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The Batory's Captain Reveals The Ship's Secrets

THE EVIL GENIUS WHO ORGANISED

T can have been cold comfort to Major

Zebrowskl to realise that he had been right all the time.

He knew, possibly before I knew myself, that one day I would ask for poll- tical asylum in the West, Ilis mistake, however, was to believe that he could bring me to trial before I

took the step.

I can imagine his chagrin. The

THE

SPIES

The climax, of seven years of sensational stories about the Polish linér Batory came when her master, Captain Jan Cwiklinsky, escaped from his Communist-dominated ship and sought asylum in Britain.

In his story which he is telling exclusively for the China Mail the captain has revealed that the ship's crew contains a network of spies and informers controlled by Peter Szemiel, political security officer.

But the evil genius of Batory is security officer Major He had his suspicions Zebrowski, in Gdynia, her home port.

lamentable disappearance In Gdynia of Kaminski, the spy he put aboard to watch me, In- dientes just how angry the Major is.

Nor will help Kaminski to

nt that,

the plend

moment I evasive stepped ashore, he was dutifully Aling a routine report on me to the Major's office.

the girl?

Night Steward

Merchant

I

court the

crew got

tho Union's "ogitators“, paid particular attention to what was I said at these meetings by the

ordinary rank-and-file.

Two or three times a voyage

there would be a general meri-

ing in the first-class · dining- room for the whole ship's com-

pany. And then even I shouted

the

STY:

Union!"

my "Hurrah!" in approval of "Long live the Soviet Thoro

was a desperato note in this political instruction, Steriel,

Major ZOLTOWSK Kaminski, (and whoever gave the Major he orders) were ghting a losing

I let it go on for a few dove The humiliation of what hap- Southampton and Hebburn-On-

on

battle against disillusion. These about Captain Cwiklinsky and set spies to watch him, ...

lectures, with the threats and the punishments that lay behind their methods of them, were After the As I've said before, I was the guarding against desertion, I went down to see him and were being checked.

smooth smije and mail came aboard It would chauffeur of the Batory,

But they dk not stop faced his

Every me we arrived in Young men leapt overboard in my letters were handed to me, Gdynia I used to remember the New York, swimming to free- missed eye. Why had he dis- usually be an hour or so before

nothing more than "But captain, she hasn't been and I accepted this as part of proud and free days before the dom with dismissed, you know. It's just the routine until I noticed that war. The Batory cow slinks in the bathing-wunks they were their mall long to its home port like a criminal. wearing. They walked ashore in The major is not one to be that she's wanted in a lieve that mercy should temper case here in Gdynia. and you'll before I received mine.

comes upine

pons when they come home Tyne, trusting in the liberality, punishment.

be sailing before

"I went back and asked the and then tackled Kaminski. He must be hard for the seamen, of the British people. Who in this soldier, then, who

She raid grinned disarmingly: "Sorry: an independent race of men Even men and women who can lominate a shipping line, waman if this was so.

The ship is not allowed in port were ship's aples came to wom what is his history, where does it was the first she had heard of captain," he said, “they are just

until the UB men and he come from? I do not know. it So back again to Zebrowski on the delay continued and I

the me that Zebrowski was tighten- But Security who grinned at me and said

Frontier Guard have como ing You do not ask the

his not "Oh, that's nothing. knew that the ship's photo aboard. Their officers have an

inner amuse- Police questions. They prefer to lightly.

I got a certain And the major is a she hasn't do that,

had the summons grapher, a smiling, ingratiating immediate half-hour's

Szemiel con- ment out of watching little man who was so anxious to

ference with Szemiel and when members of the crew de- trusted graduate of the Urzad

yet." the Polish

photograph American passengers Kaminsk! czenstwa,

while the guards serted. He was obviously won- when they were in the company

station themselves foreca. Becurity fo

every doring how he was going to of the ship's master, was also Since the Polish

copies

explain this to Gdynia, of my mail for deck. DIDN'T believe him, and I Marine

from

Then they go through the ship the Com- has,

beat him down in argument, Zebrowski's fles

mosthead munists' point of view, an un-

to keel. The One of Kaminski's UB men from healthy contact with the West, He let me have the woman that it is necessary for the U.B. to trip, but when we returned she also showed great interest in the crow are meanwhile locked up

MY duty was simple after the service and contents of my desk drawers. In the dining-room for as long

hours if necessary. such incidents, I merely in- keep a sharp eye on it. For this was dismissed

locked, of course, but as three

and They purpose. Zebrowski is installed there was no argument. Zebrow kept them loc

their belongings are formed the Polish Consulate of in the Polish Ocean Line's offices ski always gol his way in the that's a small obstacle for a

The UB the names and relevant details py. When I realised that I was carefully rearched. on the Tenth of February Street, end.

He got it

of under observation I arranged the men are looking for pamphlets, us the deserters. Then Szemfel the drawers in loaflets, books, magazines, news would start hle interrogations. Gdyniu.

First he would personnel Kullkowski. Zebrowski put this documents in

stop all shore . He is called the

as to make the papers from the West. He recruits officers man aboard the Batory a few such a way

Any seaman unlucky enough leave. Then he checked on the manager.

night steward, slightest interference with them

Informers in the und crew. His decisions over months ago as

to be found in possession of this sples and Important job, and apparent. ride those of all other depart- It was on

The When next I looked at them 1 sort of thing gets a reprimand divisions to which the ments. And since he appoints carried an officer's rank.

of experi- saw that they had been dis- and a black, mirk on his record. era had belonged. From the in- ha the crews he can place his sples work needed a man

Second offenders

gave him are dismissed formation they

moved on to the desertar where he will.

ence and I was appalled to find turbed.

the service. n pleasant Obvious Spying He is a small, dark, and 'un- that Kulikowski,

The guards stay aboard the friends. He probably built up a enough young man with a quiet,

comfortable report to tidy man in his thirties.

had 110 ex- reserved manner. manner

WHENEVER passengers were ship all the time she is in port,

fuests in my quarters my There is a strict check of iden- code to Zebrowski, but I doubt for if he ever found a satisfactory perlence at all.

solicitously cards at the gangway told

Zebrowskl: "This I

going Excuse for having let the men interest in our welfare, hovering all coming aboard or fantastic. The man is no good steward showed for the job."

us, never really leaving ashore, even If they pass the get away.

times guard ten had got beyond about By now he smiling at my objections. "He us alone together,

I expected this rather obvious minutes. the job. captain. That's reis

spying, of course, and I was in- my order."

Bor.

His

ar uncouth and rogant, and he is an Inveterate His eyes slip away from yours as he speaks, and he does not seem to cure whether you kuow he is lying or not.

No Friends

E would have hated me even

it had not creared him, for 1, like most other masters, repre- sented the

over the case

is

"1'11 speak to the managing director."

"Do as you please,"

Q

a good

L

Loose Tongue

bend in

in us

many

Crew's Problems

Nor could the UB men al-..

ve ways rely on the discretion of their spies. That ship's photo- grapher had a loose tongue. Ho was a smiling, willing

man,

old regime to him, the managing director he said Above Suspilelon, that wasn't in with the same crew as I had when was a spy, and had it not been

POLICE stopped Texas driver past. In blood "pulous within hours I received a tele-

his Crucity

Donald Gowdy for driving at 90 miles an hour in British sports car.

He sald mildly: "I was only trying to find out how fast that

overhead email aircraft going."

was

Another Strand

conTM

onew.

in

**

trigued one day when I realised that it had more or less stopped. ND I never know whether I and I might have been taken not been in by him, had I I did not believe that Szemiel A was going to leave Gdynin in

me

warned by a friend that he Kaminski now considered When I put the situation to or

in I arrived. On Zebrowski's whim obvious that he was too character at all. I suspected

хошу to take my photograph and crew We were the past, and Zebrow- immediately: "You're right, the that somehow I must still be might suddenly be told that a you

while I was third of my officers

B рад ski had the Communists bitter man should never have been

under observation

I became would be replaced. It seemed every time I spoke to

senger. determination to root out the given the job. Leave it to us."

LLA I said he had a loose tongue, I went back to the Batory and in my quarters.

after I met one of that the major did not like vinced of

to to know each other too One evening

get In

Zoppot, Po- Gdynia A

the Line's directors strong vein of

gram from the managing direc- He idly repeated to me an in- well.

land, before the Batory left on rung up his backbone.

I had my problems, so did what was to be her last voyage If He has no known friends. One for: “Kulikowski must be ap- nocent remark I had made to a

Eighty percent of under my command, this man of my officers whom I knew to pointed."

passenger when I thought we the

them were nominal members of got

got drunks. Too drunk. were alone in my cabin.

This is the captain's last be a UB. man, get as close to friendship with Zebrowski 14

The director may or may not the Party, but I doubt whether

he said. "When ho was possible. But this did nut RY now I sensed that I was not have been giving me an oblique more than five percent were voyage.

comes back we finish him." The rest, however, had to sub-

He really just fighting to keep an in- warning, but it put me on my convinced Communists.

have should not That plane, said the police stop the major from dismissing BY

the officer-on gome

out of the guard. The next time a visitor experienced-man-

said that. It gave the gamma patiently, is cur police plone, r

charge.

job, but to keep one more spy came to my quarters I listened mit to the regime

sound from

And when For educational purposes (edu away.

- Major carefully for any which was trying to And

He hos a sulte of three from the Batory's network.

next

is in Marxism, Żebrowski reads this article ho door. how fast you were going.

with its sound- went down to see the director the wireless-room

ention, that offices, each

the angry with door, proof

from which he and asked why he had changed where Kaminski had one of his Leninism and Stalinian) they wld bo most

divided into SIX-FOOT gunman terroris-directs his spy network

divisions, ship's photographer of the M.V. were spies. in the his mind. He cleared his throat A ed a

Sure enough

a. Members of each division attend Batory, New York grocery

slight movement of furniture ed regular weekly meetings at store, had a gun duel with line. In the last of these offices and looked out of the window.

he sits behind a large desk on "Don't ask questions." clerk.

one against the wall. I noticed which they listened to instruc- polleeman, and clubbed

which is mounted a battery of Kulikowski becama

So

noiso on successive tional lectures from Szemiel or But he gave up at one when telephones, near a safe in which more strand in the network, one almilar

Garhardt Eltlor, America's Aaron Tobin, 21st, 61b. tax he keeps reports from his crea- more pair of eyes to watch my occasions when visitors came. I Kamins.

They were under obligation to Number One Communist, driver, ambled over, lowered

of realised now what had happen- tures.

movements, one more pair

be attentive. They were undertows away 'aboard' thé him to the ground, and sat on

into conflict with cars to listen to my conversa- ed. first came

This realisation was confirmed obligation to speak their piece Batory. What happened at him.

Zebrowski

when he dismissed tions, one more tongue to Dis one of my

ail that happened to Kamin- when a crew member came to after the lecture and make Southampton. I am called stewardesses. She on

Sremiel, to Major me later on ship's business and, plain that they were as fanatical

out

unknown.

to

there whe

It

TOMORROW:

QUEER thing about the hunt came to me, almost in tears to si

the Tenth of In the middle of it silently in the cause of the Communist to a special investigation to The explain my “lack of patriot- Belmont ask why. I did not know. She Zebrowski on on Avenue, near 175th Street. It was a good worker, one of the February Street,

mouthed the words: "There's a world as the next man, best the ship had, and the only Just when I realised that microphone in this cabin. They Party's "men of confidence" and i'm over the Eisler affair."" never served luncheons,

So the pollee raided the little reason for her dismissal that I Zebrowski must be building up are listening to us." kiosk-type "catery." They found could think of was that she had a dossier on me I do not now

fo

have been spy on

for remember. It may me the proprietor served heroin to refused

Zobrowski. drug addicts,

when I realised that my letters

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Constant Strain

HE strain of living under Tonditions like this is indes- cribable. I was innocent of any crime against the Polish State, and it did not help my peace of mind to realise that Zebrowski was indifferent to this. He was determined to get rid of me and the would contrive or distort

to most Innocent of incidents build up a case against me.

I could not comfort myself by saying: "At least, I commend the Batory, I am ber master." Too often did I have to listen to the decidone of the Party Secretariat and the Union, and In run the ship as they wished.

There was that occasion the India run, just after we lett Gibraltar, when the leaders of the Party and Union, came

to and lold me that they wanted the ship to get to Gdynia a day earlier than schedule.

mo

on

They did not tell me why. I was not a member of the Party and therefore did not warrant such confidence. I told them the suggestion was imposible. To accelerate the schedule would cost the line something like £2,000. It would mean that passengers would arrive In Southampton on Sunday instead of Monday. How about their schedule?

I

"It is necessary to spoed up. was told, A.

"I can't do it without per mission from Gdynia."

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