1940-11-30 — Page 9

| THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1940

British Soldier's Adventure: Twice A Prisoner

THE ADVENTURES of a lance-corporal of The Queen's Royal Regiment after his section was sur- rounded near Abbeville until, after being made pri- soner and escaping twice, he eventually managed to make his way back to England, have just been made known.

On May 20, when his section was hopelessly. surrounded, he began to withdraw on his own initia- tive, taking two wounded with him: He discovered an abandoned lorry, and in this drove his men to the outskirts of Abbeville, Abbeville, however, was in German hands, and the lance-corporal soon found himself in a prisoners of war collecting station with 14,000. other prisoners, with whom he was marched from Beaumetz to Doullens, and then to Beaucourt- sur-Ancre.

Here he met à private from his own battalion who had already made one 'escape, and been recap- tured. This man was wearing civilian clothes, and the lance- corporal exchanged, clothes with him.

Hidden Six Days

STAYING

PUT

The proposal to eva-

On May 27 he hid on top of acuate the London staffs haystack in the grounds of the

GERMAN SIGHTSEERS TO

BE PUNISHED

Many thousands of Berliners flocked to see the latest damage. done by the R.A.F. The police issued a new warning of "in- fliction of penalties on those looking at the damage, as it is considered that such action indicates mis- trust in the reports in the German Press of details of air raids.“

granary where he was quartered of Japanese banks and A.A. HIT BOMBER

When the Germans had gone he companies will not be set off northwards. After walking taken up by the Yoko-

for some days he hid in an empty hut_belonging to .a and was concealed and fed for six

Viscount Hisaakira Kano, the days. He heard on the wireless diminutive, gold-spectacled Lon- that the evacuation of the British don manager, says that he intends Forces from Dunkirk had been to follow Mr. Morrison's, advice completed. This meant the end of and "stay put." There are about his plan to strike northwards to twenty Japanese employees in the join his comrades. There was

Bishopsgate office. nothing left to do now but to make for the coast.

rallwayman hama Specie Bank,

Fellow Guests

AND ITS BOMBS

Anti-aircraft gunners shot down released its bombs: a German, bomber before it had

together and pieces were found Bomber and bombs exploded scatterad over several miles of

south-cast London.

The bull's-tyc scored at night-caused the longest, ex- plosion heard over this area since bombing, began.

Viscount Kano is vice-chairman of the Bank for International Set- On the way he was helped by tlements. He has been in London one or two English civilians, one for the last nine years. A pro- of whom provided him with anounced Anglophil. he has con- bicycle on which he made his way sistently predicted a British vic- to the neighbourhood of Etaples, tory over the Nazis.

The gunners thought they had' Here another Englishman put him

hit the bomber, but the noise was in touch with two officers who

so great that they wondered whe- were hiding in the neighbourhood.

ther they had not perhaps ex- He discovered a smack on the far

ploded the bomb load as well. side of the river, and it was ar- Dr. Quo Tai-chi's Independence ranged that he should bring

The next morning says the Air it Day reception at the Chinese Em- back to where the officers were bassy brought together the largest Ministry news service, they had they had done hidding in a deserted lighthouse, and most distinguished collection their answer Then the three of them would set of British Ministers, foreign diplo- both. out for England together.

matists and generals gathered in But the plan miscarried. He London at any one time since the then cycled to Boulogne and to, war. There was one little drama. Calais, but in both places he Many wondered whether the found it impossible to find a boat.; Baltic Ministers in London, still He returned to Boulogne, and recognised by the British Govern- there lost the bicycle while search-ment although their countries ing for food.

have been incorporated in

the

Back to Etaples he went, this U.S.S.R., would attend at the time on foot, and crossed Into Embassy of China's strong friend. Le Touquet, where he broke in-

He

to an empty house to sleep. was awakened by a German sol.

Passing By

and

UNDER-THE-PEW CHURCH RAID SAFETY PLAN

Sladen. vicar of

dier and arrested. To be sure They did attend

Canon L. B. the former that his prisoner slept the Ger- barrister

journalist, M. Kidderminster Parish Church, has man guard brought two bottles Bronius Balutis, Lithuania's en-asked his congregation to sit four of champagne and forced him voy; the Latvian Minister, M. G. in a pew so that in the event of to drink them both. The civil Zarine, music-lover and golfing a raid they can lie stretched out commandant threatened that he partner of the host's; and the comfortably underneath: would be shot az a spy..

Estonian Minister, aesthetic M."People won't come to church In the village he was imprison- August Schmidt, now known as unless they get some sort of pro- ed in a yard surrounded by a high M. Torma. brick wall and one or two build-¡ ings. On June 23 he was able to sup out of the building, through a-house, and into a private garden, and through to the road beyond.| There he succeeded in getting a lift which took him as far as Ber- tin.

A New Bicycle

Again he went to Etaples, where he, met an mc.o. of the French Army, released by the Germans for farmwork, who gave him a new bicycle in exchange for a pro- missory note for 1;5001, payable after the war. The lance-corporal decided that his one hope of escape lay in cycling to Spain. He got through to Paris, and there found i a comrade, în . a sergeant-major: from The Gordon Highlanders.. Enriched by 5001), a gift from a retired British officer resident in Paris, the, two men cycled without incident, to the frontler of the oc- cupied territory which they cross- ́ed near Leches. Travel. În unoc- cupied France, presented no dif- culties. At Toulouse" they parted company. The lance-corporat sold. his bicycle for 350f, and decided "that he must make for. Marseilles.” “He stayed in Marseilles for a lit- tle more than fortnight and suc- ceeded thera in getting provisional; papers 5% to....... take him out of the country, An Eng- lishwoman lent him the money to pay for the necessary visas to enter another country, but ...he had no exit permit from France. However, he ultimately managed to find a route which would bring him to safety.

tection against air raids," the -M. Malsky, too, was there, Canon said. No sign. of recognition · passed "We have spent a big sum of between the Soviet Ambassador money in making our church as and the three former represen: safe as possible, and I am getting tatives of the midget states," big congregations."

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