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THE - CHINA – MAIL – MONDAY, APRIL

THE EIGHTH · TALE FOR YOU TO PUZZLE OVER IS TOLD

DID IT HAPPEN?

VERYONE has at least one eerie

and extraordinary experience in his life. Mine took place on a #late summer's day in 1944, shortly after General Patton's-armoured columns had burst southwards out of the Normandy beachhead in the huge encircling movement which was to cul- minate in the massacre of the German army at Falaise,

I cannot remember why I went off alone to Rennes, which was over 100 miles south

of

the old beachhead and deep in the

Ameri-

can area.

I had some Viguely official reason but I rather imagine main at- traction was the thought of

the

2

Jong

drive

srfler

Through open country weeks of sit- ting in the re- stricted area of the beachhead.

Ther

Was

There's

many

a slip

of the

journey

She was round and fat, with a bright red face, highly polished Jike an apple, 1 asked her whether I could spend the night there. She promptly agreed.

Trwa Germana -kon- emerged from the tank.

asked.

stranded Germans had been' sit- "What will you do?" she ting here eating and drinking, and probably wondering where the devil to go hext,

The old woman went upstairs and I heard her talking gently. When she reappeared she dll Scently asked me whether I would raind coming up to the bedroom. Apparently he want ed t

d to see

me. The sick man Lay in a large old-shened

MICHAEL

MICHAEL. PRETWER, 38,

(other Parties, comedian

waraline » playweight. Roland: Michasi began in jourwals lam (when <ba lalaicheal, then want inte. Plus, Durīna the way he became 'a 'maİNİ fie Pho'intelligence Corps und wrote radio Marsalka

“Since 1952. Me kar bene writing for TV, is the author. ・of the Friday" night) terlal

The Geura Family,

1. He has worked na many Filmo házőwith his father

the successful stige play The Pangon“

'Kooping up the family's theatrical, mad

an actrom. Väimela. French, two years ago. Choista.

ste sections of the room through more than the silence which had wide cracks in the floorboards, now" descended below that, drown The thres Germans not as the me from the roomy and sent me table triking in Germant which clattering downstairs, regardles I do

not understand.. For the of my previous 'cowarelice second time that evening I

In the was

kitchen the three lay astonished - at the cheerful stil- Germans

oa the floor, tude some people can show in doubled up in tortured attitudes. the Laco cality. They The old woman was "pressed chuckled and laughed as if they against the wall staring down were sitting quicaly in a com- at them and sobbling. Whey fortable meks somewhere Germany. Perhaps, in fact, they I shall never know for certain ware happy to find themselves what happened, but undoubtedly out of the war and were only these Germans saves my life. willing to be taken prisoner: The old chemist must have put poison in the wise Just in case an" more enemy intruders case. His should come into his house. pathetic attempt to speak to me WILS. to stop

dricking Certainly, discretion had proved

Silence

were dead.

OKIT

WORLD COPYRIGHT ́RESERERD

I hesitated, then chose dis-

Mewhile the dying man had the better part of valcer. cretion as the better part of lapsed into silence and lay quite stal feet a trickle of fear when nothing plea-

valour. But I felt myself blush- star with his eyes closed. I was I think what would have hap ing when I said: "I will hide up thankful for this. sant about the

pened had the Germans not early part

for the time being-per- here through towns which had been

haps they won't stay long. The woman gave the Germans arrived or bed they submitted in the front line since a few

To my relief, she nodded. I plates of stew, which they to being taken prisoner, and had She we all sat down to drink that days after the invasion. St. Lo

think she was relieved, too, started to eat ravenously. Was a pile of lifeless, horrible

having no desire to see the brought them a battle of red wine together. rubble, stinking of death. Not

house turned into a battlefield wine and placed it on the table. a soul seemed to be living there.

I managed to get the Jeep into was bedstead His dead whin She pointed to a large wardrobe Through the doorboards I S

place to hide, then. left the • band come out end your wine was in the barn and fined her in the hands futtered helplessly cut- 13em to meet three Germans Then, suddenly, I

*

into three glasses I heard them untouched country where the stona-fLgECT kitchen. There side the counterpane.. One who had emerged from the tank say "Prosit." They clicked armoured columns had rumbled was a vegetable, stew cocking corner of his mouth hung down and were walking towards the glasses and unhindered CTL their way on the stove. It smelled plea- lopsidedly..

house. They were all armed drank. having broken clean through

She told - He

of them with a sub-machine For a moment there was the lines, sending some German sent and egpetising.

was mumbling and gua

silence. The one of them himself as we moaning to troops westwards to the Atlantic me to make myself comfortable

"As I peered through the cure uttered an exclamation. There coast, others towards the Fatalse while she got me something: to

but, hearing us, be lains I remember remarking was the sound of a chair being gap, and leaving a harassed fow est.

his turned

hend and his eyes how young they looked. They pushed back on the stone fags: wandering about not knowing

met mine. They were bloodshot knocked on the door, and the then the tinkle of breaking As I sat there I heard a and vacant, but I detected old lady opened it.

glass followed by a series of strange, croaking cry from or imagined detected a look

One of them spoke passable agonized groans, which I cen- I passid

wontan who was busying her- His lips moved and he struggled frightened and asked whether The woman cheerfully, and I distinctly re-self with the stew, but she took to say something. I caught an she had any food I heard her went on screaming Asin very old lady, be sight- no notice. When the cry was ld word here and there

and crippled, repeated, and thinking that "Boisson" "pour les valeurs mumble reply, and they all answer the old man in the bed standing alone at the cross might be deaf, I asked her "danger de mort but it was went into the kitchen below me, suddenly began to wail: it was roads holding a little, tricolour whether she had heart it, all quite unintelligible and only By lying on the floor I could the tortible song he made, in her hand She was too old

later did I realise, all too clearly, "Oh, yes," she said, "it is my what he was trying to say.

CONCLUDING. IF LABOUR GETS BACK

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As

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Now YOU have to decides: Did then presumably Michael Portwes Imagine. his story or dia lt really' happen to him? Make a note whether you think story No. 8 is FACT or FICTION and keep it by you until tomorrow."

The answer to Saturday's story is FICTION,

villages the inhabitants waved above me. I looked at the old of desperate entrenty in them French. He told her not to be not begin to screamed and

member one

to wave the flag so she just stood there letting it flutter in husband--he is. the breeze:

Different way

I reached Rennes and spent the afternoon in in

abortive attempt to find an American ummit. 臂 found che

small military polica post, but that was all. The unit I was look- ing for was probably 100 miles away it General Pattori, had any. thing to do with it.

I decided to return by a slightly different route which was my first error. I took the road to Vite About a mile outside this town my Jeep broke down. I had stopped outside a small house, standing back from the road.

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OMORROW

The series that keeps you queia. lag continues "with a story by

ROBERT HENRIQUES

she

She spoke in such a matter f-fact voice that at first. I won dered whether I Had misunder stood her, but she went on to explain that her husband, "who! owned the chemist's shop in.. Vitre, had suffered a stroke and

Helpless

As I stood there feeling help- less and rather foolish, I heard a rumbling and clattering from the mood outside. - I glanced out of the window to see a tank, which slowed down and stopped opposite the house. In the twilight I could distinguish the head and

shoulders, of a soldier

The

T

Of

DID IT REALLY HAPPER'?. No. 8. There's many, a slip

YES

NO

Colonial Policy The Socialists

(By A Special Correspondent)

look en

sticking out of the turret, was about to call some greeting

London, Hving standards and to improve In British Gulans-problemi. when be shouted to someone in-

HE mainspring of oecial welfare. But in their out- colony of the Caribbean there side the tank. He was speaking

Labour's colonial alvidual colonies the Labour among

the problems of in- has been some reaction recently in German Then the engine

Socialist supporters of the tank started again and

policy and in this party does not always see eye Dr Jagan. British trade turned into the yard.

it differs radically from the to eye with the present govern- unionists. have told their people that he is unworthy of support. I remember clearly though Conservative viewpoint

Take Cyprus, for example. So Mr Bevan may conveniently without much

pride, the is the setting up of a time- At the Labour party's Scar forget that there was an occasion that the doctor had given him thoughts which raced through table for sef-government in borough conference last autumn when he welcomed the doctor to

my mind at this moment. There It

that tank

before.

:

zentat

This a 1-group: of left-wingers- were one of his cocktail parties. A

any'

All

It must once have been only a few hours to live. a farm. for beside it was a yard was the fault of. Germans, she could be several amned men in colonial territories.

I was alone art, might be called the "time all for giving Cyprus to Greece Labour Colonial Secretary. and a tumbledown, barn. I de- explained. A party of them cided to seek shelter there for had invaded the house two days with an unforgivable lack of bomb" policy, since it would and for leasing from Greene would be unlikely to disturb

They had demanded military discipline, I had left my probably lead to explosions be considered necessary.

military bases that might the present regime, but efforts the night, hoping that during

revolver in the. Jeep.

But might be made to encourage the the next day a garage, in Vitre food and drunke nearly all the

What in cases where self-govern the conference was careful nut split in. De dagan's pasty, and might wine in the cellar. Her hus- would happen if allied forthment was promised before to commit the party to that, hopes would be pinned on a passing American D

agains!

them? attacked them with united put the Jeep right. So I walked band had

It did was to announce its breakaway group Ted by Mr certainty be countries were ready for to

They the

had treated should almost front door and his stick. up

Tory Burnham, this

Idiled, which would not alter kibocked. There was a pause,

contemptuous good

it.

Poll of #00000

In Cyprus

It w in Kenya that the greatest then, the door was

It is highly unlikely that a harm could be done by a opened by humour, which must have en- the course of the war, nor parli-

In homogeneous communities, an old woman who peered at raged him even more. A few cularly help the Germans, who

the premature grant of In Labour government would Labour Secretary of State, me fearfully for a moment, then hours after they left he had had was er not bound to be taken dependence may bring nothing jeopardise NATO arrangements cause

prisoner sooner or later,

driven By his left wing, amiled with evident relief, shook the stroke,

san francial and ad- in the Mediterranea by offend he might be in a hurry, to get

which ray: hand and cried, "Tommee, It was odd, to think that barely. Standing bedde me,' the old ministrative difficulties,

but in Ing

Both political parties Tommee," several times.

women was pale and trembling. multi-racial

It happen Belialis surrendered results!

over Cyprus. The polley of multi-racial govern- in Britain are committed to a

with

48 hours before half a dozen

Wew all bein so sorry for ourselves lately,

ira beadful day and you're

sa kind-looking. Why. not do us a cheer up cartoon?" "Certainly, sir, quaile, quai

worse

communities

carries grave dangers of racial refore, is that

civil

•

in fact, a legacy of Labour's by offering Cyprus a plebiscite policy in India. There the ex- over Encais at bome time in the

determination pressed

any within Ave or ten of the future. Attlee government to withdraw years,

date: certainly fixed hastened administrative" plans.

be-

strife, and my bomber policy is. sould a menty botti with to seet gecené

af colour discrimination;

But, whereas Conservatives realise that such policies are revolutionary to many Europeans in Kenya, and to be successful must be implefirst- ed gradually and, if possible, on the initiative of the Europeans themselves, Labour, would tend

&

INTEGRATION

for the transfer of power. But As totala, whichever party

It brought with it one of the is in power will be faced with bloodiest massacres in history, the need for reaching arvi

chind bitter recoller financial settlement and for to go too quickly. All wise men. tians of Hindu-Moslem rivalry, considering the falend's con realise that the Kenya of

could doubt that, stitutional

are berige prill ter little rela signs that the lett grize for the lozio, we prewar Kenya, but Labour party would be pre- forgoing Colonial Secretary will pared to accept Malta's The madim, "Haste

“Swahill" be guided by the tion with Britain, even to

left behind

Britain jacked up in Malays there would not be chaos and racial disturbances?

EXAGGERATED

of

bera

txe West Mallese

having

Mein

Whatever

Nevertheless, Labour's previews on these complicated occupation with the time-table problems, it is highly doubtful

APARTHEID

nmonwealth

ned, 127chan

zof British gov

can be exaggerated. The rank whether the Labour party, as So far as and fle may shout for ite in a whole, discriminate application, but an insuldiswallow such aliens are the leaders of the party low foreseeable. Implications

mate little dir full well that for the majority The fiercest Earlene fire some tear that

colonial territories date battle in coloniale, attair of office there would Lor self-government can be

can be recent years was over the a rupture with South

inger. of

Axed. In fact, they know, diar" federation of Central Africa: Many

Conservatives many of

territories but

but no Labour government that the policy of ethela "in can never gnallar" aspire to

on would

attempt to u

and oppressive, but. airguided their own feet at al

scramble this omelette What they realise that this is Comi In practice, then, the time it would probably do would be Africa's own pro

aboin table would only be set when to delay any attempt by the on the other hand, self-govemment was just round-Federal Government to obtain undisguised höstu the corner. The exception is dominion status, and it might Strijdom's government; Malaya where the party seems go so far as to encourage the Under strong pre to believe that the risk of separationist tendencies of the the bull racial strife is much less than African Cheges in Nyssaland. Inight

#Ini -- la» other – facet "Policy: towards”-the

generally does not differ gre

ly from the

Both parties are, éverything"

To the

their

federation of

of the West Khama hi Bechuan Labours Indies, on the other hand, me

our party is fully committed. tient would ndeed, it helped it on its way, as a calculated inst * promises of Bannielal add' for the reason for

Atrics from be

ous to do-made by Mr Lyttelton to

for the federatiod started would ther

sat be willingly honouŢE