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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-11-01, Page 7NO SLOW BOAT THIS—A plume of g!isiening spray kicks up as Nodman Buckley, 40 -year-old lawyer from Manchester, Eng- land, speeds across Lake Winderemre, England. Buckley's speedboat -Miss Windermere iII—set a new one-hour world record for unlimited class boats by averaging 79 miles per hour. Tion Can Nearly Shortly before Lt. -Col. Geof- frey Keyes, V.C., was killed in the daring raid on Rommel's North African H.Q. he received a letter from the girl he hoped to marry, saying she was getting engaged to someone they both knew well. The letter, delayed for weeks, was a numbing shock, his sister, Elizabeth Keyes, says in a vivid biography, "Geoffrey K e ye s, V.C." There had never been an engagement, only an under- standing that each would tell the other should they find some- one they loved better. He had always told her of his overwhelming ambition. Nor- mally, it would have taken deventeen years to become a battalion commander. He had rio intention of marrying until then, and could never ask her to wait. But now, having been Acting Lieut. - Colonel for five months, his hopes had risen. She shared his love of sailing,. though not of horses and ski- ing. From their first meeting they had been great friends. On reflection, he realized that the man of her choice was the right one for her, and after sallying from the shock, wrote wishing them every possible happiness when he was already embarked with half his men in the submarine Torbay, two days out from Alexandria in Novem- ber, 1941. "I chose my future and told you frankly at the time, and I seem to be achieving it," he wrote. "One cannot have every- thing in life. I have got my wish, and you have your happi- ness I am writing this now as I am an my way to do niore dirty work at the Crossroads. . The chances of getting away with it are moderately good, but If you get this letter it means I have not got back, as I am leaving it with someone. . " A postscript said: "I will in- sist on being Best Man if I am home in time !" The letter was to be destroyed, should he re- turn safely. Was that initial disappoint- ment in view of subsequent *vents an omen ? Bad weather severely hampered the secret landing on the North African coast. It was a bitterly cold night, with a heavy swell. A sea came aboard Torbay, washing several rubber dinghies and one man overboard. Lieut. Tommy Lang- ton and Able Seaman James Vine spent six hours swimming about collecting the dinghies, diving in some fifty times to bring them back and help men up again. Everyone was soaked through. The Bren-gunner who had to cover re -embarkation from the beach was washed nut of his boat five times. The other sub, Talisman, fared worse. Seven boats and eleven men were swept overboard at the outset, more later. She Fpent until four a.m. — when the moon was well up — recovering all she could, then withdrew With a hydroplane damaged. Ten men, it was reported, had probably reached shore. Of the eighteen left on hoard all but six had lost equipment. Eight rubber boats were recovered. Most of the men washed ever - hoard had swum back to the Talisman instead of to the boats, which drifted away in the dark. To make matters worse, the trek ever reeky hill -tracks to Rommel's H.Q. at Sidi Pafe had to be done through heavy rain and thunderstorm instead of the usual dry weather they had ex- pected. And they had trouble with native guides who wanted to turn back. The whole drama of the mid- night attack is graphically des- cribed. As they crept towards Rom- mel's villa in torrential rain one of the party tripped over a tin ean, a clog began to bark furi- ously, someone in one of the hovels began screaming, an Ita- lian in Fascist uniform and an officer of the Italian Libyan Arab Force emerged from a hut, demanding who they were and what they were doing there. Captain Campbell replied in German through the interpreter, Brori. "Tell then we are Ger- roiled dig; Raid man troops on patrol, end to go away and keep their dog quiet." Luckily it worked — but it was a desperate moment. They found the guard -tent in the villa grounds empty. The rain had driven all but one guard by the gate into the house, and Keyes quickly disposed of him, going forward alone. He then told three men to go and watch the back door and fire on anyone who came out. Keyes ledthe assault on the house, with Campbell, Sergeant Terry, Drori, Bombardier Bro- die, and Lance -Corporal Coulth- read, his batman; all that could be spared when the men for other covering jobs had been de- tailed off. Mounting the front steps, he knocked on the door with his revolver, demanding in German to be let in. It was opened by a German in steel helmet and overcoat. Keyes at once closed with him. There was a tough struggle be- tween two inner glass doors. Campbell shot the German. They advanced into a large hall with doors opening off it, and in a room behind one found about ten Germans in steel helmets, some sitting, some standing. Campbell threw in a grenade, Terry gave them a Tommy -gun burst. "Well done," said Keyes, but before he could shut the door the Germans fired. A bullet struck him just aver the heart. He fell unconscious, and was dead by the time he could be carried out- side. For the rest of the tense drama of that fateful night, the survi- vors' trek back to the coast through drenching rain and mist, this engrossing book must be read. It was a heroic raid, hem - pored from the start; and the irony wee that, even had it been carried nut completely as planned, Rommel was not at his ILO. that night. nitwePr Rig Scn'cts ness You may search in vain for the date In your history book, but the modern "sweater" age started on a Crimean battlefield little more than 100 years ago. It was Lord Cardigan who is- sued British soldiers a woolen garment • for wear under their uniforms in 1054. The English peer, seeking to protect his men from the Crimean winter, thus determined the pattern of 'the Scottish knitwear industry for a century. When women began to see the possibilities of the "cardigan" as an alternative to the starched blouse, Scottish knitting ma- chines could scarce keep pace with the demand. When Canadians and. Ameri- cans fell in love with cashmere the "cardigan" became a "sweat- er." The gray stone town of Ha- wick (pronounced Hoyk) in the Scott border country was way ahead in the race for cardigan production. By 1900, knitwear from the mills in Hawick was al- ready finding favour in North American markets. Today there are 26 knitwear firms in gaunt stone mills in the foothills of the Cheviots and along the hanks of the dashing Teviot river which flows through the sewn. On a recent visit to Braemar's stills I found the well -lighted, gay modern workrooms in strong contrast to the rugged thick stone outer walls of the 19th century This RemarkableNome Skin Re;'redy— Gives Fast Effective Relief This clean stainless antiseptic. known alt over Canada as MO ONE'S EMERALD OII., is such a tine healing agent that Eczema, Salt Rheum, Itching 'Coes and Feet, andother irritating skin dis- orders are relieved In a very few. days. EMERALD OIL is pleasant to use and so antiseptic and pene- trating that many old stubborn oases of long standing have yielded toits 'influence. MOONIO'S EMERALD OIL is. told by druggists for stubborn Pim- ples and unsightly skin troubles, ISSUE 43 -- 1956 buildings writes Melita Knowles in the Christian Science Mori. tor. The curly heads of Scottish lasses bent over the bright shades of new season's cash- meres as they put in handwork which wins world fame for these garments. Theirs are the skilled Pint;era which have won tributes from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for their record-breaking share in Britain's exports. Sixty-two per cent of the town's products are sold abroad. It has -been estimated that each of Hawick's 4,000 workers in the knitwear industry earns nearly 1900 (02,000) a year in foreign cur- rency. Women's devotion to the cash- mere sweater is to a large ex- tent repsonsible for Hawick's export record. From Braemar's director, R,• Taylor Wilson, I learned of the adventures of the raw material which is made up into these garments, The curious soft fleece is hand picked from the producer, the sure-footed mountain goat of the Himalayan mountains. While the goatherd combs away the soft fleecy undercoat, the wom- enfolk collect the wisps of down which the goat has left in rub- bing against the jagged scrub. The raw cashmere is brought overland in camel caravans which traverse the mountain roads as they did in the days before Marco Polo explored the Great Silk Road in the 13th cen- tury. It may take a year for the raw material to complete the inland journey. In the Braemar mills, I saw automatic machines knitting the parts of eight sweaters at once. Though the actual knitting is done on power machines, the fin- ishing is a hand process. There is no formula for the most skilled process in the mak- ing of a cashmere sweater, This is the milling, or washing out of the oil before drying and final pressing. Two rustic cottages in Den- holm, 'the sort of cottage one would like to live in," a former clergy house at Newcastleton, the Duns Town Hall in Berwick- shire, and a jute factory at the fishing village of Arbroath, these have all been taken over for smaller factories. 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