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THE CHINA" MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936°

SOUTH AFRICA'S DESTINIES

Continued from Page 6)

He was no financier. He had absorbed a few set rules, and he held doggedly by these, until, a massed attack from all sides, which included members of his own party, forced him, still grumbling in | disagreement, to take South Africa off gold. At once it was swept up jinto a wave of tremendous and un- precedented prosperity, and carried Havenga, still protesting, up with it..

To-day he has a balance to his and so is 3 successful

Minister of Finance, and with

success he has developed ambitions|

for

which he will Sght as soon an

as

Hertzog is gone. His bodily health | may fail him, for he was shot to pieces in the Boer War, and quite lately I have seen him, while ad- dressing the House, stagger sud-- [denly and "lean beavily the

shoulder of a colleague when wounded limb failed him.

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a

Otherwise his lack of brilliance

George Raft and Rosalind Russell are teamed together in "It Had To Happen,” which will soon be shown at the King's Theatre.

WOMAN SHOPPER'S METHODS

and cleverness are his assets for Spent 65 Minutes Baying Coat

men.

and especially Dutchmen. distrast clever politiciansand his

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILING truculent obstinacy and his per

SEANCHI

†BURDWAN ..

*MIRZAPORE

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**SOMALI

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**BHUTAN

From

Tons Hong Kong

17,000

About

Destination

Ham-

6,000 18th July Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 17,000 25th July Bombay. Marseilles & London.

3rd Aug. Straits, Bombay, Karachi. 7,000 16,000 8th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Ham 6,000 15th Aug. Marseilles, Havre, London

barg, Botterdam, Antwerp & Hall, SKAISAR-I-HIND 11,000 and Aug. Bombay Marseilles & London. <RAJPUTANA

Marseilles & London. 5th Sept. Bombay, BANGALORE 6,000 12th Sept. Marseilles, Havre, London,

burg Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 15,000 19th Sept Marseilles & London. 17,000 3rd Oct. Marseilles & London.

6,000 10th Oct. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 17,000 17th Get. Marseilles & London.

6,000 24th Oct Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 14.500 31th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 14th Oct. Marseilles & London. .14,500 28th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 16,000 12th Dec Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15,000 26th Dec. Bombay, Marseilles & London 9th Jan, Bombay Marseilles & London. 17,000 17,000 23rd Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

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7 Calls Casablanca. § Calls Tangier ali ́vessels may call at Malta.

sistency will get him a Dutch fol-i lowing, especially in the Free: State and may take him to the

top

The Dour Scots Type The only Englishman of out- standing importance in South African politics—and he is a Scots- matis Patrick Dancan, the Minister of Mines.

Mrs. Marion Knott, of Thorn- ton-hill, Wimbledon, was stated by a police officer at Wimbledon police court last month to...have left her car outside a shop for 65° minutes, and to have told him, “I have been buying`a cost." Later she took it back as she was not satisfied.

Mrs. Knott was ordered to pay 20s. costs.

often plagiarising other men's ideas.

Philosophic Hofmeyr

BANK BANDITS MENACE

£50,000 Lost In Five Years

BETTER PROTECTIVE DEVICES-NEEDED

Effective measures to cope with the menace of the armed bank robber are called for in a book published recently under the title of "Famous Bank Forgeries, Rob- [beries, and Swindles.” (Stanley

Paul 16s.)-

The anther is Mr. Thurston Hop- kins, the authority on banking, who has spent nearly 40 years in

He estimates that during the

I had always heard of him as the brighest boy in Milner's "kin- dergarten"; the brightest of the I came away from a long in-ja London bank. young men selected by Milner' to terview with him with somewhat help him, after the Boer War, to the same feeling I had after a tak last five years the English banks reorganise the Transvaal and the with A. J. Balfour. I felt that have lost sums totalling £50,000 Free State and to teach the Boers and been up in the clouds, on to "stick 'em up" men, and recalls how to run their own affairs. Olympus watching dispassionately that during that period. several |

I expected a brilliant and spark-the affairs and problems which cashiers have been shot dead.

The banks, he declares, will con- ling genius. The first time I saw were the tragedies and the joys of him was across a luncheon table ordinary men but which did not tinue to lose money and lives, for is more dangerous and I saw a tall, heavy man, made touch me or my companion. He the world heavier by the years, and with a was too academic and philosophic, to-day than it was 20 years ago. manner which held one at arm's too intellectual to be a partisan or The men who now come to. rob a length, for it was so self-contained, to enjoy the rough and tumble of bank are "unyielding, fearless and silent and chill. I saw a typical politics; and he lacked the licking cruel murderers at Beart” dour Highlander from Scotland drive of ambition for personalį

Inadequate Rails My later experiences confirmed power and material success.

Mr. Hopkins, pays credit to the Hofmeyr is always capable and manner in which Scotland Yard; my first impressions. Patrick Dun-i can started life as a Civil Servant efficient. with occasional, queer has combated the menace of the in the Inland Revenue after a lapses which do not fit into his modern bank robber. But he satisfactory career at Balliol Col-character. In April last he spoke criticises bank officials for not SAILINGS lege, Oxford. And to the top of against the bill which, amongst having moved with the times and the Civil Service he would have other things, disfranchised the na-provided protective devices, in risen, becoming one of those captives of the Cape. I asked him what bank interiors. able, steady, unhurried and un-was his alternative to the bill. He “Every bank bandit," he says, hurriable officials

"knows that if he cares to walk оде meets in replied, "Faith." Government offices in Whitehall, The native problem is the most into a bank with a gun he can who are utterly honest and con-acute of all problems South have the cash for the mere takingi scientious.

course Africa, and a

of faith- of it. The cashier standa behind inches Duncan was fitted exclusively to healing is a sadly impractical sola-pseudo-brass rails, two be one of that band of Civil Ser-tion.

apart and two feet high, and he vants who are the real though He is a student, cool and detach-does not stand a ghost of a chance

Prime if some ruffian pokes Australia & New Zealand unproclaimed, rulers of England. ed, whose services any

Minister will be glad to have. He through his bars.

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When Smuts Goes

in

htt

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"The brass rails in our banks

tise.

Langhs At Grilles

is a great admirer of Smuts and "The pseudo-brass rails protect upholds his policies, including the the bandit, not the cashier. The And yet to-day Duncan holds a curious position For nearly 30maintenance and even the streng-grille prevents the cashier from thening of the imperial connection escaping or from grappling, with years he has been the admirer, follower and assistant of Smats, with England. He has always the assailant. and though many of the Dutch shown sympathy for the natives have now nothing but curses for and their aspirations, and this to are just about as antiquated as Smuts, I found all through the three-quarters of the population of quill pens and blunderbusses. They country, and especially in the South Africa is the most grievous were introduced at a time when sin that a white man can commit these implements were in general Transvaal, that the. Dutch were

Personal Parties looking to Patrick Duncan as their possible leader, while many of the Yet if he can shed the wings

"The "stick" "eni up' man simply English, especially in Natal, looked of his own intellect and come down

can ignore his laughs at our counter.grilles. I at him askance, saying that he to earth; if he

keep have records of over 12 bank raids had given away their interests and friends and relatives who gone back on his own people. him in the cotton-wool of adoration during which gummen have fired Patrick Duncan has been over-and still see him only as an infant through the bars and afterwards shadowed perhaps by the character prodigy, and if he will make up vaulted over them. It is about EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS Of Smuts. As long as Smuts is his mind, clear and defined, so that time the chiefs of the great banks

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will be contented his convictions cease to be soft made the stunt of poking a gun loyal 23 and

Havenga theories and become forces to drive in the face of a cashier and de- Minister, manding money or your life a is to Hertzog,

when him, he will be Prime but Smuts is gone it is possible that for he has youth he is only in the much more perilous business than

it is to-day." he will be able to come out of his early 40's and health. shell, warm his blood, ignore cau-

South Africa is a young coun- To frustrate the armed bandits tion, take a risk or two, and call!try with no tradition of settled is, Mr. Hopkins declares, merely a to people. If he can do that he parties into which the politicians matter of suitable equipment in may be Prime Minister of South automatically fall and are absorb-lonely and out-of-the-way banks. Africa.

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in the Cape. He has the disad-leaders I have named will have his which the cashier can conduct his side witli his advance the anthori-Jbut to tell the truth, all the me- ties have advanced to check and chanical ingenuity in the world vantage of having been an infant own supporters, but to day it would business.

will never stamp the forger out. The mesh would be close enough defeat him. be quite impossible even to guess prodigy..

"I have seen the art of forgery"The forger, like the old soldier, who they will be or what their to prevent an armed bandit from Before he was 20 he had taken rength. The character, of each taking aim or sticking his gun writes Mr. Hopkins, "reach such a never dies, but he generally fades double firsts in a South African man more than his views or the through it Doors leading into the degree of perfection that it has away in prison."

To the uninitiated reader it may university and at Oxford, and had organisation to which he belongs department should be massive and at times been almost impossible to

ling the lock on the front door of a genuine one I have seen the are charged with possessing and

been Administrator of the Trans-

vaal and Principai of the Univer/will be the most important reason self-locking. Foot-pedals, control-tell a forged note or cheque from seem strange that although, men

sity of the Witwatersrand before [*** he was, 30, ku

for his success or failure.

GIRL help.

a bank would be a considerable investigation of forgery and other attempting to pass forged notes. swindles become more highly or-the maker of the notes is very When Jan Hofmeyr took up poll PONY FOLLOWS DEAD

Forged Notes

ganised every day, fill at the pre-seldom apprehended. For further infomation, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc. app/tics everyone expected miracles,

Mr. Hopkins tells us that the sent time the ultra-violet ray will The reason, says Mr. Hopkins, is To The Agent

but he was no mirade maker. He Archer, the pony from which public has little idea of the per- reveal with the utmost certainty that the maker of forged notes is a short, squat man with a broad Miss Joan MacDonald, aged 17, of sistence and ingenuity with which the fraudulent manipulation of a neually sets up his printing presses forehead, and wears glasses Green-street Green, fell while the passers of forged banknotes cheque,

He has a photographic memory jumping at a gymkhana, followed pursue their offensive on the grest

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so often, have tended to destruy Downe, Kent. She had owned the assiduous, in developing his techri- can devise for detecting forgery is in France, Russia or the United foriginality, and unconsciously he is peny for four years.

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