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„THE · CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1954,
Generals Plan a 'Get Out' Meeting
MADRID O
SPAIN
GIBRALTAR
TANGIERSPANISH
CASABLANCA MOROCCO
FRANCE
MED
FRANCO PROMISES SELF-GOVERNMENT
ALGERIA
TERRORISTS ATTACK FRENCH PROPERTY
TUNISIA
GR
FRANCO -NEGUID TO PLAN COLRA WAR
SEA
LIBY A
Would You Mind If They Took
This From You?
A
national system of
Angerprint registration would help the polico in their Aght against crime-way some people. But would the public resent such a system? – Today A new examination of the selence of fingerprinting shows how it can help to catch mur- derers and why it may fall.
ATE one night in May 1948, June Anne De-
missed from her cot in the babies' ward of a Blackburn (Lancashire) hospital.
In the early hours of the morning her body was found in a hayfield in the hos- pital's grounds.
By the child's cot, the fingerprints police found that belonged to no one in the hospital. The prints were photographed, They did not tally with any of the 1,250,000 sets of prints kept at Scotland Yard, nor with the ten million sets filed by the world's police forces, to whom details were circulated.
Or Manc
John Clark's dock
Jackson, who had left his prints at a house in Denmark Hill, went freshly-painted wood
to prison for seven years..
With knives, flies, sandpaper, eld, criminals have tried to alter the pattern of loops, arches and whorls that form their fingerprints.
Surgeons failed
American doctors to treat them by plastle surgery. When John Dulinger was caught, it was found the skin had been removed from the of his fingers, But the
true, skin aiready beginning to make the original pattern on the hew outer skin that was growing.
gangsters hired
or
Was
When the torso and arms of Stanley Seily were found in the Essex marshes in October 1949, To identify the prints, the body had been in the water the Blackburn police de- 10 days. Prints could not be cided to take those of every taken in the normal way, but who had been in the Chief Superintendent Cherrill, or the Fingerprint Department, town at the time of the
had the skin removed from the murder.
fingertips. After treatment, these caps of skin were stretched over his own fingertips woro encased
in rubber which
man
gloves.
RAB TATES
300
MILES
TURKEY
SMAN
BLACK WEEK
3. MURDERED
7 MISSING
T one end of the Mediterranean is General Franco, at A the other end General Nagull. Besides all the gilt decorations of epaulettes, each of the Generals also has a chip on his shoulder. Franco wants the British out of Gibraltar; Naguib wants the British out of the Canal Zone.
SUDAN SEEKS A LEADER
B
By JAMES WRIGHTON
EFORE Arab slavers Sudan, in his silver-domed
came up-river with palace at Khartoum, is chains and rawhide Sayed Sir. Abdel Rahman whips, the black pagan el Mahdi.
cor-
Nilotic tribesmen of South This venerated son. of the Sudan wero wandering over fanatical Mahdi who roured the savannah and swamp driv. Dervishes ngainst Egypt's" ing their cattle before that the so-called parties of his rupt pashas 71 years ago knows, them.
country are a vencer. Still naked and bearing As in the past, the will of the spears, they
Sudanese wil ultimately emerge have just through prejudice of ruce, voted in the birth of if na ilgion and rect.
tion three times the size of Egypt.
runs
re-
And division in the country is not olny between Mosl?m and A quarter of the Sudan's Infidel. Schiam
through population, ownign a mil. the Moslems as well. Mahdi's lion head of cattle and with Sayed or holy leader, Sir All bereditary opponent is another iron and
beneath Mirghanl. copper come a potential force in a their lands, they have be-
new state.
Powerful Sects
These two men ench lead their resentment
But they have not lost powerful Moslem scola -- tho against Ansar and the Khatimin - who the descendants of their form the core of two main and the in North parties, the UMMA
National Unionists.
In turn, UMMA have shown apparent friendship for Britain; Unlonlsts preter Egypt. This has been a polley of con- venience for the election.
For reasons possibly not unconnected with the let's-abdicate | slave - masters attitude of some British politicians, the Generals Judge this a good | Sudan who still term them time to agitute. It is suggested that they will meet to plan a infidel savages Joint cold war on Britain.
and bar them from swank clubs in The Khartoum.
Or hus the cold war already started? In the Canal Zone there were 255 attacks on Britons last year, and there have been 20 this year already. Eleven Britons were killed last year, ond three have been killed last month.
It has been black in Spala, where student demonstrations mounted in fury and where Franco, courting the Arab States, promises to give Spanish Morocco self-government thereby louching off trouble for the French in adjacent French Morocco.
In war and peace 00,000 British troops in the Canal Zone do an international job, for Suez must be guarded and kept open for the trade of the free world. In time of war certainly the Britons on Gibraltar do an essential job for Britain and her allies Without control of "The Rock", Malta could not have survived, the conquest of North Africa could not have been achieved, the invasion of Italy could not have been launched in the last war.
And, for the record, it is interesting that the British have years, and, before that, it was held by the Moors, who took it held Gibraltar for 250 years. It belonged to Spain for only 242 from the Teutonic Goths when there was no Spanish nation.
The Spaniards have less title to Gibraltar than the British, and must rage in vain.
In the next three years
Now that is over the National they will have time to pon- Unlonists, who won the election, der the effect of the clection wil get down to the real issue. which marks the beginning between the two
Primarily this is บ struggle
Sayeds of the Sudan's independence. their funatical
and followers. But They will decide whether right along the desert frontier they can stomach the rule there tcoms the shadow of of their lighter skimed, ambitious Nagulb and his land- better educated Moslem hungry Egyptians.
Egypt invaded the Sudan in neighbours, who will take 1821 for the very
reason that over most of the 144 senior again exists today the lack of government posts from the fundamental Sudanese unity. British.
In his book, "River War," Churchill said of Sudanese in- Well aware of the tension ability to throw
out the in- between North and South vaders: "They were destitute of two moral forces essential to rebellions. The first was know-
Why Does The Army Lack Recruits ?
I WAS SHOCKED
BY THE MEN
WHO CAN'T READ
W
London.
HEN, in the war; joined the Navy, 1 was put in a hut
It began in India They took 46,000 sets from men and boys over 16 He took a perfect set of prints, with 80 other men. One of fa number equivalent to the and the headless body was at these could write little entire population of a town once identified as that of Setty. more than his name.
Dr Buck Ruxton his wife and their
When murdered
By
J. P. W. MALLALIEU, MP
le that better things existed. of The second was the spirit combination. General Gordon showed them the first. The
Mahdi provided the second."
Today they have better things great British-planned
the
Gezira cotton scheme, stretching for a million acres along the Blue Nile, and the dams which control the Nile and thereby the ute of both the Sudan and Екурі.
Envy And Fear
趋
The Sudanese, North and South, have alco inherited knowledge of peaceful adminia- tration from the British.
They come into the recruiting
But while these things have slation as I saw for myself brought progress to the Sudan, lively-eyed, keen to join the they have aroused the envy and Arms as, perhaps, their fathers fear of Egypt.
And now that the British aro did before them, keen to got a wider experience in their trade leaving according to their pro- than civilian life seems to offer, mise, the Sudan once more faces keen for the adventure and the threat that existed before schooling In wartime, when travel which the Army can give, the British expelled the the size of Guildford).
The 46,253rd set of finger- maid, in Lancaster, in 1930, hd and the things I said in his the services, these facts are a just when the Army Bnds them year to
So I wrote his letters-
schools were blitzed or evacuated, But, after a few years, they've Egyptians in 1873.. and many good teachers were in had a basinful and come out Before the plebiscite in three prints taken agreed with dismembered the bodies and
deelaa whether the- those found in the babies' packed them into parcels (30 name to a girl on Tyneside shattering criticism of ⚫ most useful.
Sudan will link with Egypt, ward. They were those of were recovered). He disposed of make my hair stand on end educational system, with its
there is time to unite the new these in o sunken stream in
Alarmingly largo mumbers of state. Peter Griffiths, who later Dumfriesshire, 110 miles away.
to this day. He in his overcrowded classes,
NCOs the men who are This can only be achieved was tried, found guilty, and
especially needed to train both through the Sayeds. If neither hanged for June Devaney's
in my boots-a job at which Unless remedied, they are cer- Regular recrulls and National of them rise to the occasion, the murder.
fain to pull back the I was incompetent.
whole Service men-have bought their way will be open for Egyptian country's standard ot life. discharge since that right was intrigue, secession of the South old. He was 40 years
He Already, to some extent they restored a short while ago. Many and, perhaps, bloodshed. write because, from are affeeling the efficiency of more are refusing to sign for a The time is ripe for another
the Army. In 1952,
as it further term when their present Mahdl.
and not
Only five refused turn helped me to put studs always fully trained teachers,
Two months after the crime, an arm of the maid was found, The Blackburn case is a and the patterns of the dermals classic in the history of agreed with prints found in the could not fingerprints, or dactyloscopy house in Lancaster. Until then the time he left school 27 years the (the official word for the there had been nothing definite science), which had its be to link the discovery in Scotland previously, he had had no reason happened, recruiting for the re- terms expire.
to practise. His literacy was with the doctor's home, fromTI
understandable, ginnings just under 100 which his wife and her maid years ago, in India, and is had disappeared. As a result told in a book published to- of the prints, identity was es-
tablished, and Ruxton day.
sequently hanged.
was
sub-
gular army, at 43,000, was an all-time record.
But that was the first year of the templing
Quarter are out
new scheme whereby a man
Real solution
Instead of doing National Service And the reason is-homesick- for two years at a basle pay, of ness. It is not possible" in present But what has really shocked 45. a day, can get a base pay of circumstances to First man to see the possi- In a number of murder cases me this week I to find that of 78. a day by signing on as a wives can be near their serving ensure that bilities of classifying prints for clled in this book, prints that all the present-day applicants regular for the years, identity purposes (in the 1800s) may have belonged to the for the
wular
Regular Army, one- Herschel,
murderer have been found near quarter have to magistrate In
Bengal
be rejected where th
the body, and the murderer has literates frequently "signed," remained at large. Because un mainly because they documents by their thumbprint. loss a man or woman has been read or write properly.
During the past year, however, A few years later, Sir Francis in the hands of the police, no
of that These are not men of 40 who the attractions even
cannot
Signing off
husbands. Wives cannot go to Korea. We cannot build married quarters in Malayan jungles. 1 hope it is not going to be worth while to build married quarters in Kenya.
BALDNESS WORRIED
CAESAR
By CLEMENT D. JONES
bald ULIUS Caesar's JULI
Galton published the first of a records of their prints are kept. are long out of school and who chame have palled-recruiting As a result, one NCO told me, apot may have been
dictionary-fashion.
on desirable, with the they left. These are 18-year- National Service is abolished or of three weeks in five years. So sponsible for his assassina
CT!
fle. able
1
Army has now had it.
His steadily receding hairling If that happens, the fact that Maybe stili further increases had been a source of worry, arid
series of works to show how There are those who think fingerprints might be classified, national Bystem of fingerprintve had no cause to write since in 1953 was only 36,000 and if he had seen his wife for a total partially, if indirectly, re-
First accepted
tion's prints
olds, only three years out of diminished they would pall still far as he was concerned, the tion. avall-
when at a further. school and yet. there is a London But From his system. Edward feeling, according to
to the authors, looked at the application forms
recruiting depot, who was born that such a stop. would be even of some of the successful 25 percent of applicants are uit in pay might help-at presint of wounded vanity for many years, Inspector-General of Police in That may bo so, yet in the candidates, I saw that their for service, would be a serious senior NCO gets the equivalent and by the time of his death in |my eight-year-old daughter, 1. the present anything like has to suffer the disadvantage of had resulted in now stylu
30.
combat
Richard Henry, in Shadwell in 1850, and became resented by
by the public. Bengal, laid the foundations of
obstacle to the maintenance of a of a civilian foreman's pay, but 44 B.C., Caesar's efforts writing was worse than that of
or malk his baldness masa fingerprinting undertaken the modern science. In 1901 he
nogulir where no Comi
level of around long separations from home. founded Scotland Yard's Central at Blackburn,
pulsion could be used, only
As for reading, the recruiting 200,000 men.
But the real solution would be haircut for Homan men Fingerprint Branch (now the
Instead of draping his few, men out of 40,000 rint Department).
cut down the period of long, remaining strands hori Fingerprint
objected, and officer told me that most of the The Army has as even more to all but five of those were men could mouth the words in serious problem. About half the overseas servire..
zonially-assume, men do Fingerprint evidence was a persuaded in the end. This the cepted for the first time at the
simple pplication form, recruits sign on only for three We could only do that by de day, attempting to conceal their
the effort so exhausted years. Nearly
have the creasing, our commitments over-unthatched pates Caer pull- Central Criminal Court (London)
a large question mark in the some of them that they became option to come out at the end seas of
by
Increasing the od s straight forward, secking
in 1903, and a burglar named
*Fingerprints, bu Douglas Q.
Brown and Alan Brock fl
and Co., 157.),
book, without taking sides, leaves But
to be so fussy?
John Clarke
JOHNNY HAZARD
HELLO. THIS
POINT SPEAKING...
WHO IS THAT?
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mind: is it foolish, these days, wholly incapable of abadzbing of each three-your-period of number of efficient NCOs. The to create the illusion of
their meanings bendr service. An alarmingly large chances of doing the latter are youthful brow.
Even allowing that the present properiton are taking up their very slight so long as our level inspired widespread imilla- 18-year-olds did much of their option.
of education remains so low. tion during Caesar's lifetime, even among those Romans who had no bald pates to hide, ac- P.M. Pasinetti, an cording to
POINTE...THIS
19. DELESTON ́IN ·
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By Frank Robbins
his'ültüatlon
San
Miguel
Italian, scholar, and novemb
Suctantus and other
Roman' authors uro- nulhorities for the fact that Caesar ked to applied wearing "a Intirel wreath-on, every possible ober-. cần bạn vui là helped to hide Al be foridners
laurel also appeared to -- offer tangible proof of the overw
Diher, cometirotors, doulded: must be mainten
doubt that, Comme,wit
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