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Mist was the name the young volunteer un guard at sekilemeni in Pales- time is 1938 who first introduedd Wingale to the tough qualities and courage of the girls of the Jewish secret army. She widt veteran of five feree skirmishes From her example came girl soldiers This one is this picture taken in 1943.

Kun iL

Надала for

battle in the

fur the Arab-Jewish war, bitterest engagement of

with marsuding Arabs. like the one in shown carrying Jaffa, the

Now

To

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955.

WINGATE SHOWS HIS HAND TO THE SECRET ARMY AND ANGERS WAVELL HIS CHIEF

'THIS MAN WILL LEAD YOU

TO YOUR DEATHS'

-Wingate tells the Jews

as he denounces an Arab spy

Ex

There is a possibility that, had not he died in Burma in 1944, both might have happened to him.

was now

33

This

whom

our

Gun-runners

to

Spine

"But Wingate.". Brenna recalled, *Used to disappear without anyone seeing him, and return again in a couple of hours, The fact that he moved so far from our settlement and always

returned safely made many of our people sceptical as to his real intentions. We could not forget that he was a British Intelligence officer; and some suspected him of contacting the Arab gangs."

further

we

to Moshe Shertok, political head hours, return to the settlement.

י

Arabic, all the

while

staring

Into The

man's eyes as

If he were

บ

trying to hynotise him.

This

an "is planning to lead you to your deaths," he shouitd. suddenly swinging round on the watching Jews. "Now let ug stop all this non- sense. It is about. time ‘3° soldier took charge of you, for you art babies.

You

wish to go on. the raid the against Arnbs over

there fonight All right.

You will go.

But this wretched man

thera.**

morning air. He did not, waka again for 24 hours.

were threatening their HELD MARSHAL should beware of being too who

the British

One day he asked Brenna to or forthcoming with his settlements, thar EARL WAVELL frank

accompany him on a walk out- new Jewish friends, particularly, Army. He would use them to once said of General two named David Hacohen and wipe out the Arab gangs.

It does not

side the camp. Another settler seem to Our In-

have Wingate: That man Emmanuel Wilenski.

"I imagined (ac occurred to Wingate to go back went with them. will end the war either telligence agents believed

curately.

it tumed out) that to General Wavell in Jerusalem we were going for a stroll, but

soon found

how WTORS I out leading his troops as a field- Harchen and Wileriski were

and discuss his conclusions, He

was. Wingate led the way a

at a sce brisk pace marshal or attending his both important chiefs of the went instead to Haifa to

towards some.distant Wilenski the Intelligence own trial at a court mar- Hogarth, the secret Jewish array,

Pulis.

Almost immediately wo and that Wilenski was its In- cfficer of the Hagana. tial."

telligence officer.

"I have a scheme for hitting hostile country, and the got the remoter de- than back. at the. whetted rather

Arab gangs. came our chances of ever

get"

will not lead bluntee

to get more Wingate's desire to be he said. but I have

Wingate marched us

you.

I Will WINGATE-BUSH SHIRT AND CORDUROYS with them, and much of his time information before I submit it ting back.

take you for three hours, and seemed to to the British Army.

He wore a greascistained tunk to meet V.J.P.a. was spent in their company

You can know exactly where he

was Wilenski, particularly

with

help

that me to get

Informa-

He looked them over as tion. T

If body vigorously all over with a the going. When he stopped he It was in Palestine, between word. It was not long before

want you to ask he became an intimate

pointed at a house across the they were cretinous Jewish Agency to get me some valley. It was an Arab meeting "I want seven of you to come Soon he was fast asleep, breath-

children toothbrush, and then lay back.. the years 1936 and 1939, "that he

Hagana

oys from the settlement to report reached the seeds from which sowed the

me into the Arab place he said, and he wanted to with me and we will plan a ing heavy onion fumes into the "I am convinced that accompany

look it over." Sproated future military great- saying:

campaign." territories is our friend and can

pick up

Brenna nervously suggested ness and a pugnacious,talert for Wingate

with be trusted

prisoners secrets, and political insub even from the British." militars

But the leaders of the Hagana going back for reinforcements. He picked Moshe Dayan, Zvi ordination.

did not yet trust Wingate and "Don't worry," sald Wingate T Brenna, and five others. They The Hanita raid was one of Orde Wingate

they refused to help him.

will go alone and you two wait Istened for three hours

while those occasions when Wingate, rears old, a

a cuptain in the Royal

Wingale next wrote a message here. If I am not back in two he talked to them,

driven by the desperate needs Artillery. He had been ap-

of the moment, was coldly, pointed an Intelligence officer to

Two hours Then the expedition of re- almost imperiously ruthless. the British Army in Palestine

SHORTLY afterwards Wingate

passed and no venge set out.

But with the Arabs,

with was moved to a desk job at under Brigadier (later General)

Wingate. The

the Italians and Japanese he Evetis, who commanded the

Jerusalem

head- under the

[WO Jews General

With a compass in one hand was to fight later, he commander,

could be 18th

Brigade from his head quarters_

Wavel

made Field-Marshal)

their and a map in the other, Wine, considerate

He and gentle. ..on Mount Carmel: fler

routine work fretted and

back. pale set off ahead of them across always saw that his prisoners perlocking Haita.

His superiors

were the wilderness along the frontièr; had food and water, even if it haps the first time in frustrated him.

very worried, and he never seemed to make a meant going short himself. infuriated were apt to become

They

were mistake. They

straight long-Wingate was a happy by his habit of answering his

sure Wiinte Ekbanen territory to the man, huxuriating in his Biblical telephone not with "Hello, Cap-

gote had West of the Arab tain Wingate here"

stronghold, but

killed, and Wingate & the Jewish Agency, asking bech

wondered and then began to double back. they would explain By three in the morning, at the strenuous 30- end of the arrived the next day: Come at it to the Army. They were end

NCE, after a skirmish with a noon.

had ever experienced Wingate had been captured, Moshe (now when For once Orde Wingate, who the members of Hanita

shout from the halled his column. "I shail go usually kept a special grease there was a

by the sound of talk. They personages riched and dusty, but other he said, "If I don't come back, were sleeping in an open wadi. meeting important

Не unscathed.

had "make your own way home. But bis indifference to wise

Но

bad found that Wingate searched the

an watch for my signal" hut, dodged "them, had,

given his greatcoat to a young a subaltern on first Arab patrol and come back.

been Arab prisoner who had They pared

waited He walked, shoulders

hugging the moaning with fright, and was into the large room

Pround, weary. hungry and now talking to him in Arabic, thirsty, and watched. And soon where Shertok received his

came the signal from across the fear. "A course or savage man assuring him he had nothing to visitors, ignored the chair

him, and clamped a stare for of cold anger upon the Jewish

chief. political

he said, "why do so much time truck- ling to your enemies the British and ignoring the proffered help of your friends?"

For

íz

The

not to last We

in

Continuing the story of Britain's strangest hero by LEONARD MOSLEY

surroundings and sharpening his Hebrew with "Sng Hebrew him for an interview. The reply how

mind and his ideas on unend-

coversations with the Jews He was busy

an

instructor

named th whom he came in contact, from The Jews, seeking to end the Zaslan. He did not know that Zaslan (now Israel Minister in

ว

They

most

Loan of coat

imparting the gloomy news to mile walk even these rural Jews ONCE

gang in which several Araba

mandate and build, a national washington) had been attached ained uniform to wear when guard, and Wingate marched in forward alone and reconnoitre" General) Dayan was awakened

1. home for their people, were not slow in seeking hìm out. once realised where his sym- they pathies lay.

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to him by the Jewish Secret Army to keep an eye on him, just in case.

Trouble

as a male spicked himself out

It was the time when the Arab rebellion in Palestine "like

to gather Was just beginning momentum.

fires flickered ominously along the Syrian frontiers. From the Arab Lands were moving in with gangs joada of smuggled guns; «

gurs pledged to preserve the mar- date; guns to wipe out the Jews moving into new settlements.

It was the beginning of a phase in the dat-fooled history of the British mandate over Pales- tine when the shots which killed our soldiers and the attacks which

destroyed our buildings were inspired by the Arabs, led

by

you

set

At which he turned round and walked out

1

Pioneer camp

FEW days later; a message

named Kaukyckling Syrian A from the Jewish Secret

Invitation

Israeli

that

.

Change tactics

TE looked at the groupe of hill and they moved Into post makes a bad soldier" was one settlers and said: "And now tions for attack, according to a of his madms and be tried to I had better tell you why I am plan Wingate had made

here. I have been watching the them. way you Jews have been fight- ing back against the Arabs, and it is no good. You must change is tactics. The trouble

wait for the Arabs to

your that you

AS

come in and kill you. It is no use. We will never win that way. We must go out and meet

- His triumph

for

follow it.

But, when the necessity was there, he did not hesitate to kit or to-punish, As a man who belleved that he was on instru-

ROM the outskirts of the ment of the justice and the

village came a shot and they wrath of knew that Wingate had fired it.

God, there was no

the enemy in the open, near his After which came Arab shots, need for hesitation.

and

lights, and then-straight villages. Carry the battle to

into the trap, he had laid for repeated Dayan. them-came the Arabs. They killed five. They captured four.

Him."

"WE sceptically.

"Yes, WE," said Wingate. "I

could, and set off back.

In trouble

staff

had sin

“And you do not need to con- ceal the fact from him that, he

Army was left for Wingate: be Wingate sent in one of his matchless memos to

General could have the Jewish boys that Wavell. He pointed out how he wanted to accompany hirp am cre of you, in this. I will much more effective a campaign into the Azab territories.

The captured Arabs were WHEN British Army HQ. in

W Not against the furtive enemy could

Jerusalem received Wirgate's teach forced to reveal the whereabouts, long afterwards, he fight with you. I will

I will lead

I will you.

the soldiers arrived at a settlement called you.

the raid on of their arms cache,

on be fought if only the

Wingate report how to save possessed better information. Hanita, Northeast of Haifa. It show you,

your and the Jews went into the Arab stronghold, furious about the Arab methods of in- was a new Jewish settlement settlements and your people."

He went back to Haifa that

village, loaded as much as they officers were beginning to foam filtration.

the at mouth. Wingate He asked permission and was under frequent attacks

evening, and while he was away

cardinal committed the the Arabs of a village to write a report on the in- from cidence, type, and numerical across the frontier, and several the local Hagana, committee had

They crept through the thick against British policy as that a meeting..

had strength of the marauders, men and girls had already been met

They decided that killed,

Wingate was right that they

scrub along the frontier, halting time in Palestine, He

to listen to the taken Jews out into action and He was seen by two veteran must attack the Arts in order frequently

encouraged them to dil Arabs. settlement fighters, Zvi Brenna to defend themselves from them, sounds of Araby in the vicinity He had done it without asiding and Moshe Dayan (now Gerieral They drew up 2 plan.

searching for them

permission. He had not even Next day an Arab who earned

bothered to tell the area com- IT seemed to Wavell's subor Dayan, Chief-of-Staff of the

The Jews were now so thirsty mander

the dinates, who were now both

and though sums from the settlement Jews Army)

that he was in and for spying for them arrived at that they were picking wild district. bored and cuspicious of Wingate, Wingate was vouched for

Hagan, they Hanita. He knew the country pumpkins and tearing them to be a most admirable excuse guaranteed by

side well. The the ling

Hagana had de apart, sucking at their insides "Tell Captain Wingate he is banish him to 10

vere suspicious of him.

cided that, for their arst attack for moisture. But

·cabinets, --- and permission

Wingate crdered to report to me at once, Dayan and Brenna conferred cided was granted. He, on the other hand, together, and it was decided against the Arabs they would showed no sign of distress, And commanded General Wavell.

over

at last they came back.. Brenna should share a march on a village just interpreted it as permission for him to go into the field and look tent with Wingate for the night the frontier in the Lebanon. 20

miles across the valley. But The Jewish column went is for it." over the frontiers between and keep an eye on him.

discovered it Palestine and the Arab countries difficult" said Brenna, "I woke way through the scrub and bed in the settlement. Wingate

was

but triumphantly, to extremnly would they be able to end their wearily,

The Hagana sent a secret for himself.

once and looked for Wingate mase of guat tracks? They He

retired to one

'headquarters: spent some time at Jewish

of the huts, message to its decided to detain the Arab spy, I found he had gone. settlements named Tirat Zui and Alkim

the and then force him, when even where he stripped off all his "Hayedid is in trouble ота the

'everywhere. edge of the searched

raided the the British." Syrian frontier at the southern latrines, kitchens, the peri- ing came, to lead them to their clothes. He had

kitchens for onions, These he Hayedid was Hagana's code- tip of Galilee; and perhaps be meter, but he had vanished. I target.

chowed raw as, naked, he wrote word for a tough girl settler on searched for over an hour, and

Wingate, It guard gave him a cold welcome then went back to the tent.

out a report of the night's work. Hebrew for The Friend. with a rife when he tried again; and there he was, fast

WORLD COPYRIGHT theirWingate begged to report that an unorthodox entrance over asleep, pretending to be last THEY bad settled on

method plan when Wingate walked his

of initration the settlement wall, his busy mind suddenly stopped its in-

was into the camp. He was furious against the raiders had proved in a small-scale decisive buzzing and swooped rather like a pioneer camp of when he discovered they had so successful

in wagons parked

planned to operate without him, experiment that he decided These Jews in the settlement hostile Indian country, Beyond When told about that Arab he to continue on a larger scale...

No campaign-conditioned its conines death lurked.

shouted: "Bring this man to

He handed the report to people. They knew the ground far better than any Brith out a guard soldier. They had much more

And, now, Mocke Shoreti, and Wingate questioned him first British military reason to destroy the Arabs,- Prime Minister of Israel,:-

in rider he saw, brushed his dusty closely for a few minutes

By Lee Fall and Phil Davis

cause

down on an idea.

were

3

and

Hanita after darkness

covered

Questioning

one was allowed to, leave with me. brought the man out Jewish settler to give to the

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

| BUT--I DON'

WANT YOU

30 LEAVE.

SOARY, WE MUST. ALEENA IT'S BEEN GOOD TO SEE YOU

AGAIN** GOODBYE-

COMEON LOTHAR~~LET'S GET-IN THAT ELEVATOR--AND GET OUT- .OF HERE.

NO! I SAID --YOU ARE NOT TO LEAVE!

despatch

-AND A WALL OF FLAME SEEMS

TO SPRING UP BEFORE THEM.

NEXT WEEK:

'Ban him from

Palestine"

with

EVEN

MAGICIANS

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