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H. V. MOHTON on a Home Guard Patrol . .

"Enemy Airmen @

have landed"

was ten o'clock, and I was

I vist to be

I had done all the things we do in 1940. I had listened to the nine o'clock news; I had relieved the car of its dis- tributor arm; I had walked round the house looking for chinks in the black-out cur- tains; I had cast a morose oye at the stirrup pumps and at

LIFE

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elis, and the ker-lock of closed bolis, We then moved off single file, stealing like shadows up the sune and across stubble flelds. where we spread out in extended ortler.

the buckets of sand and I

water.

Glancing up at the quiet sky, clear of cloud, I saw the gold flush of a rising moon, and I thought, "more raids to- night." Then I went indoors.

I was standing in my bed- room putting out my Home Guard uniform at the foot of the bed. I attached braces to the cheap, sharp brass but- tons of the trousers, set out a pair of step-in boots, and loaded the six chambers of my revolver.

I wondered whether we were living in a penny dread- ful or in some romantic perlod of the world's history on which future ages will glanco back with envy and excite- mont.

Then I paused and listened as the rattle of a motor-cycle came down the lane. Instead of going on, the sound came up to the house and stopped.

I heard quick steps and a sharp rap on the door. Who could it be?

After nightfall we are lock- ed away among dark woods and silence, and every sudden call is a mystery until the door In opened, Switching off the lights, I threw open'i window and saw a young officer in a tin hat standing below,

"Can I see you for a mo-· ment, sir?" he asked. "Enemy nirmen have landed near hore."

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TOW, I had been feeling

Nured and every day my

age, I became suddenly wide- awake and full of energy. 1 flow into my, denims and was. downstairs facing a pink lieu- tenant, who treated me as if I were a centenarian; which was irritating, because I now felt no older than eighteen.

ile explained that five, or per- haps seven, enemy airmen had "been soon-to bale out ever the dis- trict aa dusk was falling. Troops had blocked: all roads." Could·I, he my Home

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was a glorious night, a great moon lifting a serene face over a curved field, a moon not even mildly interest- ed in Man.

Why have lovers, I wondered, always Interpreted the moon's ex- pression as one of sympathy? It is an expression of complete de- tachment. Nofther love nor hate can interest the moon.

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Hedges rose against the sky as if drawn in blackest ink. Stubble stretched away, white and brittle, and from It came a warm, sweet smell that has the end of summer In il

Now and again we stopped to listen, moving on ngain with not Round but the soft swish of our boots among the corn stalks.

How lightly life is now poised on the needle's point, I thought the ordinary and the incredible side by side, separated, only by a split second...

A few moments ago 1 rad been going to bed; now I was moving over moonlit flelds, every sense alive, with a loaded revolver at my belt.

It was incredible, like something one had read long ago, in. "The Boy's Own Paper," propasterously juvenile, yet, at the same time, terribly real and tragic.

Stop! Harry comes up and whis- pers hoarsely: "Oughtn't. we to beat Badger's Copse?"

"Right, Harry, you go in with Frank and we'll creep up and wait for you.'

They melt into the wood in which they have ferreted, trapped und slot since they were small boys. We kneel like shadows at the dark edge.

Suppose the Germans came out now! What would happen? It they got touh they would get more than they expected; if they quietly surrendered-well, I sup- pose we should give them cigarettes and lead them home to a drink until the police came for them.

Funny, weird, ridiculous business to be going on by moonlight on the sand, sweet harvest flelds of Eng- land.

And what would they feel like, I wondered, to fall from the skles into a quiet English home among women and little children, unon whom, a few hours before, they were ready to drop their loads of death.

suppose if airmen could see and, know their victims, perhans they would make a point of Tall to locate their objectives."

ked apologetically country-to-ahe two figures climbed out. of

certain placebo at my pers

"Na, I ain't seen no Germans.. nor las anybody else, I reckon. I was out with the tractor 1 dark, and no Germans came down this way, that I can swear to..."

Still, we search the barns, the stables, the out-houses and the rick yards, nad the wavering moons of our torches, nove over the picturesque disarray of farm implements, old hay-carts, chaff cutters, and the like, пке.

Harry and George climb upon o mound of hay and prod about In it; and I am reminded of some story, read long ago, of Roundheads searching for Cavallers.

It is a pleture I shall never for- get; the green light spilling down from roofs, the plich-blackness of the barns and sheds, the old beams, the grey shadows of rats melting. noiselessly away, and the figures of the patrol, in herole silhouette, moving, with rides at the high pori

WE cover the last half

mile slowly, creeping over the curved fields, watch- ing the hedgerows, searching the copses; then below us wo see the dark line of the road.

As we climb over П gate, a sharp volte erles "Halt!" and we walk up to be recognised by a sentry.

A brown forry is drawn up in the hedge. The moonlight Bildes over bayonets. The troops are

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but

Pilot Tells Of

Kiel

anting stlessly. A pink-fleuten AN R.A.F. pilot who

ant detaches himself from shadows and comes forward.

the

"It's most frightfully good of you, sir, to have done this, I do hope you're not too tired."

Too tired, be hanged! I could go on like this all night.

I'm afraid you're going to be awfully sick with me, sir," most he continues. "I've just had news to

call

in my men, because the Germans have been captured ot Bogworthy, Mojor

m/leg

away! I suppose they were blown over in the dark. What bad luck! S

Still, never mind. We've done our stuff.

The combined local knowledge of farmer, poacher, and sportsman was pooled for a moment, in order to hunt the Invader from a little bit of England,

As we wander back down the moonilt innes, we, talk of this and that.

if they had been here- we'd have had 'em sure enough," says Harry.

And we all agree, as, we, unload under the elm tree and go home to lied,

bombed Kiel naval dock.

yard from 800, feet described how he was trapped in a ter rific anti-alteraft barrage.

The raiders caused heavy explosions, culminating in huge fires,

"We flew along at about 13,000 feet and then came round slightly east of the tar- get," said a pilot.

"One, searchlight picked us up, and then suddenly we seemed to be in the centre of the biggest collection of A.A. bursts and searchlights I have ever seen,

"They all came on at once just as though somebody had pushed over a switch.

"From my height I could de- finitely make, out the, shape. of the Mole.

"I decided to take the odd

Women Steal chance, and we went down in

Vegetables

Growing In Garden

Described as women of good position and education, Mrs. Gwendoline Walton, 39, her 18- year-old daughter, and Mra. Vollet Masters; aged 50, of Sen- £5 each at Southond for stealing forth Road, Westcliff, were fined growing onions, pears, and marrow, worth 8s., from a gar

thewood. Nothing there, they Yes, ill take them there my blackness, of a hollow and out into

ald. 50 we went o

-on into the self, I replied, eagerly,

a green wash of moonlight, where den............ reallyale 'that's' "most

stood, dark, silent and frightfully good of you," he said," a costar

like a schoolboy thanking on uncle for a ten-shililok rofe.”***

Wo searched the sheds. My torch revealed in furn a barrel, a pair of gum-books, a bicycle, and pink-oyed farrer in i cage.

We went on over the ridge to Brown's Farm where the dogs went

"A Window opened, and old. Brown' voice.

asid what the

they were said to have used a motor-car to take the goods away, The charge against the daughter was diamliked, by FALLENE BreThere are a large num

are a large number of empty, houses in the town." gald Dele Inspector Harris, and people tinre koing into gardens stripping them. any quirios regarding vegetables. mod", fruit

The insp

In a few moments dark figures were meating under the big eim. Eitrean Itwas bright enough för zisa: to recognise little Harry, big Frank, George; Jack, rand sisome Fof the other men, who wear the Mont Star on their uniformat e fat your fellows, in (17 Hallo,

and put over Franki Hallo, Jack! Why for a belön

minute I thought); the - Germans had come, and detrar, about to beli the dogs on familia WYS, W

dive to 800 feet.

"We got up a dickens of a speed.

"When we got down to about 8,000 they had about 15- searchlights on

on us.

"The heavy flak' (anti-air- craft flre) had been coming up all the time, and now the light 'flak started.

at us have never seen, so "It, just came straight up much before.

"I thought we couldn't go. back, having got so far, so we Jurt carried on...

Was Blinded"

and the Tāwas able

Raid

"I saw a long-dark-shape to the west of it that certainly looked like a ship.

"We just carried on diving. "I gave the order to release the bombs at 800 feet.

"Then straight away we shot down to 100 feet over the Mole and just above the wa

ter.

"There seemed to be more searchlights than ever. At times. I was blinded.

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"It was impossible to see, the results of the bombing.

"Suddenly in front of me,. I saw a lot of trees coming. up, straight ahead. :

"One of the searchlights, flattening out to try to catch us, had illuminated them, just in time for me.to, seo them,

"I pulled the aircraft up, and we went ovor the top.

Away At Last

"The troubld was we didn't dare go up too high, because as soon as we did ovary, gun. in the place started opening up.

: "Wo,must have stayed over the town for about ten min utes, just charging backwards, and forwards trying to get away."

Practically all the time we were at about 100 feet

We went south, zig-zagging all the time. PARAS JUM We got about 15 milos away and then, althe were being "shot at, we- able to gain, heläht);"

As we went up we had to take violent evasive action-albe the time El

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