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Ả THE CHINA_MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12,

Concluding CAT AND MOUSE: The fantastic final

to the undercover war of spy and counter-spy

wist

Rommel is fooled-by

his own secret code

Rommel did not know that his spios m Cairo had been captured. Their socret radio was still on the air... with a British officer sonding "planted" information in the crucial

pro-Alamoin days.

was the morning conference at Rommel's battle headquarters in the Western Desert, and what was on the schedule was a fateful decision.

Outside the field-marshal's tent, hidden in wadis under camouflage nets, the soldiers of the Afrikakorps waited beside their tanks for the order to advance. It was to be the final attack this time-the attack that would sweep the Eighth Army out of Egypt and plant the Nazi flag on the Nile.

"The question 10 decided," Rummel told his assembled generals, "is where we hit them - aml when. How much time have we got before the Bri- tish are ready 7"

Hand shook THERE was an interrup- tion as a junior officer came into the tent, gave the (Opposite Kowloon Magistracy) Nazi salute, and then went,

across to the general in charge of signals. He hand- ed over a message pad, his hand shaking with excite- ment.

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But we got the code only just in time..

At 20 minutes before mid- Ilsten- the Nazi Ing post was due to make con-

night, when

tact with the ay, we still did not know the secret of it.

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What does Eppler do now? He drives around Germany and France' in 'fast carst his. Lavourite hobby. He' ocentional- ly sees, in Paris, a Belilah officer named Ceell who was one of his chief interrogator. - He has pretty wife, a champion golden spaniel named Klaus, and 3 house in the Baor.

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He scams to show few scara from his experiences. He is as devil-may-cüte ne ever, with a book business to occupy his Ume, 'and money to spend. And why shouldn't he be cheerful?

"I survived," he says. He did indred. He also helped us to win the war... though he will never know how inuchi

But there is, to this drama, which did no nich to tum the title dgainst the Nazla in the war In Africa,, one tragle footnote.

Just before Rommel planned to malce his attack ni Alum Halfa, forward Nazi posts in the -desert sighted a British scout car picking its way across No Man's Land,

They grinned because. the scout car was' going slap on, to ons of their mineüsida,

ne

· British faol will blow himmelf up if he continuION on that course," they said gleefully.

Which, a few minutes Ipter, is exactly what the scout car did. And as darkness tell, the Nazis sent out a patrol to examino the Inside they found the shattered, dead body of a British officer. Besido film was an operational map, tơm but legi- ble.

car.

Regretted it

i

Nines,

;

"

*Leave tiru alone," said the officer, 'we're not the Gestapo.......

CHAT coplous, At his house in Calto's According to Eppler him themselves who had emptured listened in to Garden City, the civilion set, he actually was drugged them, but they had been betray- startling, detalled, and complete counter-esplominge agent. Robby, on this occasion and questione ed by two amiable Jewesses. ly false information about what THAT map went straight to Rommel

Rommel's headquarters and looked

work, his Thick ladies of doubtful virtue the Eighth Amy was planning the Germans put much reliance across, was still wrestling with his copy about himself, his

£200 for to do in the battle for Africa. upon it 1-tee-for it was mark- testily. "What is it? Why of Daphne du Maurier's-novel, code, his contacts. But my in- had been promised

What matter if They went or thinking that ted Top Secret and showed secret syringe their services.

they got it from the young Nazis varme-from-their-hero-spy, John- been using na his code manual, never went in." asked, irritably.

British or from the British Intelligence Eppler. And Field Marshal paths through to the

Rommel never did discover that For at that moment the door Service?"* In the European gaol in Cairo, In answer, the general

interrogating officers were of the operating room burst

the German whom he thought Rommel decided to use those handed across the message, inking the

of Militory to be the bravest of them all paths himself. He regretted it dancer, Hekmat open and a couple of British But the ways He-too--looked tense and Fatuny.. over her testimony offers came in. "Leave him Intelligence are mysterious and was in reality-though against later, for the paths took him

"I think you excited now.

into some of the softest desert probing for alone, you swine," they said to devious and just how we' his will-helping us,

REXI the doctor-"What do you think cracked the Eppler code

sand in the region. The map. will agree that he was right

this is the Gestapo?"

went into business with the

He died belloving that Johm was false, deliberately planted come in, Herr Feld- In the military gool of the

Nazis is the only secret of this more officers marschal," he said. "It is a Egyptian Army

And loosening Eppler they led story which I am pledged not to Eppler was not only the greatest on them. wore grilling Lieutenant Sadhat, him back to his cell, applo- feil. You must make your own which he was but also the message from Eppler."

the young Egyptian Army officer gising for the man's behaviour, guess about it. I can only say most successful spy of them all,

which he was not. (now a member of Nasser's Eppler, not quite knowing what that," thanks to persistence, Cabinet) who had been work to belleve, hungry and is ingenuity, and dedicated still, ing with the spies.

traught, believed it all genuine. we got it in the end. · ́

to

Rommel took the message pad and began to read, and suddenly he began to smile.

"CONDOR CALLING, CON- DON CALLING," the message begai.

the vital-clue.

again and agnin,

4 DOR

And the man who died in dollvering it? You will remem- ber that, a few weeks before, And that, though not the end a certain Major "Smith"

Mad of bis like, a really the end of stayed the night with Holanal he was sup-

secret

Desert with

Hekmat Fathmy had turned those documents over to Eppler Monkaster recovered from his and only his expture by wounds and.

was, like Eppler, Major Bansom had prevented -rent basic to Germany: Ho'now--him' from” “păsalng thêm on të

lives in Dar-es-Salaam in East Rommel.

On Eppler himself the crewn "How could they be so nice "CONDOR CALLING, CON- the story of John Eppler. Or Fathmy-though were being

the other was such tightly turned to when

a CALLING," British all the German spies captured posed to be on his way to the "He

the make him talk-and make him beast?" he saick

wor, acted signals officer tapped out. "I during

he

and Western HAVE INFORMATION Just like the Gestapa."

FOR Monkaster were the only two documents. "HAVE CONFIRMED talk quickly.

not to be executed. YOU," MESSAGE FROM RELI. And, Just in time, we got the Did this macabre but nées- ABLEST SOURCE EIGHTH code and put the first message sary game of bluff succeed? ARMY PLAN MAKE FINAL-over. The Germans were, hook- STAND IN BATTLE

that it FORed-Now we could start the game... Sadaat Insists EGYPT AT ALAM HALFA. of tricking theat

Eppler who gave the whole THEY ARE STILL AWAIT-

thing away. ING REINFORCEMENTS AND NOT YET READY FOR MORE

Who talked?

THAN MAKESHIFT DEFENCE. WHICH of the FOLLOWING

captives. REINFORCE

Eppler, Monkaster, Fathmy, MENTS HAVE 'ARRIVED or Sadant-had talked PORT SAID BUT WILL NOT

BE MOVING DESERTWARDS FOR MONTH."

WIS

"CALLING CORDOR, CALI- ING CONDOR." replied Athens, "WE ARE LISTENING."

Detailed, false

Africa.

Well, when the Germang went

Sadaat escaped from prison through the papers of the dead

to be Minister in officer in the prout ear, AND the Nazi Hstening-post

Athens tuned In and camp, rose

Nasser's Cabinet, and had the found his name-tng. sutlstaction of turning tho

It was the same tables on Major Alfred Sausam, Smith"

they

Major

He had found one way when evening up the score.

of

THE END

The Brilish Interrogated the Cermans for 24 hours," he says.. "but they refused to talk. It happened that Winston Chur- chili was passing through Cairo Now no one, I am sure, is at Uits time, and he sold (11., fact, the com the counter-espionage agent natve enough to bellove that he would like to interrogate the bined activities of Britlalu who arrested him and Eppler, *p* gets genile treatment when sples himself. Brought before counter-capionage and one by

Sansom arresting Then Tollowed a list of newly he is caught. He may be a hero Churchill, the spies at Arst Jewess, Yvette, who helped to Nasser came into power. Drrived British and' South to hle own country, but to the persisted in their alience, but

irack down the spies. And ̈ ̈ enemy he is beyond the law. when. 'the Prime .Minister Yvette was a Jewikli ogent, For The lovely Hekmat Fathmy In my experience no German promised that their lives would the £200 the British vave her was released after a year in gnol. Spy we caught was ever physl be spared, they talked." cally tortured. But Eppler'n Brush activities had put the Army in Egypt in mortal danger "It at a critical moment in the war.

African units.

Rommel sinpped - his thigh. "John Eppler ughin! Meine Herren, our spy in Cairo is the

For such a spy there was only

greatest hero of them all.”

He turned to his staff cfeer, and now his face was alight. "We will attack in 48 hours? time," he Enid, "and we will one end-death before a fring attack at Alam Holla. Now squad. But first, before we shot leave me piense. while I write him,

we wanted to reap for my Order of the Day."

ourselves come dividends "from in which the undercover work he had been engaged.

Congratulations!

S the genorais, all of them

A are now, marched from the

tent, Rommel called out, to the

Explor says that only once was violence used upon him,

when a burly sergeant beat him.

up and broke his nose. (His nose

signals commander, "Send back is certainly broken) Other my warmest congratulations to wise, the methods we used were

Epple" he said, "and tell him more subtle.

I am recommending the Fuehrer

to award him our highest de-

We alternated the treatment.

coration for his skill, courage, He would be roughly questioned and persistence.”

for hours on end. left without food or drink; and then the

I wan - α decoration Jolin brutal oflror would go out and Eppler was never to receive. another would enter, all smiles.

For that message from Condor "Don't take any ristice of that attacking us --which tricked Rommel into chap," the offlder, would say. at Alum Bsita. "He's a bit screwy. His mother when our real line of defence got killed by one of your bomb. wad at Alamein--was sent not Have a cigarette, old boy, and by Eppler but by the British, how about a cup of tea?”

Eppler himself was in a prison

And after he had been cap-

Puting type EL IT Magneticell at the futerrogation centre. tured he had to go through ni Mandi, izuze Cairo. His son- what must have been for him radë, Mankaaler, was recovering the most terrifying expericnor from a walckle attempt in the of oil. He was takon

to the peisan hospita?

prison hospital and told to rol And a British signals officer, up his sleeve. The doctor touc koeping

up a springo. -Epplere rendezvous

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with the Abwehr Ustering post *** {m}waya wanted an In Athens, using Eppler's radio portunity to experiment with) and Eppler's code, was, begin= "these drugs on human beings” ning the grime of Cat and Mense he said. "Bo far I've had only that was to touhun,, bdwnder · animals to try them on.”

and fool the 'Afrikakorps ....

mymi play;n, vital part in "winning

which he moved in, while"

for Britain the all-important the coris held Eppler, to make KLASB11.-) Battle ty Alumis

"the injection.

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