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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1951.

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Prince's Buliding: Hów

are now

WO men who

infamous were drinking

T

in the secluded circular alcove at the back of Volk's Cafe in Manhattan on " May afternoon in 1945,

Tho slim, slightly stooped

Russian who dominated the con-

versation was Anatoli Antono

vich Yakovlev, the Sixth Man and director of the spy ring which stole the secrets of the atomic bomb.

The other man was. Harry Gold, Swiss-born naturalised American, who served as courier between the Sixth Man and four other agents.

Said Yakovlev: "Moscow was excited terrifically

by the

last batch of docu-

ments you brought

in from Dr Fuchs, They told

cable

that

me by the in-

formation was 'ex- tremely excellent, very valuable."

-THE ATOM SPY STORY by CHAPMAN PINCHER

One meeting in Manhattan starts a 2,000-mile journey

to Fuchs.... Bomb No. 1 explodes, and goes to:

a

secret

THE

K

SIXTH MAN

to see Fuchs "You must go aguin in Santa Fe next week,"

Flabby, perspiring Harry Gold did not relish the thought of

transcontinental three- day journey. But he nodded assent, "Here is the route you must follow," said Yakovlev. "Go Drs! to Phoenix, Arizona, then to El Paso, then on to Santa Fe.

It

"Dave camera.

"Schlieren"

Woll SICAFE HUID

AIR CONDITIO

FRIGHTENED PERSIANS PACK BAGS

By James Leasor

Abadan.

Hindu and Moslem net- TUNDREDS of frighten- tlers from India are con-

ה

their bags and leaving Aba- din or Pakistan. dan, They fear trouble, when and if their country men arrive to take over, the oil refineries.

They are bunching to gether in cars and trains, going anywhere north.

The news that many Bri-

The company, with 70,000 workers, is the country's second largest employer of Persians; biggest is the Government, whose employees, like the army, have not been paid for seven months.

To meet the threat of financial collapse, the Government is call- ing in 300-rial and 1,000-rial notes-£3 153 and £7 10s. After July 23, these notes cease to be legal tender.

the ex-German Dr Fuchs, hindtish wives and families are got through again.

going-I understand 440 so He was anxious, for the far have applied for free British had just captured Kiel, air passages

BC- - has celerated their desire to over the leave.

and

where he had once led an under- ground Communist group.

A warning came loudspeakers. Fuchs

the

Many goggles.

of

The Government hopes to catch out citizens who hold large of them obtained quanuitles from illegal transactions. Many Innocent country folk will be very poor, they may never hear

the, Anglo- athers put on dark Then they lay face down on the Iranian Company's lower- unlucky. As communications are wet sand.

grade Persian employees of the order.

sples shook hands, Then Gold a split-second

There was an atomic flash more brilliant than the brightestare becoming fearful lest introduced himself as from Pittsburg."

their jobs when tremen- they lose He slipped these documents in sunshine followed by

take 'Dave' handed over the

their a second manila envelope and dous gustalned roar.

countrymen envelope

Yakovlev had given marked it "Other."

The signal "Success" was im over. him.

G. I.

feel could there was a wad of money in it.

Around that time Ruth Green- mediately radioed to President in Berlin's battered It was his first big payment from glass was buying a U.S. Govern- Truman

ment defence bond with part of Potsdam, where He was con- the Russians.

the five hundred dollars and ferring with British and Soviet banking the rest.

The

Greenglass asked Gold to come back at 3 p.m. He had the in- formation but, obeying orders, is a long way round, but will he had put nothing on paper minimise the danger of being until the last moment. followed.

he added "After that." casually, "I want you to go by bus to Albuquerque to contact another agent."

"No. Gold."-"

rapped

"It's эп order," Yakaviov. Then, relaxing his set features, he explained that the woman who was scheduled to between New York and Albuquerque could not

TH

+

SKETCHES

Gold arrived in New York on June 5. At 10 o'clock that night in a lonely place along Brooklyn's Metropolitan Avenue he mat Yakovlev, as arranged in Volk's Cafe a fortnight be fore.

The meeting lasted one minute, "Have you seen the Doctor and the Man?" the Sixth Man asked.

Gold "I have,"

answered, handing over the two Manila envelopes concealed in the folds

of a newspaper.

political chicts.

STALIN HEARS

IN friendly, confiding mood

This is a country of hot heads and

greasy palms, and some men in power have the Oriental habit of exacting tribute whicin for subordinates anxious to re- tain their jobs, may be a

the again.

Harry Truman leaned over Generalissimo Stalln's shoulder

If the man and said: "We have made a month's pay. bomb Infinitely more destructive in power

is sacked, his than any other weapon."

Buccessor may want As the interpreter translated tribute all over his RCWS into Russian It showed no sign of interest or Trade in Abadan's bazaar Truman watched Stalin's face. Hence the worry.

surprise.

is the slowest in memory. to disk

Mr

The Government's. trouble Is that it is missing the oil com- pany's monthly royalty cheque, on which it relied for paying the army and civil service..

to Both bodies are forced make their own arrangements to gel food, pay their rent and so on. This they do with ingenuity.

The basic monthly pay packet of an army private is 2a, Gd. Abadon's hospital appeals for blood donors and gives 21 105. a pint. Doctors have difficulty in persuading auldiers not to return dally to give another plat.

NCOS unwilling to give up their lifeblood take a rake-off by selling passes to leave bar- racks.

courler returned after THE

lunch, and Greenglass gave

envelope. Im that's too much," said him a sealed

the meeting. mediately after which took only five minutes, he caught the first train to New York.

In the civil service these Stalin "I expected As the express raced through Kansas, along

Arkansas the

FUCHS THERE Kans

some questions about the bomb," Persian carpets hang out things are organised with more Gold opened his brief River,

the President taler told his side the shops or lie on the suavity and diplomacy. Thate case and slipped the documents

which they are be is an almost untranslatable Per-

"dakhi," "He obviously falled to pavement

word sion aides. him into IX weeks later at dawn, on Fuchs had given

July 16, a group of scientists grasp its significance." envelope

Heved to be improved if means, roughly, "hidden" large manila

and soldiers was sheltering from

President Truman was wrong.

them come untaxable perquisites. labelled it "Doctor."

thunderstorm In a Through the activulica of the people walk over Then he slit open Greenglass's a heavy-

timber and earth structure set up Sixth Man Stalin already knew but even prices slashed to cavelope and saw there

Alamogordo the answers. desolate

a quarter cannot sell them. four pages of notes on ruled in the

desert.. white paper and two sketches.

act on courier

make the trip.

"Here are your instructions," he said, handing over a plece of outon-skin paper bearing the typewritten words:-

MENU ORRSTVL 198 ►

209 North Rich Street,

·Albuquerque, Nav-Kexico.,

Recognition in

MI come from Juldus," a

The Sixth Man explained that a G. 1. David Greenglass was machinist tu one of the atomic bomb workshops at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The address was the lodging house where Green- glass and his wife Ruth spent every week-end.

did not

He deliberately mention that "Jullus" was Julius Rosenberg, Greenglass's brother- served ૉફ એ in-law, who also courler In the spy ring.

Yakovlev warned Gold destroy the paper as soon as he had memorised the Instructions. Dicee of card Then he gave him

to

cut in a jig-saw shape from a "Jello" jelly packet.

"Greouglass has the piece that lts this," he said. "See that he produces it before you start talk- ing. And don't tell him anything about Fuchs, just as you must

not tell Fuchs anything about Greenglass. Neither knows the

other is in the net."

Finally, he gave the courier an envelope containing five hundred dollars (then worth about £125)

for Greenglass

his to pay treachery,

THE SLIP-UP

OLD arrived in the old Spanish town of Santa Fe on the following Saturday, June 2, At a prearranged point, near a big church on the outskirts of the city, he met Dr Klaus Fuchs. They hahaf-hour's

handed Then Fuchs bundle of handwritten ments,

that

talk.

over a

docu

the Greenglasses there, then booked in at the Hotel Hilton.

and

were

At the top of 100-ft. steel tower, six miles away, the first atom bomb was ready for de-

tonation.

The arst Bkoteh showed a highly original device for de- tonating a new type of atom bomb. The socond showed an experiment in which a pre- liminary explosion, set off by the carefully screened by security device, could be photographed by men. But Yakovlev's chief spy,

The observers, had been most

Two men have

gone bail for her discretion

MRS JANET

(WORLD COPYRIGHT— LONDON EXPRESS SERVICE)

TOMORROW The Sixth Man gots the wind up

Mrs. Broomball and her tour children reach London from Red China-after five months of perilous travelling.

By Evelyn Irons

BROOM- that slave-trading bandils plan- with the baby.

BROOM. that slave trading bat

Mrs

They were de- layed five weeks at Chungking. Part of the trip down the

on

Yongise to Hankow they had to travel fifth class, sleeping raw mats in the hold.

had never Broomholl London after a five-month been on a horse in her life. But journey with two men's

It was on horseback that the Two little group safety in her hands.

had to make the two-and-a-half weeks' trek

to By the time they got to Can- Chinese citizens stood spon, where they had to get ton by train they had been five sor for her discretion be-

their permits. fore she could get a permit and soon got used to leave Communist China. she.

The four children - Janet, For this slender, pretty, blue- oged D, Pauline who is , 3- eyed woman of 37, with blonde year-old Margaret and baby hair severely knotted at the Jennifer, 12 months-were in nape, was a missionary in re- baskets slung across the bucks mote Sikang, on the borders of pack animals. of Tibet,

In a mud-walled ·

fortress village whose name is SHEER DROP

on no map.

some points

the narrow

that.

-1

I rode astride months on the way. But it took to it," said only two days to reach London 'd from Hongkong by alr

go, co horseback any rather

sald Mrs Broomhall about Now the family expect to a year's furlough in the spend English countryside, starting at Dr Broomhall's home in WIR thire.

Their main work in China

tribe, the Nosu was among With her medical missionary husband, Dr A.J. Broomhall, track clung to the face of the warlike, leprosy-ridden, who six she has just brought her four mountain with a sheer drop years ago rebelled against their children safely home.

down. "There was barely room Chinese masters and may grab the advantage of the present Mrs Broomhail bern In It was the fifth batch of atomic

for the horses to pass in single

situation to do so again. The given Gold for Foochow, brought up in Stoke Ale, and the children swung Nosus are a different mice from secrets he had the Sixth Men to send to Russia. Newington, B.A. of London aver the edge in their panniers,"

the Chinese--the same colour, not discuss Mrs Broomhall said.. a tough Keeping to

time University) dared

but taller, and without the schedule Gold caught the first the political scene for fear of

It was bitterly cold when characteristic Chinese Bill eyes. bus to Albuquerque, arriving harming her Chinese friends.

they started 'in January. (The They exterminate their lepers told me the story of climate is roughly the same as by first making them drunk and there early in the evening. He But she went straight to the address in her fantastic Journey.

In England.") Sometimes they, then burying or burning them North High Street, established

spent the night on plank "bede alive or throwing them in the NEW REGIME lived

Sometimes In a peasant's hut. they slept in straw in a loft. ver, believing the fopracy is

a sign of ovil spirits. Already before the Broom-

Each morning Mrs Broomhall of halls (and the two women mis coaked porridge with the oat

wero the only

loaded оп the pack Europeans) alonaries who

quitted that meal

so that the children animals,

Mr Broomhall will have to other village of 60 families 7,000 feet

• Bling

get used to chopping in England. dish,

fresh vegetables. For three years her stores bave high among the mountaing, the started the day with new regime was taking over.

chicken or meat they reiled on come from the nearest small Missionaries of another per what they could buy on the town three and half days'

0 At: 0.30-next morning he

suasion had arrived and were.

"cans for, emer- journey away, way carrying

arriving every three or four months. Bulk of meetings. The clinic, places they got a Chinese the order was solt. Greenglasses bed-sitting-roon, tion

At took the piece of jelly packet which Dr Broomhalt

This

delighted the There was nothing else to use out of his wallet, and knocked at

Chinese Gown dinner. became a

Sali was It was, three older children, all of for money. the door.

Evidently medical post. G.I. A dark young man in

time for them to go when they whom are used to eating with and Mrs Broomball bartered It moved.

such things as eggs and shirt and trousers opened it

out under the with chopsticks.

occasional meat. Mr Greenglasst. I come from drawal scheme of the China In-

Water from the well outside Jallus,”

"Gold said, showing the

their mud-walled, tile-roofed jelly packet:

organisation started In At Yaan they bundled into a house had to be bolled on the "Coma-in" auld Greangless.

bound for Chungking, wood ftro for fear of infection. None of these has upset the, He turned off the radio he had

The villagers they had cared. China's wartime capital, high on No

Mra bullt. In his ware time at Los

by a rocky bluff. It was neither accend calm of young

Broomhall. Things are dif- Alamos, went to his wife's hands for wout to see them go

and took out piece of It was not only the Cons to time por, the place for a Jolly packet which Julius Hope mundaltaner that threatened reuges fully of four to catch forent, she told me, when

had given him six months the cavalcade on the fratistage meals, but that is what the you, have faithya

rock of the of their 100g trail home. The Broomball children did All CNA WETLIKWAXmad: before leaving the little anapobadili, vierting

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quirk

Through momory he registered in his real name, disobeying Yakovlev's orders in a stupid way that was Ister to help the G-mon track him down.

climbed the steep stairs to the holding Communist indoctrina-gencies.

For

land Mission the first mais AMONG THE LEPERS

exodus of missionaries alice

the

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"It's not that I'm defeatist, Achmet, it's furt that I can't get rid of an uneasy feeling that this har been tried before."

China

Coast

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CHINA

In-

A civil servant offered a £1,- 000-a-year job with no dakhi, would turn it down' la préfèr ence to a £200-a-year one with good dakhl prospects.

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Then a very civil servant osk- ed him to step into his private office and worked out for him, gratis, his taxi fares for those 18 fruitless days and promised him-a-visa-instantly in return for dekhl to the same amount.

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Most travellers agree that the best answer in one of those in- terminable hold-ups with petty- officials is the crackle, of a high- denomination note,

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