THE GREEN KING (part 71)
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The Candlesticks
of Bogota
Two hundred
yards before reaching the police station, at a signal given by Lazarus, Harmond
slowed down and stopped the Jeep. But the truck keep going.
The place was
called Yagur and was halfway between Haifa and Nazareth. The police station was
a two-storey square building, surrounded by a double fence of barbed wire. Four
centimes were posted at the entrance and four others were on the roof,
protected by a rampart of sandbags. Inside, there were probably twenty more
soldiers, plus policemen, out of uniform perhaps, but certainly armed. It was
three o’clock in the morning, March 1, 1946.
‘One minute,’
announced Lazarus.
From the Jeep,
parked in the shadows, they had a direct view of the entrance. They saw the
truck approach, stop. The officer with the moustache got out, had a discussion
with the sergeant in command. He must have been convincing, since the sergeant
seemed agreeable. The truck entered the defensive perimeter of the station. The
false guard made the false Arabs prisoners get down, prisoners who were
concealing Sten and Bren machine guns beneath their robes.
The whole group
went into the building.
‘Two minutes,’
said Lazarus.
Harmond had a
general idea of what was taking place inside the police station. The commando
was neutralizing the British, those on the ground floor and then those on the
floors above, one by one. All very quietly, so as not to alert anyone,
especially the sentries posted on the roof, whit their ready machine guns. Then
they would empty the arms store, free the prisoners, the false officer with the
moustache would appear at the door, give the signal by removing his hat, and
he, Harmond, would drive the Jeep up to the entrance quite naturally, to drop
off the two men with him. He learned their names only later, but he did know
that they carried with them enough explosives to blow up half a town.
TO BE CONTINUED
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