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THE CHINA -MAIL】 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1953.

BRITONS SEIZED

On

COUP MAN IN SECRET RAID

By KENNETH MACAULAY

T was in a lovely old reluctantly put out the cigaretis house in the ancient which Lockhart had given him, Persian city of Isfahan broke off his conversation, anui

presented arms," that General Fazlallah "We drove

on up, the drive Zahedi, the strong man and drew up in front of the who stands today behind a house immediately outside a weak king, looked at the large pair of trench windows. A Pervant ushered us in and Bistol pointed at his heart, went off to fetch General and surrendered to a British zahodi. Army officer.

.

when a couple of minutes

tho

Reneral,

He was, although he did later,

a dapper a tight-fitting grey polished

not know it, the chief figure figure in and highly.

uniform

In Operation Pongo, a swift, secret, and daring raid de signed to smash a German organisation which operated in southern Persia during the war.

In

Zahedi was one of the Ger- mins most valuable assets the plan to cut the Allies line supplying the Russians through Persia.

The kidnapping of Zahedi

Was

entered boots.

the room, he found himself looking down the barrel of my Colt sutomatic.

'Hands up'

(THERE was no advantage in prolonging the Scenic, which might easily have become embarrassing. Without further ado I invited the general to put his hands up and informed him had instructions, to purest him, and that he made any noise or attempt at reliance he would be shot.

that emried out by Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, then an army captain. now Tory M.P. for Lancaster,

Too risky

k

THE problem was how

winkle the Perslan general out while he was under heavy guard in a crowded city teem- Ing with garrison troops.

If anything went wrong, wrote Brigadier Maclean there might have been a general rising, which it would have been dif- cult for the shall British forces to contain.

Persia was at the time.

Zahedi's in

of

own

"Then I took away his pistol and hustled him through the french window into the car which was wailing outside with the engine running.

"To my relief, there was no much advertised sign of the bodyguard. As we passed the the sentry once Euardroom, again interrupted his conversa- tion to present arms, and the bolt upright general, sitting

with my pistol prrased against his ribs and Duncan oreathing

The

the salute. two 'plain vans' with occupants,

now bitterly

The Brst idea was to stage an insurgy down his neck, duly mbush in a quiet street Isfahan: It was abandoned na carrying too much risk in the their powder magazine that South disappointed, fell in behind, and the whole convoy swept at a Brigadier Maclean decided, m

brisk pace into the main avenue Instead,

of Isfahan on а straightforward leading out "atick-up"

"Some miles outside the town house Rehearsals were carried we passed a large barracks full out in a ruined desert fort, with of General Zahedi's troops, but

wire of Seaforth High- the telephone

from the brought from the holy town had duly been cut by the city of Qum, 200 miles away. wine-cutting party, and there

"The

kidnapping party took was no sign of the alarm being their places in a staff car flying given. a large Union Jack and set off. Now the story In Brigadier Maclean's own words:

"Soon we reached the point in the desert where we had spent the previous night, and "A reliable N.CO. armed to here I handed over my captive the tooth occupied the

an officer and six men who scat to nexu the driver, while Guards were standing by to take him man Duncan (Maclean's bat- by car to the nearest landing man) and a Scaforth High-

where & plane was lander, both carrying tommy-t by him to Palestine,

crouched in the luggage This was

the

of last I saw compartment at the back under General Zahedi," i tarpaulin.

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says that the consul had told him that Zahodi's chief of staff was very bostile to the Allies and, in addition, extremely truculent.

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At the

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Intelligence, whose

None too soon

SEARCH of the general's bedroom revealed a collec- of German automatic

Cummings

"B-but they're R-REAL tears this time!"

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Molly Castle

M

A London writer until she left for America in 1936, was taken to Ellis Island to await depor- tation for alleged Communist activity, and later released on bail. Today, in a strictly non- political cable telling what happened, she says:

They ought to

set my arrest

to music

New York. though, Mr Blank asked if I Mr Dash introduced me to saying

Thi

I walked about and

Y arrest began in a. would care to have a copy of a Mr Nix, and departed,

cheerlly: "You're quite likely to rather quiet way in warrant for my arrest,

That reminded me. One of get away." the morning. The the questions I had answered So I sat and waled. After a phone was ringing was: "Have you ever been while I stood.up and walled. as I reached my office early, arrested?"

"So have I been now?" I waited. Going to be a busy day, I

Inquired. "In case I'm asked." "You may alt down if you thought. I was right.

Just tell them it wasn't for like

someone. Well, I wished now I had anything criminal," he laughert. thanks

Well, that was nice, Accom- hoarded my finger-nail ration.

Mr Dash was right, though. panied by a Mr Dash and a

I did get away. They gave me Mr Hyphen, I climbed into

freedom in exchange for my Government limousine. It had

up in their uppointed places. weapons, some opium, and a

the Persian quantity of letters and papers. gate sentry was deep in conversation One of the first letters with

call- Lockhart, examined was from a man LORA.F. ing

A polite voice informed Persicon linguist from

himself the "German ices I Consul-General services

for South me that this was Mr Blank had enlisted for the occasion.

Persia,

and apparently living of the Immigration Depart So far, everything had gone, in the hills somewhere in the ment (I actually do know a according to plan. On our up south. pearance the sentry at the gate

"His letter." Brigadler Maclean Mr Blank, but this was not

he). concludes, "left no doubt that had not

"Would you mind coming In his book, "Eastern Approaches the general's arrest (Cape, 188.).

come a moment too soon.”.

down today?" I took quick look at my desk, There was accumulated mail 'of, two weeks' holiday and accumulated proofs of the two magazines I edit.

"I'm afraid I can't make it today," I told him.

"Let us make it this morning," he said gently. "Right away If you can, and

Congressmen Want Higher Pay

From DONALD LUDLOW

a

fat

tyre,

my

sald

so we got out again, bonds and hoped I would And

I did dash then. Presently another was secured. my way to the boat. foot" I naked. "On the boat," we stop and get some

soothed Mr Dash, "and a sand- wich

Lost !

We went shopping. We went who was nicer, even than wort BUT, anly yesterday Mr Nix, to buy a 2,000-dollar (714) Mr Dash, phoned me. "Not your United States bond for use as fault," he said. "But you didn't of sign all of those bonds, Will you the season's sales were on, and take the 3.45 am. ferry to Ella we got it marked down to 1,021 Island and ask for me?" dollars (304).

ball. Fortunately, the end

Protest

bring 2,000 dollars with you. E ferry boat that

evening."

New York. Receipts went back the same We may get through by

THEY don't like to talk way

too much about it in W Efficiency

WAR OFFICE please note:

They have got one foot in the

viding for a commission to study their financial plight.

Now, they argue, they are actually worso off than they were on $10,000 a year in 1925, · ·

year.

2

was to

7

take us to Ells Island was her

Nathaniel Gubbins

FIRST INNINGS Shah of Persia b Momadegh * SECOND INNINGS' Mossadegh b_Shah of Persia`..

THESE figures, scribbled

T

on a piece of paper, will show you the state of mind of your Uncle Nat when he was trying to read the news and listen to the Test Match comment- aries at the same time.

All day on Monday and Tuesday he was either listen ing or worrying about the fortunes of the game.

When Hutton got himself run out on Tuesday evening, ho threw away the evening papers and rushed out to a low- tavern. for consolation.

ho On Wednesday morning was unable to concentrate anything until he knew result of the match.

the,

on

The first thing he road Thursday morning made him wonder if cricket had driven him insane at last. It was:

"Llonel Brake, aged 21, fast bowler, who shot his father ree years ago, opened the howling."!

three

But a second glanco

paper restored your

at the

Uncle s

faith in his sanity. It was the cricket match account of a between the inmates of Broad- moor criminal Junatle asylum and the Board of Control.

Mystery solved NOW that cricket is nearly Nover

and Moron's Delight

(Soccer) has begun, your Uncla will be able to get on with his work. He is not likely to read, or listen to, a single word about it. In the meantime.

The Shah of Persia told

"Dr Moenderh reporter that doesn't know what he wants."

But another report says that only two people in the world know the combination of tho lock of the safe where the Persian Crown Jewels are kept. Dr Mossadegh is not one of them.

So now we know what he wants, and why he has been crying and, sulking all these years.

my It also supports theory that Dr Mossadegh really a bald-headed woman.

Only a woman could give the impression of not knowing what she wants when any other: woman, or sensible man, would know that she had jewels ori her mind.

And only a woman would cry because she couldn't have them. bod If the Foreign Office obtained the secret of the lock combination from the English makers of the safe and for

to little warded the figures "Misa Mossiegh,"

many tears would never have been shed, and many millions of gallons of all would have been pumped into British tankers.

When making policy decisions in future, I hope the Foreign Office will study this littim column more closely.

"Vile Bodies"

Women, by and large, are not aroused by display of male nudity-A report on

women.

TH

THIS is one in the eye for all

who dis the hairy beasts play their ville bodies at the seaside, and one in the eye for all the sickly youths who buy muscle developers in the belief (1) that big muscles are a sign of health and virility, and (2) that the development of physical deformities displayed in strong. man magazines will make their glggling girl· frianda love them

more.

"It is also a great smack in the eye for that great muscle-bound tease in the strip cartoon.

For years I have hated this half-naked horror who gota backwards and forwards in timo like the adventurers in Wells's Time Machine,” · showing his body to women of the and past, present, and future, virtuously leaving them fat when they are supposed to have charms.

I really meant to go. On the Underground down to the South. Ferry I changed, twice without- getting on the wrong train, which is not easy,

The third change threw mo. moved that train to place, Apologetically you I nay bo late back to the I gulped. "I'II look in my

deformed phoned Mr Nix, suggesting office," saki Mr Dash., "You can purse, but I'm not sure I have and your way now, can't you?" that anyone who could not find that much change on mo."

deserved to get "Oh, no, you don't," I pro- their way around the New York There was a dollar bill and 15 texted, seeing now where a pair. Subway cents. "What are we going to of handcuffs would have come deported.

handy. "You started this "Happers even to Americans," "Try again' thing and you have to finish it, he said

tomorrow." I'd get lost."

"Well, all right," he

Well, I'll try, but they may sald, pleasantly

hope have to send out

The reason

"Ball," he said genially. "Oh, didn't I tell you? You're tochni

cally, (or did he say telephon= feally?), under arrest.”

can," "I'll come if I promised. I went.

The warrant

·In

certainly on't detain you." won't

1 the you me

mean they could?” suddenly began to worry

"A

•

'few routine questions," they sold at the Immigra- tion offices on Columbus Avenue,

ideas submitted Washington, but America's

by military and civilians saved $15,000 Congressmen are the U.S. Army $13,000,000 last out for a pay rise.

The only

buy?" offsetting cost was $202,820 paid out in rewards.

of TOUSANDS American socrets, diplomatic, political, scientific and economie, have agents Last pay boost was in 1946, been stolen by Soviet when they gave themselves a working in the U.S. Govern-

the $2,500 a year increase plus ment,

Senate's Internal $2,600 tax frea expense Security Committee admitted allowance.

today.

These agents, were clever: "They used each other's names an applications for referenEDS for Government jobs.

"They hired each other. They Then they paid only around promoted each other...assigned $80 incpane fax. Today they each. other to

international average over $2,000, tax-and missions..".*. their purchasing power, they

were they allowed to Why say, is a third of what it was continue? The 'demen know of them but G-mbo THOSE: "telephone strikers at cannot prospeute, stroje

They can only report... Little Rock, Arkansas, had to. cheques trop beleaguered Bell trap speeding motorists, { Telephone Company · without Columbus, Ohio, now has some crossing their own picket lines,thing else up its sleeve: 14 will They did it by borrowing long- use a sound-level meter to en- handled-Ashing-netą - from forco a new law againak nolay *borta- shop.

vehicles.

.

"

about

very

ADDEDO,

nobody may one day be set to music by Mr. Irving Berla. I hope Ishalk bo there to dance.

•

I said

faintly,

CIO this is the news.behind the my toothbrush, hair news of my arrest, a gay curlers and typewriter, without and charming episode which which I would", pass a uneasy night. Beslites, knew where I was,

off they do," "Then a little, boat ride to Ellis "could you ring this number Unfortunately the reason it Island. We must warn you this and tell them Miss Otis regrets happened is less charming. It will be taken down..." she is unable to dine tonight?" seems that I got mixed up in a' little private war between a And may be used in evidence against mo?" I

from Wisconsin gentleman camod McCarthy (you know that movio too, "What guo

him7)

an Englishman Uone?"

After what seemed like a few first thing we did when named Belfrage (I know him) * we reached the island-it's over what is Initghingly known and several thousande right behind the Statue of the freedom of the docido how to collect pay. FURST CITY, to use radar tö | quoetlona, 'wo set; wall-för, Ellis Llborly--was to not mo Anger" somebody's always Ilable to get Mainan war, however private, Islands I don't know what time

printed.

hurt. Excuse me, bors that's my heart you're ideking around,

Molly Castle is the ex-wife of

many

day's

!

Finger-prints

It was, but it was before lunch young Dans with a paper As for as I was, 'codoerned, bag which may well have con- It was also before breakfast, tained all he had in the world The only thing I had anten all eat on w. bench. He looked like day- were my Gngernails. First,, the forgotten IIÁN,

and an

Preas

succumbed to his unhealthy Thank goodness. I know now that the girls in the cartoon probably.. loathe him.........-as/much as I do.

(London Express Service),

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