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Owen Frampton, a British officer spoke to some of the soldiers who had been guarding the train.
'Their story was that the train was taken only a few hundred yards across the frontier before it was
halted. A number of Cossacks, mainly officers, were then taken from the train and shot. We too
heard that Cossacks had been breaking windowpanes and disemboweling themselves with splinters of
broken glass. He says, 'After that I just walked off the job. I went to the Colonel and told him that I
just couldn't carry on with it. He hauled me over the coals, but in the end he didn't take it any
further.'"
FUGITIVE HUNTING
In describing the hunt for fugitive Cossack groups of civilians through the hills, Lieutenant C.J.
Heather describes coming upon a group of about a hundred. "They ran down a gully and into some
undergrowth. We fired some shots into the undergrowth and shouted, 'Kommen sie hier.' This failed
to bring a response. Heather then gave the harsh order to spray the whole area with bullets. This was
done and the desired results were obtained because the fugitives (presumably the survivors) emerged
with their hands raised. They were taken down the valley and put in a prison cage to await
deportation eastwards.
Hunting civilian fugitives was too demanding: "But the Cossacks had very little spirit left with which
to make the best of their predicament. There were only five roads out of the valley and British units
quickly blocked these. There was little chance of escape into the chaos of post-surrender Central
Europe. They all knew that their friends and members of their families were already in Communist
hands, so their morale was low, too low for them to endure a long period of survival in the open.
Their wives and small children encumbered many of the men. They would never be able to dodge the
patrols, and anyway their children needed proper food." - The Last Secret. Lord Bethell
".... they fell quite easily into the hands of the search parties. Kenneth Tyson accompanied one such
party and described what happened. "They climbed several thousand feet up the Spitzkoffel mountain
near Lienz and came upon a party of fifty, mostly old men and women, with a few younger women
and children."
Tyson was amazed at the variety of equipment they had with them. "Trunks, suitcases, bundles of
bedding and crude camp equipment - to this day I wonder how they carried such weights, and where
they got the strength to lift and climb no mean mountain. And it was chiefly the women who did so!
I don't know how they did it, these old men and women, carrying quite enormous cases on their backs,
old-fashioned black leather trunks. I helped one old woman coming down, and in a way I regret
having offered to do so because I didn't think I was going to get down myself. It was the sheer weight
of this thing. But she had been carrying two, and not downhill, but up a very steep climb. I suppose
they were driven by sheer desperation." - The Last Secret. Lord Bethell
THE BRITISH ARMY AND K.G.B KILLING IN HARMONY
Another such patrol, consisting of two Red Army officers and four British soldiers, set off into the
hills on horseback. Sergeant A. Kennedy who was in command described how they donned civilian
clothes as a disguise, and found a group of Cossacks. "The Cossacks ran off, leaving just a few,
mainly women and children, who were too weak to move. One soldier spotted a Cossack in the
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