w
THESE TREMENDOUS
YEARS
IF this were really the ke the fees here, and 1 old:
age of the common man Ernie Bevin would have a claim to be its architect.
Not everyone understood that his prewar association with the International Transport Work- ers' Union gave him. # know- ledge of European politles, which wes a valuable-preparation for the Foreign Omro.
He was inexpressibly shocked when the German branch of the union disintegrated
war.
DISPERSED
before the
'Neither do I let's try the dining-room."
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1959.
MONKEY BUSINESS—BY JAK
Rampering through the ruined sewers of Berlin.
William Barkley's
Personal
Notebook
Part
Three
The curious feature of this lenfiel was that the printer had "When we had been there for
It would be interesting to left out the letter "p** a bit I said to Rught I don't know the reaction of femmi Mikordo looks 110L unlike ike the faces here either. We people the day that Hitler dist, what one imagines a Japanese ogroed, and sal silent for a bit. And if anyone thinks of making Emperor should look like. So 1 "Then sald to Hugh: *For a symposium on this subject wrote that the Socialist candi- heaven's sake let no have one I can give him a beginning. date was none other than the meal with faeca round us that
Mikado! we likee. This is it."
The man of Stool
i beur. The whole
Was
NO TOAST
Mikarda told a friend that this story put him on the map. From that moment his meet- Ralph Asshelon (Lord ings were crowded and
he
Clitheroe) was at Chequers and thanked me for making him on al dinner with the Prime MP. Who is one of the least ung Minister when the word arrived. Previously Mikardo had not chronicled winners of the war? He told me that someone ruled been widely known, but he I would say Sir Andrew Duncan. his glass and said: "Here's to played a very important part
AL Vie Lime, during his Hiller."
at the party conference in 1914. Ministership of Supply, worke
Churchill sald angrily: "W%0 He moved a resolution that was behind on the cement case-
the comrades males Is
Mulberry do not drink fearts to the dead." the party programme for the International
for
He pushed back hla chule end General Election should include were dispersed some to con
too fell into a reverie for A few the nationalisation of coni, roll- idea centration
others comps,
Then he said: "I ways, gus, and electricity, and, high placen
the moments. In the Nazi secret. The purpose of
me of course, the Bunk, work and is vital Importance suppose they will say of
Both Attlee and to the that the biggest thing I did was He did not know which he could not be explained felt sorrier for, but it was this men on the job, yet production to 'sack 5,000 officers In Celro," knowledge which stiffened him was tagging, to put teeth into the Socialist Party, 10 drive out told me that when Sir Andrew pacifist Lansbury from the visited the sites he transformed! Íeadership,
demand the outlook by the sheer
candour of his personality.
hierarchy.
rearmament.
ta and
-prewar Sir David
Once in the Cafe Bavaria in Geneva. he told me. he was PLEA
chatting with a French and
il
German Cunrade. They were all very matey, and with the
Robertson.
MP
was
A son of Sir Andrew's lied at Dunkirk. Much later
the feet in the interests of nattuned effort und commen Sacrilice.
me:
bast GHT NORAG humour the To the war I thought of teenil- German sat 10 The French- man: We will get on well together for a long time, but in seven years we will fight you." B, that was in 1932," he added, wonderingly.
Bevin was an Empire man. I took a nute of these views he
one gave the
ciny: "I you belong to an Empire and see the ship coming and going you are
This sort of thing was much not introspective. But a nation
when I watched which encircled is always in my mind looking home.
To keep
ills secretary, when I checked
appeated lo with him, "Please, please don't mention it. Ir Sir Andrew Kees In the paper he will go to bed for
bear to be week. Ile cannot reminded,"
the Sir Andrew Duncan rise in the
peace, destroy the introspelige Commons to oppose the Sucialist
Government's Bili nationalising
But the joy of his life was Iron and steel in November 1948.
hess of Germany,"
his work in the war,
Reason for a dinner
The debate lasted several days.
"On the first day I gave a full account of the Socialist case.
saw no reason to repent it
AFTER-DINNER speech of all next day when Sir Andrew
admirable honesty and Inllowed another Government mulce one of the made by Lestic speaker to warmth
Impressive mos! Halo (Socialist, West Old- half dozen
speeches 1 ever heard in
hom):-
OCCASION:
dinner given
House.
about
the
sitel
He knew more unexpected by Hale and than all the Socialist Ministers
with the ex-Ministers thrown in.
Hugh Delargy, MP. to put together,
friends.
THE WIT flew
I think the effort undermined with the wine, hlm. He never
Hut
again
Did I make
the Mikardo?
At the 1915 election some one sent me an omell Socialist Party leaflet advertising the Reading candidate, lan Mikardo,
Morrison argued strenuously in favour of free hand, but the resolution was carried and became party policy.
I the Soclulist Government
CAMAYTA
'I got the feeling you guys are trying to make a monkey outa me!'
-(London Express Service).
The Channel tunnel
DOVER. N odd-looking ship moves slowly up and
ΑΝ
tionalised these services, and down at her moorings
ir Mikardo made them do it,
and if I made Mikardo-wit a three miles off-shore. heavy burden Bes on me!
-(Londan Express Service).
Near the bows a timber
Detection is not so elementary now,
Watson
POLICE WAGE SCIENTIFIC WAR AGAINST CRIME
SHE
he sald,
съд
refilled luis pior beforE SHERLOCK Holmes carefully
answering Dr Watson. "My dear fellow," spreted Lady Ware from the very beginning.
"We deduced, if you remember, that the blow had been struck by a left-handed persun, about five feet two inches tall and lacking in strength.
"That description Atted only Lady Ware and I had only to discuper her mutives to solve the case. You ree, my dear Walsun, it was really elefhentary."
This year is the centenary of the birth of Sherlock Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the pioneer of scientific crime fiction.
★ ★
Tory THE deerstalker, the curved pipe, the tweeds, the cape and the microscope are associated with the age of the hansom cab and murder But one wonders what Sherlock Holmes would think of by gaslight. spoke We and lived only two or three modern-day detection, Were wondering what the years longer.
of it all was. "Let's purpose ask," I said, and inquired of the host.
It was a happy time
Leslie Hale replied: "It's liter this. Hugh and were sitting together in the Chamber when
I sald to Hugh: I don't like
Churchill
and the death of Hitler
news
pt Hitler's the faces here, Hugh replied: When the
Neither do let's Try the death came through 1 wrote Stoke Room."
some depperel (as well never discased about 1 "We went there, and after a printed) bit Hugh said to me: 'I don't rat reaping from his body and
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Might not even this prince among detectives boggle a little at the scientific war against crime being waged around the capitals of the world?
Today the major threat to the law-breaker comes from the army of little-known men who work with teat-tube and microscope.
Without doubt, much of the cred!l for the selenlife advaneos of the past 3 years belongs to Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Force.
By
TED HART
wilck a different stick for cach null-and examine his clothes for blood-stalns.
-this time it's
no day-dream
platform juts out over the Channel's grey-green waves.
As The engine pourfuls rhythmically a massive drill reaches down frumn the platform to the seabed, baring deeper
deeper atid
Into the rock beneath the water.
BY J. W. M. THOMPSON
I both answers are "Yes" — what comes next?
So instead, a fust service of cor transporter trains 19 en- ylangest. Such trains
are al-
First, the approval of the Bri- rendy used
Continent, on the
French Governments with huge double-decker trucks tish and
be sought. It is not linked to carry 70 or more cars, would
There
would also, of course, thought this would be hard to ready for the be other trains roaring beneath get. After that will come the question of raising the the
of samples
the Straits, carrying freight and crucial clay which the
passengeTA. apparatus hoists to the deck.
Engineer Ewen pucks
joboratory,
chalk and
A hazard
Mackay
Joined forces
money.
£100 million
That is how the plons go. The best guess so far is that cost £100 "We have to All up each What has happened to stir all the tunnel would bore-hole with a ton and o these plans and this expeudi- million. There is no thought of finance. tolf concrete when we've lure on the old dream? secking Covernment finished," says. "Otherwise Oddity, it begon with Suez The tunnel,-. bull, will be a the holes would be a hazard The dispossessed Sucz Conal mammoth piece, of international
Channel funnel under here."
when they start to build the Company and the more-or-less private enterprise,
Yes, once again, the idea of a
dormant Channel Tunnel Com-
The money would be ralacu in pany get together to talk about
the regular way, from the pub- chance, an Their futures. By American group began to look ik and from financial interests, into the tunnel proposition in The eponsors would look outside Britain. France, and America. They would expect support from
nost European countries.
channel tunnel has come to life. And this time. I suggest it should
They jolaed forces to form as an empty fancy.
Channel Tunnel- Study This ship's task is part of an the elaborate survey of the Stralls Group, a syndicate which now
They ins four members. by the tunnel's backers. are spending £240,000 probing the project, and this is not the sort of money financiers habitually pay out for day- dreams.
not be written off too quickly dependently at the same time.
Optimism
It sounds like an awful lot of money. However, the bankers and City men concerned bellave
Equal share the cash would be found.
Each is putting up an equal
As it happens, the chairman
shore of the £240,000 being of the English tunnel company Is d banker, Mr Leo D'Erlanger.
spent,
If any sample of blood found, he is immediately asked to account for it in the hope that he will panic and suggest it la either his own blood or the Chesney's blood of an animal--statements traces
of which can now be very
· 1.-British. The Channel frayed checked.
Here aboard the Ian Salvor Tunnel Company (20 per cent But the une advance the Yard II, as in the City offices where of its shares owned by British
Transport make con- the plans are made, there is on
would most like to
casily
The members are:
Confident
Scrapings from gernails showed blood and minute pink wool identical to the fibres of his wife's cardigan.
And to cdd the Anal touch, cerns the identitation of poitr of optimism-exeltement, banking and other interests. hairs from Chesney's head were sons. After a poisoning, it is even. Murder has been its speciality. found on the slippers of Mrs commonplace to read that the I has brought the art of detec- Menzies and the cardigan of his Yard expect to be able to Iden- Already, they say, the study tunnel company (controlled by said, at a guess, "Perhaps 10
Fine Art
tlon in this neld to such a ne wife..
art that it is now virtually Im-
possible to commit a crime of Great Triumph
can
some
violence without leaving jelue on one's clothes or person,
Even if the murderer Lakes the precaution of burning his
ashes rult, the
furnish enough evidence to hang him.
The big advance here is that (minute substances can today be Identified so positively in ecurt.
Classte
tizto
example of
con-
Chesney committed suicide hafore he could be brought to trial, but the Case Fldered
of the great triumphs of scientific delec- tion.
One
the
But un scientiflo Improves, so TOWS
the genuity of criminal.
is
nost operated.
A
the perfect murder ofte inished murderer Give-Away—Ears? It will most probably be not economle and scientific,
wife in February, 1954.
Well, the investigators do Commission) plus vive the green light, how long will it be before the tunnel is In servicet When I discussed 2.-Tench. France's own this with one of the experts, I that tity it within 48 hours. In fact, of the seabed suggests
French railways and Rothschild years?" He looked pained. "That would be it takes normally
Freres, around 21 making the tunnel
bankers) plus other is very pessimistle," he said. straight forward days to identify
the including lesser simply
There remains the question of known prisons.
International Road Federation. engineering jobs on a giant scale, prganizations
Even the likely form of the 3-American, A specially whether the British Govern- detection tunnel is now becoming clear, erented company,
Technical ment, when it came to a decl- thea This, they tell me, is how it will Studies Inc., sponsored by an ion, would anally veto the big-time
probably be built and assortment of financial interests, whole thing in the interest of The Suez defence, One British Govern- 4-International. The Federated Bureau of Inhard grey chalk which reaches owned by Brush Government). century ago.
It will burrow through the Company (44 per cent shares ment did so, after all, nearly a vestigation in Washington
across the Straits to France. This syndicate appointed a currently trying to find an alter-
My expert smiled confidently at either brilliant French engineer, Rene at this possibility. Fingerprints and footprints, native method -traz provided by the case of although
approaches of identification With Is
He quoted a bale part
infensive of de- to Angerprinting.
end, it will be at least 30 miles Melcor, to direct an
for ma a Commons statement the New Zealand adventurer tection, are by no means the only
Jong.
Inquiry into the tunnel, both by a Minister of Detence. In Ronald Cheney whe plotted types of prints which have es-
one tunnel-but-a-twin-passage. The report is expected by the which "strategle objections" to a-tunnel-were-brushed-side- way one tunnel for each end of the your. It should give And who was the Minister of Dill Turple-a. member of Scol- For many American criminals direction and it will be for final answers to the questions Defence who took this cheerful land Yard's Murder Squad for have deliberately burnt away the rail trafle only.
which generations have puzzled 30 years-telling me how he tips of their fingers with acid.
Running a motor road under over. Can it be done and would view Mr. Harold Macmillan, Chesney, who was living In helped to make impressions from Dillinger was the first to at the sea, it is reckoned, would it payt
-(London Express Service), Germany at the time, planned the knee marks of the strangler tempt this and Bugs Moran, the bring too many difficulties. Cars to visit Britain under an assum- of a girl called Buby.
Jleutenant of Al Capone, follow would make ventilation too ex- The outline of the worsteded his example,
pensive, the trame would be $18.00ed name, kill his wife and re-
turn to Germany where his allbl trousering was so clear that
It has actually been suggested too slow, and possibly too many 18.00 had already been prepared. paved the way for the conviction that identification of men with motorists would be reluctant to Despite having to alto murder of the murderer, George Stone, prison records should be made underinke the journey. 18.00
his wife's companion-a Mrs Another type of print which with sara as well as fingerprints. 25.00 Menzies he returned safely to convicted a murderer was tho No pair of cars apparently
Germany. Suspicion fell upon bite-mark left on the body of exactly the same. 7.50 him, but there was no direct his dead wife by Jack Gerringo.
American safe-breakers, too. ho at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 9.00 proot. Ten years earlier,
are experimenting. Instead of would probably have been sofe 1947,
But despite these advances, the normal sate ballast which 4.50 from the clutches of the law.
cannot be removed. from their Under the new scientiae
a member of the Yan's clothes, they are using a new 1.00 methosis, however, his clothes forensic laboratories told me type believed to be undelectable. 1.50 were examined. This is what
that he considered the nowo dotectives found: 1.50 1. Head hairs identical
those of Mrs Menzies,
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22 Milos
Pumping Station
DOVER
200 frt
120-150·fost:
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CALAIS
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