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"The

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Correspondence of King

C. I. D. METHODS.

A STORY OF SCOTLAND YARD.

POST OFFICE.

SOME PEEPS BEHIND THE SCENES.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an 'expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional pametio spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

"The Post Office" by Sir Evelyn Murray, K.C.B. (Putnam 7/6 Net).

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It is refreshing to meet Inspector George the Third. From 1760 | French, of the G.L.D., a cog in the to December, 1789," Printed wheels of New Scotland Yard. He from the original papers pre-la the hero of "Inspector French The publishers of the Whitohall served in the Royal Archives at and the Starvel Tragedy" (Collins, Serica are doing something for Windsor Castle, and hore ar- 78. 8d.), the latest work from the which we shall ever be in their debt. ranged and edited, with Intro- pen of Freeman Willis Crofts. --A │Already--they-have-issued-authori- ductions, by the Hon. Sir John lonely old house is found burnt to|tative little text books dealing with Fortescue, LL.D., D.Litt., au- the ground one morning. Three The Home Office, The Ministry of thor of "A History of the bodies are discovered among the Health. Tha India Office and The British Army," etc. In 6 smouldering ruins, and an, inquest | Dominions and Colonial Offices- volumes. Medium 8vo. Vols. is held resulting in a verdict of ac- and now here is a book about the I and II. 1760-1773. 26s. net cidental death. The affair, ap- Post Office. All the books have each. (Macmillan).

parently, is closed. Some weeks been written by acknowledged ex- later, however, an incident occurs|perts, actually by men who have In his introduction to this im- which causes French to be called directed the Officers about which portant historical work, Sir John In, and the fire at Starvel proven they write, and the present author Fortescue explains that "the papers to be a cloak hiding dark and ter- has been Secretary to the Post Office of King George III, after a disap-rible deeds. The Inspector, or since 1914 and knows what he is pearance lasting for nearly a cen- rather the Inspector and the organi- talking about. tury, were recovered and restored sation he represents, eventually to His Present Majesty in the year bring to justice a dangerous and 1912. A portion of them, his letters cold-blooded criminal. to Lord North, seem to have been

kept separate from the rest, for they had long been in the custody of the Librarian at Windsor Castle and were printed many years ago, under the editorship of Mr. Donne, who published them in two volumes under the rather misleading title of "Correspondence of George III and Lord North," the fact being that there are very few letters from Lord North in the whole collection. It is probable, therefore, that these were sent back to the King, or, as is more likely, to one of his suc- cessors, by Lord North's repre- sentatives after his death, and so came to be a thing apart.

Some may find the story too gruc- some, but, apart from the details

In Praise Of The Post Office. Personally (writes Richard Syd- ney in the "Straits. Echo") I never cease to marvel at the working of the Post Office, Here it is good: of the tragedy, the C.I.D. methods but in England-really it is mar- by which the guilty is brought to vellous Think of it, in London justice are very interesting. Fur-alone we get about ten deliveries a thermore, though French is but a day. Think of the organisation paid policeman, the author infuses needed behind that into him some very liable charac full detalls of it all in this book. And we get teristics. He is very human, at

I wish there were space to quote times making blundera and fight-

have eaten ing with his own personal feelings;

freely but my novels which is more than can be said of away what the Editor is prepared most detectives of fiction.

to allow me. But something can: be told about this book and its scope. First of all we get a suc- cinct History of the Posts. Is it not interesting to learn that ".. Dockwra was far in advance of his time, and it is a remarkable achievement to have provided Lon- don 250 years ago with a postal service which in some features at any rate compares favourably with that of the present day." Then we have a chapter devoted to Poat Office Finance. In it are more in- teresting historical details.

districts of

The author is quite at home when describing the activitis of Scotland Yard in the various London. Had he kept the interest flowing freely throughout the book, "The Starvel Tragedy" would have been brilliant. As it is, the plot, though ingenious, rarely causes the pulse of the reader to quicken. The Inspector's logic, however, is admir-

"Many other letters to and from the King have been printed in other collections, such as the "Chatham Correspondence," the "Grenville Papers," and the like; but it was not until 1912, as I have said, that able. the King's own original collection, of which he had arranged the greater part with his own hand, was finally brought to light. It is this! original collection which, by graci- ous permission of His Majesty, is here printed. Every endeavour has been made to render it as complete as possible by including all letters, written by him or to him during his long reign, that can be gathered together from any source. These laat, however, amount only to a very small fraction of the whole; and the great bulk of the papers are entirely new matter."

INDIAN LIFE.

[By An Accepted Authority,]

Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton announce for immediate publication Safe Conduct, a new novel of India by John Travers, which is the pan name of Mrs. G. H. Bell, O.B.E., who is also associated with the new Gaumont Alm, "The Flight Com- mander," which has been freely adapted by Eugene Clifford from one of the John Travers stories. Mrs. Bell is the wife of Colonel G.

H. Bell, of the 27th Punjabia. She did much work in India both be fore and after the War. Asked by the authorities to

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 53-To cut off 66-Southern State

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1-Fattars B-Untrue 11-Makes payment for

14-Calestial body (pl.)|56-A kind of tree

18-Mischievous spirit

17-A group

18-A cover

19-Motor fuel

20-A dipthong 21-Extortioners 28-Royal Academy

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13-To wither by heat 34-Made any 16-Disclosed SZ-Not refined 38-Small branch

40-Brings up

bearing flowers

43-Part of a boat 44-Affirmativa answer 46-Mature

47-To tie together 48-Children's friend 50-An authoritative

52-A diminutiva auffix

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60-Distant

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66-To wander 66-2011

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5-Passing fanales

7-An artiole

B-A limb

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28-Pos!!lve

29-Anger |31-Pertaining to

punishment 23-More sensible 88-Algerian governor 36-To prohibit 38-A cooking uteṇall 39-A writing Implement 41-Rallrond Post

Office (abbr.) 42-One who walts on

another |44-Mamaure of length

(pl.) 48-One of a series of

steps |47-A vegetable (pl.)

48-Animal fat {49-A helper

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(old form)

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60-A kind of trea |62-Keystons Stafs

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The solution of the eye cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

"The 'next considerable changes took place in 1870, which saw the State purchase of the telegraphs,

• (formerly they had been run as the Cable Companies are, to-day tine, Syria and neighbouring coun- by private firma) the introduc-

tries, which are disembarked at tion of the halfpenny postcard Port Said. At Aden the East Afri- and the reduction to a halfpenny of the newspaper rate and the ing services, and the malls for In- minimum of the book post....India, Irak and Persia and those for! 1881 came the postal order."

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Australia and the Far East then How Mails Are Collected.

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Mails tells us in some detail how direct to Colombo. At Colombo the Ing Introduction with the state-

malls are collected and sorted, and mails for China, the Straits Settle- ment that "the general impression

extract the following quotation as mente, Siam and the East Indies left upon the reader's mind by the

one of the most interesting in an are transhipped to another connect- peraual of this first volume of certain villages, and homes, she exciting chapter. "An Important ing service provided by the P. & 0. papers is that of a young King with went quite alone except for Indian accessory to the Travelling Post Company......

We can learn much from reading decided capacity for business and officers and Native servants, and Office is the well-known mail bag ex- genufno anxiety to do his best for being

change apparatus by which mails this book. his country at a very difficult time, and converse with the Indian are received into and dispatched | but unable to find advisers really soldiers' wives and mothers, who from the train while running at full willing to grapple with the pro- otherwise were inaccessible owing speed. The apparatus attached to blems of the new situation and the to the Purdah system. On the the sorting carriage consists of an new Empire created by the pence completion of her tour Mrs. Bell iron arm from which the mail bags of 1763.... The King had neither made a strong recommendation that for dispatch, enclosed for protec- the experience nor the brain to the then existing scale of pensions tion in a heavy leather pouch, are initiate a constructive policy; but should be raised and the Indian suspended by a strap, and a stout he seems to have had at least a soldiers' war orphans should be in-net for the reception of the, fncom-

issues of great

pend cluded. This was done later on the ing pouches. A similar, apparatus ing, which WŁA shared by findings of the Esher Commission, is placed at the alde of the track fow of his Ministers. Whether Mrs. Bell also lectured on this sub- at the point of exchange, and the suspended pouches are projected wise to trust so much ject at the India Office in 1919. to Northington and to Egmont, the In 1922 Mrs. Bell visited India into the nets by the impact of the reader by careful persual of their again as a member of the Mission not against the strap. The appara letters may form his own judg-which the Church sent out to the tus attached to the sorting carriage ment, and the probability is that English-speaking people. During ie closed up flat against the side It will not be favourable to North-

that time she did another tour of the train when not in use, and ington. But the vision of the King among all the villages and renewed is extended by one of the Post trying at all costs to keep the aor her acquaintance among

their Office staff just before it is requir vices of Chatham, as the one capa womenfolk. She gave a lecture at ed. It is important that the ap- ble man, is pathetic; though the Staff College, Quetta, on the paratus should be extended at the whether Chatham, even with health problem which these women pre-right moment; if it were done too unimpaired, could have steered the aent. Shortly after returning to early and the train passed through country through the dangerous England Mrs. Bell had an audience a crowded station platform with tha waters of these times, is by no of the Queen. means certain."

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