1955-03-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL,

CHAPTER FIVE

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955.

Cloak and Dagger Squadron

JOHN REDFERN goes behind the barbed wire fence of a prison camp for this beside-the-news report on the biggest problem facing Mau Mau land today

THE COURAGE OF WOMEN BOAST OF

JAN AND

AND LIET

N August 1944, the Resistance movement

in Warsaw rose in

open revolt against

the Germans.

By Leslie Montgomery

{As Told To Gordon Thomas)

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Twisting and

namming, wċ The first shot was fired in them, it was nothing more

than a job of

Such thook the fighter of Suddenly work. soon after good-looking

courage was quite usual.

smoke and flame lirket from Lieutenant Jan Nowak was But charm-especially if it: the bomber. A fire was burcing parachuted into his native is weman's often beats la the bemo Tack.

We Poland by the Cloak and, courage. I learnt that time

spiralled towards the a desperate attempt again. Take the case of "A round in Dagger Squadron. Nowak Anthat

was her code to doute the blaze. Frantically wag an ace among agents. name had

Dispatcher both. Small and the

and myself she would have struggled to beat the fire out. He had become a guinea well-shaped,

But as room as the pilot eased pig, testing his wits against been equally at ease posing for

a cover girl picture or cooking it at hedge level, the Hames the Germans.

In a modern kitchen.

iato life

again Like

locked Odette Churchill, her

black-until personality

che of those, inexplicable events magnetized us from the moment she bearded occurred that always make life

night ore the Halifax

t in the alr unpredictable. The February 1943. Beneath her burning part of the bomb rack shapeless overalls, Ance wore a

reatly away from the Hall- tailored subst straight from fax.

In this way, he discovered snaps so that otherapies wery,

to avoid them. AN

Only his brilliant nerve and cunning saved him trem capture.

A poop as he reached Wor saw, he gave the arder to touch off the Men

ther

She even had earrings flown specially from the fashion centre by pigeon post a few days beforehand.

SEARCHLIGHTS

well-planned upricing. Paris. www women and children all courageously hurled themselves against the Germans. Quickly, kly, helsted the purple and whit: Polish flog over The battled-scarred buildings.

Jan Nowak

scarcely slept during the first bestic days, of the battle. He crganised strig points, planned ambushes and fought in the front line.

him battled Beside

pretty Let Jadwiga, List wa

was in her late teens, but already she had

Her

expensive suede court shoes, her friin handbag, bey nylon undies-all were stowed in specious pockets in the over- alls. Her faked papers said the was a night-club dancer.

Kings

Ansibar, few seconds--and we would have made a fery pyre on the ground. It was my elbgest

have

few

After some of the other jobs. it, scanded easyamtil I had a kak at the map.

“Beth Sardinia" and Corsica are extremely mountainous. Both were effectively patrolled

German

fighters based on. by Sicily. We wo

would probably be under fire during the whole of the run-in. Enemy radar would plot our course. A look

at the weather

THORS charts. and hazares popped up.

It had

arranged that we would drop our supplies in the mountain valleys. But often heavy mists shrouded tkem. And there

treacherous air currents to cope with.

IL

bren

were

WORRIES

. The

Resistance

MURDERING

come

across

.

T is quite something to The incentive of shorter Mra working hours and moré per- mits to visit the camp shop (to Clodagh Alison in the spend the ed, a day pay) help, 1,000 acres of dust and bring confession from many sweat At Kamiti prison others.

The wardresses in a uniform camp.

rather like a Girl Guide cap- Her tunic is immaculate.-tain's, are strapping, cheerful her slacks well pressed. Her women-although those who complexion glows and the are Kikuyu have received word hot breeze carnot dull

her that they have been sentenced to death by the Mau Mau couris attractive hair.

Nairobi, 13 miles away.. Calmly, efficiently, this

Behind the prattling of the good-looking woman from

children and camp's 350

the Lymington. Hants, gets on singing of the women is the with the job of looking after whispered threat. some of the wickedest But, as everybody in Kenya women in the world the agrees, the Kikuyu women must 10 killer women of the Mau be

Kenya ia changed i change. Mau.

Mau Mau is leaning heavily "She is surrounded by today on the women. It is they

the "hyenas," "goats," "calves," who feed lone gangster and lions. These are the lying in wait on the outskirts

of villages. names used, unofficially, to

The women of Kamitt are cut the convicts and patriots classify

of the battle. But Mrs Alison detainees,

is right in the other battle- The hyena detestable the battle for their deliverance utter blackness · di and filthy; the goat-ready from the to follow anyone; the calf Mau Mau. in need of guidance; the; lion brave and self- reliant.

would only be able to use hand torches to guide us over the dropping point. It would be like looking for a reedle in hayrack.

briefing. Intelligence

pro- duced more worries. The Ger- mans

would probably try to fool us with faked drop areas. But we were determinet to get

To compensate for it, a days Jater came my biggest thrill King George VI and the Queen inspected the Squad- the had to make the trips on

to

This was to be her cover, role in Parkhe most hazardous avu

Anne was to be one of

the

heavily

we

cloth.

-

TOUGH, ROUGH

wireless links between the Pari working clothes when we met thing but un easy task.

ran at Tempstord. It was a big honour.

for Royalty

winan oright moonlit Dights, so`

Here among the 2,300 wo- vitited

have a better chance of operational squadrons. There Was

cur pot time for us unloading cargo at the men is Kenya's biggest change before Their right spot. I also meant that problem, parcelled

up in Majesties drove past the the German would have a bet-barbed-wire and white prison

On the quarded station gates. ter chance to spot us. Mary of US were solled whole it was going to be any- the first in May I road North- trip across asked no questions

Wisely, the King and Queen African coastline,

warra Mediterranean sea. about our werk. For we had strict orders At any minute we expected

Palermo-based to tell nobody what we did-

enemy fighters not even Cabinet Minimes or 16 come screaming towards the Royalty.

learned to carry a side alung city in Europe for a spy, over her shoulders in much the women same way as ordinary carry

handbags They fell in love—a romance born cut of the struggle for

Warsaw. But by now the tide was turning against the patriots as the Germans threw that sands of troops and vehicles into the battle. Ther

against

this shell-scamad background, Jan asked List to marry him.

WEDDING

The two were married. In a

the

patriots and Landen. She would and transmit the vital receive information that would brief

the Underground movement for their volt.

forthcoming D-Day re-

The Halifax's engines rared louder and louder for the take eft. Soon the Channel gleamed in the moonlight. We few co lent that the men of the sea fered into the aircraft

A

sudden flash of search bombed chapel in the front lights patterned the sky. We line. It wasn't a quiet wedding. Mad reached the French coasta German fire was echcentrated Suddenly the round the chapel Within tapped Anne's hand. The seconds

couple covered with choking dust from The plane screamed through were dropping point was coming up. the crumbling buildings near the air, its shadew outline by.

on the ground. Over the murmurings of the priest rose the screams of the injured and dying. A screeching, shell blasted one of the chapel walls to the ground. Gunitre became

brave This

couple's wedding anthem.

There

WILLS

***

the Royal couple, but they didn't seem to mind..

Late

Halifax

។

the

:

But none came.. We sped over the inky-blue Sea that lapped

The Queen spent a long ame chatting to the airwomen in the

amp. Quickly,, she broke down Tyrrhenian their reserve with her famous, the hostile Sardinian shores. By

enom radar now.

eseny tracking us; must be on the

But roze came.

smile.

IMPROMPTU

waiting.

But he

www.

must

be

or-1

The women who are merely detained wear dinary clothes. Those who are convicted wear dresses with the broad arrow as the only touch of decora- tion.

white

They look like a lot of| peasants but they are so much more. They are the murderers, the Man Man court judges, the oath ad-) ministrators, the committee members, the thugs' girl int friends.

Sghters

.

was arrested in 1952..

So long did the Royal visitor

Then Corsica loomed Dispatcher gossip,

that the King many eight. Black and ugly, it reared turned and implied me out of the sta. times

But within its Here is Sara, a midwife husbands, he hated to be kept men and women who were preyatta's favourites before he should get a move on Like all mountainous heart were many who was one of Jomo Ken-i

parer to die rather than be under the Nazi jack- had his own te around

recognising airmen boot. e had decorated at Bucking Suddenly, the tension reachen ham Palace carlier in the war, mapping point. The dropping It Was amazing the way he area had been reached. It was could remember faces he had in a tricky spot at the bottom seen for only a few reconds, of a cliff summounded valley. perhaps

many months before, fran- The impromptu Royal visit

Another top from the patcher. This was the arranged. signal for her to put on a rub- ber crash-helmet. Then the Dis- patcher made signs for her to pick up something.

She shrugged her shoulders

Game-of

receplica. His signals grew morz 210 There was only enough food for c. Then she understood. Her was a pleasant break for all of meal a day. A quick kiss, parachute wasn': fastened, as it us from the geim; work of spy- one and the newlyweds were back sficuld have been, by a rope to in the firing line.

Carrying a boli in the plane.

On May 1943, ESCAPE

A

undeeting was

r. W

came that awept the past from mind. my

Leave for the Middle East. Special Mission!"

AUDACITY.

There was no time to debate whether it was a fake. The urgently flickering pinpricks of light from the ground warned us, there was no time to waste. Carefully and steadily, the pict brought the cumbersome bomber down, down, down.

Here is Jomo's wife by a Kikuyu tribal marriage, en aging woman

who gives little trouble,

Here too is a girl friend of Dedan "Fleld Marshal Kimathi, the toughest and roughest of the surviving terrorist chiefs.

moves

Like him the girl is tough and rough, and when she about the camp she has ne forest in her walk.

HORRIBLE OATHS.

ifers" who Quitidy, the

We were completely temmed in by cliffs now. Our engines echoed and re-echoed off them like thunder.

The

By now the German are und intensified into a ceaseles bar-

The zage.

patriots were driven deeper

and deeper into War

In another few moments she saw. Bitterly, Jan Nowak knew

would have fallen to her death. Special. Mission! Time and that the revolt was doomed.

Antë smiled wanly at the nace again these words shot through vas called of Jast

my mind as the black painted scape. leaders. Nowak

cord she jumped Halifax winged its way towards was secured, and was told that he must leave at

She had started on a thrill- the Middle East. ance for London, with meret

packed

After career that might easily

skirting round the of vital importance. documents

end in death. Like co many Pyrenees, the aircraft nosed like a startled horse.. We had Desperately he searched for List. And together they s out the last I heard of her.

10 others I took over, that was, towards Algiersant the

muddy landing strip of Mawson dropped the supplies. The lights

from

flashed on the ground gauntlet

and off

The Resistance quidly It had been an old

were saying "Thank you!"

We returned safely base,

to 'had hoodwinked Ornans, No doubt they

10

run

the

Frene!

airfield, and had rickety hang-

But I know you'll agree that Blanche. escape route was to be

be through the rat-infested sewers the lock outstanding couge to only exit from Warsaw. Jan had or as a charming dancer be

for an enemy she was plotting an injured arm, and the scoret documents were hidden inside to destroy". his bandages.

ars and no proper runways.

On May 11, 1943, I knew the

ding night wading through evli by night. Each trip produced major role in the reation, der

the Halifax

bucked

ked

By now, there weren't many what the Special Mission was believed that nobody would be The couple spent their wag parts of Europe I hadn't, visited We had been picked to play a ce

water and futh that the unexpected. smelling

Once atten came up to their necks. Mary times they stopped to listen, to make sure that the

Germans hadn't entered the sewers and were trying to seal Them

Wading

and through mud opze, the couple edged forward. Jan held his bride's hanc to encourage her as they inched along the grim escape route.

Then, they were cutside the torn city. Behind, they could hear, the incessant, polina- ing of guns and see the berserk flashing of exploding shells..

war.

HAZARDOUS"

With

faked papers, Nowak

was able to get two grats on a German train speeding west. The papers rald that he was a

the

and

so foolhardy their

as to send a single. "of Halifax

well- Corsican

defended tines on a moonlit we were just climbing Underground movement.

But once night, Loads of captured German had underestimated the

again, they away from a Belgian dropping

Cloak when zone

a night, fighter as and ammunition were to and Dagger Squadrons.·· jumped us. It roared out of a be flown to the islands and cloud bank and fired a long, dropped to patriots. We would raking burst through the Hall- help to soften up

the Get- fox's waist. It sounded like rain mane on the islands before the on a tin roof.

great Alliez advances started.

NEXT SATURDAY:

One Of The Finest Coupe Of The War

Another Red State is in turmoil and back from Hungary comes RALPH HEWINS

a spot-news report:

with

PRECIOUS FEW CARS AND

NOT

A BICYCLE

skilled foreign worker eppw the perpetual hard-luck suffered in

story. In my travels across covered"

TTUNGARY is the land of Finland, which also bled and cally no private cars. What few

ed by the Germans in Warsaw and, after being wounded, was

sent to

hospital,

German

Orien the train stopped that the jering German

admit

the war have re- there are, go to show-businest stars, to top sportsmen, and The Communist Party and omelais. The few miserable little half the length and breadth Government

that the taxis are falling to- **pieces.****** of the country every Govern- backwardness is not entirely Buses and trams are filled to ment official and Old Guard due to a super hangover from a bursting and you never see Communist apologised to me da

people reading newspapers on "Every day the papery scream thern partly because there is Outside Berlin, the couple for the backwardness, M "self-criticism. In the factories, no room, but also because the left the train. With a pocket I was constantly remind the workers are accused of "lack newspapers are so dull (circula

rupants could witness exec

tions.ct: brave Polish patriosa.

headed

for

Scme of the

women

fellow boast to prisoners about killings they have been at. One or two have cut themselves to get human blood for Mau Mau ceremonies inside the barbed wire. Many have been through the horrible, horrible oath ceremonies.

In her whitewashed office, Mrs Alison copes with all-and with no sign of shock or dis- taste,

Not that it can be easy for, her. She is the stepdaughter of Mr Arundell Gray Leakey, who was kidnapped and buried alive by Mau Mau terrorists.

listening With her husband in, she tells me about the screening carried out at Komiti Mr Charles Alison is in chargé

Is

of the whole camp and his wife responsible for the women's section.

Some of the hyena" "women have refused for more than a year to respond to the after- tions of the screening panels, old and wise Africans who seek a confession...

QUNJUN

on

S'RAPHAEL

compass to guide them they ed that Hungary was feudal of respect for State property tions are kept up only by com

advancine the

because they don't look after pulsory reading classes in offices Alles. It was a hazardous until 1946 with 3,000,000 tools and machines.

and factorie). App Journey, every step fraucht Ignorant landless peasants

Despite the time and

with

Even

papers were

on the borderline of starva- All this written and oral "self- adequate caused by In

criticism" is claimed as a sign. 2 bleytisport, ¡1: never saw-

That

systern

sudden danger. They had to avold

all towns tion so, their

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every bridge across the of strength, so much healthier

countryside is still in the through. In all, they had Danube in Budapest was than Bushing up mistakes as horse and buggy or foot-slogging covered about 500 miles before destroyed by the ficcing Ger- happens under the capitalist age. The tickety pony frape and they met an Allied patrol mans; and

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