1947-09-20 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947.

SECOND_INSTALMENT OF A THRILLING NARRATIVE

SECRET AGENT

British traitor betrays

three of my best

best men

HEN I took control of

"Pat" the first grent problem AMALA money.

by

Lieut.-Com.

"What proof have you that your coy is the codo?" I asked,

"You'll have to take my word for " he replied.

Without money we could not PATRICK O'LEARY, G.C., D.S.O., R.N.We don't take nyone's word

pay tho Spanish guards who led our escaped prisoners across the Pyrenees; we could not bribe when bribes were essen- tial; and we could not buy the vital food we needed,

I set out to solve the money problem-and had an amazing stroke of luck.

I discovered, by accident, that J. and P. Coats, the spin- ners, had a representative in France. He had been in charge of their French factories, and when I contacted him I found that he was holding millions of francs on behalf of his com- purry-and hadn't the faintest hope of getting the money out.

ma

I arranged that he should hand the francs over to while the British Government, in London, paid his firm the equivalent in sterling.

On an average it cost about 300 to get cach prisoner out of Occupied Europe.

Ideal hide-out THE money problem solved, 1 set about dealing with the suspected traitor "X" an Englishman who, as I said last week, was ultimately shot in Paris while resisting arrest after the war when we caught up with him.

I ordered Marseilles.

"X" to come

In England, the war over, three men talk over their adventures Lieut-Commander O'Leary is in the centre, on the left is M. Maurice Dufour, former French officer and member of the organisation known Pat. On the right is Squadron-Leader Jimmy Higginson, who

escaped from the Germans disguised as a priest.

all

I learned that Dowding, Duprez and the Abbe Carpentier had been rounded up.

our

I was never to see them again. The Abbe was in the Prison de Loos,

Lille. near

several of and sympathisers were prison guards. I

mtacted

one of them, and got him to snuggle a message to the Abbe in which I asked about his arrest.

I had a reply within a few days- a pencilled letter of six pages which, told the whole grim story und In-

criminated "x".

Betrayed

to THE

THE Abbe was in his office one when inorning

"X"-whom the Abbe knew-arrived with

strangers,

introduced and three them as escaping R.A.F. pilots In urgent need of fulse papers.

The Abbe took them into his study, spened his large desk, and from scere; drawers proceeded to take out false entity papers, ration books and demobilisation cards.

We were then working from A doctor's flat. This made an Ideal hide-out, for patients were passing in and out at all hours. and no suspicious were aroused.

'duly arrived.

And here let me give the de- vil his due. He had brought a number of men safely south, and when these men returned to Britain they spoke so well of him that I was later to find it very difficult to convince the authorities in Britain that he was a traitor at all.

Stormy meeting

"X", then produced passport pha tographs of the men, and the Abbe bent over his desk to complete the work.

hrte escapees The

Higginson, who was neither s priest nor a Catholic, grabbed the breviary with obvious gratitude and started to read the Latin as though his life de- pended on it.

We got him home ull right.

Love letters

an attractive WE also sent home

young Englishwoman who con- tacted me in Marseilles, admitted that she had been working on a Gestaps Lent, but was now anxious' to serve in our organisation.

Her husband was a Mayfair "play- boy"

As soon as she left 1 came across two trunks she had left behind,

I searched them and found bundles of love letters whiten to her by the Chief of the Gestapo at Nantes, along .with number of pictures showlug

the "happy couple" together.

I sent these back to London, and when the former woman Gestapo- agent landed in her native country The found Scotland Yard waiting te her

Sudden's he looked up and found himself gazing Into the muzzles of

revolvers. The alleged by

were from the Gestapo.

"Bruce Abbe.

along with Dowding, was later beheaded. Pras-

a concentralien

sinos was shot.

Duarez died in

Limp

Treturned to Marsellies feeling suicidaly depressed.

THE problem of traitors, spies and Gestapo agents grew us time went

Whenever we dost a worker through capture, ill-health or pres-

domestic cares--we had to re place him.

But it was the hardest job on car lo when investigating the cre- Sentials of a whether the man was genuine or st newcomer, to know

had the best references!

nowadays," I replied. "If you want to work for any organisation, then you have to prove your worth,

Could you, for example, get the names and full descriptions of any German agents recpatly funded In Britain by parachute or U boat?"

The stranger replied that he could, so I gave him enough money for the return trip to Paris, and told him to contact me on

on his retumi.

And sure enough he old return- but could not meet him. I had an urgent escape job on hond, so had to send one of my men.

The stranger brought back with | him the names and descriptions of three German sples who had been

unded in England.

Suspicious

UT my inan. was suspicious be

cause he had noticed certain

BUT

POCKET CARTOON byOSBERT LANCASTER

MANUFACTURERS LIFE

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"The next item on my pro- gramme will be 'Pale Handa I Loved' from the Pakistan Love Lyrics,"

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

THERE is in horticultural

circles much disagreement. and not a little confusion, about which way the Colorado beetle wears its black and yellow

documents in the stranger's posses-stripes; that is, whether tha sion, and all the facts were reported stripes . run (a) lengthwise along its back, or (b) in hoops, Rugger fashion.

to me.

There and then we decided that the stranger would make a trip to for which, the Pyrenees-from Gestapo agents, there was no return.

The Ministry of Agriculture (Beetles in Potatoes Division) now

He set off with four "uthorises me to say that style (s)

our name for escaping und instructions to lead them into the mountains to n certain rendezvous, where he was to hand them over to one Vidal, a Spaniard

who worked for us.

Vidal later fell into the hands of the Germans and was burned alive, But even when

this faced with terrible death he refused to give a

crap of Information about us.

The great heroes of the war were entirely confined to the belligerents.

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What the man from Alsace did not know was that men from "Pat" were following, men acting on strict instructions from ine.

Cornered

UP in the mountains they watched

the "parcels" bdag banded over, and then comered the stranger,

They searched him and found all they needed to Bind in the way of

criminaling evidence,

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is correct for all Colorados, Only wasps wear them the other way.

I would add that whereas our native ladybird has black spots on a red ground, the insect of similar aize, temperament, and habits, but which has red spots on

a black ground, is the Norwegian skolbord, or fiord fly. I hardly dare hope to expect the matter will ever again be brought up. Old and mild

MORE to keep our hand in than

to umuse you we interviewed our nearest centenarian last week. He was,

As we had been given to expect, an elderly mun. "Teil us," we asked, "what do you suspect la the cause of your long and dreary life?"

the

"Well,"

old gentleman croaked. "I like a nice glass of beer, I always has a nice drop at eleven, say a couple of plats Er so, and I finda a pint or two at dinner gives me a bit of an appetite and a quart This Gesfupe spy was taken to a during the afternom perks me up deserted crevice, stripped of all his a treat, but what I look forward to clothes, and his mouth, was forced is the old gallon jar the wife puts open.

by me bed at night, it takes away A small pill nf cyanide of the taste of me supper beer potassium was slipped between his always say," jaws, and within five seconds he was Cend.

"That's a lot of beer," we said.

"Now, tell us, "Mr-er-er-how do you feel in yourself?"

The upper part of the corps was than saturated with petrol and set light. In less time than it takes

"Now it's funny you should ask to tell the body was unrecognisable. that," the ld sat mumbled. "As It Niems grim-and it was grim. a matter of fact when I get up in But we were all

under the the living

Feel absolutely

moraing

we either shocking...

three-chief-lieutenants Our organisation in the north_hud especially as Gestapo agents always shadow of the Gestapo, and "anted.""

were Bruce

Dowding.

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been broken up again, every key man was in prison along with 23

young Australian, Prassinos, & other workers and dozens of RAF Greek, and Duprez, from Lille. men were in hia ng, on the seuntiest

Man in a cafe

They were with me when "rations, in farmsteads and cottages NE day, in January 1943, following are actually rotting heaps Miss Myrna Tandy, of Des Moines,

arrived.

it was

at stormy meeting.

throughout the northern area.

1

I kuid kinds on " then We have torn him limb from

would limb. The au lisrities in

London were so surprised at my news about 50"x" that they ordered me to report to Gibraltar, to discuss the whole set-up with an agent who was flown

travelled, taking with me the Abbe Carpentier's letter and other feriminating evidence,

I lost my temper and hit "X" hard that I broke the knuckles in my right hand and will carry digigurement to my grave.

the

"Pat" declared Dowding, "there's only one thing to do with n'm. Kill him or he'll betray us all."

"But we haven't proved he's trailor yet," put in the Greek.

from London to meet me.

From the day I produced them of #besttar "X" was a wanted mun.

I hesitated-and in doing so made an error of judgment that was to cost Dowding. Duprez and Prassinos their lives.

A new route

MY stay Ins

Gibraltar Insted 4x

weeks. and resulted in the "Look here," 1 suid to "X", who was slumped in a chair with blood opening up of another escape route.

face

tears pouring from his streaming from his eyes, "you'd better go back to England."

and

"I won't tell the authorities there

It was arranged that men would be picked up off the Mediterrant.m cost and taken straight to Gibrai- tir.

anything, about this, and I'll even were amusing incidents,

recommend you for a

decoration.

Was

the arrest of one of my best workers, I approached va mana native of Atsacc-who wanted to meet me to a Murselfies into.

I nod in by contious, but I did ste him, and he opened the conversa- on by asking me if I would pay him two millon franes ar a copy of the German navol code.

I leaned acress The Pelety cafe

tuble.

now eastbound

had to eliminate or de

If the rocks of the Pyrenees could World sport speak they would tel! one of the Krimnist stories in history,

DY radio from the Queen Elizabeth Hundreds of people, listed as I hear that in the ship's sports

hidden. perhaps for ever, Iowa, sel un ຕ in crevices and crannies among record fr the Ladies' Port-roll thus desulate heights,

to Starboard-rail And even if the remains are ever finishing quite fresh

they will

comparatively fast time of 3hrs. 27mins, 4secs. This should on no account be confused with the time of 3hrs. 22mins. 17secs., which "is the westbound ree:rd for this event and was established under entirely different eonditions. Thank you.

discovered

be never

NEXT WEEK 44 men snatched from the enemy

Obstacle Race, and in the

The Future Of Hongkong

Is In

'ORD Nathan, British Minis

Lter for Civil Aviation, has come and gone, and has left most of us somewhat bowildered.

In this grim battle of wits there

On one occasion we had a fighter After all, you have done some good pilot, Squadron-Leader J. Higzinsun

ork. Will you go?"

in hiding in Monte Carlo. "" nodded.

Then, I'll meet you, today week, route was full of dangers. It was: at the corner of the Boulevard, st controlled by the Dorog police, who what. I saw," said the man who seven in the evening." I said, "and were every

The Mon e Carlo to Marselles "I was very Interested in

bit as vicious s the presumably has quite a lot of

that the "parce

we had to reconstruct the organisa- suits of dressed Higginson in one of the Colony,

On edge

The Air

Comment by “Candidus”

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of Commerce. Surely one or both of these bodies should make them- velves heard in this vițal matter. R cannot be believed that they are nierely concerned with answering technical

such. as what is fob., Ins...or c.lf?

They sutely represent the mer- chants, and the merchants, represent

mat

you can go back to England by the Gestapo, ance was well disguised. British air transport-continu- fact that Hongkong possesses and the trade of the Colony, depents had to be certain responsibility in the matter of The fault may well lie in the und conduct the trade of the Colony, Spanish route."

With his removal. from our ranks, priestately, we also had a Polishine"and I shall carry away no body which presses our needs upon the modernisation of the faci "X" did not keep that rendezvous.

In Jilding and he hod two

black,

One becomes titles provided for the inward and with me a pretty clear picture and problems. tion in the north and Dowding

with all the almost tired in indulging in outward handing of merchandise So we volunteered to be the key man. of these complete with Roman collar, possibilities that present them- visionary dreams of the poten- Passengers apart.

We met in Lille, and I took Bruce and boarded the train." around to meet our various workers. There was only one seat in the selves in the event of it being tialities of this "Gateway to the

ND against all this very ele One of the most active was the cumpartment which Higginson took, decided to make Hongkong a Far East." as it has so often

mentary reasoning, my dear a The Poilsh priest and I stood in the major airport" (The italies are been termed by those who Abbe Carpentier, at Abbeville,

Watson, the

has Colonial Of€ priest with a secret printing press corridor nearby, but I soon had to mine.)

appreciate Hongkong's im-

apparently not yet made up its mind and all the facilities. for forging intervene.

Lord Nathan thought that the portance.

whether 10:ngkong is to be made a Identity cards, demobilisation papers

future of aviation rested on

major airportt and ration books,

freight. This will be generally TERE is no doubt that we have

Again I must remind those who' entered a transitionary period dilly, agreed, and to amplify that insofar as the transportation of mer up in a hundred years by the flags Hongkong thus been bullt N elderly woman, anxious to be statement, I would add that the chandise is concerned, and there is of all nates who called their ships WHEN I reached the outskirts of on the friendlist terms with the future of Hongkong depends also no possible doubt whatever that inte her harbour. In the early days

Lille on a return visit shortly elergy started Jabbering away in afterwards, tad news began to pour French to Higginson and he didn't upon freight passing in and out. longkong can become as important they were encouraged, and still are.

The

flags The suggestion that it might be, os on aliport us she has as a pea must be ena:uraged to come here if. in on me.

speak a word of the language.

port. That any doubt should One of our workers told mo

explained to the good lady that made a major airport seems to in Die minds of those who control Hongkong is to be worthy of her

exist keep out of the town. Ho reported shell-fire had made him somewhat reveal a shocking lack of know- our destiny Ja astounding. The place in ihe world. that Pastelviney,, one of our best dent and he was very tired. That

Just as we have bull our ship- mon in Paris, had been arrested by silenced her for the time being and ledge as to Hongkong's past, normal course of events has decided

whether the Colony should become yards, docks and wharves, so must the Gestapo, and added that he I rejoined the Polish priest,

present and future.

a major alsport, and it will be we build Our airport with the suspected there Was something

Higginson was very much on Admittedly, His Lordship only the blindness of those who necessary repair shops and other. seriously wrong.

extge and suddenly his hand camo may, until his arrival hero, cannot ace if, through lack of inika- nssoclated needs. I found Postelviney's sister, and out round the compartment door to have been blissfully ignorant of tive or appreciation, Hongkong alips Hongkong's future. is in the air

· had

my worst fears confirmed. grab the Pulizia pricat by the coat, "whom she knew well, had, He leaned down and I heard 11g-the very great importance of Into a backward place in this part literally, although

Colonial Office is concerned, it is up been with the Gestapo when the ginson, in a

Colony, hoarse whisper, sy this

and possibly of the world.

Wo have a General Chamber of in the air in an entirely different

·House was raided,

"For God's sake lend me your Bible through no fault of his own. ommerce and a Chinese Chamber seen.

to

Bu

airborne

E every nation

as far as the

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