Pagë 17
A att
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JULY 2, 1956,
THE GAY PRINCE CHAPTER TWO OF THE REAL INSIDE STORY OF THE MAN AT THE CENTRE OF THE DUTCH CRISIS
THE POWERS HE'S
UP
AGAINST
ARE VAST-AND HE KNOWS IT
When W
Amsterdam FEW weeks back 1 attended a conference In one of the Sean- dinavian countries. It waA a private affair from whic the Preas
excluded. Germna WAN
myself, published
11.
By Sefton Delmer
It was a valuable and lemon for the future.
Greet Hofmans In her curavan pre-fab in the
followers house of one of her
before Barn-weeks
the news review Spiegel Its sensationi dia- <losures she loid me how in 1968, not long after she had first as much not to reveal what was said come to the court. or who said it.
---
All participantes among them were pledged
thot
So all I can 11 ya A small platures of tape S political. Bhaticia), bil Luthe
exp hal
Atlanta – KETURI
They ww
Braw
1
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European opgente maubman.
Eland
The Bastali Party Two Colonel Ministerin, ++ 11- Shadow ber of the Sociolast Cubliet, and a couple of wat time Servier chiefs
the prince And taken her into a corner and put lion to her.
!
Re had asked her what he make mcll do, she said, batter ** n! has f "He to me to be suffering fures a base of frustration."
J
Kral sen!
of
vital thim ruch a successful commer- cial tanveller for his country' in alter Rie War - especially
over-
What Igner, however, looked was the complete loyalty of the prince, his sincere single ness of purpose. Once Bernhard had become a Dutchman he was
Dutchman "
1 all his Dutch patriot,
#raci forefathers hack fathers been Dutchmen.
ARREST
J
#
the threw Prince Aschwin out the Wehrmacht with every possible
ignominy. Amgurit, the prince's
WHEN Hiller came to routine 1}t་༥ during the war he tried to take it out of Bernhard's were Well ever believe it. When mother and brother who
Jakt been cognmander-in- in his power, het of the Dutch forces during the war he had manch
bility and work
Now, in 1941, tu was interely serving on countles, none of whose recommendations. *** procitar
Hve three-day seemed to
Pareful parite
night
And who do you think was in the Chair" Whose lab was at lo
Pe preskle すかす meeting which without direction and leadership curlly have generated in'o time-wasting or Jing-win led
FRANK
any
USS Hofmans had the stre
she
symptom of pigs plantes M lane on Sum
It was Prince Beynhard!
And it was an eye-opener how well the prite run this mee4- Ind
Itely. I suppose. I have TILL business being surprised For
discovered very soon after The we first met way back earliest Thirties that underneath
thed on the quiven
buel
"You queen die studi 111 b the Kreatest KELIEN Holland ever hunt if
Te
To the prince the said "You to a Hollast: love at in vous ats Tops Perstomically and non- csally if you will
The if in both eases anumantei flofinans's 1a+t༠ཝཾསྭཱ!t?ཏྠ13H; MIC algedly inspired advice.
to
all the fun of party-going **** party-giving this price is essentially SOUT US - mizs be ektizen; constantly examining his functions as to whether he was vas making a sufferent contribution atinost the
Wher world
necepted thought gratefully Miss Hofmans's offer of help the prince, to my and a shrewder, cooker, tu tætter Fudge of human nature, refused.
beringly SO Rometimes.
have
QUESTION
EVEN MINS
Greet
Hofmans,
the faith healer whose 10-
IN
quen
My warst experiene
1
the river's essential serious-
when he C70
be-
fuence over Queen Juliana the 4401110 engaged weretly at that
pritice is fighting.
essential rerionastiest
hard.
Aciality.
nammits the
lage tes
of 31.12. June 1938
me
Princess Juliana
in
Mind you, nt the same
When he tell me about IT arroganer, fully expectest him to give she accuses him of
LITE Impatience, and shallow super- his jb with the JG. Dyes Trust and to go on at least a that bachelor binge mission in V-8 Ford convertible of which he was proud.
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It was his last chance before the altars and discipline of h new public fire would close in
South Americq.
l that capacity he malched mere than one contract fer follend that looked like going To Germany-ind sometimes to
Britain.
Peron and Evita did not want to accord him full honours when be visited the Argentine in 1951. But
Bernhurd,
who with his friends
dis informality itself
friends are men of all parse:was adamant on getting the full works from the Argen finans, a 21-gun salute, a guard
and of honour
the nationa anthem.
his
10
his
he
انه
He won his point. After that Princess he wus charm and lesformality
mother, itself with the general and no time at all virtual bouse senora. kr other estate, They had hind not only the signature
but the Necessity an appalling hue of it, the two Penn
ministerial signature to of them, during the war
contract for Dutch 1 fancy, however, that these £60,000,000 early
Dyes loro-motives, If days
has 1G The lessons Dr Is the prince then all serious- franing Iler gave him then may have tes with no frivolity in him at had quite a share
I
Tes revall?
On the contrary, he is as fond as ever of the rathar Edwardion practical Jokes he likes to play co people.
And Queen Juliana, brought her up to prim propriety by strait-laced mother, enjoys these jokes as much as he docs.
PROTECTION
TODAY Prince Bernhard is Aghting with everything ho remoyo from the has got to
the court the faith healer and clique of her supporters. He is in order
that his doing so daughters, of whom he lo im- mensely fond and proud, shall be protected from this kind of intrusion.
And he is doing so to liberate his queen from an influence which he regards as morbid and of unwholesome and the cause her and his own unhappiness.
The powers mobilited against him in this fight are vast and
He knows it. strong.
The fight JA only Just beginning.
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then the dragon and
a blonde give up a secret
WAITED
Vienna
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At the far end of the in the fourth door hallway, there woods for darkness--
a light. Only a faint and there wasn't much
OIN. It came from under- of it when it came. neath a door, and I crept to- But, in a way, 1 was glad. wards it. I was almost there shadows there were when it suddenly opened. 1 What among the trees and unier- jooked around widly for a growth were enough to give place to hide, and found a light stand with a large urn upon me cover, and what there was from the tiny i behind which I crouch;
at he did not do so,
went to his chief segment of the moon enabled but I knew it wouldn't help
In rast. ht and asked for a transfer to theme to Any lend
Dyes concern.
of the 1.6.guing. offer
"I want to learn Dutch,"
tol Hern with complete frank-
"I want to learn
att tris Potty
Titled
for my new job.
see
where
I was if the person coming through
the door came my way.
11 was von Grotewahl, As I crawled through the wiro and into the von He was in his dressing gown Grotewahl estate, I had a and pyjamas, and he
I want to fit myself queer but only too familiar talking to I was the room. feeling in my chest. back in the war days again, man's voice snaking through the Nor- then she too mandy woods around Villers door, and in
AN AGENT?
A killer has struck down Johannsen, the shy delegate from Sweden, at the Interpol conference now nearing its end in Vienna. The hunt for the murderer takes Joe Packson to the estate of Herr von Groto- wahl on the borders of Red He is also secking Hungary.
C.1.D: girl Fraulein Annaliese who has been kidnapped.
was
THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE .
No. 8
von Grotewah Gaus gülden Drachen Egegr.1566S
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THE SIGN OF THE DRAGON
GROTEWAHL'S EMBLEM
on
re-
was hind his back. I confess that to take a chance and telephone seatlered remains were lett sen's name was mentioned. Tho
the ground.
paper described him 03 the someone inside I was not gentle with him. the pulire."
greatest records keeper in the I heard a WO-
Even as 1
speaking I The Inspector said: "I'm sorry world, with a remarkable knack, Then I got up and went heard a note from outside. I for the dog. For him it's just as of piercing disguises, and answering, and
to the room und slowly rushed to the window, and down well,"
membering descriptions and came to the
Laces. the light I opened the door. The blonde in the courtyard, in the glare of
We pieced the story together finally this afternoon when we
"It also went on to say, R MAX 11GNER he was Bocage ---- conscious that I could see her blonde hair was sitting with her back to several headlights, I saw then in
get back to C.I.D. The Vienne this is what made D",
von Grott upon which n girl was lying. when was in enemy territory and and sunburned face and me, looking down at a couch uniform pouring out of cars.
"I don't need t," I said to poller, while I was raging at wal pian murder, that Johan he and fellow directors were there were booby-traps recognised her.
care of the them for not cering, had been Annaliese. She was breath- Annallest. "Take
sen's Bobby was keeping ti Grote clrculating plastic surgeons 521 War--jumped at Prince Bein-ahead.
the caly one let ofT
tried at Nuremberg after
hard's songestion. He loved the idea of um 1.G. Dyes man as the
hu-band of the future Queen of Holland.
He saw in Bernhard a magni- DECIDED
Beent
e-st
for the further Pxpansion of 1.G. operations,
und perhaps even of Hitler's the under-pinnings of
to second-floor balcony
Third Reich, and travelled
ar
I had been ing deeply, almost snoring, blade and I'll get von Grow the city--to ed out if any had records and pictures of all to
wahl."
be fast
I
to take chance, and shinned
-the
4 blonde whom Annaliese had and followed into the Diana Baths on the day she was ater kidnapped.
back.
Now I knew
KNEW suspecting von and appeared to
HE right in
AND But when I got into the hall, noved a stab wound from the Timinals reported dead or mis
man answering WOULD
BE MEETIN Grotewahl, for here was the sleep.
win Grotewahi was not where you Graewahl's description. JOHANNSEN EVERYWHER blonde who had been in the
went up to the blonde left him. I was just in time to
Von Gratewall weld the dragon PARTICULARLY A number car
HE WA which carried and grabbed her arms with ste him disappearing round the
PARTY GARDEN dashed was tattooed on him in a Russian I earner of the stairs.
GIVING FOR INTERPOL. But a up off poor Johannsen
Viennese one grip and stopped her after him, taking the stairs three prison camp.
there was no alternative. taticoing "д mouth up with the other, and four at a time; but he knew tattoist remembered
hud to kill. And he would haj and put my
knee in her his own house better than I did, the von Grolewahi arms on
and he was quicker. I was still crazy leaking men in a bind killed successfully, if Johanns at the second flight when he beard" in 1951-three years after hadn' reached the ground floor and von Grotewahi came back from description."
Russle, was racing for the door.
AL that moment, burst in.
shoulder
of a
AT
the police
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Vch Grolewahl the sary time. and looked around In
saw them at
give him many long and carnest hlaved myself over. Then foetures on conomies anch
still for minute lay politics-all designed to help to
to minute. put Germany on the road work rule.
I had to do some calcula- For after all was not young tions. I had no idea where Prince Bernhard a Zur Lippe- Blosterfeld, also a binck-shiriet, Annaliese was hidden. But I in could calculate from where jnekbooted probationer Hider's elite S.S. motor corps? I had picked up her note the The prince, now a Dutchman, point from which it might latened and digested eartfully.
have floated down.
I decided she must be * German equivalent of our own
Chemical
much Imperial
Industries. | hidden
higher up was broken up under Allied orders than this, and decided to
take a chance on the fourth floor first.
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"We've got "Keep your eye on her. I Grotewahl," I said; "I'm don't like the wwu things going to release your mouth are going," von Grotewah! said in German.
"She'll be safe with me. You worry too much," the blonde replied. Then she put her arms around him and kissed him goodnight.
1 made my way cautiously NOW the
down the corridor until I
up.
This fact-fiction thriller serial has been written on the spot by
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tricky moment
was coming. I waited
written that cod
-
I said: "You can thank Inte pol for that.”
The Inspector looked first me and then at Annallege,; pri he smiled. "We can thank Inter panic, and I tor decided that von Grote Mr Packson, why don't you take other things too, I think.
turned, TT was then that the inspec-
then made for the back door. Like
undergrowth and through the woods. denly I knew where he was go- ing.
a hare he raced into the Wahl might well be an impostor Fraukein Aumaliese to Interpols
All the Grotewahl relatives who farewell get-together at Melk' off*** mado
remembered him this afternoon? It is 60 miles up might have And sud were either dead or in prison in the Danube and you can tell
If wor criminal Hungary.
nai her how much she will like Eng- nemed Walter Kirchen had been land on the way! with the real von Grotewahl in Russia and had seen him die, he the dend could easily assume man's identity-and gain riches cod vast estates instead of a place In the dock at a war
"Stop him!" I shouted, "He's making for the frontier,"
*
And then suddenly something
to
Bu RUT he was fast and he knew crimes trial. found the stairs, and went until he came abreast of me, now, but I warn you, some the way. Every yard he But why had he killed littko the records keeper i by-passed the third and then I reached out and thing nasty will happen to gained on us. In the pale dawn Johansen,
you.
light, I could see him getting from Stockholm? floor and climbed to the put my forearm around his throat. It was a difficult
closer and closer to the barbed
It was Fraulein Annalizsa who fourth.
Then I called out to the figure wire; and then suddenly he was
and move, because I had to stop
Οτι the couch. "Annaliese, through and, walking carefully came in at that moment, him making a sound-but Annaliese Wake up"
now, his eyes on the ground, he explained. The blonde has been she said. "Her real I didn't want to kill him. A
alaried tiptoeing towards the talking." The blonde said: "You'll never
line of wire-and the name is Greta. Kirchen, and she And, with a wily customer wake her up.
German Walter Kirchen's We drugged her second
wife. like this, I had to be quick meals. She'll be out for hours safely of Red Hungarian terri-
tory. and the slightest mistake AL that, the Agurs on the
"She cama here secretly couch moved, and fast. Annalieso might break his neck.
was on her feet. With a quick streaked past us and dived over join him two years ago, after he Von Grotewahl had movement, she had slipped be the wire end went in chase of had built up his respectable tween the blonde and me and von Grotewall. It was the police reputation, taken over. She put a lock en dag. Von Grotowrhi must have every rape of getting the olf heard it coming, for he turned concessions from the Austria Goverment now they have been and chouted--.
released by the
Russians-and She said: "You and, Grote-
"Go back, go back, Adolf!" in had made a deal with the German.
Rustirns to let them in on it, wahl must think I'm a fool. I'm not drugged. I'm hungry. I
once he got control.!! haven't cater for days." To mo But he was too late. The dog sho
demonstrated the lock on reached him and began leaping She added: "He'd have got With the belt of the dress the blonda's arm. "Good oven- up at him in greeting; end in its away with it too if it hadn't
Ita anthusiasm pushod" foot been for Johannsen. Von Groto- his mouth, and with the Sho will be sate with moth
and article in a Visena "newspaper "Good," I said, "Von Grote sudden fearing explosion
the Interpol con- strong alik cord of the wahls tied up in the hall. I'm cloud of flame and smoke and just before pyjamas I tied his hands be going downstairs and I'm going when it cleared only a fow Zerence began in which Johann
PERCY
HOSKINS
MOSLEY
Instead, as I crammed on the pressure, 1. felt him choke, and then wit; but there was no tell-tale crack of anything vital breaking. He was out, but he was still alive.
"!
ther blonde's arm.
ing gown I tied a gag around ing Jog, I have her tight now beinst his chest. There was a wall; alias Kirchen, saw
THE END
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