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September 18, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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A story that will inspire you
THIS
THE
GALLANT 800
By DUDLEY BARKER
PRIS is not merely a story
of a small British forre playing a minor part in a campaign
ended.
which
11 The story Any soldier, keeping his head in
BLOW
The tush
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fi
by sticking quietly to Nuk jofi
It shows what happens when an dituary British resilien tured soldier la thrown into gigantic bal- the without ever having been un- der fire before.
11 is the story, just relensed by the War Office-erf which, in the
end, will beat Hitler
A month ago, when the argues were struggling ur the battle of the Sione, the British needed to es tubish a defence Tint along the river Bethune, to cover tero Charmel ports and Rouen
The
Wes-
Were
The only men available those in the bam depol---soires men returning Team leave, some who had been left be guard stores. sonie units of the Pioneer Corps. a few Army cooks, and so un
Part of the force Burriedly scratched together from these units was a battalion christened. New. comb's Rifles, although the oflcer who gave them their name was jail into another job, and they chose a colonel of the Royal Engineers fro command them.
BROOMSTICK ARMY
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He was Lieut Colonel L. E. (^. Perowne. huge man, of great physical strength, with feree" red hair and a red moustache
He it was who took Newcombin Iuftes, fewer than 800 men, up to Bethune. Many uf them were militiamen who had
never been under Arc. They
hud tratued as a unit, they know cuch other.
never
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At first they had a lot of fun. They knew that there were only 2,000 British soldiers to line the 87-mile front, to face first the flood ni panic-stricken refugees and then the broken, fleeing French troops, and finally, the huge Ger- mun divisions. They could not hope to hold, only to delay.
So they built a lot of bogys for the Germana-duany emplace.
ment
manned by tent poles wear- ing steel helmets, trenches full of military Scarecrows, literally broomstick uzmy.
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They mined the bridges, they put up wire, they scattered the line with real strong posts, land mines, tank trups and road blocks.
Every day they were pitilessly bombed, but they stood Arm, Every day they sent out patrols, wondering whether the
storm would break then, or a little later -and all the time the refugees flooded through them, for the Ger- mans were at
Abbeville, and Amiens.
"ROBIN HOOD"
On June 7 things began to look so bad that Colonel Perowne drow up a plan for withdrawal, in small separate parties, to the Seine fer. rles. He had to give it a code name, and he chose a grand one. He called it “Robin Hood,”
Next day he know the retreat. was inevitable. So Colonel Pe- rowne sent out, als message,
Robin Hood. Blow all bridges and "eraters "before leaving, Take
part abat 16 MAIS! Volinu.
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They teach them at his word Tapy Farefully blew up the budges ཐཱ། the Trups, aut started parties Hyoungh the only valleys towards the Seine enkrily car wed int orders
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These men Wher had not pre- vrously been under the who a year before might have been eity clerks, shop «ssiskiuits, fought a rearguard netion as though they were the Gunnis
MEN OF ALL WORK
Not only did they save Diem- sehews, they helped the struggling mass of refugees Through whom they pissert
Che company went right through the forest of Trail by compass bearings, avoiding all ronds and pathia, which were in derinan de- cupations They came ut only 100 yards from the spot at which they were pinkDA
Another company, the nearest to Rouen where Dhe German were in faire, working va purties to cut DIT the retreat, WILL rescued by Colonel Perowie in his ent and Curied in several journeys to the River Seine at Pontalne.
On the last journey, after dick had fallen. his cur run into con-
serilli wirt
UM' draped knind night camp of a group of German turiks.
Automatte weapons opened flee at once A heavier gan shelled and wrecked the car
Nobody was hit, go the Colonel und his intelligence officer held on while the party slipped off into the woods.
Then the Colonel was closed fur three hours by the Germans すで
moved through the woods in the duck intervals between Verey lights. He got away.
TANK DODGING
Just before dawn four German tanks come rumbling up to bat- tallon rear headquarters, which were hiding in a barn.
One tenk turned in at the farm gatc, the few British soldiers watching through a cruck in the door.
Then one man crawled from the bam, slipped open a second farm- yard gate, and the whole Biltie party dashed out in a small car and on two motor-cycles. They got away too, stopping to pick up their com- rade on the way out.
The surprised lonks shot so wildly thai they clean mlased
then they had all reached the
river, amidst wrecked towns un- ́ der pall of burning oil dumps, they found that the French ferry boats had tied up on the opposite bank, and did not seem to hear when they were called,
So..one.company camped for the night in a fair among the rocks, ringed round with the enemy.
Next morning the ferries started to work. But the men of New- comb's Rifles had to control the re- fugees the French troops, who were clamouring to fight "the in- cendiary bomb Org. which threatened to demolish a jammed mass of vehicles and then the forry captain: tied up on the for * side again, refusing to come back. So, a few of Newcomb's Rifles swam the river, arrested the cap-
Ireland's
ITH the world full of
W 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 sulajeel of special attention.
Nowhere could Hitler find
such centres of hat red against Britain, nowhere could he find such during and ruthless allies as amongst The men of the LR.A. Ger- man agents have nlready been able to accomplish so much in neutral Countries that it is natural that in these specially favourable circum alance the wildest takes of their prodigies in Eire should be in circulation
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For this the Irish Govern- ment itself is in some mea- SUTE responsible. for the rigorous censorship which is carried on by Mr. de Valera's officials from what was once Queen Victoria's bedroom in Dublin Castle forbids to visit- ing journalists the mere 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 disriissed.
Bat after J fortnight's careful search of Eire-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
ጸሀ ganised successfully in Scandinavia and the Countries.
Low
In organising their suppor- ters in Ireland the Germans have not been able to draw upon the two most important
which elements
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 altempt has been made to start another Fascist Party in Eire.
tal, and set the ferrics ugula.
going
They saw that all the refugees crossed the river safely. Not till then did they themselves cross.
action that After a rearguard lasted 40 hours, four-fifths of them crossed the Seine with all their arms and baggage.
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Still they were bombed, sill un- beaten.
AND SO HOME
Four days after that they `em- barked for England. All that was left of them was 22 officers, 330 other ranks, 29 anti-tank rifles and 15 Bren guns.
When they got home, this lule scratch force was disbanded, as quickly as it had been dung to- gether, and the men went back to their different units.
lasted
not
The history of Newcomb's Rifics only for one month. It is unlt you will hear again. And when Colonel Perówne came to write his report, he sum- med the whole thing up thus --
"It remained only for the com- pany commanders to bring, their companics anicly to the River Seine through country known to bo occupied by enemy claments, "Lia- ble to sudden attack, and subject' to the closest scrutiny by enemy aircraft by day."
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SWANK GAFE
Dorind set by King Dentures Byrdiem.
Fifth Column
BY DAVID WOODWARD
Special Correspondent, recont- tour of ly returned from a
Ireland
It is true that when the moment comes for a German attack the I.R.A. will strike hard against the British and Irish Governments, but that it will be able to secure de- cisive results is flatly denied by Irish official apokesmen and doubted by foreign ob- servers, who do not deny. however, that the Irish authorities are probably over- optimistic in believing that the buck of the 1.R.A. has been broken by the intern- ment of 400 of the organiså- tion's ringleaders,
These men are mostly just The "N.C.0.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 LR,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 1.R.A. and harbouring its exiled leaders, the German policy with regard to Fifth Celumn activities in Eire han been devoted immost entirely to Finding
petriincul ipdividuals Ah might be useful later on as Quislings or deputy-Quislings.
The German Legation in Dublin is conducting itself very circums- peetly Almost is only activity is protesting
anti-Ger- against the man attitude of the Irish papers.
The Legalion
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has a personnel of eight-a compared with the British Ore and the American Legation which have nine persons enen, and the Italians, who have
five. This
Agure also compares
FUNNY SIDE UP
with that for the former German Legation In The Hague, where there were 100 persons employed, Including 42 Secretaries of Lego- ton and Attaches,
For the Legation contact with Berlin
extremely diMcult! neither the British nor the Irish bre able to trace any use of radio by the Legation to Hansmit Lo Berlin, and when a bag comes from Berlin it is brought by penchutists or landed 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 overy country. been centres of pro-Nazi discontent--the small business men and the young Intellectuals fuced with a future of poorly-paid jobs.
Almost all business and Industry In Eire is conducted, suve for the British and Amerlena Arms, on a
very small scale, and all the small- scale business men think they have He LINA] sinii-scate business inan's grievances against bankers. The fact that the bankers in Ire- land are considered by the aver-
Fifth Age Irishman as "Britain's Column" does not help matters.
The other element of discontent in the middle classes is the flock of extremely well educated young men who finish four years' train- ing at the Stan Fein Nationalist University, or the Unionist. Trinity College and are then faced by the fact that they have to take up joba at 12 a week-if they are lucky enough to get them.
Ben.
But the Fifth Coturn danger is not only to be found in De Va- lera's Eire. In Northern Ireland the police have to deal very vigor- busty with the Ulster branch of the Catholle Irishmen in the Six Coun- It war comes to Ireland Bel- fast is obviously of the greatest value to the British in the efforts which they will make to throw out a Nazi Invader. Consequently the 1.R.A, have taken special pains with their Ulster contingent and that they have had some success is to be seen by the comparatively high proportion of Northern Irishmen who were implicated in the vari cus LELA. outrages just before the beginning of the present war.
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That the 1.R.A. recruiting drive should have hud success in the North greater than I had in the South is due in very large mea-
the sure
intense antagonism felt by
Northern Catholics Against the Six County Govern- ment under Lord Craigavon-a Government which to them repre- senta all the iniquities against which the Southern Irishmen suc- cessfully fought during the "Trou- bles,"
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