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THE
CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1952.
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS
PROGRESS IN FIFTY!
The Rolex factory was the first to manufacturo oxclusivoly wrist-watches with LEVER escapomant in series.
It was the first to develop a truly WATERPROOF wrist-watch famous as tho Rolex “Oyster".
now
It was the first to perfect a waterproof and SELF-WINDING, chronometer the Rolex Oyster Perpetual".
It was the first to propound, the fore- most to pureun, the policy of having the whole of their chronometar pro- ́duction OFFICIALLY certified by the
Swiss Government Testing Stations
and today Rolex can boast of no loss than 175 000 Official Timing Corti- ficates issued by an impartial ́and' stringent authority.
For hundreds of pipen walch-makers had string- Bled to his upon the estab of a waterproof watch.
AUTO
PATENTED
All atlumpis Failed, until
Ralen in 1976 devloped
the simpla ides 'of using
the self-sealing action of kno metalle suṛlace upon Þnother and pinduced the
famous Rolan "Oyster"
ROT
The dream of practical, fully reliable self-winding watch is cunturies old. It remained a dream until 1951 then Belin javenind the "Retor" and endused the Arkli-talih “Oyster Paipeival” chronomater.
ROLEX
Swiss Officially Certified Chronometers
Nineteen-forty-five saw the lakroductive of the Role Ct Patpūtusi“'Datejust”, tha členu zhinna- metaz, tika is at once waterproof, seil-winding and an automatic calendar. That was the years ago. 320k will be als you honest
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Now it's
MURDER
by hypnosis
by PERCY HOSKINS,
You might well take them in their dark sults, white
collars, and sober ties for a gathering of top level. civil servants or business executives. They are, in a sense, civil servants; they are; in a sense, business.men. For they are the unpublicised servants and protectors, of the public, and they are in the business of making sure that crime does not pay.
New angles, new prob- lems will face this year's meeting it opened in Stockholm last week of the International Criminal Police Commission, known in cables as Interpol....
One hundred and fifty police cominissioners, heads of detective bureaus and secret service chiefs from 43 countries are pondering the toughening menace of the crook.
They will hear about the military-style organisation of the internationāļ gangs; about the surge in the dope- running "trade"; about a new method of murder by hypnosis.
And they will discuss how. to protect the distinguish- ed people from abroad, who will be in London next year for the Coronation.
Police chiefs of the world will bear this
man's crime secrets
Professor SDERMAN The Coronation, too
coming more
daring and more skilful. And the present high rates of taxation and attempts at evasion have introduced a new factor into crime detection.
The Coronation will not be just a formal item on the agenda. The police chiefs recognise that such well an occasion might well he used to create an interna- tional "Incident."
Bank raid
JOST to the police chiefs will H
be Sweden's Professor Harry Sodermen,reatest
bolíva scientist in the world.
He has news of a bank raid almost the exact counterpart of the recent £280,000 malibog robbery London.
One of the gang, disguised os a "barrow boy," took up position near* the kerb outside the bank just before an armour- ed car containing cash was due to arrive.
As one guard alighted from the car, the peddler pushed his barrow past the open door and pulled out a sub-machine gun from underneath layers of vegetables.
He covered the effauffeur and the second guard while his ac complices emerged from hiding
to tackle the man who had
alighted.
AND
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in one' recent case a man te- ported that he had beeu, robbed of £3,000 and some valuable
The Jawellery,
thlet WAS £30,000 arrested with
in his possession. Yet the victim re- fused to admit he had lost the
Just other £27,000.
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"Intrepid buccaneer.".
I have
(practically)
WICKSTEED of the
ISLES
taken an Isle
for the Queen
OR this week's island
F adventure the intrepid
buccaneer Wicksteed
has been raising the Union Jack under the nose of the French;
There wasn't
A school of porpoldes fled for by surprise. France, the shores of which were sign of hostility anywhere-only. so near you could see the a few. people bathing. Some- * times_in_more belligerent mood my's bathing huts. Nubody but the seagulls and the French send landing parties a few Robinson Crusoe rabbits of Boy Scouts or girl naturellats live on Ecretos. There's only who spend the day on British "And gentlemen in England one patch of grass and that not soll without so much now abed shall think themselves much larger than a tennis court.
passport. accursed they were not here
In winter the gales send their "(Shakespeare), "God for spray clean over everything. Yet They also send fishermen to Harrul England!
And
on two of the rocks there are collect ormers. Ormers are large Georged (more Shakespeare). Ialr-sized summerhouses, and on shellish reputed to taste like
I dare say you have not even another are. 17 huts clustered
heard of Les Ecretios, the scche together like concrete barnacles veal and a delicacy in Jérsoy as. of this stirring event. I hadn't in the space of a quarter of an well as France.
myself till the other day, but acre,
now I have practically spnexed the place in the name of the Queen.
They
belong to Jersey fishermen and weak-unders who
THEIR KING
come here to escape from the N the past there have been crowds on the main Island.
Les Ecrchos are about half a a dozen rocks, midway between Jersey and France. At high tide they do not amount to much thoro than andere of dry land between the ldt, but for all that they are the subject of a While-- Faper and a case that is now before the Interna- caught. tional Court at The Hague.
We descendants of Drake and
Nelson and Harry say the
rocks belong to us, but the
olashes between the fisher-
"
Peter owns one of them. He men, but now, says Joe, they are
only
really can go to sleep in the sun beside few, and the it and fish at the same time, unwelcome visitors from France All he has to do is tie the line are the Colorado beetles that use round his too so that the fish the rocks as a staging post on wake him up when they are their fights to Jerary,
UNOPPOSED
scheming French refuse to admit How can any red-blooded our claim.
...
You can And them on the high-water mark hiding in the seaweed.
There used to be a "king" of' Briton stafid by and see Eerehes. He was called Philippe That was the situation when such enterprise checked by the Fidel and he lived on the rocks
machinations of the French?
for 40 years.
Queen Victoria gave in a red cont as a badge the Great Wicksleed Expedition of Liberation set out from Jersey · : Other subjects of the Queen of omee.
art directly, concerned in the In a motor-boat.
He had his own methods of 'sovereignty of these rocks. One 'WE'LL FREE IT'
bronzed old fisher- keeping the French at bay. Ile of them la 'man called Joe, who thakes a
inade his living burning seawted living out of Ecrchos lobsters to get fertiliser,, and the amell
was so awful that few near. He retired to Jersey and
less, odorous life in 1893.
I think not forget that. Joe was What about our Union Jack? the most interested party because he makes us living here, so his was the band that raised y
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Part-time
UOTH Wicksterd, standing on' and crabs.
the prow as the rocks of
3 The other is Berelios hovo in sight. "A plague on The Hague. Here's one bit fisherman. When he isn't lahing of the Empire we will free for her too. If I caught his name he looks after a cloakroom In our readers.!!
right it is Dan.
The professor's audience— - which includes Sir Harold Peter, the master of the motor Scott, London's Commissioner of boat, and his mate Bill shouted Police, and Mr Ronald Howe, "Hooray" and a lot of dirty head of the C.I.D.- the black seabirds that were neating shrewdest and the most critical on a whitened lodge flew off in he has yet Had to face, a alarm.
The Crybaby Who
'Sends" Them
Hollywood.
ROONER Johnny Alvin
Before his marriage Ray said: "When "I murty; It won't DA to a girl in show business, That Ray who has de would be like a truck driver throned Frank Sinatra and taking his wife along to change, Rudy Vallee as "Prince of the oll,"
:
California business. Blue-eyed, five-fool,
22-year-old Marilyn Morrison
Walls and Nabob of Scb," So Instead he married the Fake suicide has married A freckled, daughter of R man in show
'to murder by smith nosed A hypnotism. Professor Boder-
beauty. mon was called in to investigate a smuggling conspiracy. One of the gang, thought by the rest to have "sticated,”, was, found dead
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It looked, and was meant look, like suleide through re- morse.
bren
Without a Bintile noto
who wears her black hair in a nt poodle cut, is the daughter of music, he took as his bride blue. Charles Morrison. He owns the eyed, 22-year-old Marilyn Mocambo, Hollywood nightchab.
* Johnny's rise has been, as Morrison in a civil ceremony nightclub singer,
a sulle at the Cold Warwick, "
dri broke the hearts of millions
In fact, Professor Bodetman of bobby-soxer. Even though In October he's booked to sing discovered that the squealer had the aides wept one of the worst at Ciro's rival night spot to his
hypnotised and told to rainstorms of the Spring, scores father-in-law's "plush jeant." stand on a chair. Then a noose of the teonage sisterhood was placed round his neck and besieged the hotel to see their the hypnotist told him to "start here, and it possible get a lock walking," He did.
or his hairs
A
.man
All America ig ́ divided over the shricks and walls and groans that come out, of Johnny's thirt! case from the Sodeti Twenty-five-year-old Johany, mouth, the tears that cascade when he sings nan dassier: ilustrates how a half-deaf, self-taught son of an out of his
"The Little White Cloud, disproved another fake
Oregon millwright, is to the whisky and Cin" or "Tell the babby-saxerg of 1952 what Vallco was to their mothers, and Lady I said Goodbye." Johnny's detectors, and thero Are what Sinatra was to their older thousands of them-mostly male usters,
icame
She
A girl was found dead on a bench in a Vienna park. had
apparently shot herself. through the head with a pistol which, was lying near.
The scene was immediately
photographed in the carly
---Gay that just because he's half deaf and, he can't hear himself that his anging is so horrible,
To get to the top, this crther. But the women thro flot_vely. morhing before sunrise. Later, has become the national divided. They worship him. after developing the plate, the baby, on hysterical, hair-pulling Sald Ava Gardiner, after hear police photographer | discovered cryimby,
saloon
ing Johnny at the Copacabaria
signs that someone hou hedh Six months ago
ogo he was an "He suis mé stting close to the woman. This obscure £25-u-week was revealed by faint marks in plano player plus singer. the dew which had collected on the bench. proved.
So murder
Asked Ava's husband, who Then he made a record of a "ent" quite a few.girls in his own crooning, song called "Cry. It went with his While De Soderman thinks walling and keening out over the drily: "In what direction?"
radio waves. Already two Ava's husband; you remem- that selence is winning the million records of this one song ber, is Frankle Sinatra.—Ex- fight against crime, he also have been sold,
press News Service, admits that the 'criminal is, bow-
Both of them were there when The liberation party landed. Over in The Hague International lawyers were at work deciding their fate, but Joe, oblivious of high politics, was calmly inending His lobster pots.
The other Briton, with equal nonchalance, was making a pot of ten.
With feld glasses we scanned the enemy coast. They appeared to have been completely taken:
came
Do you know the words of Ye Mariners of England"? The Mag that braved a thot
and years, the battle and the 3,bréezes.......” They still give me n
lump in the throat."
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