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GIRL'S LONE PORTUGUESE MULE TOUR

From Paul McGreevy

TAX - DEBUTANTE,

EX

Oporto. 24-

year-old Cherry Cresswell Turner has finished a three months' lone tour of Portugal-on a mule.

And she did it on 4 tro shillings a day budget with a Punch and Judy show to help her along.

Her equipment: a sleeping bag,

tin can, two pairs of jodhpurs, a bush hat, two opeņ. necked men's shirts and a huge skeat knife.

She barely escaped death by drowning when the flat boat on which she was sailing down the River Douro rapids struck a sub- merged ruck and sank,

Miss Creswell - Turner had wanted to see how Portugal's famous port wine was taken down the River Doura from the vineyards to Oporto on its way to Britain

NOT AFRAID

Was she afraid? "No," she said. "I was a rowing coach at Oxford. Actually, the bout wis overloaded with wine cases and she sank very slowly. The five- day voyage down the Douro was terribly exciting. The Portu- gucs have been doing this for over 200 years, using the same kind of boat that I was on. We sank between high craggy banks, where the

rockc

formation re-

minded me of Henry Moore's sculptures. They say in Portugal that this river trip makes the port wine taste better."

curly-haired Aliss Call-Tumer is the daughter i

She is

of an Air Commodore. stockily bullt and very com- petent in the art of self-defence, having learned judo.

I asked her if the had used her knife, and she replied: "Oh,

I did brandish it a couple of times to scare away would-be Don Juaas.

This trip has been awfully

saich amusing." she people

THE CHINA HÄIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1955.

"If it ain't Bert Higgins! And us thinking he be up in Lunnun on strike duty."

London Express Barvice

ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES

The Amazing Flight

Of Rudolf

LOVELY, sunny, lazy day it was. Saturday, the tenth

Hess

By HAROLD WALTON

of May of 1941. A berland. Its presence was knew his man. He had met Hess "Yeung day for village cricket, of soon reported to the nearest before the war.

the at bone would love it an afternoon on the river. operations room of But Britain was at War: chout. In fact, I am hoping The swastika was already the to write a book on Portugal. One

and I should be glad to tell them

EASY TO TELL

Royal Air Force.

His report was quick and to the point. te Rudolf Hess right enough," he said "He' bas a peace offer. You'd better

So, to a London still

ter

great Nordic avoided."

races

will be

Failing acceptance of these terms "England is doomed to destruction; Hitler will launch great feets of bombers against her and she will lose her Em- pire." (Was that big raid on then, more than a coin- ance?),

Hess, with his warped and megalomaniac mind, apparently people would

There (by an extraordin- form the Prime. Maling, thought the Brit

of the things I think people deeply imprinted on should know about is Father fabric of Europe, and away ary coincidence which no Americo's Boystown outside across the sunlit Channel one could possibly have sp- over the debris and subduing the fall for this. Stranger still, he Coimbra, Portugal's famous German bombers were being preciated at the time) Its fires of the night's raid came seemed to have an idea that a university city."

loaded with petrol and high course was plotted by the the tremendous news-Hitler's peace party, strong enough to deputy had given himself up overthrow the Churchill Govern- existed at that time in rather than remain in

and that (for some in- attack on battered but un- been a member of the R.AF. chemy

reason) the Duke of conquerable London.

for 14 years. He asked the Nazi Germany. Observer Corps its standing alone was electic. We insisted he had met at the of course, had known all along Olymple Games In Berlin in identification.

1936 was in touch with this

Why did she choose to travel by mule for most of her trip?

"Well," she commented, "It ms to me that mules are good 'ransport and pack animals. Besides, it's so easy to tell when

seems

| explosives for yet another Duke of Hamilton, who had Hitler's deputy had

fled to the whom all along he

At dusk those bombers came. London that night was lit by wanton fires. The a mule is bad tempered-small House of Commons-that pupils of the eyes and too much

hite showing.

been maiding a

ancient guardian of man's Cherry Cresswell-Turner has dignity and freedom-was a habit of odd jobs reduced to rubble. and

expeditions since she left Oxford. She has been a tourist courier in ftaly, a clerk in a big .warehouse Paris and, in Lon- don, a demonstrator at exhibi- tions and a char.

EPLOTTED

But the bombers were not the only German planes to I asked her where she was cross our coast that night. ging next. She relaxed, and One other came up over the said: Algiers, with a university North Sea and made a land- expedition, and then for a three-fall near the Farne Islands, week nderwater exploration of a sunken temple off Cyprus." off the coast of Northum-

SENDING THEM

TO COVENTRY

By JOHN MCKENNA

London. secretary, Mr James Rooney, NE of the more loath- Speaking of the men who had

we should work

for

"Messerschmitt 110” came the answer. Ridiculous, No thought" the Duke, Messerschmitt 110 could fly

all that distance across the North Sea and hope to re- turn.

Alamo

The effect on a Britain then

Hess At The Holght Of Nazi-Power

was

The Duke, of course, was entirely innocent in the matter. He had never met Hess (though he admitted, that it was possible ne attended some function which Hess may have been

And as for a

де

at

peace

• Was there ever such in

Britain?

later

There

As the Duke himself

brusquely told Hess:

is only one Party in Britain now. And that is the Government,"

SILENCE

F

2655 remained in Britain

until the end of the war and the final destruction of Hitlerism. Then with

other war the criminals, he faced his trial at Nuremberg. He received a son-

of imprisonment for life.

tence

Today, a prematurely aged 67, with haggard features and deep sunken eyes,

remains Hess Incarcerated in the forbidding Spatche

the edge

On

of

Berlin to turn, by the

The

He

He said as much to the Observer Corps. They had another look. But the answer was the same, as the plane was plotted westwards, ever westwards, over the dark, bleak Cheviot Hills and the Scottish Lowlands towards Glasgow. "It is an Me 110.". Suddenly the reports of the

Then plane's progress ceased.

"The news that it camě

had south of Glasgow crashed just that the German pilot had hauled out and was a prisoner. Ard the Duke of Hamilton, his night's duty over, went to bed. At 1 a.m. the telephone in the operations room rang again. It

Glasgow that Hider was a call from the

Americans, the British, awong Russians and the French. urgently for the but if his own white-headed police, asking Duke of Hamilton.". The senior boy thought the same, he must talks apparently to no one (not controller woke the Duke. be a very wrong 'un indeed.“ even to the other war criminals O some habits of small work

worked through the hike he

"That Me 110," he said. "The

sharing his limprisonment) but The maggot is in the apple," Aimself. boys is that of sending one according to rule with these men police say the man who baled

the gives out he

said Mr Churchill in one of his and to himself he talks quita of their ..number to and hand over to them under

But all Alfred Horn-wants to speak to telling wartime phrases.

a lot.

Often he shouts at the official instructions, Coventry."

social contacts thereafter should you. He tried to bale out over

Dungavel, your home. Can you Hess himself was screened from top of his plying and querulous "The Russians and the cease."

along to see the local public view-in one of our more Voice "T

exclusive "And. Am Hastings, where Home Guard?"

prisoner of wat Americans are out to kill me."

No wonder the guards and camps. There he was to stay other inmates call him "Mad he just didn't exist. The game strikers were celebrating their

through the years that followed, o Red!" Frequently

is examin- INTERVIEW

but the strange purport of bds of their officials, a certain Mr A

ed by Allied mental experts, but coming slowly leaked out. and it is almost invariably Lenard, said of three focal mèn

The Duke dressed, and then,

Yes, he had come to offer he never exchanges conversa working through the night, drove to the

tion. To the padre who visits instigated by bullies and their who had kept on

That Saturday morning him he maintains a stony, un- peace. Card They will probably be chucked Home

headquarters of May 10, while the Luftwaffe comfortable silence. sheerish followers.

from where this stringe "Alfred The only redeeming feature is out, but until we hear

I am that "sending to Coventry" is headquarters

saying Horn" was held. When he got crews were receiving their brief- what was destined to be (whom he did 'ing

They say he may be writing a essentially a childish punish nothing officially except to point there the man

day he ment, and most normal people out that they won't be very not know from Adam) asked to the last really big piloted book, because every

bomber raid on London, he had makes copious notes, and already

covered hundreds. readiness to happy working on British rail-speak with him alone,

ot grow out of

any

It was a strange interview, presented himself at en airfield behar infict it.

ways from cow on”

Munich and (almost sheets of paper. His only other Most but not all.

"Don't you recognise me?" said near the man..

usurely you know how with the knowledge of activity is to tend the prison. he had set off for Sent- garden. He is very jealous of That the "silence, treatment"

Now, Mr Lennard was taking ret. I am Rudolf Hess, Hitler's is still favourably regarded by some grown-ups was evident quite a lot on himself with this deputy. I met you at the last and with some garbled peace his cabbages

His wife whom he last saw, as When fmally the national rail- little speech. He was telling the Olympic Games. I have come to plan-if you can call it such

fer at imagine the Dukes "Don't worry. I'll be backs on

To his wife way strike ended in Britain. All British pubile who are after all offer peace."

he said in leaving: a free man, on that historie day on more than 13 years ago, now the leaders concerned agreed the par.ployee of the matknalised

lver with their son, 16-year-old that there should be

Monday, no railway workers, that life was amazement.

"Bat you are Rudolf Hes, victimisation,

going to be made tough for

His statements when he did Wolf Rudiger, in the family said, certain of their servants who why pick on me?" he the striking had chist to exercise every The man you want is surely arrive in Britain, were incoherent chalet in the Bavarian Alps

Prime Minister Mr and rambling yet none could day

The process involves singling cuft some wretched child, then totally ignoring him, acting as if

Is cruel, its effects can be return to work at a party, o devastating on sensitive victim,

a

JAUNPREJUDICED

Certainly,

THEIR RIGHT

come

the

in

pociszt

railwaymen whose patently cost the nation dearly dictates of his conscience, were not victimised. They re- Up in Edinburgh Mc Rooney You" turned to work security unpréjudiced.

But within a few hours

action had Beton's right to follow the Churchill. I can de nothing for that he was really" "mid

What was his peace offer? with their was putting up much too scene. But he quickly, patted the inARPED

proposition,

credible news to official Even there, few could

201

Is be really mad? And was be mad that day he flew the North Sea on that crazy, tzrand of peace? The psychiatrists may have their doubts in, deciding this but to most ordinary people

All of which left andiny Britons that this mysterious boiled down simply to this: the shower is clear:

questions began to be asked akkkig themselves, “Just who were the Rudolf Hess.

about the way they were do they think they are?" It also The

day,

iet Britain rid herself of her

an official of the present.

have expected England to their side of this left them pondering the distaste Foreign Office, a Mr. Ivone Kirk Mr Churchill and Hitler make peace on Hitler's terms at A multace that "sending to patrick (now Sir Ivone Kirkpal- would give her peace, he would any stage of the war is proof of There was, for instance, the Coventry has of late become ziek, permanent head of the allow her to keep bir Bopire madness indeed the will me delivered to refuning nor wisingly

among Foreign Office) was sent to and her, merchant nar), and “ red in Edinburgh by their certain trade

Scotland "il to Angestigate... He mortal struggle between the two confirm Arat" views.

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