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First

Again

-one could see

URING the

I had War

invaded WELS 211 Observer "Seventeen Platoon First Again"

scribbled chalker, painted, Officer writing battle unscribed on walls. derellet

unexploderi bomba

of

stories for the transport, Ministry of Information. I aud tree trunks, added the addresses of the

Yet men

Seventeen men involved so that the platoon. when questioned, stories could be forwarded dented seeing chalk

or print to the newspaper locally in- handled by anyone, terested.

ex-

he

Some of the finest ploits went unrecorded Cause we were under censor- ship if the soldier was in line for at decoration. By

time the

one could reveal the action the details had been overluia. But there is one incident which remains vividly with me. It took place in Southern Italy

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concerned the men of an in- 1 had it funtry battalion.

In instalments, the last part in a nightmare at a base hospital.

·

No опе believed them.

of Course .. There was the time when Fourteen Platoon Hawkins and Roberts' platoon had been ordered to occupy the Nicolino distillery.

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They had taken it without Oght,

but upon

entering the

DID

IT HAPPEN?

?

"The lance-corporat abruptly and drew

breath."

stoppes thia

FACT or FICTION? All the

tales in this series could be true. But are they? The answer to this story will be published

tomorrow.

right," sold the private. "Jerry's pulled out."

premises in search

of their no- "I was ward they had found each The attack had gone in alcove empty and where the and two men from the lead- liquor barrels should have been were several neat notices read- ing section, Lance-corporaling, "Seventeen Platoon First

Hawkins and

German dead lay as close as one yard from the British parapets, and German wounded, prostrate beside their lifeles comrades, called out; "Take us prisoner, Tommy. Don't shoot." But the platoon was now officer and eight men and in a most unmerciful mood.

After 30 black minutes, the enemy came back for the third time.

At Company HQ, 100 yards away, the company commander heard some sporadic Bring and then the leaden silence of thự battlefeld, the allence in which une may hear a drop of blood fall.

Separated

The young offleer, his batman, and a corporal were taken 06 prisoners to

a dug-out in д shallow valley, and here the officer was separated from the platoon's survivors,

A German major put several questions to the lieutenant without obtaining DRY effect other than the loss of his own temper

Then the officer was sent to the regimental head- Glovanni for quarters In San detalled questioning In the belief that any Englishman so obstinate must necessarily have Information of

importance to concent As the truck, crawling "Yes. That bombing of the village just before we started along at five miles an hour, along the cratered road to San out must have decided

him.

Glovanni, approached the out- With his head still down Haw-

kying houses the RAF How kins spoke with his normal everhead and flattened the town

Arst time: "'il centre. cm it's clear of mincs so far?" bot I could walk there standing

goin' back to tell voice for the demanded Roberts Impatiently. up, warm my hands at the bon- fire and then chalk one up for "Walt 12 mintate!" Hawkins Fourteen Platoon at leisure fumbled in his ammunition

he stopped Abruptly pouch and brought

out a tiny drew in his breath.

Private Again!" Roberts, dropped into the ditch and lay face down the mud.

in

"I never knew 50 yards was so far!" said Roberta.

"Shut up!"

"What's the matter? Jerry's not near. If 'e was we wouldn't 'ave crossed that open strip of ground and be in this ditch."

up."

repeated

"Shut Hawkina, raising himself and peering over the ditch bank. One hundred yards first away the wall of the house in San Giovanni glow- ed orange and crimson, re- flecting light from a German truck on fire in the centre of the rond.

A beating

Hawkins contemplated the outskirts of San Giovanni and his mind threaded back through the experiences of the previous

"Are we

by

Colin

Morris

POLIN MORRIS wrote and starred

la Reluctant Harnes Ohiaver Office he was himself at El Alamein with the Eighth Army, and at Syracuse he captured 736 ermed. Italiana single-banded In 1943, During the talian campaign he bristly met a Yugoiler coboref singer called Viero, and after the war he returned and married her. They live in Highgate.

piece of chalk. "This time I'm going to make sure."

"What 'yer think of doin'?" The Iance-corporal stared at the reflection of the flames the white wall.

On

and

"What's the matter? Jerry?" Roberts's tommy-gun poked menacingly over the top of the ditch

"Look. The wall"

One misalmed bomb fell near escort and the truck, killed

the young driver, and hurled officer, bleeding and lacerated, against the side of the first house.

When he recovered conscious- ness he saw the German truck turning furiously. For a while he listened to the rain hissing as it fell on the hot metal. He touched the wall at his elbow. The private stared beyond At first he felt no pain and then the German truck, nearly said it came in drowning tides, something, changed his mind, terrible reminders of what had and swallowed hard. Written taken place.

10

large chalked charactera

neross the lower part of the wall, above a small black heap on the ground, were the familiar and hated words;

"Seventeen Again!"

Platoon

Like fiends

•

Thirty minutes

him

The memories gavo First energy, He felt in his pocket for the piece of chalk always carried as a precaution against being separated from his hat- man who carried the small tin of paint.

Some twelve hours before Hawkins and Roberts's reco patrol, the bayonet charge made by Seventeen Platoon had been successful in occupying the hill erest overlooking San Giovanni, Wins Hou With phemous yells

a

With his remaining strength

pulled he

into himself kneeling position, digging his naila into the plaster crevices of

"I'm going to write 'Fourteen cum tradtining, vile and blar. the wall. It took him thirty

on

as

swamped

minutes to fulfil his intention,

ZORIC DRY CLEANING platoon's point of view. He far as the next diten, and give the conventional battalion battle but before he slipped down to

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day. He considered the battle Platoon Took This Village' for the village from his that wall. Come with mo

hardly knew what had hap- covering fire." pened to the rest of the com- pany, except that Seventeen Platoon had taken a beating, almost everyone killed or gone in the bag.

man

eries, Seventeen Platoon amauit ed the hill

all and apiked the Ger "Jick, favo

defenders out you go crazy?

of their You aren't starting to shoot a trenches like winkles from a line:like Seventeen are yer?"" shell, Then the 21-year-old platoon officer and his three aren't sections had dug in to await the

Inevitable counter-attack,

"Are you coming or You?" "This is one village Seven-,

"Course I'm coming, binst teen won't be able to wank

yer" about," he muttered. "They · won't chalk up

With Roberts following, Haw- Platoon First Again in San kins crawled over the field stab-clopes, screaming like funds,

bing tho

ground with Giovanni."

'Seventeen

hig

They walted one hour before the officer counted upwards of sixty Germans running up the Bring Spandaus and Schmeis acre. With Brens, tommies and bayonet in search of mines.ne

rides the platoon halted the After a few minutes they were counter-attack, smashed I mad 20 yards away from a deep drove the survivors back to fended by brilliantly illuminat- ditch whoso sanotuary was do their start line. Another hour ed opon ground.

passed and the enemy returned halting their way almost to the Upe of the British trenches.

With grenade and bayonet, roso, ran alooping, jumped, and pressed themselves and a single Bren which como Lining the advance through in the soggy trough,, panting, back into action, the enemy

Inter-platoon rivalry in the baitalion was strong, and it had boen Intensified by the my Lerious but thorough self- publicity with which Soventeen bad recordext thelrachlevo- mente during the past monthe

four

"OK: Both together!"

They

listening and waiting."

but Southern Italy ---- even upori the Colibrion'rocka where they

were hurled from the trenches and again driven back down thủ slopes.

the ground he had written;

"Seventeen

Platoon First Again!"

It was at the foot of the well, lying in a black-rimmed pool, that the officer, was found one hour later by a lanco-cutparal of Fourteen a private and Platoon. He was still breath- ing, but of no further use to the Infantry...

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DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES NO

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byterday's story-Partratt *pan ("The ameyrar "le's TEK

A STORY ΤΟ MAKE EVERY BRITON PROUD

THE

THE London Gazette the other day announced the award of the

Military Cros to Captain Rupert Ian Field and the Distinguished Con- duct

Medal to Warrant-

selves as terrorials to break the gangs. Newspapers had pledged not to reveal there operations. Frub Now a little

of this attring story can be told. Officer Jolin Austin Millar For instance, of how Loung

and let out the biggest secret of the Kenya war against Mau Mau For these two men, using rags- and-panga instand of cloak- and-dagger, disguised them-

men of British regiments or the local Kenya Royiment ro out disguise, This is how they do it, told by a reporter who has followed the Mau Mau Watc

from BRIAN PARKES

Nairobi. Do not dive for cover, Stand up TOU atart at

so the troops can see you. the

No, they do not know who you chemist's shop, buying

arc. But that is a chance an aticlus of black dye. undercover man has to take. But be careful. Do not They are closing in. The bayo

nets glitter. wear uniform. The shop- girl could be a spy. Then you got yourself n golliwog wig and a full-length mirror and start turning yourself bluck.

a

But be careful. One man found, in the middle of a Mau Mau ceremony, that he had left a patch of pink. So follow the advice of Lieut.- Colonel Guy Campbell of the Kenya Regiment

and get friend to do the dyeing. Literally from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. No need ty worry about your thin mouth or beaky nose. Many Kikuyu have European- type faces

You won! the right clothes, Here is a dead terrorist, His rogs will do nicely.

on.

THE GANG

Don't be squeamish. Put them

And now off to and a gang.

But be carefid. Make sure Your Kikuri speech is per- fect. But perfect.

So now you are in. They are a wild and undisclp- lined gang-cave-men level. Or are they? That tall, young man with the scarred face is faintly familiar. Could he be an undercover man too? You will not find out. Not in

the bushi, anyway.

The panga chopping-knife

IF

your trade mark. It will also be the gemilest form of death you will meet if you make a mistake. You can manage to live all right on a few mouthfuls of maize gruel and stringy goat's meal. You are used to the hot sun on your back.

Tour

But be careful. After wear- ing boots all your life, are hard fcet really

the thorn? Limp on. Don't show any discomfort.

enough

for

THE OATH

core-

You have heard the atorics

about the oath-taking monics. Now the real thing. You remember how the detalls were so bestial they could not be printed. But you are tough, 01 and you have seen a lot war.

But

But be careful, You will need your nerve here

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never before. The real thing

is more frightful than you can imagine.

You are

you get through. tougher than you thought. You are now accepted in the gang.

Here is trouble. An ambush.

White soldiers. Gunfire,

Here

Put your hands up and quick- ly. There is a limit to your uct. And now you дте

prisoner. Some of the gang are lying dead or wounded. Some are rounded up with you.

But be careful. Say nothing -until

brought you are in alone at the local com- mand-port for questioning.

THE END

Relax, now, You can talk,

have to talk.

You

They do not believe you. You

will need a long scrub before they do, A lot of questions, Phone calls. More questions. But at last the colonel at head-

quarters admits he knows you You can go home and have that

long drink you dreamed of that first The luxury of cigarette. That bath, and that shave.

And perhaps there is

wafting at the club dance. it's all over.

time.

The next time.

girl

Until the next:

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That

why, even after the London Kenya's Gazette's disclosure, undercover men 20112 rob telk "Don't forget," one of "it'a my necle them said, I'm sticking out." And why an officer said: "We are terribly embarrassed bil the disclosure. There is con- sternation at headquarters."

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