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The MAN WHO WALKED OUT OF SIBERIA

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Mr Rawicz, a Polo, was a prisoner in Camp 303. year later he was in Iridia-having sot out without compass or water bottle to walk 3,000 miles across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to freedom.

By

ERIC WILLIAMS

author of "The Woodon Horse"

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With

the war fought anul won, and the men who won it

life, mostly back in civilian

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Now, after 15 years, Slavomir Rawicz, once an officer in a crack Polish cavalry regiment and today a salesman in a retail te "somewhere in the Mid- lands, bells of his escape from

labour camp a forced Siberia". it is the story of one of the most amazing journeys on foot ever recorded.

TRUMPED-UP

steady drip, drip of ley water was directed on to it for hours on end.

But Rawicz was one of the Buil's few fallures. They moved him to Lubyanka guol, and tried harder. There the atust

they bed on to him was hot tar, not icy water; and on to the back of his hand not the top of his head. Sull he held out, and he never consciously signed the confession,

He underwent the formality of a trial, was found guilty and gentenced to 25 years' hard labour in Siberio.

Although he fought un Polish Western Front against Germany in the double rape of Poland In September 1839, Ant wus on a trumped-up charge by the Russians of spying on the eastern boundary that he was arrested two months later.

The fact that he had as a boy learned to speak perfect Russian from his Russian mother was enough to convince them that he was a

Spy, but for form Bake they had to get a signed confession.

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There was

nightmare Journey winter to Camp 303. 400 milles south of the Antic Circle. The first 3,000

was by mile:

train, 80 men packed tight in a entile truck. moving only at night, in secrecy. Then the prisoners walked BOU miles at four miles an hour, chained behind a lorry, until the

tury

of a Siberian blizzard halted the vehicles.

TETHERED

The officer commanding the convoy summoned reindeer eledges, and they #nished the Inst 200 miles tethered behind These

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For a whole year they tried out on him the more ingenious methods devied by civiiksed non to mako human being talk, to make him sign o document he was never allowed They slept out, and were fod to read.

twice a day on bread and ersatz He wis confined for six coffer. Many of the older men months in a chimney-like cell died

the journey. where he could only stand and which was never cleaned, so that the miserable prisoner had to live in his own mounting Alth

He was taken out of this for Interrogation and tor- ture only

His chief inquisitor,

"The Buil," hit him on the jaw with his pistol bult, so that he spa! out teeth and his face swelled, and the next day the Bull said, "You look lopsided," and bashed his other cheek to "square you up.

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A patch of hair the size of a coln was shaved from the crown of his head. Sometimes oldiers in relays tapped this spot at two- second intervals; at others, #

The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawiex (Constable, 154.).

BY HARRY

WEINERT

BY THE WAY.

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WHO WON THE PIG YOU RAFFLED OFF ?'

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EVEN THE MOST ARDENT FUND

RAISERS.

FHE SAW THE BEAUTIFUL DOOR PRIZE, ('D TEAR UP THE TICKET AND SNEAK INK

When they reached Camp 303 Rawicz at last saw the possi- blity of cscape. Не was undeterred by luck of provisions lack of clothing, and the vast distance to be covered on foot without map, compass or water bottle. He chose six com- panions: a Yugoslav, two other Poles, a Lithuanian, a Latvian and in American. After making what preparations they could, they escaped from the camp in April 1941, in a snowstorm, and began to walk south.

ATE SNAKES

During their long walk of over 3,000 miles, they broke the ice and caught fish in a northern river, killed a deer trapped by Its antlers in the roots of a tree, ate snakes in the Gobi Desert, But these were exceptional

occasions

that stuck in the memory. For most of that year's march they were near starving and In the desert, without sufficient water.

They met a young Polith girl escaping from a forced labour turm, and befriended her, taking ht

along with

with them.

She was

the Arst to die.

Finally four survivors, barely

alive,

staggered down the southern slopes into India, where they were welcomed by a British army patrol,

The privations Rawicz and his companions overcame proves once again that the free spirit is invincible, The help they gave to each other and to the

girl, an

and the hospitality they

received from Mongolians and Tibetans, restored in the author the faith in humanity that his treatment us a prisoner had destroyed.

SORRY FOR

BARRY

By NANCY SPAIN

ROBERT HEN-

COLORIQUES

writes very differently of love and business. But then he is a most dis- tinguished writer.

RED OVER GREEN (Collins 138, 6d) is all about a solleitor called Barry whose wife is dying. Barry falls in love with nias, thinks Kate Do better than sho ought to be. This is just his imagination. Kate is ever sko nice really).

Kate

Barry

He

joins up in 1938, think-

Ing that the Army will be the making of him. It is Indeed. Bv 1040 Бу

Barry has lost his paunch, become a commando,

and led

a very exclung raid on the French coast, where he helps put out of action an air- craft detceter called flugezentiermekontrolle. For- Lunately its code word la Earwig,

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Colonel Henriques is awfully. good about, men: his portraits of brigader,

have been better done, not

en by Evelyn Waugh.

even

So I

that ho

think it is awfully and he wrlies so unhapplly of love. I am sure that this is

because he is so

is so exasperated

his heroine, Kato,

by

All ends happily (with Kate Barry driving away into tho sunset), but I can't help being sorry for Barry, I don't se how anyone could be happily married to a woman who Rya every five minutes “How's Me Barty?

That seems to me as irritat ing as the husband who finda a little job to do at the bottom. of the garden as soon as Bunday, lunch is "on the table,