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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1952.

EXCLUSIVE from Inside Europe

THE SECRET

OF A GENERAL'S MASQUERADE

THO cheated Dollman? The British Secret The German general

Service could not have been involved. The

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Americans? It would not suit their hand. The was nearing the end Italians? The Germans? The Russlana? This, to me, is the one unyielding element of today's of General great mystery story--the Masquerade Dollmann.

It began several days ago at 2.30 p.m., when a Dutch airliner landed at the clamorous Rhine-Main airport of Frankfort. The plane had flown in with some 20 Within a few moments one passengers from Madrid.

of them was being questioned-a tall, elderly man with an air of quiet authority.

His passport, issued in Rome, identified him as Enrico Larchner. In limpid Italian he explained that he was orrhis way to Inns- bruck, in Austria. Almost as if they knew already what they would find. the green-clad German Customs officers opened one of his suiteases. Almost as if it were the most obvious of travelling requisites, a fatal piece of paper was at once exposed.

No defence

of a long trall-

Mystery flight by top Nazi

from DENIS MARTIN

FRANKFORT Tues

and then came the double-cross by CHARLES FOLEY

WIR NOME DELLA LEGGE

on

NAME YOUR PAST

JAMES LEASOR reports a boom in ancestor. hunting-with, maybejn shock as the troll'ands,

TTUNDREDS of Empira Hand American tourists, planning to visit Britain next year to scok a view of the Coronation, have decid

d to seek something else at the same time their Old English Family Tree.

Result They bombard the London office of the Society of Genealogists with letters asking: "Can you tell us anything about our ancestors?"

Dollmann talked fast, like men who was glad to unburden himself. First he went through his own record, sparing nothing'

Certainly, the replies go out- of his Nozl past, his close ac-but only If you can tell us some quaintance with butchering about yourselves first. That Himmler, his tricky years of goes for ancestor-seeking Britons negotiating for Hitler between as wen. the German embassies to Mus-

the

First thing says Mr V. W. B.

salial's Government And the Church, secretary of the non- Vatican, his attendanco at

Massiin!-Hitler canterinILER.

oft-making dockety-is "work your

registration started. Then, armed will the name and parish of that forefather those 115 years

owni passage back in the Somerset House As he relived these days, his cords to 1837, the year in which ican. sharp Icatures relaxed. My dlm hotel room the blinds were drawn against the midday sun was peopled with ⚫ strutting despots and Ma-

chiavellian diplomatista.

It was an expulsion notice from Switzer- land, dated February 1952, and it identified

The phoney passport, issued to Dollmann under another namɛ, its possessor as a German citizen, Dr Eugen Dollmann.

What is not so well Dollmann was arrested-it must present parole from a war

Then Dollmann came to the known outside Italy is that be said that the passport was crimes prison in the British zono

of Germany--to get final authori- last days of Hitler, and once hot n manufactured one. It was

he was strained and is given the the genuine article issued by sation for what he was about to more

tense. For here was the crux Hame meant nothing Dollmann THIS

of the to the Customs men, but credit of saving Rome from the Italian Foreign Ofice with undertalse,

matter Dollmann's The second reason is, quite war had yet to be ended. at once the traveller's' re- destruction by making the Dallmann's picture in it and, thanks to some accommodating capital an "open city."

fcored badly, that official, a false name.

There sistance ended.

wus one last, great inission to be undertaken in What is hardly known at

Third, how did the Germans Russions would get in first.,

had been Yes, he was Dr Doll-

Hitler's "em- what was an And this is where my story, or mann. Yes, he had entered all except to the Allied stuff spot that Dollmann

pire. There was one last great rather Dollmann's story as he Germany

secret to be unearthed and then illegally from in Italy is that Dollmann impostor?

and secretly met British and Hundreds of people swarm told it to me six weeks ago, safeguarded. The British Spain.

into such realms of the "Americane had sought American envoys at a lake- through Frankfort airport every moves

I must vain. The Russians were warm- side rendezvous in Switzer- day with all sorts of identities

apparent fantasy that match them.

1

he

the

13.

ago, you can call in the society's aid, If you do nol feel able to work back through parish, registera yourself.

In a couple of third-floor rooms In Bloomsbury are fed tho, society's card-index of 5,000,000 personal names; 5,000 parish register; its records of 6,000,000

of- marriages, plus hundreds specialised books, records, cata- logues. Their total value; more than £25,000.

On a wall cartoon announced; "For 10 guineas we'll prove 'you' are descended from William the

asked for summary trial on land towards the end of the and papers that don't always explain how the whole thing er- they might and it first. | Conqueror. For 20, we'll prove

To cut short questions he

this charge. He would put war.

in no defence.

Still under the name of Dr Eugen Dollmann; the traveller was sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment by a Frankfort magistrate.

ΑΤ

Genuine one

Ta cafe table, wearing a sports coat and flannels, he negotiated the surrender The proceedings took ten of a million-strong Axls minutes and the prisoner army to Britain's vanished from the public Morgan, gaze with such celerity that

•

General

There was no reason on earth

came about.

Marshal Kesselring and Dollmann's voice tremored with for suspecting. Dollmann with Dollmann, to start with, is the respectful emo lon whenever he that it is beautiful new and genuine last man you would suspect of spoke the name-id passport. There was, above all, being a German SS. general, was his duty to act before the no reason why Dollmann should Most of his life was spent in Russians struck on the "secret. have carried an incriminating Italy: he was a brilliant scholar, paper on top of his luggage,

Tipped off DOLLMANN

Wag double

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a Vatican historian, before he was drawn into the Nazi dipo- matic machine,

Help

Four days

-

you are William the Conqueror.

Secretary Church, smoothing down his thinning thatch, of hulr, explains: "It's not quite so simple."

Actual cost of digging up the roots of your family tree is 78, Gd. an hour (one dollar to Americans). Many people can sort out the first important clues in a couple of hours, but a' full. pedigree will cost anything from £20 to £50.

WHAT Dollmarin toki me of It was a Signor Benzoni, an

Whis task I wrote down in Italian expatriate, that he was living last summer in Madrid. detall. On the four following crossed. Someone who knew we met once or twice; I was days I questioned him closely From that time, too, of his journey tipped off the astonished at his intimate under- en It: since then I have put to it was not until next day

the points of circum- Some tourists who turn up the name entered German Customs. And someone standing of top-level decisions, of experts facts that Dollmann hidden chapters of their family that Allied officials going Dollmann's

Madrid close personalities such as Hitler and stantial

past find shocks: un ancestor through their records the Kremlin's special re- had an agent in

enough to Dollmann to be able Mussolini, of secret negotiations gave me.

hanged for murder; another, who at to plant the expulsion paper in throughout the war. realised whom they had cords, Stalin protested

Everything is in exactly

they so proudly believed had the secret negotiations and his suitcase.

there can be no doubt

thatsalled in the Mayflower, actually caught.

his suspicions caused a

Dollmann was the only man Now It so happens that I

run out at a rope's end for position with know this General Dollmann. I classic

to have such a sheep-stealing. flare-up

secret laid on him and to go know the reason fantastic as Winston Churchill,

free.

surprise Most discover with you will see why he flew to

that with infinite pre-

their family name has Next, what was Doll--Germany, and I know that he FINALLY,

cautions, we

~~~~I~^ could not help him then, changed many times (as arranged a In desperate

now he is beyond mann doing with an Italian must have been

talk in

hotel and

help. Allsandre to Sandre to Saun my haste to take even the slightest private passport?

"Yes, Caught in the world spotlight ders), and he told

that often it peters Then risk of being exposed,

me: I am Dollmann, but I must at Frankfort his mission is over. out altogether in the 1700's,

will certainly hove Luckily, the answer Such, in Dollmann's, opinion, beg you to honour any con- Others

takken over most probably this question emerged was the delicacy and the import dence while I am here in Spain: the task is done. from the prosecution ance to Europe of his top-secret I need advice and help for what AT

T once there must have evidence. Dollmann's pass- mlsion that his discovery before needs to be done."

it had been completed must be been a burst of ques- port was brought specially fatal. tions from the Allied chiefs to Madrid for him by a

And if he had been able to in Germany

Signor Rocchi. And Rocchi

wait * few weeks jonger he had not only flown from could have secured a legal per First, who 19 this Italy with the passport but mit to travel where he wished.

This nondescript traveller was,

fact, in

an S.S. general, a top Nazi who has a long, been missing for long time.

Liaison man

to

The South China Morning Post General Dollmann? That he had also accompanied

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Dollmann explained that after the armistice he had arranged in Italy he had spent some months in a British internment camp as · a sort of V.I.P. detainee. This

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TOMORROW:

was partly for his protection The truth about

from Nuzi and Fascist fanatics.

But Dollmann could not wait,

There could be two reasons for urgency. One, that Marshal rust

He had learned to like and

the British and so, in his mission

and

was an easy one for the Dollmann in the plane from experts. Dollmunn was Madrid to Frankfort. Gestapo chief Himmler's

diMcult In fairness to the energetic Kesselring's health is failing. the dangerous political brain in Italy. He

vanished Doltmann told me he had to see mission that was Signor Rocchi-who

now before was Marshal Kesselring's from the airport as soon as his cd chief Kesselring at him, he looked for British help. right-hand man. He was chief Hlaison officer for the Germans between Musso- lini, the King of Italy, and the Pope.

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One lesson to be, learned: Britain is still a parish,

Many families, whose descr- dants have lived all over the world, sul retain a link (often unknown) with a place they came from generations ago.

Sample: a probable ancestor, of mine, Thomas de Leghas, lived in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanca- shire, in 1271. Today, after nearly seven centuries arkd various changes of name {Le Socur, Lesser, Lesster, Leeson), a Lensor still lives in Hyde three miles away.

GO ‘PUB-CRAWLING'

WITH A DYAK

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becomes wear beautifully

NE of the things they drinks are on the longhouse, a Sometimes they

did not show the social call in Borneo Duches of Kent on her something like a pub crawl, tour of Borneo is a long-

Woven sarongs and earrings that Young District Officers como hang below their shoulders. They house in which an entire back from a tour of their terri- sho village lives under one roof. tory with shaking hands and use lipstick, but

,

their comformity

bags under the eyes.

to Western fashions ends

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

-Who didn't

Have Fun Finding Out-

TELLS YOU WHY

Longhouses are not inhabited by people only. There are, in addition, an assortment of pipa, hens, roosters, mice, and beetles, so maybe this method of putting the guest to steep has un- suspected merlis,

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Naturally In community that places conviviality no high among the social graces it is a grove offence to creato almost any sort of a disturbance..

A rough-house, or rather a rough-longhouse, is not toler It is like a skyscraper,

sing, how glad we are to have ated, and the scale of fines that but instead of sticking up in In many parts of Borneo there there. the

Behind the women come the such a V.I.P. In the house. Wow, can be inflicted by the chief air it lies on the longhouses are the only places

in fearsome headdresser what a to stay in outside the towns. men,

night we are going to reflects this attitude

drinks ground. The record long- This is all right for convivial like Red Indians gone mad. have. Then the visitor

and the chorus of whoos and house in Borneo houses 90 types, but teetotallers have a When 1e hokey-cokey wowa reuches a climax, families and is nearly half terrible time when they have to a mile long. The front part travel around. of the house is a covered balcony.

Headhunting is now

1g

The fine for running off with your longhouse neighbour's wife The liquor they give you is a

la 32. Bd.; for getting divorced kind of rice wine called tuok it is 288 4d; plus 18. 04. for of Its great advantage over more each child involved; but for bo

orthodox drinks is that it does ing drunic and disenderly it is not give you a hangover, but i 100. Straits dollars, which 12 you take a drink of wafer next 211 155 morning you return to the state you were in the night before.

over, the chief advances on the bapless guest with a mug of grog in his hand. It used to be a drinking vessel mado agro- Docpanut cheil, but now enamel Behlad that is a row of doors, hibited pastime, so it is possible mugs are the order. one for each. formily. The chief's to refuse a drink in a longhouse door is in the middle. If a young without losing your head, but it behind the chief til the visitor couple get married and there 19 causes great offence. not a cubicle for them they just

build one on at the end.

The other dancers close

I have these figures from a Ands himself entirely circled by

Pengarah Dyak chief called. áls strange hosts,,

After this Arst round the imbun, who was in Kuching to visitor has one for the road at dance for the Duchess and gave Closer and closer they come every door in the longhouse. At me a standing invitation to stay singing a low song

More at his longhouse six days away full of least, that is the idea.

When the visitor arrives at a When distinguished visitors longhouse he is greeted by call-chicts from another long dance rather like the hokey house or European tradery or Coty in slow inótion. At the orrinous, long-drawn-out whood usually he lies down on a mat by canoe,

and wows. If he does not know and goes, to sleep, long before (2 of the procession is ofcials they are supposed to hond

fellow thinks his last hour has have a drink at every door in fellow playing an instrument the Dysk language the wretched ho reaches the end.

that is a cross between a crickes bat and a guitar, Behind Bim come.

In the morning when they ask As the average. Kaubam of come all the giria in the long- Actually, they are singing a him if he klept well he is ablo.” doom is about 20, and all the house.

song of welcome. Whoo, they, with truth to say yes.

the house.

You will like it? hd saldı "We have a gramophone, and our own elbetric light."

Some day I am going to tako him up on that invitation.