by
C.FT. WARL DEL SEI INT nnä JAMHET ASS
BBW 153 C) INT
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1961.
AND ONE MAN ESCAPES FROM THE PRISON CAMPS
THE SCARS OF SEAL'S BATTLE
This picture from German sourceA chowa the holes made in Seal's hull by cannon-fra from the planes which
attacked her,
(Continued from Page 0)
THE LAST SALUTE FOR A P.O.W.
Lieut. Commander Hupert Lonsdale al the graveside of a British Serviceman who died in prisoner of war camp.
At the frontier... a challenge
Soon they were moving west- wards. Twice they were stopped and questioned, but their papers, their story of being two diesel engineers who were being moved from one Job to mother, their Rottweil clothing, and their asslivously morning. practised command of the Ger
language
them
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APOLOGY
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One of the police ofBelals who stopped them apologised and suld that he was keeping a care- ful watch for escaped prisoners-
They of-war. "Yes.
are ព. verdammte nuisance to 'fbe hon- est, hard-working citizen," he was told in reply.
From Dresden another train to Nuremberg.
they took
until the following
0
warm
บ
by a German voice
problem. To This posed stay around the station would be asking to be interrogated. The high winds and sleet and
Flemish just stretching our legs. Can we made to their claim to be freezing temperature
the two artificers began ex- buy a beer anywhere here?" camping out in the Belda
their Cover- He continued sentences of A
bed clinging a few impossibility. seemed the only sensible place. pidgin Maltese, which they both story, with his German rapidly They Would chonce their Ger- knew from their Mediterranean deteriorating. " you do not
Notilla innn.
only to days. The manager, believe us you have
foreman at they thought, seemed impressed. phone the works
concluded Rottwell, he
in Minutes later their bedroom desperation. door had closed behind them, and Lister had pulled off boots and socks and was soaking his neling feet in the hot water of the hand-basin in the corner of the room.
In no time at all they were both in bed, between soft, clean sheets.
A
street figure in the
Station directed them to the Hotel In the foyer they were greeted by a smartly dressed man who turned out to be the manager.
He listened to their request and then in
perfect
A1 Nuremberg they headed for for necommodation Ulm, on the borders of Wurtiem replied, sponking berg and Bavaria. They had English. "Do you speak Eng- travelled almost non stop by fish? I see that you
are not day and night, and by the time German. Perhaps
you under- the Nuremberg train pulted into stand English. the station at Ulm they had had the best part of 72 huurs on end standing pocked into crowded railway carriages.
The two men
felt deeply shocked by this sudden expert- ence, but they kept their heads suffelently to talk in a mixture
of German and slow, halting broken English.
MISTAKE
"Komm," said the officer in charge of the patrol quite briefly; and he led them to a large house standing
well back from the road, which
waved
friendly, "Gute Nacht“ and pushed in passable comfort, open the door to let them- selves out into the street. They felt quite weak at the knees.
the
peculiar cap and the plain cross on the sentry's buttons.
"Stop, Tubby,
"He's Swiss."
he screamed.
He was just in time. Lister could not stop his weight from falling upon tho innocent,
opproaching not a Swiss sentry German-speaking neutral; but
post, but fastrad a German one.
he did succeed in dropping hils The patrols were moving to knife-arm harmlessly down to and fra along the road with his side. metronomic precision. To get
A day or so later they were across was simply a matter of in Berne enjoying Christmas. waiting, counting and then dash- The route home from Switzer- ing. They were almost free
play. but not quite. They opened their land was, by comparison, child's Jack-knives and tried to move quietly.
mist that
the
·
shouted templation to break in and rest They took it in turns to keep watch. At about noon of
So Tubby Lister became the Arst man from Seal to return to second day they ate the remain-
Suddenly a voleo rang out Britain. ing scraps of stale food that
in aggressive German. "Halt! There was little time for any they had in their cases,
Wer da?" shouted. post-mortem. Keeping strictly They had had nothing satis-
Lister was drink since leaving two and dropped, unseen, below
faster of to the map they had in their factory to
In the prison canipt Seal's tavern, minds they soon turned off the the
and thirat WDS the level of the sentry's torch-
crew walted for liberation. road and entered a belt of thick beginning to worry them more
than hunger, cold, or tiredness. beam and into the thick ground Liberation meant kome, good woodland.
had been swirling food, reunion with familles. that night During the afternoon they were For the whole of
around their legs. making able to catch some of the rain
For Lieut.-Commander' Rupert they continued, south,
But Hammond was well and Lonsdale, the man who fur- was scarcely slow progress because of the that fell, but it turned out to be a tavern.
truly spot-lighted, Showing that rendered his submarine to the nature of the terruto and be enough to wet their lips.
he had no Intention of running enemy on the high acas, it also With a muttered word to his cause of the need repeatedly to
They set off again at dusk, he moved a couple of paces to nicant court martial, patrol to keep an eye on the two check their direction. As soon
a patrolled one side and stood stil. and soon reached
His The next morning they felt
as it became light they laid up. ERAS, the ofleer went into a
main road. Half a mile beyond change of position had caused
COPYRIGHT: wonderful. Without wasting too hack room to telephone, Tho
they knew, loy the the man behind the beam of the 1961 C. E. T. Warran and The next night's pattern was this, much time savouring the tem- submariners exchanged glances.
they knew too torch to alter direction oum- porary luxury of their situation. It was possible that they might much the same, but by the early frontler, But
morning that this part of the frontier clently to present the broad of they
ruse and shaved and gel clear of the patrol if they hours of the second
turned In the twisted and
treat his
to back
the crouching dressed.
dashed for the door, but their after leaving Tuttlingen With Angers mentally crossed chances of covering the fifteen lack of food and to
were beginning to suffer from loops, with the result that It Lister.
д For a heavy man the feel the they were more than, say,
blk for their Ausweise could easily miles between Tuttlingten and intensity of the cold.
to E.R.A. moved surprisingly noise- couple of hundred yards have been sent to the local the Swiss border would not be
either the right or the left of lessly. Hammond saw him riso police headquarters for check- good.
Some time before it was down the Imaginary line on the quickly and caught the glint of ing they gathered their gear
they came upon a woodman's imaginary map In their minds, his kalfe blade. At the self- together and went downstairs.
and could not rest the they could ind
moment themselves some
They had covered some 400 miles since leaving Breslau, and they had only 100 to go.
But they knew that the worst st lay ahead of them. Ulm had been the downfall of many
The manager was ensconced would-be escapara, It was the
The bluff seemed to work and behind the reception desk, 20 sort of road and rail junction. that was difficult to avoid. The bedded room.
they Weru allotted a twin- they shuffled up to him, asked security
accordance confidently for their bill, and were in with the normal precautions
practice they as casually as they could tense.
handed in their
papers of muster added that they would Ausweisr-and began compleling like their papers. the hotel registration forms.
The escapers' plan was to catch a train bound for Rottweil, which was a relatively innocent destination.
But the line from Vim to Rottweil bent
In a south tremendous loop, with the result that at its southernmost point I passed through the small town of Tullingen.
This place was only 15 miles from the Swiss border, and if they could manage to leave the train there they would be very nearly "home."
The first enag was that they had arrived in Um late in the evening with the result that there
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through his when,
Hammond Was halfway glancing at Tubby's form beside him, he saw that the word "engineer" was spelt with an initial letter "e," in the English manner.
He nudged his companion and Lister, spotting his mistake. was able to drop a coreless bloi of ink and start the word again with the Continental "L"
To their rellef and surprise he handed them over without comment. They were very glact lo feel the sleety wind on their faces as they left the hotel.
RELAXED
ly this stage of their escape they had begun to feel reason- ably at case and relaxed unce they were within the German
To bolster up their courage railway and to give a little
Bystem.
substance outside the booking office, bought their two tickets to Rottwell and caught their train without fn-
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INSPIRATION
In a few moments the oMeer returned. Pleasantly he handed them back their papers and told them the best way back to the railway station.
at
When they said that they thought they would stay for a drink first he just smiled and left. What had happened Rottwell they could not begin to imagine. They ordered their beers with a feeling of celebra- tion.
Then: "Did I hear you are a German voice Flemings?" asked them from beside the bar, "Ja wohl," they both answer- ed. And immediately, to their they amazement and dismay, They queued
were greeted with a long but apparently jovial harangue in what was clearly Flemish.
Had their luck turned?
both Through
their minds fashed a duzen curses at the mischance of bumping into a Flemish-speaker so close to the far southern boundary of the Reich. At last, the man stopped.
They arrived at Tultiingen -- where, by good fortune, they would have had to change trains for Rottweil at four n'clock in the afternoon,
Looking as though they were just strolling Into the town to kill time, they set off along the Anal part of their route and recalled to the front of their ninds the details of the large- scale map they had studied lo their prison camps.
They had not gone far be- fore they were stopped by a police patrol and asked why they had broken their journey to Rottwell.
"We are waiting for the 5.30 train," replied Hammond in the best German he could manage. "We have been in the train for two whole days-and now we're
The two artiflcers drew deeply and appreciatively on the con- ients of their tankards and then
in a moment of inspiration on the part of one of them - began to laugh.
Their nervous enthusiasm made their laughter infectious, for first of all their new-found friend and then one or two of the other occupants of the bar began to laugh with them. Be- tween bouts of near-hysterical amusement they were able to drain their drinks, collect their cases, and make towards the door.
Waiting for a pause in the now general laughter
they
hut
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