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WANTED BY
POLICE:
12,000 MEN
Shocked by the crime wave - burglaries, prowling rigger-free gunmen, murder Beltala has suddenly realised that the for- eigners were right our police- men really are wonderful.
They still are, but they short-handed-12,000 short.
By
JOHN HALL
with
YOUNG FRONTIER SMUGGLERS
Two small boys sidled through themselves (which they chowed a gap in the hedge as we swung steadily throughout the interro- round the bend of the road, and gation),
stable is eligible, to retire at 45 the frontier control officer, who They had an older brother and pension of £3 10s, a week, was driving, brought the car to falster, both working, and two or £4 138. weekly if he stays on a sudden standstill.
younger brothers. until he is 50. Constables get 10 The boys came fustantly in obe- A little later we caught Regina days annual leave, sergeants 20dience to his call. They knew Henza, aged seventeen. With the days, inspectors 24 days.
the game was up, for we were proceeds from the sale of a break- Promotion prospects are much in the "eperrgebeit," the no man's fast set sho also had bought better than they were. The old land between the frontier of Ger- coffee, but had been There are 5,000 fewer police the world, Today there is, ap-
caught by men in Britain than there were proximately
practice of reserving the plum one policeman toobs for rellred Service brass any and Belgium, where only a the Belgium police and bundled pre-war-53,100 today, against every 850 of his fellow citizens. hats has been aboilshed. Today move without being suspect.
few well-known residents can back. 60.200 in 1838. The authorities Even when that 47,000 total Agure, and have authorised, that reached it may not be adequate the beat."
Chief Constables must stort
Her companion was a small sis- Hans and Joseph Gabe, aged ter, aged twelve, who was being H.K.$18.00 police strength today should be unless crime and the spate of
twelve and oloven" brought up to 67,800, but recruit new orders diminish.
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Needles, plns, razor blades, den- 4. Shortage of houses. Scores been to school, one was
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adult Is. week.
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gangsters (In Pensions are good. The man agree. They say: "Find us the
With the proceeds they had they are generally orphans) от who joins at 20 and stays a conhouses and we'll find the men."
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By WILLIAM POWER
Serbia in
the
Kremlin magnifying glass?
The Cominform, echoing
was
the
сала
be
Kremlin, has rebuked Jugoslavia cen whether the currency reform for deficiency in Bolshevism, for and certain new arrangements
Meanwhile the woefully under-
London Worst. There are four major reasons ried about 4 lb. of coffee beans forces have to
for the shortage of police re--the smuggler's currency. Gravest shortage of men is with an increase in law-breaking. London. Pre-war there
The rain had been, streaming 1. Many young men who would down and, as they sat in the accompanied by a granddaughter A grandmother of alxty-five, serious and minor, that makes 20,000 policemen in Greater Lon normally have foined have bitter car, small, thin shoulders pressed of five, was another traveller prewar Britain look like a crime- don; today's total 15,300. And
memories of regimentation and THE HAGUE free paradise,
the shortage in London, and to a discipline in the Services during wary eyes never left their ques-
back as against a wall, their along the tracks that day. Lord Chief Justice Goddard has leaner degree in the provinces, the war and say "No more of tioner's face and the answers cepted fourteen children and three In a short afternoon we inter- CONFERENCE spoken feelingly of the "old peo- persists in spite of Intensive re
that for me." A int, of resigna- ple who tremble with fear five-Power
as cruiting and a relaxation by the tons among newly trained police came pat, for they were
well-adults. alliance they answer the door after dark," Government which now permits
nien ore attributed to this factor. tried.
The undulating wooded sperr- emerges strengthened from of "ruffians and scoundrela" who farm-workers and minera to bo
But 2. The longlah and irregular
fast-beating pulse in gebeit is ideal country for these huve the meeting of Foreign
created a new, rampant, accopted for the police forces. class of crime, stealing
hours, with so much all-night each throat and the rise and fall travellers, and my Ministers
goods
companion Why? Superficially the local duty and week-end turns. Today of wet shirts over AL The Hague. that are in short supply to sell policeman has
pathetically showed me many paths made and good job, al- Most important decisions in the Black Market."
though he still has to do a 48-fewer giris relish the idea of be skinny little chests told another worn bare by these people. The fewer policemen "on were taken as the communi-
the hour week. It he joins up at 20. bent" have to watch out for A he eines
13-week que issued at the end of the mass of misdemeanours created course at a police school, is earn- training meeting makes clear. The by some 23,000 statutory orders ing £5 5s. a week, rising in ten Consultative Council, as the and regulations and struggle years to £6 12s., plus free quar-
with the extra burden of public ters or rent allowances, free un supreme authority set
up safety duties.
form, and 28. 8d. a week boot al- under the Brussels Treaty,
For 20 years more and moralowance. Married constable, get meets quarterly to review Jobs have been thrust on the point allowance up to 30s. A week the work done during the their time to act as "big
lice
taking more and more of (35s. In London).
bro Good Pensions previous quarter by its sub-thers." leaving less for the bust sidiary organs and to plan ness of crime prevention. Nothing the future development of blue-cind shoulders.
has ever been taken off their co-ordinated activities in the
The P.C's. Day fields of defence, economics
The 1948 policeman is expect- and
social and cultural el to do 40 per cent, more than affairs. It was fortuitous he did in 1935. Taking the duties that this quarterly meeting of the total strength, it has been culculated that his eight-hours the Council coincided city trick goes like this:-1% with the Berlin crisis and hours flling forms, making with the juncture in that turns, and general poper work: crisis at which the next move after the roads, at various 2 hours on public safety, look- appertains to Great Britain, meetings, and sports events; only the U.S.A. and France. Both 4 hours for crime prevention and No allowance there the signatories of the detection.
for meals. And it used to be call Brussels Treaty and as part- ed enviously "bobby's job."
in last month's six- ners
Police have always been thin- Power decisions
But the eventual effect on the on policyer on the ground in this country than in any policed country in
child can easily be immagined. He for Germany, the three Bene-
or she may, in fact, be the main lux Governments are direct-
I am not an authority on inter-¡ Worst horrors of the Thirty (Jugoslavia had needed
no breadwinner of the family and, prompting and was not merely as such, a young hero or heroine. ly interested in German pro-
"regional and other collective national affairs, but feel rather Years' War.
pleased with myself for having Carlyle, who despised "rubject" imitating Russia. Her reforms Juvenile blems Although at present tinuous self-help and mutual freedom
arrangements based on con- predicted that the old virus of races, was possibly unaware that were
delinquency in Ger- spontaneously thorough many is the inevitable result of In some of Russia's the Croats, fike the Irish, had an "Privilege" and monopoly of all present living conditions and only
abolished. All too often of hunger. beautifully placed capital, Zn-estates had been broken and tho such as the establishment of
Such a prediction was easy ingreb, is the chief cultural centre land, one
In the corner of assunied, made avail-Zone, North Rhine Westphalia, the British a constitutional government
In Jugoslavia: Belgrade's record able to those who most needed it 28,000 children were arrested in the case of Jugoslavia. in the Western zones of Ger- commended by the Vanden- The peoples of that country are is mainly military and political. and could best use it.
of virile, purely "Aryan," origin-
Experiences of bondage make Economie equity and rule by
1947 many, which were predomin-berg resolution adopted by
There northern, mountain stock. people like the Jugoslovs, to the people had heen firmly secur-
arg 18,205 of them- antly subjects for considera-U.S.A. Government's attitude our highlanders, is found
U.S.A. Senate, The Among their uplanders, as among aything for freedom. There have ed. There was real Communist frontier smugglers-between the
freedom. tion at The Hague.
nges of eight and sixteen in the All very well, one thought; but Aachen area alone. was extremely useful to Western Union defence-is. purtection of marital bravery and
of handsonic manhood.
there was rather much
about So that the views of the Bene their attitude to European ples in continental Europe
of course, on a parallel with.
the numbers have in- far, the They were about the Arst peo-
freedom, the references to the creased steadily. In June of last land were vague, and not a word year 737 were arrested; in May of lux Governments on these
about Marx, various questions
Lenin, or Stalin. this economic recovery: Ameri- make any approach towards the can aid is conditioned by They could not formulate, much
Scottish ideal of
year the figure was 2,025. nationhood
How would this look under the A week ago the dally average have been heard. Insofar as European self-help. The im-less realise it till many centuries
100, and it remains to those views might be help-portance of American and later, because of the whirlpool of ful to the British and French Canadian
rival races, creeds, tyrannies, aut Foreign Ministers in their Western Union defence re- found themselves.
participation in big-Power plottings in which they been few feats of arms like the falling to keep in step with Rus. conceming the treatment of chil- joint consideration with the
Their old herole ballads. vieing fan army from quires no emphasis. Super-
expulsion of the Austro-Hungaria, for lack of Marxian agrono-dren apprehended will have a U.S.A. Government of the vening on the strengthening them were admirably translated
mics, and for behaving as if she sufficiently deterrent with those of Scotland (some of early part of the first world war State was no better than aggres-used by adults because they are
effect. thought aggression by a Soviet Up to now, chil
children have
been next move in reply to the of the Brussels alliance on by a Glasgow scholar, Low), com-goslavia.
It did not seem likely that Ju-alon by a bourgeois State. Soviet Government they lines drawn up at The Hague, memorate their struggles against however far it might move Left. Karl Marx. We have heard
constituted in 1018,
unlikely to be shot in the sperrge- would, of course, be most it contributes a powerful re- was the Turkish, the most in- sinn than to Turkish or Austrian terature, drama, science, mathe the reception centre to fetch the
Truly a wonderful-man -wan beit-ar even heavily fined. welcome. But it rests with insurance for maintenance of sidious the Austrian, the
Successive tyrannies. The longest would take more kindly to Rus- Marxian philosophy, art, music, arrested child will have to go to Henceforth the parents of an Britain, the U.S.A: and International
most domination. France
and galling the Hungarian: Kossuth's peace
In "The Modern Quarterly, an matica, even economics. And now child, where they will be told Dccupying security which is the declar-compatriots stained their freedom interesting magazine expounding we have Marxian agriculture. Powers, and not with the ed
officially that, if their child Ger-Soviet ideology on all Consultative Council, to con Treaty.
Brussels
subjects, 1
caught again, they, the there appeared, about a year age,
parents, cert that next move. .The
an article on the new Constitu- Cultivators get "liquidated, o
The eternal "class struggle." will go to prison. tion of Jugoslavia.
But one cannot help feeling that Dalmation "pirates" had been dently from a Jugoslavian source, stock half-perish. The State ex-improved physical conditions and It was evi- cially or physically. Land and unless parents can be induced, by the teror of Venice. Their near
and it made one think ahead. neighbours, the Croats, being An interesting aspect of were recruited by
poor. peasants, largely Catholic, cided to do everything "pos- the continued disturbances and made, scapegoats sible in order to defend their in Malaya is the remarkable Independence, their integrity inverse ratio between the and their institutions". violence of armed assaults Shortly after the publication on the Government and in- of this communique it be dividuals of all communities come known that the U.S.A. and the prevalence of strikes. and Canadian Governments As the terrorist. campaign had decided to send observ has developed industrial un- The question
round to help put our players back on ers to sit on the Permanent rest has correspondingly de-and round: Are there no eric top:
Cairo, July 24, Military Committee of the creased. There could be no the win-gallop of the Austra-county
keters in England who can halt
A young Egyptian student, Hus- 1. Organise a panel of retired the peasant is apt to be obstin sein Tewik, Brussels
charged with the "Treaty
cricketers Powers. better vindication of the lans?
as full-time ately unprogresolve. At times he murder of Bir This is the first fruit of the policy adopted
coaches to give
Osman Pasha, their services can be abominably selfish. Where former. Egyptian Finance Minis- by the Batting breakdowns against free on request by any school his family is too big and his hold-ter, in September, 1946, was sen- Washington talks between Malayan authorities.
the fast bowling Had Miller, and Johnston have been
of Lindwall, or organisation. the State Department
ing too small, he becomes a so-tenced in his absence today to and the armed gangs had any the main cause of the two Test on the lines of those organised
2. Make Instructional films cfal problem.
But from his plot of ground he representatives of the Brus-real support or the approval disasters to date.
years imprisonment. by the Football Association draws strength and the principle Government official, escaped from Towfik, son of a well-known sels Treaty Powers on ways of the Malayan peoples the
S. Introduce concrete wickets of freedom. Why have our batsmen spent for minor-grade cricket for it against robotlam and can resisting to a dentist and still at and means of associating the prompt steps taken for their so little time.
is immune. the palce a month ago while go U.S.A. and Canada
wicket? Is impossible to learn the gamal the enslaving power of the total- with suppression must inevitably "Patay" Hendren, hero of many properly on rough turf. Western European defence. have
torian State. caused
Tosts and now coach to Sussex,
largo. 2 wave of
4. Provide more. natural Jugoslavia's "revoh" is a revolt A reward of £5,000 has been Soon after the Military Com-strikes. Since precisely the to make score they try wickets in county cricket in or of the peasant. mittee had been set up in reverse tendency has been they
It will spread offered for his re-rapture-Reu scoring shots before der to encourage the develop for.
Unaccountablement of fast bowlers. London it received a ques- apparent, it is proved more pses, of concentraton are an 5 Urgo tho counties to give tionnaire from the US.A.clearly than ever that mur- other fault.
niore ilme and thought to talent-. Government
1 believe, too, thai dealing with der, gangs have not a trace poverished post-war standard of
the Im-spotting schemes, plans and responsibilities for of sympathy from either county cricket has given
6. Ensure that the boy gets his chance, Irrespective every school- dealing with military self-nationalist or genuine poli-England batamen inflated values of the school he attends. help among the five Brussels tical movements.
An Australian critle travelling The ab-with Bradman's team said
ALEX BANNISTER. Treaty Fowers. It was sence of popular sympathy.me "Your":"county stuff is understood that the question with the terrorists does not second grade: Ho is dead right.. of the U.S.A. reinforcing the automatically mean that the defence measures of the five task of rooting them out will Powers would depend on the be short or easy. In jungle answers given to the ques- territory a relatively small lers
Our batsmen never face bow- in championship cricket tionnaire. Those answers number of well armed gangs who are in my way as talented The United Nations World It was stated that, in 1948, 10,000 francs for having contupl
Geneva, July 24. were duly provided and have can have a high nuisance not one as speedy as Lindwall, first assembly
as the Australians, certainly Health Organisation ended its f evidently been considered in value and can evade capture who is in Larwood's class. A
here today after Chinese residents in France French civil servants, ja 199 Washington as justifying as-for a considerable period. Until genuine fast bowlers
drawing up a programme for the were required to hold special-A former Auxillary Police sociation of the U.S.A. in the But the circumstances do appear in county
recreation of the first single identity cards and that the official, Fructureux Perture was defence of the "Independ make the problem very much standard of England's batting
teams theme worldwide health body in history. Prefect of Mayenno Depart sentenced to two months will be no improvement In the
"libprl- ence; integrity and institu- simpler than those faced by Good bowlor, brobul food bats per organitetion est orla he noticed the unusual number First Offenders Bill for forgery The established a ment opened an enquiry when sonment under the terms of the tions of the Western Union. other areas of South-East ment
and a former The U.S.A. Government are Asia since the end of the Disappearhead
the amateur maternal and child health, nutri- locally. An investigation pro- months in
uberculosis, veneal díacases, of Chinese persons::reglatured) plorDonohueni sme apparently satisfied that the war and eliminate any likell.de another actor in our cricket ion and sanitary engineering ved that most of them hold First Offender blo
Few...amateurs today out plans of the Formationt Mill-hand of steps taken by the can afford to play sumus in walating and advising national false cards, certain corruption of omclai tary Committee show the Malayan authorities having cricket and many of those who health administrations and pro Western Union to afford an reactions-in other parte can aren't up to scratch, te viding Individuate experts and example of precisely those the region.
Here are halt za "dozen" sugges- teams for countries which ro stions I would like to see adopted quest; them United Press.
the As
aim
of
the
Hague communique states, The Malaya "In accord with other like minded States, the five Gov. Disturbances erriments have further de.
by abetting: Austria and many.
the League It was enthusiasticnity Com- for the munist. It stressed the fact that
CRICKET ON THE CARPET
are
the at
Bowlers Wanted
to
WORLD HEALTH
ORGANISATION
律
of
is
perts come along with their trac-moral considerations as well as tors and create collective farms. by fear of the consequence, to re- All right, in a way, for Russia, sist the temptation to profit by where dead-nat stretches unbroken, for hundreds result for Germany will be tragle arable land these efforts of their children, the of miles, and where the "rich indeed. peasant" was often a social nuf sance,
But all wrong for Jugoslavia, with its broken, diversified sur face and its almost total depen- dence on small-scale agriculture. And Jugoslavia must be assumed to know its own agrarian bual- ness best,
Where instruction is lacking,
He
ten
ter.
OSMAN PASHA'S MURDERER
CHINESE CORRUPTED CIVIL SERVANTS
Laval, France, July 24. Three Chinese and two French officials word son- tenced to various fines or Imprisonment by the Criminal Court here today for offences Involv- ing false identity cards,
During the trial,
to three
the testimony
Two. Chinese, Wi Feng-Jon and of the Chinese was translated in Shu Chun-chang were fined 23,000 #rench byla nun, Blater Philo franes each and a third. Chinese, mene,--Agence Fration-ProsNY