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By DUDLEY BARKER

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11 shown what happens when an ordinanty British civilian turpet soldier is thrown into gigantic but- the without ever having been UI- der Are before.

It in the story--just relensed by the War Office-of which, in the end, will beat Hitler

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A month ago, when the armies were struggling in the battle of the Surmme, the British needesk ta

Fine along e inblish a defence river Bethune, to cover the Wes tern Channel ports and Hosen

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started pa small parties through The Wong valleys towards the Sele They enlly carried out ord s

These men who had not pre- viously been under fre, who n year before might have been eity clerks, shop assistants, fought i rearguard action as though they were the Guards,

MEN OF ALL WORK

Not only did they

ave them- selves, they helped the struggling

through whom mass of refugee They passed

available were base depots some

the forest from leave, sine

who had been left to guard store sume unita of the Pioneer Corps, a few Army cooks, and su un

Part of the force hurriedly scratched together from there units. was a battalion christened New. comb's Rifles, although the offices who gave them their name was put into another job and they chose a colonel of the Royal Engineers to commend them.

BROOMSTICK ARMY

He was Lieut Colonel 1. E C. Perowac

of great huge man, physical strength, with flerce red hair and a red moustache.

Het was who took Newcomb's Rifles, fewer than 800 mẹn, up to Bethune. Many of them were militiamen who had never been under fire. They had Bever trained an a unit, they did 1202 know each other.

At first they had a lot of fun. They knew that there were only 2,000 British soldiers to line the 37-mile front, to face first the flood of panic-stricken refugees and then the broken, fleeing French troops, and finally, the huge Ger-

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Pap company went right through

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by compas bearings, avoiding all roads and paths, which were in German ve

They came out only 106 cupations Yards from the spat at which they were aiming

were

Another company, the nearest to Rouen

where the Germans in force, sending out parties to cut of the retreat, WOR rescued by Colonel Perowne in bla 147, carried in several Journeys to the River Seine at Fontaine

On the last journey, after dark had fallen. his car ran inter cons

certin wire druped roun:[ The night camp of a group of Germa Lanky

Automatic weapons opened fire gun shelled at once. A heavier and wrecked the ear.

Nobody was hk, so the Colonel and his intelligence officer held 21 while the party slipped off into the woods.

Then the Colonel was chased for He three hours by the Germans. moved through the woods in the dark intervals between

Vercy lights. He got away.

TANK DODGING Just before dawn tour Germun tanks come rumbling up to bat- talion

rear headquarters, which were hiding in a barn. bagys for

One ink turned in at the form emplace-

gato, the few British soldiers tent poles wear-

crack in the watching through ing steel helmets, trenches full of military scarecrows, literally

donr. broumstick army.

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They mined the bridges, they put up wire, they scattered the line with real strong posts, Innd mines, tank trops and road blocks.

Every day they were pitilessly bombed. but they stood Arm. Every day they sent out patrols,

the wondering whether

storm would break then, a lo later and all the time the refugees flooded through them, for the Ger- at. Abbeville, and mans were Amlene.

"ROBIN HOOD"

On June 7 things began to look so bad that Colonel Perowne drew plan for withdrawal, in small up separate parties, to the Seine fer- rles. He had to give it a code name, and he chose a grand one.. He called it "Robin Hood."

Next day he knew the retreat.

Colonel Pe was inevitable. So rowne went out his message, **

"Robin Hood Blow, all bridges and craters before leaving. Take

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Then one man crawled from the barn, slipped open a second farm- yard gate, and the whole little party dashed out in a small car and on two motor-cycles. They got away too, stopping to pick up their com rade on the way out.

The surprised tanks

shot an wildly that they clean milksed them.

When they had all reached the river, amidst wrecked towns un- der a pall of burning oil dumps, they found that the French ferry boats had tied up on the opposite bank, and did not seem to hear when they were called.

one company comped for the 'night' in a 'lair among the rocks,

ringed round with the enemy.

Next morning the ferries started to work. But the men of New- comb's Rifles had to control the re- fugees, the French troops, who were clamouring to fight the in-

fre cendiary bomb

which threatened to demolish a jammed mass of vehicles---and then the ferry captain tied up on the far sido again, refusing to come back:

So a few of Newcomb's Rifes wam-the river, arrested the cap-

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Ireland's

WITH the world full of

rumour about the doings

of Hitler's Fifth Columna in nearly every country it is na- tural that the potentialities of the Irish Fifth Column should be the subject of special attention.

Nowhere could Hitler find such ventres of hatred against Britain, nowhere could he And such daring and ruthless allies as amongst the men of the LR.A. Ger- have alrendy

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For this the Irish Govern- ment itself is in some mi- responsible, for the rigorous censorship which is carried on by Mr. de Valera's officials from what was once Queen Victoria's bedroom in Dublin Castle forbids to visit. ing journalists the mere men- tion of an Irish Fifth Column. Rumours and Heares Blourish the more abundantly as the Irish forbid the conditions which give rise to them even to be discussed.

But After EL fortnight's careful search of Eiro-and some knowledge gleaned in Denmark and Holland of how Fifth Columns work--I came to the conclusion that there was no Fifth Column in tre- land comparable in power and size to those which Hitler or- ganised RO successfully in Scandinavia

the And

Low Countries.

In organising their suppor- ters in Ireland the Gerbitts have not been able to draw upon the two most important elements which contributed to the success of their Fifth Column activities elsewhere - large German colony and a considerable political party within the country ready to do their bidding. There are in Eiro. only 326 Germans and of these 140 are refugees and in view of the fantastic conduct of General O'Duffy it is easy to understand why no further

attempt has been made to start another Fascist Party in Eire.

tain, and set the ferries going

again.

They saw that all the refugees Not till crossed the river sately. then did they themselves cross.

After a rearguard netion that lasted 40 hours, four-fifths of them crossed the Seine with all their arma and baggage.

Still they were bombed, still un- braten,

AND SO HOME

Four days after that they em- barked for England. All that was left of them was 22 officers, 310 other runka, 29 anti-tank rifles and 15 Eren guns.

When they get home, this little

disbanded a scratch force was quickly as it had been flung to gether, and the men went back to their different units.

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The history of Newcomb's Rifles lasted only for one month. It is not unit you will hear again.............

And when Colonel Perowne came to write his report, he sum-. med the whole thing up thus)-st.

"It remained. only for the com pany commanders to bring their companies safely to the River Seine through country known, to be occupied by enemy elements, a- ble to sudden attack, and subject. to the closest scrutiny by enemy aircraft by days per a

September 18, 1940.

By Walt Disney

PAGE

Fifth

BY DAVID WOODWARD

Special Correspondent, rocent- ly returned from a tour of

Ireland

It is true that when the moment comes for a German attack the L.R.A. will strike hard against the British and Irish Governments, but that it will be able to secure de- cisive results is flatly denied by Irish official spokesmen And doubted by foreign ob. servers. who do not deny, however, that the Irish Authorkies are probably over- optimistic in believing that the back of the 1.R.A. has been broken by the intern- ment of 400 of the organisa- tion's ringlenders.

These men are mostly just the "N.C.0.5" of the move. ment, the real leaders having For the most part fled to Ger- many, and the rank and file -numbering, perhaps, but anly perhaps, some 2,000- being still at large.

As to whether I.H.A. men have been able to smuggle themselves

the into

Irish Army there exists a complete difference of opinion between official sources

and the op-

of the De Valern

ponents Government.

Apart from financing the IRA and harbouring its exiled tenders, the German policy with regard to Fifth Column activities in Eire has been devated almost entirely Lining

individuals prominent who might be useful inter on i Quislings or deputy-Quislings.

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The German Legation in Dublin is conducting itself very elreuma- pretly. Almost is only activity is anti-Ger- protesting against the

main attitude of the Irish Town-

papers

The Legation Any a personnet of eight-09

compared with the British Omlee and the American Legation, which have nine persons rach, and the Italians, who have Ove. This ilgure also compares

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with that for the former German Legation in The Hague, where there were 100 persons employed, Including 42 Secretaries of Lega- tion and Attaches.

For the Legation contact with Berlin in extremely difcuit: neither the British nor the Irish me able to trace any use of radio by the Legution transmit to Berlin, and when a bag comes from Berlin is brought by parachutists on landed from a mubmarine.

It is of Interest to note that the classes in which the Germans are trying to recruft their key men are two which have always, in every country, been centres of pro-Nazi discontent -the small business met and the young intellectuals faced with a future of poorly-patti jobs.

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British and American Arms, un very small reale, and all the snail- scale business men think they have the uzuni snull-scale business man's grievances against bankers The fact that the bonkers in Fre- land are considered by the aver

age tridiman na "Britain's Fifth Column" does not help matters,

The ather element of discontent in the middle classes la the flock of extremely well educated young men who finish four years' trala- ing at the Sinn Fein Nationalist University, or the Unionist Trinity College and are then faced by the fact that they have to take up Jobs ut £2 a week- they are lucky enough to get them.

But the Fifth Column danger is not only to be found in De Vn- Iera's Eire. In Northern Ireland the police have to deal very vigor- ously with the Ulster branch of the Catholic Irishmen in the Six Coun- ties.

If war comes to Ireland Bel- fast is obviously of the greatest value to the British in the efforta which they will make to throw out

the

Nazi invader. Consequently L.B.A. have taken special pains with their Ulster contingent and that They have had some success is to be seen by the comparatively high proportion of Northern Irishmen who were implicated in the vari- Dus ERA outrages just before the beginning of the present war.

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