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The fourth Session of a Ear- fined to Brighton, though its or- liament is not the occasion upon ganisation there was of an excep. which individual reputations are made or unmade. Its close is, how- tional character.
Inquiries made by a special cor-ever, a fiting opportunity to sum respondent of The Daily Mail sug up the collective value of a body gest one important piece of advice with so long a record of work and to all visitors to pleasure" resorts: experience behind it, to note its When accosted by affable strangers tendencies, and to wéigh, some of
avoid their company.
its personalities.
Now that the purely political Neglect to do this was the down- fall of many a visitor to Brighton. issue, involved have been settled. There were five men and one woman known by the police to have been the House has been able to resume- associated with this gang. Three Fits dealings with those industrial tre now beginning sentences of and economic problems which ever his courage is liable to become in penal servitude for life after 'par- rowly escaping the death penalty since the War have become more discretion. Sir Austen Chamber.. It is hoped that their fate will be and more certainly the main busi-lain has had few chances, but his B.5.& K. Wharfa...
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"Peeping Toms."
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The effect of the swinging back At the start of their career of crime the blackmail practised by of emphasis to industrial and the men of this gang was similar economic issues has been enormous to that found in most seaside rely to enhance the position of the They lurked in lonely spots favour Exchequer, which appears publicly sorts. They were "peeping Toms.' ed by lasers, and having spied for a as the originator of constructive while appeared and demanded policy, however much it may con- money under the threat of
tinse behind the scenes to be the sieve through which the construe-Scotland's loss will be somebody tive ideas of others must pass and eise's gain, and Mr. Duff Cooper has proved himself as quick in de- by which they are blocked. Partly, bate as one of his own whippets in no doubt, the explanation is that the field. Mr. Churchill bestrides the narrow world of debate like a Colossus, but even if he did not the functions of his Department have been insen-
(a) Personal violence; or (b) Following the woman in the case home and exposing her.
Many men quite innocent paid this blackmail rather that expose the woman to annoyance.
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moonlight night, and thus discover
ed more victims, whom they threataibly and enormously widened by ened in conjunction with a con- the bare fact that a comparatively federate ashore,
poor country is trying to do com- Paratively large things..
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By this time their existence was well known to the police, who shadowed them on more than one occasion but were unable to make any arrest because of the constant refusal of the victims to submit themselves to the publicity of the witness box.
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Among the rank and file Mr. T. J. O'Connor and Captain Mac millan have preserved their ascen danes, and they and their friends, the Prime Minister, can as the intellectual Life Guards of much of the credit for the continued vitality of the House. Of the older members Major Glyn had a con siderable triumph over his Race course Betting Bill, and can thank his own hard work for much of it, while the icy and concise oratory of Sir Edward Hilton Young has nipped many a sophistry in the bad.
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What have been the results of this concentration upon economic and industrial issues within the Conservative Party? The firet is
The ineffectiveness of the Opposi the revival of the prestige and on continues to be the chief When They Were Thrashed. authority of the Prime Minister, obstacle in the way of the recovery Once or twice members of the Nothing better has been seen dur- by Parliament of its prestige. gang met with severe gehults. Onceing this Fazliament than his prick creds in founding a new school
Whether or not Mr. Maxton suc two young men, one disguished as
"trapped the blacking of the bubble of strife between thought outside. his disciples with
in the House have been quite un-i mailets into making their usual the fiscal. Bourbons and the re-
able to survive their manifest un- charges and demands and then gave formist Girondins of his party.popularity with their own Front them a sound thrashing.
While an explosion might have. Bench, although Mr. Maxton per- So far the history of this gang might be duplicated in almost every given off poison gas, what has ar-sonally is more popular with mem-buy-buyers-seliers; sh-males; seaside resort, and in itself it tually been liberated is common bera than he is likely to be with
many other audiences should provide a warning to the sense, upon which the Prime the collapse of the extremists, is but most innocent young couples not to stray too far from the Minister has been buoyed up again reflection of the trend of events crowd.
But at this point, the te the uncontested leadership of his outside Parliament away from their methods and ideals, and perhaps original members appear to have own side.
it is due even more to the fact that come under the leadership of George
He unconsciously inspires con- when the House of Commons does Thomas Donovan-one of the three men recently convicted of murder.
economic problems to which, if Donovan was an expert moter never indulges in what friends any, their ideas are relevant, it mechanie, able to drive any make might call consultation and enemics insists upon having something of car; and he had already been charged elsewhere with obtaining intrigue. The House of Commons practical. The Front Beach have,. money by menaces. A young wo-knows that any decision as wtrich man frequenter of the front at he may arrive has been reached by Brighton was added to the gang, an infinite capacity for taking and as at least two of the male pains without any logical abort members of the gang were of percuta, however brilliant, or any verted moral character, there were serving up of second-hand opinions, three decoys.
He may sometimes fail as a guide, but he is unsurpassed as a finger post. It depends very largely, Iqwever, upon the party itself whether it can travel happily along the road he has just pointed out. For the journey to be successful two things are necessary. The first is that all the party, great and the humble alike, should take trouble to become word-perfect and An example of case which ac-question-proof on the scheme which tually occurred will illustrate the has been marked out as their rally method..
ing ground. The second is that Ministers should pay rather more attention to the work of their De partments and rather less to the pashing of this or that aspect of general policy.
Adence and affection, because he set its mind to the industrial and Yau Chiu Man, D.C.L
Once a victim had been placed in any sort of compromising situation, innocent though he might be, other members of the gang appeared and the usual blackmail followed. They generally took care to find out be- forehand who their proposed victim was and whether he was worth their attention by the simple process of picking his pockets:
Mr. X-his real name naturally cannot be given-lives. in a town near Brighton. He was walking along the Brighton promenade one day when an affable stranger-one of the gang-asked him for a match, and, with this method of introduc tion, invited Mr. X to visit a public house for a drink. Mr. X agreed and there met two other members of the gang. --
Drugged.
During a convivial evening Mr. X's pockets were picked. He was made unconscious through drink or druga, or both, driven home, and eventually left outside his own door by the gang who had by ex xmbining the papers taken from his
- Ministers And Others. As regards other Ministers, Session which has been so largely concerned with his own work might have been expected to mark the striking advance of Mr. Churchill He has indeed, in spite of the handicap of illness, done his pow erg full justice. Nevertheless it would be idle to deny that there i always an undercurrent of tool nees towards him among his own party, which may best be expressed by saying that they are far more ready to admire him than to like A few days later Donovan called him. Sir William Jayson-Hicks at bis address, saying that he had has also been very much in the come on an unpleasant errand, limelight, but it has paled rather and asked Mr. I to see him pri tham tanned him. He fails to reap vately. A charge was made and the due reward of his sincerity, £10 demanded, which Mr. X un-because he does not combine it with fortunately paid. Thereafter he sufficient simplicity, and because went on paying £10 whenever de-
(Tontinued on nex Column). manded, which was about once a month, until the gang was broken up by the arrests on a murder. charge. ↓
pockets discovered his address.
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on the whole, gained by not having to glance behind them. The vine- gar of Mr. Snowden, and the oil of Mr. William Graham have oc- casionally mixed in quite a pala- table salad dressing, Mr. Mac- Donald has found it less necessary to drown intellectual qualms with oratorical shouting; and Mr. T. Johnston remains their best recruit.
The Liberals have found little to interest them, and have been of little interest. Mr. Lloyd George's appearances have been too rare for it to be said whether he has ad vanced or receded in the estimation" of the House, although the few missiles he has thrown at the Government have generally proved On the whole, Mr. boomerangs. Runciman is the Liberal leader to whom the House listens with the greatest respect. Of the newer, ar rivals, Major Crawfurd has made one excellent speech, and he and Mr. Hore Belisha have been un- affected by the party lethargy..
No review, however curtory, of the personal successes of the Session would be complete without mention of the new Speaker. It was a difficult task to follow Mr. Whitley, from whom the House parted with such anfeigned regret, but Capt. FitzRoy, although he has not yet been severely tested, has already shown that the task is not impos sible
After the singling out of per sonalities there remains the still more invidious task of estimating the quality of this House of Com- mons as whole. Fortunately it is possible to say that it is a good.. Hardworking House, which has aur mounted to a remarkable degree the handicaps of a large majority and an uninspired minority within the House and a most anxious sud in- fractable industrin) depression pat- side. Its average quality gives no: colour to the alarming theory that Perhaps the strangest fact which politics have ceased to attract Mr. X was only one of many emerges is that although the police ability. Nevertheless it is, in a victims on whom the gang made knew the names of many of the very real sense, still on its trial regular demands. "We'll be in victim and promised that their Its place in history will not be wait for you, and bach you if names would not be disclosed is secure until it has shown a deter you don't pay up," was the usual they would give evidence then mination not merely to evolve poli throat, and it was actually carried one and all refused. The gang had eses, but to give the new electorate out in many cases in addition to picked their victims with care; they which it has created a chance to the one which ended fatally, were all men easily terrorised by understand the policies which it (Continued at foot of neer column the dread of exposure.aziziniece has evolved. The Timess
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