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The tunnel through which 75 R.A.F. offloors escaped from Stalag Luft III. Key: 1. Stove on trapdoor: 2 Entrance shaft; 3. Sand dispersal

real chamber; 4, work- from shop; 5. sandboxes trollies: 6. air pump: 7. air pipeline buried under tunnel floor; 8, tunneller

railway; travelling on rallway linen; 10. half-way

11. half-

hould center Ba

why

12. exit shaft; 13. "Goon"

(guard) box; 14, "cooler

punishment cells; 16. hos- pital block; 16. sunken anti-tunnelling microphone;

17. warning wire.

N

EARLY

everyone

must be familiar by now with the famous Wooden Horse es-

THE GREAT

ESCAPE

Britain Tidies Up For The Festival

By PETER LOVEGROVE

outside.

much-needed

THE sudden rise to fame comes through the stained glass of the Nottingham windows from the floodlighting ahiro village of Tro-

Trowell's programme includes well-its place in the Festi- the setting up of a chlidren's val of Britain programme play-park- was argued about in the amenity-the planting of trees round the church and the parish House of Commons recently hall built since the war; a gar- and it has now been con- den show with prizes for the secrated by a mention in the best-kept gardens; an historical first (Trowell, was exhibition BBC's popular show "Take mentioned in 302, and has as-

Intro-

it From Here" has drawn sociations with D. H. Lawrence attention to an important and George Eliot, who

into Silas Marner'); fact about the Festival duced it

д children's treat and sports which is apt to escape any; and a cricket festival with notice.

a match to bo

bo played in Vic- torian costume. Many people seem to think that the great undertaking which the local Boy Scouts and Girl As one of their contributions, Britain is organising from May

on fields; erecting new parish halle

new

to September is limited to the Guides will clean up the faces South Bank exhibition in Lon- of the parish church clock and don, a "fun fair" In Batterson Install permanent electric light- gardens, a couple of travelling ing above them. exhibitions, some concerts, art exhibitions" and sporting dxtures, with supporting activities in a

And, like Troweli, hundreds few other leading centres of the of communities are busy on tidy- British Isles.

schemes: Ing-up

converting Nothing could be farther from bomb sites and slag heaps into One of the prisoners made a

air-condi- the truth. The Festival is a na- pubile gardens, planting trees pumping apparatus

and the and shrubs; laying out playing tioning the main tunnel, which tional undertaking,

will be was 350 feet long. Without it, whole of Britain cape from Stalag Luft III.

the tunnellers would surely have show. What is more, it is go- and social centres, bus shelters By placing a home-made

suffocated in the stale atmos-ng to leave behind It many per- and car parks; repairing histori- "box horse" over a camou-

every city, town and village, stro

street nome plates, commemoran- 1,200 Baged trap in the prison

The full story of this amazing and lay their rough plans be- phere. Later, a railway was made manent improvements in almost cal buildings; putting up

local authorities, tive plaques of notable build- compound, near the wire,

escape and it dreadful sequel fore they were moved. One of to carry the sand back from the Over

providing litter three R.A.F. officers were has now been told for the first them succeeded in stealing a face of the tunnel to the bottom down to parish councils, are ings, algnposts end local infor

baskets

waysille and

seats by a prisoner who took plan of the sewerage system of the shaft. (The prisoners who making their own little contri- mation maps, Jable to dig a tunnel to free time

compound from a escaped also used this rallway bution, assisted by willing men

of talent and Im- Competitions will be held for (dom while their fellow- part in its organisation, Fight of the new

Faul

Brickhill. trusting German surveyor, and to reach the end of the turmel), and women

that local the best-kept allotments and ist with this to guide them they The whole tunnel was thored agination to prove prisoners gave an endless Lieutenant

The Great Escape," publish-

the path of with boards from the prisoners' enterprise and initiative and the cottage gardens; local crafts and gymnastic display, much to ed by Faber and Faber). As were able to plat without

their escape tunnels

and staging chambers, vigorous spirit of civic pride hobbies will be displayed; old beds,

and and are every whit as potent and in the R.A.F., he the amusement (and dis- Australian

castles. natural features fear of striking a sewer and nick-named "Plecadilly"

will be prominent buildings boss of the "stooges" traction) of their German was

"Leicester Square" were dug, to compelling as they ever were. whose job was to counter the thus inviting detection.

floodlit; town guides and local who men accommodate

histories are. guards

efforts of the "ferrets" and

being printed that the elaborate

local customs and folk dancing, provided the locomotive power ensure escape arrangements were not

for the railway trucks, detected.

Valuable hours

Not long after this successful onleera seventy-five excape; broke out of a neighbouring compound of the same prison camp. This episode, however, did not end so fortunately.

was

of the

It was at that stage

shortly before D-Day, war, when

Germany

rucling under repeated air blows from the Allied air forces. Shooting down a few planes and cap- turing a score or so of airmen was small compensation for the dumage they inflicted in every raid.

-By- RONALD BOXALL

the

Once-in-the new camp, the escape organisation set to work la carnest. Previous experience had taught them that the greatest difficulty was to conceal the trap of a tunnel from the biquitous "ferrets" They were not long, however, in solving this difficulty.

مطا

introduce some

are some exam-

Ít isn't just á question of will be revived. wasting money on firework dis- It is impossible to enumerate plays, or merely of putting out in detall what each area is do- ΟΝ

N the night of the escape flags and bunting, and having a ing, but here

There "bun-fight".

will be plcs, seventy-five prisoners suc-

Bedwelty is clearing its dere- carried in getting clear before a plenty of these, admittedly, as

the well as pageants, falra and car- lict colliery tips for recreational German guard discovered

and the wire. nivals, but most villages

purposes. Part of Belpher's re- Three dunnels were started. open tunnel outside

the

Germans several small towns are seizing the op- fuse tip. Is being converted into One ran from a waste sump in It look

Barking and Ilford om a garden. the ablution hut When the hours, to find out how many of pertunity to moment trap was not in use, it was the prisoners had escaped, and amenity which may be lacking, are clearing bomb-sites, Droit- to remove some unccenty eye with, Tenterden, Spenborough great When

of dirty

these

were valuable hours to

sore which should have been and Hartlebury have sewerage под came, it was decided that 200 hidden under Inches

Lots water. Another was started in the escapees who were

Reich, cleared away long ago, and to schemes rap scattered

In hand. Jarrow will offleers were to escape.

all over the The trap D corner of

a hut.

their

routes help the very old and the very get a public clock at the town. plotted were drawn and Brickh drew

cunningly-concealed block having was barred by was

young. By the end of

the hall. place, but a

will Warlingham, Wit- concrete (made from carefully beforehand. X" boss of the escape

summer, Britain will be a spru- ney and Trinity St Mary. The rials left behind by the was materials

The murder of the fifty re- cer, more cheerful place.

clock will Edwinstowe Church carried the Ger- tion. because he

Trowell (pop. 2,000) is a typi- Unfortunately

to claustrophobia. He bulkiers) which fitted nugly

the hole. The third, captured officers was these airmen were no survived to tell the story of

typical cold-blooded cal example of what small com- get a second dial; Cheddar's will

be gilded, once they the

are doing. There is Great through which the escape was of, a problemn

episode in

Faber) eventually made, was hidden fashion by local Gestapo thugs munitics

in the districts where they nothing remarkable about this were behind barbed-wire. They Escape" (Faber and

The news village, which combines the persisted in escaping, despite which is now well on its way under the stove in a corner of

The clove was were rounded up,

la Chesterfield'

converting modern the strength of shocked the world, for

industry. the the efforts of

"ferrots" to becoming one of the classies another hut,

to electricity. removed to allow the diggers whose job it was to detect es- of the war.

access to the tunnel and replaced Germans made no attempt to with the peaceful beauty of the street lighting

keep it secret.

English countryside,

Is York, and its city walls will be- cape plots and foil the attempty

Brickhill paints a vivid ple- once they were safely inside, before they could be made..

After the war, an ex-Scotland therefore characteristic of Eng ringed by 13,000 daffodils, Bec ture of life in a prison camp.

land today. In the summer

cles,

Tanbury. Beverly, Radnor- When 11 other. appetites

Buried mikes Yard offleer, Wing-Commander ever

evenings, you can stand in a shire, Hayes, Penrith, Wellington, were killed by the crushing

Bowes of the R.A.F. Special hayfield and watch the roaring Kiveton Park and Midhurst are

for effect of life behind barbed ̈ ̈

Investigation Branch, began the dames of the Stanton iron fur going in were thirty ALL the tunnels THE

Stalag Luft III, in March wire, there remained a gnaw

food

feet deep to escape detection hunger for ing

and from the microphones which the 1944, was the crowning insult, freedom. This yearning

had buried in the When Hiller heard about it, he

obsession, Germans escape became flew into one of his habitual fis

and it resulted in many ingeni- ground all over the compound. of mad rage. A nation-wide un

Sonic our bids for freedom.

mans, less

force

for

Hitler in rage

mass break-out

from

ar

"The

and

-and

While digging was going on,

German

out.

ת!

Carly

this dush of victory,

stage,

with

in

the

Soviet

and

-coats-of-arm-

task of tracking down the war noces, the largest in Europe. It Evesham is restoring its Bene- for this atrocity. But even at public house was closed about a watch tower and also gethaven criminals who were responsible

no village green; its last dictine Bell Tower, Morpeth its the first PUL

re hundred years ago after a brawl new peal of bells there were following a skitties match with is improving and preserving its

a rival village. The centre of harbour for:. search had already been ordered, were successful: others were other members of the organisates. Sagan, where Staing Trowell is its 12th century

Oldbury is laying out gardens

Broadstairs: and most of the German police doomed to failure before they tion were forging passes and Lauft 11 was situated, was now

011 church, St Helen's. And as in

traffic islands.

climatoglogical was out combing the

in the part of Germany making documents,

getting so many other small areas, the is countryside for the escapees.

civilian clothes from spare unl nexed by Poland. It was the church will be at the centre of station; Horbury a bandstand. the The German equivalent of

other

her obvious point at which to start Home Guard had been ordered

escape equipment in

the investigation, but the Soviet its Festival plans,

permission Leader out, and hundreds of thousanda

The authorities refused QUADRON

Roger set

set up for the purpose.

investigators to enter of soldiers were diverted

Bushell, a fighter pilot and scale of the organisation can be for our other tasks to join in the hurt. farmer British ski champion, Judged the fact that when their zone.

from the Altogether five million Ger-

H-Hour arrived the escapers was the most persistent escaper. muns were involved

in the As each fresh attempt tolled had 400 almost perfect passes, greatest man-hunt the Nazis and he found himself back in 250 home-made compasses, 4,000 ever, staged, And, behind the the compound, carrie to printed maps, and an assortment

from

were made.

Most persistent

forms, and manufactorice

Quarter Back is reviewing the rights of way register; Chord translating its Latin interiptions, Thorpe is decorating its rallway are On May 25, the village fest!- station; two other places

pubile conveniences; open with a special erecting service in St. Helen's; it will and Liwchwr is putting a bird close in September with an bath in its Argyll Gardens,

One of the most attractive ESPITE this hindrance, re-epilogue" evening service, in

val will 14 Hanged

operations, call at the best chance of of Laknd German uniforms and D lentless detective work suc- teplouch. Vt Helens will be features of these preparations is

scenes directing

was the Gestapo.

Hitler ordered that

prisoner should be recaptured

10

idea,

then of

regaining freedom was to or civilian

nover

excape

and

an

clothes, besides

A

a

ceeded in bringing eighteen of floodlit throughout the Festival the attention being given to im the criminals to justice. Four period, and during the final ser- proving the comfort and wel- teen of them were hanged and vice the interior of the church fare of the older sections of the four were sentencod to stift will be lit only by such light as community. terms of imprisonment.

more

on a scale respectable amount of German every ganise an

He money. before attempted. put the rough idea to a group and shot. It was Goering who of fellow-prisoners,

But it was the tunnels them- saw at once that mass murder

ne selves that provided the biggest organisation came into being

But four of the murdered on this scale could not be ex- which was almost unbelievable headaches. When one was dis- plained away by the shople for in its scope

ari fabulous in covered, it was decided to con- officers were still unavenged. centrate on only one of the Further investigation resultad mula: "Shot while attempting its ingenuity. Bushell was

separate branch of in the capture of three resist

Hitler's "Big X", the master-mind who others. recapture."

the organization, known as "wanted men', Two of them practising devised and co-ordinated the penguins," were responsible for were sentenced to death the caution Was as typical as whole show,

disposing of the tell-tale sand remaining one was acquitted. his rage, He modifed his pre- vious-order-only-half-the-re-

On April Fool's Day, 1949, extracted from the tunnel. Tons But these later death penalties commuted to life impri- British officers of canil were concoated" in were captured-prisoners would be seven hundred

were removed to a new com-

hiding place sonment. every conceivable pound in Stalag Laft III. It and, when all else failed, it was

Thus ended the story of one In the event, the Gestapo had been decided that the mass hidden in the shaft of the third

When this was full, the of the most daring escapes in shot fifty of the offlcera, escape should, be made from tunnel. Twenty-three anore were ro- there. By volunteering to help: "penguing" hid the sand under history--a story which would captured and survived. Three the Germans completo their the camp

theatre-another have been dismissed as utterly succeeded in getting back to new "home," the prisoners had achievement of the prisonern incredible if it had been pro- England.

duced as a work of fletion. mterprise, been able to map out the camp

shot,

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He made a brass plate and in Philadelphia historian took a scribed on it "William Kidd, room at the local hotel. Anti- Master Quedash.”

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