THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.
THE HUNT IS ON
A
THE STORY SO FAR
LBERT POOLEY, wounded in one of the first major war crimes committed by the Germans, has returned to France in 1946 at his own expense to establish the details. For no one in England bollovos that nearly 100 prisonors of war, man of the Royal Norfolk Rogimont, wore shot down in cold blood at Le Paradis, in 1940, and that Pooley and William O'Callaghan were the only survivors.
he calls
Although he is a dosperatoly sick man, Pooloy is dotermined to avenge his comrados. Accompanied by a
at the farm where he French friend, O'Callaghan sheltered in a pigsty for nine days after the massacre. Madamo Creton, who looked after them, goes him in a farmyard--and faints.
T
HE PrenehmYA IL helped Madame
Pooley is no longer fighting a
lone battle. Europe is scoured
for the murderers of Le Paradis.
A warmat officer naked Pooley asked to call again. A Germon
much end to fell as
as he could was brought into the office. remember of the shooting Pooley studied the man, his face ons miss out anything Some and bulld. When he had gone details may seen trivial to you the Warrant Officer asked, "Do but let's have them. They may you recognis this man?" thean a great deal to us."
"No."
Creton to her feet. THE VENGEANCE She printed in-
credulously at Pooley. They
of
had told her in 1940, when PRIVATE POOLEY
she inquired at
Bethune
hospital, that Pooley was dead. When she set eyes on his tall, gaunt figure in her farmyard, she thought she was seeing a ghost.
But
She cbt etd
F
laughed.
ch
and wep! When Brody her why he had turned to te Paredis, ok has some 1
Ju
PART 6
Adapted from the
book by
CYRIL JOLLY
his own evidenco
When Pooley had finished, the "Well, on Warrant Officer gathered up his he was one of the men behind notes and went out, He was the gums at Le Paradis. But he Ime and when he is not the man we are looking away a long returned he was accompanied by for. We want the man in com- Colonel A. P. Scotland, chief of mand, the big fry." the War Crimes investigation Uni!
Angry Colonel
"Why duin't you report
Poolty asked before, colore.
At this stege, Colonel Scot- land's men were still building up a pleture of what had actually occurred at Le Paradis
This The parish history', malo-
by the Cure of the tained
Paradis, was consulted.
They looked a tough bunch. Pooley took his time and walked round rach man...
from him after the battle. And photographs, pushed them across
red It was his guns that had been the desk, ned sald, "Look shoot down the through theen and see if you prisoners.
know anyone."
10
The men responsible, accord. ing Emke, was Hauptsturm- Juchner (Coplein) Fritz Knocchioln
No comment
The records showed that this O'Callaghan pleked out onc offices had bren in command of photograph—the man he had NJ. 3 Company, and deputy seen at the end of the line in the Le battalion commander. Plover in identification parade.
the jig-saw began to fall into
...The colonel mude no comment, Other place
Germans
con but seemed solisted. "A bursting bomb killed S.S. Armed that regimental talk had Colonel Goetz, whose father, a Inked Kasechlein's Prussian general, is a friend of
the MASSACTU Hiller. At this news the 5.5. Germans decided to kill British prisomers Ninety-seven English re-soldiers, prisoners of war, were
"I did, sir." was the reply.
"You die Who to? Whers?"
"Ta couple of Army interro- Balion officers
Hichinond
Tray of Convalmeval Clip on
tun ham tiermany, sit."
to grasp what he was saying
prised out two bullets He com- that thati-h She knew
Jaber with wast Mitered in pared them the meadow of a neighbouring op noved from his leg in farto.
That much was em haspital; they were identical. property oneng the lead pt- lation. But the Intimate that the tank run had fed and sticcosted farm had been involved.
The
I
meadow
At
theet
#1
-Wind was this""
In the timer of 1943, xir."
Colonel Sealand did not
Thre British cemetery. The Pastey vntered the little hedged plot with its rows of WOOGLE
There were bunches of restrukt T angor. "Someone hosh BowUTE lying here and will catch it for this." He furn- there, for the village folk still ed to the Warrant Offers "Find
Now she walked with Peojty back along the d where the printers hul inarched six YAN before She told him that the meadow belunged to the dam of brọn husband' brother, 1ts Croton
pale
PLUSZAKS
member.
out who was on this interrUKA - ten end what happened to the report
In the far
the Cormier, i Shindow of the hedge, was the
sanding offleur's grave
Nine days.
Puskey Welled u long time while the search was made. Al length the colonel returned.
And
"I'm afraid we cannot Back at Mme. Creton's farm, out who they were nor what has Boley walked into the passage- become of the report," said way and looked at the pigsty Colmel Scotland. "They're st which had
We've sheltered him and in the fog of the past. CrCiellaghim for nine days. A also lost three years. If we had couple of pigs now occupied it.
that report We could have 1 Pooley was st jealouAN.
picked these people up straight wway. Now we have to scour Europe for them. But we'll And them. It it's the last thing we do we'll And than.”
Posty stopped at the way. The farmhouse had bren Debuilt.
A now hem gate had replaced the ons through which his comrades
tuid marched their death But the Mukw Was just as he ivmembered it. Just an had acen if in
When he returned to Bethuns, she was funt and slek tran pen
mind's eye by day, and in his in his leg and slomuch, but a dreama piaght
Now. གཝཱ ber texxxt mewlow
again. with Me Croton at his side, he knew he had been right. Now let that stare talk about a cock and bull story!
with him
feree triumph pussessed hian, Now they must listen to hum. It From the Germon Orders of fell into Allied addition to the bullets, he had Battle, which
cutting fru a hands after the war, the investi- French newspaper giving the gutors were exon able to trace local version of the massUCTE. the German formations which had been in action at Le Cornet Hus French friends were Malo and Le Paradis in shocked that nothing had been 1940 The records showed that the erlimaals to the 2nd Infantry Regiment-..
May
He could see the spot where done & bring
The Cres justace, for the details were, of 11f the S. S. Totenkopf the shadi strut
hold him that of his cortades rourse had tvers busty buped in the Paradis. pil
where
they fil Tiy 1
Harl
Germans, but the French
laid all the bedies ma comm
gruve a few yards awAIEN
97 hodies
well known
American papers please copy
A PERSONAL STATEMENT BY.... RENE MacCOLL
HAVE never concealed the fact that I am a friend and an admirer of the United States of America. My admiration
America's is fully extended to President Eisenhower.
It is therefore as a friend that I speak now--a candid friend.
With growing uneasiness and occasional dismay I have been watching the way in which our two countries have been falling out of step regarda their foreign policies.
Nowhere is this loss of synchronisation worse than in the Mickle Eost.
The catastrophe lying in wait at the other end of the Mediter-
ranean could take a number of forms, esoging from the triggering neme with Months later, as the evidence An old French against him mounted, Radech of World War III to the denial to us of access to our vital oil woman
and German
soldiers lein did make a statement. He testifted that they had
sect gave a clear nocount of his rources, with all that would entail for our living standards. Knoechlein In the
neighbours movements during,
the fighting hood at the time it happened.
on May 27, 1940, but there was Kneechlein
was a significant gap unacequnted far between 3 and 5 p.m. And this brought to Lon was the futal perkx.
Pooley and O'Callaghan arrive at Hamburg
lo confront in court the man who planned Was
Le (Death's Head) Division
mat probably the regnent oncerned.
The police, both ut Ey-theme and at l Parudis. W090 1F3- formed of this new develop-
They passed ment
on what Information
they had to the military authorítica. The fuse If retribution was not Ninety-seven tides had been yet at hand, at least it was HOW Here A but Serve
hal lying in wait for the unknown read by the French priest. German ulcer who ordered the The grave had been fenced with massere of the prisoners he had parts and wire to keep away captured.
Was
Last stand
their death.
killed with machine-guns buried together,"
and
don for examina- 1lon. He was to a truculent mood.
Pooley was sent
for again. A
Identifica-
tion parado was slaged for his
benefi
In the courtyard
THE
THIS SPLIT PERSONALITY
WE State Department where Britain and her overseas possen- sions are concerned always tends to suffer from a bad cast of split personality.
Hail the time the State Department realises that Britain is for and oway America's strongest and best friend in a world which often gets to resemble a jungle. In that mood Washington will back us,
The patient investigation occupied the whole of 1947 and a large part of 1948. For mat of this time, Albert Foley was nighting his own battle against fil-health. The
he operation
But then there is the other mood, when America remembers bad put off to make his pil- with a start that she is basically "onti-colonial, anti-imperialist,"
to Le Parodis could be and all the rest of It.
longer
i no
He entered Roehampton of the Kensington Hospital, and on March 9,
Mra mansion eight men Pooley received a summons 10 were paraded; the hospital telling her that Some
wore Ger. her husband had been operated man uniforms, upon. others hod the She returned day after
day chocolate brown
while he hovered between life prisoner of war and death. It was streng will issue. They looked rather than strong constitution
bunch. it pulled him through.
劭 tough
Pooley took his
time and walked
round each man. One face seemed fomillar, thin- faced. keen-eyed. upright man.
"Well," he Was asked. "did you recognise any them?"
Recovery
Slowly he fought his way back to FELIVERY. He was well enough to say "yes" when, early in 1948, he received a letter from The Wa: Office asking if he would of be prepared to give evidence at
the trial in Hamburg f "Nit for certain alleged war criminal. But there Is one The long investigation
whose face ov
aver. The prosecution Wis familiar. I together its cose
man
seen
fore." Next came William O'Callag he's turn. Six Germans were lined up in the courtyard for his Albert Pooley was no longer inspectlis. fighting
lone battle. There
an
was
pieced
In that mood Anterien can do -- and has done -- much haún to our position in the world.
The diplomatic role she played in our hurried departure from
Egypt, for example, is not something on which I care to dwell, Nor has Amerien hitherto been a friend-in-need over Cyprus. The Mayor of New York publicly condones a monster procession through the streets of Manhattan sympathising with the Eoka terrorists. The U.S. Ambassador in Athens Ands it necessary to make some remarkable statements of "sympathy" with Greece.
And yet if we were to weaken and leave our Cyprus base —
what a bellow of alarm would go up from serom the Atlanile.
THE SIX-MONTH 'TEA-BREAK'
DUT apart from these two "moods" of America, and the un- certainty over which is likely to be in the ascendant on any given day, we also find ourselves, becalmed and frustrated by Election Year.
The eyes of the American politicians are fixed inwards, Tho domestic scene is all that counts. The only thing with which they want to occupy their minds is "The Vote" "The Jewish Vote,"
The Irish Vole," "The Greek Vote," etc.
In the far-off days when the world was a simpler, quieter, less dangerous place that may have been all very well. And in ase and prepared these days the U.S. was not the No. 1 Power of the Western World as she is now. What she did or didn't do was not of such concern to the lives and hopes of millions of men and women everywhere as it is now.
I say to America- you cannot any longer afford the luxury
of a sort of alx-months-long “tea-break" while you knock off and
The have a lovely time of it playing polities among yourselves,
world won't wait for you. Nasser is not that obliging. The Arabs
Pooley and O'Callaghan met and Jews have accounts to netile. King Saud has no "American again on Liverpool Street station in October, 1945. Together, they Vota" to bother about. He just has American dollars -- lota of them.
Во голе travelled to Hamburg
the man frent in open court who had planned their death,
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am sure I have for the day when Frilz Knoech-
him bc- lein was sland his trial.
He was
was accused of "comunit- ting a war crime in that he, in the vicinity of Le Paredis, Pre- de-Calais, on or about May 27, 1940, in violation
fon of the laws and usages of
of war, was concerned in were men, eager to see Justlov O'Callaghan walked up to the killing of about ninety done, who were able to scour them and looked closely at each prisoners of war." the prism camps of Europe to one. He stopped at the inst man find the necessar evidence. in the line and stared search- Sometimes A laborious chase ingly at his face.
the discovery that ended with
had been killed in 3ater fighting away. O'Callaghan raid,
The six Germans were taken the man they wanted to question
"I've the end of or was still In Russian hands. seen that bloke at British officers interrogatink
the ilne. But they found a man called "Where?" prisoners of war were instructed Through the 120g years of the
who had The investigation
com- the to watch for S.5. men who had Theoder Enke, nccupation The villagers
had alrocity at Le Paradis was con- been in 1R2, and three or four manded the machine-gun section him somewhere.
His 4 Company, IR2.
The colonel sent for O'Calla- Crimes prisoners were found who had of No.
section had been taken away ghan. He took out a sheaf of
be
cattle, a Cessed up, and the sted helmets the men space!
around the edge
tended 15
with
Barbed wire
of
the War
From the Bles of Rie German Tonnel department they were able to name the officers ITS com- command of the various this
regiment. Bul panics ias which was the company that had actually captured Duries Farm, Norfolks had made where the their last Mandy
from ducted by flower's cut luge and Baboure gardens. Investigation Unit after Pooley's been in Le Paradis on May 27. Laire the bedies had been burbed in the British cemetry, ed to call at the London District don District Cage for interroga- return to England. He was nsk- They were brought to the Lon-
Poley walked up the red Cage Eus Kensington, a lorge tlon. brick wall the stable. He mansion surrounded
by barbed took a knife Frem his pocket wire with an armed guard at A week or so after his first
dur into the brickwork and the entrance,
visit to Kensington, Pooley was
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I talked to one of his patients as he walled for an operation. Not a dowager duchess. But a
Above all, I say this respectfully to President Elsenhower:— We all know that you are a brave man. We all remember how you were willing to take big decisions. Please go in taking ble decisions — now, tomorrow, the next day. Please don't walt until after the elections are over in November before you feel fice to take any more decisions.
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A
"Don't think it's vanity. disfigurement like this depresses the mind. Ever since my school- days they've called me Neddy, Little jokes soon build up into complex. That's what's happened to me,"
a
The operation took no longer than a haircut. The surgeon held a mirror before the patient's face. He had a new proâle. And a new perronailly.
And a minor stampede to the plastle surgeries has been "What's my trouble? My enured since commercial TV
cars.'
Plastic surgery, once the beauty box of the women's ing the dozen plastic surgeons stropping six-foot naval rating. Smart Set, is sweeping the in the country country. And men are today. asking for the removal of facial defects as casually as they ask for a "short back and sides" at the barber's.
-skorted. More and more stars are appearing on the screens. I looked at them. They stuck Many need treatment first. out like jug handles.
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