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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY,

DID IT HAPPEN?

Tenth story in the China Mail series

T won't be very exciting," said Sergeant Brownlee. Yet it sounded attractive enough- dawn patrol alongsitle the Iron Curtain on the safe side! "A year ago that was different," the American went on. "The Commies, used to pot at usor at refugees trying to cross the frontier. But it's quiet now.":

#re

"Maybe it will liven up today," I suggested. "I have a reputation in England things seem to happen when I'm around."

""Say, you ain't a jinx?"

"No. But just as some people

accident - prone, so incident-prone.

I'm

If I go to, a volcano which has been quiet for years, it suddenly blows its head off."

He looked at me in some ap- prehension as I climbed into the Jeep, I sat at the back with Private First Class Costello; Sergeant Brownlee was in front [with the driver.

We left the American barracks 3 maze of. and plunged into forest ecimtry. After a short

halted run the

abruptly Trunks of trees, festooned with barbed-wire, blocked the road. More banks of

barbed-wire

stretched from north to south.

This is the Iron Curtain!" Brownlee announced. Now a branch

A HOLE

IN THE

CURTAIN

Jiri was an. ran Helena a musician

art

student,

Had they

Food parallel with the frontier, which chosen to swim with the tide here was a placid stream. Often they might have married and But they both had the barbed-wire approached its existed.

from active and intelligent minds. At banks. Suddenly a yell Costello halted the Jeep. He his university Jiri had been in jumped out, and ran through the constant trouble because of his awieward habit of speaking the long grass.

"Say, there's a dame here- truth-and revealing that be dead! Hell, there's a guy as road Western as well as Soviet well!"

No questions

books.

Now he had been expelled; and further disaster threatened.

"You're on, the black list, Jiri," a friend had warned--he TIRI regarded the forged docu- had joined the Party to keep ments with admiration. They his job. "The next time you were perfect, complete with the open your mouth will be the correct rubber stamps.

With last!" these papers he could travel-

Jiri was no Communist and no policeman would question

to be was not prepared them.

He paid

the forger the sum cabbage. Helena had already She was agreed. Forgery is a recognised made up her mind. profession

the not merely intelligent; she was Satellite states, Papers are neces- very good looking, and a neigh- sary for so many trivial purposes, bour Party official had been but can be difficult to come

comment on her She stage

171

Some

of

to

bourgeois views on sex. hoard Hence from official quarters.

knew what the next demand has created a supply.

An hour

Jiri was would be. laber

"We exhibiting his prize to Helena,

"We can go when you like

he said.

"Let's make it soon."

*

by Bernard Newinan

actors Bernard Newman kos sacurad much of the background maturiat for his work on a Bicycle. At 57. be can still corse 60 milaz a day. (Hy was behind the true Gurtala this year, in Hungery, but he left bis bicycle in Vlame.

Trailer, ther

Harmon was with the BEP in France from 1975 to 1919. in the 1939 wer he trovslied the world lecturing for the Ministry f Information.

In oddities to his many travel books, Berner Mexmon is e prolific writer of spy thrillwrs.

APRIL 27, 1955.

A bam provided shelter for the day. Before noon sudden alarm. Three men chose the barn as the site for their mid-day mstl. Firl had already reconnoitred, there was a ceiling

Buy, there's a-dama-here-dend /

But he could not resist the "Very well, Helena. It rising surge of happy confidence better to die like this, together within him. Then, just as he wonder if there is a life was about to sing aloud for joy, bevonds

We "We shall soon know! he walked into another swathe of barbed-wirel

bave failed to pass through one is a greater curtain, but this it mcoa? Two adventure.” layers to the Curtain? But this She kissed him fiercely; then was incapiete, merely a cover sank to her knees in a prayer, to a series of outposts. Scon He Jay beside her, they passed through it. embrace as they swallowed; the

draughts.

What did

Suddenly they heard a terrify- of rough planks and there be ing sound--the deep buying of a and Helena lay, mute, and tenst, dog. Then shouts. Evidently the a sneeze or even a deep breath pursuers were confused, for they would have betrayed them. did not find the refugees, But The danger passed.

The hour....

SOON

OON the stars gave a feeble guide. And the guards were careless--one of their huts was well lighted, and easily avoided.

Jiri led the way through the dark trees. "We must be dear the frontier, Helena," he whis pered." "This is the hour!"

Now. they must cross an open into a gentle space dipping valley. with the risk of en- countering a patrol: The sum me: darkness was an imperfect SCHKE and caution impelled

slow progré55.

"Halt!" Jiri whispered,

bours,"

Helena was tiring, and both were hungry. But they stumbled

Tomorrow

'the slevanth story in the series will be told by

*

GLYN DANIEL He, too,

will ask

you to say:

Did it rally

happen

---

?

the

In circles

in n bast

German

GREECE ON THE BRINK

By

HARRY CROWTHER

Athens.

INDER the stern and

UN

efficient rule of grey- ing, seventyiah Field Mar shal Alexander · Papagos, Greece has faded out of the headlines no terrorists devastate the mountain' vil- lages, breadlines are shorter, mdustry is growing.

But there is a worried look on the Field Marshal's brow these days. The Bul-

border garian

is being watched more closely. And Greek politicians are becom ing restive.

Two quite separate prob lems are coming to a head

and either or both may lead to trouble at any mo- ment.

PARTY SPLIT

The other is the split Papagos party following the "retirement" last year of his Arst lieutenanti, Markezinis,

Spyros

one

The eruption of either could bring the other to a head.

The Bulgarians stopped drovD- ping Communist guerillas a CTDAS. the border after Papagos mada them see the hard way that the game wasn't worth the candle.

But Greek Intelligence sources say that there is growing pres. the sure from Moscow on Bulgarians to put the mountain bands back in business.

One of them is mounting After the incident was frightening. THEY had been walking in

tension between Greece and circles confused by a bend dusk they moved on, passing by For an hour Jirt and Halens by 1 deserted village. All the quite still. The dog was their in the frontier. They had passed Bulgaria following the sign- frontier

had region

bren greatest danger.

Iron Curtain ichading of the pact between been Westerni cleared-save of the army of

"We must go oni" Jiri whis--for a total of two bour in all Turkey, Greece and Yugo- Weeds grew in the guards. farmyards; the Belds were rank. pered. "It will be dawn in two and, far greater tragedy, were in slavia.

Western Germany when they consummated their pact of death.

was the The bridge boundary.

So the dawn' patrol which found them was not Communist, but. American. And they were not dead, but only unconscious An astute sergeant recognised the symptoms and the jeep speeded them to hospital. There worked and men and women fought to save them from un- necessary death.

Helena Jiri and

had taken enough poison to kill a dozen men but faith or fortune proved fallible; alowly the text-books

wrestled and painfully they their way back to life.

"Well, your troubles are over I said. "You can lock now." There was a bridge ahead. A on-through another forest and forward toe new lifewith Jiri man leaned on its parapet, and by the stores of a lake. Then Helena had been wying on her the starlight glistened feebly Jiri had to admit that he was wedding dress. hopelessly lost. from his rifle.

"Yes," Helena smiled, happily. strange. When I lay "I think we have passed this "It is was already. We must have down to die, I knew no fear, mustered despondently

to life I was terrified."

Which seems to be el far Despair

their comment on the matters of our exhaustion. After they had world.

they could go mo further. Then

dawa two Now began the long trudge to "Follow me exactly, Helenal" the

came suddenly t the West They spoke little Near the edge the forest seemed to their tired eyes. German, so dare not approach again tools possession. Presum- It revealed a familiar scene anyone 1st, they should be ably the minefield had been revealed as foreigners. They passed.

It was a good sign a bridge, the one they had seen

the previous evening. It was agreed. Their kiss was used rural lanes and paths, and their luck was holding. the seal of the deadly compact, made a zig-zag course. By Yes, and here was the swathe So, we have failed!" said

The pitparations were few night, they slept in

of barbed-wire which indicated Helens. woods, of they could carry nothing with unseen.

the Iron Curtain. Jirl producedi "We may be able to try them but a little food. Jiri ar- Their food ran out and they cutting pliers, and Helena main again." quired a compass, but its move» dared not enter a shop-they tained a watch as he sipped ments were erratic.

had no German Currency any strand after strand: Friends who claimed expert way, But at length they reached They were through. knowledge advised against the a little town within a few miles. "Are we free?" she asked al- attempt to cross direct from of the Curtain. Now they must most deliriously. Czechoslovakia into the -Ameri- travel by night, and danger "I hope so-but we can't be can zone of Germany-it would linked every yard of the way, sure.”

will go but I'm not coming back, Jiri," she said. "If we're caught, it means 20 years in the mines. I couldn't stand For Jiri and Helena ( that. I'd rather die." would be unwise to use their real |names) had determined

She meant it. Helena always

He is married, has three daughters, lives in Harrow-on-the HIIL

Greece's strength worries the Russians.

on did mean what she said. So a be caster if they went throuk Now a climb up a hillside; sud- been walking in circles," he But when they brought me back the eastern end of the Mediter.

escape frous. the Czechoslovak workers paradise.

Live levened

People the

to

thust

suicide pact was born.

Eastern Germany. Armed with their precious passes they went

They waded the river tower down-it was only knee deep Tiri neaded little persuasion,

dienly Jet halted as a strange He was highly string, and the by train to a town near the mape appeared, beside them thought of torture and prison northern frontier. They slipped A watch-lower! That means appailed him. The document into Eastern Germany with com- that we're near forger put him in touch with parative ease, using unfrequent-It also suggered a minefield, staggered a few hundred yards WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED another useful man, who, for a ed mot

mountain paths. consideration. supplied small bottles of poison.

"So it's agreed, Jiri?" Helena said.

"If we fail to cross the Curtain we die-together,"

he knew.

emphasisea

"How, when we do not know where we are? And the dawn patrol may pick us up at any time. No. I have my bottle, Jirir"

He looked st her and, was inspired by her courage.

Now YOU have to decide: Did Barnard Newman imagine - kis story or did it really happen to him? in story No. 10 FACT or FICTION? Ses tomorrow. *

Yesterday's story "The Girl In The Car," by Robert Henriques, was FACT.

`DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? No. 10: A Hole in the Curtain

YES

NO

Roue der Nathaniel Gubbins: The Quiz Rayel

SI cannot read news-

with papers

my. accustomed ease until

I get better my life partner the Plucky Little Woman has taken on the

tty job, assisted by Albert the Robot Columnist...

N

on

of

personal appearance and con- those who do not call ini a Albert Has the onely been siders it was rather un-British doctor or visit a surgery for a able to notice the pictures "In view of the panel's health, certain period should be given Queed Soraya of Persia?

Gubbins: Kr. The defiant panel will now go a no-claim bonus up to 25 per-

to the low tavern to make its cent, on their National Insur- Albert; Doesn't the nose redder.

ance contributions. Does the think she's amashing panel,

Gubbin panel think this is a good idea?

The panel doll Gubbins: As it has been not consider "gshing"

describe frequently stated that the National Health Service

higher rents for meters. The Authority might even charge you for reading the meter. In any case, consumers will still get the same crazy bills which

nobody but the Author understands. PLW. As the panel. seems irritable would it care for a reading from something lighter like a cookery column?

Gubblar: Cookery columns half. usually make the panel feel sick, particularly when stale bread is squeezed to a pulp in water and lumps of dripping are mentioned, P.L.W. Dripping is not men tioned in this. It Is

a savoury of a half-eaten camembert. made cheese. You scrape off the skin.

What with? With a knife

:

w

and

They have been treating me like the panel in a BBC quiz, asking questions affairs of the day and quoting items of news "to hear the reaction. Like this:

P.L.W.: A £300,000,000 atomic energy programme - wil give Britain the lead over the rest of the world in nuclear your fingers, of course, power which will reduce the Gubbins: I thought so price of electricity in ten years' P.L.W.: You then mince the $18.00 time. What does the panel cheese with butter, cayenne pepper and chopped walnuts, Gubbins: Astuming that and shape into lifle cakes, the price of electricity will be Gubbins: What with? reduced in ten years time the P.L.W. With dirty Angers panel thinks it is wonderful smothered in germs. Then you neup for old age pensioners, add beaten egz and crushed Those who are still alive will cereals and fry in hot fat. be able to use an electric Gubbin Dripping? fire for a couple of hours a P.L.W. It doesn't say so, Is. 7.50 day without giving

up the panel feeling sick? ke a hot Sunday Gubbins: Yes..

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PIAW Has the panel

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12.00 | PLW.: Why does the panel rebing's Fren

use the word "assuming" when the Minister of Fuel and Fower: has given a Government assur

ance

Gubbins: Because from

camembert cheets” argilable the panel would, rather, eat it straight mucked about.

and not have

think

It lessens their chances of acquiring strategie command of

ranean and the Dardenneller in the event of a major war..

It is also bad business for the puppet states in the Balkans, and particularly for Albania, A successful non-Communist state does not go unnoticed even be hind the iron curtain, and the long-range control of the Balkan states has always been a tricky business for the Companists.

Trouble on the border could give Papago enemies a chance to capitalist on the internal troubles of his own, party,

PAPAGOS PURGE MAI

Markezinis, as "Minister of Co-ordination", was the man who really put Greece back on her feet. But he and Papagos fell out-apparentlyt over per.. sonul matters and, after his resignation. Papagos promptly purged all his followers from the Cabinet

The Rest of 18d Markets faction promptly left the polty, citingPapagos following parlament from 247 to 20% in a house with 300 seats.

another election, the Markezirila men might well, do

much better, especially if there was trouble on the border and they could claim that, without Markezinis, Papagos could not

A slight shift in the balance not paid for out of National

Doesn't the panel and Greece would go back to Insurance

contributions but think she's even more smashing the pos 1952 political confusion

royalty."

out of taxation the panel than Marilyn Monroer thinks it is the silliest idea of the week,

Cxbbins the moment

the panel is not interested in

such things. INNE

excellent proged an ing ground for Commun

For Albert Would the panel ob

of the jeet if I wabte a-põën to Queen Sorayag

WHEN I returned the Plucky

Little Woman WAR

stiil reading the papers on my be

PL.W. In view

of recent speeches by the Chancellor of the Exchequer about checking inflation does. the panel

PLW.: Young brides in Hull Its income tax will be reduced

who are undecided what to give text. Budget? in the next.

their husbands--for the next Gubbins: In the first place meal may now dial a number the

under- panet has never

and be given

What a merk stood what inflation means does the panel think about that?

to even when politicians try explain it in economic in beciles by describing it as too much money chasing too few goods.

P.LV.; Isn't "too few" rather clumsy English?

Beribbins : Yes. Abert: The diiculty is

find

thing goes FE 49 Soraya.. I could!

1.

(win

|

The

thinka panel Gubbins: that this sort of t on women will soon become entirely useless, New Soraya. machines have now made Gubbins: You needn't g cooking, washing, and clean-

any further ing the home so simple that

Albert: If she spent her the stupidest man can do Soroa-i con go on all for himmelf in his spare

Soroya, Soroya If a wife can't EULT think up a menu men might as well remais bachelors,

the PLW:"Doesn't

panel is Gubbins: The quoting clumby politicians, All the panel knows about this time fa

•' mattey is that as soon as the

becomes. country

prosperous

with full employment high

and

wages there is always

a politician at hand to

panel

Think that men marry Women

the people that if they spend for other reasons than cooking

up menus?

payme

What a pity, you've already

got a boya Although I don't want to

annoy yo Let's go to a: show, ril meet ya for the foya. PLW: As you're so clever only people who are allowed their brilliant conversation, at rhymes, Alber, perhaps you FLW. On the other and a could help Eric Maschwitz, de to spend all their money free

Gre those who are 18-year-old schoolgirl writes to lyric writer who says there is of ta clever or lucky with football Awspaper saying she does all no rhyme for August.

who on the racecourse, or the cooking for her father,

the money they have earned and thinking we shall all be ruined. The

and selling

The panel

The Gubbins: No, unless it's for

and trying out new

and PLWK Mr. Leslie Burchett, De

Bacchiar de Contrower. She says: "I enjoy'

long and bitter experience of Government, abruruncer

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How there is a Gene lews about, that

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father laughs, thinka, Vi

of the Flectricity Authority a tattooist of the Waterloo if ink Income tax will be right, but just laugh.

road, the does not believe of electricity inill be reduced. Even clear, power could generate it for panel." nothing. The panel thinica lok That If the cost of electricity the reference to to. Ted noses « FLAW.

tous A, deliberate and uncall, National Union ed-for comment on the panel's keepers it was n

rodaged the Authority will make up for it, by charging

tea-time Albert the Robot Columnist clanked in to help ithvað bundle of newspapers

Albert. EasyBack

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Bars, from, the end artii, 1949) Giến

Viqually in a state of civil

personal

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the army, Caned up

VERGE OF WAR

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Betape, up 114 of 2567 eats.

He refused to deal with coalitions, and tha succeeding governments were on the verge of facing

another civil war when the elections of 1952 put Papagos in office and saved the day.

It was just before the election that American Ambassador John Purifoy created a scandal, by announcing: " believe it would be a good thing for Greece to

have a new general election as „as possible! That woută produce a new-)

-government bet

ter equipped and better able to deal with the problems facing the country

He was taken to pean that Papagos would have American

"and"". American, Wald. support "And that, probably went a "long way toward winning-the-elec tion

It is Boubtful whether any American diplomat would dare to play the same card" nor