Show exclusive far story ray brock evar correspondent PS years s in in the balkans Hait ians lor the N V Y tinte s yn ea dr a carf practically en route at thi this s morn moment cite to the he european theater lor for international news neus service Ser tice spellbound some ol of us u mih this beath breathless less story we asked hint him to lot jot it down dear walter heres the story precisely as ben tolstoi gave it to me the other night I 1 think its one of tile the great hitherto unwritten chapters in the war scene shep heards terrace cairo time late afternoon november 15 1941 ken downs then an ace war correspondent for antl news service hes now a it col on terry allens aliens staff in europe was finishing a scotch and the last five pages of for whom tile the bell tolls toils geoffrey keyes interrupted him geoffrey a lieuten ant colonel at the age of 24 son of admiral roger keyes had ducked a desk job in england to come out to egypt join the british desert commandos and raid the german and italian rear dynamiting airdromes aird romes blowing bridges playing general hell with the enemy etc but now ken downs told geoffrey keyes to go way ken was absorbed in the fictional lost few minutes of robert jordans life in the bell the anfor eatable last few minutes when joran nan with a smashed thigh props himself against a tree and levels his on an approaching column dmn of fascist cavalry keyes was off with capt colin campbell and his commandos on the raid to kill rommel the raid that missed rommel because the afrika korps general was in rome on oil a birthday party but it was one of tile the most daring operations of the war and won keyes his victoria cross posthumously keyes landed his commandos two hundred miles behind the german lines beached his lending landing craft by night near sidi rafe they hid bid two days and nights in a wadi gully trekked twenty miles on D night and snaked up to the afrika korps GHQ they attacked with grenades torn tom maguns and machine pistols keyes leading keyes killed the first sentry kicked down the outer door and led his raiders in spraying the corridor with tommy gun and pistol startled frightened german staff officers poured from their billets filets keyes men blasted them down the sirens went a general alarm being sounded the germans got to their arms began to fight back keyes small force got smaller but geoffrey still leading took seventeen men through the last defenses in the inner stockade to brommels Rom mels own quarters brommels Rom mels staff aide got keyes a machine pistol fusillade which almost tore keyes right leg off keyes fell in the doorway colin campbell behind him dragged keyes back from the threshold and hurled two g grenades inside then he sprayed the room with his tommy gun had rommel been there hed have caught it campbell and a sergeant dragged keyes back to the outer stockade firing as they fell back then campbell was hit get out keyes or dered take him out leave me here they had reached the door of tile the outer stockade give me that tommy gun keyes took the sub machine gun and propped himself in the door well the rest of it came from downs report as he got it from the sergeant and from colin campbell who wrote from a german prison camp they dragged campbell to 0 o a tree nearby his wound was pretty bad they gave him morphine and he began to go under but he could still see keyes in the first gray streaks of daylight propped in the doorway and blasting away at the germans in the stockade the sergeant ran back to keyes but geoffrey refused aid lie ho simply demanded more clips for his tommy gun the sergeant got them listen keyes fired a burst not more than two or three of you will get away some of you he fired again a long choppy burst that d drove rove the germans back to cover some 0 I 1 lie of you must get back to report ho he fired again and rammed home a fresh clip tell thorn them yes sir sirl snapped the sergeant got get word to ken downs finished keyes tell him if you will that it happened happen Ld this way goodby the sergeant saluted and ran zigzagging zig zagging for a wadi and safety campbell began to pass out As he went under he could see keyes firing reloading firing memos of a when an ad agency told henry ford that tommy dorsey was the next ford hour star mr big replied chos he hea the m matter a ater with earl godwin its a girl for tile the everett at drs hosp pops the crime doctor bob musel the new york newspaperman now in england has written tile the song hit of london the conr coming waltz the mystery murder of a diplomats wife in that chicago hotel is the exact plot so far of a universal film starring F tone |