battled And then we were hopping
search is on in Hongkong for "The Thing." Topical is this story of
.
The Monkeys Who Took Up Housekeeping
THE most tantalising
Texperience
for EL
Société
Tokyo. RICHARD HUGHES culls some "oddities" from the notebook one could destily with certainty as to who struck it. The police, of a newsman in the Land of the Rising Sun
according to last reports, are still baffled by, the problem. foreign newsman who As a result there were re- Yokohama, 20 minutes from o snoring passengers and
Here, in conclusion, is a can't read Japanese, and ports by foreigners who, driving Tokyo. He removed his trousers, similarly disappeared.
mixed-big of ather. Tout news who must rely primarily on by a twilight, were startled by coat and bools in conventional His body was later found be stories in Japan: a sketchy. English-language the apparition of apes in loose Japanese travelling style, curled ride the tracks on the other side
conts and rakish straw hats, with up in his window-seat and fell of the kuldge,
Did
the "cover" of events, is the or without trousers, or with sleep.
Economic Counsel The first and only account 1 Board ever work out as three-yes- number of lively and trousers on back-to-front, Atories somersaulting from hut-roof to fascinating local
was a younger read of that flesh-crawling story tened, what the Pacific War cost equally respectable man identification.
said that neither man carried Japan in hard cash? hut-roof, scratching and scuffling but
the that he never manages
Whatever happened to to in open doorways-or strolling with ticket No. 3088, who had
austore Shikoku, police matron follow up.
with quiet dignity: hand-in boardedi
at Tokyo. MANSLAUGHTER MIX-UP who tried to poison her 12-year- the train hand, along the road.
Neither exchanged a word or ..took special note of each other.
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The past year in Japan, well recall, was replete with these lost (but never for gotten) nows stories.
I still lio, mweke at night, brooding over the amazing news story, and speculating on a un known oequel.
THE NIGHT TRAIN
Beside him
Just after midnight,
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'old' són ng· a mersure of disci- pline against his juvenile delin-
Then there was the fantastic quency?,
Orientals started
arose with a murmured apology Three
manslaughter mix-up at Nawate, How uocemaful were the
They
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