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DID IT HAPPEN? by COL.
Another story in the series
that keeps you guessing
GRAHAM OUNCOMBE DSO
UNTIL this moment. I have told no one about this episode. My parents- in-law knew about it, of course, because they were there, and they told my wife. No one else knew-not even my faithful and devoted second-in- command, from whom I normally had no military secrets.
I was commanding battalion stationed in the Canal Zone pt the time, I was shortly after the war.
con-
I had received a letter from my wife telling me that her parenis, recently released after four years In a Japanese centration camp. were belng repatriated in the troopship Em- press of Scotland. The ship was to pass through the Canal, and my wife suggested that I should go on board to see her parents. In due course the ship tled up at Port Said. The embarkation authorities told me that she would he there all day and would mail late in the afternoon, Having obtained a day's leave from my Brigadier 1 set off by car for Port Said, a distance of about twenty miles. I arrived at about 11.30 and, when I re- ceived my permit la go on board I was told she was due to sall at 4.15 p.m. This was confirmed twice more when I mounted the gungway.
I soon found my wife's parents and we sat comfortably in the salcon enjoying cool drinks, We had a very great deal to tell each other and an hour or so passed quickly.
ALARM
It was about noon when my mother-in-law, who was facing the port-hole, suddenly, said: "I think we're moving."
J replied, knowledgeably, that
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He looked at me pallently. "What ship?"
"Has the pilot gone off yet?" I asked.
No. He will be going away "This ene, of course," 1 said in about two minutes." "it has."
Do you think he would let of me go ashore with him"
"What is the next call?" I asked.
"Liverpool."
port
So there i was, in the clothes
w ben In harbour the slight came up in, with one day's rolling motion of the ship oflen kave from my unit, bount for gave that impression. We went Liverpool, eight days' steaming on talking for several minutes, dilunce.
Until my mother-in-law sal
over
WAS
only
I was
don't know. They don't like 11, but we can ask him. If we go
to the deck below, we con wait
for him at the top of his ropa
ladder,"
SECRET LANDING
Very soon the plot appeared and the ship's officer explained the situation. After some fesita-
They ran the
boat
ashore on a stretch of dir sand and on- cu ព tome backsheesh.
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"Commander in Germany,
"Lucky you got off in time,"
both hands and began to ellmb down. Terrified, 1 swung and swayed, dangilig in space. Was I never going to reach the bot- tom of the ladder? At last a glass-paned window about four" "Very funny," I said. jonded with a bump on the Boor of the launch.
A little beyond the policeman
a said my driver. "It would be and slightly to lila reat was
CO went absent mall wooden hut. At the end of funny if the
the hut, facing my direction, was without leave, wouldn't 1%, Bis?"
The launch immediately steer. ed away from the liner's side,
1 lunked up. The bridge seem)-' ed to be an incredible height abave us. At least two pairs of binoculars and one telescope were trained on us. The distance between ourselves and the liner increased.
"I can't put you ashore," the pilot said. "There might be some embarrassing questions. In any board case-I have to another ship."
go
on
own
He halled small rowing boat in mid-harbour. Our coxswain said something in their
two Arabs in language to the the beat.
He's told them not to land you near any of the usual land
Ing stages.
feet square. I glanced around the ground in my immediate r ghbourhood. Among the litter and stones on the dirty sand I saw a pebble.
Remembering my grenade training. I seized the pebble in my right hand and assumed the correct position for "Throwing from Behind Cover," A cautious look over the keel of the upturned beat to obtain direc- tion, and the pebble sped on its way with magnificent trajectory.
The luck which had been with me throughout the afternoon still held. The point of impact was almost dead central, and there was a rewarding crash.
The effect on the policeman was dramatic, His dental explorailons ceased forthwith, He turned his back in my direc- on and made off at a jog-trol. JOG-TROT
tropical ather craft in the harbour. I a landing permit," said the pilot., Simultaneously I started
"I'm sure we're moving How." I ran to the rail and looked I glanced casually
my over the ship's cide. The dis- shoulder, just in time to see the tonce to the shore De Lesseps statue slip past the about a hundred yards. port-hole at about ten knois! Wearing only light
uniform of shirt-sleeves and can't put you ashore.". I scuttled out of the saloon in shorta Rearch of a ship's officer, and met expert swimmer, and the pro- one outside the ship's orderly spect of swimming for it pre- and I prepared to follow,
sented no real hazard. But an- Thrusting my regimental cane I other idea occurred to me, and I into my Sam Browne belt, I run back to the ship's officer. gripped the rope-ladder with
room.
"Has the ship salled?" asked breathlessly.
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You would almost tion he agreed to help. "I can certainly be arrested by the har take you off," he said, "but you'll have to transfer to some beur police for landing without
"There was trouble the other something rather more than
two senior 10g-trot, for the steps. Having day at Suez when
I the street, He disappeared over the side officers landed. These chaps will alred
crossed and began strolling put you down on the beach quickly
quietly along pausing to look in somewhere and it will be up to
When I you to steer clear of the police." the shop windows.
reached the main entrance of a I thanked him for his kind-big store, I went in and left im- ness, and transferred myself to mediately by another entrance. the rowing-boat, Tho moler Hailing a two-horsed gharry I launch sped on its way and we was driven to the landing stage moved towards the shore. I folt where I had left my car. matters entirely in the hands, of the boatmen, who appeared already to have made up their there waiting for me, immersed minds as to the most suitable in the inevitable "comie."
"Don't padre! Maybe the talks will
point for my disembarkation.
They ran the boat ashore on
My faithful driver was
cun
"Hullo, sir," he said. "You're
a stretch of dirty sand. I handed back early."
out some backsheesh and the
"Yes, the ship sailed sconer:
boatmen immediately pushed off than I expected."
in the boat leaving me aland-
Ing on the beach.” I took П
quick look round.
About 30 yards away to my ief stood a nalive policeman. Ile leaned on his carbine which he held in his right hand. With his left hand he was picking his teeth. Ife was half-turned away from me, had not noticed the landing operation.
aldo this on
A few feet from me lay: small upturned boat. I knelt bo- The policeman's blind side and began to weigh- up the position,
a
About 40 yards of dirty sand stretched between me and flight-of-six stone steps leading to the top of the sea wall and the waterfront street. This space
I should have "to cross.
If I simply made a run for 12 |
he would certainly notice and he
would aboos vertainly calzo · n
commotion might just walk
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
He a problem spesially
Casually across the sand in the contributed by F. L. Baxter
hope that he would not be Interested, but the risk of bis
Cheadle). White to play, and mate in two moves.
challenging me was too great."} Solution No. 6669". 1. Bel
1 decided that my best bet
was to produce a minor diver
sion.
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