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Article that might havo been written by a Superin- tendent of the Metropolitan Police, Criminal Investi- gation Branch, if regula. tions permitted him to write. It describes the aver. age day of a detective officer of high rank.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1837.
JAPAN'S DUTY IN CHINA CRISIS
That the crisis, which has arison in North China is one which is of
10. the concern signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty nay clearly be seen when some of the principal provisions of that Treaty are kept in mind. The pact was a direct outcome of the Washing- 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 urises. which, in the opinion of any one of them, involves the application of the stipulations of
and the present Treaty
F. S. Bennett, H. E. Helby, A. W. Askew, and G. W. Yandell.
Who'd be ONE of the
Y word, I am tired! Although I am per- fectly ft. years begin to tell a bit. Three 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 the man. "Jack" is a first-rato "D.D.I.." but a little reluctant to
take responsibility.
Now, with all the rest of my work to-day, I shall have to at- tend the police court to watch the opening of the case.
My wife says she wishes sho had married" an explorer in- stead of a policeman. He, at time least, would have some free-and when he was away
would have time to send a ple- ture postcard!
That ring means that my car is at the door. One welcome concession a
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 here before nine, with the car
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such application, there shall be fine. full and frank communication between the contracting parties The Treaty, it is concerned." well to recall, was designed for
W
WELL, I must be away
on my morning rounds. I have six divisional
the specific purpose of pre-police stations in my aren to serving peace and concord in visit. At each I shall receive the divisional China, and one of its very first reports from
and the terms was that the contracting detective inspector
trime chief. parties agreed to respect the
The latter is the afacer ap- sovereignty, independence and territorial and administrative
"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 fings on maps. I suppose it helps. Anyway, it gives work, and certainly crime is diminishing, which is all that matters.
In my area, two hundred C.L.D. men are under me, and another two hundred plain- clothes men of the uniform branch whe are hoping to I must qualify for the GID. know them all-and all about them. Very largely their future rests on me.
000,
R
EPORTS are satisfac- tory-things quiet-in all the divisions save Another run of house- breaking in that ever-growing stretch of north-west suburbs. Nine cases occurred last even- Ing. Able to give the D.D.I. 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
has months ago and
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 purticular suburb, and knows the place well..
Pretty servant girls from the country, when they go astray, nearly always get into the hands. Edgware- of house-robbers. road and the streets around form the recruiting ground for these girls-a small part of London which is a problem,
Al my office by eleven o'clock. More than the usual amount of correspondence with which to deal, a stack of reports and I see that official minutes.
Headquarters want me to set a question paper for a junior omcers' 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 ovidence to justify a remand, so it will not take long, but I also want to wait and hear how two of "my young men" give their evidence in other cases,
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 newspaper reporters there wait- 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.
B
✰
UT there is a man at
that restaurant I want 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 First. Is marked down for me. there is the weekly conference of detective superintendents with Sir Norman Kendal, head of the C.I.D. A most valuable meeting this: it varies in length according to the business we have to discuss.
I meet there the other Fou:
-To-day's Thought............*** A MAN may thrive on crime,
but not for long.
-OLD BAYING.
integrity of China. Moreover OLD AGE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT
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to
and feelings. No one hus actually
at old age until
he has
years arises from the realm of oured himself that life, for him,
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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.
15.
Directly the conference 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 or which I mean to touch is the relationship of Press and Police.
I have my own ideas. about the official. Press Bureau at New Scotland Yard, where the newspapers' to receive representatives go such items of information as may be regarded as suitable for passing to the pubile.
P
¡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 expertence, I have always met with more nasistance. from the newspapers than hind- rance. And if the Press Bureau docs not function properly. it. simply means that detectives en- kaged in the Investigation of serlous crime are persistently worried by reporters.
Yet some officers, notably cer- tain chief Inspectora, are extraor- dinarily reluctant to deal out any-- thing of interest for circulation To me the through the Bureau, issue is simple: Either have the Bureau and make it useful to both sides or do away with it. I sup- divergent. the pose, however. opinions on this matter will never be reconciled.
Well, my day's work has ended respectably, carly-so far. Arrived back at office from the College- shortly after six; finished my cor- respondence and reports; issued my late routine orders to divisions, and
examination dictated the questions, which I rough-drafted on the drive to and from Hendon.
Now homeward in the car. My wite to be pleased, for we have- an engagement to play "Contract" nt the house of a police surgeon. He understands ny unreliability of movement, because he also can be
of called out at any moment.
a
tions where I can be found throughout the evening and night. Always have to do that.
The
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"Good-
HAVE said night" to my chauf
In
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 plek me up.
A young woman has been found: by the roadside of the Watford by.. pass. Evidence she was murdered,
the signatories also agreed refrain from taking advantage
because they have adopted of conditions in China in order we were to be told that our span external standard of judgment ble bitter, cynicul attitude towards life course, I have left clear instruc-
the case of a mon it was probably to seek special rights or privi- of life on this earth was to be a
external, such Everything short one, how few of us would feel the calendar; in the case of a woman and the world In general. leges.
and even Whatever may be the happy! In view of this it is strange it was almost certainly her mirror.
be looked that that most people seem to dread the In point of fact neither the calendar wealth, fame, ambition, truth of Japan's claim
nct
thought of living long enough to nor the mirror can, in this respect, physical beauty, should in feel old.
be depended upon to supply us with upon as the paraphernalia of life's she is compelled to
They will gymnasium, rather than as props consequence of violation of un-
The thought of old age is usually accurate information. derstandings by China, and associated in our minds with pictures simply reflect and verify the fear we or crutches, without the air of which ground. Even the trials, disap- their tottering along on whatever is the exact posi- of helpless, childish, painful figures, nurse in our own heart and mind. it is bound to fall helpless to
unwanted,
pointments and disasters which come to all of us should be dealt with in tion in regard to the unloved way towards what is to Interest In Life
often described as "a merciful re-
the same way, and not be allowed to The only true court of uppeal presence of Japanese troops on lease." It is the fear that we our-
pair and hopelessness. Chinese soll, the fact remains selves will some day be the living which can determine definitely how overwhelm us and cast us into des- subjects of those pictures that makes old or how young-we really are is that situation has arisen us shrink from the thought of be- the Inner court of our own thoughts Do It-Now! which vitally affects the provi- coming old.
The truth is that this fear of long
Life, to be enjoyable and at sions of the Nine-Power Treaty.
Exercise can no longer hold any of the attractive, needs nothing more than the
its In these circumstances, Japan, imagination, and not from the reality
itself. Old age can be the most traction and interest which it used opportunity to
functions freely and courageously. if she had a grievance, was
beautiful chapter in life. It is not so to hald. bound by treaty to consult with
It is like the athlete who discovers his alive no longer surges up within us
powers of his physical use the other signatories of, that Treaty. She has, in fact, not
and the world around us assumes the energies. And as the athlete
endless, learn how to use his energies to the
best advantage only by long only refrained from doing 80,
desolate appearance of an grey, mud-flat, that old age full often rigorous training, so life can ex- that dread promise which casts its but has seen fit to take unila-
terrifying shadow over our earlier only find its best and fullest teral action which can only re-
pression through right and diligent days.
their application to all the lessons it has sult in increasing the gravity of she claims, and if sho' has cause
those But to
who and the situation. Actually, of course, for complaint against China deepest satisfaction and the
truest to teach us.
Old age, then, is really but a lest and learnt 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 Power Treaty, which she de consult with the Nine-Power never become the painful, torturing previously. It is the time when we
18, be. For these people have discover- out
burden we imagine it must necessarily have left the gymnasium, and finitely broke when she wrested Treaty signatories. She
thousands of spectators. It Res- however, Manchuria from China. pect for Chinn's soveriegnty having her own way, but in the Ing the rarest of all the arts, the art is according to what we do upon that never weighed seriously process she may well find that of right living, which consists in field that the whole of our life and A crabbed, unloved old age is but interest and gonl.
mlspent, wrongly with Japan's leaders. By her the other parties to the Treaty making life itself, an all-absorbing training will be judged.
Those who find life disappointing, the mark of a actions to-day, she is further are not prepared to sco North
by China swallowed up, as Man- and the prospect of long life a misery, lived life. To all those who live Treaty Infringing that threats to China's territorial churin was, to satisfy the ambi do so either because they are de rightly, courageously, and intelligent-cipe, for a beautiful old age-live
pending upon something outaldey now it can only spell happiness, beautifully now! themselves to make life worth living, freedom, and the crown of every integrity. If her position, is an Itions of Japanese militarists.
has
much a matter of time, aa of mental It is when the sheer joy of being
Generally, when a person sudden- like the heaving swell of a full lid highest pleasure in the free, full and the body left there. I am going: outlook and attitude.
ly announces that he is "Afraid he is getting old," it is a sure Indication that appeal has been made to some
and of to join the D.D.I. on the spot,
and direct proceedings.
can
and
are
Two hundred yarda 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- ner and I had called a cast-iron Four Spades," which would have
As it is, I may be home for
once again bent on the great secret; they are cultivat counties field, under the eyes of given us a handsome rubber.
break **-**
Stanley Bishop
achievement.
Here then, in a phrase, is the re-
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