Panam rapes PEP ee ‘A8 Boaters cutting down fuel costs in many ways All boaters know that fuel costs are rising and that you should do everything they possibly can to cut down on fuel consumption, That's why they are paying more attention than ever before to their propellers. Propeller choice and con- dition, reports the Allied Boating Association of Can- ada, are important factors in getting efficient, economical performance from your boat, Ina general sort of way, the diameter, pitch and blade area of a propeller can realistically be compared to the transmission and rear axle ratios of a car, When on the highway, you get the best results from a car's engine by shifting gears. While you don’t shift gears in the same sense when powerboating, you can select a “top gear” to suit your particular boat and operating conditions just by using the most suitable propeller. For instance, if you're a fisherman, you may carry a heavy load and make fre- quent, rather short runs, An “accelerating” prop could help your rig get going and make the short runs to best advantage. On the other hand, if you make long trips with a light load, a “speed” prop might be ‘able to plane out your rig satisfactorily and pay off in more miles per + gallon. Any experienced marine dealer can help you choose the most fuel-efficient prop for your boat and your kind of boating. The condition of your propeller is also important. Nicked and battered blades rob power and reduce prop efficiency. Cold, wet nose is very healthy for adults, too A cold, wet nose is as healthy for a human as for a dog, according to a scientist who is engaged in research on the importance of keeping the brains coo), Dr..Mary Ann Baker, a physiologist at the Univer- sity of California at River- side, reported that there may be similarities between the perspiring face of a runner and the damp nose of a dog in terms of a cooling system in the artery carrying blood to the brain. Dr. Baker says dogs and cats do not perspire, but cool themselves by evaporating water from the nose or mouth, Humans, on the other hand, perspire over their entire body. But what is important for both species is that the temperature of the brain should be lower than that of the body, said Dr. Baker, who emphasized that mam- mals’ brains are extremely sensitive to heat, and that irreversible damage may -be caused to the brain by tem- peratures acceptable to the rest of the body. Until recently, she said, it was believed that the tem- perature of the brain was the same as that of other deep body organs, but new studies in France have suggested that men or women engaged in strenuous exercise may, like a dog, possess a me- chanism that helps keep their brains cool. It was Dr. Baker's ex- periements in the physiology of panting mammals that contributed to the new thie- ories about how humans con- tinue to operate under stress. She discovered that a rapidly moving dog could keep his brain two or three degrees cooler than his body through a heat exchange system that operates some- thing like a car radiator. What people notice about a dog in hot weather is its panting, but what is im- portant is not its tongue but its nose. - It is from the nose, which has an intense evapor- ative surface, that cool blood flows into a pool surrounding the arteries supplying the animal's brain. 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WANETA PLAZA SHOPPING CENTRE HWY. 3 TRAIL Woolco Store Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. SRE IIR one a ener et BP NGO LLESTE CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 10, 1980 NR CASTLE, ENTERTAINM A novel based on fact by BRIAN GARFIELD Britain's NEWS Incredible tn collaboration with CHRISTOPHER CREIGHTON From THE PALADIN by 8rlan: Gar- fleld and “Christopher Creighton.” tlustrations by Bob Williams. Copyright © 1980 by Brian Garfield and “Chris- topher Creighton." Published by ‘Simon and Schuster, Inc. Distributed by the Los Angeles Ti: nes Syndicate. . Seeking adventure, the boy prowled through a jungle of rhododendron and found before him a wall of fresh red bricks. It was just a bit higher than his head, even when he stood on tip- toe, and its top was un- finished, bricks lying askew::: The boy looked all around, in case a gardener might be lurking, and then launched himself boldly on to the wall, clutching at bricks, shinning up to see what might lie on the other side. To his dismay the bricks gave way. As his weight fell across them the wall collapsed: the bo: felt himself tumbling, bricks all round. At the same time he heard a man’s bellowing roar. It seemed - to come from just.beneath him. -:...: When ihe rubble stopped collapsing the boy managed to swing a leg over and sit up on top of the base, and then he had his first clear look at the man he had so rudely disturbed. The man seemed about to strike him but then relented: the trowel slowly descended and the old man peered at him, “What the devil do you think you're doing?” “I'm so sorry sir... Then he swung the other leg over and glanced about him at the destruction. He felt his cheeks flushing; he said in a loud piping voice: “How was | to know there wasn’t any mortar in those bricks?” “Who are you?” “(live here.” : “Where? Where is here?" The boy pointed back towards the fodendi "in the cottage there, sir.” “Chartwell Cottage. You're one of Mrs. Creighton’s children then?” “Yes sir.” The fat man glowered at him. “Well then, young man, you've just met your neighbor. It might have been a more auspicious introduction, | should have thought." In that manner 11-year-old Christopher Creighton made _ the acquaintance of Winston Churchill. It was June 1935; the boy's parents had divorced that previous winter and Uncle John, who lived nearby at Crockham Hill, had found lodgings for the boy, his two sisters and his mother in the cottage on the Churchills’ estate near the village of Westerham in Kent. In the ensuing school holidays he came to think of the fat man as an old grump. He seemed to spend much of his time pl that he was finished in olitics, his career in ruins, nothing left Bor walls to build and pictures to paint and books to write that nobody would read, : Hitler's first aggression — the Nazi of the Rhineland in March 1936, unopposed by the.French — was . remarked upon by Mr. Churchill in an I- told-them-so-manner, but the boy had no interest in such things and hardly had an idea who Mr. Hitler might be. The only German politician with whom he was familiar was the Am- bassador to the Court of St. James’, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, who had dined several times at the boy's father's house in Harley Street before the divorce. In the late summer of 1939, when the boy was 14, Germany invaded Poland. England declared war on Ger- many, and a British expeditionary force crossed the Channel to take up positions _ alongside the French. ‘Then in April of 1940 Christopher forged again his links with Churchill, who by this time was First Lord of the Admiralty. Chr was to in- volved with the British war leader it gh Churchill's ion with the old family friend known to the boy as Uncle John — an eccentric military- looking gent who was believed to have links with foreign trade in some vague way, He was, in fact, one of Churchill's senior espionage advisers. One day Christopher was sum- moned to London by Uncle John, who telephoned him at achoal. He was met at the station by another mystery man calling himself Colonel Metcalf, who escorted him to Churchill’s room deep in the Admiralty. Uncle John was already waiting. The fat man pointed to a chair and Christopher settled on the edge of it, sit- ting up very straight. “We first met, what — nearly. five years ago, isn't it? From the first | was impressed with ou.” Then Churchill turned to the map. He jabbed a finger at the north of France and Belgium, He pointed towards Germany and ft i how he exp | Hitler to launch his attack in the West. Churchill concluded: “We believe we know where. they intend to strike, What we don't know ‘is when.” Christopher found himself staring at the man's small finger, which was still pressed against the map of Belgium. “Next week your school chum Prin- ce Paul will return home for the holidays to his parents’ chateau near Antwerp.” “Yes sir." “Lord Gort's expeditionary force has been placed here — on the left flank of the Maginot Line, along the Franco- Belgian border, together with four Fren- ch armies,” Churchill said, thumping the map. P the Belgians are our friends and we are pledged to defend them, but King Leopold, perhaps understandably, does not wish to offend his powerful German neighbor and is attempting to maintain a precarious neutrality. “We don't know as much as we need to know about Belgium's plans for defense or the disposition of her armies. Therefore, how can we shape our tac- Churchill turned at last away from the map and confronted the boy squarely: “Now young Christopher, keeping all this in mind, | want to ask whether you might be willing to do a job for us — a dangerous job for King and country.” it was explained to Christopher by Uncle John that his mother had given her consent for her 15-year-old offspring to embark on the great ad: Christopher asked, “What is it you'd like me to do?” “Oh, that's quite simple,” Churchill said. "We'd like you to persuade your _ Boy Spy MID-WEEK ENT. Good Sports Begin Here... © JOGGING SHOES © SPORTS CLOTHING. SETH MARTIN f SPORTS LTD. 907 Rossland Ave., Trall = Ph; 364-1757 This is the first of a five-part series on a young teenager recruited by Winston Churchill and moulded into one of the most efficient spies and assassins of World War il. In. this first installment the boy, code-named “Christopher Robin,’’ used his prep school contacts with the young Prince of Belgium to spy on a high-level Nazi con- ference and relay word that results in the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in the early days of the war. The narrative is excerpted from ‘‘The Paladin,’’ by Brian Gar- field and ‘Christopher Creighton,"’ in which ‘‘Creighton’’ details the events of his youth. Whether the account is precisely true has created a heated controversy in Great Britain. The argument will be discussed in a later in- staliment. friend Prince Paul to invite you to ac- .company him to Belgium for the school holiday. 2 “And when you arrive there we'd like you to engage in espionage in that chateau — to discover, if you can, the dispositions of the Belgian army, and to report anything else you consider of im- port. “We should like to have someone inside the Belgian center of power — someone who's not suspect. Adults will ignore young boys at play when they speak fick to one her. Who'd suspect a boy your age of spying on state secrets?" Christopher sat up very straight. “You can count on me, sir.” Uncle John said: “You'll want to Kk it over more carefully than that, 1 9 sir. I'm quite ready to do as you asked.” To be a spy... his Yeart raced. + Uncle-John said:.“I've proposed — based on your own Initiative — that the First Lord be referred to as ‘Tigger,’ that my own code name by ‘Owl,’ that my associate Colonel Metcalf be called ‘Winnie the Pooh’ and that you yourself be dubbed ‘Christopher Robin.’ ” Christopher looked towards Chur-" . chill: “Sir, why did you choose me for this?” F “For a number of very good reasons. You happen to be a friend of the Belgian boy. Your French is good. You happen to be possessed of an un- cannily innocent appearance. “You happen to be well known to us, and we believe you can be trusted.” “t won't let you down, sir.” “We shall rely on that,” said Tigger. It was all, Christopher thought, quite unbelievable. The chateau where Prince Paul and his family lived was one of the centers of Belgian and Luxembourg politics. During the first week of Christopher's stay, ministers and ambassadors had been frequent visitors. “The hero of this narrative is a real person. He is now in his fifties. His name is not ‘Christopher Creighton.’ This book is based on his extraordinary story..." * * * In 1940, Winston Churchill recruited a 15-year-old schoolboy to become a secret agent who would report to him. personally: Throughout World War li, this boy — who quickly jecame a man — was ordered on many highly dangerous din + secrecy. : His code name was Christopher Robin, and he was Chur- chill's paladin his personal warrior. He received his secret assignments directly from Churchill and from his head of special intelligence, and carried them out with great imagination and personal courage during the most desperate and dramatic period in our history. Whot began as a kind of youthful adventure for “Christopher” soon turned into a deadly serious business of murder, assassination, torture, and pursuit. He played a key role in the decision to evacuate British and French troops at Dunkirk; carried out a daring mission on December 7, 1941, that changed the tide of war; was a reluctant “guest” of the Gestapo at Dieppe when Canadian and American troops were slaughtered; endured torture and impri t in a doubl cross game with the Gestapo and his own superiors to mislead the Germans about Normandy. Once King Leopold and his en- tourage had come to dinner, because Paul's father had some sort of position in the Belgian government, During the meetings that had taken lace the windows in the top floor room a J shut, as Ct pt ad discovered to his annoyance, after he had gone over the chateau roof in the lark. On the morning of the third day the boy sneaked into the conference room unnoticed and fitted a wire coil round one of the windows in such a manner that it would not be noticed while hidden by curtains inside, but would enable him to open the window from the outside. That night he climbed silently over the tiled roof and lay flat at the edge. He reached down to feel for the coil of cop- per wire, gave it a little tug and heard the latch squeak. He froze, peering down at an acute angle through the window — all he could sso was o small pisce of the table and part of the edge of the room; one man sat there, the top of his head bald, talking to someone out of sight. “, «No tanks, very few aircraft, an obsolete cavalry corps, a brigade of cyclists — cyclists, mon dieu! — with what are we supposed to fight?” The bald man spoke in French, The discussions went on and on. Finally, after midnight, the room em- ptied and he slithered back across the roof and went down through the bran- - ches of the elm tree by the rear coach- way. He set off into a nearby wood and a mile from the chateau a young man and woman were waiting in a tent. Their radio was a bulky B-Mark-ll short-wave set. Christopher helped the young man run out the full 70 foot aerial, winding it round the tree trunks and carrying it high into the branches. Then the woman switched it on. The valves began to glow and the young man sat down with Chr her's pad to ~ Christopher in the open. “We shall catch them as they move up from the French border, and then, at the crucial moment, you will surrender. They'll be surrounded and forced to capitulate. It will take no more than ree weeks, “The old Belgian general lifted his id. “When may we expect the attack, iy “In tive hours time!" The radio! thought Christopher. He had to warn Lord Gort about the Ger- man plan of attack, and how he could not rely on the Belgian Army. - He pushed through the wood. He swung post a tree ready to pass his signal to the couple in the tent, but when he came into the open it wasn't there. His heart pounded painfully. Suddenly, for the first time, he was in the grip of the fear of being utterly alone, _ The German attack b: ding...to - schedule, an jan accor- -caught ~ He found a eycle and pedalled like a madman towards where he hoped to find the British fines. He heard the. squeaking clattering gnash of tanks in the lane behind him. It was a fast-moving column of German armor and he lay under the hedge while they screeched past. When their sound faded he heard the rumble of war in the near distance. The tank column was ahead of him now and the realization came to him that he was behind enemy lines. He found the German guns formed up behind a hedge pumping shells toward a position on the spine of a long mound of earth half a mile away. {t he could get round the end of the line he might make it across to the back of the mound. That had to be the Allied line: otherwise the Germans wouldn't be pounding it so relentlessly. The best thing to do, he decided reasonably, was to wait until dark — encode his message. Later that day — in the afternoon — Paul and Christopher were playing chess in the garden when they saw a car crun- ch its way over the pebbles of the driveway. On the wings were large in- signia flags — bearing the German swastika. The car came to a sedate stop and Christopher stiffened when he saw the ig, 8q faced German a “You know him, Christopher?” “Ribb p. He was ambassador to Britain when I met him.” 4 Ribbentrop had drawn up before the house in Harley Street in a car very similar to this one. Christopher's father had been at school with Ribbentrop in Germany before the First World War. in 1938 Hitler had appointed Ribben- trop his Foreign Secretary. Now, when the tall German dis- Pp d into the ch Christopt said: “What do you suppose brings such an important Nazi to Belgium?” After dinner, Christopher found out for himself as he leaned over the lip of the tiled roof. Ribbentrop was flanked by four German officers. Amazingly they were in uniform — a measure of their arrogance. They clustered round a large map of Belgium. In response to Ribbentrop’s questions, Paul's father’s aide and another Belgian — an elderly army These are only some of the dramatic events, important decisions, and battles of the war of which “Christopher Robin" was involved and which Brian Garfield re-creates in this superb novel. The fact that these events actually occurred and that the hero who lived through them is still alive reinforces the stirring realism and riveting suspense of this extraordinary tale, brought to pulsing life by one of our greatest storytellers. “The Paladin" is truly the most amazing, shocking, and fascinating story to come out of World War Il. ; g din flat tones precise information about strong points, troop concentrations, defenses, lines of com- munications and supply. They were selling their country out to the Germans. Ribbentrop turned to one of the German generals, “i'm certain that the Blitzkrieg will take the Allies completely by surprise. They won't have time to react.” He told the Belgian g I: "We three or four hours — and then make a run for it. But he had hardly settled when the sudden silence astonished him. The abrupiness of it lefta singing in his ears. He could hear the patter of rain in the leaves, Then he knew what it meant. The bombardment had ended. The attack was ready to begin. tf he stayed here he'd be caught in it. He had to make his run now. After 14 paces he threw himself to one side and ran six more paces and br- oke stride again, moving to the right, and that was when the bullets started to erack around him. The popping sounds of the bullets were explosive, like handclaps against the ear, and he dodged and ran, diving, zigzagging, flinging himself flat and rolling, digging his toes in and leaping forward again. The gun snapped at him in short bursts and he was out on the exposed face of the slope with nowhere to seek cover. There was nothing elte to do but b it he H keep 9 they‘d find the range. He heard the tanks beginning to move behind him. He bolted to the top of a cising ground and dropped flat behind aboulder, A rough fist gripped his arm and he nearly screamed. A hoarse voice grated at him: “Bloody fool boy.” helmeted face swam into. his vision. An English soldier. 5 When Christopher reached Lord Gort's headquarters, Winnie the Pooh — Colonel Metcalf — was walling for him. “We'd given you up for dead, lad,” he said as he took the youngster to meet the British general. After Christopher told the elderly soldier what he had learned about the - German battle-plan and the proposed - surrender of the Belgians, Gort issued shall drive across Belgium and Luxem- bourg, through the Ardennes where the English and French believe tanks cannot travel. that were to save many British troops. He ordered a retreat to Dunkirk and evacuation by sea, NEXT: Trained to be an assassin.