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THE FIVE

was early September, 1945, and I was a war correspondent in Malaya. Being a war correspondent sounds glamorous, but actually it is just London paper,

like being a reporter on a with one great difference,

In London, even in the middle of the worst air raids, there was always a tele- phone available somewhere near by.

In the Far East then, the best story in the world was useless, if you chased it out of range of the existing cable facilities. So for the first few days of the British re- occupation I was in Singapore, with most war corres- of the news and all the other pondents...42 of them from

all over the world.

i was the youngest, the most

the experienced, and

only woman as well.

n

Romantic novelists would see superb advantages in such

In fact there were situation. none at all. I was up against skilled experts who had com- bined keeping themselves alive and well, while reporting wars. ever since the one in Spain. So the chances of my getting any- thing in the nature of a "beat" were almost nil.

But ever hopeful. I spent the first days on the docks talking and listening to the seriously PoWs who were being sent nome to England; or to hospital

by In India

the Amarapoera, the first hospital ship to arrive and the first one to leave.

Dawn-to-dusk

.

2. ADOLPH

SPRECKELS

1. LOIS

DE RUYTER

2.GERALDINE

SPRECKELS

3. BARONESS YON ROMBERS

4.JUDITH POWELL

what it looks like?

LARK GABLE must be, when you have five sets of in- four ex-wives, a half- related to almost laws, everyone in Hollywood dozen or so of your wives other husbands, and heaven knows by now. Last month his, how many stop-children to tangled family tree got caler for. tangled up even further I like to think of a gather with his fifth marriage. ing of the Gable family clan

Nover has a strong silent of a mile-long table.

with Grandpa Gable at the head There more would be Douglas Fairbanks his there, and Mary Pickford and

man of films thoroughly proved strength.

William Powell; a princo and a -lord, and a couple of million-

Look at his mother-in-law aires, situation for a start, Gleefully he has taken on Ave where one is traditionally more than enough for most men.

That's not all. For Gable picks the marrying kind, and most of his wives have three or four sets of in-laws to bring to the family on their own ac- count.

a "

ONSIDER hla immediate

family circles. Scarcely week can go by, without birthday in the family, or wedding anniversary, a honey- moon, a break-up, a reconcilia- tion or a divorce to remember, Poor old Clark. Imagine what Christmas shopping must

be

LIKE to think of the Gable family snapshot album-13 volumes of them, I dare say. "There's me on honeymoon

there's me with Joe honeymoon

with Sylvin... there's me on honeymoon with Kay" (right now).

DEL

ITB

ho

Poor chap. The odda that wherever ho gues will bump into some fellow who was once the husband of one of his wives, or some woman who is married to a man whose ex- wife was once married to Clark. He must find it harder than most men to get away from the family.

GARDENIAS

Did it Happen?

It was the morning of the day whom the fourth gardonis blossomed that the lame Scotsman Emped into the story. But did this actually happen?

Tomorrow the answer will be published.

by-

Diana

Greenly

DIANA GREENLY was the first British girl to land in Malaya after the Japanese occupation. As Gwar correspondent she flew 31,000 miles in fire months, sending home reports of the Borneo Death March and other big news stories. After four years "menogima the Press offairs of three famous London

hotels, the now works as a free- lance from het horne i Windie- shorn in Surr, who she also hai a husband and three young children to keep her busy,

Encouraged by this, I asked: "Who are you waiting here for?" got a sharp rebuff. The and Scotsman shrugged his shoulders and limped away, leaving the ittle bell ringing wildly in my cars and the scent of the gar- denlos almost sickly in the humid heat that was beating on the airfield.

Prison camp

IN

a voice sa carefully controlled that it was terrifying, he salt. "Picase give me my baby."

into the

to the child before putting it was several miles long and there Later that afternoon one of in his arms. Tears can down were hundreds of houses off it. the Red Cross girls asked me her

cheeks, but she made no Sister saw my face foll.. "We

But when I reached the bush "How did you get on with Gary sound; meither did she speak. didn't keep a record of the name Сооретен and explained that They stood still for a moment as they didn't stay," she said, I saw that the lorry had cut the the Red Cross team called the with the chlid between them... "but if you were thinking of corner too sharply and its tall- Scotsman that. She told me he both looking at its ince. Then writing about the baby in your board had smashed had been at Kallang for three they moved slowly towards the paper I wouldn't, dear it centre of the bush, breaking it days, looking for his wife and ambulance.

won't live very long, I'm afraid." in half. two children who had been in a

The

petals of prison camp in Java. Then she eyes were looking into the dis- looked at me and fance, not at my flowers, and there wig on silence

I realised with a jerk that

I suppose I'd known it all gardenias

thee

tour

Lay brown

end

embarrassed ally too frightful; the "It's they were going and once gone along, but my mind did not want crushed on the ground, and the

before he sald,

a slight Scottish accent.

won't

"Oh, His children were drown i'd never find them again.

folder

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

to believe it. "Can't you do fifth bud drooped unopened come because they are all

Scotsman and anything, Sister?" I asked. "Not at the end of its broken branch. I ran to the

with en advanced case like that,"

WORLD COPYRIGHT KESERVED ́ hallo," with raised eyebrows and the boat they

in were was said, with tears in my own eyes: combed by the Japs on the way "Can you...would you show she answered.

died me what you had in your hand

I swung into the jeep and When the hospital ship sailed

I saw on extremely good-look-to Australia, and his wife

Without a word The just now?" later in a prison camp.

Singa- I transferred my dawn-to-dusk ing man, with thick curly hair; RAPWI people have checked it le producx amaretoured pore and through the gates of

small drove furiously activities to Kallang airfield, once block, now grey, and violet returning to press HQ in Cathay eyes under dark eurling eye- all up, and he has been told, but miniature of a child in his arms, Kallang. building every evening to put my ashes. His left leg was twisted he doesn't believe it. One of

he was She wint doctors thought

wearing the same stuff on the wire.

and crippled with a great jagged our sear that ran from knee to ankle queer... thought his mind was locket, though it was tied with Both places were a seething and it was amazing that he affected. What did you think? blue ribbon in the picture.

could walk on it at all. He you had quite a chat."

I did not get it. I thought scent of the flowers that hot. could have been any age from 30

morning was more de- The roar of two landing air- that the heat, the mosquitoes, damp to 50.

the lack of sleep and the awful leately perfect than ever,, I felt craft drowned my reply.

things I'd been seeing had certain that the fifth and fast

I flower had bloomed. caught up with me at last. pushed my mind to work it out.

nightmare of human misery The stories I heard were so harrowing and the details so ghastly that I could write nothing about them,

It was just after I had been told the story of a family of five. -mother and four children, aged one to 12 years--who had been murdered by the Jans that I found the Five Gardening.

Under dark green leaves 1 found one pure white flower full out, one bud opening and three other buds tightly closed. The flowers grew by the main airfield gate, and every morning I parked my jeep by them and went to Inspect the buds before doing anything else. For some reason this seemed to help me do my job with slightly

more detached approach.

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One aeroplane was a Dak from Sumatra and the last passenger

to leave the aircraft was an elderly, gaunt-looking English- woman who was carrying a tiny flaxen-haired child.

As I watched them I saw the

The miniature

The man had been a FoW for

The scent of the gardenias was heavenly and the little warning bell that means "story" 10 a reporter shrilled sharply in my mind as I said "Halle" rather sheepishly, So after a word of explanation about the flowers which I showed him. I began to ask questions casually lame Sooleman move over to us, at least three years in Malaya. and gently.

The woman was toll, plain and His wife and two children were angular,

her grey hair dead. Thy child had been a whisped around her face in the PoW in Java for certainly 2% dampness, The child, which years, perhaps more. There was must have been about 2% had no known communication be

the two countries. What was his name? I got an aged expression of exhausted tween no reply.

patience and wisdom on a tiny how could he have that minia- pinched face. Her body was ture of the child at her presont Was be from Scotland? Yes, wasted, her arms and legs like go? Whereabouts? North ot sticks were covered with run-

ning sores.

Sharp rebuff

Inverness.

The Argylla? (They had fought that the fourth one bloomed that a rearguard action in Malaya

It was the morning of the day

met the lame@cotsman, I saw and

him first standing in the shade

many

had been taken

the Scotsm

But prisoner.)

and

Jame

So

There was an enormous RAF truck in my usual parking place

by the gardenia bush, and the

.

Put your tick in the space above and Keep this ponet by you until tomorrow when the ontwer will be alren-with another story in this series by ...

Noel Streatfield

⚫ Did yesterday's story. But 29 In Each Seap Veur. by Xan Fielding— , ictalle happen? The answer is ↑ RO..

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Worn face

She wore a faded blue cat there when she left developed as a pilotless roc-

The

ton

eyes

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A desired space-rocket Scientists believe that It For the second time that day the Scotsman anticipated my dreds of miles above the robot "brain" which can navi- question. This," he said, hold-earth is to be built for the us an expert seaman on a ship's gate by the stars as accurately ing the miniature against the child's face, is my wife at the Government. It is being bridge,

rocket's

flight path mapped out.

according to the coming... was a baby

ket for defence, of the main building. One was not one of them..

positions of certain stars, would eyes looked Into .shift and had a strange The violet

But

it is also Britain's first be fed Into the "brain" before glance at his torn faded shirt,

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serious fathered khaki drill shorts,..his

step towards the Jeffaunching.

. Hawko world of space-ship thinness and grey-faced exhaus- for the Uttle bell which was still her rock with string. Her life sudden understanding. And then

Telescopes peering from the travel which one day may rocket like the expressionless Hon, marked him as en ex-PoW most persistent I might have lessness and the grey-yellow of they all got into the ambulance,

I tried asking which her little taco told evon my un- suffering

What hospital? I called to the land men on the moon.

of Jest Hawke's from acute malaria, given up.

cyca of one Astronomers that she was driver, As I made a note of it,

and mathe Marlien men would remain There were thousands of men cump was he from

on the selected stare like that in

Singapore and I answered "Kranjl," hardly gave him a second glance.

Croes girls, her face gentle with As I knew this to be a hospital pity, moved forward to guide the minutes had passed since the moth the study of the throughout the minile's flight,

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