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LITERARY NOTES

"CORRUPT""

U.S. POLICE

INDICTED

Slashing Exposure By Detective

GRAFT ROOT OF EVIL

"They Took Me for a Ride." By

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Gordon Fellowes. (Allen

and Unwin Ltd. 6s.)

The exploits of Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1. have be come known the world over. Superficially the daring of the man captures the attention, but reflection inevitably makes ont

wonder what can be the condi IF tion of a legal system that can be so defied.

This book leaves no doubt as to the explanation. If its state. ments are accepted the police force of America is rotten with corruption "graft" as

it is!

known across the Atlantic. The problem of the American police is, admittedly, a difficult ane.

THE CHINA, HAIL, MONDAT, JULY 2, 1934.

Born "dead" but miraculously restored to life by the application of oxygen and a blood transfusion front its father, Baby Henderson nestles with la mother, Mis, Kenneth Henderson, in hospital at Salem, Mann- Doctors say the latest has a flehting chance to recovER.

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LORD RAGLAN'S METHODS

Were Dictator. By Lord Dun sany. (Methuen, 28 5d each).

The cities are mostly cosmo-¡lf I Were Dictator. By Lord Region. politan, which means R wide variety of crime and criminal, | with the possibility of racial jealousy as motives. They have too, an enormous area to control -so enormous that the remoter

less.

to current pro-i if they were in supreme

From Port To Port In Africa.

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WOMAN'S TREK IN THREE WOMEN AND

PERSIAN WILDS

Fascinating Book By

Modest Author

TRAVELS. FOR FUN

"The Valleys of the Assassins.”

A MAN

FROM PALESTINE IN

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Illustrated Volume Of 4,000-Mile Trip.--

Eventful Meeting In Spain.

Ladies In the Sun.

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This is a delightful story of the

By Freya Stark. (Murray, Palestine to Paris. By Capt. 6. E. G. 12s. 6d.),

Ponder. (Stanley Paul. 15s.).' One of the many attractions of - This account of a journey by this most fascinating book is the motor lorry from Jerusalem to chance meeting of three women and modeaty of the author, Miss Paris via Damascus, Aleppo, a man as visitors at an hotel in Stark has explored wild, moun-Angora, Constantinople, and the Southern Spain, and of the way in- tainous, and often uncharted re-Balkans, is light enough reading. which the encounter influenced all gions of Persia, alone but for two The adventure seems to have amus-three women's lives. or three

native attendants, ed the three men and two women Their different characters aro cheerfully accepting any sort of who embarked upon it, and the au-drawn with delicate skill---Frances, food or lodgment available, makthor treats the whole experience as the suburban young wife, furlous at ing friends with, everyone, and a game. His approach in that of her husband's unfaithfulness, and all the time acutely observing. an acquaintance who begins "You courting, yet fearing, adventure; Yet she makes no song about really must hear about this It was Victoria, gay, good-hearted, and in- it, nor gives herad any sort of too funny for anything --" discreet; Hazel, proud but affec- self-gratulation, unless we are so to describe her quotation of the the odours of the passing country under the spa of Philip, who is The scenery, character, and even tionate and sensitive. All fall words of the Persian Governor

excellently

E. 0. Hoppe's Volume.

Hoppe has travelled far with a During recent years Mr. E. 0.

camera and brought back a whole. album of pictures. Of these a selection is being given in a book, also written by him, which Hut- chinson announces, "Across the World with a Camera."

£16,000 FOR LA FONTAINE'S FABLES

TWO PEERS WERE WOMAN IN WAKE OF WHY NIGHTINGALES

VASCO DA GAMA. DICTATORS

SING

Woodland Lore For

of Pusht-i-Kuh, who wanted to are presented in a series of swift something of a mystery, and the Nature Lovers know all about how she had liv-superficial impressions. There were, denetement of the little drama is

of course, various disasters, mainly admirably worked out. jed and lodged among the moun- UNIQUE TRAVEL BOOK

(tains.

[trivial ones; almost as soon as the] WILD LIFE DRAMAS

"No wonder," said he, polite truck travelled into roadless coun- ROUND THE WORLD' Africa from Port to Port. By May

Mott-Smith. (Hutchinson. 188.)True Dramas of Wild Life. By

ly, "that yours is a wonderful try to go stuck in a 50g, Some!

WITH A CAMERA, nation. Your women do what 4.000 miles of journeying provided, Miss Molt-Smith wanted to go

George Hearn. (Hutchinson, our men are afraid to attempt."little real excitement, and the re- back to Africa and, going back,

Ba. Gd.). desired to do something interesting.

She did the whole thing for order to silence with the Why does the nightingale sing fun, she tells us in a preface; arrival of the party in Bucharest These two books are the first in which no woman, and as few men at night? Not for the pure joy of studied Arabic and Persian for and then in Paris.

The photographs illustrating the a most promising new series, in as possible, had ever done before.

almost legendary castles

and text

are good,, and of any night prowler, such districts offer refuge to the law. which a number of eminent men of So she decided to follow the ex-ng, but to attract the attention fun, and then went in search of

da Gama, who our age will butline the attitude ample of Vasco "conquered the

stoat, weasel, snake, or cat, and other antiquities for the same reproduced. She they would adept

const line." Although these problems are

But she found it quite thus prevent them from discover-reason. salled from blems

New York, reached

inadvisable to tell anyone so, and ing the nest built sufficiently difficult, the solution|

LIFE OF FAMOUS SWEDISH on the ground would not seem to call for more ower. Thus if Lord Raginn, the Trieste and went via Teneriffe to

below the branch

FIGURE on which he is one of her chief difficulties was the West Const. In her own time. al were dictator than adequate numerical strength scientist peer,

the widespread suspicion of local perched.

officials that there must be same) and wise administration. Yet England for a term of five years he and by what ships she found, she

Saint Brigitta of Sweden, by rounded the Cape and came back So Mr. Hearn tells us in this sinister motive for her strange Edith Peacey (Washbourne and the fact remains that in a series would institute. of amazing crimes the police have

A Press ordinatice providing and the Red Sea.

by Madagascar, Mauritius. Kenya delightful book, packed with wood-proceedings.

¡Bogan, 12s. 6d.), is an extremely and lore of the kind which, as

Solomon's Throne. failed to give the puolic the pro- that it should be an offence to

interesting life of a great Swedish In writing about it her objeet Lord Howard of Penrith points out) tection for which they

publish any words calculated to has been to "record not only what in a foreword,

Among her objectives was the figure of the Middle Ages and shed- | can be thoroughly Why ?

bring the Government into might interest the present-day per enjoyed by all lovers of birds and Throne of Solomon, or Takht-i-ding a beam of light on a society ridicule or contempt;

Suleiman, south of the Caspian, and country whose history in the son but try to judge what might be animals, however unscientific.

a mountain of 15,500 feet, the fourteenth century is information Passports for all, to restrict of value to the future generation."

Bird song in general, he adde, is third highest summit in Persia, to most of us. crime, containing a photograph. The result is a great deal of careful really a sort of broadcasting. which, according to tradition. name, date of birth, place of though lightly-written description.

The origin of bird song was a was once visited by King Solo-) residence, finger print, and index which is Inclined to hide the per-

matter of self-assertion, especial-mon and the Queen of Sheba. been climbed by a member of the a group of collectors, with the help number.

sonal

acenic epic as too copious

of the Government, for the French ly in regard to a mate or a nest-She found it, although it was (in British Legation in Teheran. A comprehensive measure of directions blur the reading of a

formed part of ing site. For example, a starling 1981) entirely omitted from the The grim Valley and Rock of nation. The copy sterilisation; and

play.

the Assassins- or a song thrush sings mostly to official Survey of India map.

that once pow-the Henri Beraldi collection, which Compulsory marriage for

let others of their kind know She was prevented, however, erful Persian sect at Alamut was put up for auction yesterday. school teachers of both sexes "on

that they are in possession of a

summit, and the wonderful castle of La- unfortunate

certain territory, and each bird is though she climbed to 14,000 missar, near Shahristan, a lost broadcasting a warning to others feet because a jealous local re-stronghold. whose site she had

sident threatened her guide with been told, "had never yet been| of his tribe, that they must keep out of this area as it has been dire punishment if she climbed 'a identified by historians." claimed by him as a nesting site, reached.

peak that no foreigner had yet among other remote and splen- (The guide confessed did monuments of the romantie or food aren, etc... Of course his guilt in emotional remorse past that Miss Stark tracked there are occasiona when a bird after being paid more than the down and describes in her ab. sings from sheer happiness, or sixpence a day he had demand-sorbing tale of Intrepid adven-|

pey.

Why was the Lindbergh child killed? Why. with Vivian Gor don, the "underworld queen." strangled just before she was to have given evidence about cor runtion an New York City? Why did Dinger go free when 20,000 people were after hip? The an swer, according to Mr. Gordon Fello-ves,

graft

Both Sides Corrupt. The son of a delective, Mr. Fellowes took a course of eri

the

account of effects of celibacy."

She found most to interest her on the West Coast, for heat seemed worth while when it produced exotic vegetation and unmodernised natives. She may not realise it

minology at the University of These, however are but a few of herself, but her greatest achtert-

California and afterwards be-Lord Raglan'e proposals. His little

came

iment was that once or twice sho an investigator working work of 120 pages is conceived in a managed to hustle a native of for various insurance companies highly serious spirit, and in the Africa. and finally for Associated Indus-course of it he provocatively sug- stries, an organisation formed to gests reforms in many spheres of

fight racketeering. As an in-life-finance, industry, the law, AUSTRALIAN TALES

dependent agent he saw the marriage and divorce, education,[ workings of both the police and the Services, diplomacy, the colonies the underworld. hetween which, and local government.

are accepted.

OF PIONEERS

Vivid Description Of Vast Territory

SOME TALL NARRATIVES

"An Empty Land." By Sir John

Kirwan. (Eyre and Spottis- | wonde 15 s.)

to serenade a mate,

The hearing of birds is extra- ordinarily sensitive, and a song thrush, for example, can hear an other from a distance of three- quarters, of a mile and more.

As an example of the wonder- ful bearing or "receiving seta” possessed by birds, there is the fact that a song. thrush can hear the slight movement of a worm beneath the surface, and there- fore knows just where to stab its beak into the ground and drag the worm out.

if his statements

The Grand Macaroni there is little difference in dis honour.

Lord Dunsany has serious objec- He recounts the course of yes, too, but, nevertheless, a cap- events that preceded the death and-bells atmosphere creeps into of Andrew Maroney, the Assist. his invigorating pages. To begin ant Circuit Attorney of St. Louis, with, were he appointed Dictator, an official corresponding to the he would style himself the Grand Public Proaccutor in England. Macaroni-a title, explains,

he 'Maroney called upon the author "reminiscent of the land in which

Sir John Kirwan is President to help in a murder case... not, the happy idea of dictators has of the Legislative Council of however, to find the guilty, but originated"; and he would not conthe most popular figures in the Western Australia, and one of to watch the police! They got asider it below his dignity to pro- public life of the biggest island beasts at close quarters, and tells The author has. studied birds and statement from a "squealer"nounce on such everyday matters which incriminated,

amongjas advertisements on, lerries and others, police officials.

some remarkable, stories of their The inthe cutting off of dogs' tails.

Part of the book consists, of a lives and struggles for existence, formant paid the penalty; he

vivid description of a many including fights to the death be- was shot by the police "in self and diverting innovation would be his theme

Undoubtedly his most important looped cruise round the fringe of Mr. Fellowes writce: the restoration

that is to say, the harmless songsters of the woods.

tween defence."

some of the apparently of an old English West "In the meantime Maroney.custom,

Australian coast from the law of deodand, Perth to Wyndham - a trifle of

ever."

as honest and fearless as ever whereby any instrument by which a 4,000 miles. In the course of it

the skids under the high police ingeniously enough, to cars: official who was in league with,

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affect Jocality,

set out again to clean up the man met his death was forfeited to he puts his finger on many points TYPHOON SIGNALS. police graft or at any rate put the Crown. This would apply, of défective development

chiefly the tendency to coop. a| Bignal 'Diy "I shall not merely Impound meagre population into a couple motors that kill men, but shall of towns and leave vast lands of give then various terms of penal high potentiality lying bare; and servitude; that is to say, a motor the feverish spirit that rushes while in prison, shall do odd jobs communities together at the for the State. Penal servitude for call of gold or pearls or meat, the motor may be in addition to and leaves the wreckage to the any penalty incurred by the dingoes and the vultures when driver, or may be infilcted where hopes go wrong.

-the gangsters.

"Between TA же watched this police official's house for some weeks.. . We were cautious and we were discreet because we knew that any day: might be our last."

Soon the day came that was) Maroney's last, and Mr. Fellowes knew that he was next on the; list. One evening he was, buy- ing some cigarettes when a shot flew past his head, smashing a glass case. A crowd collected, and he reported the matter ta the police "although I know there was little hope of redress in that quarter, where gangstera and poilice officers are indistin- guishable from each other."

the driver suffers no penalty at bestows his greenest laurels on A pioneer himself, Sir John all.... The owner of an impri- soned car sight buy another; but the men and women who for & more have been century or he would have to face s label breaking the road for the rest.” with a broad arrow on' it, which

Sir John has a flair for yarn- would be affixed to his new car spinning in lively, colours. in order to signify that it of his tallest narratives comes predecessor was in prison."

One

from Dal world explorer who : seems, even in retirement to have continued to explore the credulity of his audience. This

added:

morning light to see you will "When there was sufficient scarcely believe it, but we ware driving the lions!"

Soon afterwards he was "taken Fellowes refused to say where worthy told of an ex-team driven for a ride." He boasts that he is the statement was lodged, and frantic by panic at night, - and one of the fow men who have he had given up hope when He survived this ordeal. The car hit upon an idea which anved was one of the regular stand bir life. He declared that it had ard automoblies used by the been handed over to a judge, and police department, and, two of none of the gangsters could hope the men sitting in front were to escape the murder charge if Those who want to solve the police officers."de

they killed him. In the end he problem of a White Australia, to was dumped, bruised and bleed follow the tale of modern" adynt, The occupants of the car wanting, by the roadside

ture in far places, or just to bark

Idea That Saved Him.

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