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THE CHINA MAIL;, SATURDAY, MARCH · 5, · 1955,

CHAPTER TWO.

Exploits of the

of the Cloak

Cloak and Dagger Squadron

HOW BRAVE CABBAGE' ESCAPED

THE GERMAN SPY HUNT

*LL always remember the night dropped my first girl spy. We hud been waiting almost

hour when CATE blacked-out car jerked to a half bestide The Halifax standing on the runway at Tempsford.

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Before it had restarted, we were rumbling down the runway, with a spy aboard. She sat on the floor of the plane and chatted to mem- bers of the crew.

[ Arvo at list A bulky Jumping suit hid

igure. ཐཱ*** She was hardly pretty gir her code name "Cobloge ad nat du frer justice. S[Iv 5hAE FIL* Auting. stud quickly, then netled down do Pie Jong trip Ma Franca She 48°C

conce; and than +1 he Mire going shoppuk

At the Prech past, a lone searchlight Awoyed begun whe moonlit sky.

W evaded it and thunde,ed towards the dropping.

Zolle

*Ten minutes la pin-point," The navigat

wa da fut

through the brutte almueplvere In the Halifax.

The girl mood up, crushed her cigarette, and stepped past bulky paret is full of propaganda kut- Jets.

the return journey to hide the purpose of our real mission.

Carefully, she sat near the "Jve hole" thivugh which she would shortly vaugh. patcher effvcked her pusselvirte.

ERED LIGHT

* Licen

The Dis

Suddenly,

light winked ch, and the door over The girl ine tele swung vin. dungled her feel out of the air-

The green light turn

eral, red.

"Gor The Dispatcher‘N shou! emmended with the gai vanshi- mg through the alch.

un the

ground, but

stowed

SADU

MONTGOMERY

By LESLIE

(AS TOLD TO GORDON THOMAS)'

German soldiers stop the hearse.... the driver is questioned .... but they

Desperately.

overlook the coffin, in which the spy is hidden.

The small

on their heads---serumbled with their

pres

girl in

1

hearse, placed the of patrols- DURA with u price in, and drove to meet the Lysander. Three times the transmitter heirse was stopped by patrolfing through the back door just as the Germans, but the coffin was Gestapo burst in through the passport for the spy. front.

Eventually. the hearse It was now stopped by a fleid. early in the morning, and the muon made the clouds look like silver shawls.

"Cabbage"

kupt cool. She dumped the rude in a dustbin, and walked the oppure way to which her friends hud run,

They

captured, and ended before a firing squad. She stayed free

dida'i junerve her.

Such 4 close brush with death That nghị she ne kex back and removed

in stifer lite transmulácn Then, she somied and Joked her Inv juchute

Train #

that was bushes, in Ure way she had been way on lo Laught

leaving the unit 201 atmy clie

cfive on had h's Ground her wait, But it beller than having end-

All tee weeks of hard train- ing, those hours fourning how t lup telephone.

Inre www.

fortni was

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savatage railway lines, how pond 9,81 maturinalin in tude- it whe alt now going to be put

to the ca.

She changed inkı akut, nwester and tekistute the athug af French country

girl. With joisen pull and revolver in ensy reach, the act art.

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Her task was radio informa. - lan back to Belain on enenty movements.

cuffs on. and his company meant that when passes were chocked, he was able to vouch for her~~

she freed herself of her persistent sulton,

and transin.ted her information to England.

und the sulicase!

Eventually,

SA RISK

But the hunt was on for her. This was the most dang roụi

The officer hod become 11 staspit a kis, and told the Gestapo, ut any syp's work. meant she would terve bu operate ann FLOW the whole country-

heavily-defend military s.de

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areas. And the queing used every

device ic pussible eliminate radio operators De- Lors, trap, alreraf, ships, Informers - all were employed!

"Cabbage" Locepted these risks calmly. She worked potdently. Within a week, helped by men

and women of the Resistance, sne collected highly important iniormation

But hardly had the girl started transmitting it when the Bry went up: "The Germs are coming down the road!"

The

"Cabbage,"

Here

Courage

faint humming Suddenly, a could be heard. The Lysunder looking like a giant moth, was coming down.

The nearses headlamps flushed the recognition signals. Within moments the aircraft touched

picked up "Cubb.go. uun. and was airborne again.

The girl spy's ordeal was over,

because it 13 typical of the Linaz.ng courage of these women

gents

I have told this story In deta.

#5

....

asiat si el trips were as ensy

hers Late April 1943, I took a Norwegian girl back to young her country.

Tw This weather beat us. But Br:lish Intelligence urgent- ly wanted the vital information and could collect, so we set off

third time.

a slovakia, leaded down with four

tight-lipped agents and supplies.

But 21 range ot mountains were 20 when we baulked us m.nutes from ป drupping point. Glumly, we turned for home.

the gleaming Wes before we the truck taking him to prison roared into the safety of open when they were crossing in a country.

ferry over the Stina.

But now we were lost. The weather had deteriorated, and Tho swift current swept him the navigator's sensitive instru- out of rifle range. But he found

it hard swimming.... ments refused to function.

Petrol was running low. Our

Then a bagy houk pierced his track Was being plotted by jacket and within minutes he ground radar.

The aples and was aboard a boat. Luckily, it supplies weighed the aircraft belonged to a member of the down. Bus we pressed on, drop- Resistance. From then, bis nd- ping steadily lower and lower, venture followed the ususi

ECRIPPLED

Tempsford

Was told of his plight, and

Lysander picked Battered and crippled,

him up. He spent weeks In crawled sluggishly towards the hospital, but insisted on return- English Channel." Thankfully,

Ing by boat to France, where he

we

no night nighters appeared. Sud. again became a valuable spy for denly, after what seemed hours us. Such bravery was typical

uf ying acres of mud flaia of wartime agents. glistened below. We were over

ne heavily detended Cherbourg peninsula

Brilliant while starshell! flashed in the sky around us. Nose

down, the Halifax thundered through the fials, and screamed over the English Channel....to safely!

IL was only then What I realised that the four eples had not shown 4 trace of panic, or murmured a wordi

The bravest agent i ever mei was vivacious Odette Churchill. She even managed to look glamorous in w buggy Jumping

She chewed raisins on the trip teloss, and looked us relaxed

115 T she was going to a Sunday school treat. reception committee waiting for her on the ground.

But there was no

She made another trip-but unce more there was no recep- tion committee awaiting her.

BY BOAT

Undaunted

Odette

insisted

For weeks the pace had been getting lougher. We now carried civilian clothes and faked pass- ports under our flying kit. The she be allowed to try оке

So we parsports were changed every more.

the set off on three months.

hazardous journey again. But Finally, we slowed cyanide still no reception commitice pills within easy reach. It would All Odette mid was: "10 have

shot be a quicker end than a Gestapo u

She by boat."

diki, Luture chamber.

and eventually ended up in Without

aboard, we Ravensbruck concentration camp,

narrowly ruped might have been able to bluff where she

the comparative death. Cur way

But rajoty ufa pikon temp Now we would have no diance ,und the weather WES worsening.

50.509

OVER SKODA Suddenly a blinding explation reeked the

port wing tre Haltiax, Then the solid impact et exuding met peppering the squat belly of the aircraft rasped

vn my morves

settled

To get better secret airfields we brought Frenchmen and showed them what we wanted,

on the Contrast,

bark

Then we ferried them home again, where they resumed their under tha normal occupelions muses of the Germansi

But une Frach agent was

the up by picked

Gestapo. though Handcuffed, he went the usual methods of Gestapo interrogation.

First he was punched by his Ave

cxx miners. Then threy kicited him. A pause, while one of them shoutca: "Tat us whe brought you here, and who is helping you."

A probing chlight groped, and fixed its unblinking eye on the bomber's port wing.

Another finger of light zig- zagged OCTUSS the sky, and ONL 15. Then another, And this time she jumped and another, We were over being WLK

combed for when the aircraft was travelling Skuda, the post heavily defend- The spy's stubborn headshake at 100 miles an hour-46 miles ed armaments factory in Eastern bought another thade of abuse

Europe!

on him. There was only one thing to above safe jumping speed. do-risk detection by wirejeeing She cuited with the tall. The Halifax plunged over on Then his feet were pressed for long minutes Its side. In the cruel light that between a crude press, end his buse al Tempaved for a Lysander wwal-and lu pick her up.

swung underneath

the aircraft, bathed the Injured aircraft i oniales broken........When he come She did and

within beurs stunned end in grave danger,

Scon saw the plot struggling to hold to, he was in a cell. une took off hom the airfield. The pilot juggled the

there were more questions, mero But

The spy fell

ground rushed ever beating. moro spells of un- countryside WELS alive with clear. She landed on half closer, and the flat increased. conscloumess. Gemans. Desperate. "Cabbage" purchate-but her information It was like diving into hell! He prayed for death took another risk and contacted helped greatly in

in D Day plans. Crumph! Another binding release him of the strain of not the head underground.

Another unforgettable ad- flash burst round the aircraft. betraying the secret base of They responded magnificently venture took place for me on In all my trips, I had never "The Cicuk and Dogger fo the occasion. The head of the night of January 20, 1943. seen such a barrage as this. Squadron." the local Resistance

Then came escape. It was a underloker. He got Dul his with freak lee atorms to Czecho- over the factory roofs. I saw simple one, He rolled out of

how by

the

whole and the semi-conscious illax, the plane on its crazy plunge.

an was

3

For four hours we battled And then we were hopping

search is on in Hongkong for "The Thing." Topical is this story of

.

The Monkeys Who Took Up Housekeeping

THE most tantalising

Texperience

for EL

Société

Tokyo. RICHARD HUGHES culls some "oddities" from the notebook one could destily with certainty as to who struck it. The police, of a newsman in the Land of the Rising Sun

according to last reports, are still baffled by, the problem. foreign newsman who As a result there were re- Yokohama, 20 minutes from o snoring passengers and

Here, in conclusion, is a can't read Japanese, and ports by foreigners who, driving Tokyo. He removed his trousers, similarly disappeared.

mixed-big of ather. Tout news who must rely primarily on by a twilight, were startled by coat and bools in conventional His body was later found be stories in Japan: a sketchy. English-language the apparition of apes in loose Japanese travelling style, curled ride the tracks on the other side

conts and rakish straw hats, with up in his window-seat and fell of the kuldge,

Did

the "cover" of events, is the or without trousers, or with sleep.

Economic Counsel The first and only account 1 Board ever work out as three-yes- number of lively and trousers on back-to-front, Atories somersaulting from hut-roof to fascinating local

was a younger read of that flesh-crawling story tened, what the Pacific War cost equally respectable man identification.

said that neither man carried Japan in hard cash? hut-roof, scratching and scuffling but

the that he never manages

Whatever happened to to in open doorways-or strolling with ticket No. 3088, who had

austore Shikoku, police matron follow up.

with quiet dignity: hand-in boardedi

at Tokyo. MANSLAUGHTER MIX-UP who tried to poison her 12-year- the train hand, along the road.

Neither exchanged a word or ..took special note of each other.

I

The past year in Japan, well recall, was replete with these lost (but never for gotten) nows stories.

I still lio, mweke at night, brooding over the amazing news story, and speculating on a un known oequel.

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Just after midnight,

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Then there was the fantastic quency?,

Orientals started

arose with a murmured apology Three

manslaughter mix-up at Nawate, How uocemaful were the

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