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All the would-be graduates had to do was answer an advertisement in a Rome Sunday newspaper which offered: "University degrees for men of will. Sure results."
Results were sure---provided j highly qualified official of the that the candidates could pay Medical Association, known only between half a million and one as Alberto, whose job it is to and a half million lire (some seek out the false doctor,
£200 to £875).
speciullat, dentist or masseur. The tlegrees were forged. Many overnight graduates now in prison awaiting trial on charges of "using false academie titles." They include an орега baritono.
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Last-Minute Indonesian
Cabinet Hitch
tone, who became director of less. He has so far suffered the His tink is not easy-or pain- fashionable institute specialis- extraction of 16 teeth, been ing in slimming treatments (his examined from head to
included ellents
magistrates, hundreds of times, borne count-
and less politicians, society leaders
intravenous injections, industrialists), a dentist and a
undergone
slimming and fatien- gynaecologist (both with large ing cures, and even
even, reluctantly and wealthy ellenteles).
nllowe psychoanalyst probe his thoughts and dreams. The advertiser provided!
All the time, he has watched Inw pressive-looking supposedly issued by a foreign istened for the wrong word "In or move which would tell him university and registered
the "doctor" hud Mohammed and studded for his whether workedi degree, or got it from the man who guaranteed sure results-at
price-China Mail Special.
Im- degrees,
aly, for 800,000 lire (462); medlent degrees for 1,500,000 lire (£870); and Arts degrees 500,000 lire ·(£200).
at
Police Recruits
the
Seven smiling men from Germany arrive at SIIAPE without uniforms. They will form part of the international staff officers of Allied Powers Europe, Pleture shows Left to right, Lt-Co llans Hukel- helm; Colonel Bayer; General Hans Speldel; Behind Speldel and hidden by him, Colanci Richard Heuser:
Colonel Count von Klelmansorg; Mid- den by
von Kielmanse*K. Captain Busch; Colonel Von Plato and Schuyler-Express
Ploture.
Int'l Ship
Djakarta, Aug. 10. Indonesion Vice Premier Hatta announced tonight that a decision on current Cabinet crisis would be made publle tomorrow.
Burhamuddin Harahap. D leader of the "Mazjumi", major Moslem party, was called on to form a government, by today.
understood in Djakarta was that his efforts had met with a Inst-minute hitch, since Inita
Caen, Aug. 10. had objected to one of the less
The good ship Prado arrived Important nominations on Hara-here today with a true inter- Lap's Cabinet list. Sydney, Aug. 10, The Deputy Commissioner of
It was
that national flavour, reported here The self-styled lawyer made so the Malayan Police Force, Mr Harahap had designated himself
The 2,500-ton freighter was that em. S. Wylie, arrived here today us Premier and Defence Minis- many mistakes ployers grew suspicious.
to recrult Australians as lieuten-ter, and had named Anak Agung but in Canada and is en route
to Turkey ants in his force.
(a Democrat) as Foreign Minis-
Rican flag. by ter,
while getting the support of 12 parties for his government,
Last March
"Operation counterfelt de- Krees" started last March after police had Investigated a pintat by a big firm in Rome against a
young legal consultant engaged some weeks previously.
his
com-
Wanted
was
under the Costa
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Death Sentence
Is Iron Curtain
Berlin, Aug. 10.
The Iron Curtain which divides this city between East and West is also a dividing line for the death sentence, recently spotlighted here by the case of the British Sergeant Emmett-Dunne.
In East Germany, the death sentence awaits most convicted murderers. It is also meted out even more frequently for such grave crimes against the state as treason and espionage.
But in West Berlin, as in Westing that the death sentences Germany, the death sentence has which awaited them East Ger- been abolished, and the heaviest many would become only terma pernity which a murderer now of imprisonment in West Berlin. faces in West Berlin is life im- prisonment with hard labour which normally means freedom after 20 or 25 years, and in some cases of good behaviour curlier.
even
Tho is also In West Berlin n law forbidding the extradition of any prisoner to East Germany against his will. This has proved a boomerang in cases of capital crimes, to which it also applies although it was meant originally to beneill only those fleeing from political persecution.
Undesirable Refugees
West Berlin police officials have recently criticised this state of affairs because, they say, the prospect of lighter punishment in West Berlin has brought them a number of "undesirable refu- gees" in past years.
Now, they will be__free_min again at the age of 30 and 35 respectively.
Life Sentence
Willi Koemmerer, whom a 起 medical expert described "primitive but not insane", Te... ceived a life sentence in West Berlin in June for a murder committed at Jena, in Thuringia.
When his landlady asked him to kill her husband, Willi Gorke, in March 1954, he told the court
"I could not say no."
East German Justice officials, however, have recently taken a now attitude towards the prob lem when it concerns murders West Berlin. committed
Until recently, when a West Berlin murderer sought refuge in Earlier this year, for example, East Berlin and was caught by Atries, a West Berlin court sentenced to the East German police, he was
either 15 years' imprisonment two East labour camp, with or without detained in a forced 21-year-old
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 By Air Pakistan, Madle East, Great Britain & Zurone. 4 p.m.
ny. Surface
Rabout p.m. Macno, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12
. Ly Ar Thailand, Burma, India. 8 a.m. Formosa, Japan, Korea, 10 a.m. Indo-China, 11 a.m. Philippines. 2 p.m.
Africa Great
2
Formosa, a p.m.
Burma, India,
Pakistan
Middle
་
East,
Britain
Europe. 8p.m.
Icorea 6 p.m.
Philippines, 1 p.m.
Japan, D.,
German
youths,
Guenther Meuser and 20-year- trial, or reluctantly passed over old Hans Meyer.. The latter, the East-West Berlin border at being only 20, was still a minor night from an East Berlin to a
West Berlin prison van. under West German law, al- though he would attain his ma- jority at 18 under East German law.
Pollee discoverext that his law
accompanied degree was false and had been Deputy Superintendent P. A.
The captain la Russian, the bought for 800.000 Ure through a Goldsbury and Lieutenant R. These reports said Harahap's radio operater is Italian, the
Two Wells. newspaper advertisement.
proposed coalition included two mate is a Spaniard and the cook days later, they raided the home
Former servicemen or police- Moslem front Islamic organisa-le Chinese. of a professional forger who was men would be favourably con- tions, buy excluded Nationalists The crew use French as the the author of both the advertise-sidered for positions, Mr Wylie and Commanists, France "on board"
China, People's Republic, 930 a.m. langunge.United ment and the fake degrees. sald-China Mail Special. Presse.
Taken to prison to await trial, the forger passed his time re- producing the signature of police officers with such skill that they tell the themselves failed to Wyndham
genuins from the false. Salsbury
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Then the police began to round up the forger's customers. About 100 people are believed to have A fow bought his. false degrees. have so far cluded the police.
The trials of all concerned in the case are likely to take place late next year.
On the charge of using false university degrees, the accused are able to six months'
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im-
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discovered The police inve that some of the pronic who bought the degrees did so solely because they wanted to have the title of "doctor" for in Italy everyone who holds a university degree may use that title. And most middle class Italians with a university education make the per fullest possible use of it.
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Purchasers of the counterfeit Law or
or Arts degrees did not worry the police much. It is the unqualified doctors of Medi eine, who have gone into prac-
who
concern. Lice
epused Unqualified doctors, dentists and specialists" are an old problem in Italy.
Denounced
Every
monii,
Medical Association
the
Italian denounces
six or seven such quacks to the
1965 to the 8th day of Septem-police. The amount of damage
ber 1955, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board,
F. R. FELL
Secretary
Hongkong, 10th Aug. 1955,
To ADVERTISERS
SUNDAY POST-HERALD
Apace
for commercial advertising should * booked not Inter than noon on Wednesdays, For the 8OUTH CHINA 'MORNING POBT and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours
wh
which these men can do is in- estimable, says the Medical Association, but it as dimcult to eliminate them because, under a Mussolini law, they are able to give theniscives
mask legality"
cine
of
10
To help genuine practitioners forced by the war to retum to Haly from her Colonies, a law was passed in 1940 declaring: "All who have practised medl eine abroad for
least months, on the strength of degree obtained abroad, and who return to Italy because of the war, can have their names on- tored in the Medical
The immediate resultster."
inis
elastic law WAS that secret "Factories" turning out fake before date of publication. university degrees, diplomas and certificates sprang up overnight throughout Italy.
Special Announosiments and Classified Advertise mente ao usuni,
Adventurers, students who
failed
In their medical examina- tions and confidence men, all bought foreign "degrees and the necessary forged cerilacates, quickly became members of the Italian Medical Association and opened beauty institutes, phy- sical fitness establishments, den- tal surgeries and private clinic
nursing homes.
im-
St. John Ambulance Now, however, under the
Brigade
Free Ambulance Service for Imergency Accident Cases Tel Hong Kong 71111 TH: Kowloon 522222
patus of the recent counterfeit degrees case, the police have launched an all-out campaign, against unqualified practitioners,
The Medical Associatión l actively co-operating.
One of the old men. In the joint Investigation is as young.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I BETTER NOT TELL MAGGY I PAID A SLICKER FIVE DOLLARS FOR A PHONY PILL TO MAKE ME TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER --
FERDINAND
NANCY
SLUGGO SAID HE'D BUY ME A SODA TODAY
-ERNIE
JOHNNY HAZARD
' SHARI, SWEETASZ NEVER DID GET YOU JOUT OF MY SYSTEM EVEN AFTER ALL,
THESE YEARS
EB, WHO WERE YOU TALKING TO IN THE FIELD?
OH, SOME SORT
OF SALESMAN, SAID HE WAS A
| TOURIST.
COME ON.--- YOU
PROMISED ME、 A SODA
WHAT'S THE USE OF TALKINO, SNAR?]
WE COULDN'T
| CONTROL HISTORY........
I HAD TO MARRY THE GENERAL TO SAVE MY FATHER'S LIFE!
NOT TODAY
Press
I SAW YOU CHASIN HIM. WHY?
U.S.A., Canada, 6 p.m.
By durface
N. Borneo, an
Macro, 3 p.m. Macao, p.m.
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NOTHING, IF I TOLD
HER I GOT FLEECED
OUT OF FIVE DOLLARS TO NEVER HEAR THE END
OF IT
WHY NOT 3---|
GIVE ME ONE GOOD
REASON
I'M TIRED...TİRED. WE'LL GET ĮOF RUNNING AWAY... OUT OF THIS {TIRED OF WISHING I YET, HONEY!
WERE FREE OR DEAP THEN THE
-I'M TIRED -- AUTHORITIES
WILL TAKE CARE OF THE
GENERAL
HAND THEN WE CAN ER TOGETHER, JUST AS WE USED TO BES THAT'S THE [WAY-IT SHOULD BE, SHARİ
[31. SHARI .......*.
EB--WHAT'S
THE MATTER?
I DON'T KNOW!
ALL OF A SUDDEN --I FEEL OZZY-- AND FUNNY-LIKE-
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller I'VE GOT FOUR GOOD REASONS
By Frank Robbins
In the words of the judge, they had *cruelly murdered" 4 48-year-old Communist Party officini, named Otto Hoffmann, stolen his money and put his body on a railway track to be run over by a train. Then they had led to West Berlin, know-
EVEN
MAGICIANS Can't
Cary Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the vine!
Libby's
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** TODAY
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
this situation
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In June, however, East Ger man justice officials invited their West Berlin colleagues to "come and collect some moro murderers, this time from the. East Berlin police headquarters."
'Green Minnie'
So * prison van, called "Grueno Minta (green Minole)" drove across the border and brought back two suspected murderers and one much.. "wanted" escaped-a dwarf one- legged former
organ
grinder,
named Erwin Fink, who escaped from his guarde in broad day- light
while
serving a lito sentence for killing his wife by throttling her, smashing her head in with an axe, and then "cuț~. ting her throat with a bread- knife.
He had obtained permission to get а Dow artificial leg. Guarded by three green uniformed armed prison officials, Fink tried the leg on, hobbled round the shop and tried walk- ing upstairs.
Out of sight of his guards for
a moment, he managed to get out by a back door and reach tho East Berlin border. Police, who described Firk as small (5 foef one inch)-dark-haired and ex- tremely short-sighted, rushed, to the scene and starched in vain, -
Finic meanwhile bld himself in East Berlin ruins until caught bý the Vopo (People's Police).
Announcing the handing over of the three men to West Berlin authorities, the East German News Agency, ADN, oxplained that it had been, doño "in tho interests of a determined battle against crime." - Chiria Mall Special.
Eva Bartok Could Not
Kick Off
T
Vienna, Aug. 10,
26-year- Miss Eva Bartok,
old film actress; who is to west for the fourth time on Satur- day, was not fit enough to kick off today in a friendly football match between a local test and her film company.
Sho
recovered sufficiently from a severe cold to complete a day's "shooting" an # new pelen.co Netlon- film The Gamma People" on which she la-working at Imattinet, in tha Austrian Tyrol. But after- wards she was orderett back to bed by her doctor
On Saturday Miss Bartok, whose name was 'dnce Inked- romantically with that of the Marquis of Milford Haven, is to marry Kurt Juergens, an- Aus trian actor, in Munich Fin
After the ceremony the
the couplé.. will" "Almappear for * 24-hour honeymoon.Then they will be acparated it for three or four weeks By to London: on, Bunday by win. ing for further
China Mali: Specia
four