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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1959.
SMARTENSIEME A MEMBER
Prisoner's
DID
IT HAPPEN
ANOTHER IN
Post
I WAS met outside the gates of the prison by a nondescript man of medium height. He was wearing a brown over- coat, a soft felt hat and pointed shoes of dull black leather. Except that his hair was greying at the sides I can tell you nothing more about his looks. He could as easily have been a plain-clothes policeman as a bookmaker's clerk.
"Excuse me, are you Mr Williams?" "Yes,"
"I understand you're giving a lective in there tonight." towards the pales.
"I'm from the Dolly Express. "I'm perfectly happy not to," Haye you seen this?" He I was doing it for nothing and showed me that day's Evening hated ferturing anyway, " Standard with the black head- But he soon calmed down, and lines WOODEN HORSE Analy it was agreed that I STORY AUTHOR TELLS CONVICTS should carry on.
CHINA
HOW TO ESCAPE.
The prisoners made a good, audience-one of the had attentive
THE
I realised at once what MAIL FACT-OR- pened. Earlier in the day 1. best I'd ever had. I had brought bad luched with my publisher's some lantern slides of drawings barbed FICTION SERIES. publicity amonger, and had told of the tunnel and the 1 dos- AGAIN THE him about the invitation to lec- wire fences, and when
ture in the prison. I suppose he cribed the break-out you could pin drip in the wouldn't have been doing this have heard a Job if he hadn't passed it on to crowded ball. the Press.
PROBLEM I YOURS TO SOLVE DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN? THE AN. SWER IS ON PAGE 18.
IN
JACOBY
#:
on BRIDGE
Small Slam Is
Bridge Fireworks
TN the early 30s the Sims home nd Dent, N.J., was a suteiker mecca for bridge players the July 4 weekend buslest of all.
Was
the
It seems appropriate on this) day to write up a typical Sing hand, bid and played in Tial's own style.
was
His jump to six no-trump an overbid but Hal never fused an invitation to bid a no- trump alam.
I had the sort of twist they e to build a story on, and the time I had taken
MIR
11
to
I had the lecture pretty pat by now, having spent every day for end giving it to months on aircrew who, were dying over As I talked I looked Germany.
drive to the prison the news had at the rows of ordinary faces in
been spread across the country.
the ball.
There men were undergoing a
"Are you going to teach em far worse form of imprisonment how to escape?" The man than had ever been my lot. spoke In a hasky whisper. Wasn't there some other way of standing very close to me, hud punishing them? A
I thought that perhaps he was thort spell of hard
deaf. I remember thinking work
roach,
what a handicap it must be to making would be
a reporter.
"Not exactly. I's not a technical lecture, it's meant to be an entertainment,"
"Is it the first time you've been Inside?"
"Yes,"
"You were invited to come by the Governor † suppose?"
"Yes" had begun to rain and was already late.
"Ever met in before?" "I don't think so." "Nul an old Service chum of yours or anything?"
"Not that I know of."
IRATE GOVERNOR
Jn
productive and lesa soul- destroy sug than being cooped
up
Ho
nodded
Are you going t teach tham kaw
to uncage
buting a fair sum towards their krep and supporting their wife and family, they would cease to be objects of state charly. (kept
G.
I looked at him. uncompre- hending.
"Go
un. Your right-hand
in idleness by the seriety they breast pocket. A square en- had wronged) but would be velope." working their w'ny rehabilitation.
towards
The fact that they would be doing this while wearing the distinctive garb of the convict seemed to me far more healthy than this mawkish fear of vicileule.
by ERIC WILLIAMS
here. chut ол from the sun and air. Want a life for a man-foretuly separated
from your wife and family, your
Jellers rationed and censored, watched wherever you went always with the hollow sound of keys in locks and footsteps on concrete ringing in your cars.
After the lecture I was shown round the prison, and taken back to the Governor's rooni.
"Now I want you to promise So the interview went on, for me that you will not describe
stage what you've seen in here, hearse
We his part in that whisper, for mine in a sort have enough trouble with newa- suppressed shout, He was not papers as it is. They're bound foking any, notes, nor did he to be after you for a story, and reseem particularly interested in we don't want publicity, You
what i had to say and I began can say you've lectured here, of to wonder how this would ap- course, but you must not I was crossing to describe elther the prison or the pear in print. He won the first trick in his France that night and would prisoners." own hand and promptly ted the probably not be able to buy the
ridir. Len of hearts and let it
I remembered the man wait- East won with the queen-false-paper in the morning.
minutes Ing at The Fox, but gave the After a few more cards were worse than useless
conversation I began to excuse promise. I was feeling a ittle ngatust the maestro.
myself, but before we parted he quilly about the publicity. It I strange could dodge the man from the asked Whisper of his to meet him in a Express the whole thing would tear-hy pub and tell him how be forgotten before we returned
to England. it went."
i said that I would be in a
A spade came back and tal!
off his spade proceeded to ruo
tricks discarding and domand ciown to the acc-juek of hearts
NORTHE
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KJ32 VAJIE + QB 4Q92
WEST
♦72
053
EAST 454
VKQ1
2654
4K 1007
SOUTH (D)
AQU
North and South vulnerable
100
AKJ 103
A34
South 1+
West North Pass 14
8 N.T.
Poss 4 N.T. GN.T.
Pass Pass Opening lead—♣ 10
Fast Pas Pass
Pasa
and a low club in dummy
and
the nine of hearts and ace-inck of clubs in his own hand,
DI
Fest blanked his king of hearts! early and West discarded most carefully from his collection deuces but nothing did ile de- fence any good Hal looked at West and remarked, "I doubt if you have the king of hearts bui know you haven't got the king) of clubs so I will play dummy's ace of hearts Arst und
the club finesse
reserve
The ace of hearts dropped East's king and the club Anesse became unnecessary.
V-CARD Sender.
Q-The bidding has been; South West North East
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Pass
La
Pass 2.
Posi
11, Ради
Pass
7
me
that
THE name of Eric The Wooden Horse Williams will always be associated with German prisoner-of-war camps. la particular, with Stolog Luft til, from which he escoped so dramatically in 1943, For his bravery he received the Military Crows in 1944.
forty-six and twice marriad, Williams Bres near Dorimouth, He finds writingsewording ond selling relaxing. But troys! is pow his great fore and his recent book in this field, Completa and Fien, was widely praised,
This portrait of Willions was painted by Stanley Spencer, RA.
ARRISTER
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keep my appointment with the man who was waiting In The Fox. There was nothing to tell him, and I was in a hurry to meet Sibyl and have a pint of beer. Talking always makes inc thirsty.
RATIONED
And why shoull their letters be rationed? Prob- ably becuase of the cost of censorship. And why were they censored? Fear of escape or of orgnals- ing crime from In- side the prison? Surely lo cut down the length of the sentence and incrense sense of shame answer.
By the time
I put my hand in my overcoat and found it empty. pocket
there's no letter here."
STILL IN-DOUBT.
A smile flickered across his
"Thonics face.
¤ lot. chum. That's all I wanted to
ksow." fe turned away.
", wait a minute!"
He paused.
"I thought you said you weTE
□ reporter?"
He grinned, this time a wide The derisive grin. "Don't insult me would be the chum."
It was a few moments before
I reached the I realised what must have hap Royal Star I had worked the pened. It he hed managed. whole thing out. 1 had and all during the "interview," to place the thoughts one's bound to the letter in my pocket without knowing, someone inside have after being in a place flke my that And Was al for prison could have taken it out as easily. reform.
What I have wondered ever the men inside We talked about it over our since it how drinks until suddenly we found new that there was a letter in Or did they pick the we had not much time to get to my cost, Dover, I was sitting in the car, pocket of every visitor as a I have tried warming the engine and watch matter of course? ing the rain slant through the to think back, to remember headlight teams, when a shadow where I left the coat, but as far deinched itself from the dark as I can recollect I either had ness of a doorway. It was the it on or left it in the Governor's
office. man from the Express,
"Thought you were meeting me in The Fox?" he whispered. "I'm sorry, but the Governor made me promise not to say anything." I tell a bit of a heel -after all, the first promise was to him.
one
WRITING
I wondered why there must be this secrecy about what goes
"Well, come and have en inside a prison. Obviously the The same wurder escorted me idea behind it was to prevent now," he urged, hurry to plek up my wife whom through the echoing corridors the prisoners' identification and "I'm surry, we've got to get to I had left at the Royal Star, but and smuggled me out of a small so prevent their being held up to Dover." he was insistent that I gate at the rear "because of the public shame, But was that so promised to have a word with reporters Who are waiting at Important? If instead of rotting 1uto 0: my way there, We the front."
away in purposeless anonymity arranged to meet at The Fox. As I walked through the dark the prisoners were set to work Inside the prison the Governor and now wet streets towards the on the roads, caring the stan was from whispering; he was Royal Star 1 decided not to dard rate of pay and contr shouting-into a telephone. “No, tá
hex not. telling them how escape, ile's not lecturing here : સર, He's not coining inside these gates, Good-bye!" He stunned the receiver down and. glared at me and the warder who bad shown me u. "You're Ele Williams I suppose. Whut are you trying to do, make the I've prison & laughing-stock? had nothing but newspapers on the line since lunch."
"I'm sorry," I said, "but you didn't swear me to secrecy."
"I didn't know you were going; to tell the nation, l'in not theving you lecture here, so get that straight. Every newspaper, in the country will be laughing
at "
CHESS
by LEONARD VARDEN
CROOKS,RÁTS
LERS'
Willary State
"Do one thing for me." There was almost an entreaty in the husky whisper. "Just put your hond In your overcont pocket and see if there's a letter there."
Or was the man with the husky voice an Express reporter after all, and pulling my legt I'm damned if I'll over know unless he tells me.
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?
YES
NO
• Put a tick against your choice in the space abpus.
(THE ANTWEz is on Page 30)
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