THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1949.
AMERICAN
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ANOTHER AIR-LIFT
World Cepyright. Be arrangement with Eroning Standard.
Continuing extracts from 'THE WOODEN HORSE' the greatest oscape story of modern timos
We kill the last sentry between us and freedom
Peter Howard and John Clinton are nearing the end of the long, hazardous journey which began when they tunnelled their way out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III.
They reached Stettin, on the Baltic, and there .contacted. Sigmund, a member of the Danish resistance movement. He smuggled them aboard a ship, captained by one Petersen, who landed them secretly in Denmark.
They are now in German-occupied Copenhagen, again waiting to meet Petersen, whose ship is due to carry them on to neutral Sweden. It is late October. 1943.
by ERIC WILLIAMS,
M.C.
who is the 'Pater Howard' of the story. John Clinton
is in road to Michael Codner, M.C.
T
HEY had their lunch in seat in a small private room at
large cafo in the the back of the cafe.
a
Ahead the
He had stopped dead. they could see a break in trees where the gorge was, und the outline of the bridge.
"We'll croep along in the diteb," Peter whispered.
"While
you fix the sentry I will go to the boats," Sigmund told them. "When you have killed him, cross the bridge and I will be waiting for you. Be silent."
THE
AT BRIDGE See their man
HEY climbed into the ditch
and
the crept towards bridge..
The ditch ended shart of the bridge and a steel railing took its place, naked in the moon- light and without cover.
the ditch and attract his atten-
DENMARKS
"COPENHAGEN'
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GERMANY
SWEDEN
STETT!
COLDSTREAMERS LOST IN THE MALAYAN JUNGLE
*
By SYDNEY REDWOOD
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In
RAMATIC details have force their way homewards then just come to hand so they continued eastwards, describing the epic struggle and as dusk began to settle they
hastily built a rude lean-to of five men of the 2nd Cold- which to spend the night, after stream Guards who got lost selecting a spot which afforded in the jungle in Malaya,
On Sunday night the five wandered for eight days Coldstreamers were probably 10 without food and with ter- miles from their base. As they
maximum cover.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
To the PEOPLE
100
of HONGKONG
SIDE !!
Beginning Sunday Night, May 29 all Bible Lectures will be given at 6.30 p.m. on the Hongkong Side at the MEMORIAL CHURCH-18, Ventris Rd. (near the Race Course). On the Kowloon Side at 8.30 p.m. at the BIBLE AUDITORIUM- rorists pursuing them (of lay on the ground they Could Chatham & Mody Roads.
hear the prowling terrorists in whom they
shot two) the jungle. They felt the cold managed at last to get safe that night in no uncertain man- ly back when search parties, mor, as they had been alded by planes of the RAF, wet from midday. had almost given up all hope.
soaking
again, and they carried on cast- Early on Monday they set off wards till 11.30 when they were The men belonged to 16 halted by a fallen tree trunk. man Knowles was on
Platoon of No. Comp. Guardsman
They were being followed.
Their leader WBS J. Gulston, 22 years of age, who sentry, and telling this part of hells from Welling, Kent. The the
the the story; he said: "Tanw. ter-
others were
Guardsmen Ken- rorists advancing in extended or-
neth Inglis (aged 19) of Stoke der, stealthily creeping Lowards
John us. London: Newington,
to We were ready
we were reUL
give Knowles (10) Freshford near them a warm reception, and Bath: Albert Crisp (18) of when ten yards away I picked Sheffield; and Frederick Thorpe my man. He fell dead. Another of Halton Moor Estate, was wounded by n colleague Leeds
firing from my right alde. All One Saturday morning In the remaining terrorists fled." April,
set off as a patrol they to discover where * cortain track, which started about hall a mile from their tactical base, led. I was north of what is known there as the Cameron Highlands, a deadly and only semi-cxplored region.
SHOT BETWEEN EYES That was the sole occasion they came into the open, but after their hot reception they did not dare to face the five guardmen face to face.
in
On searching the dead ler- rorist it was seen he had been LIGHTLY EQUIPPED
shot between the eyes. He was They were very lightly equip armed with a Japanese pistol grenades, and he ped-customary for short recon- and two naissance patrols. The sergeant carried a message written
Chinese
and Л bottle of wore a belt. carried a map and compass, 1w0
mepherin tablets. grenades, .M machette and a sten with four Only a few minutes later the magazines, in all 100 rounds. Guardsmen, once again on the The
belts men hnd
and move, feeling very hungry and machettes and two carried a tired met a foe with whom they
rifle with 50 rounds each and did not attempt to try conclu-
two stens, one with three maga- slons. zines, the other four. Between
a box
A huge cobra sat up fangs
them.
ever been of ter-
and staring towards them they had not more than bared half
Thorpe was in the lead of matches. After moving off they arrived and spotted it first; and he ad- at part of the jungle where it mits he was more scared of him had been cleared. Suddenly, than he has terrorists fired at them. Por rorists. The sibly it was in ar effort to scare detour. And the
then the sound of search- the soldiers away
ing aircraft could be heard,
area.
from
five men made a
a
have been
and let
Im- the
"We got down and returned. Without matches to light the fire, and moving round to fire and being followed by ter-
roriste--it would their flank tried to renew con- KISTAIN
superior position, recklessly foolhardy, and tact from a
to try possible and at the same time full aerial eyes learn of their where- role of a recommaissance patrol abouts. But It was a cruel dis- related Sergeant Gulston, went on to say that as the patrol appointment. moved round to terrorists, countermaiched the patrol's in-
Berlin O
FRANKFORT
0
KOO STALAS LEFT TIL
The escape route from Stalag Luft IIL
50
who
the east of the
the
terrorists
tentions and cut it from the
the
HUNGRY PATROL'
On Monday night the hungry
direct line back to the base. The patrof slept under large leaves patrol kept together and moved at the alte of a destroyed basha camp. They had covered about away several miles, keeping the four miles that day. It rained terrorists away from them.
most of the night, and the Лve As evening stole down, huddled together for what ite Ave men took it in turns
but could gain, warmth they sentry; they heard movements none slept owing to the cold.
nothing to worry about. On Tuesday morning they They got up at a quarter to
moved
off at first light, intend- abx, determined to move a few
ing to change direction from an miles further cast to climb
castern course to north after a big hill and from there take
couple of hours' marching, and
John put his mouth close to centre of Copenhagen. The room was divided from Peler's car. "I'll go back along It was crowded. They were the front of the cafe by a bead tlon. I'll try to get his back to handed menu cards as large curtain and Peter ut so that he you, and you hit him."
could see through the curtain "O.K."
He was fighting for his life. as foolscap and ate oysters, into the cafe.
WAS mad. Puter
He John crept back. chicken, and ice cream.
When he And If any soldiers come in nind
sentry fought in a cold fury, his whole gigantic While-they-ate-a dance Petersen starts talking English was out of sight of the
I'll knock him out, he thought-ho got up on to the rond_and_strength going in one band played English dance to measured the
slowly to walked distance
towards the effort to stop the man from cry--
ing out. turies and the crooner sang Petersen's jaw and decided
on bridge. the words in English. But the exnet spot to hit him. all the time they were ner- A woman brought glosses of vous. There were German beer. Petersen abandoned his middle of the road and stagger- he felt him getting away. Then hearing west to lead them back then return on a parallel roule soldiers sitting round them wife for the
and they could not talk.
Then they went 10 miect Petersen.
As they were walking into the dock aren they heard a muffled cxplosion.
fell asleep.
beer. Soon
he
GETAWAY By small boat
CIGMUND went down to
"Do you hear?" said Sigmund. dncks to arrange for their "Yes. What was it?"
"Sabotage."
"How do you know!"
"That was the power station.
We had arranged to blow it up
today"
He came
It
within sight of the His fingers slipped from the entry, walking slowly in the sweat on the man's neck, and
he was at the neck again. Ing slightly as he walked.
He felt the man's hands, tear- ing at his face, his heels drum- ming on the metal of the road. He was on top of the man his now, sliting astride him, fingers on his windpipe, press ing, pressing....
•
"Halt? Who goes there?" was the sentry's challenge.
"Help" John sald, staggering, with his hand to his side.
Peter, in the ditch, saw the tho the sentry bring hle rifle to
ready and take a step forward. "Who goes there?" he repeat- ed.
John staggered on until he the was
where Peter opposite
the
embarkation. He returned with bad news.
"The Jerrics are in
"There sold, docks, he special caution because of the
la crouched in
THE BODY.. Sprawled in road
man's struggles grow weaker. His face swelled and
ditch. The THE
Then they saw Petersen. Even rescue of Mr Olsen (head of the Gentry took another step for- Peter felt the body grow slack
from a distance they could see Danish
woman Copenhagen. As soon as he saw them be began to ahout. "Hoy Peter!"
He came towards them shout- ing in English and 'waving his
arms.
"We are to take a small boat from a village a few miles from here."
"Oh, hell!" Peter said. "Sig- sen?" Peter asked. Petersen and ward. The sentry was standing
mund
can't
you
keep him
-quiet?"
"I will go to talk with him,”? Sigmund said,
They saw him stop in front of Petersen and reason with him.
They saw Petersen fling his Sigmund's free arm round shoulders and the three of them "walk up the road
"What shall we do with Peter-
his wife were sleeping.
"Leave him,"
Peter.
THE FIGHT Struggle for life
but
to their starting position. The about five miles from their out- map they carried did not in ward direction.
clude the ground which they The party really thought they covered after Sunday morning.
Before they got to the hill were free of terrorists trailing them when they heard the un- they know they were being fol mis
mistakable
of men follow- noise lowed, so they changed their ins
•Inf
them. "Wa
caught Intention and headed east still glimpse of them about one hun farther. "Our eyes were glued fred
yards
rear.
to-a
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WHEN?
WHO?
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of
away in in all directions," said Guards un which was
Jungle,
very thin at the this man Thorpe, who was in
point," said their leader. He went on to say: "In the first UP THE STREAM party there was a man with a
blue jacket, and he
he was absent About nine o'clock on Sun-
when we caught sight of them day morning they went up 14 ward,
on Wednesday, and in this party and without resistance. He sat
stream, stopping for a rest at there was a man with a clean Resistance]. I have "Help!" John groaned. He, there for some time, pressing
about 10.30. Quietly they rest- khaki drill suit without footwear though he was drunk. He was reeling been told to take you away from sank to his knees as
hla thumbs into the man's neck.
ed for a quarter of an hour. along and there was a
was not in the first party." exhausted.
who Then he relaxed. He got to
Suddenly a terrorist appeared
That night they built a lean- enpporting him.
The sentry walked slowly to-
him with his rifle, his feet. His
from behind. knees wards
were
rock, creeping
very crude one indeed- bayonet Äxed, in
the forward In the direction front of his trembling The body of the
and somehow the long hours body:
soldiers had taken. Wearing sentry sprawled in the road.
darkness passed. All night, John moaned and fell for- John lay where he had fallen five-pointed star on his cap and time weighed heavily on them.
'sten and two On Wednesday, the five were His hair was matted with dark carrying a over him now, his back towards blood. Peter loosened his collar grenades, he had only a split holding their empty bellies and
and lifted him to a sitting post second to see the Coldstreamers at mid-day
they stepped in what before he was dead. The Ser was probably He tion. This is it, Peter thought.
D disused ter- geant saw him first when they rolls They walked up into the scrambled from the ditch, silp-
John moaned, opened his
when, rom
camp. The terrorists town, where Sigmund bought ping as he sprang.
eyes, and put his hands to his were only five yards apart. were not heard on Wednesday, tickets for the electric rall-
head.
fired and killed him with one and with a hot sun at midday silently
their they sat
round," the sergeant said. "And which dried
clothes "What happened?" way, and
following properly for the Arst time since watching the Danish country-
"He hit you on the head with then other terrorists his rillo,
after- Peter said. "I killed the dead man could be heard the previous Saturday alde...
climbing the rocks out of the him."
noon, so their spirits rose. All stream." "The place where we are go-
He helped John to his feet
to get a little sleep. Rrenade
We managed In that instant John threw and they walked slowly across thrown in their direction by the that night. with the weaving of Petersen's ing is on an island, Sigmund. I la sentry heard him, turned.
told them. The island is ap-- himself at the man's knees.
the bridge towards the boats.
patrol leader and the intrepid Hoy
The sentry rolsed his rifle and There was Sigmund standing by ho called. proached by a bridge.. On the
five intent on getting their
FAMILIAR LANDMARKS "Come here! You meet my wife, bridge there may be a sentry, clubbed down at Jolin's head as one of them.
man despite heavy odds went him They pushed the boat out and unstream about 100 yards and Sergeant Gulstors said that as eh? We all have a drink, then I shall not be much use because Peter's sandbag caught I take you on board. I fix the of my hand he had been across the shoulders. The sock
clambered aboard.
laid in ambush.
usual they started off early, the goddamn devils."
Sigmund.. told It hit the sentry equally them. "You got
"It was eerie to hear the ter next morning; and despite any decided 18 Peter hurried, forward' and the sentry."
across the rim of his helmet and the lie in the bottom." spoke to Pelersen: "For heaven's
the bamboo trees, aald Guards- press westwards Peter looked at John.. All the collar of his coot. enko shut up or I'll hit you!"
They holsted the sail, Thero
Crisp. And the others ed their tracks of the Wednes the time they had been escap- Peter flung himself forward, was a light off-shore .wind
and on Thursday"; night day, agreed. Ing they had avoided violence, clutching the sentry round the which heeled the boat over as
slept on the rocks by the river No escaping prisoner used neck and bringing him crash Sigmund
tacked a
along the
THROUGH BAMBOOS bank. The hours, seemed inter- violence unless he was within ing down on top of them. sight of freedom... The stake. He wriggled from under the Peter lay in the bottom smell-
The five remained silently in minable but the very fact of seeing familiar landmarks kept was too high,
German, and wont for
ing the strong smell of dish and their simbush position for a can their spirita sip. throat, clutching and tearing at salt water and listening to the siderable time, and then they the high collar of the German sound of the low waves slap- moved off stealthily through the All agreed that that Thursday funto. He was mad now, he ping against the sides. They bamboos further east as the ter- they would have given anything wanted to get at the throat to would be in Sweden by the
welling
rorists were on their west side for an ordinary bully beef sand- stide the cry that was
morning.
and But no precautions were relax with. There was no intention in the German's throat...
Two days later. Peter
every flank was covered by the patrol splitting up or any one of the Coldstreamers. And olig
progress,
Poler"
staggering
STREET SCENE Refuge in cafe
WAS
wounded). You must deal with was too big, too full of earth. "I will steel the sail up and rorists all round us tapping on 'opposition, the aimer:
TETERSEN flung his arm round Peter's neck. "You
"How are you fixed for Com wouldn't hit old Patersen? You wouldn't hit old Petersen, who mando work?" he asked. 'helped you out of Germany?!!
"Tii clock you if you don't shut up," Peter repeated,
drink," "Come and have a
Petersen, insisted.
big
shore,
of the Bettiah Consul at Gote-
"I did the old battle course," John sald.We'll manage all right. We'll use a sock."
They left the train at a way- ile got his fingers round the John wero, aliting in the office side slation and set out for the man's neck, but it was a bridge. Each took off one sock neck, fleshy, and he could not borg.. and Alled It, gravel from feel the windpipe.
and The German grunted the road.e
They walked on without groped wildly for his revolver, They followed the three down speaking, their feel brushing up kicking hard with his three- the, street and when Petersen, tad dead leaves and stirring the quarter boots and clawing at Musturned into a cafe thay, followed sweet odours of lain autumn! Peter's face with his· Onger.
nails. sing. Inzin They allegation a Jong Thore })" Sigmund said.
This is awfull' John sald.
We'd better follow them,"
"Péter v told himp a dose that
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