G
ALL OVER THE WORLD
IT'S A SAFE NAME!
WINTER
BRINGS
MORE
FIRES!
PROTECT YOUR VALUABLES
AND BUSINESS RECORDS IN A HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1950.
Smuggled gold (and a
TEN
EN of the world's most famous detectives met in Paris recently for a three-day conference to launch "La Police Criminelle de l'Air."
This now Criminal Police Force of the Air Is a movo to combat an alarming boom In International smuggling.
At the moment the project is not as Hollywoodlike an it sounds. There will be по
squadron of Jet pureult planes or hoverplanes for observo- tion duty, though these may be needed later.
The get-together of police and the British and Con- tinental airline chicks was called to form a ground force to keep an extra vigil on the airports.
which
bomb)
set 'air-tecs' busy
BY PERCY HOSKINS
Imperilled thirty in- nocent lives was, according to Scotland Yard's prosent theory, designed to kill a smuggling double-crosser.
3
MILLIONS of pounds worth of black
gold has been flown European frontiera dropped by parachute.
to
One gang ring, operating from Switzerland with eight private planes, is known have smuggled on a single flight more than 2001b. "of gold. (The black market price
£35 an ounce.)
ly owned, 336 attached to fly- ing clubs, fund 018 with air charter Arms.
may
of
Professor Harry Soderman leading police scientist, went from the laboratories of the Institute Scientific Police in Stockholm. And from Italy went suave, voluble Giuseppe Dost of Rome's De- lective Bureau.
of
Though national traits and
differ characteristics
almost as much as their individual approach to the problem the detection and prevention of crime, these men and their provide colleagues
team more formidable than any the has .yet been compelled to face. underworld
ITS HANDICAP
4 SHEETS of gold, measur- venience to the honest lying ONE good result of the new
You ought to know about this
little red book
for red
D
the Prime
visit
that,
bandits
Shortly, we
rein-
URING
are up to have Minister's
to battalions, and are dealing with
concentration, dispersal, America he told Presi- forcement, organisation, signals, dent Truman
in rations, training, discipline--and Malaya, Britain is holding a at this point, comrade, we op- though not in this. vital sector of the free proach,
Number Two manual, the grim world front line.
subject of executions.
Even if All the surplus
had planes
to Bono
theso (disregarding sources
the many market fact that
planes aro over bought now) there would still and be 134 machines which
be In the hands of smugglers, MORE CHECKS H veived in these new anti- How do the airlines get in-
Their help is crime plans? needed to operate the scheme
It is true. Britain has Other captured "gen" tella with the minimum of incon-
20,000 troops in Malaya, you about these. Death is the Inches by ing four
anti smuggling measures
we penalty for desertion, spying, two public.
Also based on Malays NOT A DREAM.. inches, which can be casily
may be the development and
have Royal Navy units and surrender, rape, or robbery (that concealed in An overnight The International Police expansion of the Internation-
the Royal Air Force. bag, fetch four times their Commission's new plan also al Police Commission itself. official price. оп the black proposes
detail Ironically, though more
As long as these facts against smug- ed check on the activities of campaign
Aging and counterfeit money planes,
are understood, and not pole for five hours in the... Private
Interpol's monthly black list of private gangs, planes and pilots of all no-
just used as excuses for blazing sun, then mode to do. handicap is MONEY. tonalities suspected of smug-
doing no more, there is still a day's work. Each
member-State con- gling is now circulated
some hope for South-East tributes little less than
Asia. £800 a year to run a staff of police forces of the world,
20 which tries to keep weekly Scotland Yard's man at the track of
of the movements Paris conference was barris- 100,000 criminals. C.I.D.-Ronald Howe. ter- delective hend of. the Chief
MACH unit of the new force
is to be staffed by detec
tives trained in trapping air- borne smugglers.
sounis If you think this like a schoolboy's dream force rather than on urgent addition
Customs to the present
OF-
market.
In some detected cases sheets weighing up to 120 b. have been found hidden plane luggage..
in
ganisailon, note these points: 5 SINCE the war about 1,300 war surplus planes have been sold unconditionally by the
DAVIE, BOAG & Co., Ltd. 1 AN estimated amount of
CHUNG TIN BUILDING.
TEL. 26862.
earned tr
Carlsberg
of course!
GRANT
of
£5,000,000 worth contraband is flown every year
Into Britain.
majority were light commu- Supply Ministry. The
nication types, Fold some times for only £30. total aircraft
owner- ship in Britain is 310 private-
2 THE BOMB which explod-
ed in a
The cross Channel Viking aircraft In April and
by JAMES BARTLETT
TILLIONS of mothers
M
do not know how to bring up a child. All they know is how to rear a milksop or a misfit.
That is the bitter con- clusion reached by mild- mannered, 64-year-old Dr Edward Strecker. He wus wartime consultant to the
of surgeons-general American forces.
charler
to
of Washington's F.B.I., J. Edgar Hoover, sent 1wo
of his shrewdest and most-travelled agents.
1
1s
Its
own
main
chicf
Each your adds another 500 The names to the black list, Criminal Police of the Air' hope to add a fow more.
-London Express Service.)
'MOM'
...A
A doctor pins a label on mothers who never
let go of their children
He has fixed a label
Without voicing her feelings, she believes that she has given
If it Is not realised that
Malaya is the mas- ter key in the politics, strategy,
is, unauthorised, private rob- bery).
Offenders ano also flogged with a ratlan enne, tied to
Surren-
Few desert. Fewer der. Don't let us kid ourselves,
Frank Owen
SIZES UP THE GUERRILLA and trade of this STRUGGLE HE HAS LEFT rich, crowded for BEHIND HIM IN MALAYA
corner of the vast
Asian heartland, then the Let us know our enemy. Who. sooner we retire on the Isle is be? of Wight the better.
First, the trained, resolute, fanatic Communist, sometimes
China.
There is no reason at all indoctrinated here in Malaya, for going-except funk, or sometimes smuggled froma the muddied emotion which stampeded us out of Burma and let in civil war.
Certainly
Second, the sincere but mud dled idealist,
the large Third, the adventurous, the men (and women too)
who want to live dangerously.
majority of the people-and young especially the native people.
us
who are Malay, not Chinese Fourth, the criminal and the -are content for
to perennial brigand of legend.
Murder....
stay.
The
COMMUNISTS have ham.. mered all these into a for-
hard to be a
midable st. Make no mistake.
clatter Communist about a "Malayan people's libera- tion movement" is about us visible, even to her genuine as the Sheffield "Peace"
unless
locks Congress, "just
so," this kind of mom
Unfortunately for us it in a engraves on their minds .4
little better organised, false ideal
womanhood. of
Rarely
she
PSEUDO-INTELLEC-
Kremlin-led
You have to be "bandit."
Their
About pay?
£3 Q. month, with few allowances (there is tile difference be tween ranks), Their diet? Rice, bamboo shoots, and wild
things are to be called by their right names (It helps
banaras. r
on with her "she just doesn't the millions of women who seem to be particularly strong." children, have failed to rear their children into mature, inde- pendently minded
adults. all her strength to the upbring- She makes physical attraction the He calls them "moms."
ing of her children. She makes seem the be-all and end-all of
iving. one of them, usually a daugh- His scathing attack on
the Though they may be beautt- ter, so aware of this that
child is bound tightly by 1 THE bad mothers marks the ful or plain, rich or poor, well
Their day? When not fight- sense of duty towards mother. TUAL MOM: She is for ever clear thinking), then these 5,000
or 10,000 "bandits" are advance ing or looting, P.T. at 0.30 am, culmination of nearly ten dressed or dowdy, they all
taking courses and attending
drill, weapon training, years spent collecting case- have one thing in
lectures. One month it is menuerilla troops of the Red Army, then
and propaganda until 8.30 p.m. So "alling mom" gets all the
hygiene,
71cxt That is, they
are mobilised, -and then three hours more of history evidence in hospital 4 mom holds on to her children
too Iona
would economics. and sho almost love and attention that
trained, offeered, and led under "political instruction." mental wards, recruiting
to someone never willingly relinquishes her have been given battle
the direction of the Kremlin. centres,
else outside the home. casualty
She fascinates her children grasp. stations and in his own New York consulting room.
W
common:
researches Strecker's
distinct exposed seven
have mom
• Their Mothers' cons—by Dr types. It is easy to recognise Edward Strecker (Lippincoït). them:-
On lime
X XI
all the
time
CYMA
WATCHES • CLOCKS
Sanctuary
MOM:
her
the
All this highly organised
uniform in action, also badger
us she stares at them through No need to argue otherwise, military activity (they all wear
heavy-rimmed owlish, spectacles. But her mind is as immature as any frivolous handbook blonde's.
telligently grown-up
to her
As I write I have before me o
"Tactics on
in of rank before and after it) tles In with plain-clothes Guerilla Warfare (2: Attack).' terrorism by
the "specint
"
the towns.
It is compiled and published by THE POLLYANNA
Like schoolgirl Pollyan- All her snatchy book-learn- the Red Flag Library, West service squads" who operate in THE COMMON MOM: She na, who saw good In
is useless every ing
ana Pahang. The foreword explains It does not teach why Number Two is published Thier tasks aro laid down 19 persuasively dominant. By thing, this kind of mom makes mother. gentle rebukes, sighs, and oc- life too beautiful, too artificial her how to guide children in- before Number One.
as Including intelligence; sub- towards a mature,
extortion and casional tears she supervisca
thai "Up to now our attacks have scriptions, Le., her the way
way of living grown-children
She checks all arguments, will give them a secure place been based purely on the general blackmail; assassination, dress, how they behave,
all awkward questions. She in the world.
lines of guerilla warfare. they choose their friends.
tries to avoid any of the rough
means we have not yet acquired contesis of everyday living.
the necessary knowledge Launch major offensives on the enemy. Bolshevik greeting,"
Ambushes.
how
She does all their thinking
for them, because she cannot
Her children are brought up bear to imagine that her children almost in a sanctuary. When might become adults with minds they do set out on their of their own.
own
Spinsters ALTHOUGH there
distinct
are these Д types,
the real world hits them EU hard that they feel they must mom is not always a mother.
Dr She is the main reason why, run back to mom's world.
Strecker has found all through their lives, they
"memism" Armly implanted can never acquire, confidence in their own judgment.
Give, give...
NEXT
THE SELF-SACHI-
FICING MOM: From
dawn til bed-time, seven days-
THE
It
to
HE "gen" follows. And very It shows good "gen" it is. how, where, and when to lay an ambush (if possible, at a road among two types op bend in a defile at dusk); how teacher-the martinet, and the sentimentalist
THE PROTECTIVE MOM: not She believes that nobody, even father, should punish the children. In her eyes they are The martinet, BAYS
"pours the vipis wrath of her own emotional disappointments upen
the
always innocent. They deserve binme for bad haviour.
never doctor,
be-
If, despite her watchfulness, a week, she finds happiness in her children are punished · sho
them, running after
pets them, her comforts con, daughter,
gives them rewards for having been "so brave."
her
She puts everything back in after the children its place have strewn everything around. Whatever they want cheerfully gets for them.
she
ac-
Behind all her bustling tivity for them, she feels deep down in her heart: else could
"Where .
find my children what I give them here?"
the
of
children over whom she has authority."
to scout and spy out the enemy' movements and strength.
All bandits are controlled by the Communist Party of
Cominform Malaya, acting on orders. If this is not war of short something inflaltesimally of it, perhaps someone of the intellectual appeasement move-. ment will explain.
The cost
us is the abiding and over- battle which General
all
Sir John Harding, Commandér- in-Chief in the Far East,
It shows how to hide, deceive, and General Sir Harold Briggs, of Anti-bandil Chiet distract, decoy; how to win, or his cumpel, local good will, and co Operations, face. secure supplies, information,
General Briggs did not come tunds-or, at a pinch, recruits.
to Britain recently to ask for The manual sets out the drill more troops. Ho came to ask The sentimentalist cannot
for cutting, or tapping, telephone for more civilian powers, the children ("they wires, discipline
stealing Identification are such babies, the little
Why? To organise and mobf- cards, burning buses, derailing darlings").
trains, and shooting up the sc the several separate State-
Governments of Malaya wreckt fin- It She never realises that
the children have a mom
really concerted drive with less a chlid learns to face the at home, they are up against a
Instructions about troops, polier, civil administra- consequences of his actions his two-fold plot to destroy this slashing rubber trees, and thus tion,
transport, agricultural,. adult life will be full of eva-, hopes of ever
becoming denying to the British enemy sion and decelts.
sensible, mature human beings. vitni dollar-earning and strategic
social, and commercial services.. One in the schoolroom, one in
asset. But another, overriding, Incidentally, this "bandli" the home.
top-lovel order says go easy on war is costing us all of £40,000
dear friends of "bandits" expect to a day, It, this: the sces
False ideal
NEXTH, THE
Dr Strecker
There are
in a.
the
and
A "momism" is today's gravestĮ take over the country themselves "Friends of the Soviet Union,"
But Looking through his soon, when those rubber trees ADDLEPATE menace.
regular troops ▷ MOM: Sho would be pince-nez at the human race, will come in handy.
regular
not mode police are She is the main reason why amusing. If she did not do. so he reports that maturity seems
If this is "bandliry," then it for fighting guerilla troops, they never become self-reliant much damage to her children's to be locking-in men and
Maybe which is what, I repeat, those that is what Big Brother bandits are, Bolshevism has become.
why they will always expect future. For she lo always women, in Governments, in is big-time bandliky. somebody else to handle their seeking to look beautiful and nations.
own deulties.
Mom.
graceful-through an elaborate And who is largely to blame? ritual of cosmetics, hair-do's THE AILING MOM: Her diets, massage, facial exercises, doctor can find nothing wrong and fashion, worship:
POP
I MUST FLY, HE ALWAYS
GETS THE TRAIN
AFTER
MINE
(London Express Service)
HOW DO
YOU KNOW
THAT?
There is only one why to But so far the manual merely beat bandits, or guerillas -- be deals with platoon tactics. Walt better bandit, or guerillas.
Deep in the heart of the for iti
Jungle thern
& British- Malayan force capable of doi ing it. The troops are all volunteers.
They are. drenched In jungle fore. Diacl- plined in
hart
Morning departure
BECAUSE THAT'S
THE ONE I
ALWAYS.
CBT
schoola
of
Wor,
commandos, para-
troops, desert and Mad Mike- Jungle long-range Calvert.
penetration doups. Dedicated, maybe doomed.
Colonel "Mad Mikor Calvert, who commands thum, was withi |Wingate, -
I would like to tell som about him and his boys, but,“