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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947.

This is the story of THE MAN WHO CAUGHT RUDOLF HESS

W that I am under NOW

no further obligation to HM Forces and Rudolph Hess has been sentenced. at the Nuremberg Trials, the true story of Hess's appre- hension after he landed at Eaglesham, Scotland, can be told for the first time.

The purpose of the former Deputy Fuchrer's visit to Bri- tain is still a mystery to the general public, but I say, and with confidence too, that high- ranking Government officials were aware of his coming. No air raid warning was given that night, although the Nazi mark- have Ings on the plane' must been distinguished during his Right over the city of Glasgow. Nor was the plane plotted at the anti-aircraft control room for the wast of Scotland.

who appre- I was the man hended Rudolf Hess, although the name he gave me was Alfred Horn.

The date

summer

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a glorious TT began la IT

evening in May 1941-the close of a perfect day for all who were free [Jr lake. to enjoy it by sen, river

the wind-swept or on could have been found in the stuffy of a signal operations atmosphere room anxiously awaiting 1800 hours. and my relief.

moor.

You may have guessed the cause ot my anxiety. I had a date. We had arranged to spend the evening her dancing, I was going to meet

"But wit in the nearby village. has this to do with Heng?" hear you asking. Everything. that followed resulted from that un- fulfilled engagement.

man the

Slowly we returned to the hut talking and chatting nineteen to the dozen. Scarcely had the last climbed into bed gala when phine was again heard approaching. Out we dushed, and the machine was clearly to be seen about 2,000 feet up. and losing height rapidly, Twice the pilot circled the castle..

The

Suddenly, the engine cut out, rubr was so startling and unexpect ed that we almost stopped breathing

sudden cessation of the pulsating

in our tense excitement.

to

I remember shouting involuntarily: "Look out, boys, he's going ens." Then, na my brain began to function again: "Down, in there's bombs."

core

Everyone dropped down as I shot ns, with a resounding crush, the ita nose An the aircraft buried

and tongues of flames ground digtered in and out of the wreck- age.

Above the crackling of the burn- ing plane a shot rang out-and down went our noses in the dust.

my

Raising my head, I stared intently In the directlen from which the shot appeared to have been fired; and, looking around, saw to astonishment a man dangling from a parnehute, which seemed like huge mushroom silhouetted against the darkling sity.

A

Calling one of the men to follow me, and yelling to the rest to see if unyone was trapped in the now furiously blazing plane, I started to run towards the spot where I calcu- lated the parachutist would ground. The way was across a ploughed Beld. Have you ever tried to do a across furrows 220 yards' sprint

If so, you with unlaced boots on? enn guess what that run was like. I broke no records though I nearly broke my neck.

Stumbling and cursing, I made my way to the shapeless bulk of the dis- carded parachute.

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I can

All

The farmhouse

A figure loomed out of the dark-

ness about ten yards from the

and back door of the farmhouse. It was

hurried him into the farmhouse, and the lady of the house ushered him into a chair in front of the fire.

Cume six o'clock, my relief, the knock-out. By orders-and the an nirman and he was Umping. I best laid schemes of privates are often ruined by 'orders-I was to return to billets at once. All leave and passes had been cancelled. That news put me on the spot and quash- ed my hopes of a pleasant Saturday night. But orders or no orders I was determined to keep my date, though the dance was out of question.

the

or

How I got out of my billet what passed between us is nobody's business. The time passed all too gathering rapidly quickly. The gloom warned me that it was time to part.

After leaving my friend, I made my way back to billets without be- ing challenged.

The plane

The room was a typical Scotch farmhouse kitchen, clean, cosy and

dy.

The aviator made an imposing Agure in his leather flying sult, and at Brst I thought he was one of own boys who had come to our

captured grief while trying out a

especially as German plone; more there had been no anti-aircraft fire directed at him and no sirens sound- ed.

I said to him: "Excuse my ap- pearance, but I am a soldier."

I must confess I did not look much like a service man as my rig-out consisted of a pair of slacks, a vest, a pair of unlaced boots and a pal of Maltese socks, which are no socks groomed stranger, I felt like a comic turn at a music hall.

HEADQUARTERS were in an old at all. Compared with the well-

standing in extensive 'past grounds. The main road ran

111s reply, couched in good the entrance gates; from it a secon- dary road forined-a-boundary to the English, gave me a nasty kar, for cer grounds at the side and back of the tain intonations betrayed thathu castle. Little of the castle could was a foreigner. be seen from either of the

reads,

ns the main drive run through an Part of avenue of huge ar trees.

wooded

"Ho, bo," he chuckled, "a soldier!"

I stared ht him, wandering the grounds were thickly with beech, birch, larch and moun- whether lle really could be a Ger-

tain ash, while the rhododendronst have the reputation at being some of the finest in Scotland.

man.

The answer to my next question settled any doubt I might have had as to his nationality.

"Where have you come from?" I asked.

The reply was short and sweet and

To outward appearance, the castle seemed to be a palatial residence, but once inside, one realised that it had suffered heavily from the ravages of time, many of the rooms being uninhabitable, The orst wing, however, was still in good re- to the point. pair, so naturally it was

comman deered by officers and NCOs. To accommodate the rest of the unit, huts were erected behind the castle, and it was in one of these huts that I was billeted.

10

"Munich."

1 nearly collapsed with fright and astonishment,

T

The aviator

-

For the first time since Hess, one-time Deputy Fuehrer of Nazi Germany, landed by plane in Scotland on May 10, 1941, the true story of how he was captured and taken to a Scottish farmhouse near Glasgow, is told, ex- clusively to Hongkong Telegraph readers, by

DANIEL MCBRIDE

formerly of the Royal Corps of Signals,

who it now in Hongkong

In the heyday of the Nazis, Nuremberg was the scene of mass party rallies. This picture was taken at the 1938 rally, and shows Hess (right) saluting iller. It was also in Nuremberg that Hess was tried last year by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal, and sèn- tenced to life imprisonment,

Hnd the reporter detailed for the job carried out his instructions to the letter, the public reading their Sunday morning papers would pro- bably have learnt that Rudolf Hess had landed in Scotland, forty eight hours before it eventually public rossip.

becamo

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On my return to the kitchen tound the prisoner-for such he vir- tually was until much times as I was relieved of my charge by an escort -sipping a glass of water, while on the table was another cup of tea for

me.

Sitting down I began to drink the tea. With the cheerful blaze the fire radiating warmth and comfort, It seemed strange and unreal that we were enemies and that tu many lands on that summer night our respective countrymen. were hell- bent on slaughtering each other, alded in their grim. task by every means that man's ingenuilty and madem science could devise.

The card

SURREPTITIOUSLY I took stock

of the stranger, admiring his find physique, the black head of hair, and noting more especially the keen, clear eyes shadowed by bushy. block eye-brows

At I watched, he stretched out his right low, and a twinge of pain con- torted his face momentarily.

enquired if the injury was pain- ful. An armative nod of the head was the only reply.

with

I

Just then I noticed what had pre- viously missed my attention--a piece of thin cardboard strapped to his right knee. Grently daring-for did not know if he would resent my action- unstrapped the card for closer Inspection. It resembled postcard and WAS covered #gures and letters. I tried to decl- pher them but the task was beyond my skill. I might just as well have tried to read the Rosetta Stone or the royal cartouche on an Egyptian mummy case.

asked the nirman Balled, translate them for nie, but an enigmallę smile was his only. reply to my request. So I had another try on my own, but again I had to admit fallure..

I

to

The disappearance

PLACED the card on the arm of my chair and turned round to take another drink of ten. Just then the farmer's wife distracted my atten tion by asking me if I would like another cup of tea and something to ent. I refused with thanke. When she had gone, I found that the card

asked disappeared. I

the prisoner if he had taken it, but ho denied having done so, looked into the fire but there was no sign of it

there, no betraying ash.

Under the steadying influence of for he laughed

My answer evidently amused him,

so heartily that I the hot tea, my mind began to tune

tion more or less normally, and I had perforce had to join in, though my knees were saying one to the other suddenly realised that it was my "Hit me and I'll hit you back." duty to report the incident to HQ some two to three hundred yards

ask I did not feet exactly on the top away, und

them to send an escort and means of transport for of the world hobnobbing with German airman big enough to tie the injured enemy airman. me in little knots even though I had a companion standing at the door.

Fortunately, there was a telephone Installed in the, farmhouse and I put through a call. for he confessed afterwards that his legs felt as if they were made of soft copper wire.

The man might have been armed for all I knew.

a

That intrigued me, so I made Д meticulous search of the room but without result, During my abortive search I chanced to notice the prisoner's hand slipping into a large patch pocket similar to that on It took me nine minutes to get soldier's battledress uniform.. T through to IIQ, and when I reported made a grab at his hand while it my find the operator asked if I was still in his pocket. I head had gone "crackers!" It took some shook vigorously in denial us time and nearly all my scanty stock pulled his hand, empty, out of his of patience to convince HQ that I pocket. was not leg-pulling or suffering from I searched the pocket, expecting a hang-over. Then I was casually

to find either the curd SEEING that he was evidentis suffer at the moment but we all weapon...I was disappointed to ind

fering from twinges of pain which able at the moment they would nothing there. The

disappearance he could not entirely conceal, I ank- condescend

The telephone

to send

on escort at ed if he had been hurt in the crash. once and, with this I had to be con- He admitted that his right leg bad tent. been doubled up under him when he landed and was slightly sprained. I asked him to sit down and make He lowered himself comfortable.

The idea

he

some

of the card had me worried-one moment it was there, the next it had vanished late thin air apparently.

himself gingerly into the armchair FORTY minutes later, to the dot.am about the incident. and stretched out his injured leg into a comfortable position.

As soon as he was settled down, I took up my interrogation:

escort did arrive, but not from sur 1IQ, withough the farmhouse was so.

in the vicl- near and the only one alty. The escort could have crawled on hands and knees there and back

"Was any other person with you in several times in that waiting period. Probably when this war is over the plane?"

and ancient history, a tattered de-1 "No," he replied. "I was alone." Inchment with snowwhite hair and..

knee-length beards will toller up lo the farmhouse asking for a baled out enemy airman to be handed over to them.

"Have you any arms?" With an implsh grin, he raised his arms in Hollywood style, say-

E aviator was tall a six-footer ing:

in fact-broad-shouldered and "These are the only arms I pus- apparently in good condition despite sess."

leave

I was still lost in reverie and my companions were snoring in three different keys, when I heard the un- mistakable drone of a low-flying aircraft increasing, rapidly nerve-racking roar, which brought me back to earth with a jolt. The reach Ave feet four inches. I'm no snoring stopped abruptly as three modern Hercules at that. One good sleepers woke, jumped out of bed, smack from that hefty fist of his, I thought, and you'll be another and were outside in a matter of seconds. We were standing there in horizontal featherweight that was various stages of undress as the perpendicular. To cover my confu plane zoomed low over the huts. We sion I repented the question and re- saw it plainly, but owing to the celved the same brief answer. fading daylight we could not make out the markings. From the noiso of the engine and the design of the to open plane, wo guessed it was not one of remarked: "They make good beer in hesitating, as I felt that I ours. Like a giant moth it circled Munich, don't they?".

his recent drop from the crashed "Was your plane armed?"

"No." plane. It takes me all my time to

"Whint time did you Manich?"

shot this question at him I kept a close watch on him, but he answered without hesitation:

"About 6.30 pm. this evening." At this point we were interrupted by the former's wife who came in to ask us if we would like a cup of tea.

This was getting us nowhere,, so

up the conversation' I '*****

ho

to

the castle and went off in the direc Hin keen set eyes sparkled beneath tion

tho of.

city, The

drone his dark, bushy eyebrows, os diminished and anally died away, answered my question with another leaving us asking: "If that was a Jerry, what the devil does he want?: "Why, yes. Have you been

As none of us know the answer to Munich?" that, it was at least unanimous that he was flying dangerously low.

"No," I replied, "but I have tasted Munich beer in Hamburg."

NANCY. Good Ol' Helpful Judy!

HELLO, MY DEAR COUSIN JUDY

WHY IS SHE" BEING SO NICE 7-- I KNOW SHE" „'DOESN'T LIKE

ME

COME ON, JUDY. ́OL' PAL--- LET'S

TAKE A NICE

WALK

to

I accepted the kind offer without needed something to steady my nerves, but the airman expressed a preference for water and stuck to his decision though I tried to persuade him have tea. I offered him a cigarette but he declined it with thanks. From the doorway my companion was walching the proceedings with interest.

Cursing HQ and all its works and ways, I slipped back to have another look at the stranger. Ho was storing into the fre deeply im- mersed in thoughts which evidently not too pleasant, Judging by the grim expression on his tired face.

were

Satisfied that he was all right; I went back to the telephone to carry out an idea that had suddenly come Into my hond. I was friendly with the news editor of a national nows- paper, and I realised that here at this lonely farmhouse was nows- news with a copiinl "N." That be- Ing so, my friend might as well have the first option on it.

I rang him up and, note the con- trast, I made contact with him in less than a minute,

He listened to my story without Interrupting me, nor did he cast doubly on my sanity, All. he sold .man was; "OK. Mac. I'll send a over right away to cover it. Thanks for the tip."

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To this day I have never zolved the mystery, but evidently the au- thorities knew all about it, for it was mentioned in the official report How and when it turned up

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