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by OSDERT LANCASTER:

"Of course I always say I understand exactly how the presidential election worka-otherwise one's so apt to get it explained' to one,"

The Most Amazing Story Of Them All:

THE FLYING SAUCER IN THE SOVIET ZONE

A

By Antony Terry

Berlin.

pan without a handle, and with RMED with a sensa a 10 ft, conning towertook off with a crew of two from a forest tional affidavit sworn clearing in the Soviet zone, is by An

ot eye-witness, being studied the highest answer Intelligence officers in level. It is hoped to West Berlin are investigat- the big question: are lying Ing one of the most amazing invention? "flying saucer" stories ever reported.

Evidence that a weird traption-"like a 50ft, warming

saucers" a secret new Russian

-XO

The man who first brought to light this remarkable story is con- grey-haired, 40-year - old

Mayor Oskar Linke, of Gleimmer- shausen, near Meiningen. He had escaped from the Russian zone with hia wife and six children.

A BRILLIANT MAN

TO HELP BUILD

MALAYA'S FUTURE

By Brett

Oliver

I can now reveal that in the company of West Berlin officials, Herr Linke, with his 11-year-old stepdaughter Gabriele,

swore this, solemn and formal affidavit before a judge:

"I was riding home on my motor-cycle, with Gabriele on the pillion, when a tyre burst near the village of Hasselbach,

"As we were pushing the machine toward Hasselbach, Gabriele pointed to something be about 40 to 50 feet across, tre of the object and was, now about 150 yards away. At first though it was hard to say exact protruding from the bottom and sight, in the half light, I took it ly. It looked like a huge oval standing on the ground.. for a young deer,

warming pan.

London. various university bodies, acted TALL loose-limbed as an examiner, and generally took an active part in university man, who looks. 10

in Lon- administration. Back

"I left my motor-cycle by a years younger than don, he was a member of tho tree while I approached the deer his actual 50, came into Government representation of cautiously. I was now about 40 London from Washing the London School of Economics yards from it.

where, incidentally, he won ton to wind

his up a first class honours degree in MEN IN METAL affairs as one of Britain's economies In 1922, when ho top Government economista.. was 20. And where also he Recently, he has been a Bri. met his wife who will be fol- lowing him out to Malaya later tish member of the United in the year. Nations World Bank.

Now, however, 20 years

*

me.

"The 'warming pan with it. glowing outside ring of flame, was now some feet off the earth.

Eye-witness Herr Linke him. self directed the artist lo produce this vivid impression of the flying saucer sa he saw it in the clearing: beside it stand two crew members, who took off in it.

saucer

"There were two rows of holes along the sides, about a foot in diameter. Each row was roughly a foot and a half from the next.

"Then I noticed that the whole object, was rising slowly from He continued: "I never heard

flying "Out of the metallic object the earth. The cylinder on which the expression rose a black cylindrical conning it had rested had now dis- until I escaped to West Berlin lower,' about ten feet high." appeared inside the centre and, from the Soviet zone. "I then realised that my first Linke went on. "I was now top.

reappeared again through the

"When I saw the thing first, I impression had been incorrect. alarmed by a coll from my The thing I had noticed was daughter, who had remained "The rate of ascent now be thought it was a new Russian really two apparently human some distance back. The sound came much greater, and at the war machine. figures, now about 60 yards from must have reached the

two same

time my daughter and I ́ of high-level work in the Civil

"I was terrified for the Soviets They appeared to be clothed figures, for they rushed back to heard a whistling sound, rather Service are behind him, He is IR Sydney's career had its done with it. But he is act beginnings humbly in the in a kind of shimmering, metal- the object, clambered rapidly up like the noise made by a falling do not like one to know about their goings-on, and people are oficially retiring from the home of a railway clerk, his lie substance, and were bending the side of the 'cooning tower bomb, but not nearly so loud.

and disappeared inside.

shut up for years in East Ger- down Treasury.

father, He was then, as it is

"The object rose in a horizon- many for knowing too much." and studying something on In September, he goes to these days called, "a bright

Day!"

the ground.

"Previously I had noticed that tal position, swerved away-to- Malaya, into an almost

"I wormed my way to within one appeared to be carrying a wards new but his schooling had to be done

nearby village and dis. LITTLE WRONG field, as Vice-Chancellor of the the hard way. He went

to about 30 feet of them. Peering lamp on his chest. The lamp appeared, still gaining height University of Malaya.

He has Harrow County School - "not over a small ridge, I noticed a flashed on and off at regular over the hills and forests to- been seconded to an approved to be confused with the Harrow large object, which I judged to intervals.

wards Stockheim.", headmaster appointment at his own wish, because,

my For Sir Sydney Caine bellever used to say, 'Harrow is always that a man should try to com- famous for its

schools' ---and plete more than one career

the in went on with scholarships to his lifetime. And he believes London School of

of Economics, countries cannot be fully At 20, and equipped with his developed from the outside. economica degree, he went to Revenue So Sir Sydney, ex-head of the work in the Inland British Treasury Delegation in

Office - "Income tax Inspector Washington, ex-Colonial Office and all that." Under-Secretary, ex-Financial Secretary in Hongkong, is going to Malays to help, on the spat, in the shaping of the country's future.

that

Sir. Sydney summed up his decision this way: "I think, both from the point of view of the development

of the Colonies.

in every senge, and from the point of view of the

continuance SIR SYDNEY

British a outlook in the territories, that the universities that are growing up in the can be, and Ought to be, very influential.

As

""My first asociation with the Colonial Office was quite by ac-

I had cident. I

no special amb!- build a Colonial enreer, tion to but I passed an examination, there was a job offering,

about the best at tha and there I

started."

t

Sk Sydney, Q frank and friendly man, disarmingly passes off the list of his appointments since then. But the records show that since 1026 when he first stepped into the Colonial ofce, his energics have never been far from pressing forward Colonial development.

In the depression years he helped the West Indies bear the crash as secretary of its sugar commission. Then to Hongkong as Financial Secretary in 1937 My long connection with the and back to London in 1940

secretary at tho Colonial Office has left me with assistan!

Colonial Office. Two years later end the impression that in the countries cannot be developed he was working as a member from the outside. And develop the Anglo-American Caribbean and in the como ment

from the inside dependa Commission

year, 1942, bezan a full, six-year on education."

executive spell at the Coloniali Sydney sald this feeling

Qffice before moving to the was greatly strengthened by hi

Treasury

as third secretary in 1931 visit to Ceylon with un In-

1040. ternational Bank economic mis- sion of inquiry, He saw a great need for more, and higher THROUGH the years, education. particularly in Sydney has got to know technical fields.

Maloya,

ho Bays, "very "There is too much emphasis well on paper." He Was on the arts and I believe the there first in 1937 and again same applies in Malaya. A lot in November last your. He has more technical education is known Malcolm MacDonald needed in territories where there privately and officially for many

SU

Sir

Mr. George Edwards, chief "The outer

the designer for Vickers Aircraft. hud edge ot the Several other people In 'warming-pan, in area later told Herr Linke they this to say about the East Zong *saucer": "Belleve in flying which holes had seen something which they saucers? I don't know. There were sunk, now took for a comet. One, a shep is little wrong in the idea of a started to glow, herd, Georg Derbst, who was

"The colour at Arst seemed green then changed to red. A sewmill watchman told Herr it Flying Doughnut{" At the some Linke he had seen what he

about a mile and half away, said circular wing. Before and during the Flest World War Britain. he thought a comet had

developed a circular wing air- "bounced" off the earth.

craft. And it flew. We called

me 1 heard a light hum. As

thought ฟงล # "low-flying

"There is fitte to stop us

the glow and the comet" flash away from the hill developing a Flying Saucer-x- The saucer begins to take off. The outer diso

Linke sow

the copt the money and the need. and the where Herr sound increased, object.

What cah a' saucer do that is whirls faster and faster, rising up the centre

the conning

better than a convcational air- "conning tower, which remains stationary.towel was re-

craft7

Airborne, the strange craft whirls off at terrillo speed, soon to be out of sight. As it left the ground, the central tower rose again,

tracting into the HOLE IN GROUND. centre of the

Warming pan,'

and the whole

object rose glow Ly Στοχή

ground,

my daughter and I had dreamed. Its

*"I Herr Linke's description Is accurate it may be that the After appearing before the machine is designed 13 .@ Judge, Herr Linke told me: "I milliary hoverplane.. - It would the would almost have believed med. I glow that it houses a

from his comment on jet the whole episode were it not for plant designed to provide vertical "From the

fake-off. The cylinder would one, thing, swirling effect of

obviously have to retract into glowing "When the thing had gone, the body' in order to prevent re- 'exhaust I got went to the place where it had sistance. tho Impression been standing. I found a cir

the

that the whole cular object was spin-

"It seemed to

depression,

had been driven down.

evidently "Metallic

sults are possible.

ning like a top. freshly made, where the earth too they could be a form of protective clothing for use in high altitudes. There is nothing be resting on the "This was exactly the shape of impossible about the story, al cylindrical piece the conning tower: 1 realised though to baileve in the actual which had sunk - then that I had not been dream- existence of the Saucer I would through the cen- 'ing,"

have to be shown one myself"

THE "BEARDED WONDER”

NOT BULLET-PROOF

Morib, Malaya, July 7.

From RUSSELL SPURR IFE' is returning to an-

other little corner of the coastal road,

{

AFTER

formerly of

the.

WAS ALL

was on the way out to make room tor foch troops. The faces of his men were pale with

Men shook of Area Security Officer W.M.M. fatigue as they stumbled ex- hausted on to dry ground. Their uniforma were ripped; rattet and stained by the tea-colour

..

is a forceful move for progress, years, has not yet met Sie Malaya-the narrow coastal their fists, women at A Sutherland, But, unfortunately, in many of Gerald Templer. these places there is a distinct No doubt I will. And I am strip of Southern Selan- heavy armed guard, with hand- Edinburgh C.I.D. bins against entering technical looking forward to it as the gor.

kerchiefs over their faces, kept. He was able to piot the beard professions," he said.

the university has a do

The "Boarded Wander," Com- watch for Communist reprisals,

ed bandit's progress across the work part in the future of munist leader Liew Kon Kim, is

"It's the toughest operation finite part

When the car moved on, the state until a cluster of pins

in the government I've ever seen, sold Lieut. a desolate Sim. "We were never dry. At two miles f

from nights wo rested up--on Islands, if possible-bit most of the'men alept in the wet!!

WITH this conviction, Sir Malaya, though it must be done doud. The people he kept there people laughed and smiled. They collected

a much longer-term view in fear for three years, today cheered the police and army forest réserve,

Sydney will seek to foster the

his bullet-riddled body units moving in to complete swampy region technical advance of Malaya and In a somewhat calmer at through its university though mosphere than the actual mili-paraded through the villages in the destruction of Liew's terror the crust. he says that he has no definite tary events of the present cam- an armoured car. That mayinced gang. plans mapped out at this

"Whatever happens,

of any She took a social iionen dey, with the fron body,” and claimed plenickod, on the beaches and other informers!!

The

AT LARGE

swamp.

At least

two

men died for paign,"

"he said.

them of Lew's death, despite Some began planning for the giving that Information. Liew ine, who is at present the 32-year-old regimental com- future. They Lety Calne,

recalled the day had them hacked to pleers after

About 80 Communists are of recovering from an operation, is mandor's carefully constructed when the coastal bell was rich burning their bodies with rod-

likely to look about for woltare legend of invincibility.

in rubbor plantations

and hot polters. Their families will belloved to be at Inrgo In the Malaya 'grows and keeps grow-

to do when the reaches He called himself the man coconnut groves, when trippers share over £1,000 reward with 20 square miles of ing. That fa the

principal work

Malaya, according to Bir

They are leaderless; some are function at the boad

diploma to be bullet-proof, He spoke the small harbours were filled Military operations are con. wounded. Pamphlets will bo university.

at the London School of Econy mysteriously of secret weapons, with fishing eth

tinuing. Artillery, covers the dropped telling them of Liew's- It might be said that a man mics and became prominent in the simple peasants believed he

main

them to sur who

swamp cacape routes, death and urging has spent the greater part

PEOPLE FLED of his life, involved in Gow- welfare work for women and had a magle Instrument which

Lincoln bombers and rocket- render, the children in London's East End. painted automatically in wholly Then, ernment work is not

Communist campaign fring Hornets are attacking Australian-born Lleut. as Hongkong, the was direction of approaching recurity sulted for a position as

the

Colonel hermen, trucks and

Phil Morecombe, the encampments. responsible for

an ordinary scared way the foundation | patrols, It wa

of the Butrolis trippers and plantation wood, relieve the weary but triumph a

Frezh university

commander, expects troops have gone into Suffolks vico-chancellor. In of the girls club-movement compass Men

number to come in. He is population Sir Sydney's case, he admits which has grown trally dinos Regiment out bendo him Half

yesterday after the surcessful coettlement camps will be something of a new

was removed to ant Suffolks among them, plotting new moves to round up feld for him. But only to an urt is likely she will want to ambush nor his swampland own early. The remainder now Service Regiment,

for their units of the crack Special Air the others.

Thut the terrain is so bad that extent

Die get involved in this type of hoodquarters, "I have always had a real welfare work againn, PPA

At the also seized one of the huddle behind barbed wire Tha

edgo of the

swamp I a proportion must escapes The Interest in university work and Sir Sydney Ens to retum to get hoards of Communist fonces.

The once

John ce rich area met. Lieutenant. Sim villagers hope they will. They became a particularly wrapped, the United States in Asigur to documents over captured: in

virtually bankrupt, WHE

48.A.8. platoon commander and are waliing round, the swamp. up in it when I was in Hong, attend a meding of Unibod Na- Makya, dojalling Low's reign The depression ́ ́ finally forced son of the Chief of the Imperiál: I met a group stmied with spears kong in 1917.

tions Contributions Commlites, of terror.

the „desperato villagers to General Staff.

and razorsharp parangs patrol- He had spent As Financial Secretary, he Than It Malays in Beptember Villagers gathered in awe as contact the police, Men allp

three days ling a nearby, jungle path. They was an ex-officio member of and the new work awaiting him, the armoured car cruised down" ped out at night to the bungalow supporting the Buttons, and, dald" "Wele tuunung pigs

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