Show Guests of the Kremlin Russian Radio io Finally Tells of Internment 8 By Lt Col Robert G. G Emmens CHAPTER SIX SL At midnight we were served our fourth meal of the day which consisted consisted consisted con con- of or sweet buns and tea As we the had done the night before we I listened in silence to the news broadcast from Moscow And just justas as the night before the first twelve or thirteen minutes of the fifteen fifteen- teen teen- Editors Editor's note Col Emmens and four other American fliers were Interned in iii Russia for al almost almost almot al- al most mot 14 months after their 25 B had taken part in inthe inthe inthe the raid on Tokyo loko in April 1942 was forced to land near Vladivostok This Titis is the first eye witness account of theU theUS the tho U US USSR S S R by b ban an American since the Iron curtain was lowered The Tho story appears dally daily in the Telegram and In The Tho Tribune on Sundays minute period had only names of Russian cities which we were wen beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning inning to Lo recognize from repetition repetition repetition tion and army which I thea the means Red Army But at a last came the words Tokyo and We Ve waited wafted for tor Mikes Mike's translation This time the Japs had announced announced announced an an- that the earlier count of ships brought down over Japan was erroneous and that there were seven instead of eleven cleven Baggage Arrives The next day our baggage ar ar- rived At first it appeared that it had not even been searched But Buta a closer inspection into the side pockets revealed that there were no no candy They had been removed Our issued army-issued 45 pistols were also on the missing list But when we queried Mike about this he assured us that the pistols were merely being held for safekeeping ing This we judged was in m keeping with the rules of international international international inter inter- national law regarding internment The following day bore a striking striking striking ing similarity to the day before Our guards ards brought in a chess set None of or us had ever played to any great extent so we passed See Page rage 7 Column 1 ss iss Radio Finally Tells f Fliers Fliers' Internment 1 Continued from Page One Orn tt I hours Jours learning the a game beginning to be bet S were d dy os o's ng g. g toilet the rant CAnt t even en go to one of those birds gout out ingoing int in t t going v. v with th you jou saida said n. n Alike All j Days DaY a a. air d ii d been ten in in Every day had been ir ROW now i the same We Ve got bout about ut 9 30 had breakfast K lunch j at 1 supper at 7 and andu Sup each day with the news u up p pa S at midnight The drinks a were beginning to be forward to as a relief from 1 but the gaps of time 1 beginning to be e ehard Ben en were hard Wd to fill fm up P To help r I had started a diar diary a ays ys before whittled bit p pd t quite a attempted now and then and d But the language i start on to the language seemed English whose Hike e worse and without a gram- gram dic- dic Russian English-Russian flok k or discouraging r was pretty I 1 bout about the eighth day our r friend who had brought I came to see us for dinner We were glad IT r 1 him him- He brought us more I ItI 4 I ti G about a hundred pack- pack inferior to the first I iery ry But Al I 1 five of us were fairly smokers and the gift was dated Politburo S Stool ool Pigeon e r. r v. v was s an interest- interest jow aw and liked to talk We Ve shim him questions about the Sonny Soy So So- the the setup and place my y rs occupied in the We learned that his poTOS pons po- po TOS ns purely political He was lity ity the Moscow Pol Politburos Politburo's iBy y appointed stool pigeon to toon toon toon on the loyalty of the mili- mili ers He had no command in the army but aut he held in his hands the the power of life or death of the military commander bm om m he was assigned commissar friend did all the Ig Our officer guards were with the exception of Mike like lid id d the translating the evening of the ninth day stay in the dacha the news radio gave the single state- state Tass News agency an- an td today that one of the ships from the group headed by Doo which bombed Tokyo and other Japanese cities ten days daya ago landed on Soviet territory following following following follow follow- ing the bombing All military equipment has been confiscated by bythe bythe bythe the Soviet government and the crew have been interned Tremendous Relief This was the news we had been waiting for This meant that our embassy in Moscow knew we were there and it meant that Doolittle would know of our whereabouts And it meant that if my wife had gotten the cablegram sent her over overa a week before she probably had put two and two together and knew mew our situation It was a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre relief to all of us The next day suddenly toward the end of dinner Mike said casually casually cas cas- You are leaving There it was As simple ag as that We Ve waited for tor him to continue continue continue con con- but he didn't Where are we going Ski ven ven- Mike shrugged and continued eating When I asked Mike shrugged again and chewed lustily on a mouthful of meat When he had swallowed it it he said We UVe must be ready at 10 o'clock tonight Our ride was only about hallan half hall an hour this time Finally we stopped alongside a single railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road car with blackout curtains on a siding outside The inside was lighted by candles It was a third-class third wagon-lit wagon type of car with the aisle going the length of ot the car on one side Double Double Double Dou Dou- ble compartments opened off the aisle We Ve were ere each given a separate separate separate sep sep- arate section The seats were wood and there was no carpeting on the floor Even in the dim candlelight one sensed and smelled dirt Mike checked in each of our sections to see if we were OK With ith him were a young officer and anda a bespectacled commissar whom we grew to call Four eyes He maintained a perpetual grin which showed his gold teeth and gave him the definite appearance of a skeleton The lieutenant we called by his name Mike Four- Four eyes and were to accompany us on our trip Saturday The fliers filers travel tra 21 days b by railroad to new Internment in internment internment in- in quarters In western Russia and see see some depressing depress depress- ing in- effects of life lile in the proletarian proletarian proletarian prole prole- state Copyright 1949 1919 Lt R. 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