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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY; MAY 2, 1953.

"The Soviet Union loves peace. Any peaceful country can depend on the firm peace policy

of the Soviet Union 1

PEACEFUL WAR NEWS

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.CHAPTER 12

I SING WITH THE NAZIS

T

HE hostile eyes of the Germans were still upon me as I stuffed the remains of the chocolate into my pocket. To alt enting this forbidden delicacy in the waiting-room of IL great station made one not only. an object of envy but of deep suspicion, We awkwardly and walked out waiting-room into

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By AIREY NEAVE

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

Then back

Young men and girls

chanted Nazi songa,

the

five

Peace Hopes For Indo-China Fade

By PATRICK MAITLAND, M.P.

London. There is a savage pffensivo pro- THE Chinese are being coding in Indo-China at this

gently

prepared for moment, and the government of penco in Korca; but they Slam are growing alarmed. are alap being told through The government belleve that their government-controlled it is inevitable that Blam ber- radio and press that that self will be drawn into the

Efterla suuggie.

BIL does not necessarily mean

being made

now to improve And pence throughout the For

strengthen the armed forcas East.

An Aliens' Home Guard, drawn

from

anti- among

Whitehall has been quick chielly to link this with signa from Communist Chinese dwelling in Moscow and the Indo-China Stani, has been formed, Young war front that there seems Siamese are being conscripted little likelihood of the Com- for two years military service.

On the other hand there is a nuntat bloc accepting any halt to their plans in South- defeatist note, The govern- east Asia.

ment have ordered a survey of property. In the northern part of

The Peking People's the country in readiness, if Dally, which is the most need ce, for evacuation. Om- authoritative of the con- cinis, of course, call this "oth trolled Chinese papers, says winary precaution laken in that the Korean and accord with, current world Chinese peoples' "ardent development and the situation love for peace" ia dictated in neighbouring countries." by the need to build their countries up and to raise - standards of living. "We firmly uphold peace and will exert a maximum effort." the newspaper adds, "to fronfler of Vielminh troope

is, the Communist Indo- the entire question about Chinese. Early POWs and to reach an broke out ut the State of armistice."

strive for 01 settlement ut

That last sentence Is critical. For the POW sauc is the outstanding obstacle

*

What Siam fears is the early arrival

upon her northern

that

LIL Aprd they

Vietnam into the State of Laos, moving toward the Mekong River, between Laos and Siam,

What is perhaps more signi- to concluding an armistice. funt politically is the action of the Chinese themselves. They The crux of the matter is have sel up a home-ruled whether POWs should be Shamene (Thai) State in South- sent home by force..

* ★ ★

west China, on the Indo-China border. Naturally the Slamese fear that Chiña intends to try to The military police tesilated, somewhere to hide until

draw toward this puppet slate scat- the Siamese (Thai) then departed.

following evening. At

peoples Towards four in the morning a.m. on January 8 four wood-

tered around Northern Burma, An editorial in the Siam, Laps and North Vietnam, the train reached Regensburg, cutlers walking to work

from where we were due to change Singen hailed us and we wish Peking journal, World Cul- and to put this puppet state at for the train to Ulm. We step- ed them good morning. Some ture, says that while, of the disposal of the Indo-Chinese ped on to the platform in the thing about us surprised tben. course, no vacillation la per- Communists. sharp cold

"Are you Poles sald one of missible on the principle of We found scats in the train them.

There is the sign here of what to Ulm

the French Prime and look turns aves," replied Luleyn,

Article 118 of the Geneva M. Mayer, to sleep. Dawn found us rush-

"I don't believe it said an- Convention (about all POWs Minister, has now called a "drive tryside on the wintry coup- other. "Poles are not allowed being returned) "here is on the Gulf of Slam and the He might approaches to India." to the slation, of Bavaria.

At nine on the second morn- the morning.".

out of their camp at five in still room for compromise have added Singapore, Indonesia like infantry and paic, down drew into Ulm and we left it, labour camp in the reighbour- with its bullying SS men, clod-

ing of our escape the troin

in the measures to bring it and Australasia Evidently there was a

Polish trodden civilans.

into operation." to booking ofec.

making our way towards the

hood. The four woodcutiers Luteyn calmly looked undecided. asked the girl for two tickets to surrender.

I was near to Singen on the Swiss frontier.

. She asked from the streets and there of the platform there seemed to sink.

of civilians. we papers and, we showed way's sunshine. Military no control vehicles sped by

us filled waited beside the train before forged passes to her. "I must fetch the started and as it began to with hard-looking men in move we climbed in and stood police. Stay here." steel helmets who ignored in the corridor.

rose

of the the town.

Luteyn bought the tickets Leipzig at nine in the Ulm. We had decided to

change there and, if all

went morning on January 6, well, to take tickets

10 the

That is not altogether

1942. The snow was cleared Swiss frontler. At the barrier She frowned and my heart be to be frozen, My feet seemed unhopeful so far as it goes.

JUC

our

in blocks of lee. But the World Culture I could only think of for fires and beds.

warm article goes further to stress "Go, Hans, fetch the police, that an armistice is to be the rallway said the oldest woodcutter. first step toward a peaceful Hans cycled off towards Sin-settlement of the general gen, and the remainder

con- problems of the Far East | fronted us irresolute end the civilians. The side- The compartment opposite

dumb. We suddenly realised and of Korea. Thus: "It will walks were a mass of field--was accupied by a single-gus-lood at the booking that they were frightened of not in itself mean peace even

the uniform of the S.S., Woffice while the girl clerk, un. grey and the mauve-blue of great ape-like person with

we dash-in Korea, let alone the For still eyeing qur. forged passes ed to the side of the road and East generally. But the end the Luftwaffe. We stared heavy jaw. His uniform was

suspiciously summoned the Into the forest, running in the into the shop windows, new and spotless and he cross railway police.

ed his legs which were in fine

snow until we sank exhausted. of hostilities in Korea will gazing like children at ex- black boots.

We did not wish to run away. My breath Саме

painfully lead to a more suitable and hoping that our papers would and my head began to swim peaceful world climate and pensive dresses and furs.

satisfy them. A fat, red-faced in a kind of delirium railway policeman asked its sleep and waking.

an upsurge of the spirit of why we wished to go to the

conciliation."

For a while we sat in a gar- den square and wutched the procession of smari young Servicemen, sombre-faced busi- ness folk and shabby, unhappy- looking civilians.

We had hours to kill, and a cinema in enemy territory is a ne hiding-place for hic fugl- Hive. After lunch of ersatz coffee we came

cheap to a stuffy cinema at the bottom of an arcade. Our small stock of German marks was enough for only the cheapest seats. As the lights went out tall, young German officer come in and sat next to me.

"Go, Hans, fetch the palice."

群

frontier zone. Luteyn explain-

ed that we were tue to begin

Without a

word

between

work in Ulm on the marrow WWE came to a large wooden

and wished to spend a short vacation.

The

buffled, released

*

hut beside which were bee- policeman, hives. We climbed through

we small window and us und

staggered started to cross the big square crazily around the hut in the than the kind of hints for by the station. There” was

a faint Hght

of dawn. There was no sound of life. Tired "Come back, gentlemen! I and faint we lay together on a want to speak to you again." bed and with on old blanket The policeman took us to an over us tell into a deep sleep.

shout behind us.

way police lieutenant sat at a noon.

This is far more vague

which the Western Powers had been hoping. For the suggestion that peace in the Far East will not be auto-

office where a light-lipped rail not waking until tho after-matically restored by peace desk. Our folse papers did not When we awoke we could in Korea coincides with the appear to make sense to him, hear the far-off sound of dogs. suggestion that war in Indo He was, however, Impressed But as the hours passed no China is to continue. by Luteyn's Dulch passport one game, In the kitchen we

map

and there seemed no inkling found spades and shovels, anil That was the hintin j WE saw first a news film of

in his mind that we were es- hanging behind the door two Moscow which has dis. Teventos in Libya, Rommel The train jolted over the

caped prisoners of war, long while coats evidently used appointed some hopes both Blanding beside a stuff ear; points and anthere! speed. "I don't understand these by the bee-keeper, panzers in

action; a British Above, its rattle I heard the men ut att," he said helplessly. According to our

at the State Department and plane shot down;

British door of the compartment open, "Take them to the Labour were in the middle of a forest, in Whitehall. For London pilor taken prisoner and ways and turning my head saw the Office. I wish someone would two or three miles from Sin the war in Southeast Asia is Ing. encouragement

bis blg S.S. man standing in the control these foreign workers gen. To the south lay a road friends still fighting in the air, doorway. His hands were on more emciently." In my excitement I clutched each side of the entrance door the heat in front of rac and ond he spoke to us in a BOEL was rewarded with a harsh voice. whisper of protest from the "Are you Jews?" occupant.

to

are

carry-

a constant, costly drain. It which at some points formed the frontier between Switzer-is an affair of Malaya as well land and Germany.

as of Indo-China, and has Shortly before five p.m. we cost the British hundreds of WE walked across the square shouldered spades, and "Certainly not. Wo

outside, fie station cocorted ing the two white coats unter casualties and millions of The scene changed to a Rus Dutch; replied Luteyn.

by another policeman, chatting our arms we cut through the money. alan winter. Up a long snow-

Good.

Come, in and alt gally in German. So easily did forest to the road to

Singen. bound. hill German soldiers here. This compartment was we win his confidence that For more than a mile we aw Nor is anxiety about Southeast struggled against the blizzard, reserved, but my friends are when we reached the Slate no one on the road, then

Asia in any way diminishing. vehicles. not coming."

Labour. Office he bade us walk lights of bicycles came towards up the steps on our own, say- us and a voice called "Halt.". ing he would wait for us.

"You speak good German.

The guns and

were photographs of We took our seats beside the frozen bodies and men's limbs big man who spoke very slow- Awollen to unrecognisable size ly to us, with frostbite,

Goebbels "Where are, you travelling?" Go and report to the office on wanted to Impress the Germans "To Ulm.... We are Dutch the first floor and I shall wall

with the sufferings of their electrical workers transferred for you here," he told us..

Troops to inspire greater sacri- there from Leipzig.!

fices at home he hid no detall

of their hardships,

There was a shocked silence

弱

UTEYN was doing the talk

young me

when the news Olm came to

on end. The lights went up an the shabby hall while mén

sand

a chantel Bongst Only the old

were 'Flum and quiet. maple changed to

marching against England!"

the

Two boys in the uniform of the Hitler Youth, armed with Hardly able to hellove our truncheons, spoke in a hector- good fortune we climbed to ing fashion.

LTY

but

the top floor of the building What are your names and and discovered come stairs on where are you going?

far side,

Hurrying flown "We are Westphalians work- ing, but the man turned to them we left by another door, ing in the neighbourhood and and examined my face. Avoiding policemen and guards we are going back, to our Nazl closely.

we made for the back streets lodgings in Singen" said the people "How are things in Holland?" of Ulm, and Luloyn bought a resourceful Luteyn.

The he asked me. but it was map of the surrounding coun-' The Dutch accept resembles Lre Luteyn who answered.

that of the Westplialians "We have not been there for The cold had now become the boys peemed doubtful. For moment X. caught my tome months. We have been Intense and, walking beyond "What Is wrong? I sald, companion's eye and, with in Leipzig sinco tho sum- the suburbs of Ulm, wo bur- trying to imitats Luleyn'o de faint, genion" ous; fuges, Luteyn,mer,"

ried fawartis the town of Laup cent nyong loudly with the I slept for in few hours, uns heim. It was-nearly dusk when "We have been told to look reat of the programme; then til I was awakened by the on-we reached the

station and for two British prisoners who foling outselves once more in dry of two military policemen, teok lekets to. Blockach about have escaped and maybe try- the Mangerous, streets of Lelp: They scrutinised the docu-" nine piñe then started walking to cross the frontier co- wij, 1500mg berair to fall and iments of the S.S. officer, and ing into the hills towards the night."- we took verenige. In another stared at our queerly tailored frontler town of Singen sladka suurlik, sewe could” find clothes.

It seemed hopeless to try, to KOSEMİNERIKAT AED 10's100-black-1kmete are foreign workernes, croat. The frontier that night Dutch, Bald sac 4-8. friend, and we determinali ta' look for

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