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COLDITZ

UR "Goon watch" Preceding chapters: The on the routine activity author, banished to Coldit:

of the enemy within the

castle brought us much useful information.

For instance, I learned that each person who en tered the inner courtyard collected a brass, numbered disc at the guard-house, showed it to the sentry at the gates and returned it to

Castic, the "Bad Boys' camp, after an almost suc- cessful attempt to ercape to Russia from a German

p.o.t. In Poland, helps in one câmp of many tunnel schemes for 'break-out from the almost Escape-proof castle. But for himself he plans a walk-out.

# home-made dressed in "German" uniform. ...

the guard-house on leaving. They Have

One of these dises was ae- quired during the latter part of

elderly June, 1943, when an

with house-painter was bribed tobacco to leave his disc behind him and inform the guard of its

rudden search

of the British

quarters for escane materials

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and captured

under tha floorboards of my bed. I had the mortication

German

IF Y

unsteadily in

of seeing a offeer walking the

with it on top of his

courtyard uniform

hat. I had to be content with

a ski cap of indelible blue like my jacket.

Other, equipment included

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map of the Swiss frontier, truced from a stolen one; false identity card made by, a Dutch officer; money from block markot deals with guards; and rescued from the the compass

Their Exits Gestapo at Picek.

Chapter 8

It was t hot

parado

He took the brass disc from me and let me pass. In the are lights outside the gate his face evening in seemed pule and anxious. He August 1941, when I went on said nothing but stared at me at nine with a British sharply as I turned on my heel lass. It had already been placed By Airey Neave, Army overcoat over my sham and marched away from the uniform. Beneath my overcoat guardhouse. My Polish boots I held my false German cap. rang smartly on the rampart The courting done, the order and my wooden bayonet mapped to dismiss was given, and the against my eide, prisoners in moved towards their quarters.

among the communal store of nids to escape,

D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.

I had next to find a German painted it black and silver, and uniform for my escape from the hung it from a cardboard belt casio and suitable attire for with a tinfoil buckle. making my way 400 miles to Switzerland. A complee Ger- man soldier's uniform might be acquired by corruption over period of years. But I was impatient to be free. I bartered a whole month's ration of Rex Cross chocolate for an ancient Polish tunic remotely resembling in length and design that worn

by German private soldiers, ·.

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I murched quickly, anxious to avoid the lights and reach the bicycles before the alarm given.

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was

LEILA,

NAGUIB'S NIGHTINGALE

By Sylvin Clayton

Cairo, choly Arable love songs, The

NE woman, and only song,

one, has achieved

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far

however, has a catchy tune in two-step beat,

Within 48 hours of the 60lcisl

sturring approval of the words by General role in the all-male cast of Naguib, every prominent Egypt- General Naguib's military lan male singer had made a recording of it. The General regime.

and the young officers of his She is Leila (pronounced Revolutionary Committee listen- as in 'tilac') Mourad, plump, ed to them all to select the best

rendering. torch - singing star of Egyptian filmi musicals.

Final Choice

For the General has ordered her recording of his Liberation Song-an orien- EILA, whom he had Arst tal Marseillaise - to

heard, was the General's final be

chofce. Leila must sing it for played every night at the Earl, he said. And-in a land beginning of every film show here women are still väteless in Egypt. As the revolu- and only slowly shaking off tho tionary words of the aong Islamic vell and harem coven- flash on the screen in lime- tione he unhesitatingly ap- green Arabic, cinemagoers proved her.

Madame Moured herself is de- join in the chorus with fer- lighted, but still a little "Aston- vent enthusiasm.

ished. Naguib's selection of Leiln Looking more like a Frencãi in her plain black as "The Voice" of his mili- housewife.

jumper and skirt. than the tary regime was a surprise. Middle East's most popular ro-

"It to Egyptians. Yet it has montie star, she told me:: 12 been one of the General's perhaps surprising. The

bong is very different from my..untal happiest inspirations.

numbers. I am a romantic! My favourite role is Marguerite in

The Lady of the Camellias"

Heard Everywhere

In convent schoolFrench, 10 see, tha polished by trips ONE hears the song every- Fath and Dlor collections, sha where. At official func- explained how the song firet tions, on the radio, in coffee come to the General's caps

General announced un- When I was close to the first shops and in bazaars. And that he would attend archway there was a loud shout Leila's recording is already the premiere in Caire of a flim about the grout Mustapha Kernat n bestseller.

She puts over the fiery lyrics of Turkey. The producers were frantic. How could they exhorting Egyptians to "awake and

For my "elvillan" clothes, to be worn under this uniform, I boiled an K.A.F. tunic in д

I felt again the sense of being cauldron, darkened by

free. It was like a drug. I felt delible pencil leade. This I COMEONE quickly removed my that I was acting in a theatre proposed to wear with collar khaki overcoat from my and the, R.A.F. trousers and a shoulders. I placed my German where no audience could hear My performance was for Homburg

Teutonic cap squarely on my head, stuck my own enjoyment. I smiled This I appearance.

made out my chest and marched to to myself and walked on.

awards the main door. according to the formula of Franch fellow-prisoner out of thick blanket aftened width It was half open and glue and water and shaped in German under-officer put his a mould of earth and sand. head inside. I spoke to him

by nervously. The pleasure occasioned row could it be rendered the making of this ridiculous feld-grey? It was made of hat was short-lived. Two days smooth, in cloth of khaki after it was made the Germans Kommandant from Hauptmann colour. I thought first that I rushed into the camp would dye, having had come experience with indelible penell leads. But eventually paint, bought for creating a backcloth of trees for the cump theatre, amateurish solu- provided an

R 蜴

How

Lion.

I

During several evenings patiently reared this paint in what I believed was the right shade of field-grey on the sur- face of the tunic. When the tunic was ready I took it to

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Polis tailor who sewed on the left breast pocket Insignia of cardboard, painted silver.

Next came epaulettes with] white numerals; a forage sip

0 "I have

on

a Priem."

CAN THE

message to the

behind me.

"Hal!"

Tomorrow "You will be shot!"

RUSSIANS

(WITH THE SECOND LARGEST NAVY)

SAIL SHIPS?

by COLLIN BROOKS

Great. He took back and taught to his people the craft of shipbuilding.

unite with their blood- honour his presence? brothers of the Sudan" in the

metallic, seductive voice with which she usually sings melan-

-RED FLEET-

This is what Mr. J. P. L

vt Thomas, the First

Admiralty, told M.Pay the

Today, the Bovist Navy has, at nút 20 tery powerful eruisers, over 100 destroyers. nit more than 300 BUD marines of all classes, "FAL

Kent are manned, with the result that Russia has today the cold tarkent navy to commisalon."

1 Hour, 10 Mins

"AND

AND then Medhat. Asem,

our leading composar-he wrote the music for the Kemat film-announced: 'I will write

He was in- · a patriotic spired. He five long versce in one hour and atted them to a tune in ten-minutes. Would I sing the song?,, In- sisted on singing it i

"I wore honey-beige for the premiere," Leila continued. "Great artists do not need to wear strident colours, om

"I sang the song I think I

That first Russian Navy did Wilo to mark the pages of world with wonder at their can say it was enthusiastically history. It had some half- naval prowess, victories over the Turks. It had one petty triumph over the

Head

(of Polish origin) daubed with paint, and with white piping NEW elected representa alien to the landlocked Slave Swedes, at a point, called Hanko and eagle's wings and swastika tives of the British race of Russia.

trousera

which at

Polish orderly.

night re-

contrived

to

badgo (cardboard); RAF. of sendoge lounged into the There is nothing in the sembled the dark grey German debating chamber of the naval history of Russia uniform and a splendid pair House of Commons to hear make even the lake-locked of Jackbou's bought from a the Navy Estimates. Those tars of the Swiss Navy turn

who did were chilled and in their hammocks. dstartled by almost the open- This hastily

Not until the early 18th passed ing words of the First Lord guise could never have by daylight. Even if it were of the Admiralty,

century did Russla have possible to get beyond the door

even a proper sea coast of of the inner courtyard and sur-

her own. render the brass dise, a series of obstacles, mainly sentries, confronted the escaper.

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He revealed that the So- viet Navy now is the second largest navy-second only to the American Navy.

...

There was reason to be HAD in fact no clear vision startled by the realisation of what I should do when I that the British Navy has emerged with my bras disc taken third place. There

I

from the courtyard, only some was no shadowy idea that I would steal chill. a', bicycle from a rack in the outer courtyank and across the moat-bridge past the pentry at the last gateway.

pedal

reason for tho

Britain may be third in the tally of ships, She re mains first in the knowledge

I aimed to impersonate the of how ships are to be sailed humblest. N.C.O.-a gefreiter for lance corporal: My chief anxiety and used,

was now a

he manufacture of Landlubbers talk much of weapon. I vefreiter would be on some road sense; there la sucht apocins duty without a gift but thing as sen sense. eyen wo, a bayonet in a scabbard

was necessary An offer of

the Royal Tank Corps carved

Then it sank into the obscurity of the nineteenth century.

In the early years of this-

century it emerged from that obscurity in startlingway. War came between Russia and Japan in 1904,

fleet

Tho modern Russian steamed away to teach the upstart Japanese a lesson,

As it crossed the North Sea Having wrested the Baltic there loomed through the murk coast from her neighbours and mist another Beet, by force of arms, it was necessary to have a fleet to protect it.

Peter The Great

The birth of the first Rus- sian Navy was in the dock- yards of the Thames.

The trigger-nervous Russians opened fire.

What was to their credit was the way in which they repaired those losses. In the second world war they learned much from the alles, and even moro, after the war, from German technicians.

The increase in the speed of their programme has been very remarkable of late, said the

received. I saw the Gentral joining in the chorus

"At the end of the show I heard that the General iced it he had chosen It"as so much his song. And I was invited to make the official recording. I was enchanted

For 10 years Leila Häg been the Middle East's highest paid woman star-£12,000 a film. And, she has averaged four First Lord of the Admiralty. year in a land where there is no

surtax, But this second largest fleet

She has no intention of iäev- is not manned by a race of sea-ing Egypt, even though she says, men. Those 350 submarines have

not only to be manned, but Hollywood has been interested. manned by the right crews,

Sense Of The Sea

Age a Secrot

A sense of the sea, a sense of "I COULDN'T bear to slim as I would have to do for Holly- discipline, an inherited under-wood, I love good food, And even standing of naval warfare But the fleet at which they

British have, the Hollywood stars have to escape these the

to France to find good booking. loose their broadsides was' the English Dogger: Rank fahing Americans may yet more fully Why, I've seen Rita Hayworth

dirpioy,

Russians cating a pyramid of songs certainly have

Even if the Russian Navy in Paris with the 1o, of The Russians met the JapanesO

silylong fleet at last, in the waters of were manned by a race of

Laila, whose marriage to her distant Port Arthur

fighting scomen

the danger ending man, Anwar Wegd, was would not be as pesimists have alsolved last year after dight

fleet!

To those yards came, in night attack by Admiral Togo,

There was a bwift, sudden please it, . 1897, a burly, uncouth, big and tho Russlan fleet was handed Russian workman. annihisted He was just another, dočk

All hand to the dockyard work as it had done was to cut

Power, and lead the way to the 1917 Russian revolution.

ers with whom he worked and lived.

Sen sones is native to the

To the people of Russia

but

the

not,

Russian Navy is the Yours of married life, keepa hen Lago a socret But with chans second

largest in commlesion, pose and talent, clear pals com- but it lags far into Inferiority plexion and black hair, Lella lo the combined good for many, muky more álms Anglo-American power.

before producers begin to worry, restation power

tirto Naguib's nightingale in how things-ships, skill, and geon fat with Ste orchild in birthins

Sca

mic strength, Ruda has the and elaborato giden nimiluresp. and Egypt, like

In the two world wars the ships fair on America symbol of mucoes in pt,

me one nom a bedbomad, and British. It is remoto and he was, the Czar, Poter the but they did nothing to all the the economid strength.

ploture of contentment.

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