PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received in- structions to sell by Public Auction on Monday, the 5th February, 1940 commencing at: 11.00: a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2 Connaught Road, Cul. (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor). A QUANTITY OF MECHANICAL TOYS AND BUNDRIES.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 2nd February, 1940.
The Undersigned have received in- structions from the Underwriters to sell by Public Auction on
Tuesday, the 6th February, 1940 commencing at 10.30 a.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Room No. 205.
A Quantity of Ladies' Dresses and Corsets-more or less damaged,
On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1940.
REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS
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This is a queer story of how the inquiries of a suspicious wife un- expectedly brought to light a young woman's disappearance and revealed a frightful tragedy in a Summer home in England.
It began when Mrs. Mahn picked up a Waterloo station check room ticket which had fallen from a suit of her husband's clothes while she was cleaning it. She took the un- precedented method of calling on the police to find out what the ticket represented. She said her husband had left town a few days before on what purported to be a business trip but that she was sceptical about his truthfulness.
Scotland Yard does not pretend to settle domestic troubles, but Chief Inspector Savage was put on the case. It wasn't long before he found that this was no petty matter, but the kind of a mystery in which the Yard de- lighted. He presented the ticket at
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was finally agreed that they should go on a holiday to a bungalow at Pevensey Bay, at the end of which time they should make a final deci- sion concerning their future relations.
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The police only learned these facts after many weary weeks of investi gating and interviewing. They locat- ed the man, but not the woman. What had become of her?
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on the floor of the living room and the disorder of the place indicated a struggle.
It was next ascertained that Mahn had purchased a large carving knife | and the description of it furnished by the dealer showed that it correspond- ed precisely with the bloody knife found in the Gladstone bag that had been deposited at Waterloo Station.
Inspector Savage now had sufficient evidence to arrest Mahn who was taken into custody and cross-examin- ed. England does not have anything comparable to the third degree prac- ticed in the United States. The pri- soner was reminded of his constitu- tional rights and told that he did not have to tell anything which might Incriminate him.
But in the midst of the examina- tion he broke down, made a confes- sion.
He said that when he and Miss
Kaye arrived at the bungalow they got into an argument. He claims she threw a coal ax at him and that in
the ensuing struggle she fell and hit
her head on a coal scuttle from the effects of which she died.
CALLED DEATH ACCIDENTAL His one desire was to get rid of the body. He hurried to the city, bought the carving knife, dismembered the remains. Then came the ghastly business of disposing of the members piecemeal. One part was thrown into a lake, another buried and so on un- til thegruesome end. The knife and other articles were put in the Glad- stone bag and checked at the Waterloo Station. Later, Mahn said, he intend- ed to think out a way of hiding them. He felt he was perfectly safe and that no one would ever know what became of the unfortunate young woman..
But his house of flimsy cards was knocked to the Mahn found the ticket for the check ground when Mrs.
room of the Waterloo turned it over to Scotland Yard. The Station and
result was as amazing to her as it was to her murderous husband. His plea of accidental death was disre- garded by the jury and he was con- victed.
Since the outbreak of war the alm of the War Office in accepting recruits, whether compulsory or voluntary, has been to balance the requirements" of the Army and industries of national importance. The responsible mem- bers of the staff are confident that the method of choosing men is 90 per cent, efficient and that it has eliminat- ed most of the waste of man-power that took place in the last war.
In addition to the hundreds of thou- sands of men called up on compulsory service, the authorities have had to deal with well over 100,000 voluntary recruits. The number is actually greater than that accepted by the Army in the corresponding,period of 1914. As was announced recently the total strength of the Army at the end of this year was in excess of 2,000,000.
EXEMPTIONS
Excep. for volunteers who apply to local recruiting depots or regiments, every man is now called up by the Ministry of Labour in much the same way as the original batch of militia last July. The well-trained staffs of the Labour Exchanges decide which men are apparently entitled to claim | temporary exemption through employ- ment in reserved occupations. Details are sent to the War Office, where the final decision rests.
Besides those who are almost auto- matically exempted, there is a large number of men who, through personal contacts in business, can perform work of economic importance. In
such cases the War Office can grant exemption on the recommendation of
ment Department concerned. the Board of Trade or other Govern-
A much tighter hand is kept on ex- emptions than was the case in the last war, and there is little chance of any- of exaggerated claims by employers of one securing exemption because
their value and importance.
HOW IT 19 DONE The system of calling-up differs in many essentials from that of the 1914 to
1918 war. Men now receive adequate warning of the date on and are consequently able to put their which they have to report for duty
the Army. home affairs in order before joining caused the minimum of dislocation in So far, the system has
home, factory or office life.
Apart from this advantage, the "de- ferred embodiment system," as it is
large army we are now called on to called, simplifies the training of the
ing at depots and ensures that each produce. It avoids unnecessary crowd-
regiment or unit is at a definite stage of training, and consequently the War Staff can gauge accurately the first- line strength that will be available at any given date,
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