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'POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE'

IELD-MARSHAL KESSEL RING, who in the early days of the war gave the world its first lesson in saturn-

SHOULD KESSELRING DIE?

By PATRICK

tion bombing by smashing Rot- DONCASTER

terdam and Coventry, has been sentenced to death by shooting in Italy as a war criminal.

I would like to tell in simple

A misalmed bomb on a church or

I found an Italian man who was

a school is explained. But how is probably closest to the scene.

He

the mugsucre of the caves explained? telts rosaries and crucifixes at the What makes human beings deli- berately and callously, mow down a

catacombs' repository. boy of 12 years?

to

Says Kesselring: "I assume entire responsibility If anyone I blame in this malter it is 1."

I doubt if Kesselring has been to the caves. It was impossible to get in them soon after the tragedy, be- cause the Germans tried to destroy the evidence by mines.

There the victims and the tum bled earth remained until the fall the Allies entered the Eternal City

"It was about nine o'clock in the evening," he told me.

"There was the rat-tat-tal of

Terrl- machine-guns-and scrents. ble screens...

.. What could I do?

I could do nothing. The curfew. I could not move."

Something was done, however, for furn, at the catacombs. A message. went out to the neutral Vatican.

The crime for which he has words the story of that shock. of Rome, for it all began just before Next morning at the caves, in civi-1

been condemned to die was not the bombing of defenceless civi- lians but the massacre as a re- prisal of over 300 Italians in the Ardentine Caves on the out- skirts of Rome

on March 23, 1944.

who led the

Colonel Halse, prosecution at Kesselring's trial, described the crime blunt ly, but with truth.

us "the dirtiest piece of work ever com- citted by any nation."

Yet a sentimental crusade has been opened by distinguished British soldiers some of them save Kesselring generals-lo from the death penalty on the ground that. taken all in all, he was really pretty decent fellow,

Now I have been to these caves in which the mussacre was committed. They are now a national memorial.

"K

ing crime as a counter to the sentimental crusade.

The Ardentine Cares are just outside Rome, a rubbish dump across the way from the cata- combs of St Callistus, where 16 Popes are buried.

The catacombs are deeper thin the caves; and the smell is of age. The cuves still carry the air of massacre, In the catacombs of the Popes 1 was cold. In the caves I shivered, and my thoughts were bitter."

THE SCENE

in 1944.

The ratio Thirty-two

Thirty-two S.S. men were killed by n bomb In a side street near Rome's Barberini Palace. Out went an order for hostages. was to be ten for one. Germans -320 hostages.

Rome's Regina Coeli jail is small. 10. There were not enough prisoners in it to make up the number. But there were some. So to the Via Tasso, lo the S.S. torture chamber. And the total swelled.

But still not enouga

But what did five more

People were plucked off the streets. In the end the good work Dim electric bulbs, it the brown resulted in 325 people being rounded sandstone walls, along which lay up. A little over the stipulated ten more than 300 victims of this "dir- for one. test piece of work" in plain white matter? wood boxes, adorned with pictures

Newspaper reports of the Kessel- and pitiful relles,

ring triol mention 330 victims. the caves a notice states 325.

On the evening of March 23 they What were taken out to the caves. happened then must be gathered from German evidence. There was

On a wooden table there were human remains; parts of the ual- dentised, there in the hope that per-: haps a dentist might be able to re- cognise something.

AL

In the eaves you find the evidence a curfew in force; the road is lonely,

No Italians could have seen it. of Germany's guilt.

CRIME NEWS IN FINE FOCUS-No. 3

THESE MEN DRILL

NOCK three times, and

ask for Charlie" used- to be {} music-hull catch phrase. Today it is the password for the men who curry the canful of whisky to the club pro- eager publican or prietor.

Almost every-big-city-in-Britain has its counterparts of Charlle. They are the men who, by a thought- ful study of rail time-tables, road maps, and lorry schedules, inter- rupt the legal flow of spirits from the distilleries to the public houses, wine shops and docks.

They are the men who ensure that when you lakė a nip In public house these days you never know whether or not you are klasing, as you lift your lass, the end of a chain of crime.

WHISKY BY Whisper THE price they charge for their ser-

vices you can discover at any of Britain's mushroom wine shops, or at the bars where they sell whisky by the whisper or ellor bottle of spirits under cover of a newspaper. The prices range from

23 10s, to £4 10s.

Who pays for this high-price liquor? A principal contributor is the decent, honest distributor with whisky to sell at 23s. Od., the trade's

TO GET WHISKY.

By JOHN REDFERN-

Then they were

replaced, witli the seals intact.. Alcohol was put In the case to make it smell as though drenched with spilled whisky; The publican receiving the case sent a report back, and claimed allowance for the lost stuff.

llan clothes, were two of the Pope's Swiss Guards—the first Independent | witnesses of the crime..

Through them the world heard the news of the evening blood-bath. And today the ten-for-one hostages atill lie where they fell, for Ardeaine is) a national memorial.

ALL CREEDS

What kind of people were they, these 3257

France is building

an army -for 1960

By MICHAEL WILSON

MT

Parls, May 20. AR BELLENGER. bas come to France to get first-hand In- formation about the French Army. He wants to know just what aid France could bring to the Anglo-French military alllance how many men, how 'much material,

He will learn that' France'a milltary power today is at Its lowest ebb since the defeat of Napoleon nt Waterloo. When the Germans amashed France's armies of five and a half million men in 1940, they dislocated her entire milltary framework.

war came to Europe tom morrow, France could be of almost no military help.

Fresh start

The French Army today totals approximately 400,000 men, but it is a new-born baby, just learning to crawl. More than 100,000 of these troops are busy quelling the Viet-Namh revolt in Indo-China, Twenty-five thousand more are in Madagascar fighting on uprising.

In the rear of this front-line strength, is a complete lack of all for the Industrial machinery Th

manufacture of war material.

There are fathers and sons, their

There coffins olde by side.

and policemen¡ П neruis genial, smiling man of 58 who minis- priest,

Monsignor Pappagallo, tered in the famous Basilica of St Mary Major and who was suspected of harbouring

an creaped British prisoner.

There are brothers. There is n Hungarian officer. There is Nicola Stame, a tenor.

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They are people of all creeds. The Catholics and other Christians have a crucifix on their collins. The Jews a Star of David. A Communist lies beneath the Red Flag.

Over each victim there is a pho- tograph. A wedding group. perhaps, So or an old school photograph. many of these people were people like you and me and the man who brings the milk.

Masses of blooms. 1ies and mi- moso, fail to dispel the unearthly. the sickly, lingering smell of this macabre scene.

The flowers stand valiantly in nrmy ration tins from the rubbish dump which still functions at the

cave#.

I promised there in the dampness of the earth that one day I would take my son to the caves, for memorial of what 1939-45 was all

from trim ofces in the West End about it vill mean so much more

of London. They have big, new than a list of names chiselled in cars,ond-typists-who-don't-have marble on a plinth.

much to type. On their pay-rolls I would like to take Kesselring are 20 to 30 men who organise the there, too—and those collection of the whisky with a trail him.

of corruption.

BY

who defend

The French Army today is com- pletely equipped, from under- clothes to tanks, with British and. American material. It was hand- ed over on a lease-lend basis at the end of the war,

purchased from surplus Anglo-American stocks. Whole camps were trans- ferred.

The French General Staff is under no illusions, General de Latiro de Tassigny, generalissimo of the new-born armies, will probably tell Mr. Bellenger blunt- ly that France is rebuilding her military machine on the basis of "no war within 15 years."

He will say that France cannal fight a war before that period, and cannot be relied upon for any help until 1980, at the earliest.

In 15 Years

Hall

the present-day French Army is an elite force of regulars highly trained as parachutists, commandos and tankmen. The other half are conscripts doing a yeur's military service."

The

French Government has announced that it intends to keep the strength of the army below for the moment, but 500,000 me the General Staff considers that in 15 years France will have three million men trained. and the material stored in North Africa to

equip an army of this size.

Till then, Mr. Hellenger, the Anglo-French alliance is not very military.

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married, There is, say, Dick X, with a family, who drives a lorry, He is approached by one of the men from the West End office, who suggests that it would be worth his while to leave his lorry-containing of whisky- But someone was the belter off by nattended for a few minutes. The

perhaps £5,000 worth of 12 battles of whisky,

time and the place are stated. Whisky distributors say that the It may take £100 to lure Mr X from the path of duty. Often the breakages claims from customers are

But £100 They will increase approach is unfruitful."

to the going up and up. still further since home supplies is £100 tax free and that is small us No-Way Trame Plan. Nobody Basle Zoo. When I came

seems to know what is meant by the passage in the nineteenth book where were halved.

money for such job.

words "In the opposite direction," Xanthus, the horse of Achilles, Now and then a Mr X falls in Which direction is the opposite one. speaks a few unkind words (by per- In his few months

with the scheme. And when he does und oppositc to which? the whisky disappears from the un-going in any direction may

rame mission "Traffic

of Juno), the octopus attended lorry like snow in summer's that

claim shouted, "What rot! Horses can't it is going in the opposite talk!" A very good test of in- direction in relation to traße going telligence is to induce an octopus to the other way." These words of If he can tell which is playing which. play the bagpipes, and then to see law ofclal put the

Pursuant to the above

THE WAY

by Beachcomber

HITCH has occurred during a November 1934). of how I read

Aurreale tritt of the Strenis Homer's "Ilind" to the octopus in the

Only a present job, Stan, aged 26, told his boss he could do a bit of driving The boss-a bulkiers' merchant- seemed interested.

THEN

A LITTLE TRIP

one night when Stan was

finishing work, his employer asked

heat,

matter In A

and the other from south to north.

MORE BREAKAGES TRUCKS in railway sidings, too, sinister light. Of two lines of truffle ivered in stone jars has been tapped which is going in the opposite direr. have been piltered. Whisky de- one travelling from north to south

Stan agreed.

then the jar, in its protective basket-have to be carefully reworded. was told to go on not to an work, dropped on to the ground.

Westminster alley in

There

More breakages, no traces. vehicle would be waiting. He must take it over and drive it to a publie

A wooden maze, to find its way out

S for pulling an octopus in a

fixed price. The price he pays is if he would mind making "a lle by holes drilled through the bottom, ilon? The schedule (B.45/H,8.) wil by trial and error, a buiter test is to

masked in the books as "breakages." Stan could tell you about these "breakages." Stan is not a rocke- leer. He is a carpenter by trade, and he drinks mild beer, and now smokes only ten cigarettes a day. I met him in London.

He

house. Nothing much to handle. Only a few medium-sized cases, He knows very little abolat Scoich, Those cases interested Stan. but he knows that a lot of whisky didn't have to be much of a carpen- delivered to the publicans is In ttr to know they, held whisky. At smashed containers when it arrives. the week-end he found an extra £1

in his pay packet. as Ston's in

That was the first weck. The next, week he made a few more trips to

It has been "nobbled," friends put it. "

packet

Increased

In the shops where whisky is cold, at high prices they say that the stuff comes from motions. But there are

to not enough auctions, nowadays supply one lithe of the black market. Sale of individual stocks has been fur Inore than a year. festricted The only auctions now sales for blenders.

arc

trade.

In 'the public houses where the whisky flows like beer It is a

."

The leader page hippopotamus has trodden in Professor Chap man Pincher's tuk, and passed stealthily across this column on tip-toe, going in the opposite. direction.

Whither, octopus?

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On the way from the warehouse more wine and spirit retallers. Later to the publle house, dock or wine his pay

bet that some of it has been stolen to WOE shop, expert -thloves' toolt out the by 308.

somewhere on the way. bottles and broke them over

For your 2s. a nlp you have a Alter.

drought of fraud and corruption.

A Behind Stan, and hundreds lite him, are sleek characters operating

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sit it down at a typewriter and see how long it takes to tap out Spen- ser's "Fairy Queen," using alternato tentacles. The centipede, which the most intelligent trigonomyth in existence, when told to put fis best foot forward, hesitates for mony. усати. Give It a hundred Kittle boots, and watch to see whether it will pull them all on at once or

·· make a careful selection.

The old lady sayr

No

HOSE scientists, who, for want of

something worse to do, ore about My oldest her has been broody for

the intelligence of the five weeks. octopus in the aquarium at Naples have. I fear, not seen my account (published in "Zoological Bits" for

By Ernie Bushmiller

MUNC

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