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THE MAN WHO CAUGHT

RUDOLF HESS

THE

my

escort for prisoner was long over- due and I wondered when it would arrive.

My anxiety was not les- sened by the sinile of indul- gent tolerance on the face of the prisoner.

So far bls conduct had been ideal. Ilo was as cool, calm, courteous and self-possossed as if he had been in his own house, For the life of me I could not imagine him to be a Nazl.

:

the

How the former Deputy Fuchrer of Nazi Ger- many landed in Scotland in May 1941, and circumstances attending his capture. Second and 'concluding instalment of a true story, exclusive to the Hongkong Telegraph, by his captor,

DANIEL MCBRIDE

pencil I asked him to write Bla nome down. He wrote it without demur.

As the Fuehrer's right hand man he had a large share in the polley that was responsible for this devas- tating war an for the murder, for- ture and starvation of milluns of

German wer

CAUGHT

of a

Iten to Y Round that night was there and I had to recomt the herald the pproach of the Except the cele hoot of an owl and tion speed while

party, story of the previous night at dicta- the frantte barking

he made coploun watch dog, there was nothing to dis- that he did not grasp first time. Aty distant notes, cross-examining me on points turh the silence of the night.

Weary and dispirited 1 returned as soon as I got badt to the billeta spell of duty ended at 2 pm and to the rooms to fix Horn still sinr- log unseeingly into the

I was informed that I was Arc. He

confined tooked up with n pleasant smile

to barracks until further orders, I came lu.

Time limped slowly by What a mess up I thought The en hobbled feet, and I was feeling reason for this order, as I learned both dired and sleepy. To break later, was to prevent newspaper re- the monotony I put a question to porters from interviewing me and the re-gazer.

to stop any leakage of news to the

01

"What are things like In your press. country"

Sunday passed quietly, but on

"eing absent

Without looking up he replied: Monday morning the fun started. "Very good," at the same time I was" marched" off to the orderly stretching out his injuried leg. room to face the C. 0. Ex- Seeing that it pained him I suggest pecting to get some commendation ed that he should take off his flying for my prompt action, I was su

it and let me examine it, but I prised to learn that he proposed to met with a courteous and decisive crime' me on fur separate charges refusal,

from Billets without That refusal, for some occult ren-

leave and

erly drosed Improperly being unfortunate people who were unable mysterious back to my mind the in a public. pince were the lightest

disappearance of the of the four. I deeply resented card. So I had another lank round attitude and politely informed him for it but it was no good. So I had that: hast only done my duty. This ignorant of his identity but written "Alfred Hern." So, I had lied government, or barbarlon if it another kok round for it but it

was no good. That

statement Bemed to add fuel to the card authentic Maskelyne

had there and he ticked me off in great- vanishing touch.

Devant yic. I refused to be browbenten

I believe in taking a man as you find him, and I found this I was one to be very likable.

That slip of soiled paper, creased and torn, is the only evidence I now

the

civi-

this.

and

The Home Guard

possent to prove the night's adven-

cope with ture was not the figment of a dis- fa ordered brnin. On It is distinctly machine. No other so-called

heard correctly.

comes to that, has been responsible there was something familiar Thinking to catch him off his for so much pain, misery, torture about his uppearance which guard as he handed the pencil and and death to subjugated countries.

I said quickly: No one who reads this story hos made me rack my memory for paper back to me,

been entirely unaffected by this a clue as to his identity. But all "Where did you come from?"

"Munichi," came back the answer war. Many of the notes of my efforts were useless. Even without hesitation.

narrative have been written while tually I had to give up the effort

Seeing I could not catch him In convoy in the North Atlantic in CCARCELY had I

finished my "Will constant danger of U-bont attack

search than there was a commo→ and content myself with think napping, I made a request:

a sou- for, after my summary treatment flon outsite. ing that he was probably the you give me something as

as a result of this incident, I decid

The door was flung open with a bang and a Home Guard victim of circumstances caught venir

Searching through his pockets heed to ask for a transfer to my old ofleer unceremoniously rushed in up willy-nilly in the devastating produced a box of Bengal matches,

followed by a number of his men. beloved of maelstrom of war, and glad to the coloured variety

We all stood up as they entered. children, and handed conflict with

to me. it be out of the

Hora sild his hand into his pocket thanked him for the gift, but as I

and I saw him half take out whole skin.

pocketed it I thought how useful the pociteted it

letter he carried, saying tu the officer; have a message for the Duke of Hamilton. Will you take me to him" "

a

So far neither of us had touched subject-the rn that controversin! war-but it was inevitabile that sooner of later it should crop up.

The last war

¡¡AD been casting envious eyes 0:1 an expensive camera slung by a airman's leather strap from the neck, and casting discretion to the winds I asked him to give it to me. He shook his head vigorously. Per- was as well for me that he baps it did so, for if he had given it to me would have the Security people

had it and I should found out that

jump. the high have been fu

He looked me up and down, smll- 1 thought, this smile ing the while. was what the charge sheet termed dumh Insolence. I was mistaken proved though, as his next words beyond doubt.

Were you in the last wor?" Yes.

admitted, wondering what lay behind the question.

"What regiment?" query.

matches would have been to him as A substitute for a flare. Rummag- ing again in his pockets, he brought out a photograpli of his wife showed it to me with pride.

"Where have you left her?" I ask-

ed.

"In Munich," he replied.

and

"Will she be looked after?” I queried.

Shrugging his shoulders ho replied: "She is being well looked after."

I have often recalled that slate- ment and wondered what exactly when he made Ifess was thinking it. I have drawn my own coneclu- slona!

"Did you come to bomb us?" I

asked.

"My plane was not lifted to carry bombs," he replied indignantly, I came with a message for the Duke of Hamilton."

The envelope

was his next

THIS statement knocked me side. ways, and before I recovered from his the shock he asked At the answer

me to take I told him. eyebrows lifted; a reminiscent smile him to the Duke's home, which ha said he knew was not very far away. it his face, and he nodded.

"A very fine unit," he commented. To his breathtaking request J could Then he asked whether I was at only reply that it was out of my

and when Beaumont Hamel,

power to do so, but that the Mill- pleaded guilty he informed me that tary authorities would probably do

the apposite so later on. he was there too-in Cimp.

"Were you at Cambrat in 10187" he went on.

"Yes, I was there too." I answer- d.

"I, too," he boasted, "and 1 well remember the morning that broke through your lines."

I

He had partly drawn on envelope from his inside pocket, but when his request was turned down dat he replaced it with an air of disap- pointment and chagrin.

"Perhaps you bring a proposal for

suggested. peace terms." 1 we

Ic laughed outright at that, but made no reply.

This a queer how-do-you-do. I thought. Here is a Jerry, all the way from Munich in an unarmed

to

How Are The

Mighty Fallen

Hess, out of control and gesticula- ting wildly, during the later stages of his trial before the Nuremberg International War Crimes Tribunal. On October 1, 1948, he was found guilty of two counts and sentenced

Imprisonment. life

The

Jade ment, delivered by Lord Justice Lawrence, described Icas as

"Hit ler's closest personal confidant,** "active supporter of the prepara- tions for war" and "an informed and willing participant in German aggression."

some

the

the

The offer answered curtly: "You can save all that for people concerned. At present you are coming with me."

and that I had

done my

duty.

that if punishment was being dinhed out someone clse in authority ought to be receiving it.

After a stormy interview marched back to blilets,

seething! with rage at the way I had treated. firmly believe that he would have proceeded with the charges but for the fact that the In Intelligence officer was already possession of the facts.

The shock

been

0% Tuesday morning I got the big-

I resented this attitude and pro- a

Uhal tested to the officer. "I am

been

he

if

gest shock of all. I was on duty in the operations room when the In- eligence Officer enme iz. He checked up his notes with me to see

had no sullent point

he was leaving, SI

sorry, omitted. As but I am

a soldier and the whispered "Don't be surprised

be Rudolf prisoner la in my charge and stays the prisoner turns out here. An escort is coming from the less." castle to take him into custody.

It was now 11.25 pm, and the escort and conveyance had had more than ample time to turn up.

"Are you questioning my au- thority?", demanded the officer trucu- Ieatly.

"Authority or no authority, Sir," I countered, "I do not leave

my

gaped at him, too taken aback Before I could recover,

1 Ka to speak. he was gone,

It was some time before I realised the full implication of the confiden- Liat aside. Then like

It a flash, came to me that this was the reason the airman's Ince had seemed familiar to me. I had seen photo- but

50

him." If you take him I go with graphs of him in various conditions'

The subject of our argument stood taking it all in, a smile of amuse- ment on his face.

not in air kit.

My thoughts were interrupted by the return of the Intelligence Officer who asked for the slip of paper on which Hess had written the name he had assumed, "Alfred Horn."

He assured me that it would be return- ed to me. after the powers-that-be had scrutinised it. I handed it over to him and his promise to retum it was faithfully köpt.

The officer glared furiously at me, als hand dropped to his side and the men behind him crowded into the room.

In the rear was a police con- stable. Realising that the officer was determined to have the prisoner at all costs and that further argu- ment was useless, I was

still determined to stick to my prisoner if at all possible. Wais

unceremoniously unit bundled to one side and the officer and his men marched out with my prisoner. As they got outside [ hcard someone remark the constable I think it was-that his ear was at the disposal of the offer; and the prisoner.

But

The fun starts

Thursday, as every stony-broke private knows full well, is pay day, and lined up with the rest of the

As I was receiving my pay

for my princely emoluments. from the Section Omeer I noticed a copy

of a national newspaper so folded as to display a report on the capture of Hess. As soon as I had picked my money he pointed to the article me in a hectoring manner and asked what I know about it. Before had time to open my mouth he gave seventeen kinds of hell, all different, in language unbecoming

mun.

up

So the conversallon drifted from battle to battle, reviving old paig- Hant memories of hard-fought fields, of comrades who died by our side in the alth and slime of the waterlogged plane, with a box of Bengal-matches love-the Merchant Navy. Though WAS left alone with the farmer's an officer and a temporary gentic-

Flanders, In more trenches of favourable circumstances, we might zavou lave carried on into the wee sma' 'oors discussing those memorable days. With the Are crackling mer rily in the grate and the four of us basicing in its cheerful glory for my mate and the farmer's wife had joined us--we seemed just family party gossiping before turn- ing in.

The name

♫

proposals, that's the racket!

the

The reward

JUST then a draft was standing by to proceed on aorvice to an out-

old

I

wife and my friend, furlous with which could be used for a flare, I have been through

rough acting as postman to the Duke of times, I do not regret it except for rage and frustration.

All respect in which I had bither- When I came down to earth agal to held him evaporated as Hamilton! That looks like peace some of the heartrending sights I

I went out to see it the reporter had-as-snowflake in Hades. The un-

quickly terms, and that is why he is so have been compelled to-witness.---

turned up with the crowd. What a called-for humiliation kindled cocksure that his wife will be well

fires looked after in his absence. Prace der me that is one of the hazards there! He was

My first ship was torpedoed un- scoop, he had lost if he WON not of resentment in my soul. But

not. Out in the

worse was to follow. Drastic action of war. I have scen other ships field the plane was stol shouldering, followed on the unmerited 'brown- "Do you know the contents of

disintegrate into twisted masses of with a morbid crowd of sightseers, Ing off." that letter?" I asked. He nodded scrap iron and most of their crews round it, his head In assent.

The Silence fell on

blasted Into gruesome fragments of the little party blood-dripping

sight of the plane reminded pulp. after that. We were all busy with lucky

Survivors me that there was at least one enough to escape fr the souvenir lying at und somewhere, our own thoughts. There was only life-boots undamaged were and I made a bee-line to the back of faraway look in the eyes of the Ger- machine-gunned from the air, und the farmhouse, to where I knew THE hum of a car approaching at What visions he saw there he only swimming to Boating wreckage were ly got a bullet as a keepsake instead. yondall volunteers for this unc

man as he sat staring into the Arc. even wounded survivors painfully parachute had come down, and near- landisht place at the back of the be speed caused us all to start. Here

knows. As I covertly studied him, considered fine targets by the Nazi A guard had been placed over it. My viable duty. At the last minute a comes either the escort or the re-

appeared to have all the attri- air gunners. porter, I thought. But the

car he

luck was dead out. butes of a gentleman,, and and soon the

I could did not pull up,

had lost my man was taken from the draft and not reconcile such a man doing, or I have seen women and helpless

prisoner and

I was ordered to take his place. and his parachute as well. rapidly diminishing sound of the ex-

However, I was still alive and

To give this man hia dưỡ he pro- being rescued kicking and ou evacuees the even acquiescing in, the vile hor children up in haust was swallowed

rors which had been perpetrated on from a well-known liner

of billets without tested strongly at the change, “but- silence of the night. As we resumed the hapless people of Poland and from stem to stern like a furnace; to show as an excuse. Cursing my ly take his place

blazing leave or a

pass, and

nothing tangible his protest was. Ignored and he had our conversation, it struck me that, Crecho-Slovakia and the unfortunate she was the victim of an air ass, bad luck I sauntered back is billets although I was then 42 years

to stand aside and lei me unwilling-

In the had my prisoner eared to make a

draft. helpless, dash for liberty we could not have Jews of Germany, Austria and Hun- I have had to stand by

seething with rage, and crying with

alone. I I know I would be

on the stopped him unless his injured leg

How wrong I was.

and classified in medical category as impotence at the sight of men we carpet for letting my prisoner go, was a bigger handicap than it seem-

could not rescue being burned to and I was in no mood for company. ed to be

death in

So I was sent to one of the Ione- a sea of burning oll as On arriving back the officer they jumped overboard from a blaz- duty heard my story, or as much of ly islands off the coast of Scotland, I ing tanker.

apparently because of the part It as I felt inclined to tell him, put had played in the capture of Hess. WATCHING him, the impression I

me through the third degree, con- I should certainly have Inspected had that his face was familiar of the comforts of home, of the com- and told me to get to bed, not too

Like myself millions are deprived fiscated the box of Bengal matches',

Six months later the C. O. of the it. Seeing that he looked hot, I grow stronger and stronger.

new station summoned me to his asked him if he would like to take striking prifle, those piercing eyes dearest, while countless others have mings.

pinionship of the nearest off his coat, but he simply shoot shadowed by the heavy black brows, made the supreme sacrifice or will

and politely and with real army trim office to receive back the slip of paper signed "Alfred Horn." The his intelligence Offcer had kept broad stirred some clusive chord

By that time I was ready for bed, promise.. of have to go through life broken or as I felt dog tired; in fact, too Urod the memory which should have given

In the long night watches at sea, Then I belatedly remembered that But in this instance, my

me the needed clue to his identity, malmed, blind or lame, while Rudolf to sleep. Reaction set in after all, with only the stars and lite ever

Hess is out of it all, housed and fed the excitement and I felt I had not asked for his name, 50 corresponded to the schoolboy's de-

at the expense of his victims.

all changing occan for company, I lived washed out. I suddenly put the question to him, finition of that function-the thing

Tossing and turning again the incidents of that hoetle over restlessly, I must apologise for allowing my hard to go to sleep, but the incidenta ing whether

I tried watching the effect closely.

desparately night and its consequences, wonder- You forget with.

should still be In Without batting an eyelid he re- Had I recognised him as Rudolt

Let of the night itept recurring in any khaki Instead of the undress plied at once: "Horn. Alfred Horn." Hess it would not have affected my

few I knew quite a

mind and dawn's left hand was In uniform of the Merchant Navy had German treatment of him, although comTM 'names, and Horn was not one of nidering his reputation and record the fire.

We were sitting in alience round the sky before I fell off in a atful never met Hess. I am still won-

doxe.

dering. But one thing I am per- them. So 1'said: "What?"

I should have been Justifled Ina.

When By this time it was 11.20 p.m.. Ho repeated again: "Alfred going back to HQ, seizing the Brst and I was

I reported to the operti fectly sure about is that I did my worried because Horn."

the tona.room the next morning for duty as I saw it on that wonderful rife I could lay my hands on and promised escort had not shown up. duty, I felt like something the cat night in May, 1041." It sounded. phoney to me, so shooting him like a mad dog despite. The suspense of waiting became un had brought in from the garbage World copyright strictly reserved producing a scrap of paper and a the message he was carrying. 'bearable, ́so I went to the door to can. The Brigade Intelligence officer

Some report I remember reading his mentioned an identity disc on wrist, but I did not see it, otherwise

his head

settled his and shoulders more comfortably in chair.

►

gary.

The suffering

NANCY Slightly in Error, Fritzi

1. WANT. YOU KIDS TO STOP FIGHTING ---SIT. DOWN'AND'

BE FRIENDS

WHAT ARE WE GOING

TO DO ABOUT

IT 3

That

memory

WE'LL HAVE TO THINK OF SOMETHING)

feelings to run away with me.

me get back to the story.

PEACE: AT

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