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January 22, 1941.
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WITH DESERT
By Ronald Matthews
WE
E are just outside Kas- sala, the Italian post on the Sudan-Abyssinian border. I am out with one of our patrols.
The squat outline of the machine-gun carrier ahead of us pitches and rolls in the sandy track that winds amid tamarisk trees,'
The black bulk of its quest- ing weapon and the turbanned heads of its
erew are
silhouetted as it jolts against the old-gold horizon of sun- set..
"From Nowhere!"
At the post where I spent Inst night we had an excellent glass of beer-Italian brewed-and dined off a bunch of bananas,*
"Where do they come from?" I asked.
"Oh, from Kassnia," was the officer's off-hand reply. Some of our adventurous putrollers go rald- Ing at night right through the Ita- lian lines.
Still, I would not recommend being out in the area before Kassa- la unescorted. Not because of quickness of our own patrols.
A British general told me smil-
ingly how, the other day, when driving in this area, he was sud- denly halted by two of our ar- moured cars which swooped on him from either side-"from no- where," as he put it-with má- chine-guns trained.
They vanished only when they were satisfied of his identity,
These patrolling Sudanese units seem to be endowed with a cloak of invisibility.
Suppose you
ose you are out with a cou- ple of their cars in the middle of -a-wide-stretch-of-apparently-bare- ground when enemy aircraft appear. The spot seems completely desti- tule of cover, yet within ten seconds your companions will have disappeared,
n single night recently.
money
no use accepting Italion they say, "for you can't anything there-and
you
buy can't eat money."
When Greece was invaded, the Greek merchants in Kassala were interned and their shops looted by hungry Italian soldiers, leaving the merchants' wives destitute.
Towards Mecca
Things are just as bad in Tes- zenel, in Eritren. to the south- east of us. There, according to refugees, Italians sold grain to the shopkeepers and then took t back from them without paying for it.
Now, as write this, I see we have arrived at one of our ever- watchful posts. We dismount, so that the gun crew can stop for evening prayers.
THE PATROL
Their thoughts, for at moment, tum from Kassala to the more distant eastern elty of Mecen.
Just A Shadow
It is uncanny how the mountain of Jobel Kassala seems to domin- nte the landscape as you pass across il. from as great a distance ns. forty miles north to forty miles south..
Every week or so there is some Indication that the Italians are about to emerge from its shadow. Most of these signs are really indications of an enemy desire to obtain news of our intentions.
For instance, two nights ago a couple of Italian tunks run out
PRIVATE LIFE
OF A PRIVATE
FEAR
is a FUNNY
THING
(Further extract from the diary of a journalist now in the Army).
has been said a thousand
tut couple of miles and occupied Intex before, but I must
for the first time some hills on the Sudan border, so that a watch could be kept on us from the heists.
Usually as was the leage last night, when one of there vantage points was shut up by artillery- the enemy is made to pay for such ringside rents.
say it once again: fear is a strange thing.
We were talking about it yesterday.
Having had a two-hour spell 1 will not lay adds against the
of Tactics un irregular Italions trying a local offensive ground, with a fine rain full- here. But I think it will be only a foraging expedition.
ing and a sharp wind blowing, All the latest
we fell out and deserters-and
smoked. their numbers are still increasing
Topics came and went. the shortage, -stress
of food there. So do the civilian fugees, of whom 20 came to us in
re-
HE SANG K-K-K-KATIE
IN the war of 1914-18 Walter williama was singing war-win- ning songs and making others sing them. One of the songs was "K-K-K-Katie."
You remember, it went some. thing like this:-
K-K-R-Kalie, beautiful Katic,
You're the only p-y-y-girl that
1 dore,
When the m-moon shines on the
c-cowslied
Pit be waiting at the k-k-k-
lettchen-door.
It was popular song--the sort of song that made you want to join in the chorus.
You had to join In if you were in Walter Williams audience. He made you,
£1
or
"Now then, all together,” And quite often, "You, please, sir," "You, please, madam."
He made lots of famous people sing his choruses.
Made Princess Sing Once the Princess Royal (then Princess Mary), sitting in her box,; sang "K-K-K-Katie."
And once he made Lord Beatty sing the chorus by himself.
In this war Walter Williams, now fifty-three, the light comedian and vocalist of former days, had na spec- tacular part. -
lie had been
had become assistant manager of the Queen's Cinema, Bayswater.
One day he was walking along a London street-making a business journey which for several years had been the lot of some one else.
A bomb fell close to him. He was killed.
Secret of the
Fleet Air Arm's
Taranto triumph had its beginnings in a quiet British.
Jake.
To me the Secret of the Lake was no secrét. In pence daya I often climbed the shoulder of the hills behind my cottage and looked down to watch gleaming torpedoes foaming down the length of the lake.
They plunged away from a jetty at one end through n series of moored floats, straight for a white tower target four miles away.
A man stationed on ench float-they were anchored n quarter of a mile apart--- signalled to the timekeepers
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torpedo passed beneath him.
Some days from my hilltop- eyrie I saw some strange ex- periments with torpedoes.
Lake
OTHER people have been in
terested, too, in what hap- pens in the bosom of that valley. But he asked the wrong sort of nan, a gamekerper, and an old Foldier.
the
The gamekeeper had all suspicions of a man who spends his life watching the wild things of the glens. He was not to be deceived.
""That chup," he told me later, was from London and "Zaid he wanted some photographs of the scenery. I'm thinking he was Jerry, so I sent him the opposite way.
Many
hours later the weary atranger, speaking with a marked German. accent, called at a col- tage a few miles awny begging for ten.
Recently, I had a letter from my parents' home, which lies a few miles to the south of the cottage.
"German planes bombed tho hills behind the coting," wrote my mother, adding unsuspectingly There's nothing for them there that I can think of"
The Man from 'Leicester said again: "I ain't frit o' no blasted Jerry."
Old Silence replied: "No, but you're afraid of dying."
"I ain't." "Everybody is," said Old Silence.
"I bet yow I wouldn't run away from nowt," said the Man from Leicester.
An old soldier with a rib- bon on his breast said: "Any- body who says he's afraid of nothing is either a llar or else hasn't had much experience of things people are usually afraid of."
★ * "Running away," he con- tinued, "has got nothing to do with it. I've been afraid plenty of times, but I've never run away. Get a ma- chine-gun going ratatatata- tat a few yards away from and naturally you're
you, afraid.
"Brave men are often afraid; only they keep it to just an ordinary man who can't beat his fear; can't keep it down."
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a man what
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"Once upon a time," sold Old Silence, "I used to be afraid of lugs. When I was a little boy.
"A slug would make me go cold all over. Then, one day, I hap- pened to come across a slug that seemed to me to be about a foot long.
"I stood and looked at it for a long time, with my stomach turn- ing over; and then I flow into a rage.
•
"How dare this slimy thing make me afrold?' I said "to my- self, and smashed it with my `fist. Since then I've never been afraid of slugs."
The old soldier,· musing, raised his hend and anld, to Old Silence: "You done right, pal. It's exact- ly the same way with the fear of death. You get hold of it, and it Isn't there."
"Go and get
Into it."
John Drummond Corporal, "And
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