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The Year's Most Exciting Story:

TEN DAYS OF TERROR

ABBOTTABAD (N.-W.

T

FRONTIER).

THERE is not a whole statue or crucifix left in. . the convent, hospital, and college of St Joseph's, Bara mula. The little red, ivy-covered chapel is no more than shell. filled with holy rubble.

Every room, from the nuns quarters to the operation theatre, is a ghumbles, and the piles of straw on the floors of many blood.

are dark with dried

In the hospital orchard only yellow autumn leaves garland the 10-ft.-square mound of earth where Colonel Douglas Dykes, his wife Madeleine, and four others are buried. Past 100ft,- the mass grave runs a long trench with a rough para- pet of stones and logs-an air raid shelter.

કામરે

by:

SYDNEY

SMITH

There were 75 of us trapped

.

in that lonely convent

The bombers attacked

tribesmen shot their

From the North Weat Frontlor Province, Smith today explains in detail the story of hls captivity at Baramula, about 25 miles from Srinagar, in Kaste mir. Sydney Smith, been D.F.C., Las captured before when his pland was shot down in 1941,

•

He followed Father. Shanks Ike a puppy for two days and ther announced he was going to the front to get some loot. Two days lator he came. back with 48. Bd. Ko solemnly handed Father Shanks 38. and a packet of cigarettes.

Every day, we The

were promised cvacum ion transport Ay... the tribal officers," On the sixth day Force the Indian Dominion Alr

way in finally made up its mind the con-

single bedcover on After 20 minutes' the floor each night, decided that Father Shanks

"No" when he said it.

thugs Shanks

veni was top priority target Iri Baramula. It was the tribal head-

She and her flock In the early hours of Thursday"`quarters and lorry; park. „

husky gang.of of chattering spar- morning

Twice a day morning and evening, Father came and ordered

'cannon- owa crawled under a lo send out one of his girl nurses. Spitfires and ́ ́Tempests

and Tempests dive- they shelled us wrangling

meant bombed. We made great red crosses with mattresses and dyed “ surgical gouze, Father Shanks stormed in will to the tribal fears and ordered laughter was the last "All right," they said, "we sound before the to and get the rest of our tribo and. them to get out or move us.

Raids got worse ward began its reat- take all your women to the bazaar." less sleep.

Father Shanks sald afterwards: "I thought to myself. It's all over

and their smothered

Interlude

after

on us.

That was the mix now, nothing ahead but rape and THEY did neither, and the ralds

One minute

the ed company which murder."

got worse. Each raider was shot tribal at wildly with evay wrapon in the for ten days shared whistle blew and the whole The only living things in the

convoy was called to its lorries to go town and the air nong with bullets. convent now are the tame white tion. Outside could be heard their daily plates of rice, a to the front.

Through every raid the nuns sat rabbits making themselves a the sound of Pathans mopping little space on the floor, and

Father Shanks knelt down in the up in the centre wat nursing the warren among the vines, and up the last of the Kashmir changing hopes and despairs.' centre of the ward and vrayed his children, and their calm, Un- inquisitive,

frightened faces were like a blessing screening mina forces and looting the convent For the first six nights won- thanksgiving... birds investigating the ruins of and college.

dering Pathans broke into the a bombed hospital ward.

afternoon, Fathers ward and the, half-sleeping mass the floor would huddle The Indian Dominion troops Shanks and Mallett dug a grave on who have recaptured Baramula in the orchard, sprinkled it with against the walls in a quivering from the ravaging hordes of holy water and, to a requiem of heap of screaming children and Pathan tribesmen in the battle 20mm. cannons of Indian Tem- petrified women. for Maharajah Sir Hari Singh's pest fighters, spraying the con- Kashmir can easily guess at the vent, buried five of the dead. Mrs Dykes's body could not be tragedy of St Joseph's.

found.

That

I was lucky enough to be ligions and nine nationalities. there. This is some of the ten days' diary of St. Joseph's, Baramula.

The flock

In disguise SOMETIMES

the

On the eighth day a dive-bomber shattered the ward next to us, and

THERE were lighter moments, each the day after, as Father Shanks led us in digging the air-raid shelter day. At seven o'clock every near the

grave under the apple morning, after breakfast of bolled trees,

explosive cannon shells hit it millet, George Shanks would thump again. out some old tunes on the piano In On the tenth morning, at 5,30, by the corridor for the children

celebration to lamplight, there was a danco to and keep

themselves of

Mass and Holy Communion. The the altar was a kitchen table and

were made ot Priests! vestments surgical dressings.

Pathans warm.

the

war.

Army

от

They will not guess at the humour, courage and faith that

When, in the glim of oil brought lamps and search- Sometimes the strains of "Tip- dwelt there. And it was those lamps, Father Shanks

looked ed for our Hindu ad Sikh perary" or "Lily of Laguna" would

As the Inst words of the Anal things which carried 75 people over his little party at evening women, But Father Shanks attract tribal curiosity, and then the

prayer ended, the door flow open through a life-long ten days

and a major of the Pakistan Army under the protection of two prayers he found in his care 20 had cut their hair and put them party was over.

clothes on

Ile bad come to fetch us in European

We laughed for two days over the strode in. Indian children, the three Dykes Yorkshire priesta, Fathers

children-one new-born and morning of the second day. They friendly half-educated Afridi who, with a rescue convoy of five

as he commiserated. with us in trucks. George Shanks and Gerard

Just one 44 adults of four different re- passed as Christians..

broken English over, our trials with

more day of shelllug and Mallett.

On the evening of the second the Mahsouds, said solemnly: The bombing, and at dusk we left, day, while more reinforcements Mahouds are beasts. They haven't As we packed to go, Sister Pris- arrived and carried

ellis, smiling and blinking away the on the learned etiquette."

first suspicion of tears, turned to smashing, looting, and shoot- Then there was the 12-year-old. Father Shanks and the other nung her clipped Italian The away from home armed with a rip English: "You know, fother, I The tribesmen Mahsouds THERE were seven Hindu and in, the first Pathan wounded Pathan, Pur Dil Khan, who had run and a chan

returned from the front. came in crazed with fighting, Sikh families, two English- nuns and the Anglo-Indian Dr cleaning rod to take part in his first sorry it is over. We have been very

happy in these len days." a Greta Barretto, whose shot hus- shooting and screaming as they women a missionary and charged down from the hillsides patient-a mixed group of In- band had died in her arms the after the broken Kashmir dian Christians, and 18 Fran- day before, were called to treat forces on that first day, a Mon- ciscan nums.

One of these was them.

of They wer c incredible convent was looted, and six, in- Paisley, and the rest came from patients. There were no unaes- day. Within 30 minutes the British, Mother Conwal cluding Colonel and Mrs Dykes France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, thetics and hardly any equip and the assistant Mother Belgium. Holland, and Ger- ment left, but no Pathan ever Superior, the Spanish Teresa- many.

winced or cried. One, as Greta lina, who had given her life for

The characters of Father Barretto probed for a bullet, the Mother Superior, had been Shanks's flock ranged from the was asked: "Doesn't it hurt?" shot dead.

cheerful sweetness and endless The patient shook his head the nuns to the and replied: "No, I eat raw The intervention of the 23- energy of year-old convent-schooled Afridi pathetic reserve and loneliness meat." When the wound was tribal officer Saurab Hyat had of 19-year-old Kaushalya, a sewn up he slung his rifle, slip- saved the rest by seconds from pretty and sullen Hindu danc ped the doctor's surgical scissors ng girl rescued from the dock in his belt with his dagger, and

a-genèral execution.-

As she died

streets of Bombay.

limped off back to the frontTM

Endurance

who walked back from the

THE DREAD THAT HAUNTS

FRANCE

PARIS. will have dynamited the bridge bo-

MODERATE Frenchmen wha bween Left and Right. Any future a-few-weeks ago would French Government will have to give "a"clear"answer"w" the "question to have scoffed at the idea of civil govern with the Communists' or war are now "not so sure." against them?

Two events have given this threatening aspect to the political biggest single party in France; they Al present the Communists are the

of are followed closely by MRP. General de Gaulle's mass-meeting If De Gaulle is successful he will

own und the Communist Parly as the

scene. They are:

The sensational success

(1)

Kaushalya, her ears brilliant with great turquoise rings and her, fingers still shining with THE two Fathers gave final silver, spent most of each day

absolution to Mother Tere- and night smoking cigarettes, in NOR shall we forget the man salina as she died, and around a corner with a blanket clutch front 15 miles with both fore-recently on the outskirts of Paris; have destroyed the MRP and left his the stretcher of badly wounded ed before her face.

arms shattered by machine-gun and Mrs Celin Pashricha, born Then there was the little builots. He rested on a straw (2) The virtual reconstitution of two major parties. It is unlikely British, the Hindu Pashricha sweeper woman, Shivu, and

then the Communist Interrational as hed for two days and

a that the Government will be able to family embraced the Catholic her flock of impish children. marched on home.

"Belgrade bureau" with France and remain

controlled by one

of the Church.

Shivu had 10, and her eldest son.

smallest partles in the French Cham- Italy represented in it. On Wednesday Mrs Dykes

ber. Then, in the little hospital beat her every time a new one was found

There is litle doubt in woll, and

that the Government will ward where Saurab Hynt had came. He disapproved of his with the others

In the

now persist in its refural to locked the whole of the convent mother continuing to bear him Wednesday night was chilly.

include Communists in the the Pathans it themselves staff and the patients, Father brothers and sisters five years more

Government. If De Gaulle's houses than usual. Shanks gave general

SUCLGGA marked i will absolu- after his father's death.

warned. 500 in a week.

most likely, include several

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

TWO years

rescurces

1

body burled orchard,

The Best is taken. as 11. sign that De Gaulle's now The French People's victory may score

and fall..

rather In

future elections; the the French

They Accond that

Communists have. forzaken

by SAM WHITE

u compromise polley, and are now Gaullists,

open enemies of the regime.

Economic conditions have coninu-

ed to worsen, with prices, climbing

Most observers, belleve that under dally and the trane galloping to-

the influence of worsening domestic wards further devaluation, French-

mus!

ago I wrote: shop was massive Lady Cabstan- handles is the best new Dr

some conditions, coupled with Increased men have suddenly realised that they Unless the discount houses leigh Mount. Horrible" to her time Doubtless there are call in the short bonds we shall friends) trying on a tiny hat. Foul police stationed outside all umbrella international tension, French poll- are now worse off han at any time

since

the liberation. The growing be faced with an unworkable said: "They might as well at a hat and enforcement officers to enter the

enough swaggered up to her and works to check deliveries of milk, tics are now being "pularised" into rift between Rursis and the USA extreme and Irreconcilable has also produced the feeling that collateral margin for capital on the top of Snowdon." Lady premises and

and satisfy

themselves that camps-Communist and ant-Com- a decisive choice must be made Cabstanicich Ighored

him. "They the milk is for human er

animal munist,

between one or the other Power. Well, the discount houses, damn say," continued the Captain, survey consumption. But what about these Ever since the liberation

As a result, independent experts then did

in the short ing the enormous customer, "that St plastic cauliflowers which are being Frenchmen have regarded such not call

an who recently gave the General only bonds, and today the collateral mar- Paul's is moving down Ludgate Hill used to wedge doors open?

six seals on the Paris Municipal ginis, unworkable.

[outcome with dread, one at the rate of one 'inch every There Is one

Meanwhile, In a dark alley old

Council, now think that he may win Can't remedy and only one.. Force up the years.

you stop it?" Lady umbrella handles are being melted

30. Similar reports are coming in short

prices beforn

Casianleigh they breath,

spoke under hor down by discontented milkmen-THE man who first ruised the from other parts of France. Students.

Foulenough and without a permit, mark. you! mature, in ordor to malutata security.

banner of anti-Communism

belleve De In of political form now on 134, percept loans. This can be went into his office, drew a pen, and And touts are bargaining with dairy post-war France 'is 'General de Gaulle may, poli done by rapid conversion of existing glass towards him, and

vote. bond stocks, But it must be done at down to semo deep drinking,

Once,

bond

vehemently.

Cream for expensive

084

milk which they sell to the handle 11akers.

Tail-piece

THE

settled larmers for great pans of secreted Gaulle. Up to that, time. a number cent of the as much as 30 per-

of middle-of-the-road parties chief Even if he polis only 20 percen of which was the Catholle MRP however, that will be sufficient to' provided a bridge between extreme, make his second largest party in Left and Right.

France. In that case the great divide" vill have been reached. Imilation sham sausager may not· Any gains must be at the expente · The issues which Frenchmen in Minister of Food's weighty be classified and sold or penuine of the middle parties-fadicals, So their desire for normality-have tried- assurance to the House that no sham sausages,

clalists and MŘP.. It his gains are for ro long to shelve, will have been first thing he saw on entering the milk is being used to make unbrella

(Magistrato at Dilbury). as great-as his supporters expect, he, clearly and Irrévocably drawn.

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