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WEDNESDAY. Juny 14, 1837.
JAPAN'S DUTY IN CHINA CRISIS
F. S. Bennett, H. E. Helby, A. W. Askew, and G. W. Vandell.
Who'd be ONE of the
Y word, I am tired! Although I am per- V to tell a bit, Three fectly it, years begin
o'clock when I reached home this morning.
I am glad that big hotel jewel robbery is more or less cleared up, and an arrest made, but I rather doubt whether it was necessary for the Divisional De- tective Inspector to call me into consultation before he charged "Jack" is a first-rate the man. "D.D.I.," but a little reluctant to take responsibility.
That the crisis which has arisen in North China is one which is of concern to the signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty may clearly be seen when some of the principal Now, with all the rest of my work to-day, I shall have to at- provisions of that Treaty' are
tend the police court to watch kept in mind. The pact was a direct outcome of the Washing-the opening of the case. ton Conference of 1922, and it was signed by the United States, Britain. France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, China, the Netherlands and Portugal. Article VII is obviously relevant to the situa- tion which has now arisen. It reads: "The contracting parties agree that whenever a situation arises which, in the opinion of any one of them, involves the application of the stipulations
My wife says she wishes she had married an explorer in- stead of a policeman. He, at least, would have some time free-and when he was away would have time to send a pic- ture postcard!
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That ring means that my car One welcome is at the door. concession superintendent gets is a good motor-car for his own exclusive use. I feel rather sorry for the police chauffeur who acts for me-his hours are worse than mine. He dropped
me at three a.m. and he is back of the present Treaty and here before nine, with the car
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7ELL, I must be away en my morning rounds. I have six divisional stations in my area to At each I shall receive from the divisional the
"BIG FIVE"?
pointed under our re-organisa- tion of some years ago to keep statistics as to the "state of crime" in a district. We go in a good deal now for statistical graphs, and for pinning flags on maps. I suppose it helps. gives work, and Anyway, it certainly crime is diminishing, which is all that matters.
In my area, two hundred C.ID. men are under me, and another two hundred plain- of the uniform clothes men branch who are hoping to qualify for the C.I.D. I must know them all-and all about them. Very largely their future rests on me.
onc.
EPORTA are satisfac-
Rtory-thinge quiet-in
all the divisions save Another run of house- breaking in that over-growing stretch of north-west suburbs. Nine cases occurred last oven- ing. Able to give the DDI. some advice. He thinks, with me, that an old friend of ours is back in business once more.
The fellow we have in mind came out from Chelmsford six months ago and has now finished his "ticket." I heard recently from an informant that this lad had a new girl, and would operate again.
When we pick him up, we shall probably find that his girl friend was formerly a domestic servant in that particular suburb, and knows the place well.
Pretty servant girls from the country, when they go astray, nearly always get into the hands of house-robbers. Edgware- road and the streets around form the recruiting ground for these girls-a small part of London which is a problem.
At my office by eleven o'clock. More than the usual amount of correspondence with which to deal, a stack of reports and official minutes. I see that
Headquarters want me to set a question paper for a junior officers' promotion examina- tion. Which reminds me that I must finish the correction of that other lot of examination papers.
Just time to dash to the police court for the jewel theft charge. We shall only submit enough evidence to justify a remand, 50 it will not take long, but I also want to wait and hear how two of "my young men" give their evidence in other casos.
I had to talk to them both recently about their manner in the witness-box. Above all, they must be fair to their prisoners, and not keep any- thing back which the court should know.
Lunch; where to go? I think I'll risk my favourite restaurant near Charing Cross, trusting there won't be more than three nowspaper reporters there walt- ing on the chance of my turning up. They will try and take me on one side just to ask, "What's doing?" although they must realise perfectly well I shall tell them nothing, and if I did they would know it already.
UT there is a man at |that restaurant I want
Bu
to see for a couple of minutes. He has been one of my "sources" for years, and may have some useful informa- tion.
Every hour of the afternoon is marked down for me. First, there is the weekly conference of detective superintendents with Sir Norman Kendal, head of the C.ID. A most valuable meeting this: it varies in length according to the business we have to discuss.
I meet there the other Four
To-day's Thought~-~-~-~-~- A MAN may thrive on crime,
but not for long.
-OLD BAYING.
OLD AGE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT
short one, how few of us would feel
external standard of Judgment. in or because they have adopted, a the ease of a man it was probably bitter, cynical attitude towards life the calendar; in the case of a woman and the world in general.
external, Everything
Fuch it was almost certainly her mirror.
of the so-called "Big Five " the officers with whom I grew up in the police force. If there are any new special and private instructions to superintendents from the Commissioner of Police, they will be dealt with by Sir Norman Kendal at our gathering.
Directly the conference is. over, I have to be away to Hendon to lecture at the Police. College. My talk will be on certain phases of detective work.
One question on which I mean to touch is the relationship of I have my Press and Police. own ideas about the official Press Bureau at New Scotland Yard, where the newspapers" representatives go to receive such items of information as may be regarded as suitable for passing to the public.
such application, there shall be me. full and frank communication between the contracting parties concerned." The Treaty, it is well to recall, was designed for the specific purpose of pre-police serving peace and concord in visit. China, and one of its very first reports terms was that the contracting detective inspector and
erime chief. parties agreed to respect the
The latter is the oficer up- sovereignty, independence and territorial and administrative Moreover, integrity of China. the signatories also agreed to refrain from taking advantage i of conditions in China in order we were to be told that our span to seek special rights or privi- of life un this earth was to be a Whatever may be the happy! In view of this it is strange leges.
even that that most people seem to drend the In point of fact neither the calendar wealth, fume, ambition, and truth of Japan's claim
thought of living long enough to act in feel old. she is compelled to consequence of violation of un-
The thought of old age is usually derstandings by China, and associated in our minds with pictures of helpless, childish, painful figures, their unwanted, whatever is the exact posits along on
way towards what Is 50 tion in regard to
often described as "a merciful presence of Japanese troops on lease." It is the fear that we our- Chinese soil, the fact remains selves will some day be the living subjects of those pictures that makes arisen us shrink from the thought of be- situation has A which vitally affects the provi- coming old. sions of the Nine-Power Treaty. these circumstances, Japan, if she had a grievance, was bound by treaty to consult with the other signatories of that Treaty. She has, in fact, not only refrained from doing 80:hat appeal has been made' ta some grey, mud-flat, that old age fulßis best advantage only by long and
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ERSONALLY, I do not. belleve enough use is made by us of the Press Bureau, and I shall say so. Other senior officers do not agree with me. In my experience, I have always met with more asylatance- from the newspapers than hind- rance.
And if the Press Bureau does not function properly. it simply means that detectives. en- gaged in the lavestigation of Berlous crline are persistently worried by reporters.
Yet some oMeers, notably cer- tain chief inspectors, are extrnor-- dinarily reluctant to deal out any- thing of interest. for circulation through the Bureau. To mo the Issue is simple: Elther have the Bureau and make it useful to both sides or do away with it. I sup- tho divergent however, pose, opinions on this matter will never be reconciled.
Well, my day's work has ended respectably early-so for. Arrived back at office from the College- shortly after six; finished my cor- respondence and reports; issued my late routine orders to divisions, and dictated the examination questions, which I rough-drafted on the drive to and from Hendon,
Now homeward in the car. My · wife will be pleased, for we have. an engagement to play "Contract" at the house of a police surgeon. Ho understands my unreliability of movement, because he also can be
of called out at any moment, course, I have left clear instruc- where i can be found throughout the evening and night.
tions
nor the mirror can, in this respect. | physical beauty, should be toolcon Always have to do that.
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be depended upon to supply un with upon as the paraphernalia of life's accurate information. They will gymnasium, rather than simply reflect and verify the fear we nurse in our own heart and mind. Interest In Life.
it is bound to fall helpless to the or crutches, without the air of which ground. Even the trials, disap- pointments and disasters which come to all of us should be dealt with in the same way, and not be allowed to
overwhelm us and cost us into des-
The only true court of uppeal
pair and hopelessness. which can determine definitely how old or how young-we really are is the inner court of our own thoughts Do It Now! and feelings. No one has actually hc has The truth is that this fear of long arrived at old age until
Life, to be enjoyable and at- years arises from the realm of our persuaded himself that life, for him, imagination, and not from the reality can no longer hold any of the attractive, needs nothing more than the
to exercise functions freely and courageously. itself. Old age can be the most traction and interest which it used opportunity beautiful chapter in life. It is not so to hold,
It is when the sheer joy of being It is like the athlete who discovers much a matter of time, as of mental
his highest pleasure in the free, full alive no longer surges up within us outlook and attitude.
Generally, when a person sudden-like the heaving swell of a full tide, use of his physical powers as the athlete energies, And by anounces that lie is "afraid he is and the world around us assumes the learn how to use, his energies getting old," it is a sure indication desolate appearance of an
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HAVE said "Good- night" to my chauf- teur.. Although he has
a nice face. I do not want to see›* him-and he certainly does not want to see me-until nine o'clock to-morrow.
Just been called to the telephone in the doctor's house, The car is.
on the way to pick me up.
A young woman has been found by the roadside of the Watford by-. pass. Evidence she was murdered. and the body left there. I am going off to join the DD.I. on the spot. and direct proceedings,
Two hundred yards farther on, and the murdered girl would have been in Hertfordshire, out of the Metropolitan Police area, and no direct concern of mine at least,. not immediately.
It would happen when my part- mer and I had called a cast-iron: "Four Spades." which would havO. given us a handsome rubber,
As it is, I may be home for
but has seen fit to take unila-
that dread promise which casts is often rigorous training, so life can terrifying shadow over our earlier only find its best and fullest ex- teral action which can only re-
pression through right and diligent daya. sult in increasing the gravity of she claims, and if she has cause
those who find their application to all the lessons it has the situation. Actually, of course, for complaint against China- deepest satisfaction and the truest
Old age, then, is really but a test Japan has never paid much which has yet to be established meaning of life in the development heed to the terms of the Nine--then her obvious course is to of their own inner resources, age can of what we have done and learnt Power Treaty, which she de- consult with the Nine-Power never become the painful, torturing previously. It is the time when we
burden wo imagine it must necessarily have left the gymnasium, und is,
under the eyes of signatories. She finitely broke when she wrested Tranty
be. For these people have discover out upon the Manchuria from China. Rea-however, once again bent oned the great accret; they are cultivat countless thousands of spectators. It pect for China's soverlegnty having her own way, but in the ing the rarest of all the arts, the act is according to what we do upon that in Beld that the whole of our life and has never weighed seriously process she may well find that of right living, which
all-absorbing training will be judged. Interest and goal. with Japan's leaders. By her the other parties to the Treaty making life itself an
North
mark of a misspent, wrongly achievement. Those who find life disappointing. I the crabbed, unloved old age is but
Here then, in a phrase, is the re- actions to-day, she is further are not prepared to see infringing that
Man-and the prospect of long life a misery, lived life. To all those who live Treaty by China swallowed up, as threats to China's territorial churia was, to antisfy the ambldo so either because they are de rightly, courageously, and intelligent-cipe for a beautiful old age-live
pending upon something outside ly now it can only spell happiness, beautifully now!
ot every integrity. If her position is astions of Japanese militarists. themselves to make life worth living, freedom, and the crown
consists
break
Stanley Bishop
D. II. F.