1949-07-02 — Page 9

WHAT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1949.

HAPPENED IN FRANCE AFTER THE B.B.C. HAD BROADCAST

'The nightingale will

will sing to the moon

One day in the war

of a secret agent

Rendezvous with 'Marguerite':

The man with his fate.

under

his arm

Here is an account of 24 hours in the life of Captain Peter Churchill, D.9.O., Croix de Guerre, British secret agent, who was smuggled into France In 1942 to organise realstance and sabotage.

by JERRARD TICKELL

A fearless, tempertuous, vid- CHURCHILL-allas at man, lie was one of the

best radio

CAPTAIN PETER

operators

two

was

This guerite," an

"Mar- English

girl who spoke Impec- cable French who had

been brought to Franco by Lysander

some weeks before.

She was brave, re- llable, and competent. flaoul sald gently: "Bonjour, Mor- "Bonjour, Raoul." With a wry smile, he ordered yct mother cup of coffee.

querite." ever to

men's joba. Wha Infinitely tha

Of the

more perilous.

"M. Pierre Chauvet, and in France, journalist," known to the 'Baker Street headquarters

of his branch of the Special Arnaud's Forces ns "Raoul"—woke up at 7 a.m. in an hotel in the Iakeside, village of St. Jorioz, in Haute-Savole..

The

radio operator musi carry the evidence of his guilt In his hands, and for him there could be no way out other than with a gua

So Arnaud went about his

+

It was February 14, 1943, und Raoul was making his third visit to France. His business with transmitting primary mission was to or- set under his arm and a Colt ganise the training of the automatie in his pocket. resistance groups centred in Io pushed Toulouse, Arles, Marseilles, Paris-Soir across the table, and Antibes.

Raoul folded it carefully and put it in his pocket.

Once a week a travelling. courier a woman-came to him with reports. the courier was duc.

Today

Jean Cottot, the proprie- tor of the hotel, came over to his table and sat down.

He was fully aware that ho was talking to a British officer, and conscious of the retribution that Rnoul's cap. ture would bring to him and to his wife, Simone.

But Simone and he were proud to take the risk.

RIDING

his £30 bicycle

Itaoul made his leisurely way into the winter sunshine.

Riding his ancient bicycle-

it had cost him £30 in Cones

the few --he covered

copy of the

CODE

from London

were

Between the sheets yesterday's decoded

messages from London. Raoul zald

"I've got a lot of stuff to go out tonight. It's all here."

He gave Arnaud his copy of

"to all weli?" a newspaper.

Yes.

Where do we meet tomorrow?"

"Usual place by the reeds at the end of the lake. At twenty past eleven."

"Good."

"Au revoir, Raoul." "Au revoir, Arnaud." Aut

cycled

noughtfully back w St Jorioz, wem up to has room and icked the uvor.

Lic Living

Kurit-Suur, took out the decoded messages

KVIN LOBUON

The eat opposite each other, talking in rapid, colloquial French.

The first report was from the Toulouse Group, commanded by "Eugene" Captain Martin Perkins, or- ganiser, saboteur, and poet,

[Captain Martin Perkins: Cap- Executed Buchen- tured 1943. wald, March 29, 1945. Author of "Leaves of Buchenwald."]

The

group Was supplement their by active sabotage. 80 ahead?

cager propaganda Might they

to

Rnoul said: "Yes. Tell Eugene to prepare rall sabotage at churp curves and tunnels.

"When everything is laid on, Eugene can give me a list of his proposed targets and limings and I'll, tell London.

"Then the teams are to stand by until they get the word to To ahead by a code message on the B.B.C.. which I will give personally to Eugene later on. All clear?"

"Yoo.

no

life

She stood up. Ho bowed ovar her hand,

"Au revoir, Marguerite," "Au rovoir, Raoul."

At 7.30 that night 'Raoul and Jean Cotlet sat in the wine cellar of

Vatican brings Latin up to date

By Joseph Baicich

VATICAN CITY. THE Vatican has brought Latin, its official lan- junge, up to date.

Although the Roman Curin, the administration

the hotel and tuned-in of Church matters, uses 114 ita everyday to the forbidden B.D.C. itallan

messages.

After the news, the gcage, the oficial tongue announcer's voice said Latin. The most impor- slowly and distinctly: tant church documents are "Here are the personal written in the language of Cicero and St Augustin. The only difference is that words sing to the moon. The Pope Pius XII uses -nightingale will and phrases describing auch modern things us "ntom bomb," "trade union," "Com- munism" and "aeroplane."

The nightingale will

sing-to-the-moon."

The two men looked

at each other, switched

.off

Pope Plus

11504 good,

And the radio. smiled. It was going to cinesien! Latin, but it is much be a busy night.

easier to follow than Cicero's

All over the district, prose. It is never as concen- traled as the stony prose of In cellor and fami

Tacitus,

and

garage and garret, men of the Re- sistance had heard themes, and coins new words to describe *new things. Two same laconic announce-

offices in the Valican under the ment.

Secretariat of State have the The silence of night special duty of keeping abreast settled over the spires in this field. They are the and the roofs and the Secretariat of the Briefs to the pavements of the town Princes and the Secretariat of and the moon rose.

The Church moves with the

One by one, the men left their homes and, by devious routes,

the Latin Letter

Lexicon Compiled. The first is the more made

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im-

their way to a long, fat the Acid in a fold of hills.

Raoul, wrapped up against the

portant, and is hended Monsignor Antonio Bacc), "who compiled the latest lexicon ni modern words in Latin. It se

this offer that the mosi in

by

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PETER CHURCHILL tcent four times to France on secret bitter night, was waiting in a

corner of the Aeld.

iniasions,

On his fourth mission ho was captured and taken to Fresnes

Prison, outside Paris, Then he tons inoved to Gestapo head- quarters in Berlin, and finally

to Sachsenhausen concentration camp

For a time it was feared the Germans would kill him, but the Gestapo had the erroneous idea

that he was a distant relative of Mr. Winston Churchill. This may have helped to save his life. "ile escuped

from Sachsen- hausen in the last days of the war, and today he is alive, well, and lecturing in London,

"One freight train entrying 700 tons of aircraft.components wns jammed for six hours by the insertion of a hat-pin in the coin- pressed air brake tube."

Marguerite giggled:

solemn correspondence between the Holy See and the foreign chiefs of clate for important Monsignor

He detailed each man to bls exnet position, distributed elec-events is written.

tric

An hour passed. Then his car caught another sound, a faint surging in the sky that became constant and in creased in volume.

torches, walked over the Bacci, who has four Latin ex- after

of the the composition ground, returned to the sheltered perts working under him, looks

Lister corner; crouched down on

peeches which the Pope de- knees.

livers in the consistories, the olher docu- encyclicals and ments of a universal character. The second office, the Scerb- tariat of the Latin Letters, 1s charged with the composition of ordinary correspondence. which emanates from the Pope's study and is directed to This corrClim high personages, pondence deals with matters which do not fall within the

of scope

the Secretariat ot

His comrades melted into the shadows and be waited breath- lessly. *

LINE

·

of lights to guide it State.

Over the brow of the hill a "It's all jetblack aircraft swept between 60 simple. Her chaps are now his eyes and the stars.

bury putting sand into grease A line of beckoning lights Ingenuity In

Bacci's

Monsignor

lexicon. $,000 Just published, contains

to strict words and conforms philogical rules. It shows creat words. colning BOMO rigid classical cups, so you may expect some twinkled from the feld

as the But RADIO

more hold-ups fairly soon." aircraft dived-and from her scholars find that the creum- man at Cannes

thin body came swinging a suc-locutions for modern words are Concise Latin ex- "Good. What next?”

cession of tiny black objects that a bit long.

blossomed and pressions chockful of meaning. dropped and "Marseilles report that next report is from

they flowered in the moonlight and they complain, are strung, threat

and four at a time, to translate Arles. The radio operator can't can put their finger on 300,000 hung from silken petals. get through to London. He litres of petrol at 90frs, a litre.

one modern word. thinks it's a technical fault with Any interest?"

In a moment the aircraft had his set. What shall he do?"

Cone.

They all of the them began

"The kilo ui," and dealt with a multiplicy of auy-to-day prob-

inetres along the lake's edge to

Faverges,

Arrived there, he glanced at:

Memorising the contents his watch, proppet his bicycle against-the-wall-of-a-cafo, and each as he had been trained to ordered a coffee. It was pre- do, Küüul turned them one by elsely five past nine.

One of the most vital rules of The work he was doing was to bo, meticulously punctual.

** He never arrived at a meet-, ing place before his appoint- He ment and never

after. demanded of his colleagues that they do the same.

so tall, dark

man sal

-casually at his table.

one was his gnter und eiush

ed the ashes to powaer.

Then he strolled out again and cycled in the direction of arinecy,

.

-When-you-leave-here, go-first.

"Tell Marseilles to buy and

"Very well.

In the Rue d'An- then get Aix-en-Provence to col- to Caunes. tibes, about 200 yards short of loct 100,000 litres by truck" the railway bridge on the left. Ask you'll find a radio shop, for Antoine and take him to the window of the shop.

"He's a short, dark chap with

Ho lunched frugally, in a restaurant near the station, ond a limp. moved on to a small cafe.

"Marseilles also report that iwo tankers of diesel are leaving for Casablanca on the 21st.

"A-Bomb" Wordy

tank is

per

Our neat, compact "A-bombTM becomes "globus atomica displodens" (literally,a-bali Long before midnight, every bursting by the force of atomic trace of the operation had been

power"). a radiogram is "nus- removed, every cigarette end dura

nothering undas buried, the crushed grass raked min

missum" {"a message seni over.

through ethereal waves"),'' ni "automatariun covinue self-moving The consignment from London "The skippers will hurt the had been picked up and was onnivomus" Spanish coast and will be do.

The newly-coined worda of lighted to be met and intercept its way to various hiding placca. car spouting dre").

It had been a rich bequest Monsignor Bacel deser'bes many ed by any of his Majesty's ships."

from the skies. A new suit for commonplace things, such as no Ja bigu Arnaud, 50 blank Identity cards, one would believe

far. office would find use six Belgian automatics, Sten

He

baculum" guns hidden in hollow logs with "nicothanum real moss and artificial cobwebs, little stick of nicotine), a cigar

"Labaci fasciculum" three boxes of plastic explosivo, la shoes for

"Point to a set, and say: Before the second hand of his

Again he ordered entice-and Arnaud recommended that set watch had reached 30 seconds, wondered how many gallons of to me. He should reply: 'Oh, down this thin, tasteless acorn fluid that's the one that has no inter-

Raoul smiled. “Tell Marseilles he had consumed for England's ference at 7.30 o'clock.'

to warn the skippers that the sake!

"When you're certain you've' Royal Navy will be equally do identified him, give him my com- lighted to intercept. I'll lay that pliments and tell him to go to on with London.** Arles and sea If he can help. Easy!"

"Bonjour, Arnaud,"

"Bonjour, Raoul."

"Amoud"-Caplain A. Robinovich, Croix de Guerro had been parachuted neur Grenoble In the 1042.

GIRL

in the little hat

The courier was due at ten to summer of three, and he glanced with a shade of anxiety at his watch.

calls a cigarette

("a

bare of

Eugene, cigarettes,bundle UINIS ~ fabu

"Anything else?"

chocolate, and coffee for the re- "No. That's all Shall I sen ception commillee. you next week?"

**Y*

"Yes. "One more Arles report. The

at the third tree on [Captain A. Rabinovich: Cap- It was nearly nine minutes to old woman at the level crossing tured on his second mission to before he saw her coming, a sends her love and says that your the side of the road nearest the France, Spring 1944. Executed cool, quietly dressed figure in tips on silent dislocation are lake by the Casino on Thurs-

day at 4.35." working beautifully, by Gestapo, September 1944.] coat and skirt and small hat..

Love

practically

"00,GOODY! GLAMOROUS VISHY'S GOING TO PLAY!"

A NOISE

to wake the dead Raoul rode his bicycle back to St. Jorioz, was stopped by an ofcious policeman at Lo and asked to show his papers, All were in order.

chocolate are mexleana"

from, the Mexican bean"), spaghetti with butter and parmesan cheese is "Dasta vermiculata butyro pul- veratoque chseo condita ("spaghetti wrought ko little butter seasoned with worms and pulverised cheese").

Spaghetti with tomato sauco is "pasta vermiculata lycoper

lei liquamine condita” and leo cream becomes "nivata potto" draught feed with The policeman remarked sour—or, BROW ty that a solitary enemy aircraft had flown over an hour ago, making a noise to wake the dead.

Crel

Wide Range of Terms This may appear frivolous and slightly on the gourmet But there are many

Raoul gravely agreed with side,

2.

In his Faverges ··ḥldo - püt

even

www

him that the impertinence of the other more serious Items in the book A Communist is "aequan- RAF. was insupportable.

dorum bonorum fautor ("* to equallas ..pro- Ho arrived at St. Forloz afies promoter

There is a gynonym 2.m. put his bleyele away,perty').

For Communist which comes went to his room.

closer "publicationis bonorum onlum

fautor" Hadvocate

making All property. A black excan- the last of Raoul's messages-into market is “anzich codo, sliting eating a lump of defact food market lu garlic sausage; his Colt revolver damed to white heat!), and to by file 'hand. i

corner the food market in Latin you say "flagellaré annonam Morguerlic, the courier, was (literally, "to whip It"),

Arnaud, the radio operator, pü

In a second-ciosa carriage of n

of

train to the South sleeping/her examples of the living

fitfully, shading her cycs-with her hand.

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TurboTlike #nivomis - Zlobij

("a" craft flying ou

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