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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1955.

Half-forgotten Heroes (No

2) By

2) By Dudley Pope

TITO BEATS THE KNIGHT'S MOVE

N the spring of 1944 the tide of World War II had turned, but some of the bitterest fighting The yot to come. Allies, battling to the out- skirts of Rome, had, toppled Mussolini's vicious empire: the Germans were retreating through the mud, blood and snow of Russia, and Tito's Partisans weru fighting desperately in Yugoslavia.

WAH

And Adolf Hitler was ex-

Here fremely angry. this "bandit" Tito pinning down between 15 and 20 German divisions-men and armour the Fuehrer badly wanted to plug the gaps on his sprawling Eastern front.

So be personality gavo order that Tito was liqukinted.

Heinrich

to

the be

Himmler, the Gestapo boso, personally passed on the order to Colonel-General Rendulic commanding the 2nd Anny, With It went, a second order for yet another all-out offensive against the Partisans, This was to be the seventh.

othera

The abortive.

bal

]] been

NAZI PLANS

Renduli Operation

began to plan "Rosselsprung" (the knight's move in chess), in which Tilo und ls staff were lo be trapped und teilled or cap

ture; and Operation "Thunder- offensive

bolt," the seventh uginst the Partisans.,

Even Hitler had no lu- sions; "He is our enemy, but I wish we had a dozen Titos in Germany,

who men

were

Icaders and had such great resolution and good nerves that though they were constantly Cercled they would never give in.

Tito was with, without

a name to conjure Hitler, From the time

declaring war, BUTTÉ his bornbers to razo Bel-

Quality

need not be expensive

Gorman paratroopers leap into action

grade, Tito had organised his ther, was charged with assault Partisans and kept, fighting the ing Tito's hide-out when it was Germans among the mountains discovered. and snow, with little or F warm clothing, in below zero temperatures, Lew weapons which cost lives to capture, no medicul

or surgical supplies, food and

obtained ASI they moved over the countryside.

Their strength had been Tito's methods: they came in out of the trees and over the hills, attacked suddenly, killed,

in

smashed and then vanished. They never stayed long enough to let the Germans besiege them.

BRITISH AID

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British Mission to a house out- side Drvar.

Two days passed. Then, just, May after dawn on May 25, Partisan quards gave the cry of "Avioni.", " Tito, now 12 years and a few hours old, was In his cave with Edvard Kardelj (now Vice Premier of Yugoslavia), Ivan Milutinovic, another member of the Yugoslav Politburo, and a young Slovene called Vlado,

The thunder of their engines reverberated through tho valley. Within а matter of seconds bombs screamed downl on the village,

•

Partisan Leader Tifo:

tars. Tito's men had only rifles and little ammunition. The prob- here is Tite hiding?" Sudden- Iem for Rike was aireply

ly the cave was spotted, with the crashed glider outside it. Group Panther, the 110 briefed for the assault, turned

men

the ground near the entrance into an inferno of marter fire,

TRAPPED

The smoke was still billowing upwards when more planes approached. This, thought the TTO knew he was trapped.

TITO Partisans, is going to be quite a Yet if he died-ho would raid.

But no bombs never allow himself to be cop dropped

from

the triple- tured-the Partisan organisa- engined Ju 82's; instead para- tion might well be smashed And chutes footed down. Attached with another 12 divisions freed to them were Captain Pipke and Hitler might have been able to his men of the 500.h S.S. alter the course of the war. Battalion.

Vlado volunteered to try to

As the first of the S.S. cast escape from the mouth of the off their parachute bernesses, cave. Tito and Kardel) watched Partisana tried to pin them down the young Slovene creep to the with rifle fire. But more planes mouth of tho cave and then that on the 28th they would were flying down the valley and dari mynd the corner. A burst either still be drunk or immo- the Mountain Corpo men were of machine-gun firo caught him

and he crumbled up and foll bilised with Partisan-sized hang- arriving overland.

OVCIA.

the Alles Partisans.

A CRASH

Military ITO was watching the action Brigadier PITO

from the mouth of his cave.

com-

them For

Soberly, Tito weighed up their chances. The 5.8. men would obviously try to enter the cave within a matter of minutes. Suddenly one of them shouted "The stream!"

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Tibo

that remembered dried now

up. ran stream, few through the cave and beneath did it come

The 100th 8.S. Battalion was

By this time, a tough one, composed of men

trial awaiting

for

the various were helping offences.

British It was given all the Heading the dangerous insks. If it was suc-

Mission to Tito was cessful, then the men's be Fitzroy Maclean, the vital' link haviour helped them when they between, but while the Germans Suddenly he and the men with came to be tried, If they were were planning "Rosscisprung" him saw a glider turn and head still alive.

ho had flown to London with towards Vladimir Velebit, one of Tito's seconds it seemed it would hit the hut. Where

them, but at the last minute it from? staff, to ace Mr Churchill,

crashed a few yards short of Maclean's second

the entrance to the cave.

Smashing a plank with a ride butt, Tita, Kardelj and Milutino mand, Major Vivian Street, was

The Partisans covered it with vie ripped up the floorboard and at Divar, in charge of the Mis-

their rifles and waited: but no peared down; yes, theno was the slon while Maclean was away.

crawled Germans

from the bed of the stream. The Partisans were expecting wreckage. They ran over to find

Milutinovic climbed down first, offensive, and were that, all the 8.8. men had been alerted

enemy recon- killed more than

of followed by Kardelj and then by an

A score

scrambled towards maissance plane on May 23.

them. Had the pilot made a good Trio. They landing Tito and his party would the inside of the cave, led by Milutinovic, who called back: up have been trapped,

It's getting narrower!” without Boverul In the valley Captain Ripke

Soon they were crawling along taking and his 609th S.8. Battalion were

THE rest of the "Rosselsprung" THE

15h plan concerned the Mountain Army Corps and parts A ON the 7th 6.5, (Mountain)

Division, which were to advance

Drvor overland.

Tito's

staff were In the Bosnian village of Drvar, well

Drvar WELK in dispensed. valley, and near the top of one

a large which had a wooden hut built into its entrance, Tito himacil was living in this cavo,

of its sides was

S

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to

Was

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new

The machine

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Only one thing remained be decided what date D-Day to be? Someone had a and down the valley Rendulic planned to drup 340 bright idea Tlto's birthday doing anything hostile.

was known to be May (his people guessed it was men of the 500th S.S. (Para- troop) Battalion into the valley 52nd) so he and his stall would photographs. Major Street went decimating the Partisans; the on all fours, banging their heads in six separate groups; one of probably celebrato tha night to Tito's cave and told the Mar- Germans had plenty of ammuni- on what them, code-named

before Group Pan-

with plum

was moving the tion, sub-machine guns and mor- the cave. brandy so shal that he

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which been followed with unabated from public view. Historians village Scrooby, Nottingham-

they Interest from its

Eventually initial say there is evidence that she shire. stages by America l was broken up in the Thames obliged to flee to Leyden, in Inbour that will enable the in 1824. There is general be- Holland. There they established ller that the pillars of the Con- a settlement and a church under their beloved pastor, John good ship Mayflower to sail gregational Church at Bingdon,

Robinson, again.

Berkshire, and part of the roof, came from its timbers, the first being the masts.

This replica of the Pilgrim Mayflower, being bullt mostly from locally grown cak, will in 1936 sall to the United States with a crow of 21 and

goodwill voyage passengers in a

be along the eastern seaboard fore being handed over to the

Foundation Plymouth

She will repeat over the same stormy seca possibly enduring the sama

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perty.

was

now the roof of

A low yards farther

on they could hardly move.

An excited Milutinovic called "There's a hole here!”

and

It was like a chimney had been worn by the stream. High above them at the top of the hole they could see daylight. And the hole was just wide for man. So they Embed up

almost exhausted. Milutinovic, Da B001 IN be it so happened that he him- reached the top, looked-cau-

tiously

round they were self was the first to die, and a

And there writer of the time recorded: "It the plateau. pleased God, before they came no Germans in sight. half sens over, to smite this young man with a greeyoua dine, of which he died in a

and desperate, manner, himself ye first that WILS town overboard."

The congregation grew from one hundred to three hundred. They found freedom, but yearned The Mayflower Barn, the 300 for a real home. The Nether year-old, Quaker relle near the lands people, language, customs Friends Meeting House, Jordans, and way of life, were strange to bad, Buckinghamshire, is also reputed them, and working in an indus to have been built with some of trial and commercial community the original timbers.

did not come clay to these Eng- lish yearmen of the land.

A Triumph

It was important to them, too, hat their children should not

English forget

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UICKLY Tito and Kardelj climbed out, after him and Worse weather could bardly the three ran to a plum’orchard have been encountered than a few hundreds yards away. befell this voyage, It was so It was the only shelter and they

on some days that the found more partisans there....... Mayflower could not carry a

Tito then led kila small group of will. One sudden to some woods. Forming stitch

up storm caused the main beam to

survivors, be moved

AWAY crack, and every man had to rapidly to another part of the work desperately to repair it.'

country ta' reorganisc MICR wallo

the Germans, undar Ripko, still scarched the valley after finding the cave emply. But Operation "Rosselsprung had falled. On a paticularly storing day

Nevertheless Tito Becided one of the passengers, John

that It was impossible to handle. Howland, was blown off the

All over Partisan operationa wave-swept deck. He managed to selza a rope' attached to the

country while on the run,

Just as the Victory was the

topet owland was rescued in Vlivit hendre la party

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endured' hazardous, hauled to safely. annals of the Royal Navy, so triumph for British seamanship who

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