1952-11-08 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1952.

„DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLIES by LES

"You there – stand to attention when vou're returning property to a German officer."

THE SPY WHO DIDN'T QUITE...

JAMES LEASOR reports his meeting with Ronald Seth (pictured here), the R. A. F. man who cheated the scaffold

"Six hours ago 7 had been din he is practically certain never ing in an R.A.F. Mens, safe on to return?

I was more ". English soil. Now than 1,300 miles away, caught

One volunteered to be with him all the time to keep him from meeting the Germans.

This officer, Douglas Turnage, a bank official, of Petts now Wood,

Kent, recalled days

London Express Service

BY NUMBER AND NAME

The comrades are tagged the tombola way

H

by RALPH HEWINS

to

Holainki. All this sounds very simple,

Indeed, according and, OW does a secret police ogonjek, it is relatively simple. chief keep a check on For instance,

200 million :citizens? mys:—— It's easy if the police

chief is named Berla and

inagazine

"An elderly man arrives and

the citizens are Russians.. says he has to trace a woman at once, but says he does not know It is co enby that the Soviet her name." authorities moke no secret of... "He explains that a few hours how. Lavrent (for Lawrence) carlier he arrived by plano from Favelevitch' (for son-of-Paul) Kaunas (capital of Lithuania), Berla keeps his finger "un, for trid that example, the citi

zens of Moscow.

Why here in

Helsinki, just ten

minutes by

car

from the Irott

Curtain, you

buy.

で

glossy Rus- &

slang, magazine

called Ogonjek

(which.

THE F

LAME

which is incilaed

to

boast

About

the way you can track down any.../ one in the Krem-"

city.

And is

done by a form of

housey-housey or

tombola machine,

GIRL sorts out a

Gillzen with the tombola,

machine.

on 'elderly women

amo &

⚫ passengers W.AA

coming to Moscow:

ぎゅう

for

wedding.

Bon's

She showed on people

board the present she was bringing. The man gave her

a lift some of the

11

way.

car

in the taking him home, but she left both present and

the

her handbag in

car.

his and there ho

"And

wns, knowing

neither her name

nor her destina- tion,

located in the headquarters of a The bureau chief, telephoned to the airfield for the passenger list from Kaunas and narrowed the search down to a passenger named Zacharov.

"And" Lhen-yes, in tho

special bureau in Moscow.

of Ogonjck The latest copy

If the least thing is known about a wanted person-what his habits are or what his work Pokrovski Gate district thera 1st is eary to trace him. were 100 Zacharova who married The addresses of many that day.. The seventh family perhaps most of the leading checked proved to be the right people in Moscow are carried one,"

in the heads of the staff of the Not even ́ ́ ́walts and ́ ́ strays bureau. All Stalin prizewinners, escape Berin's network,

party members, and

Ogonjek says that now, soven etc.; fire-remembered by years after the war, there are

those

the stan

mmedlitely

I was in Seth's room and stayed by him all the time. He had to have someone, to talk to, Seth thought back to his; and I rather liked the chap. in the act of lending by pare- days as a fight-lieutenant: "In Some of the other fellows got a chute from an aircraft, dressed the RAF. one day they were bit on edge about him," as a civilian, and with enough explosives in my equipment to blow up a small town-and was surrounded 'by armed German acidiera.

LIGHT LIEUT. RONALD SETH

the oil from talking about Estonio. On the impulse I put in my suggstion of sabotage,

The Nazis hauled Seth out to brief him for his trip to Eng- land, Seth Bays Heinrich "Most of the people who Himmler, chief of the B.S., knew anything about Estonia, wanted him to take a personal were imiddle-aged So when, to message to Churchill to the my amazement, Intelligence effect that he would seize power and negotiate asked me if I'd go, I couldn't in Germany back out. Self-respect came peace. found himself in this into it. I had to jump."

Seth agreed. He was smug- position just ten

And in the condemned cell- gled across the Swiss border on years ago when he para- for 40 hours alone, what were April 12, 1046, and at once saw the Ministor-Mr (now Sir) chuted into Estonia with his thoughts?

Clifford Norton, sabotage the orders to

"I thought of my wife...

Seth; "It WAR German-run shale-oil mines Before I'd left England we'd tremendous moment. For 808 and landed right in the had a ff. I wanted her to days, from November 5, 1942, middle of a German patrol, know I was sorry. And I had to April 12, 1945, I had been with a police dog.

no way of telling her!!

(When he "returned home he

Says

under sentence of death."

But, with the British Minis- ter, he adds: "I had a feeling hat my mission seemed less im- than I believed it to portant

remem In

excitement of asked his wife if she the orders and counter orders, bered the incident; she had the dog. bit a soldier, and forgotten all about it ten min Seth escaped to the forest utes after the argumen)And so it turned out. In the

to consider tion.

his

posi-

It could hardly be worse.

use

room at the prep. school, lit a cigarette before answering my next question:-

WAS the result worth the rick of his mission? Would he do it again?

The

"No," he said slowly. sacrifice was in my opinion end the only

apparently wasted. Even if I'd not been made of his fantastic escapade caught I'd have been very little was that a circle of Nazi agents use, for the people who had who still hid out in Paris after packed my radio set had for- the liberation WAS

rounded gotten to put in three crystals his near up.

that were essential to change his reunion Ronald. Seth, the spy who the fréquencies! The thing was

in his useless without them." didn't quite," back

4.

The bluff

B

a re- DUT between

He was alone with volver, some energy tablets execution and

(and one of cyanide that with his wife, Seth Ilved the fe which provides the title of his guaranteed death).

strango and gripping book: "A Spy Has No Friends."

It describes how, in his cell, he considered his assets: life, and the spirit to stay alive. He determined to keep them,

,

The parachutes with his radio, and explosives were already in German hands. His mission was over be foro it had fairly begun.

For 12 days Seth blun-

which he dered about in the forest,

to be prepared dodging German patrols.

ust Bol- He was captured. He went "against the Jews and

sheviks."

from. gaol to gaol; beaten up.

Question

WAB

He wrote a note to the com-

mandant, saying he had samo

radio experience

would

The bluft appeared to work.

He was sent to Frankfort to the

SUBMARINE IN THE SEINE

From SYDNEY SMITH

Intelligence H.Q. of the Luft-THE Paris

TH

Paris. gendarmes builder, 40-year-old Jeah waffe, and then to the Gestapo. were just too late this Rousseau, from the quayside."** Said M. Rousseau, damp but On November 14, 1043, Seth week to arrest a submarine was sent, under guard, to Paris. and its crew down in the elated, waist-high in the cock- THEN, without trial, came The Nazis wanted to use him depths of the river Seine on li

་ sentence of death by us one of their own agents in a bright autumn morning, hanging. He was marched Britain, so he was told.

Then one ever-

"We were not caught In flagrante delicto in other words, in the oct--so the polles can't prosecute."

It was only recently that across the snow-covered For months he lived under another morning was chosen public square of Tallinn, surveillance. Estonia, to the public galing at dinner he irritated for helicopters to hold an victor. He was gaoled forth- upwards-only race from the

strects to the top of the And then he added with Eiffel Tower and one of sparkling Gallic logic: Any

how to have caught up in the them swung n beaming act they would have had to | blonde trapeze girl in tights come 20 feet under water with just above the boulevards. apolleo diver, so — qu'est co

que vous voulez?"

lows. A crowd of ragged, with, hungry people stared at him as a sergeant, fastened

the rope.

An ear

The trap dropped under his feet; a blur, of bright A GERMAN count on high-up

Well, the latest piece of crazy In the Foreign Office-ap lights, a roar, and then the proshed him with a now plan. Parislana went to the other ex- M. Rousseau's submarine dive durk.

After the war, he said, Britain tremendown to the bottom of was supposed to have, been the and-Germany-would have to the Seine. In defiance of ex- official highlight of Paris Small. He awoke in his cell. work more closely. Some Ger- plicit police orders, two men in Boat Exhibition. Instead, it was a midget 11 ft. submarine with a an unofficial highlight-so oich Some unknown patriot had mana wanted to know more 12 h.p. engine stayed 20 feet the fixed the trap so that it about British contemporary under water for eight minutes. The submarine,

thought.

Just inbout a quarter of a milo could not open fully.

piloted by Seth was to be put Insido'n faway from the foot.of.the Eiffel Andal, with a Rousseau deep Last week-end, I met Ronald Seth, who is 41, tallish, blond, PoW. camp for British officers Tower. has a Cambridge degree and has an ear" for the Nazis a now by no means it..

Before the war ho lectured in English In Estonia.

As we walked in the grounds of the preparatory school at Epsom, where he is a master, I piked the obvious question:

HOW AND WHty does a man volunteer for a job from which

Seth refused to divulge any

Information that might barn True, they were wary though

Tony motorbost:

down in the depths working the engines, fins and ballast pumps, allowed to parade up later and down the river while 10,000 people watched--little more than

Tricolour cutting the surface. At 15 knota, laztea

his comrades, but there was not have a portable crane do the tiny conning-tower and a Utop reason why he should not at quayside with a chain attached least, appear to sgred. So he just in case the five-ton bub got was introduced into Olag 10 stuck in the mud. But It all BAY M. Roussou

ad worked bakufifully. LIZOTO › BUB-|- / Angry police who But the offers ported Film Bomb wanted to few minutes after throw him out of an attic win- surfaced; įstonhect

owner-recku não- dow.

(submarine for slatinchin

the icopta

has ="Look-proof escapa

nol. so many children searching bureau's: main.

for their parents or parents consist of a large ball where going their children. None the the names of all Moscow's in- less, the bureau'still gets 100,000 habitants are collected in: large inquiries a day, revolving cylinders Ike: tombola

for instance, a prò- There was, 20 wheels. These cylinders are longed search on behalf of a octagonal and the individual small boy named Vall Sidorov. cards are arranged In double He happened to mention, that he had heard his father, once 4"An official with a telephone minded a machine, It took very homo, beeps each card up to date every little time. to find his week by maintaining contact although

there

re: 20,000 with the caretakers in the Sidorova ila: Moser LANDES dwellingtouses of the town." Berta's tombola works welf

rows

"M"

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