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"WHY DON'T THEY ASK ME WHAT RUSSIA THINKS ?'

Werte Capitok: by arrangement utin the Manchester Gvardio

Desert War Over

Water, Oil ·

Harem

And

B

By

DAVID BURK

Girls

THE SEA-WOLF WAITS

FOR HIS NAVY

★ Herr Otto Kretschmer, a U-boat legend of the war, denies all knowledge of a German navy.

But there is no doubt

that his voice will be giving the orders when Germany gets the green light ...

By KENNETH ALLSOP

T tie his U-boat sank Inspector-general to the Navy.

howover,

convoys as an RNVR

OffECT.

On the evidence of these free hand-outs for the men he had just entered

blowing up, A legend has been nurtured that Kretschmer was a "bumane" and "ethical" militarist, Mr Robert son's plain and factual account does not altogether endorse this Bentiment.

THE Wolf of the Atlan- that he already has the title of Atlantic

"How could that be," he naivert 850,000 tons of Allied me with amazement, when we war- have no navy?” shipping in the

What Germany does have, celebrated his day-trip to

a thriving body London by sinking several entitled the Germin Navy Scotch and sodas in the

Lague, the president of which Savoy.

is Captain Kretschmer.

READY-MADE

well-drilled educational comps of ex-caroor sailors has a

This

turve

boen

What Kretschmer certainly had was that uncomplicated emo tonal attitude, invaluable to the Aghter, which

enables him to ignore the major

For Otto Kretschmer, Hitler's top submarine neo, it was a frivolous break in his serious, and shadowy, membership of 70,000 through professional business back in the Father out Germany. It would seem to

bo happily suited for swift monstrosiiles of war and cherish A sort of inner-circle chivalry. land, which has him com- muting zetween Bonn (seat on into ready-made navy Yel Kretschmer does not conceal

red staff. and of power in Western Ger-

Such subtle political matters treated the enemy considerately, that he theory was that if ho

his many) and

home-

lightly passed ovoz

There was an even chance that Kretschmer

and his when the pay-off inevitably camo town of Kiel (rich in dock while

to burgeon yards ready

drank cocktails and dined with him considerately. statucaque blonde doctor wife

for him, the enemy would treat new crop of war-boats).

the

For this was a ex-enemy.

So it was. When U-19 WILE occasion, designed

submission FAMILIAR

foster business and sponsor sales depth-charged into

the destroyer Walker, describing by new book* Kretschmer's brilliantly success- Kretschmer and his crew ful career as a killer of Brit hauled aboard and treated with

Royal Navy correctitudo. boats.

a

Kretschmer's personality is not one to warm the cockles of your heart. The rumour that he hoa two gloss eyes is unfounded but pardonable. To talk with, he in polite, correct decorous now a house-trained wolf.

Sun

and

social

of

to

were

From the time his lean, black

PERSONAL PRIZE U-99 with the golden horseshgo Insignia on the conning-tower

"Thank you for picking up my Bild westward on October 1, men," said Kretschmer to Com- 1939, until his capture in March mander Donald Macintyre. "That 1941, he remorselessly and tar- was good of you. I should like ribly savaged our convoys.

It was also Kretschmer

con-

who

1

tions," dispensed the bizarre sapacity of The mannerly and gracious re- continued after cigarettes, brandy and bandages the lapse of 14 yours when, dur

elationship was to boat-loads of survivors. It

in ing the literary junketing was this eccentricity among Ger- mao U-boat commanders that

back the binoculars he from bis attracted the attention of Mr

Inscription:

La Commander Macintyre

Neverthelem, this dark, dolorous face beneath done

to say, however, how much It was Kretschmer who per negret not having had any tor- head is going to become increas– ingly familiar in the nearing fected the technique of night pedoes with which to attack you. future.

For it is certain as the surface-raiding Inside, a

As it is, my sincere congratula- that shines again upon voys. Germany that when the green light signals the Baltic shipyards to go to it and rebuild a navy, Kretschmer's voice

voloe will be heard Britain to Joud and commanding. area, pleaded with be allowed to throw him out. Behind the smoke of a black

Alarmed, the Foreign Office cigar, and 800 miles uniform sent a consul tearing up to the mothballest

Oakleaves to the shouting tribesmen

urge heavy with caution and negotiation.

Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross, scorned statements Sheik Abbu Dabhi, a staunch,he bandily eccentric friend of Britain who looks like Charles I, and Sullen

Muscat agreed unenthusiastically while Saudi- Arablan agents crept forward, loom bribes in hand.

Burulmi Oasis, spotter aircraft RITISH troops are circling standing by at Shar- Jah Creek, 75 miles from Buraimi, on the oil rich Persian Gulf. They are there in case Saudi-Arablan

of the RAF reported overherd, white flags on the roof tops.

Captured were three Muscat shriks "bought by the Saudis,"

few unidentified Saudi my- stery men, and a treasury chest of secret documents and

money

paratroops drop on the £60,000 bribe

A

Oasis, captured from Saudi police garrison by British-led

and Muscat Oman levies.

rupees.

But

events bigger behind this quick action,

in

For decidies Ü war over

And they await ony move from Jeddab, King Ibn Saud's water, oll, and harem girls has

of

to

tho

squeeze

The agents wanted out the British and be in Buralmi if end when the great sea of all was discovered. They offered £80,000,000, in gold and gems, to gay, bearded Sheik Zaid. Irother of Sheik Abu

been blowing hot and cold along capital, where there is a fleet

the sweltering

of Coast

the o 34 airplanes capable of

Gull, where British- bringing troops and

muteriai Persian

of protected states adjoin Saudi- Dabhi Bcross the thousand miles Arabian desert

Arabia

First halt

East

But what caused 40-year-old Licut-Colonel Eric Johnston and his two-year-old levy force to

In 1810 the British Navy move against the Saudi-Arabian police

had who

Invaded pacified the gulf after India men, and Buraimi?

Royal Navy frigate, had been overwhelmed by ferce, scimitar sloshing pirates.

2 once even

This offer was last made in August, at moonlit desert beside a bleached rendezvous camel skull, by an agent of King Saud of Arabia.

hanging Robertson, then himself on the had taken as his personal prize,

now bearing the *The Golden Horseshoe. By Terence "Returned to Otto Kretschmer.

A gallant fo0,"

Robertson

SHE STANDS ON

HER

HEAD EVERY DAY

By ROBERT

ROBINSON

ASKED the handsomest Even, she said, when she was between two silent mon. Lovely. woman in London why travelling by train, although the Women's beauty salons are more vibration made it a little chancy, like aviaries. Chisway, chirrup, she had given her vote to

She stays most of the time in chirrup..

Sho has been working in films Miss Venezuela for the title Paris and Rome-where she is

since she was fourteen and In effect, he said: "If you Miss World. "Because," said to make her next film.

"I'm going to play Nero's half, and she doesn't have to open your brother's territory to Miss Gloria Swanson, "she

work mother.

any more if she doesn't Saud is Saudi-Arabia King

wonderful long

A sombre picture, I suspected. want to. prepared to give you £30,000,- has such

"Not on your life. A comedy. They tell mo to retire. When we legs.” gold-now.

Nero dropping bricks on me, Retire! Why, if I retired I'd оте settled in the king will

How give you another £80,000,000,"

me trying to poison him. Plenty have to stop thinking

could anyone do a thing li of laughs."

It will allow her to start that?" realising her current ambition. "to be a "I want," she said, demate Alec Guinness. Play the character stuff. Be my own

People say I'm crazy. Age is only a discaso d grow old but don't grow up...." little umbrella and I wear it on

What

Saudi-Arabia

000 in does really want in this six-mile- square oasis, with its lemons. figs, wheat, dates and limes?

Slave-raiding

Then the Buralmi Oasis settled down to being the first

halt on the caravan route Inland Mysterious Arab

from the coast, where the water and the brem girls the action were known throughout

Arab world for their sweetness,

Ostensibly Britain's wag to counter the slave raiding practices at the Saudi-Arabians who ceaselessly swoop upon the Buraimi Oasts and the five surrounding villages for young girls for the royal harems.

Afterwards came oil. it was found further up the coast, but sweet waters of beneath the Buraimi experts believed there

vest wp3 窳

oilfield. Saudi- To make things look better, Arabia believed so, 100. the Staidis marry the girls for a bride price of £75, paid in While Interminable negotia-" the local currents of Indian tions over frontiers have ground rupees--but it is slaving never-

on through the years, the Saudis theless, They whisk the girls have been creeping closer and by camel caravan into Saudi- closer to Burail, Arabia

Stuk-Arabian forve

The man who dangled these

A

Which was

generous reason For the legs of Gloria May Swanson herself

are among the shortest in show business.

I said the handsomest women.

Arab suns was mysterious called Quoreishi, with a smooth I meant it. English accent,

Twice before he Sheik Zald. Twice the said he would have to with his brother,

Five-foot two in her nylons, met she owns a brow noble enough, sheik for a University professor. She

talk has eyes as clear as a baby's.

And the third time, as before, be passed the whole story on to the British.

is 55.

NO DYE

"In the twenties people locked individual Plekford didn't look like Talmadge, Shearer, didn't icok like me....

Her iron grey hair is the only hoad of female hair in Holly- Quorcishi warned that the

wood never to have seen the had best throw in their lot with King inside of a dye-bottle, And she pro-British sheds Saud-o the Saudia would

Her talic in dry, laconilä * move into Burtint in strength,

the girls are stil But Britain

"Sure, was ready for In 1952 Grenegade Muscat

beautiful-but why do they look that. The green light for this little sheik named Raschid Bin Hamid "harem war" against Saudi called in the Saudis after they

Now Sheik Zald, just back if they've all come out of the

same pie-mould?. malpractices was given by the had bribed him. A 50-man from a holiday in England after Foreign Office in London.

traversed giving evidence at the Geneva As the Saudi-Arabiana un 400 miles of Briush territory, arbitration court, is helping to rolled their prayer mats Just Led by Turki Bin Atishan, they sock the two village sections

of the oasis into some sort of I asked what she'd recommend. before

attackng sized Buralmi. dawn, the British-led force, accompanied

British law and order. The tough old Sultan of by Sheik Abbu Dabhi and bis brother Shelk Zold, rolled into Muscat a sovereign entitled to the oasis n Land Rovers,

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