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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938–PAGE 3
Apart from New Year's Day. Sixty per cent. of the dope there are two days in the year on smuggled Into England is ex- which Scotsmen like to let them- ported illicitly from `Germany. selves gu
Scotland Yard officers. work- The first is the Anniversary of ing to smash. the alarming in- Rubert Burns; the second is St. crease in dope traffic in London, Andrew's Day, November 30-the have uncovered with the colis- day, or rather the night, of the borntion of the League of Nations year when Scotsmen In any and investigators and French police. every part of the world get to- ja vast mild-European dope trac gether in gatherings that may lane with its terminus in London. consist of only a few isolated exiles, or are highly ceremonial oc- casions attended by the chlet dignatories of the district-or even the State. But the same spirit of Auld Lang Syne hovers over them all.
Cocains, heroin and similar violent stimulatives RIC brought up the Danube, then. sent to Hamburg and 50 to London or East Coast ports. Although there have been few arrests, and those only of amall 'Nobody has ever able to say with fry in the vast organisation of accuracy why St. Andrew should be distributors, Scotland Yard has the patron saint of Scotland, tor worked unceasingly for more than the legend that he was wrecked in a year to check the supply. St. Andrew's Bay while about to
IN WAKE OF UPHEAVAL make his first visit to Scotland has
Special Branch officers work- never been substantiated.
Nevertheless, there was much in fng at the main seaports. armed the character of St. Andrew that with information from the French commended. him to the notice of police, thwarted numerous at- on the traffic the Scots: he was, for example, attempts, to, carry
countries ence an idealist and a realista from East European man in whom, as in every true through France to England. Sect, enthusiasm was tempered by Hitler's occupation of Austria and then Czechoslovakia gave the their dope manufacturers and main agents a golden opportunity.
caution.
As usual, the transmissioris from Das entry will mark the day with a number of special programmes from Scottish and London studios. There will be two 'Scots concerts,
Dope started pouring in and Scotland Yard, was unable to find the opening. It became easier to purchase
in which appropriate music will be played and sung by Pipe-Major J.drugged" cigarettes. packets of A Gordon and the Scots baritone. cocaine or heroin in the West Philip, Malcolm; Alexander Kelth End of London than it was to get will talk about the meaning of St. |'ordinary cigarettes at night time Andrew's Day; and a feature pro- gramme from Edinburgh will re- flect 1938's challenge to Scotland and the way in which it has been
met.
The transmissions are in Hong- kong Time:
St. Andrew's Day Talk: Trans- mission 2. 7.30 a.m. Transmission 4. 6 a.m.
Scots Concerts: Transmission" 1. 5.15 p.m. Transmission. 3, 10 p.m. }
'Scotland, 1938' : · Transmission 4. 3 a.m.
MORE AND BETTER ICE-CREAM FOR FLEET
SECRET OUT
- A small quantity of cocaine was found on a Greek agent in a German ship. That led to the uncovering of the whole traffle.
It was found that German authorities turned blind eye to the traffic, with some personal profit. 25 long 1.5 the consignments passed through Germany intact to England and thence to America.
Police officers of perlence consider that
onwards
wide ex- they are
now tackling a dope problem, in Britain as difficult as that which existed in the hectic days - mediately after the war.
this There is
difference. No Honger is the price made prohibi-
Naval taxs of the old school müst have turned in their graves when tive.
the Admiralty announced that ar- mangements are being made to sup-.
Dope in various forms can
be
ply the fleet with more and better purchased quite cheaply in Lon- Ice-cream, for ices and soft drinks don, which places it within the reach of a jaded shop. assistant. are sounding the death-knell of
poorly-bald dance hostess or even the dally grog ration.
a housewife anxious to escape her humdrum life.
The modem bluejacket, in fact. is showing an increasing tendency to collect twenty-one stings a
quarter instead of taking his grox 79 MEN KILLED BY
allowance, and to spend the money
on other things than rum.
ELECTRIC SPARK
Although the present mixture of rum and water is fairly innocuous
Mr. P. E. Sandlands, K.C., the when taken in moderation, it has Commissioner who inquired into never been popular with some the causes of the Markham plt ex- commanding officers. Admiral Jel-plosion in Derbyshire on May 10, licue was among those who con-when-79 men lost their lives and sidered that it affected the gun-
40 were injured, has reported to nery abilities of his men.
the Secretary of Mines Department
was due to an electric arc.
He found that the electric arc. or sparking, occurred after an: elec-
Originally the allowance was hair his conclusion that the disaster a pint of rum a day, "served out neat. But even that amount was insufficient for the thirsty mar iners of last century and there was a general practice of buying and selling the ration among the
crews.
trie joint box had broken by run-
away tubs and at a time when a up by some of the tubs. coal dust cloud had been thrown
"I am driven to the conclu- slon as there was no other possible, source of ignition th that area of the mine." `he added.
Frequently the rum would be ac- cumulated for weeks in order to provide an ample store for some particular and glorious/occasion. Admiral! Vernon-"Old" Grog"---
Referring to a suggestion as to checked the trouble by mizing the whether electricity ought not to be rum with water, thus producing prohibited from mines, the Com- the liquid still known as Tog.
missioner. said: "I prefer to say Subsequent reformers reduced no more than this: That from the daily amount in various stages, the evidence given at this inquiry helped by the changed tastes and the use of any alternative method character of the men themselves: might well, over a period of years,
£5,000 PEACE GIFT
bring about more individual casualties than those proved to have been caused by electricity As a thankoffering for delf-over a similar period. verance from war, Mr. John Welch,"
"It may well be desirable that. of Lancaster, has intimated his improvements in the design of intention to give £5,000 to the apparatus driven otherwise than Blackburn Cathedral building by electricity should take place so fund.
that electricity may be ultimately
Bir Edgar Horne, chairman of eliminated from some, or indeed. the Prudential Assurance Co., has all mines." expressed a wish to endów a bed
in the New Westminster 'Hospital.. to be called "The Mrs. Neville Chamberlain Bed.”
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The chairman of the hospital,
The return of notiflable diseases Mr. Bernard Docker, who has en- for last week is as follows:- dowed a bed in the name of the. Cholera, 7 cases, 2 deaths; small- Prime Minister, has accepted this pox, 1 case (Imported), diphtheria, £1,000 donation, subject to the cases, 3 deaths; enteric fever, 7 approval of Mrs. Chamberlain.
cases, 2 deaths; chicken-pox,... 3 Cases (imported), cerebro-spinal Baron Moncheur, chairman of meningitis, 4 cases, 1 death; dysen- the Anglo-Belgian Union, answer-tery, 36 cases, 3 deaths; puerperal ing the wish of a great number of fever, 2 cases; tuberculosis, 58 Belgians, has decided to open a deaths:
Subscription list for a presentation, Four cases of dysentery, three to Mr. Chamberlai
cases cach of measles and cerebro- Baron Moncheur was Belgian spinal meningitis and one case of Ambassador in, London, trom. 1917 chicken-pox were notified on Mon- to 1927.
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