One day, in the back room of a bookshop, Hasumi was introduced to an "American" named "johnson." He had met Richard Sorge.
Do You Happen To Be
Left-Handed?
By a Special Correspondent
ARE you among the four to eight per cent of human beings who happen to be left-handed,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATUNNAY, AUGUST 0, 1958.
SORGE the master spy of the century
IT is not the habit of grateful Governments to erect statues to spies who serve them well and perish in the line of duty. If it were there would be one in the Red Square in Moscow to commemorate Dr Richard Sorge, hanged in the Sugame Prison in Tokyo early on the morning of September 6, 1944.
And on the base of the statue there would be a plaque bearing the name of his faithful assistant, Ozaki Hozumi, executed five minutes before his master. Together they were the centre of what was probably the most efficient, and the most successful, spy-ring of the century,
Sorge will rank as one of the greatest spies of alt time.
It is the ambition of all sples to get "on the inside and stay there. Richard Sorge etayed there for 12 ycats. He worked na a spy for the Soviet Union in China and Japan from 1929 un- tit 1941. Few py-cings last' anything like as long as that.
A fantical ideological Com- munist posing as a loyal Nazi, Sorge established himself as the intimate trusted adviser of the Germay Ambassador in Tokyo, Eugen Ott.
He is believed to have actual- ly drafted for Ott the clauses of he East-West Axia agreement.
He also got much information from Colonel Joseph Melsinger. hend of the Gestapo espionage system in the Far East.
• Adviser Hozuen! worked himself into the position of unocial adviser to the Japanese. Cabinet, and later was in the inner circle of Friends of Prince Konce, three Filmes Prime Minister, with ne- cess to the most secret docu- ments and telegrams.
How did Sorge and Hozumi get themselves into these post lions of trust and build up espionage network consisting of nearly 40 men and women, come of whom were quite they were spying for Russa? By a mixture of Infinite patience, meticulous attention to detall, and o modicum of luck. enabled Sorge to keep the Fourth Bureau of the Red Army Intelligence fully inform
which
on
unaware
preparations for nearly nine
or do you number any left-handed persons amonged on Japanese war plans and your family or close friends?
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years.
That he succeeded so well in If so, has it been your opinion that left-handed-
country where there is a ness carries disadvantages
other than the dis-deep-rooted suspicion of all and where the advantage that some parents and schoolteachers foreigners,
accurity police, the Tukkaka, were constantly on the look-out have done their best to 'correct' this phenomenon
for Communist zctivity and in the young, though nowadays such efforts to
espionage, is quite astonishing. make children conform to the general pattern of Richard Sorte was born In relying mainly on the right hand are usually Baku, South Russia, in October, 1895. His father was German; hig frowned upon?
mother Russlan.
It may not be generally Another opinion is that the realised that left-handedness right-handedness of the majorl can sometimes be а distinct ty is merely an acquired habit, advantage. This is the case in due to most mothers accustom- various sports, including boxing ing their children to eat with the and baseball, where a departure right hand
from
confuse the normal can
certain,traties
Incidentally, people tend to
the opposition. It is also the place more reliance on one eye and Ban on the other. It has been case in
that some sevenly crafts, where a left-banded estimated person can more easily perform per cent of right-handed per- sons are also right-eyed, and specific tasks that would prove
handed individuals are corres-
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His parents took him to Berlin, where he was educated and grew
up an apparently loyal citizen of imperial Germany. But he did not forget that his paternal grandfather, Adolf, had been Meretary to Karl Marx.
Field agent
Sorge, fought in the 1914-18 war in the German Army and was twice wounded Later, he took the degree of a Doctor of Political Science at Hamburg University. After working aa a miner and schoolteacher he be came a journalist, Joining the Hamburg branch of the Com- munist Party on its formation in 1919. He also perfected his knowledge of Russian,
Becoming an
active Party member, he acted as an under-
by
Colonel
John Baker White
In
brown hair. His face, and fore- head were lined and furrowed, the face of one who had dived. every moment of hla Me. There were arrogance and cruelty in the set of his eyes and the Uno of his mouŽIL
Outwardly he was a typical Naz, arrogant, swashbuckling, quick-tempered, a hard drinker who had at least 30 mintresser during his time in Tokyo.
But it was not a discarded mistress or a tongue loosened by saki that led to the master-spy's downfall.
He was nocidentally betrayed to the secret police by a follow- Communist a Japanese, inflamed with jealousy and stimulated by what the Japanese police call. "prolonged examination."
The Japanese gave the name of He had a woman, of whom ho was
jealous, as a secret Communisl,
she was a member of the Sorge But in doing so he had no idea organisation.
con" named "Johnson." met Richard Sorgf.
December, 1932, Sorto returned to Moscow for orders. Told to go to Tokyo and organise a completely new spy-ring, be
woman and her husband left for Berlin in May, 1833, lo were arrested on September 28, establish bis cover-that of 1941, and "examined." She special correspondent in Japan named Myogl, another member for the "Frankfurter Zeitung," of the ring, and under torture he the "Bergen Kurler" and the in his
Ozaki turn uncovered
arrested "Amsterdam Hankelsblatt." Then Hezuml. Hozumi was he applied for, and got without on October 14. question, à Nazi Party card.
• Net closes He landed in Yokohama on September 6, 1833. It did not
The net was closing on Sorge. take bim Jong to establish his Four days later, wills he was Py-ring, complete with a radio still in bed, the police called for contact him. The trial followed familiar transmitter, and make with Hozumi, now the "con- fidant" of the Japanese Cabinet, lines and, with Hozumi, he was
sentenced to death. Lack allied to judgment be-
Richard Sorge died as he had
Club, Sorge met the
golden taper- of the Amidha Gernian attache, Colonel Eugen Ott.
military Buddha to stand as the trap in the execution chamber as the The spy's Nazl Party card and noose was adjusted round his After three years' training he procs pass were sufficient to give neck. His last words were to the began his hazardous work as a
him an entree to the German prison officials thank you "field agent" in Germany and Ambassador, von Dirksen. Scandinavia, His cover was that of correspondent for an obscure German magazine.
ground courier, and in 1924 was gan to take a hand. At the Get-lived, bravely, passing before a
Ussistant
summoned to Moscow to become man a special agent of the Communist International.
In 1920 he returned to Moscow and applied for a transfer from the Caminitern to the Red Army Intelligence. The transfer
Sorge's friendship with Ott for all your kindnesses."
is story has two surprising ripened, and the attache began
Lequels, to show, him secret documents.
Arrogant
At the game time Hoztami was
Too late, the Gestapo dis- covered that all the time they bad had a file on one Richard Sorge, known Comiaterm agent passing him copies of the top-
and suspected spy. And six years granted, he went in January, secret Japanese Cabinet paper.
later the Japanese who betrayed 1930, to Shanghai, still using his When war broke out in 1030 same cover. He worked with ott had become Ambassador. Central
him was a member of the
Committee astonishing speed, for a spy, He appolated
Within a year, he had at least atlache on the Nazi payroll, Well Japanse Communist Party. 20, agents, covering most of informed by his fellow-spies, China, working for him.
Sorge had much to tell his nuster; in turn, Ott had much to tell him.
• Plotting
Sorge
press
the
Can it be that the Communist Party and the Sovio Intelligence did not know-perhaps do not know today how the Sorge The Ambassador showed Sorge spy-ring came to be broken?"
There is the top-secret signals from Ber-
another, more
Sorge lin, and consulted him about his romantic, story of
concerns downfall which
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In the years that Sorge Was working his way up the ladder of plotting and espionago, Ozaki Hozumi, born in 1001, the second replies.
of a journalist, was em And all the time Sorge was cabaret-girl to whom he is sup- branding Communlara, ofler à ansmitting code messages to brilliant graduation from the the Fourth Bureau in Moscow. Tokyo Imperial University. In 1941
word he sent 40,000 Going to Shanghai la 1920, he groups. cunu into contact with the
I was given this picture of Chinese Communist Party. Sorge by one who knew hien well
One day, in the back room of at the height of his power. remembering Sorge's
posed to have revealed detaits of his secret activities.
The United States Intelligence Department's oficial account of Sorge's work and capture does not bear the story out.
And unusual
a bookshop on Soochow Creek, "Physically he was a big man, experience of women I give no he was introduced to un "Ameri- tall and powerfully built, with credence to the legend.
“Calling all officers in Cyprus...
GET COL. GRIVAS!
"IND Grivas and you smash Eoka once and for all!" Those are the instructions which
awkward for the right-handed and indivir toes have now been issued to British military and
Individual.
In the job of riveting, for pondingly left-eyed. instance, a gang of workmen welcome the presence in their midst of a left-hander who can deal with balls located in poal- tions that would require an almost acrobatic ability on the
*
Left-handedness In human beings is regarded as a heredi- tory condition. The child of a left-handed mother is likely to be left-handed as well. If the is left-handed but the mother right-handed, a child is not so likely to be left-handed, however.
part of his follows.
Why is it that the overwhelm- father
of human beings ing majority place so inuch more reliance on their right hands than on their left? This is a question on which innumerable researchers und theorists have written countless thousands of words.
Some authorities have cast their minds, back to prehistorie times in endeavouring to sock
con-
hands may have a tendency to A baby when clasping its
put one particular hand on top
been
decried by
intelligence officers recently taking part in the biggest anti-terrorist operations yet undertaken in Cyprus,
Reaction
Six nonths ago there was a
the
leaders have
"Unscrupulous*
He is the sole reason why Eoka's terror campaign of bloodshed and
goes on, cables DONALD McCORMICK But It is certain that he only. In official quarters my opinion came over or to the allied side will, I know, be frowned upon es with his "organization X" when "provocative," but I say un It was clear that the Allies had caltatingly that the British almost won,
Government should have won British intelligence officers say the suppory of the Turkish that even then he was "unscru- Cypriots three years ago and pulous, unreliable....a bandit of bull up out of these people- a the extreme right....a barely comter-espionage body. disguised Fascist out for his own
Then the Turkish Cypriots" ends."
wanted British rule to continue in Cyprus. They had no terrorist organisation of their ovin.
Kid Gloves
WEEKEND Friell
LABOUR
TÓRY
WHIP WHIIP
HOTICE
STATE OPENING PARLIAMENT Television Arrangements
"You know what I think? They'll all stay at home and watch it on TVI
"I'm following the new Dior line. I've let my skirt down five inches."
'I wish we'd stayed in the traffic jam, Bort!”
Pratdan
"Don't panic, it's a test flight of Intercontinental
Ballistic Missives."
"Of course, it all depends on what you mean by
normal, dojling...
HOTEL RIVIERA
CHESS
"If it succeeds perhaps Mr. Dulles will change his
By LEONARD BARDEN
For undoubtedly George to his arrest plus a promise of Grivas, alias "Colonel Grivas, protective custody, if desired, or alias Dighenis (his code name In a passage to any destination in Eoka, the Greek Cypriot terrorist the world outside Cyprus. organisation) Is not only the But Grivas has defied all at mastermind behind the campaign tempts to find his hide-out.
He is without doubt in the of bloodshed and terror, but the solo reason for its continuance island and not, as has been sug- on such a scale.
rested, directing operations from a floating HQ, aboard ship.
By being spurred in the cause Most terrorist
This is the man who has re- of showing no favours to either vices which eventually lead to ruled buy's and girls 1.9 of the other, and it is said that reaction among Cypriots against later they come out of hiding to hate and to kill, to betray their their own, admittedly small and their being caught, Sooner or terrorist agents, taught them to side, Britain has lost the support of the Turks, who now have the band which is usually upper-his reign of terror. most will probably be the pre-
female friend, or parents and especially the girls nat very fathless, terrorish body Har Archbishop Makarios meet come dominant one in the child's spoken ont development.
then, had bo perhaps the female friend glyes to act as decoys, publicly condemned the nellyl- them away.
This is the man who, hunted and who want partition of the
Island. Not so. Grivas. Ho has no by 8,000 troops for two months It is also said that left. tlas of Crivas, there might have women friends, no desire to hit during "Operation Lucky Dip En explanation. Thero 18 handedness among human beings been peace in Cyprus.
a school of thought - which
But the Archbishop has as is on the Increase. This may,
high-spots" and lives an gave them all the alp.
This is the man who has aldery that the habit of right well be so, since, as already much reason to be wary of austere le
now ihåreatened “bloodshed as handedness had its origin in the mentioned, a practice encore Indeed, there is good reason to
Grivas
bave the British. 4.9
never before’Lithe main reason earliest thus of single combat valont han
for the latest and most success- and primitive warfare, when modern students of human bebeileve that Grivas made velled
He is the type of fanatic who swoops.
* Sul of all British intelligence men accustomed themselves to haviour and human complexities threats Makarios of what he protecting the heart, with the or complexes the practice of would do if the Archbishop con- would be quite haper to live a But, though more than 1,000
force children todemned his activities.
hermit's existence In some cave were arrested, Grivas escaped left hand (or a shield held by trying to
from left thut hand) and used the right change an emphasis
For the moment Grivas has high up in the mountains of the net. stolen the initially both from Cyprus, or in an hand to attack an enemy with bond to right.
underground Undoubtedly kid glove the Archbishop and from his coll. apoar ge sword. Thus the left
con- enemies, the Communists.
methods have Then again he is a master et vantage of by the terrorists and been taken ad- hand became associated With
It is a strangely; complex dinguses and may very well be attempts to the more or less passive role of
to picium.
The Archbishop made moving around the foland in the opinion have
apperso Cypriot defence, and the right with the
Hou won Britain the mistake of co-operating with dark robes of a Greci priest, vigorous tactics of offence and
It would be interesting to see habitants of the colony.
active allies among the Grivas, then saw to his diamay thus, according to the theorists,
that the latter had both come what happened the Brilisti The right hand developed a
promised him, with the British gave lastfuctions for every priest Somaling character
Left-handedness by the way, and at the same time achieved to be brought to H.2. for rendered in the principal opere-
The result is that the intel- tive partner in pesiceable or Is not entirely confined to the true leadership of EQKA. questioning.
The dudy of The Communists of Cyprus, But unil this past week the gence has not been able to Cuvama da well as in battle himan beings
theories the habits of monkeys has merely to male mischief, backed authorities have been fighing employ at least on any worth- There are other
the left shown that nome" of them the campaign to unite" Cyprus terrorism with kid gloyes and while Deniseling Crock or Some believe that
then found that have done their utmost nol to Gronk Cypriota prepared to hemlaphare of the brain is develop a preference for using with Greece,
predominant the left pow.
Grivas was planning to exter- aggravate matters by atraling penetrate ROXA and unmask it. Bam Loyd (1800). While 14 play Kenorally more
priceis. Ambidextroumoas, the ability minate them, than the right; and that as each
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