Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors and German ones sailors bar, Fact2: Alstad takes him aboard boat during sea voyage in Norway 's territorial waters, Fact3: Metcalfe report this to British embassy despite best efforts of German Kommandant and German-sympathising local police chief, Fact4: Lockwood but Lockwood now passes on news to Metcalfe that Lockwood has been fired from it for sailing out with fisherman rather than staying on dry land had got foreign correspondent job at outbreak of war, Fact5: goodbye and Metcalfe put on board ship bound for German port of Bremen
Output (English): As the Germans invade Poland in September 1939, the former horse racingcorrespondent Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later he meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailors bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors singing Rule Britannia, egged on by Metcalfe and German ones singing the Nazi Party anthem the HorstWesselLied. Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norways territorial waters, during which they sight the Altmark and are fired upon by a German U boat, despite Norways neutrality. They then come back to his home port of Langedal, and Metcalfe goes to Oslo to report this to the British embassy there, despite the best efforts of the German Kommandant and the Germansympathising local police chief Ottoman Gunter. There Metcalfe meets Frank Lockwood en route back to England from the Winter War in Finland. It was Lockwood who had got him the foreign correspondent job at the outbreak of war, but he now passes on the news to Metcalfe that he has been fired from it for sailing out with the fisherman rather than staying on dry land where the paper can contact him. Metcalfe informs the embassy, and also warns his paper of signs that a German war on Norway is imminent. Alstads daughter Kari who had accompanied them on their voyage also meets him to tell him of suspicious German merchant ships at Bergen which her father suspects have troops on board. The pair say goodbye and Metcalfe, getting into what he thinks is a taxi, is kidnapped by the Germans and put on board a ship bound for the German port of Bremen. Meanwhile, Germany invades, Metcalfe is scooped on the news of the invasion, and – back in Britain – Chamberlains government falls and Churchill becomes prime minister. A British warship intercepts the ship on which Metcalfe is held and liberates him but she is rerouted to Cherbourg to help Operation Ariel, the evacuation of British troops from northwestern France, before she can get Metcalfe back to Britain. Amidst the carnage on the docks at Cherbourg, Metcalfe finds Lockwood, dying of wounds. Back in Britain as the Blitz begins, Metcalfe is convinced not to join up and instead to start a press campaign for the public to make economies on the Home Front to help win the Battle of the Atlantic. Just about to set out on it, he is called upon by the Admiralty to be parachutedropped back into Langedal, sabotage a camouflaged Uboat base nearby, and escape across the border into neutral Sweden. On landing, he is spotted and pursued by the Germans, but manages to escape and gain shelter. There he finds that Alstad has been interned by the Germans, and Kari has brought shame on herself by getting engaged to the traitorous Gunter. However, when at a tense NorwegianGerman friendship dance the Germans arrive to demand Metcalfes papers, Kari saves him by inciting a riot and hiding him at her house. There she reveals she only took on the engagement to obtain her fathers release. Alstad is released and agrees to help Metcalfe to signal to British bombers with torches to guide them in on their raid on it, and Kari and Metcalfe bid a romantic farewell. The signalling is successful and the base destroyed, but Alstad is killed by a German patrol. Metcalfe returns to tell Kari the news, just as Gunter and the Germans take eight random hostages who will be shot if the British spy they are sheltering is not given up. Metcalfe overhears this, and gives himself up. Gunter returns to Kari to try to save her from the firing squad she too will face for sheltering the spy, but she refuses and is locked up with the hostages, though Gunter shows her the kindness of not separating her from Metcalfe. They prepare to die, and the first party for the firing squad are taken out, but then a British commando raid arrives. In the chaos Gunter is shot by the Kommandant as the latter makes a hasty escape, and the hostages are all freed unharmed. The raiders capture the town and its German garrison and then leave almost immediately, taking Metcalfe, Kari, the hostages and their families to safety in England.