European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              December 1964 the stars and stripes 3 mercenaries spearhead Rob Bonk heels March for Tshombe in Congo by Robin Mannock the Congo a some came for adventure and some for some came for a Chance to serve the cause of a peaceful u they see those Are the men the world Calls Premier mouse Tshombe White mercenaries several Hundred volunteers spearheading Tshombe drive against the red backed congolese although most dont speak a word of they prefer to be called by the term Les Mer Cenales it scorns to add class to their the words moan exactly the same some people think its unfair to Call them Mercen that its a smear websters dictionary says Mer when applied to a sol Motley us these Ore congolese Premier mouse Tshombe Merce a Roughneck Crew charged with Clearing the Conga of re supported is Walhout necessary of in any these soldiers Are identified generally As Tho macs what Are they like take British Jeremy spen cer scion of a Rich North i England pay meant next to nothing to him adventure and he died with a rebel Bullet in his head As he sat in the front line in a languidly directing the tattle with a grizzled and tattooed veterans of Many whose every Sec Ond word is still go Mist eyed when they talk of they miss the Way this slender englishman gave orders n his aristocratic they above his ice cold non Chalance in the face of he strolled to the lop of the stood there looking at the and then came Down and old where they said one of the men who saw Spencer yet there were groans of Dis approval when he was first promoted to lieutenant at the Mer Cenary training base at Anmina in North among Many who had joined because they were civilian Spencer seemed the most misfit of the last month of fighting their Way 600 Miles to Stanley capital of the rebel con Golese Peoples has thinned the mercenary ranks Down to a mean for almost every one of the 200 or so soldiers from South Africa or Rhodesia still in the a would be mercenary fighter has been put aboard a southbound plane for Home or has deserted without waiting for his around the world 7 thousands lose Homes As typhoon Opal blasts Luzon Manila least seven persons were reported scores of injured and thousands homeless in the Wake of typhoon downgraded to a storm but threatening to regain typhoon some passengers of a derailed Manila bound night train exp Russ death or serious most of the reported philippine deaths were by in Camarinos sur one in Bulacan and on in the other fatalities were caused by an Earth slide in Catan crop losses were heavy in Central Luzon where vast Rice Fields ready for Harvest were 3 cubans flee to Paris Paris Young fed up with the Castro re escaped to France an shipboard stowaways and have been granted permission to go to the United the who were clerks and left Cuba 16 aboard he British ship which they thought was headed for the United they arrived at but bad to slay aboard Unell monday morning when visas for entry into the United stoles were driven to the embassy in Paris by French they were rushed through Rimml Gralem procedures and taken to the Airport for a flight to new they Are Jose Antonio Alonso 20 Sergio o really 25 and Irlando Baena All from they said through interpreters that the Standard of living had fallen drastically since Fidel Castro look even Al their modest work they had a Good life when the cuban Dollar was still equal in value to the american they but now that the cuban Dollar is Worth Only 10 Anier can they said they earned Only the equivalent of four american dollars for a Days Canada bandits get in Gold Montreal a five masked bandits raided an air Canad import red at Montreal International Airport and escaped by truck locked1 also stole watches and a Quantity of narcotic Type Camel cigarette heir Richard Reynolds Dies Switzerland up the death of Richard Rey nolds the of married heir a the Camel cigarette As disclosed at this was admitted to Anna clinic sunday with an a disclosed Reynolds fourth inne Marie was with ilm at the time of Reynolds died of an Undis closed Hel Nelch Lotz an autopsy will be or formed to establish the exact Lause of the was rushed to Hospital from his Home at pm near Switzerland magic Mountain and Home of my Vic actresses a Irey Hepburn and Sufin after suffering a ills was still resting at the suffering my during his Reynolds marital problems Cost him More ban when Reynolds won a divorce from his third wife in 1960 he was allowed to file written test Mony because of what his Law yers termed a progressive Dis ease from which he was suf his doctors testified then tha he was suffering from u serious Case of a lung All Reynolds first two divorce Cost him More then million and the total amount of his third divorce settlement was never Dos his death marked another chapter in a Long history of Cour Battles and tragedies in the fam ily of the late Reynold founder of the Winston tobacco company lat bears his one of the most widely pub clued concerned Richard key Olds younger Zachary myth who was shot to eath at his Winston Salem Home n 1032 shortly before his 21st Zachary Reynolds had been married briefly in his teens to Anne daughter of the wealthy textile they had a at the Lime f his death he was married to new York Torch Singer Elliby hoi she bore a son shortly after Reynolds was killed and a court Battle Over the estate raged through much of Richard Reynolds first Dillard filed ult for divorce in 1946 after Bear no him four Reynolds then married former movie Marianne but divorced her in he accused her of indiscretions with Jan american Diplomat por Firlo he married Muriel mar Ston Lauren Greenough the Day after his divorce from miss Obrien and divorced her after sending her on a Rounth world cruise in he accused her of constantly nagging him despite the fact that he needed Complete rest and avoidance of All he married Schmitt of Ger aboard a luxury liner while cruising the China seas in March before his divorce from his third wife was Reynolds death leaves Only one of his fathers children still Nancy Reynolds bar Ney of new York City and Green there were drug and Coffee shop homosexuals and says Mil Michael the Tough chief of Tho macs English speak ing there still Are some unlovely specimens among his men killers of unarmed civilians and its face says if we Hud Only hired wed have never get together the labor Force needed for this sort of a Veteran of War behind the japanese lines in Lurma and in to Shombos secessionist stale of has Little More than his own personality Loback up his the congolese army disciplinary code is almost Fristic discipline said it John a former British paratrooper from Leeds if any of my men answers i take him round the Corner and use my Peters is second in command of 57 a collection of Tough Les who these Days usually get chosen us the spearhead on dangerous missions because of their Cool discipline under their mustachioed Cut Ian a briton who now lives in never raises his soft ills men will follow us another officer through the front door of hell and out the Back like several of hoaxes most trusted fought for Tshombe in his secessionist they formed the Small nucleus who recruited the others through advertisements in South african and rhodesian news Good pay men flocked to sign on for base pay of a month As Volun officers and noncom earn up to three times Mercen Aries Are paid about a Day danger Money when they Are in half their pay is in foreign cur sent to their Banks at the rest is paid in Congo Lese francs which cannot be taken out of the each Man is entitled to two weeks paid Home leave at the of his six month each Man also has a life insurance policy for payable to his text 3t nearly 20 families of snares men already for almost three hoards men were paid a political Battle Between the South africans and belgian army technical assistance officers held up the Money until the eve of the Battle for nearly 40 men deserted in Dis to earn their the White men must Brave not Only the rebels but also a frightening Lack of doctoring if they Are wounded or full the dynamite the mercenaries can be brutally Frank about they lend to laugh about the looting especially Bank vaults blown up with some of their abundant sup plies of dont damage the dynamite you Are sitting said one South african to this correspondent As we drove through three night am Bushes on the Road to Stanley were going to need it when we come to a one of hoaxes first moves when he captures a town is to place armed guards on the Buthis task is complicated by the tact that his men must rely on what they find lying around for their few comforts in the Battle like Many Field command he lets his men take things they can use immediately but forbids them to take anything