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THE RUSSIAN WHO TALKED
PETROV LIVES IN FEAR
by
ARTHUR MORLEY
Sydney.
VLADIMIR Petrov, the
Russian Embassy official and secret service WNS agent whose
name
blazoned across the world last year lives today. with' one constant companion- Fear..
You remember the sengn- tional Petrov case?
Petrov W 19
third
secretary at the Russian 'in Canberra-
Embassy officially.
Unalficially, he was head of the Soviet Intelligence network in the Dominion of Australia, with the job of collecting such British, Australian American and
military information as he could gather in Canberra,
Then, last year, he walked out of the Embassy and told Australian his story to
security oflicinis, from whom he sought guarantees of political refuge.
The news was announced by Prime Minister R. G. Menzies, Russian sources de- nounced Petrov as a traitor, and/or claimed that he had been kidnapped.
BIG CHANGE
That was
last year..
Now Petrov is known to be
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1955.
The Teddy-Boy Teddy Bears
* EXPRESSION TRAENIONALLY USED
TO DESCHIDE
"What are you giving 'em today-bayonet practice or Bebop?”
-(London Express Service).
Flames Belched Out, Blown Back in
Fiery Streamers by the Wind
DRAMA in
the CLOUDS
when Alcock and Brown challenged Fate in their
time
象 at
from the cogine and was slowly They were barely 500ft from turning red-, then white-hoi, the sen. and finally meiting away.
Flames belched out, blower With that nerve-racking take- in fear of his life. Like the The story, so far has told of
wind. The noise was defending Russian official Kravchenko, Alcock and Brown's race against off safely behind them, Alcock back in thery stramers by the
in preparation, in Canada, he has sought to John's, Newfoundland, for the and Brown could relax inside they could not hear their vive open cockpit voices-but the engine still kept "lose" himself, among the
great venture of their lives, their cramped
The sun shone through gaps in running. scores of thousands of Euro-Ahead of them lies the uncon- pean migrants who are now living in the capital Australian cities.
Australian Only the security agents who guard handful of per- him, and a sonul friends, know where he is. him,ityrlitle yk 'wo won dt
His name has barely been mentioned in
Australian the press for months; inquiries on
his welcomed.
movements
are
not
has
His whole appearance changed,
Strange visions
quered Atlantis, air-and the the clouds overhead, enabling Daily Mail's £10,000 prize It they succeed. At last comes Brown to take his navigational Alcock carefully the moment!..., the take-off. sghts, whic
coaxed the Viny upwards, s
the first sounds of ALL evening they flew through watched ang for
the strain from the engines," for-
£9
THE crowd breathlessly
lurched Vimy wards over the ground with the two Royce Eagles roaring throttle.
terrifle
20
sun
the clouds, unable to see the below. above or the sca Brony continued to navigate by dead-reckoning until late that evening, at 6,000ft, they finally emerged from the clouds into a cicar sky.
+
Ahead they saw a great bank rough of fog that completely cut or Rolls- the horizon. With the at full load of petrol and oil they were
carrying it was impossible climb and fly over the top. Sud-
It grew dark, and the flaming denly they were hemmed in by exhaust cast weird shadows on. a thick grey mist, unable to see the towering bomits of cumulus. even the wing-tips. With dra- The battery heating their dying matic gestures Brown urged suits failed and they shivered in Alcock to cimb, He must see the cold night air,
Alcock sat rigidly at the controls, sweat streaming down his face, holding the Vimy down for as long as learn. When he he dared. His eyes were surrendered himself,
When Inst fixed on the high stone wall Jaunty and rotund.
fir wood that came recognised in Sydney, several and months ago, he was a sick and thin man, hobbling with the aid rushing towards him. of a walking-stick.
he was
The strain of his break with the Embassy, and the Royal Commission inquiry into Soviet espionage here, have gravely undermined his health.
He has had to receive hospital treatment for pneumonia, and subsequently has been in the hends of the doctors for thrombo-phleblus, acuto arthritis of the right ankle and knee joints, and spondylitis.
I understand, however, that he
Then, with barely a
yards hundred
left, he gently lifted the heavily laden biplane into the air, clearing the tree-tops by inches.
The spectators went mad with joy, throwing their hats into the air, shouting and waving at the Vimy, which was now only a tiny
is still satisfied that his decision speak in the distance.
to leave the Soviet service was
the correct one, He says it would be better to work as a
Alcock and Brown were
at
4.13 p.m.
labourer in a free country than airborne
Rusalan Embassy...
THE FINDINGS
The
FLIGHT TO GLORY
by Graham Wallace
At intervals Brown had to kneel up in his sent to examine the engines and their gauges with a torch while the wind ripped at
half his clothing, dragging him out of the cockpit. Alcock never took his hands off the controls for one instant, For 10 hours he sat unmoving in his seat.
Shortly after midnight they broke out of the clouds into all the splendour of the night sky. Brown worked out their position almost by the stars. They were half-way. By now both the were feeling the strain of the flight, Brown was so tired that ho began to see strange viskins,
the sun to keep check on their The moon became distorted into position.
and connee-
The plunge
with
tantasie shapes, while all around the clouds seemned taristed into They searched desperately for grotesque
gimanta and ogres
the Viny a break, but the cold, clamany threatening to live in the atmosphere of (G.M.T.) on Saturday, June fog covered them like a blanket, destruction,
Brown WIG Lorrid to constant suspicion and hatred 14, 1919. For the first few and that he remembers in the minutes they flew inland navigate by dead reckoning. He over the barren Newfound- beg to transmit a routine message back to Newfoundland: land countryside to gain climated position of Vimy "
unwound altitudo. Brown
was just becoming Suddenly the apparatus THE sky
light with the dawn when Andinge of the Royal the wireless aerial and
went dead, Brown, checked
disaster nearly ended their flight. Commission into explonge in tapped out his first message: all the terminals
They emerged from a bank of Austraila, started as a direct "All well and 'started." Hons inside the cockpit and cloud to see a huge black mass result
of his disclosures, will
found everything in order. Then probeer.
be made known in At 1,000ft. they turned he looked over the cockpit edge of cumulo-nimbus blocking their
No time tains. There wine
to sittings that extended and flew back over the city and realised what had happened, path like a vast range of mou
and they plunged produced of St John's, passing over The propoiler of the
right into
heart of months,
the out power their wirelt was storan, 3.200,000 words of evidence, the the harbour, where ships generice had aboured off, With ter course Commission concluded its hear-saluted them with their useless and their only means of ings in April.
The Vimy wes.gripped by 0 bonock Some of the disclosures were sirons. Both men, turned to sending an 8.0 8 in on emer-
Bucklion turbulence and Communist wit-look at the great Atlantic cony was gone, sensational.
around like nesses sald in evidence that a breakers pounding against
For another hour they 000- large branch of the Communist the cliffs below them, their introd lying castwards, oval- galo, while Alcock lost all sense Party existed in Canberra, and that many trusted civil servants last glimpse of land until owed up in the fog. Modature of directions and baiatke. Hall-
After
12
and
were among the members.
One self-confessed Communist told the Commission that he had. been in charge of Government wurity arrangements at atraletically,
uraniumi, project..
coollengod
everywhere
wing-
the
the
a falling leat in a
stones boat into the cockpit anta thek Bashed aroundove, the quiveraa andi vente, mirjed arbobebims to break away from carefully the fundinge.
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they reached Ireland,
the Rum
Into the fog
with.
H
at they burst out Browns
dibg, moral comple
Murine started HAIL received Payment of £6,000 from the Australian emment, when he surroun ed Soviet documents to Aurichling security. How He will live.
at Soud-stretchect
1
He loosened his safety-balt and renched for Alcock's, ex- crumble of wood and fabric and feel the pecting to hear the sudden shock of ity water at any moment,
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