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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.
WORLD
CAR THEFT RING CRUSHED
Alleged Leader Arrested In New York.
G$1,000,000 CONCERN
New York.
A million-dollar motorcar theft ring, which for more than two years has been making use of in- ternational banking facilities to operate on a world-wide scale. has been broken by the arrest of the alleged head of the organisa- tion here recently, according to New York Ciy detectives, says the "New York Evening Post."
DEATH MISTAKE
CAUSES RIOT Troops Called Out In Tunis Streets.
MOSLEM BURIAL PROTEST
Tunis.
Troops called.
Charges to clear the streets. People injured
More than 60 arrests. Cafes and shops closed Patrols by armoured cars. All because à man who
THE CHINA MAIL
$300 CLAIMED IN COURT ACTION
Alleged Loan To Former Employee,
COUNTER-CLAIM FOR $150 WAGES
-To-Day': Short Story.
KEPT WAITING
By Stuart Jackson.
E was to meet her at "the Nat that the young man saw his Humal on that evening, mise de mercenary. Real percep
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A claim for $300 for money alleged to have been lent was made At the corner of Trafalgar- tion may see these things, but not this morning by Mr. Harold Guard square and the Strand, at seven." the lover who looks at his love' with of No. 2, Garden Road, from It was now twenty past. And be gullible eyes. Charles North, of 'David's Cafeteria, was worried.
The young man was working very before the Puisne Judge, Mr. R. E.
Beryl hated to be kept waiting hard, so that he could marry. Beryl Sbe carried on and is alive and well was re-for $150 for wages was filed. was--Lindsell at the Supreme Court.
about it. Bery] It was very difficult to make money, A counter claim by the defendant was a quick-tempered girl and she with "the depression" and what ported to be dead.
would tell him off as though he had not. And a fellow had to spend
The ring, police say, dealt only of riot among the Arab popula-arten is for the defendant.
This is the extraordinary story the plaintiff while Mr. O. E. C. her. Women were funny that way. He wanted to give her a good
Mr. Peter H. Sin is appearing for set himself deliberately -- to -- slight money on a girl like Beryl..
in cars of expensive makes, tion of Tunis. It was rumoured
They thought a fellow could always time. Queer that in a world suf-
which it stole In this country and that an Arab.messenger in one The plaintiff stated that he was be on tap on time. They neverfering from "depression" there
sin.
the in
Hor.
then shipped abroad for sale of the Government offices, whe Advertising Service; and the agree could be held up at the office.
A partner of the International seemed to believe that he really should be more evidence of "good One of the machines was traced was naturalfsed French, had died. ment under which Charles North
times" than ever. Where on earth to China, where it was in use by Crowds
But he had only been about ten] did, people get the money—and how? | gathered in one of the war Lords, police said. streets leading to his house was engaged under was on the basis minutes late in getting away from But Beryl had to have a good time. Others went to the Scandinavian the Halfaouine Quarter to pre-obtained for the firm, payment to smash that had held him up.
of 20 per cent on all advertisments the office to-night. It was that bus Sometimes, at the thought that he countries, Russia and even Per vent the body being taken to be made on the advertisments paid
might lose her, his heart came up He had boarded a "pirate” omni- in his throat. the Moslem cemetery for burial,, New York detectives, working The police were unable to cope)
bus, thinking it would take him. Progress Impeded. with the U. S. Department of with the crowds, so troops were plaintiff for an advance as he was darned thing had come into colli- somehow he couldn't get through On July 4, 1932- North asked more rapidly to his girl, and the Twenty-five past seven-and Justice agents, "have been engag-called out and after several mancially embarrassed. Plaintiff sien with a trencar. What a smash the crowds. An ocean of people ed in tracing the ramifications of charges cleared the streets. Selent him $300, from the ring for nearly two years, veral people, including soldiers, sonal account and the defendant himself had been flung to the floor for the set purpose of making him his own per-it had been, too! Three others and seemed to surge around him just they said. Recently, the detec were injured, and more than 60 stayed with the firm until the end and an avalanche of broken glass later. tives said, ten stolen machines arrests were made.
of July, and then absented himself. had come tumbling in. Marvellous He did, hope Beryl would under were located in a garage in Tren- The cafes and shops in the ton, New Jersey, all crated and district were ordered to be clos-dant again until November of last: He had bumped his head had not help being held up in a bus amash, Plaintiff did not see the defen- that he had not been cut to pleces.(stand. After all, a bloke couldn't ready for shipment abroad.
ed by 9 p.m. and troops accom-year, when he approached North in known where he was for the minute. could he? The ring, according to the panied by armoured cars pa-connection with the loan, but was police, operated by means of a trolled the neighbourhood.
unable to recover the sum. complicated series of forgeries of Other crowds had gathered in bills of sale and bills of lading, the cemetery to await the, arri- which enabled it to hoodwink val of the body which, of course, customs officials and foreignļdid not arrive.
banks. Cars stolen here were) Similar Incidents took place disguised, crated and shipped to in Bizerte some time ago when public warehouses abroad, police the Arabs prevented the body of said. Many of them were said a naturalised Moslem from being to have been consigned through buried in thefr cemetery-Reu- the free port of Oslo, where cus-ter. toms regulations are less strin gent than in some other foreign ports.
The ring then was said to have, designated a reputable bank as ite agent for the sale of the ma-
NAVAL "TRAGEDY" AT SIMONSTOWN
chines, forwarding to the bank Two 18-Year-Old Ships forged bills of sale and other cre- dentials.
After the sales by the bank, agents, the proceeds would be returned in the form of drafts on Brooklyn banks.
Used As Targets.
SUNK BY H.M.S. DAFFODIL
The hearing is proceeding.
A' One Way-Track. But a bus smash couldn't take. his mind off Beryl. His first feel- ing after the impact was one of annoyance, not of danger escaped. The smash seemed part of a traffic plot to make him later.
A crowd had gathered around the wrecked omnibus, but he had not
In His mind was centred on one thing. lingered after leaving the vehicle.
JAPANESE AGAIN REMANDED.
Policeman Wanted
Singapore.
...
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
-To-morrow's story will be "They Have Ears," by Martin Mills.
Why didn't these people get eat If the House of Commons had been of his way? What greedy faces so blown up, and a world war declared many of them had! Vulture-like. all in one night, the young man's Others reminded him. of animals— Delective 104 of the Singapore one-way track: not to keep Beryl harsh brilliance of many lights
Kazuichi Kawaguchi, 25, Police mind would still have pursued a prowling, cruel, or timid. Police of Japan, who, on June 5, at waiting. the Central Magistracy, told Mr.
seemed to show those faces up in Schoßeld he was quite prepared to Beryl, and, after the
The young man was in love with even more blatant relief, and the of writhing, rushing traffic seemed to
manner
The
go back to Singapore without having young men in love, he invested her be beating an accompaniment of extradition order made against him, with virtues which she did not discord. jappeared before His Worship this
,possess. morning.
Human faces had never eemed to But Beryl, wise in her generation, mirror their souls quite so flagrant- Kawaguchi is wanted in Singa- assumed the virtuous mantle he had ly before. He believed he could pere on a charge a larceny of a re hung upon her, so that if she told have read them if he had time, volver and 24 rounds of ammunition him off" for being late, or for a Built 4 years ago as harbour de on or about May 24, within
But why concern himself with U. S. Department of Justice fence gunboats, the Gryper and the jurisdiction of the Government of young man was made to feel he was face he wanted to see?
the score of other discrepancies, the other faces when there was just one Gadfly were used as targets and the Straits Settlements.
lentirely guilty, and that it was only sunk by the guns of H.M.S. Daffodil
This morning Chief Detective Injbecause his Beryl was so very, vir-Strand and he'd be there at last He had only to get across the
American motor car agencies abroad are said to have tipped off
agents that the ring was opera- ting in foreign countries when
Simonstown.
they discovered that a number of in False Bay during a miniature spector Shannon asked His Worship tuous that she suffered him at all. Half an hour late. It was good of
for a further week's remand before
naval engagement. expensive American cars were
Each mounting
A self-effacing lover, you see, and Beryl to have waited. She was being bought and sold through!
a big nine-inch making an order against the ac-as putty in the manicured hands of standing under a lamp on the other zun in their bows they were sent wcused as other persons than their repre-
the Cape during the period known latter's departure sentatives.
arrangementa for the as the "Russian Scare" in the late ready. The remand was granted.
were not quite Agents of the department, go's, when a powerful concentration working with the local police, or English men-of-war then got trace of the bank drafts, Cape to meet an attack which did was at the and it is understood, finally trac-inot materialise. Later in company CHANGING FACE OF ed these, through a maze of fin-[ ancial dealings, to the alleged H.M.S. Tickler, the gunboats as with another vessel of their class, ring members.
sisted The police estimated that the natives along the Benin and other in operations against the -ring stole and disposed of nearly West African areas, often penetrat 500 expensive cars in ita twoing well inland up the rivers. :years of operation.—Reuter.
GRIM STRUGGLE WITH LEOPARD.
Wounded Beast Turns
On Assailant.
*
FARMER BADLY MAULED.
Johannesburg.
· LONDON.: Theatrical Landmarks Disappearing.
London.
a mercenary miss.
MEASURING WIND VELOCITY
[side of the street.
There was a discontented look on her pretty face—but that was only natural. She was wearing a new coat.
An expensive-looking one, with a high fur collar framing her pale face. Marvellous how modern girls
New Instrument Fitted got themselves up to look like a mil-
To U.S.S. Macon.
"HOT WIRE ANEMOMETER”
Akron, Ohio.
lion pounds in these hard times.
He couldn't get across the street. quickly enough. The traffic seemed interminable. He flung himself to-| wards his Beryl at last.
"Oh! I say, dear, I'm so sorry—" | He was out of breath and abjectly
During the Boer War they were equipped with powerful search- lights and at night used to do a It's good-bye Piccadilly and steady four to five knot patrol farewell Leicester Square, now. around the bay, guarding against If you have not seen London
Like the sensitive whiskers of apologetic. He sensed that Beryl the escape of prisoners of war con- for 10 years, you will hardly a cat, tiny wires of an instrument was in the mood to "carry on.” fined aboard ships in Simon's Bay.cognise some parts of it: Picca of the U. S. 8. Macon, new sister wouldn't look at him.
located outside the control car But she did not say a word- For several years they were used adilly Circus has been almost en- as cargo hulks.
tirely rebuilt since that night can tell which way the wind is smash. It wasn't may fault. You difigible. of the ill-fated Akron. "You see, I got held up in a bus Fishing boats returning from during the war when a German blowing and how hard. Cape Point considerably interfered air raider dropped a bomb in thé with H.M.S. Daffodil's firing at the middle of the roadway and made anemometer," the latest gadget of words, thinking, that if he said
will forgive me, won't you?" The instrument is a “hot wire He went on apologising in a rush two old gunboats. The warships a hole large enough to hold an added to equipment of the giant as much as possible in the shortest A grim struggle between a farmer opened a long range bombardment omnibus. Even the and a wounded leopard ended in the but in view of the risks to the fish-realised there was a
civilians
[airship. farmer being admitted to the ing craft this had to be abandoned. then,
possible time she would understand. war on Perfected after months of re- But she made no sign that she Pretoria hospital having mauled from "head to foot." The two old ships and opened fire with Leicester Square are entirely known in electrical engineering him he might it as well have not been The Dafodil then closed in on the Two out of the four sides of search and testing, the instru- forgave him. He touched her hand, ment is based on the principle but for all the reciprocation she gave leopard died of a bullet wound,'· her three-pounders. This soon tore different now. The Americans
The farmer, D. van Jaarsveld, holes along the vessels water lines have built a super-cinema on as the "Wheatstone Bridge." [been there at al. Her eyes „were took his rifle and went out to look and they sank-Reuter.
for the leopard, whose depredations
on the farm were causing him con-
cern. With his first shot he gravely
wounded the animal and then to his JAPANESE KIDDIES
· great" consternation found he had
no more ammunition. The leopard "mad with pain attacked him,
REMEMBER:
digging its claws Into van Generous Gesture To U.S. Jaarsveld's body. Using his gun as From Tokyo.
la club he belaboured the animal in
a vain attempt to drive it off.
The desperate struggle lasted for
Washington, D. C.
ter.
The
the site of the old Empire music-used before in measuring wind shuffed her silk-she had legs in- same principle has been hard under the aral lights. She hall, where, during the war, the subalterns used to flock to see ment is the first of its kind de- no word of greeting.
velocity, but the present instru-patiently. And still she gave him spectacular, revues. And old buildings have been pulled down signed also to detect directional This was worse, than he had ex on the opposite side of the square, Simply described, the Instru- He could put up with an outburst if
changes.
pected. Sulking got under his skin. to accommodate a great theatre ment consists of a tiny tungsten only she would say something. wore there is non-stop variety wire, such as is used in an elec- He started to plead with her. from morn to midnight.
And now another theatrical of an inch in diameter, though ing. I've got seats for the Colossal tric light bulb, one one-thousandth Don't let's quarrel to-night, darl landmark may go almost im-which electric current passes. We're going to have a good time mediately. There is a plan to The current also has an alterna- aren't we? Ohl don't have one of a considerable time. Exhausted by Nine. Japanese Sunday school pull down the Alhambra-Reu tive route through a galvanome your moods, Beryl. I've had a loss of blood, and possibly the boys have given 96 sen (about ter.
SAMTAL) chrra frightfally hard day, and its been struggle, the leopard died when yan1/9) to the American Red Cross
A strong wind will cool the so good, to look forward to seeing Jaarsveld had also reached a stage for Southern California earth- AMAZING RENTS AT MANCHULI wire more than a light breeze, you of collapse-Reuter.
quake sufferers,
and as resistance is increased by A glance at Beryl's It came through the solera
Harbin cooling of the tiny whisker"! @sing face and he saw that diplomatic machinery of the Amazingly low house rents are greater proportion of turrent was no use State Department.
er reported ** from Manchull. It is passes through the galyanometer) «Her eres seemed to."look The nine boys, who live in stated that owing to the unsettled where It is measured interestedly through him Col. W. J. H. Bilderbeck, 0.B.E., Tokyo, wrote:
political situation many residents :: Four of the tiny wires approach - What unreasonab creáturė of the Royal Army Pay Corps will "At the time of the great have left the city, some going to a point from right and left and me
"As "though; hem shortly arrive to the Colony to as earthquake in Tokyo, the Ameri- Russia and others to other parts of from top and bottom. If there
to put her out What sume the post of Command, Paycan people have been so kind and Manchonkno
is a yaw in the wind, the wire on you do when women were, like thi master for the China Command, in sympathetic toward us. This has ranibed in such a huge that side will be cooled the most. He remembered seeing a flm In maccession to Col. D.G.NL Wimber-The time has come for us to fall in renty that in some cases only. If there I sudden downward which the hero, had always/ ley who left for England six months return our thanks to the kind- $4 per month is being paid for pitch the top wire will be cooled managed his girl by clouting her
heart: Amaican Reuters four roomed apartments
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