THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE::: 16, 1956.
The Master Detectives move to Vienna—
CITY OF THE THIRD MAN
THE TOP names in criminal detection from 53 countries are in Vienna, city of The Third Man, for the conference of interpol-the international police organisation. There 100 is Parcy Hoskins, a reporter with an unrivalled knowledge of criminals and the men who hunt thom.
Interpol Faces Crisis
THE future of Inter- pol, the international police
organisation,
T
is threatened.
increase Hy
The
of pointless crimes have their origin In or sexual disorders in most cases due to the increased modern man lives. in such cir- strain and emotion under which
rumstabers only minute frag- key to a murder riddle. ment of information may be the
glers and drug peddlers. But us an EUOPIOUR the records once again reach out number to every corner of the world, the which methods of crime delection re mental corking under fre. Apparently Scotland Yard is not alone having to face a barrage from in
the critics marmchates.
All sits in Vienna the postularly the French--are being Continental police forces-par- hility of resignations from several countries, in- cluding Britain. may crack
As the new conference of police chiefs from 53 nations
criticised.
Two
questions
raisedi
it as wide open as any of today show the trend. the international gangs it has itself helped to break.
Only a couple of years ago J. Edgar Hoover droppeil the Washington F.RI. mem. bership because Interpol became active in the search for some Czech refugees
1 Is the art of detection by 104 use of alot bran and trained in uljon being jos:7
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But +11 st countries and her certainly in Britain--the house-
10-house murder quiz is still minor subsidiary (though often by chance a valuable one) The main operation of the detec– tive machine And has it oc- € LIFTCC!
to the critics that the -form-ling operations, with then routine type of questions
#swers.
might
provide vital clues?
Such 25 specimens of harschwriting and even fingerprints”
2. Are these essential quali- tres of the detective being re-
placed by forte-filing, public and opinion poll, and house, to-house
quiz sets mes?
its easy to race the reason
seeking political asylum in the greater use nowadays of America.
The new Crisis winch. allowed to develoj. will ter tainly rob this world police net- work of much of its effective. ness, has been sparked off by a campaign Launched hy the French delegation 10 secure Governmest slutus for the Emination
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The French want the State to be the member nud not just the police department of the par- #cular country. They have convassed support for a delinite Jink-up with UNO
But Britain the Netherlands, New Zealand, and many other delegations
fran
are standing
A memomnum prepared by the Home Oflee last year strongly bioted that Britain will pul out of the organisation I the scheme is proceeded with.
Opponents of the tie-up ron- fend that the new status Will inevitably lead to the melusion of polities in what have so far been technical police probleins
But the French. who supply the staff of the organisation, are determined to press on with the scheme.
NOTHING
NEW
RISES are not new to Inter- pol. The first came in 1938 at the Lime
German of the Anschluss, Hitter scized and emoved Interpol's priceless records. They disappeared when the Russions overran Bertin, Today the dossiers have been almost rebullt, so that any member country can gain im- mediate
to the radio access photographs and fingerprints of 100,000 of the world's most travelled counterfeiters, smug-
poll roedhoda.
It can be found
H the trend of modern crime in Hribit and 見する every other
CURITY.
Solving a crime is a simple matter when the motive is plain and apparent for all to see. But the workt statles produced at tirts Interpol conference reveal
SMUGGLING
T
HOWE DECLINES
SCOTLAND YARD man has Turneri down the upnor- unity of becoming chief Introl
FRAMEMAKE IT ? THE BIG WHEEL
inspector-General of the Belgian
Ingredible? So is the story of Interpol could hardly have State Police, was offered to Sir
the Monaca priest. He possessed choscri Д more Ronald
appropriate Howe-Deputy Com-
a first edition of an old and setting for ita conference—~## missioner of
Metropolitan valuable the
literary work Police. The executive committee wanted a second copy.
and Austrin is today once again the most law-abiding country in was unanimous in its selection.
Europs
has
All normal meats bad failed:
After the hectic early post- the priest suspended a pen- dulum over a rap
гаре. of Europe. war days when murder, The pendulum pointed to Turin. and robbery Were everyday
moved
occurrences, the country can now a beast that orgnalsed crime
Sir Ronald, however, declined the office. Principal
that he intends renson In retire from Scotland Yard next year, and-although the com-
Then the priest mittee was prepared to make hts appointment an exception Anger over a street map of the
a strong conviction city until stopped that the position should always roads by the movement of the Here he found on bi cecupied by a serving police- pendulum.
antique dealer's
shop. The volume he sought was in the shop window,
he holds
man,
Now the vacant presidency
may be balloted for. Favourites in the content are Leonard Han- son Nicholson, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian "Mounties," &nd Riza Yamak, dapper Dirce.or-General of the Turkish Surete in Ankara,
TRICKY JOB
M'Brunswick, whs Provos: Mar-
born la New
uttal of the Canadian Army throughout the war, and then returned to be Assistant Com-
of the Criminal missioner vestigation Department Oitawa. He became Canadian "Moustic" No. 1 last year.
at a cross-
Most deiretives are sceptical about those claims. M. Castaing, hod of the French Criminal Investigation Department, quotes the Drummond murders us an example.
been almost stamped out.
has
A
With the help of the laws new police force has been built
with up and equipped
every modern device for crime fight- ing. This now force is proving so cfficient that there is less planned crime particularly crime-in Austria today
than before the war.
HEADACHE
JUVENILE crime is the biggest headache of the police fores For 15 monika the diviners in this city-the Third Man- vied with each other with most fantastic suggestions. One i every continent. man did sverced in hiding bullet from the weapon used to commit the murder.
but the superintendent on the spot told Castaing that it was more likely to be coincidence than divina tion.
the as it is in many of the capitals
FICTION?
THIS IS
FACT!
CHAPMAN PINCHER GLIMPSES THE FURY OF THE ROCKETS THAT WILL ROLL UP SPACE
Inside the Westcott rocket station. ERE in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire, within 50 yards of where sheep are grazing, scientista have set up a monstrous structure with a terrifying purpose.
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It is the firing pit in which the "Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles" the giant rockets designed to carry the H-bomb thousands of miles will get their thunderous baptism.
Work on the first of these "space fiction" missiles is already far advanced at this secret station, parts of which were opened this week for inspection for the first time in nine years.
Before it can be sent soaring into the stratosphere over Australia's Woomera Desert. Its mighty engine must the steel and concrete first be tested at full power in test pit which the scientista cail P.2.
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The flame It will produce while it shudders in restraining steel harness will be so cnormous that a concrete- spillway. sprayed with 3,000 gallons of cooling water a minute, has been built to swallow it.
The Warning Sirens Wail
with
A
by
Most attacks on taxi drivers
other robberies and
#re committed violence
nf 21. the age youths below in-
who are also responsible for the of sex crimes atrd majority minor burglaries.
With the
[Mr Agostinho Lourenzo of Portugal has since been elected President.]
ir
The Presidency of interpol in bol これ "eusy seat," The "top man" must
have inanite patience and tag in handling men Jealous of their national sovereignty. He has to ensure that embarrassing toples can be of discussed on a purely technical level, without national senti- ment. For Turk must sit with Greek, and Israell with Egyptian, if the millionaire syndicates of drug and gold smuggling are to be smashed.
The vacancy. created by the retirement other 10 years' ser- vice of F. E. Louwage, former
Delegates at the Interpol conterence are seeing the lates! these dolls were used to conceal heroin smuggling tricks
to get you there safe.
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So will still be some time before they pack divining rod the murder-bags at Scotland Yurd.
COSTLY COPIES
JEAN Nepote. Interpol's deputy
the
of departure uccupation Стобра last year many
characters shady
who have specialised In third-man Auft smuggling. and spying, found themselves out of a job. One would have expected these go in for orthodox dircetor-general, tells of an crime, but as a matter of fact Italjan art dealer who
13 had there
much
in Less crime noted how perfect was the work Austria today than there was a of one of the artists visiting year ago when the Alles were italian art galleries to repro- there in force. duce the works of the greut
osters,
people to
TRACING DRUGS
For a few thousand lire the THE conference will be given dealer bought several THE
Rem-
details of a process for dis- brandt reproductions the exact covering the place of origin of size of the original. He then smuggled narcotics. painted over the signature, subjected the pictures to оп The United Nations Narcotic THE age-old query whether aging process, and The divining rod is of thac- to
sept them Division hos found that by the United States--taking alkaloid and spectrographic tical use in crime investigation care to declare they were only analysis, the nature of the soil is raised again. A story is told copies.
in which confiscated oplum was here about a girl who recently
grown and consequently its disappeared in Paris. After a Before their arrival the country of origin, can be deter-
American five-day search the parents con-
Customs authorities mined-a great help in tracing sulted a divines, who set to received En anonymous letter work with a photograph and a saying that the pictures were it down the pipeline. specimen
They of the missing girl's genuine Rembrand:s, handwriting.
cleaned the pictures and dis Ironically enough, although
covered
FOREWARNING of the roar with which it will surge into life was provided when the scientists ignited a 18ft, Mayfly Rocket - squib compared with the ultimate weapon,
The size, Intensity, and noise of the three-second flame pro- duced by only 2001h, of cordite fuel were unbelievable.
The Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile will consume tons of far more viclent fuel in its night.
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many
its jet of fre deflected down the steaming spillway of P.3 will look like the mouth of hell,
I was hard to believe that a pilot would ever have tho courage to sit in front of the roaring rocket engine being developed for super speed fighters. I saw it Bred by ex-German
rientist Heinz Walder
Even harder is it to foresee how men will venture in sili more violent monsters for travel in space.
The work at Westcott is inherently so dangerous that there must be more red fings per acre than anywhere outside Russia.
Each flag marks a rocket test cell where there is crouch. explosive fuel to cause a dangerous blust.
Throughout my day-long tour, warning stress walled, rockets reared, and clouds of evil-looking gas 'rolled out of the test cells.
The men who handle the rocket fuels so power-packed that on: drop immediately sets clothing on fire-must wear protective sulls and helmets.
Dotted all over the station are stores of lightning, conductors to prevent explosions.
The scientists, led by George Gardner and Fartlek Durmning. have made their Impressive progress only by devising extreme safety precautions.
Every rocket must be watched through periscopes from under ground chambers. In the giant P.2 test plt TV cameras will be
used.
Even so, there have been three serious accidents to British scientists one at Westcot and two at Woomera.
WENT into one of the test cells to be shown the Toroc,with which these engines sometimes explode.
the copied Rembrands its main campaign is against Just Part Of A Day's Work First he declared the giri was signature. and charged duties smuggling and counterfeit gangs, alive and still in Park. A few due on gerulme masterpieces, organised and maintained by
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unlimited finance Atest and otherwise, Interpol's principal So the Customs officials them handicap is
money. Each solves authenticated the copies member State contributes a which were then sold to title less than £800 annually. wealthy but credulous art col- This does not permit extrava- lectors" at a net profit of $80,000
gance. £28,500).
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hours later he claimed that the girl was at that moment walk- ing along the Boulevard Mogenta towards the Place de la Repub- lique.
The porents found their daughter in the specified local- ity within the hour.
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WOMAN HAD FOUR WIVES
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By A. P. DAWLISH
was Te
Huge rents were tom in the steel torpedo safety nets covering the cell when an engine exploded last week. The steel girders were heavily scarred by flying fragments.
All this the scientists take in their stride as part of a normal day's work.
They take the same attitude to the tests they make in the intense cold of the steel chambers where rockets and fuels are stored to geo how they will behave on the freezing fringes OL
opacc:
I stepped into one of these deep-freeze TUOTTLS. Two thermometers were registering 128 degrees of frost-
The scientists have made important advances about they must remain tight-lipped.
which
But they readily admit that they are far behind America and Russia in the race for the Inter-Continental Ballistie; Misallo which will give the winner immenso tempority power.
The Ruesinne are firing practice rockets with a
range of nearly 1,000 miles "almost every day," Allied Intelligence chiefs
Britain is not nearly at that stage yet, mainly because the U.S. and Russia have invested far more money in the project.
But it is significant that the Woomera Range has just been extended a further 500 miles anct will eventually, stretch Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
WOMAN who sue- in fact, Miss Miranda Barry, a third bride. Her secret came out | have been informed.
life cessfully masqueraded woman who had been jiited by and she was sentenced to
She her lover. It was also revealed imprisonment, as a man for 72 years died that she was a mother,
leased in 1020 and married in Melbourne, Australia, re-
again. cently at the age of 84. She was Sara Isobel Ed-
most extraordinary impostered out in a Virginia court warde. She began her are women who marry while long ago when a younggiri fabulous impersonation at masquerading 0:3 man, After
Impersonations of this kind are far from rare. Perhaps, the
Ing the father of
two children
Another sex middle was sort- not
the age of 12 in the role of marrying a widow and broom- pearing in court, was the father "Bill" Edwards. During her by adoption, Jean Fardel, of of her child. Hufford's
caused a senation. Impossible lifetime she worked as Peris, admitted that he was a he said, "I'm a girl myself" sheepshearer, hotel woman. Her masquerado started
Doctors subsequently confirmed when she discovered
that she his statement. manager and trainer of
could earn ΠΡΟΤΕ Lips horsee, but few people waster than a wathes. guossed her secret.
The duration of Sara Edwards's · masquerade
veven
The pages of history are well punctuated with storica
of women fulfiling the roles men, unknown to their com
Even more startling was the panions, eclipses that of the celebrated case of a woman who had four wives in her lifetime. She was Dr: James Barry, who hoaxed. Eugene Falleni,
of
One of the most extraordinary an Australian, cases is that of Mary Read, who the British Army for 18 years, who posed as Harry Leon Craw- lived on a soldier and pirate for After a distinguished medical, ford.
and
military career, during which "ho" fought least one duel with- pistols, Dr Barry was appointed Inspector-General of Army Hospitals in Briain. Only when "he" died in 1800 was it discovered that Dr Brry was
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years. Mary Read out such manly figure that one of her While employed AB a pirate crow, who was also 庭 chauffeur she married her em woman in disguise.fell in love ployer's housemnald. Later she with her. Only then was Mary deserted her and married - an- Read compelled to divulge her other woman. In 1918 she was secret. found guilty of murdering her
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| AT SUNDOWN-
AS THE WORLD WATCHES THE
LOTHAR
THE NEXT DAY**
LOTHAFT GONE! WHERE?
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(The bill for extending the telephone system over the 500 miks was £500,000.)
Like A Strange Temple
WHATEVER position Britain eventually achieves in rocks defence and space travel will depend largely on the pioneering work this strange plece of Britain-enclosed by five miles of security fencing, hemmed in by thatched cottages, stately homes, and other remnants of a loss-troubled age.
Take a last lock at the P.2 test bed. With its mound of protective earth and seplike ramp, it seems like some strange templo, to a heathen god..
Perhaps, in a sense, it IS a temple dedicated to a terrible power which men are Harnessing without knowing where it will carry them.
Artificial moonlight is to be created off the Welsh coast by Brilleh rocket scientists, it was revealed at Westcott.
Huge rockets named Ravens are being built for firing from the missile range at Aberporth, Cardiganshire, next your,
Some are to be packed with a few pounds of sodium and other chemicals, which are expected to cause a bright glow, 100 mike up.
Scientista will be able to make use of the glow for experi ments.
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