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Concluding the Story of the Nazi
Occupation of the Channel Islands
Escape: Planes Dropped
Near Boat
Flares
DY the end of August,”
"Bait Fred Hockey, of Guernsey, "all this German business was getting a bit too thick."
He had been trapped in Guernsey when the Channel Islands were occupled at the end of June.
He had seen all the details of the German occupation of his own island, which he has already described to me.
"For one thing," he said, "the Germans started bring- ing over their women to the island. They came by plane, and they came by bont.
"I think they were a picked lot, because they were all very well dressed, and they all spoke fluent English.
"It was extraordinary, by the way, how carefully the Germans had picked their people. Most of the soldiers not only spoke excellent Eng- lish, but the first lot that came knew the island itself as well as, or better than, I did.
WOMEN ARRIVE "Why, one day I was talk- ing to two English people, as I thought, outside my office. -It-was-lucky_-I-said-nothing- against the Germans, for it turned out that they were Gorman, too-though nobody could have told it from their speech.
"Once the German wonten came over, too, they started to try to turn the place into a sort of little Germany.
"Several hundred German women came over.
And they were all well dressed, and had plenty of money, and were en- joying themselves, while the
Guernsey
as told to DUDLEY
BARKER
grower, came up to me on the quiet and asked whether I had ever thought of trying to escape to England.
"The news about England was better by then, because, in spite of the propaganda in our newspapers, we could still listen to the B.B.C. and find out what was really going on.
"As a matter of fact, the Germans were getting a bit. worried about, it too, I think.
"They certainly expected air raids, for they made every- body in the island provide a shelter, not only at his home, but at his work, too.
"And just before we got away, the Kommandant took over all the big yachts and launches, and had them filled with petrol, so that they could stand by in readiness, in case they had to make a getaway,
"Bichard and I went to my house to talk things over, and we sat in the kitchen while he told-me-that-he-and-a-fow_ friends could get hold of a 20- footer motor-boat, and be- tween them they could man- age to scrape together enough petrol to make the crossing.
"They wanted me to come. because I had been a sailor for so long round the islands, and could take them across safely. SECRET MEETINGS
"I agreed to do, it; providing I could take my three sons who were left on the island. and Bichard trirce Ho had to that. agreed women who had
friends to go, so that made the number up to eight.
stayed behind were beginning to face the problem of finding enough for their men to eat.
"Then, quite a lot of little things made life just impossi- ble.
"For instance, there was a very nice enfe on the esplan- ade at St Peter Port, where there was a jazz band, and so on.
"One day my son, Harold, here, went into the cafe with a few friends and found it full of German waitresses.
"Harold ordered a cup of tea, and then some Germans came in, and the waitress served them first. He never went near the place again.
"It's little things like that that make you boiling angry, As a matter of fact, they had to bring a lot of German wait- ers and waitresses in, because the Guernsey people were re- fusing to wait on the Germans at all.
"In fact, just before we left, they were appealing for wait- ers in the hotels where the German officers were living. And none of the Guernsay people would take the job on.
GETAWAY PLANS ·
"Well, all these things were making the lsland impossible, when one day a friend of mine named Bichard, a tomato
"We all met several times after that in my kitchen at night-we had, of course, to be very secret about it. We inade all cur plans, an agreed to leave on a certain night in September, if things were favourable,
POCKET CARTOON
"He just says the old ways Are the best.'t
"The night arrived, and condi- tions were perfect. The night was pitch dark, the tides were right.
"The motor-boat lay moored in Bordeaux Buy, well out, and some- how we had collected all the petrol we wanted—I'm not going to tell you how. We agreed to, start at 10.30 p.m.
"I was on duty that night unt!! 9 o'clock, and when I got home I found all the others waiting for mo In the kitchen.
"At 10.30 Bichard and I left Arst. We had to cross a road that we know was patrolled by German sentries, but we armed ourselves with heavy spanners and decided that, if we did meet a sentry, it was either bim or us.
"We got to the main road, and we were just about to cross it when a sentry came up on push bicycle.
"We ducked into the long grass, clutching our spanners, but he had not seen us, and when he passed by we slipped across the road and crept down to Bordeaux Bay.
"There we cast off in
in a dinghy, tuking the can of petrol each one of us was carrying-we had not dared to leave it in the motor- bout.
ALL ABOARD
"We go out to the motor-boat without attracting any attention, for the night was pitch black, and dumped what little gear we had aboard.
Then we rowed back to a little group of rocks near the shore, where the others had gathered, each mau again with a
of petrol. Fortunately they had not
-seen-any-sentries:
מווס
We rowed them all out to the motor-boat, and crept aboard, mak- ing the dinghy fast. Then we cast
off
and two of us rowed the motor-. bont to about half a mile from the island, where we caught the tide.
"We had to make every move- ment with the greatest care. The least little spinah of the oars would have given everything away, for there were sentries all along the const.
"When we were in the tide we hoisted à sail. but there was not wind enough, so we started to row again.
consternation,
"Then, to our three German planes came over us from Guernsey, dropping flares on the water. Whether they knew of our escape, and were looking for us, we shan't find out, ill after the war, if then.
"But scared us all right, for If we had been caught there was little doubt what would have happened to us.
"One fare dropped only 20 yards from our stern, but luckily they did nol see us.
Then I suddenly realised that the noise of the aeroplane engines
would drown our motor-beat
engine, so we started her up, and headed towards England.
"We broke down once, just off the Casquels, and drifted for four hours while we made repairs, won- dering all the time when we should hear the roar of a German E-boat. But none came, and we got the engines going again, and made the English coast.
"And
“WE'LL GO BACK"
"We were taken over by the Cuś- toms, and sent to London. Then we all scattered to our familles mine was in Southampton, I hoped. think that was where we got the biggest surprise of all-it was more in our minds even than the thankfulness we felt to be out of Guernsey, away from the Ger- mans and their oily politeness.
"The biggest surprise of all was to see that Southampton was still there, very little damaged, Ille go- ing on ax UGU
"For, although we had been able to listen to the B.B.C. bulletins, that -constant propagando in the newa- papers had had some effect on us, and we truly expected to find the .south coast of England In ruins,
but
-it wasn't,
"And one day we will go back to Guernsey-with luck In the British
expedition that recaptures IN
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Clock Replaces Nude Statues
“IDDERMINSTER, Worces-
tershire, has a new school. And because the school is to be used by boys and girls, the ar- chitects thought an appropriate symbol would be the figures of a boy and a girl carved on the walls. And they decided to do the proud. They put up two Job proud. figures in the Epstein style-nude igures.
But the Education Committee weren't standing for that. figures are to come down,
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That was easy. It was more difficult to think, of something to put in their place. Then
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Why not strike quite a new note and have a big clock? Much more multable.
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So, a, big clock it is to be. Says the chairman of the com- mittee, Mr Harry Cheshire: see nothing wrong with the figures, and wish they could remain." Say the critica: "One gure looks deformed, and the other like an inLeule."
Sultan On Obligations
To Britain
There was not the slightest doubt that Great Britain and her allies would achieve final victory in the present war, said the Sultan of Selangor speaking at the State Council's budget meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
He's supposed to symbolise the modern
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FILM OF LONDON RAIDS STIRS AMERICA
It is evident to-day that an has instantaneous impression been created by the Ministry of film. Information's new short
London Can Take It," states a New York message.
Press notices on the showing glow The Sultan pointed out that the last budget meeting was held soon with praise both for the flim and for after the war broke out, and that they the people of Landon whose spirit had then hoped the war would be it so well records,
All Want le · stead, it had spread and when it would over in a relatively short while, In-
What may be more important is finally end was a matter for con- that the exhibitors themselves, who His Highness declared that do not often show enthusiasm for o in this part of the world the people short subject, are obviously moved Jecture. must be prepared for all eventualities by the picture and are anxious to though, so for, the horrors
of war how it all over the country. had not visited them.
With one exception, every great Selangor had obligations to the theatre chain in the United States hus British Government, added the already laken the film. Sulian, among which were the Cinemas in San Francisco, Loi giving of all possible help. That Angeles and the West Coast, in help could take the form of riving Kansas City and throughout the In New Orleans and -financial assistance, increasing food Middle West,
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After briefly enumerating figures In Now York, theatres controlled of expenditure and Income in the by rival companies, which rarely or estimates for next year, the Sultan never show the same film at the same fervently prayed for victory for time, have broken the precedent. Great Britain so that once more the Among them is Radio Cily, biggest world enjoy peace and plenty.
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