Secrets

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1986.

Of International Crime

Boreaming

"Pollect Police:* kho Пип her Bir around the inspector's neck.

however, he continued the pur mult single handed. Shortly ofter daybreak he spotted his quarry crawling up a moun- tainous ridge.

Doubling speed he unhapplly did not notice a rattlesnake *lying across his track until, with

à sudden terrifying whier, it buried ita fongs in his ankle. He shot the snake and, snatch- ing out a pocket knife, Inclaod the wound so that the flow of blood would wash

away tho polson.

The FULL inside story of INTERPOL, the organisation which fights inter- national crime all over the world, and has 'been the means of bringing thousands of criminals to justice. Written with the complete CO- operation of the staff of INTERPOL

of

the

A crime the Zurich police will aut without one. Horr X, At the ridge's edge ho tried

not soon forget was the cold- shadowed. unwittingly led the a quick outflanking movement.

to hia companion. If unwary, he could easily, he blooded murder of Herr Bam police

local bank realised,

director Brought to justice, the two men, be ambushed. But wart, a

wormed Two men kidnapped him

one Deubalbeiss and Schurmann, using his stealth, he

evening not for from his home himself into a position from

found guility on the city's outskirts. Pouncing were which, to his joy, he suddenly

on han, they bundled him in banker's murder. Each received saw the head of one of the

their car and drove off at oner a life-sentenco of jwenty-five wanted men реер cautiously

успга. rouna a boulder's edge, Instantly for his bank. he fred a warning burst and ordered the two men to step out of hiding, hands raised high. They obeyed.

Fortunately his wife, knowing her husband's fair for pune.uşl

Let one final case serve дя

ity, became alarmed when he warning to all runway crooks. did not retur home, and Jack S--, sentenced in his 'phoneď the police. Detectives absence for brench of trust ai hurried to his bank.

the Court of Summary Jurisdic- Uon of the Seine, boarded at the Romo, Austraila-

SOICONE The criminals Row

Now, momen arily triumphant, he felt himself in a position of accule danger. For the snake poisen was getting hold of his body. At any munient he might reached black Dut Nevertheless, he From a mufe kept cul-heniledi.

Thriller-Writer Was

A Real-Life Pirate

·NTERPOL

does nol intervene in religious, racial

political

crimes. But every

other criminal offence within its orbit of survey.

By A. J. FORREST

into When police burst

the when s'apped for routine check well-insulated at a highway Inspection station, ties sea remanver's

the accelerator and stly, a stronghold overlooking stepped on

In their convertible the serene blue see, they found bolted

the

of laim fe from

throes

Alerts were sounded. coupe.

it.

entering the bank just as they genoe

It. Suspecting

that bound. their plot had gone astray--

intended they

to force the Inte pol, from its Paris heath took two immediate director to open the safe with quarters, his personal key-they turned action precautions. The Not-

ional Criminal Burenu off to open country.

Rome, 119 Italian ink, WDA arked to confirm that Jack 8 had actually embarked on the Roma. And the Colombo pollee at the same time were radioed to examine the Roma's passengers Immediately she arrived to see if Jack S-, or someone answering to his description, was among them.

Arived in a wooded arca, they hauled him roughly out of the car, "Here, take this drink," suid one, handing him a bolile of schnapps. Then, as he put his lips to it, one or both of them riddled him with bulleis, They drenched, his body

and

cur with petrol and set them alight. But this attempt ta of destory all traces failed.

pair

and their

tance he tossed a handcuffs to his captives, ordered them to shackle right and left hands together. their After some fumbling on part, the pracelets clicked.

"Now march ahead of

ine,"

he ordered, adding. "I shoot

the first man who turns round."

Smuggling cases crop up terary composition; ho Was

A little inter A patrolman So the procession back begun. frequently. In Europe, the poring over an inventory of his

Righted the wanted motor car For the officer it was grim, hotbed for

lying overturned and dismally tortuous going: his head

was this activity is latest captures off Corsica.

at the boticən of the Mediterranean, chiefly

muzzy, the landscape swimming "All right, you win," was his wrecked

Its occupunts, however, before his eyes, and each step between France * and Tati- laconic comment;

added, ravine, he **Take my gun.** Search of the to judge by nearby trucks, had taxed his willpower. gler.

stuttled off unhurt. He in- formed the Deputy Sheriff. The two set off into the virgin scrub.

premises disclosed an extensive As darkness falls, converted arsenal of weapons, plus rich German-built Spanish E-bonts quits of we pons, 9. rich and other fast inuving craft, cluding nylons and liqueurs.

manned by reckless fortune seckers, nose out of Uny Mediler- ranion havens, packe What nylons, cigarettes, SHUTTLE peni- elitin and dope.

Police patrol boats, equipped with powerful searchlights, and especially Spanish vessels, open fire very rapidly if their chal- lenge pases unheeded.

Sometimes rival contraband gangs shoot it out on the high scas, sinking each other's boats

in a mad frenzy reminiscent of

old-time buccaneers.

£40,000 Plunder

The leader of one

notorious

gang, recently captured, posed

is

# wealthy writer DÍ sep

romances. Having hired

berte

P

diterranean

Gil-

The following example

courope police Western America, Two

comes

of

But doggedly he stumbled on, and mercifully the rescu, prsty arrived, net an melang too soon.

Soon the Sheriff advised the He sagged to his knees, speech

return to the less, his lips petrolman

foaming white, from

In fetch waler Rushed to hospital, he rocevered Djurtit Irwn

gurnely, quickly. inen, and desistance. Very

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Beret Was Vital Clue through the agency of the

Study by ballistics experts of the bullets found in the dead banker proved that the weapons were stolen from a local arsenal. One criminal was known 10 The Presa pub- wear a beret. letsed

all available details, Otay as these were in respect of identity.

Then came a trifling but de- cisive clue.

A

civilian telephoned the police, saying, he thought it odd, and perhaps suspicious, that a always certain Herr X, who

wore a beret, was now walking

of

But the Roma stopped, Le cause of engine-trouble, at Port Baid. Instanily Interpol pounced,

Egyptian police. Advised the wanted man, three uniform- boat. stalwaria boarded the And there was Jack S sp- ping cocktails in his cabin with a soft-Upped Italian girl friend.

Massive Chest

He surrendered. Did he think that after serving his senterice France, he could still slip off to Australia, patch up his inter- and dig up rupted romance rfches?

However, the authorities held less agreeable views, Directly the Roma docked at Melbourne, the local police put in an official

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request for his baggage. ---by DAVID LEWIN

How I hate cocktail parties!

"M

said Mrs. Legge to Ustinov

London.

Y trousers split,"

sald Peter

Ustinov. "Ter-

ribly surry we're late, but 1

a twenty-three-got into the

Car, relaxed.

Kioriously tanned and found my trousers

beauty

for secretarial duties, he rented giving way at the seam. My

secluded wall-in villa

near

Villefranche. off the

wife thought it might not

Cote notice, but I had to change.”

Mrs Gerald Legge and

d'Azur. He planned to write

1

here, as he told her, a modern murmured "Not at all. Don't pirate story.

His inspiration welled

furth

worry about the delay," and

we settled down to

dinner.

only Atfully. But once he did Mrs Legge-Raine Legge get going, to the girl's surprise, is a society beauty, West- he dictated to her stirring account of how a pirate boat minster

put armed

absolute BCD, gained and plundered it of tobacco #tocks worth nearly

City

DINERS OUT... Mrs. Gerald Legge, Pater Ustinov.

good conversation. Better than

New York or Hollywood, or even Purk."

I

Raine Legge sald: "In Paris at parties you sit bolt upright Hard chairs. on gilt chairs. That doesn't help talking. like

believe talking, but women should stimulate men in versation, not dominate them."

1

Peter said: "But do we wel- Come guests to England? We have at the postera out and the brochures. Then what? We give tourists little except, per- haps, insitution service and bedside manner.”

Suzanne

argued the point. "But lood end wire are so much better here NOW. Even the walters me interested wine."

the

Dress query

councillor, and masked men Wandsworth giris' school aboard a Dutch vessel in open welfare worker, and OC- mastery casional prison lecturer. All

Poter persisted: "Oh, £40,000.

at 24.

Bervice may be good and the Petor Ustinov, actor, author, marty," said Peter Ustinov. "At everyone rushing to the beach intention kind. But it is 50 Judge her astonishment when wit, was with his French actress

cocktail parties people always to light bondres.

often made to appear like an she read shortly afterwards in a wife, Suzanne Cloutier, who get that glazed look in their

of somowning whic "Doctor eyes. in the film local paper

an appeared a report of

"Everyone pretends to know offer everyone else, and wien identical incident This report in the House."

you matron's back is 'turned." intimate dinner Was not fictitious. However, Ustinov looked at the bread "You know the sort of thing, give a quiet, since Gilberte felt irresistibly

sticka leaning st crazy They're not really interested in party someone ente-crashes with drawn to the gay author, she attributed this oddness to mere angles in a glass in the centre what you say; they glance over a gang of their friends you don't of the table and said: "Ah, your shoulder, wave myopically know, the dinner is ruined, and eat of the

01 Institution coincidence.

mbie decorations by Henry ***

THE mention at everyone else, and then say; everyone has to

mada 'Sorry, we've got to rush off to bread plates,"

me ask Raine Leggo those awful Lewins now. They have another cocktail party we "If that happened at one of

Mrs Legge seemed horrified, about her talks to prisoners at Maidstone Gaol. Do you wear nice clothes, I wanted to know, simply must go to,*

my partics I'd say quita definite- ly they had come to the wrong

"Certainly," sho said. house. Or hope my butler would be an insult to anyone would keep them out”.

you're meeting for the first time Peter Ustinov laughed: "Only not to dress well. And the word can do that In oture was called a lecturer Ho really under--is so drab you just have to civilmed living. Holly look nice to counternet it. On the furniture or cigarette wood is full of everything--

uy gave stubs

ground into my lovely talent, ideas but I think Holly- "French is a rich language," carpets. Anyway, I believe the wood is like death the grest

guests at a cocktail party feel leveller." they

Conversation

Her disillusionment dawned Moore," swiftly, however, when a strong force of gendarmes, led by a detective Inspector in plain clothes, drove suddenly into the walled-in courtyard and asked her em- peremptorily to see ployer.

In Hollywood

THEN we pondered the menu at the Percy Street, Solio, re- Mrs Legge ordered taurant, Oeut Benedictine (poached egg PAINE Legge the experienced Apparently a senman, Pedro on tooted mufin, special sauce, society hostess, said firmly: Cole Porter

completely sozzled brandy, and benedictino added). "I never give cocktail parties. I Hollywood,

rich," sald in a local night haunt, had split "Sounds

Mrs don't like having drink spilted stands to a police spy. He confessed Ustinov. to being one of a pirate crea responsible for the flagrant, act

the To reported,

Informer acute interest, he named

the

I said,

n talk di London, but

I had to leave out one or two A folly mordotes hands 'on

Tyburn, and that sort of thing..

have been put in the "I wasn't taught that, at category of those who are not So cosy here' Not quite suitable really.".

'wanted for dinner."

amooth-mannered, flamboyant school," sald Raine Leggy

Petar... Ustinov daids "My gang's ringleader."English is a wonderful language author as the

There are so many alternatives The Ustinovs talked about THERE was a patise. Then allegiance is plodged to another I've been Invited to An Arsenal

you cam waffle or bo wonder their experiences of cocktall the conversation switched to prison, fully precise.

parties in Hollywood.

Cloutler talk to Parkhurst, But oh, England, Suzanne started it..

those envelopes end, the paper Peter shook, 'ble head and

uso to they

write on. You either " "Four In on evening, there "You can't "Boo" him,”! cried declared:

"English is fine for sometimes," said Peter "Almos "Before I married Petar I think you're being called up or thegirl distractedly. "He's NOT saying exactly what you the only people you know are was worried about the idea of that it is a demari, for surtax Why can't ruminating over a fresh chapter moan. French is precise, French the catering staff. I kept meet vlag in London. I didn't think owing since 1812

brighter coloinst and mustn't be disturbed Then the language of treaties. ing a buffer who toured around. I'd lost able Paris. Now I they have police officerantiled pityingly, English is the language of gui He told me at one party: I have wouldn't change. It is som so ust; Abɛ pdwitys

pe calm and be advised out "clausos,"

hung

*"your coat, sir, in an cosy here, 5 You. laugh at chints of coffee with Instead, her

We debated the merits

you won by want to stay home. Now I love them

upollcat Pallewin English ; while' öur duck, roastej. becassibla place. If I know you, curtain and miltonant”) first."1

to folly be showed

arms, as the ceme trawy arouse ove the inspector's neck to impede

hos with, preaches in wine, was being

the din

Fortithe Bummo Cloutier mid that she iriausias cousin fron

the colour

And

they retrieved a massive chest tucked away for security in the ship's hold. Here he had salted away a fortune. They found it crammed full of scents, silver- ware and objets d'art, the fruits of impudent swindles in Europe,

Concentrating its energies to severely practical ends, Interpol serves now forty-eight nations. But it serves, in reality, the cntire world as a peace-keeping. crime-suppressing agency.

THE END

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