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The seventh instalment of the scries, "The Nazis in the Channel Islands. The story is told by a native of St Peter Port to

-DUDLEY BARKER-

Nazis Played Saluting Trick On Islanders

"AFTER a time the Germans occupying Guernsey got a bit annoyed at being called Jerrics and square- headed pigs," said Fred Hockey.

managed to escape from Guernsey, and thus to tell me all Fred is the signaller of St Peter Port harbour, who about the German occupation.

"So they issued an order that, in future, we were permitted to speak of the Germans only as 'our garrison. That stuck in the throat a bit. However, they held the whip.

"And, mind you, they tried very hard, in all sorts of ways, to make us like them, although if they succeeded at all, it was. only with a very small number of ignorant people on the island.

"One day, about a month ago, they gave us a lovely demons- tration of a Prussian parade.

"A military band had arrived only that morning from Ger- many: And a very good band it was, too-probably the best brass band we have ever had in the Channel Islands.

A Funny Sight'

"Afterwards the band played regularly every Thursday and Sunday evening at the county

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

Abute OTAN

Cope, 1948 ky United Pesiaro #sukirais, Inc.

"You mean I can't bring my family along?"

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

ground, and every Sunday morn Troubles-in the Kitbag

ing outside the White Hart, and quite a lot of people used to go along to listen to it. It really was an excellent band.

"Well, on the day that it ar- rived it took up its position in front of the German headquar ters in St Peter Port, and started either wholly or in part without previous playing military marches.

48

"It really was rather a funny sight-all that goose-stepping- and we were all quite good-tem- pered about it.

Further extracts from the diary for hawk-eyed scrutiny. He has seen of a journalist who joined the millions of kits before. Guards.

Your spoon placed the wrong side up will afflict him with a sense of THIS Army is highly equipped, something radically wrong-It will The new recruit is somewhat disagree with the official photograph overwhelmed by the bulk and variety at the back of his brain, and you

the articles the Quartermaster not get away with it." heaps upon him.

So you guard your kit as you never which a man of lifelong experience Ten Baby Toes in the song.

There is also a blue kitbag, into guarded your life. You count your kit like the Ten Baby Fingers, and may pack it all.

of

Japan's Spy Scare

A number of amusing de- tails have come to light on I have seen it done. Soldiers pass with blue sausages over their shoul

the interrogation of various ders: they achieve the miracle of keeper, and as

You are as harassed as a house- Britons in Japan, among stowage. So, one day, may I

preoccupied as anthem some of the beat-

☆

But the plled-up mass of Govern- accountant. ment properly worries the rookie You pat out tiny, wrinkles in your known foreigners in the who first finds it left on his hands.

towel like a house-proud bride, and

You

ning.

The arrests, it was said, give

"Off went the band, and away] He is full of the responsibility that, flick away speeks of dust that were country. - went the German troops, goose- comes with it. He has to stop and hever there. stepping as high as they could think, le has to account for things, exact care of a child playing the evidence of having been due less go, with the officers saluting. This is where the taxpayers money leap to attention,

shops: to Japanese inspiration than to and the Kommandant and all

us a pace- If he loses it, he'll pay for it; and atlek, and bawl your name and your instigation from German "fifth the people crowded around in if he doesn't like

number, and he chn lump (.

say "Kit present, sir" columnists" who are said to play the sunshine.

And so there comes into our lives of Charles Lee,, The Man They ment affairs at Tokyo.

Then you wait, with the tenseness a considerable part in govern- the awful anxiety of the Kit Inspec- Could Not Hang, when he stood on tlun.

the drop for the third time run turned up a group of telegrams In one instance, the officials You have a vague idea that every addressed by the British suspect It happens every week or so. You thing will come out right in the end to a Chinese recipient in Kobe. are warned; Get that kit up-to-date, but aren't quite sure. Hu put and scrubbed spotless,

First the. Britons pointed out The officer nods and passes. The that all the telegrams were scoured and polished, pressed flat, breath you have been holding for dated in the year 1922, then he and numbered with your Regimental the past seven minutes rushes out made a little speech, and asked

"Afterwards the Kommandant Number. Or else!

with the fierce hiss of a blown-out explained that the Chinese had The day of the KI Inspection is a tyre. all those of French citizenship Day of Judgment.

The corners of your smile tickle tending to matters involving his been, a company employee at- to raise their left hands. There laid-out articles on your bed misses mere sweet than any you have ever own private yacht and that the

The officer who looks over the your ears; and you know a relief were very few. Then he asked nothing. He doesn't have to go in experienced. all those of British citizenship]

Salute Trick

to raise their right hands, and we all put our hands up.

messages were all instructions sent to this man while the Britan was off cruising. None the police that the messagea of this completely convincing were innocent, the Briton finally

"All the German troops in the .island were drawn up for the Radio's Friendly Link

march past, and the Komman- dant, Dr Lanz, came to the front door to take the salute. Quite aj EVERY day a multitude of big crowd of Guernsey folk raucous propagandist voices at-gathered to watch it all. test deplorably how radio is being exploited to poison inter- national relations. All the more gratifying is it, therefore, Lo note feature such "Friendship Bridge," which, by the joint benevolence of the British American Ambulance Corps and the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, has for some time been doing much to promote kindly feelings between

the English-speaking peoples on both sides of the Atlantic.

Thanks to the far-stretching range of short-wave transmis-

tack for the islanders, as I'll there--I saw the boats bringing sion, many thousands of British "It seemed a bit queer at the explain to you in a minute. them in, and was held to secrecy citizens must now be familiar time, but it wasn't till after- "The funniest piece of propa- about it, under the most severe

wards that we found out what ganda, though, was supposed to penalties, which may have in- said: with this successful essay in it was all about.

be a great secret (the Germans cluded death.

Were They Convinced? the cultivation of friendship and

didn't seem to know you can't

"Look at the name of this "As we raised our right hands keep anything secret

"Now let me tell you the rea-Chinese in the messages, Now understanding. The moment a photographer snapped us-and island).

on an son the German propaganda was go out to the cemetery and you on the wrong tack when they will find the same name on a was doubly ripe for such a ven-pictures appeared in the German

tried to prove the British were tombstone. of Guernsey

It has been there 12 years!" "Early one morning about 50 sey folk would have welcomed it. consisted in a number of scraps "The reason was the Guern- Another piece of "evidence" critical of each other-though "I'm told it's an old trick, and German soldiers, all dressed up behind it all there has always they did the same thing in Paris. for battle and carrying their hate the Germans, in spite of office. The papers were covered "Most of us had grown so to of paper found in a suspect's been a large degree of concealed about that all we knew was and a film camera to the little we would willingly have taken a P3, S1.

But we didn't know anything guns, went off with a few boats their soft-soap methods, that with mystic signs such as: K2, admiration. Each has many that we had been cheated into island of Herm, which lies off chance on our own lives, if the tioned their victim he said:

When the police ques- qualities which the other Incks. helping their propaganda, and our cast coust.

British started the whole island was furious.

They put the cameraman Germans out of the island. Iwriting of my lady secretary. 1 bombing the These memos are in the hand- But the events of recent "We couldn't protest, but that ashore on the deserted beach, have heard scores of Guernsey suggest that you call her in." months have brought out how little trick quite spoilt any pro. and then the German soldiers folk say that. much the two democracies have paganda value of the goosestep made a gallant landing from

Welcomed Bombs and explained that the symbols irr common. They find and Before long the Guernsey Is- "Then they got back into the confess that it is a great deal landers began to learn quite a boats, and made the landing "Indeed, we

were knitting instructions, the were delighted signs quoted standing "knit more than they had suspected. lot about German propaganda again, and again. They landed when the British did bomb the two, purl thret, ing for.

tricks. Once some bombs were

on that beach hundreds of times airport. My father-in-law was Hence the British people.see or dropped in the vicarage garden that day, till they had a film up there at the time, and he was scare one missionary educator During the height of the spy hear from the other side of the at Sark, and the Germans made thousands of German soldiers, were when we heard the news. arithmetic instruction book upon

which looked like thousands and as delighted as the rest of us Atlantic

was deprived of a first year an outpouring of great play of the British bomb fully armed, landing on a beach. Incidentally, as it happens, the his arrival at the part of Kobe sympathy and admiration for ing their own people.. them, in their struggle against "But we made a few private taken a film of German troop- raid, and not a single Guernsey-water police who inspected his "I suppose they had already R.A.T. killed 15 Germans in that from his post in Korea. The dictatorship aggression and for "and we soon found out that it

inquiries," said Fred Hockey, ships leaving Germany. the preservation of human

was a German plane that had liberties, which is without dropped those bombs, parallel in the history of the two nations.

ture. The British and American Islanders giving the Nazi salute, Snappy Landings bombing us.

peoples have often been highly and heiling Hitler!'

parade for us.”

their boats.

Growing Hatred

man;

Knit Two, Purl Three The secretary was summoned

NEW INDIAN DAILY IN ENGLISH

baggage were quite unable to "For the reaction of the understand the book, but man- Guernsey people towards the aged to convince themselves that "Another day, In Guernsey, a "Not all their activities were this 'polite' invasion, is that code of the greatest danger to Germana, after three months of it very likely contained a secret dustman tipped a dustbin into just propaganda, though, One they loathe them like poison. The knowledge that so many roll out live bomb. The to be out of doors at night was may have been partly won over his cart, and saw a funny object reason why we were not allowed

the Empire. friendly American

"A few of the ignorant people eyes upon them is a constant stimu- bomb, put there in the hope of sorts of things then-landinge the islanders would give their are newspapers said it was a British that they were practising all by the propaganda, but most of lus to their determination to blowing up some works. But on the coast among them. fight Nazism until it is over- we knew enough by then to "There doesn't seem much out-as one day they will see lives to see the Germans driven thrown. And when that time know that was just another doubt that, if the Germans ever them. They are powerless to comes the words Britain and "I don't think a single person they plan part of the invasion to German orders. But that is piece of German propaganda. do really try to invade England, do anything now but to submit British will have a new stand in the faland believed that story. to come from the Channel Is- how they feel about it." ing in the world-most of all in' And, anyway, that sort of pro-lands. And they certainly have the Now World.

paganda was quite on the wrong a lot of guns and ammunition

[TO-MORROW: ESCAPE FROM THE SWASTIKA.]

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