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Tunnel of love
beats Law
London.
LONDON Street
Wonten and their 'minders' have gone "underground" in their efforts to make a vice living since Britain's Street Offences Act drove them from their shameless parade in the streets.
They have really gone to earth.
The under ground" is the London
By Gerald
Byrne
Many of the girls had no con- most are former vicious and allee or entering workers. They Come mainly from the North of England, some are Irish, few are
from Seatland or Wales, and the rest are Londoners.
DID IT HAPPEN?
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1959.
another story to set you guessing
A message for
Colonel Michelmore
AM still in some doubt as to whether I ought to be telling this story at all, and it will become clear, I hope, why I have chosen to change the real names of those involved in my Mediterranean incident. It was a cool, clear evening in late September last year and I had flown to Nice to settle the details with my friend, Jean Trichereau, for a Continental television link-up. Jean had snatched a break to mix business with pleasure and had wired me to meet him there instead of in Paris.
of
In his villa on the outskiris of the elty we had dined and Į wined, and over coffee we settledi
As
The vice bosses worked time-tables and pitches for the Underground Railway girls, so
thui the interests where some three hun- each vien kint did not clash. dred girls have been They resumed that the rul- the outstanding points. For the way polier cover the ground last 20 minutes we had gone operating recently on ay that they said get away over the grand quickly. carefully planned system with a brand-new campaign-marising it into my tape recorder. and recently they have done x, of allocation.
with some ten to twelve clients drive downtown and look higher-than-usual In at the casino. First we called
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#t day at prices.
ה!
They are back unless Scotland Yard
--
And now Jean suggested
sum-
we
at my hotel, where I deposited business, the recording machine, then and
the drove along the front, kaudly my police wake up quick-gay and quite crowsed for an jy to this new neance on the end-of-season evening. Ünderground and pick them up.
It was all arranged by their minders, mostly Mal- tese, who have remained in Great Britain despite their fears of n seven-year sen- tence under the new Act.
These minders desperate remnants of Underg.ound stations. hundreds who have already,
gone out of Britain.
ure
the
They met. I learą, staurant near Queza's Way
10-
in
Expot observres Luggest that the only way to defeat these women, and the vice barons who control them, is 10 have officers who knew the girls patrolling
QUOTE
The casino
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relaza- PETER Lion fron the strain of DIMMOCK Toning BBC
TV outside broadcasts. 35-
Dimmock year-old Peter made a new reputation as the man on the Sportsview programme.
He joined the BBC after serving as an RAF pilot throughout the war. Now hers with his wife at Notting Hill Gate-so that he can be near the Shep- herd's Bush stuudios.
Blowing French, presumably on the ground that she net won and had not been paid out. The croupier summoned onother official in evening dress who weighed her up, then nodded authorisation for her to be paid, The man I took to be Hitchen smiled at the contretemps, but he never looked In my direction.
Familiar face
be with him.
I
He regarded me with distant tolerance and replied, politely: "I am sorry, you are mis. taken..-
fly flipping his counters from we were getting close to the one hand to the other as if he English court that we lost him, was preparing to shume n pagk Thiên came the wedding recep of cards, he glanced towards the tion. I had never even 71 . door, smiled and said: "It in hin before, but a fellow-pilot unfortunate, m'stou. But I had persandied him to tell the insist you sure quile wrong." For story of how he had almost shot chalno. When I finally mapped the first time, I had doubis, I down one of our Blenheims over out of it, we mnt have bega blurted out: "RAF 1041?" He France.
halfway across France. held the counters in one hand,
tugged at his bow tie with
the
Noturnily, I introduced myself
thai there rumours he had gone round the bend.
1 took down my tape recorder
other, and shrugged: "I did not as his near-victim. Afterwards, from the rack, bdjusted the ear- have that honour." He bowed months later he was posted so phones and hoped the battery were was all right. I began to play slightly, apologised
back my surhming-up convwak- and was gone,
tion with Jean, making; notes/am I listened. As the end, of, the talk came over, I was just about to switch off when a further voice came in.
once more, ruddenly
· Baffled
The encounter baffled
and
10
The odd thing was that one from his squadron know exactly what had happened to him. And all I seemed to know troubled me a long me after of his personality was that he "I am sorry. I had to be 80 Jean had delivered me at the read widely and had a miniature to meet in strange circumstances
rule, Potor. We segon destined hotel. I could not sleep. It was library of books un political not as it Hilchen had been an history.
economics and psycho-France-or over it-don't we? ordinary Services' nequaintance. tory in his room. Yet could I Next time, perhaps, we'll be able
to enjoy We had first met at a wedding have forgotten such a mont
our meeting' over a drink. In the pocket; of this to the stations from which we
fire recorder, Pelar, you have a spore 11 1 awoke early after me?"
Berthelms. were tying
Two night following the ensino meet- tape, In close-up, his face was really
days before, I had been return- log. As I had most of the morn- familiar, His bulki, too; he was ing from a reconnaissance
over Ing tree from shorter than I am, perhaps Ave France, when I had an uneasy departure, I took a stroll along my Viscount's nine but thickly bullt with the sense of being followed. As for the front. Even then the bench: shoulders of a rugger player and as I knew, no other Blenheims was pretty full: humour lines alongside the eyes, should have been within miles which were bright and peneirat of our position. ing. He regarded me with dis-
By this time Jean was show- ing sigre of boredom and hauled me OVCT to another table. could not think of anything but the face I know. When I turned, At the cutno the gambling
I saw that the gambler and his We sauntered ne va plus." The wheel spun girl had risen and that Hitchen Tom was busy.
the fateful ball danced was collecting up his counters, round the green-baized tables, and Jean all the while giving me a trounci, but my attention was "Excuse me a moment," 1 suld
commentary running
on the
focused on the man opposite. to Jean. Hitchen was, halfway rote of the DES. }1 11;
If it wasn't Hitchen, my eyes to the door when I caught up after we had had a drink, and weren't what they used to were on cur second tour of the lack in the day when we were tables, that I spotted the mum I together in the RAF. His stakes "Hitchen?" I said. "Remember reception in a village hall close took to be Hitchen. I had been appeared be not
unduly at- diring, though at the base of lif watching. intrigued, the parent permutations of roulette stick of chips was what looked being written down by a wom.. like Hugh Herbert, silting
chain- The croupier hauled in and paid alongside a sericus by the Rev.
rector of St. John's Coulsdon, smoking, gambler with white out. Surrey, in a letter to women he hair and a party complexion. has married during the
Then, attracted by a diree years;
ment on the opposite side of the husband's table, I saw him. Thus to the Again I tried to catch Hi NEVER stop your
activities: never social graces of the gambling chu's attention. This time he prin stop courting: keep giving pre-ruum, I was not sure that at that saw me sil right, but there was
muzent it would be right to not the slightest sign of recogni- taken," senis and have children.
introtvee myself.
tion; he seemed more interested I was shaken... I was never In the gambler with the girl more sure of anything in my life. friend. Suddenly, 1 Woman I knew it was Hitchën—and yet standing behind one of the seated Momentarily, 1 thought, players begun to complain in anxiety crossed his face; then,
the Bayswater district of Lon- den. and hoki a council of war On moves to defeat what had
for them bleeme situation. Tarir business had vanished overnight.
They found
They had some three hundred girls, mostly young, very attractive and with only a year to wighteen months as "Cindatelis of the streets," to operate with,
ROUND-UP
LATEST IN STATIONS
THE
411E 50,000 people who live in the modern houses and estates of the new town at Harlow, Essex, are going to get a handene new flatum plus un electric trała service towards the end of 1986. The new station will have light-grey flint-lime brickwork on the external walls, together with Birge areas of glass. The modern bookingg hall will have tiled floors, glass sale dudoes and varnished timber ceilings.
LINK WITH PAST TO GO
THE mal basement room that housed the just of the "twopenny
schools In Woolwich is to be demolished under a borough The council plan for the re-development of the St Mary's area.
old desk still stands beneath the window, though it has siner been made to a wurk-beach, The original fireplace is sit there and ab old cupboard, now splatered in places, leans against another wall. The old man who taught the local chlidren for 2d. a day in the
kasement mared out when the mother of the present tenant took over the house nearly 100 years ago,
anove-
I tried to catch his eye. 1 smiled in recognition. His gaze [beld me for a moment, then he
was back to bis game.
"Rien
50,000-Frune
counter.
Girl friend
Sun-tanned
tani tolerance and replied Yet the adrcraft behind me politely—and surprisingly--in an was another Blenheim. For accent decidedly French; "I um nearly half an hour, the follow- 1 stood by the rails and looked You are mis- my-leader routine went on. We down at the sun-tanned feces; sorry, m'sicu
were in radio silence, and I hoping and yet fearing that I could not clear up the point with might see the man who base. From mild curiosity my proving such a preoccupallon. I attitude changed to concern and din't see him, though I had a then Anally lo extreme un feeling he wasn't far away. easiness.
This feeling was particularly strong even in the airport lounge. We went into a stretch of cloukt I changed course and Through the Customs. I kept gained height, When we my briefcase and tape recorder, emerged,,our, shadow was still my only luggage. It would save with us only closer, 1 had me the trouble of sorting them almost convinced myself that the out on arrival in London, and I Blenheim www 16 captured intended to tidy up, some paper machine being flown by the work in the seroplane. Instead Luftwaffe: Diriéd every dodge of working, however, I kept posatble, and it was only whên thinking of the man
PRINCE PHILIP'S IDEA
CURES BAD BOYS
London.
THORNEY PARK, the only approved school in Britain to enter every one of its boys into the Duke of Edinburgh's awards scheme, has achieved sensational results. (An approved school is an institution for juvenile wrongdoers.)
Instead of the average failure rate of thirty per cent, only five per cent
By a Special Correspondent
of its boys, after win- into trouble after leav- 10. These three did it at 14. ning awards, have got ing the school.
WONDER MAC. Gets to the Summit
"just that extra quicker
The scheme is open to all young people between 15 und 18.
The headmuster of Thor- ney Park says: "This scheme. with the glamour of Prince Philip, and Sir John Hunt of Everest fame, is the biggest chance we have been given to find a solution to juvenile delin-
quency.
"I have been headmas. ter of this school for 26 years. Never before have I achieved results like those. It is absolutely wonderful."
All have since elft the school.
Typical is the story of the Arst upproved schoolboy to win a gold star.
He was so keen that he gave up his Sundays to work on the re-fighting squad at Renfrew public service test. nirport
in order to
pass his
These three boys will soon be going to Buckingham Palace to receive their gold stars from the Duke of Edinburgh.
"The achievements of these three boys are absolutely wen- Lees, head- dertul," said Mr master of Thorney Park. "Just as important is what this school has achieved.
"I give the entire credit to
Thorney Park is near the Duke's scheme. I am not Paisley, in Scotland. It is saying I is the be-all and end- pioneering the experiment all, or that it is the answer for to discover how much Scot- every bad boy. But I do believe land's "bad boys" (and the It can be extended to every ap- bad boys of England, Wales, Poved school in the United
Kingdom. and Northern Ireland, too) can be helped by the Duke ing boys into the scheme."
"So for only a few are enter- of Edinburgh's 'scheme.
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Beware at counterfeits buy only from
authorized dealers.
at the
Play-back
"I've used part of it, but it would be unintelligible to you even if you played back., Bo
a good chop and deliver It per- zonally to Colonel Michelmore at the War Office, It is rather isn't followed by a Blonhalm on important. Hope your Viscount
the way over."
There was no French accent. I delivered the tape,
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?.
YES
NO
• Put your tick in the anes abova, Anziour on P. 15,
-(London Expoqsia Service).
Cummings
"Really, Nye, it makes me want to give up political'-
Now he's oven signed up Elsenhower on his programme..
London Express' Service,
In the past two years Thorney Park has gained for its one hundred and thirty boys no less than seventy-eight bronze and fifty-eight silver attars.
In addition Thorney Park has mad ehistory, by three of its boys winning the gold star, the highestt award given by the Duke of Edin-
burgh..
The three boys, Robert| McLoughlin Robert Lyle and Stewart Thompson, have all done it while they were under age. Officially no boy can enter until he is!
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
THE KNO OF
THE WORLD [IS AT HAND!!
"I do hope Somebody has remembered to clear it with Dr. Adenauer firm.”***
'Loisdon 'Express 'Harvica",
Lost in meestery of fiving ---
Hat, gorgeous live life.
With great big rosen
And furs...
And cars, waking.
>
And men, delectable men, waiting ·
What did she need with the time?
it wasn't feminine
to know the time
----until she had
a Rolex
He was different from all the others,
Ile came out of a cloud of adivivera who all looked
the same,..
With something new.
A Rolex watch
'And suddenly it was a better idea abans any the Gathers had bad.
I was a hurrid, precise and completely unnecessary. It was more personal think--and very beautiful.
*detail,
It wasn't feminine, ...
*
Bul obe maz,
Who bed the superbly manlike ability.
To calculate, sometimes, that the things woman
says she' doesn't want is the one thing she does,
Brought her a Rolex watch...
It was more feminine than cais-even though it
was precision perfect.
"I was completely hars
And she loved it
ROLEX
ach landmark in the history of Time measu?ty
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