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MURDER!
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1954.
'SAVE THE BOY,' I CRIED, BUT THE DYING MAN JUST
SMILED AT ME
By LEONARD MOSLEY
The police are hunting for 10-year-old TONY ROWE, who He has an illness vanished after seeing his mother murdered. which will kill him unless he is given an injection; and his father. GEORGE ROWE, may die too, on the galloses, to he Superintendent STANLEY, has been arrested for the murder,
of Scotland Yard, fearns that Tony was kidnapped and he questions JOE TRENT, a bookmaker, about the-tac man HARRY THRAKE. comicted thief, who knows where Tony in. Then he
hears a scream..
REDCAR. WAS very quick About
But
race- awkward "places. There was, for run instance, race being Just as I started out from the police box towards the silver ring.
it.
courses are
earring brunette I had seen in the car at Edinburgh. The other (a peculiar one this time) was Rowe, tho Diana at Mrs murdered woman.
FIND THIS BOY
tee's dying, as the hunt
to save his he begins its seventh day
I swung round, but a white hand went out and tried to shut the door behind us. A voice, soft and foreign, said: "Please, Superintendent Stanley: Do not put on the light."
"Who are you? What do you want?" I asked..
again. Then I slumped back
plined Here was a clue that
dead and stepped inside that I felt a Thrake to the ifurry
soft body, pressed close to me, through her, woman and, missing Tony Rowe. But what edge into the room too. good did that do me now Harry Thrake was beyond questioning? It was going on for midnigh!
when on Sunday
I got up to this to you? Who is your boss? leave police headquarters to go to my hotel, and I have rarely What has he done with Tony Rowe? Save the boy! I ueseech teil ao miserable, I simply did not know what to do next. Oh, of you, save the is!”
All made listel
But already knew who she for was. I bad, lie was still alive enough
Even in the darkness Just lay there, preparations,
10 cntald asked the Yord
cr those white hooped peak, but he
away, anti ebbing
aniling Instance.
Contact Edinburgh police. and earrings; and, from a chink of at
as he died
Johnny Ticht under the bedroom door, the sheen of the dark cynicalty
Macdonald to join me Genial Joe Trent was standing have them sead ittile
If we did fract just devil!"
1 the
twenty-four TIXT hours, Johnny might be able to identify him as the man who hid i. Edin- Happed Tay in hugh
behind me
In
he said. 12 fut fare
✩
The crowd had surged to looking very sad. the rails. The bookies were tote up. The
reckoning machines were still dealing boily.
from the last with quenes
race.
it with a fell of confusion in which the thoughis uf people around me were centred golleg down They were no 15 ine. to t
in six hos
the straight
fo make tit They were it no m pleasant and co-operative with einwink the police,
Burts
[ ruspex
eitch
in hair, the glint of the large stone in the ring on her in-
as her hand reach-
TOMORROW:
ger.
1
out and pulled me towards her.
A woman plots revenge
uphuut large eyes.
It was the girl who huc driven the CHT Ina with Harry Thrake Edinburgli. the VJ-
brunatte
Lhe Wilh
the As I turned away from
black despair In my hear, I could have sworn I saw
much hope. fin't face.
and pal fustriline frightened, and a familiar pute though Time was run-
some- meg cu ant the lite et Tony of white hoop earrings.
ibbing away But when Hure wa where in the crowd.
The lounge of the liftte hotel I looked more closely, the Chees
when was desented
In I put was gonn
TO BUIL and there was no one We took
1+ !}h the lady
I walked upstairs mortuary BTACT then began the hift.
bud
The lights in the rorridor wern But, dims and esspiriting, and I had questioning the people we pleked up on the course 121 7-1
out v prself torch to to take in the milling crowd, crowd in the silver ring
had seen how it had happened, see the number on my door.
hought I heard conid Just stay one, Anyone,
sound beland he and there was have killed Harry Thrake.
tire salt od po rume I took long statements from
Finkelhofe, but I was tired and my reflexes It was were slow in reacting. thouted. After which a hubbub Joe Trent, Hyme
and the clerk, and then let them
the door way only when 1 opened Their They were go. Couth early to
to get a good stand nut for for the Newmarket meeting, so them. In inch knew where Harry
Cental Joe was at his fruitlest as he apologisest for not having beat of more 363p.
th
the
over
was urging
and back
crramei,
Aunty,
A
Win Then the rave
crowd
from the rails.
wumun
arose,
And Botcone shouted. "Ambulance man, ambulance
mian!"
Was
Lying In the mud,
rail, from Thraks. He was not quite dend
Sumcone bad stuck object in just the right place in hart with wat brat 1:15 back, the weapon too quickly, prob-
the crowd ably because beginning to then as he muded his thrust. It had given the tie- the just a few more minutes of
11
ITLY
almut
the
I had no rompunction
Tressants behaviour
the clouds i saw dying mall curdling to his eyes and I unelt own and shook him, trying to stir the last moments of N into his dying brain,
This the "Harry," I sad
whel I mean!
I sol polier when I promise! you immunity But I need your help. Who did
Al
All Saturday night Sunday we worked on the case solving --and were no hearer
of the tu killing by the end evening.
were
went through the things we hart taken out of Harry Thrake'a
1114-16
bckets, pickmy Lilla
matchbooks, ndi note, and snapshots
snapshots in other vireanusiances, mught, have got him into trouble with the law; they were that kind of pleture.
she
at least
The
wore
The
Dzi
What do you want?" askt!
fres wrenching Agnin teaching for the light.
She Bung herself in the way, "Please, so that we stumbled. please don't," she said urgently.
don't Shut the duor first, a slight
want to be killed--the way they Killed Harry Louy. I just want I 10 revenge hilm, that's all.
And want to tell you how to lttle Tony Rowe,"
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and since it became known that my sent.
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suming portions of it.
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The six Lake districi makers of this sweet are now going in for autornatic wrapping to cope The an- with rising demands.
of one
produced the cesters tra lottered rock-leffer in Britain 120 years ago and sold in the Isle of Man. It was the Romey firm at Kendal that sup- Everest Expedition plied the with the Kendal Mint
Cake described in an official letter of thanks to the makers as "ensity the most important item" ip the high-altitude rations.
This is
not surprising be Cause
the or other of one Kendal Mint
makers, Cake using old local recipes and have hardly methods which
In two centuries of changed
have supplied the production, sweetmeat to many famous ex-
the
tions. During ratloning the
received special Gov ernment concession in making
Evereat
from dupply materials "on the ration" after it had been found that the em- ployees
had given up their coupons to enable the firm to cialm extras.
Where Started
ex-
Almost
British every pedition to the Arctic, An- tractia and the great mountains of the world this century have been
with Kendal supplied
by
Mint Cake, which it is claimed WIS "originated" in 1809 by Joseph Wiper, of
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"Never seem to run into such a thing as a BEAUTIFUL spy these days.”
COMMUNIST
MONG the many words
YOUTH
IS UNEASY
By David Laidlaw the Communists have By David
debased is "culture."
"de- and "peace"
that
the time
af
on lo
on
the earned
reveal Soviet
partly to blame, but the pain- ful fact had also to be faced that the rights conferred youth had led many of them to and ad- Ignore the authority Like
A culture is some-
Hungarian journalist, direct propaganda by lectures, vice of elders, parents, foremen mocracy,"
Moreover, gelf and lecturers. artistic to guide
them of some thing everyone ought to writing in the March 1954 issue and
of Buvelt Nep
for thorough money (Cultured expression, calls
had gone to their heads. have in liberal quantities,
and People), revealed
Knowledge cond all-round
In an article published Iri and it is true that in the tions have still not improved, special traluing yet more than
November 1933, a professor at Union
JUANGRETS of the 185 its "Where do the Hungarian work- 00 and Soviet
described University them- miners' clubs go to enjoy
In the Stalino Poznan The Communist ing people satellites
an importation selves? Let's face they go area have not even completed hooliganism as
from "America. That everything Party has set up thousands
home
But K small flat in secondary school,"
be Amerleon is, of Houses and of so-called
the .not
for singing. place
Refugees from Poland report bad must Tho
there
have course, a Party axlom, but the Palaces of Culture with this dancing or big partles..
that young people
professor weni are empty, neither Housen of Culture
nor the in- aim ostensibly in view.
significantly thal and the young people go to
Russia the "struggle against activilles: the DISZ (youth organisation) head. elination to join in Communist-
business 011
us ruin voluntary
hooligans is very neule." quarters only
too they frei It Is
much
like Compulsory Hellvilies are
Exnoting. umerous and school,"
those still at school, the amount
clown of homework cessive; there are sports circles to Union functions and Youth und
much social POLISH law, he went on, was attend, and often
to be amended. According work, such as the collecting of
the offence, to the and
waste-paper.
gravity of DEOPLE had given up going to scrap-iron
It would be un- "hooligan extravagances" would the Houses of Culture be- duties which
bc punishable by compulsory work or imprisonment for from one to five years. He did not was that 36 explain how it years of Communist rule in the Soviet
Union had falled to eliminate such "extravagances". there.
+1
But there is a great disparity between democratic and totali- farlan conceptions of "eulture. The Communist conception, for example, is purely ideological. The Houses and Palaces of Cui- primarily nure, it
seems, Bre designed to secure the politieal Indoctrination of
the
Cheerless places
В
Loo For
Is ex-
young workers begun process Pioneer Houses which cater for children behind cause they provided "no facilities wine lo avoid, even if it were facade of nominui cultural for such ordinary pleasures as possible, umenities. Some
in- smoking of the
a plpe, reading
Factory youth is kept busy in with brigade stitutions are lavishly equipped paper, or having a good chat.
spare time 119 there is often a swimming You see, there is always some work and indoctrination classes, gymnaslum, and sort of evening clays or occupa The wonder is that Communist and it is worth not tional activity in progress, and youth has any energy left at all.
But it has, and it is often the Palace of Cul- people do not always want Katowice, Poland, be occupationally active
In plied in a way the Communists million zloly
their spare time... they want dislike but which they to joke and dance occasionally, been unable to conccal. Youth-
bath,
theatre
Ing that on ture at sum of 16 spent.
Not enthusiastic
was
or talk about the weather ...
to
ap-
have
After 36 years
The same trend is apparent
In other satellite States. Scintelu Tineretului, the Ru- paper, recently ful hooliganism on a large scala manian youth
on the throughout the Soviet importance of a "respectful at- titude towards their elders. by workers In the sphem
of influence, and es-
"Do not think you are clever mining area of the pecially in Poland,
and do not need advice; hoed Union In a lotter Soviet
the opinion of your parents and published in the Moscow organ
their experience." of
the Ministry of Culture,
The Czechoslovak Svobodne Febru Sovetskaya Kultura, on
Slovo the Dove by
aty 13, 1954, they complained is a ****
Similar comments were made has recently been officially ad- lectured its readers
mitted
is clear, however, that youth behind
the Iron Curtain
is by no means enamoured of the gifts bestowed Communist Party. There
recently Donbass
nt
Beaten up
not
not
roported the trial long ago of a group
widespread lack of enthusiasm that" "clubs and Palaces ON December 5, 1951, combat call themselves "The elders
for
Kadievka
are
lure entitled "Let us of Vysehrad" (a district of
In hooliganism
trams"
was Prague), whose members were by Warsaw Radio, said to have been emulating took American gangsters not, of
Culture are boring and cheer- for
brands of to" and the the approved
Jetter attributed "culture"
Nep, a lead-
the main reason for this to the Ing Hungarian daily, made
with amazing speed
which broadcast remarkable admission on De-
* and a conductress who cember
20. 1953, that two club managers appointed part complained that scarcely a course, the hooligans of the Houses of Culture in working and dismissed." In the club day went by without one of her USSRI They had been holding class districts had stood "empty attached to Pits 7 and 8 of the colleagues "returning from duty people up
Chistynkovantratsit Mines
Trust, en end." weeks
largely ki owing to the allure of their
there had been
four managers and at the leaders to "create an interesting in six
Palace of rultural life."
where Culture,
miners were "rare visitors," the management Cultural institutions had "crammed their programmes too had been changed 18 times in full of politics," and many four years. workers had arbitrarily used
of *Directora rooms in Houses of Culture for "other purposes." The Han- expression circles garian Minister of Adult Educa- appointed, transferred and dis- tlon declared recently: "Our missed in an incredibly irres- House of Culture are mostly ponsible way," sald, Sovetskaya
The
paper cold and neglected-there in no Kultura.
To attract people to culture, to life in them."
though old man of
and spending the up by young proceeds of their robberies on either beaten hooligans or in such a state of drink. We
must nerves that she cannot speak."
be careful, of course, in taking Communist A special committee to fight statements at their face value, hooliganism has been set up by whether they concern the back- the Cracow Municipal Council, slidings of youth or
the un- and on February 7, 1954, tho
of culture." the popularity
It Polish Home
one might be that some of the out- Service, com- an attack artistic self menting on
by rages which the Party are similarly hooligans, referred 10 the thorities choose to brand
"many young boys who wander hooligantem are really attempts aimlessly through the streets at resistance, for it "should be remembered that resistance beating up passersby."
According to the commenta- cannot take a peaceful form
the the Nazi occupation was when
of processes democracy have been destroyed,
added:
BUT WHO'S ALL
tor,
ALL WET?
By LES ARMOUR
Feel confused
RU- ཐ་
OSSIBLY, Dlso the Houses of Culture are not as emply us
we are told they are; there is, in fact, news from refugees that, such places in Hungary have become. centres of - anti- Communist gossip. Again, it may be that the Party needs to discredit youth in some degree
to
tation
however,
further measures of and so obtain What It badly requires a more disciplined labour force,
If hooliganlam is widespread, wa'can · searealy be
With surprised. 14
the Ieleuro ordinary hours
older of parents and children consumed by outalde activities,
the restaurateur,
continuity of other hand, feels that horno life has been broken and
London. head waiters sniff derisively. almost certainly be luke CADLY and humbly, Sir Even the lowly boy who warm.
This is destined to be a Alexander Maxwell con- clears away the soup plates cedes defeat to a glass of looks at Sir Alexander as fight to the finish. It is a water.
though his clothes didn't matter of principle on both
sides. Sandes
said to Avenue, was
All his efforts to make quite fit.
The American, one supposES, have been making it at the Britain a paradise, for the same time and, even before his North
It is not that they come likes to slosh his chop down American visitor
out flatly and issue a do with a long draught. A nog- day, that Botsy Court made it
have met with BUCCCSS at the back of a shop la tho main street.
save his effort to got a glass claration of principle, set on sin of ale might corrupt his
Uitle too erotial. for The Wiper business and the of water, preferably feed parchment and sealed with morals. Wine, perhaps,
Mint
The English original Kendal
Cake water, on the restaurant the great seal. They merely use.
ignore the issue, recipe was bought by Atkin table. won's of Windermere, who suD=" Ho and his bustling Just as Sir Alexander his best efforts could only be the children deprived of its Flattered plied 12 to so many expeditions, Including, Shackleton's in 1914 organisation, the British concludes that all is going ruined by great gulps of tasta-steadying intuenco.
Killing ice water. Boaldes, there by the Party and yet anding and, to alx Everest, that they Travel and Holidays Asso well, he goes into a res no tone to a glass of water, no more freedom outside the ran out of recording space on clation, have warned, taurant and discovers no More important there is home than within Com- the wrappers, where only 20 threatened, cajoled, pleads. glass of water on the table, little prospect of it adding munist youth may well feal in of them are mentioned,
But the restaurateurs If he or one of his lleu much to the bill. For the man a confused way that it has Rendal Mint Caks from one Tusufsuturer/can taste quite have remained adamant, tenants demands a glass of who drinks water is unlikely been cheated. And
to drink anything more costly. "culture" imposed by the Party asterket from 1st of another. The wine waiters throw up water, it will be brought Between the two, Ebano in has not kucoreded in allama kis
(Contioned an Pars 7, Oél, 8). their hands in horror. The with a frown, and it will unlikely to be any compromise, protests.
on the
:
the