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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950.

WHY WAS THE LESLIE HOWARD PLANE SHOT DOWN?

A seven-year-old mystery solved

by

SIDNEY RODIN.

He had the kame cherubic face, He wore black hom- burg hats.

hundred and ten NA

words Mr Winston pink, Churchill has just solved the mystery of seven-year-old air crash in which 17 people were kill ed, including Leslie Howard, the film star.

on

The mystery began the morning of June 1, 1948, on the tarmac at Lis- bon airport. A twin-engine Dutch civil airliner with a crew of four stood ready to take off for London.

It was a regular for non-military gers

He went to Marlenbad year before the -War to reduce the

but he at looked like Mr Churchill.

every portiness of his figure,

Alfred Chenhalls didn't mind the chaff because Churchill was his hero.

service

morning

passen.

Ho was one of the 13

Never could he imagine, however, that he, was to die on the of June 1, 1943, at the age of 43, because he was so much from EL neutral Mr Churchill's double. country. The service had always been permitted by travellers on that Lis- the Germans; it brought bon-London plane. the morning papers from Chenhalls, brilliant Dccountant, embassy chartered London for their

his numbered among

clientelo celebrities of Aim and theatre. He James was

likable. Agate

wrote

him of "He was the gayes! man I ever met."

in Lisbon.

Not a

trace

Leslie Howard.

truth is known

THIRTEEN passengers But, more important to the boarded the plane. There Government, Chenhalls was an in the He had been wounded was the usual group of on- authority on foreign income tax. lookers-officials, diplomatic arst world war, representatives, and foreign now working for the Treasury. agents.

to

and he

was

Chenhalls had flown out At 9.30 a.m. it took off see Sir Samuel Hoare, our Am- bassador in Madrid, on a con- and headed over the Bay of fidential mission. It was merely Biscay. Then, three hours coincidents and a good cover that he was returning with later, for no apparent rea- Leslie Howard, who happened son, the airliner was shot to be one of his clients. down by the Nazis. No wreckage was found. None washed of the bodies was ashore.

Many questions asked.

were

Why was the Luftwaffe so interested in this plane on its normal civil route?

AT

The

name

German T the airport two

agents kept watch, alerted by the news that Churchill was due to dy back to Britain from Algiers.

The agents took one look at They saw the name of Chenhalls—not

unlike CHURCHILL German.

Was the plane carrying the passenger list. Allied plans for the next 50 move after the German de- feat in North Africa?

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They saw a somewhat corpu- OT were the Germans lent gure on the tarmac, wear- Ing a belled blue melton over- merely anxious to

assassi- coat and black hamburg. The who man was chubby-cheeked, jovial nate Leslie Howard, had just completed a suc and smoking a long cigar, cessful anti-German propa- ganda mission in Spain and Portugal?

1

'Planned'

OF all the theories the asans-

sination of Leslie Howard gained most bellef. It was the one always accepted by Ronald Howard, the actor's son.

Ronald Howard declared: "My deliberately father's death was

It was Chenhalls. He loved

good things. He bought his hats

now the

"Eden and I flow home to- gether by Gibraltar. As my presence in North Africa had been fully reported; the Ger

were exceptionally

to vigilant, and this led tragedy which much distressed ane,

a

The regular commercial air- craft was about to start from the Lisbon airfield when a thlèk- set man smoking a cigar walked up and

was thought to be a The German

Passenger on it.

agents therefore

these

WAS on board. A that I neutral passenger

planes ulled unmolested

for many mont between Portugal and England and had

civillan carried only

the

traffic, a German war plane was instantly ordered out and defenceless alreraft was ruth- lessly shot down."

Mr Churchill concluded:-- "Thirteen civilian passengers perished, and among them the well-known British Alm actor Leslie Howard, whose grace and gifts are still preserved for us

the records of

many

by

the

delightful films in

in which he took part. The brutality of the Germans was only matched by the stupidity of their agents. It

anyone

is difficult to understand how

one could

imagine that with the

resources of Britain at my disposal

ail

T

Great should

In his pocket wis a soft

have booked a passage in 11 leather case full of cigars as hig neutral plane from Lisbon and as the one he smoked.

But to the Nazis the well set

cigar-puffer looked very much like the Englishman they

up

feared most of all.

Was it conceivable? Was his travel by commercial airliner a subterfuge?

They overlooked, or did not notice, that this smiling air traveller was younger and taller than Britain's war leader.

The Germans took no chances.. A message was flashed through to the High Command.

Three hours later the airliner sent its last signal; "We are being attacked by several enemy planes."

the

Next news came from German High Command. It issued a statement that its pe connaissance planes had down a transport aircraft the Atlantic,

shot over

When men of the Dorselshire Regiment entered Humburg in May 1945 they found at the German alr headquarters a TC- port confirming that ave Hein- kels had destroyed the mpchine from Lisbon.

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flown home in broad daylight ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

out by night from Gibraltar in- We, of course, made a wide loop to the ocean, and arrived home without incident."

One of two

MR CHURCHILL imew why

the place was attacked long before most people. Three years after the tragedy, Mrs Churchill met Alfred Chenhalls's widow at a dinner.

you

"It was dreadful how lost your husband," said Mrs Churchill.

"If one of our husbands had to go," replied Mrs Gwendolyn Chenhalls, "England could best spare. mine."

to

Mr Ronald Howard said me: "I felt certain the Nazis meant to kill my father, but I am bound to accept Mr Chur- chill's explanation,"

And the last word came from Mrs Chenhalls at her London Ant: "Perhaps if Alfred had not been so fond of cigars both he and Leslie Howard would have been alive today. But there is one consolation about Alfred's death.

"If he could have thought he was aiding Mr Churchill's safe

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A

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'CERTAIN WOMAN' SET ME

READING THE GOSPELS

FOR THE

to

planned by the Germans, ANYONE who writes

novel based on the But after that he settles firmly trap Him by forcing Him to

the

"They were angry over damage my father did to the years of propaganda work they had carefully carried out in the Iberian Peninsula."

Gospela will realise that he faces extraordinary risk.

a archale nor modern, nor English, in adultery. They hoped

into an idiom condone either adultery or the of bioning, which, though brutal punishment modern, never but Jesus devastated them with Beems Incon the words: "He that is without gruous,

sir among you, let him Brot cast His main a stone at her," variation from

He faces comparison with the Leslie Howard himself grimly perfectly told original, but any underlined this apparent truth variation from the original may just before he left Britain in bring him the anger both of

April 1049.

scholars and of the Hevout. If A sculptor was modelling his he uses modern dialogue he may portrait bust. The film star told him it was more like his death scem irreverent. It his dialogue a pra-is archale, both it and he may

Ecem artificial.

maak, for Howard had monition of early death.

·by J. P. #. HALLALIEU, M.P.

woman who washed

original

-213

I go back

MacClure describes

the fr the sumption that Mary Magdalen was both the

that in- Christ's feet with her tears and the Mary cident through the mouth of a of Bethany who was sister to Roman soldier and used his describe tho Martha and Lazarus. But that imagination "variation" is the tradition of effect it had both on the sokifer Now at last the mystery has

Cathelle Church, In his story of Mary Magdalen, the been cleared up. The key to it

and is and on Mary Magdalén. scholars is the late Mr Alfred T. Chen-A CERTAIN WOMAN (Harrap, acceptable halls, wealthy income-tax exi

108. 6d), Victor MacClure soes outside the Church. pert, of Chancery Lane, London. these risks and, on the whole,

avoids them successfully,

His cigars

FOR many years Alfred Chen-

FOR

halls

Variation.

to many

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The test of most stories is whether or not they hold thố reader. "A Certain Woman” Where he deals with recorded passes that test. But, because it Incident, he wisely avoids any is based on the Gospels it must attempt to rewrite the original, face another test whether it in but trica. Insteaxt to give the im-

any way illumines the originüld pression made by the incident

or sende the reader back to them.

story.

True, on his opening page, he on one of the characters in his

"Scated on a rock, a was chaffed because writes: be looked like Winston Chur-shepherd boy ralted his reed to chill. He smoked six-and-a-half thread with tanuous piping the inch double Corona cigars-like mingled bleatings far and near," Mr Churchill.

sentence which id neither

FERD NAND

Д

You remember how the scribes and Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman who had been taken

Hat-tricked

I can only say that when I had finished it, I at once began to re-read the Gospels,

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