Crime... Who Pays?
RIME
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How often we hear that statement. Prison con- vinees a large proportion of offenders that it, in true, for they do not return for further terms of imprison- ment. Others just don't be- lleve it.
It is the honest men and women who meet the colos Rad bill caused by the na- tion's criminals who have
cuse to say with certainty that crime doesn't pay. And
what a bill it is!
count
For every detected crime, or one reported to the police, it is safe to say that another goes
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957.
Automatic Navigation
for
Rush Hour in the Sky
system
By DEREK HARVEY
who was among Britain's first pilots to test jat aircraft
the
landing clearance
according
to its the mound sport and drift angle.
for
is
They are then used to operate a
ground
position Indicator" which gives the pilot his true position independently of
round stations.
Robot Flight
any
electronic Into the
aircraft, and
THE other day, the pilot heights ned al safe time in wards the sincraft change their
ground frequency a staff of of # British aircraft tervals by
controllers, who follow made a high speed flight swarm of movements on their from the United Kingdom radar screen. As each aircraft to Newfoundland and back arrives at the reporting point, without once de the pilot calls up the controller To assess the total cost of agam
A few by rusio-telophone, asking for crime in Britain is practi-viating more than
от instructions cally impossible, One renson hundred yards from his clea
through to the next that the pollee and insurance
Extremely high navigation and companies do not keep cumula Course, an ink trace across sector.
By coupling these Even if they a moving chart in the cock standards of Live figures.
piloling
novessary to navigation aldy bid, they would be able to a pit showing him his exact minimise collision risks, but the autopilot mechanism. ulready
the detected position throughout for only
to most Decca equipment is so accurate fitted crimes which go through their
trip,
and reliable That reducca working in conjunction with the hands-burglaries, housebreak-
testing Was
the new sundards of "separation" automatic. radar computors on
fast ing, anash and grab, shoplifting, Dectra
navigation between long-range
aircraft are 110 the ground, airiers are erabezzlement, forgery, arson,
which now envers the accepted for those atted with It, approaching the era of push- dozens of pliterage and the
North Alantie in a grid pattern resulting in a considerable button robot fight, headings that come other
The Decca The new Deelta: of continuous radio sign"ls from saving of journey me. under the "ionics" or "mis-
Company, Ltd., both shores. A special ectiver Similar
are Navigator improvements demeanours."'
in the aircraft automatically
this expected to the long range Brixion Road, London, S.W.D.
Airborne radio - teleprinter; Identifies its position in
Une Toules: normal Ladlo reception
Standard Telephones and patern, and by moving
wide and windy for instance, cannot Cables, Ltd., Connaught House, chart and pen, plots the result over the with Such accuracy that the Atlantic,
and so Aldwych, London, W.C.2.
device: Marcon!
Marconi's dem is likely to be internally always be relied upon
135 miles (220 kilometres)
the Wireless Telegraph Company,. adopted by at the major air-
considered present line using these crowded trunk routes. It is the latest develop minimum safe distance between Lid, Chelmsford, England, ment of the Deces equipment passing planes and with a 30 minutes time interval, bul which Is already in use along r
probably the even
Deera will more congested air-
this to 35 intles (56 kilometres) ways of Europe.
1172:3 ten
On minutes. route, too, British Overseas Always Corporation is about to introduce another new pilot akt, դէ
radio- airborne teleprinter which will automa- theally type out all meteorolo- gleat reports and so relieve him of the fellous necessity the interests of safety the continually listening for Cach hundreds of plane. constantly change of weather. moving between
major Of all the new electronle eilles have to keep to dennite
Shree navigation is, perhaps the Junes. These
mosexelting is H hitherto dimensional atrial highways ure
developed signposted by a maze of radio secret radar device, Leans and beacons which show เท as winking Fighte and Bickering needles on the pilot's Instrument panel, and ᏗᏓᎸ
acento symphony in its head- phones,
undetected, sometimes for years, sometimes for ever. The police they know" but, nay "think evidence means something more than a hunch.
While it is impossible to get. [1] Dccurate total figure of auch losses it can safely be put at well aver 100,000,000 year. That figure is hazed on publishert Bgures of crimes during the last twelve montas In comparison with the tolls of crimes published by the police. Taken a rourel, that figure of humire milion pounds may he fur short of the real total. Wholesale Stealing Of Cars
Con der two "popular" types. of crimes.
Scotlan
Yard uncovered
Airborne Radio-Teleprinter
I may seem strange that the apparently limities sky should But in ever become crowded.
vast
trunle organisation which exists solely to convert stulen cars for use in audacious crimes. The stoler cars ure disguised with the numbe and rond-fund licences of those obsolete or vehicles which criminals buy from breaking- up yards and which are fitted with super-charged engines for quick getaways
Emashed
Car-stealing is a big gamble and may pay its operators hand- romely. About 4,500 vehicles are stolen each year, in London alone and only about 49, per cent of these are recovered, and then often only after the criminals have
their made "prod" by elling it to un in- nocent third-party. Putting the average value of a car at £500, the rake-off tron the cars which are not refovered in well over
a million pounds. And this is only one, comparatively small, branch of criminal activity,
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Or turning from crimes in which
the unit value is high, consider one of the most com- monplace crimes of today-call- way and amnibus "biking." Last year,
London Transport for prosecuted 5,000 "bikers" travelling without tickets, and caught, it can for everyone safely be said that a hundred went undiscovered. This may be a petty crime, but it is coolTM ing the transport organisations everywhere Yust stims every year and is sheer highway rob- bery.
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MARSHAL ZHUKOV
HUKOV is a big, bluff man whose home is at his desk battered
-or in his hat.
He
He is restless, determined, and deadly earnest. plays the part of the slightly bemused spectator on the sidelines of the great Kremlin circus.
by Marconi in conjunction wh Britain's Ministry of Supply now being adopted for and commercial use. It makes use of the principle, known
But there are those who say he is the man who rules Doppler, that causes a train Russia. Harry Truman has indicated that he thinks so. whistio tu "wall" #5 the Many diplomats privately agree. train rushes by. Only this
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Where a mumber of highways
sach converge
as at the "whistle" is comprised of four There is, at least, agreement approaches to a big airport, the separate radar beamy trans-that, since the days of Berla truffle along them becomes so mitted from the aircraft
when the buy of the contral dense that I hug to be regulated towards the ground, so that the secret police organisation www and spaced out at varying echo waves "bouncing back lo-broken, the coe power that holds
A Cocktail, Sir?
A
Why Not Try
Our Oxygen
from ROLAND PULLEN
as
Tw
hors
d'oeuvres, with curried chicken
and mushrooms to follow.
Paris. Grass, recommended
salad PARIS restaurant has vegetable opened an oxygen bar. Customers order oxygen as an appetiser instead of n cocktail or aperitif.
I had lunch the other day at the restaurant, and the results were startling.
the Soviet Unica together is the Red Army.
con-
By LES
rinity.
his way
up from the
Logiales were his rst love: the organisation of mes and supplies his passion. The chaos
of the revolutionary struggle shocked him more then
brutality. No one was ever very sure who was fighting whom and where or whether, when py
ARMOUR
One day they reported that battle was won, there would be Zhukov bad taken command any supplies to hold the frout. frem Timoshenko in the south. ile was determined to put clays later, he was order Into the Red Army Lid, Four
he worked диду quielly on organisational problems.
Russia's bureaucracy is fused and divided, Party bureau- crats the real, old iine Staliu men feud with Marxist Leningrad running the thrust at throughout the inter-war years. theoreticicas and
feud the opposite German flank. both
Sometimes, in desperation, he took to horseback to get in
the fighting straighten out the angles. Sometimes, he pushed into the forward Oghting on foot,
with the technocrats who men and plan the modern industri empire they have built in the past thirty years.
The Army
side the suburbs,
amct
Always he was where he wag least expected.
it
of
In 1030, in the strange skirmish the Russitos bad with the Japanese at Khaik!1-Gol ce the Siberian-Manchurian front- er, he got his first laste of
modern war.
The General
routes by
The weight of the army cu the side of any one of these three
To the troops he took on the factions could be decisive.
status of a god.
When Hitler struck, his tong And Zhukov is the led Army.
when And thon,
the push years of toil pay off. It was Zhukov who took over
he took Ule defrace of Moscow in the gathered momentum,
the man
who Zhukov was which the army when the charge
knew the maps and the capa black days of 1941 Germans were massed just out- thed on Berlin.
was Zhukov's war. The cities of the supply
The salad must have weighed
It was Zhukov who took over soldiers inow it and loved him. heart.
knew it ursd nearly 1b., tind even after a the defence of Stallograd in 1942 The bureaucrats
He and only he sometimes-- were frightened. large helping of curried chicken and tuned the tide.
know the position to fall back For no one was Zhukov who hustled
knew-and some to where supplies were secur and a half-bottle of red wine I
country, after the do not even care to guess now... and where resistance could be
Just what Zhukov's politics tide began to turn, co-ordinating was still hungry. I hnd cheese around the and raspberry tart.
built up. The other commander's and
the rebuilding
tattered were.
of the Red Army had spent too remnants of an army which had
He was bara in the Kalkin
many years politicking been within an ace of defeat. regler on the Volga, north-west skirmishing in the Kremlin
In those days, when commual- of Moscow. In 1836.
Many of them too many of cations were either broken or
His parents were peasants, thom-fell in the great purge of cracking, Zhukov appeared poor, land hungry, harassed by 1937. miraculously like some guardizai the petty officials of the Czat, angel first one front and then, days later, on costher. War cor respodents were baffled,
When I had finished I had no The oxygen bar, in restful wish to smoke, as I usually pastel colours, adjoins the dining have, nor did I feel I had caten
too much. room. of the United cost
£38 over
"Paying" For Villainy On top of theso
colossal Agures comes the tremendous cost of delecting criminals, try- ing them and housing them during their imprisonment, Tho polles forces Kingdom million a year, while pri- sons call for over £ million more for their upkeep. That's nearly another Afty million to
be added to the crime bilit
Who pays for all this--one hundred and fifty million
хой year?
I, of and
le
of
Elght customers at a time en -couches, the fool end which is raised above head level,
Hungrier
Said M. Grass: "I started the oxygen har because I believe that we who live in cities are slowly being usphyxiated by polluted air.
An attendant put a mask over cocktail, followed by raw vege
my face and turned on an
pounds & Ye course, do the paying. It oxygen top. true that the crookes, if and
There I lay for 15 minutes,
when they are taught, spend Inaling at the ceiling, and not
their
of their me in gaol, speaking.
which is called "paying for After the охуден cocktail (price 10s.) I felt as if I had just taken a long mountain walk In the third week of my holi-
risk. ponse.
big enough
a
I was much hungrier thun The manager, M. Roger
usual.
crimes" but they mostly regard thint as a fair business And that is their only ex-
day. If their booty has been
they regard the. "time" as fair balancing out. that is one of the storag astonishing things
about our law, or, rat
mather, In the way it is enforced. Unicss
the actual alolen pro- perty itself recovered, it is very rarely that the victim is recompensed for the loss except by an insurance company.
Identifiable
jewellery
other stolen property
goes back to lis
if it is recovered.
and
owner
O COLO
But cash is
an entirely different matter,
unless the thief is caught red- handed with it Money is not easily identifiable. If you can't that the money in the prove posion of a thief at the time of his arrest was your money, your chances of getting
back are very slender,
any
Willo
the law provides for the victim to recover all he has lost from
the offender, the proces recovery
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is no long and in-
volvod that it is bare zaroly used.
By Frederick Sumner
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
“So I said, what can you expect with A lot of tuppenny-halfpenny,
Cadillac chefka ?!”.
"My customers say the oxygen
tables. makes them feel alrong as Popeye."
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A PRETTY
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and
In 1918, he joined the r The army was long on politics, volutionary army, fought with it short on experience, and woe through the ensuing choos, and fully weak on planning,
THE OIL LAND
JOB – THIS
FOR A FRENCH WRITER
F
TRANCE has at last been able to put her smallest territory in order-all seven square miles of it on the British island of St Holena. This is the area granted to the French by Queen Victoria because it was where Napoleon was imprisoned and died.
For
An
years the small stone Government, "IE slayed house where the Emperor lived, power only just long enough to and the grounds of it have been get something done," he sald allowed to go to ruin. Although when he returned to London a there were plans to tidy up the few daya ngo. territory no French Govern in ment stayed
power long enough for it to happen.
'Just long enough' -
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may no.
"
exiled
that wo
Zhukov's wartime rise was longer anyone strong enough to therefore not murprising,
Why had
Stalin Zbukov?
Certainly, it is true power in Russia in 1945 not even Stalin himself-could have withstood a united army had it assert itself.
His postwar posilien secmed secure beyond any doubt. Spon, Burely, he would be one of the Kremlin bosses.
Then, one day le 1047, Stelln chocDEL posted him to Odessa-to.com- Had Zhukov a case to make? inand the garrison. That was
exile both
and humilallon. Some say he burned inside. Others say he merely siniled
Stalin died in 1953, and Zhukov was suddenly Deputy Minister of Defenen.
Remember that Zhukov was a peasant who joined the revolu- on to redress the peasant's grievances. He still feels streng- by the poverty and humiliation of his people.
The revolution did not redress thoso grievances, Peasants were hounded together in collective Two years later he was Minis-
faume run by bureaucrats whose ter of Defence.
knowledge of agriculture came The army still know what and from text books and who did who it wanted and there was no not always manage to produco
anything.
IS BROKE The Peasant
So Saud puts his oil royalties
înto
pawn
with Uncle Sam
From COLIN LAWSON: Buraimi
(AUDI Arabia is flat broke. The vast dollar income from oil royalties—more than
mortgaged for the next three years.
Along this border, and back in Bahrein, and in the independent Sheikdoms on the Persian Gulf I have been told of the daily increasing financial squeeze by Saud and the royal family, who for all purposes form the Government.
Successive government decrees took away the llon's share of what the farmers did produco and left them hungrier than befor
Many men who should know believe that Zhukov is still bitter about all that. President Eisen- hower, who met Zhukov in 1045, is said to have been surprised by his poillies.
The army, too, has changed less thers might be expected aince Czarist days. It is still conservative and, lileo all armies, it distrusts politicians.
Perhaps it was Zhukov who hed his revenge, en Stalin end made Khrushchev, Stalin's one- time protege,—regd) the sireadful
Value of the Saudi ryall at Rind, Jeddah, Medina, for the king had just arrivedalettencat last hear. Perhaps it He has salted from the United States col were was he who, with a deft kick a year ago was nearly two and Mecca.
to be transported in sluitings. Today it is only away millions in Switzer-mediately to Riad.
Land. eleven-pence.
This, in part, explains Saud's frantlé efforts to ex-
"More than £30,000 has been epent on reconditioning and furnishing Napoleon's home and grounds. For the first time permanent French Consul been sent to the island and the Muscat and Oman and re- Tricolour flies proudly head.
has tend hia kingdom into
over-
Wrung dry
And his household bills and
through his political front men, lifted Molotov from the seats-of In acklition to his own ex- the mighty.....
Perhaps,.... penses Saudi han Anariced arms
Marshal in into Muscat
In any case, the smuggling
and
rates more Oman, and made big grants to idag high, Ho
cheers thre
01 Khrushchev Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
publle vocisions nowadays. Now, to meet all the bills, Marshal Bulgaria ---- a pryer Then the last Government
gain control over Buraimi, almost daily purchase of new
are stories of huge od Marshal who never commanded stayed 18 months and the plans
Ile would immediately offer Cadillacs and Jewels have wrung there
Vances from future royalties. any atmy-bchavas deferentially were put into effect. "Now the "The Consul docs not have all concessions to American the exchequer day.
One suggestion is that the king when Zhukov is around. place la resplendent," says Mr much to do, but, he spends 避
And Just on wxample of Saud's has been given, bank loans from
Zhukov wodrz John Tunstall, a British film lot of time writing about the companion in the hope they
squcxlermania: Recently two America agakist the securlly of medals on his broust then any- Emperor and showing tourists would add to his income.
medal-Brown planos packed with ensontal royalties. The Arabian-American o over his home."
King Saud has now spent goods were suddenly emptied at Oil Compony refuses to com- Rossin deres boost -- 29 on last 5100 million on new palaces Bahrein, Beaux-four Cadillacs ment.
producer.
He was naked to make a film of the teritory for the French
--(London Express Jerisos),
count.
else
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