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September 18, 1940.
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A story that will inspire you
THE
GALLANT 800
By DUDLEY BARKER
His is not merely a story
playing a minor
campaign
ended.
particular care against air obser- vation, No especial hurry."
No especial hurry! And all the time the bombers
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which
part in a now
Over
i la the story
of any Britisti
soldier, keeping his head in dim- culties ond dangers, performing Impossible simply the seemingly
by sticking quietly to his job,
It shows what happens when an ordinary British civilian tumed soldier is thrown into gigantic bal fle without ever having been un- der fire, before,
It is the story-just released by the War Offer of which, in the end, will bant Hiller.
A month ago, when the armies were struggling in the battle of the Somme, the British needed to es
Jine along the tablish defence river Bethune, to cover the wes- tern Channel ports and Rouen.
WETC
No especial hurry, said the RE colonel to his mixture of raw British soldiers,
They took him at his word. They carefully blew up the bridges, set started in small the traps, and
the parties through
woods and They valleys towards the Selne. calmly carried out orders.
These men who had not pre- viously been under fire, who a year before might have been city clerks, shop asilatants, fought n rearguard action as though they were the Guards.
MEN OF ALL WORK'
Not only did they save them- selves, they helped the struggling mat of refugees through whom they passed.
The only men available were base depois some those in the
the forest from leave, some men returning who had been left to guard stores, some units of the Pioneer Corps, a few Army cooks, and so on.
Part. of the force hurriedly scratched together from these units was a battalion christened New- comb's Rifles, although the officer who gave them their name was put into another job, and they chose a colonel of the Royal Engineers to command them.
BROOMSTICK ARMY
He was Lieut-Colonel 1. E. C. Perowne, a huge man, of great physical strength, with fierce red hair and a red moustache.
He was who took Newcomb's les, fewer than 000 men, up to Bethune. Many of them were militiamen who had never been under
had fire. They
never trained as a unit, they did not know each other.
At first they had a lot of fun. They knew that there were only 2,000 British soldiers to line the 57-mile franil, to face first the dood of panic-stricken refugees and then the broken, fleeing French. troops, and Anally, the huge Ger- man divisions. They could not hope to bold, only to delay.
So they built a lot of bogys for the Germans-dummy emplace- ment manned by lent poles wear- inz steel helmets, trenches full of military scarecrows, literally broomstick army.
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They mined the bridges, they put up wire, they scattered the line with real strong posts, land mines, tank traps and road blocks.
One company went right through of Trail by compasi bearings, avolding all roads and paths, which were in German oc- cupations. They came out only 100 yards from the spot at which they. were aiming.
Another company, the nearest to Rouen where the Germans were in force, sending out parties to cut off the retreat, was rescued by Colonel Perowne in his car, and carried in several journeys to the River Seine at Fontaine.
On the last Journey, after dark had fallen, his car ran into con- certine
the wire droped round night camp of a group of German
tanks.
Automatic weapons opened fire at once. A heavier gun shelled and wrecked the car.
Nobody was hit, so the Colonel and his intelligence officer held on while the party slipped off into the woods.
Then the Colonel was chased for three hours by the Germans. He moved through the woods in the dark intervals between Verey lights. He got away,
TANK DODGING、
Just before dawn four German tanks come rumbling up to bat- talion rear headquarters, which were hiding in a barn.
One tank turned in at the farm gate,
soldiers the few. British watching through a crack in the door,
Then one man crawled from the burn. slipped open a second fam- yard gate, and the whole little party dashed out in a small car and on two motorcycles. They get away too, stopping to pick up their com- rade on the way out.
surprised tanke The
that they clean
Every day they were pitilessly bombed, but they stood firm wildly Every day they sent out patrols, wondering whether the storm would break then, or a little Inter and all the time the refugees Blooded through them, for the Ger mians were at Abbeville and WAmiens, ME
ROBIN HOOD"
shot so missed
them.
When they had all reached the river, amidst wereked, towngtlin- der
a pall of burning of dumps, they found that the French ferry boats had led up an the opposite bank, and did not seem to hear when they were called.
for the
So one company, camped for
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Ireland's
WITH the world full of rumour about the doings
of Hitler's Fifth Columns in nearly every country it is na- tural that the potentialities of the Irish Fifth Column should be the subject of special attention.
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Nowhere could Hitler find Buch centres
of hatred against Britain, nowhere could he find such daring and ruthless nllies as amongst the men of the I.R.A. Ger
have agents
already been able to accomplish RQ much in neutral countrica that it is natural that in these specially favourable circum- stance the wildest tales of their prodigies in Eire should be in circulation.
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For this the Irish Govern- ment itself is in some men- responsible, for the rigorous censorship which is carried on by Mr. de Valera's officials from what was once Queen Victorin's bedroom in Dublin Castle forbida to visit- ing journalists the more men- tion of an Irish Fifth Column. Rumours and scares flourish the more abundantly as the Irish forbid the conditions which give rise to them even to be discussed,
But after A fortnight's careful search of Elre--and some knowledge gleaned in Denmark and Holland of how Fifth Columns work-I came to the conclusion that there was no Fifth Column in Ire- land comparable in power and size to those which Hitler or- ganised successfully
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in Scandinavia and Countries.
the Low
In organising their suppor ters in Ireland the Germans have not been able to draw upon the two most important elements which contributed to the success of their Fifth Column activities elsewhere
a large German colony and a considerable political party within the country ready to do their bidding. There are only 326 Germans in Eire, and of these 140 are refugees and in view of the fantastic conduct of General O'Duffy it is easy to understand why no further attempt has been made to start another Fascist Party in Eira.
tuin, and set the ferries going agolo.
They saw that all the refugees crossed the river safely. Not till then did they themselves cross.
After a rearguard action that Insted 40 hours, four-fifths of them crossed the Seine with all their arms and baggage.
Still they were bombed, still un- beaten.
AND SO HOME
De Four'dayı 'after that they em- barked for England. All that was left of them was 22 officers, 310 other ranks, 29 ani-tank rifles and. 15 Bren guns.KAN
When they got home, this little
force was
disbanded as scratch quickly, ne it had been flung - to- gether, and the men back
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their different unit went, wounde
The history of Newcomb's Ride
On June 7 things began to look! night in l'a. lain: among the rocks insted only, for one month. It
ringed round with the enemy.
Next.
morning line ferries started not a unit you will hear again, an
Colonel Perowne
de to work. But the men of New• And when his report, he sun-k
so bad that Colonel Perowne drew up a plan for withdrawal, In small separate" parties, to the Seine fer- ⠀ Him. He had to give it a code name, and he chose a grand one. He called it Robin Hood,
Next day, he knew the retreat was labvitable. So Colonel --Pe-
•Towne, sent "out) his chessa KO.
In Hood. Blow, all; bèldres Fleaving. Take:
comb's Rides had to control the re-come to
fugees, the French troops, whomed the whole thing up thus were clamouring to fight the inIt remained only for
which any the co-
threatened to demolish a jammed mais at
I vehicles and then the ferry captain tied up on the the side again, refusing to some birki So few of Newcomb's Rifles wom the river arrested, the cho
companies safely to the River delne through country known to be
cupled
by enemy elements, In Anlassudden attack, and
The closest scrutiny
Fifth
BY DAVID WOODWARD
Special Correspondent, recent- ly returned from a tour of Ireland
It is true that when the moment comes for a German attack the 1.R.A. will strike hard against the British and Irish Governments, but that it will be able to secure de- cisive resulta is flatly denied by Irish official spokesmen and doubted by foreign ob- servers, who, do not deny. however, that the Irish authorities are probably over- optimistic in believing that the back of the LR:A. haa been broken by the intern- ment of 400 of the organisa- tion's ringleaders.
These men are mostly just the "N.C.O.s" of the move- ment, the real leaders having for the most part fled to Ger- many, and the rank and file -numbering, perhaps, but only perhaps, some 2,000— being still at large.
As to whether I.R.A. men have been able to smuggle themselves into the Irish Army there exists a complete difference of opinion between official sources
and the op- ponents of the Do Valera Government.
Apart from financing the IR.A. and harbouring its exiled leaders, the_German policy with, regard to Fifth Column activities in Eire has been devoted almost entirely in lining up prominent Individuals who might be useful later on ns Quislinga or deputy-Quislings.
The German Legation In Dublin Is conducting itself very clrcums- pectly. Almast its only activity is protesting against the anti-Ger-
man attitude of the Irish news-
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The Legation has a personnel of eight-as! compared with the British Oce and the American Legation, which have nine persons each, and the Italians, who have five. This figure also
compares
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with that for the former German Legation in The Hague, where there were 100 persons employed, Including 42 Secretaries of Lego- tion and Attached,
For the Legation contact with Berlin is extremely diMcult; neither the British nor the Irish are able to trace any use of radio by the Legation to transmit to Berlin, and when a bag comes from Berlin it is brought by parachutists or Innded from a submarine.
It is of interest to note that the classes in which the Germans are trying to recruit their key men are two which have always, in every country, been centres of pro-Nazi discontent-the small business men and the young Intellectuals faced with a future of poorly-paid jobs.
Almost all business and industry In Etre is conducted, save for the British and American firma, on a very small scale, and all the small- scale business men think they have the Level mall-scale business man's grievances against bankers, The fact that the bankers In Ire- land are considered by the aver- nge Irishman as "Britain's Fifth Column" does not help matters.
The other element of discontent In the middle classes la the Bock of extremely well educated-young men who finish four years' train- ing at the Sinn Fein Nationalist University, or the Unionist Trinity College and are then faced by the fact that they have to take up jobs at £2 a week--if they are lucky enough to get them.
But the Fifth Column danger is not only to be found in De Va- lera's Elre. In Northern Ireland the police have to deal very vigor. ously with the Ulster branch of the Catholic Irishmen in the Six Coun- ties. If war comes to Ireland Bel- fost is obviously of
of the greatest value to the British in the efforts which they will make to throw out
Nazi Invader.
4A, have taken spequently the
Ulster contingent-and--that- poins with they have had some success is to seen by the comparatively high oportion of Northern Irishmen o were implicated in the vari- L.R.A. outrages just before the ginning of the present war.
sure
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That the IR.A. recruiting drive Rould have had success in the Arth greater than it had in the uth is due in very large mea- to the intense antagonism by the Northern Catholics inst the Six County Governy » anent
Lord Craigavon-b under Government which to them repre
all the iniquilles against which the Southern Irishmen suc- ́cessfully fought during the "Trou-
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