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The Worst Enemies Of Free Speech
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and Portuguese governments.
Anglo-Franco-Italian
SCIENCE BRANDS THE CRIMINAL
BETRAYED BY VEINS AND BLOOD VESSELS
NEW FACTORS IN CEASELESS- WAR ON WRONG-DOERS
(By E. H. Glover)
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turf
Dillinger doctors
Lord Lloyd acted as chief host TF the policeman's lot to-day is Already Dr. Locard, the famous happier, it is certain on the French police scientist and chief The Italian reply is still in what was a proconsular gather-l awaited and France is esgering. Amongst ex-High Commis-contrary, that the criminal's is not of the Loons Police Laboratory, for the settlement of the ques- sioners were Sir Beginald Win And if the range of the criminal's bas tested Professor Tamassia's tion as soon as possible and has gate. Sir Henry MacMahon and activities is wider-thanks largely system and has discovered that the instructed her representatives Sir Percy Cox. Sir Ronald Storrs to the motor-car-te stands a much vein patterns differ widely in dif- ferent horses. It is probable that in Moscow and Lisbon to make also had much converse with the greater chance of detection. similar proposals to the Soviet Sheikh.
It is well known that crime is, "veinous identification" will prove The heat, too, had an Arabian in spite of this, on the increase, useful in the prevention of ALL POWERS CONCERNED
but it is not so well known that frands. Paris, earlier-The British re- quality.
Crooks Surgery The Saudi Minister, who, like the percentage of detections is ply to the French Note in
Criminals have been known to try A century-old story of two gard to non-intervention in Spain, the Sheikh, wore his native dress, greater fact which is mainly
their tell-tale £nger famous men,
complained that his clothes were due to the barriers with which to Jeremy states that the British are pre-
modern police science is hedging "patterns" by means of surgical Bentham and Lord Chancellor
pared to agree to the suggested unsuited to a London heat-wave.
operations, by filing the flesh with Brougham, is not altogether issue of a declaration of neutrality Thongh Arabis and its problems in the criminal mal a propos to the recent dis ir France obtains the adherence dominated an afternoon of which Rarely does the law-breaker fail pumice stone, or by destroying the cussion in the House of Com of Italy.
the serious work was a lecture by to leave behind him some trace of texture with acids; and they have leaf from the beauty mons on a rowdyism at public
Mr. Ingrams 'on Aden's "back of himself. He may go a-burglaring even taken The British reply goes on to meetings. "Harry," said the
but each occasion serves to forge altered by surgery, as old philosopher to the rising say that it is considered that such beyond." things English had one and remain seet-free for mouths, specialists' book by having faces
declarations popular representative. and pushful Brougham, "if you should only be the preliminary to This was strawberries and another link in the chain which did. But two American
have now perfected a method by want to see a model of in-
In medieval times the criminal which the veins in the whites of sincerity, look in the glass"! an agreement negotiated diploma-cream, which the Sheikh enjoyed will eventually convict him. The temptation is irresistible tically between all the powers in-as much as anybody.
was known publicly by the brand the eyes are used for identification. terested in Spain, particularly Bri-
jupoa his flesh. To-day the brand It has been proved that these ito invite Socialists and Com-
is not so obvious, but none the less "rétinal patterns" are as individual munists to do the same when tain. France and Italy.
ITALIAN ATTITUDE
finger-prints. ther utter tearful complaints Rome:-No inmediate Italian
it is there-infallible, condemning. to each person as against those who break UP reply to the French Note is
And it is also recorded in the files They can easily be photographed their meetings, still more when
While official circles are come to
of the Criminal Record Office,(by an instrument now extensively they insinuate that the police reticent with regard to the nature who had been much zapressed, was where the marks of thousands of used by ere specialists, and a 373.` receive whispered and biased of the Italian reply. it is the proposing a vote of thanks.
wrongdoers are kept for instant(tem has already been devised for amreference.
classifying these eyeprints. instructions from above. In the widespread impression in diploma-
It is claimed-though little cred- thread of that debate there were tie and political quarters that the going to ask you to give the speaker
Two Processes two hearty cheers!" interwoven
against Note is not
ence is given to the story in this charges
welcomed as it is
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The capture of a criminal falls country that it is possible suc- Some Record! Jewish hatred in the East End
into two separate processes-detec-¡cessfully to graft a new siin on to Airman (after landing in a tree): tion and then identification. "Once the tips of the fingers; but few by speeches on the Nazi model. Plications in an already dificult
"I was trying to make a new identified, always identifiable" is a criminals would care to risk their Of conduct of that kind, if the
GERMAN CONDITION
cord." charge be true, it can only bej Berlin: The German attitude! Farmer: "You did. You're the first warning which every tyre criminal eyes for an exchange of their "re
tinal patterns"!' said that it is heartily detested in regard to the French Note is man to climb down that tree before fought to remember. by every right-thinking man believed to be that Germany will climbing up it."
Fingerprints serve vitally in both "Obliterated" Prints [processes, and for this and any steps be willing to participate in non- woman,
Parenthetically, the burglar who taken to bring to justice those interference to exactly the same
there is little doubt that they will thinks he has safely eradicated all who are guilty of it will have extent as Soviet Russia is willing expect an invention that will enable But, in the process of identifica-ticles he has handled can be assur
"Before long we may ever be replaced by other methods traces of his finger-prints on ar- the support of all decent people to do.
us to do without sleep altogether." -
Student: "What's the matter with tion, finger-prints have valuable ed that such precautions are wast been alles, and their list is being in-fed, for a method is now creased every year-
evolved whereby it is possible to A tiger in a European zoo has just The latest of these comes from make even "obliterated"; ycints been fitted with slippers because of Rome, where an Italian scientist, visible by a chemical process. T
land
1.
pected.
situation
Your Daily Smile!
.
Spirit of the Occasion - A lecture in economy had just
an end.
The chairman,
"And now," he finished.
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Professor:
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But if it is rowdyism and London, earlier: The British ruffianism at public meetings in Government's reply to the French the saxophone?" general that the Socialists and Note agrees in principle with the ¡Communists complain of, the real reply is that they have Proposal for an agreement not to
intervene in Spain themselves set the example by which others have profited. Have they so soon forgotten the ¡Seaham election, when Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was hardly able to get a hearing in the divi-
Government Reply Welcomed
London, Later:
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reason
Old'
cold feet Nevertheless We shall Professor Arrigo Tamassia, has Palm-Prints are said to be still go on believing that a leopard cannot change its spats.
Jevolved the theory that the system reliable as finger-prints. Although of veins on the back of the band in Europe this method, is still com-
a few The fault with most after-dinner and foot, and on other parts of the paratively in its infancy,
in different years ago a set of hand-prints were The morning fuse to speak up.
speakers, we read, is that they re-body vary slightly
The trouble with individuals. It is said that so far accepted as évidence at the sion from start to finish of the papers welcome the Government's other is that they refuse to dry up. no cases have been discovered of Bailey. This was the first occa campaign. while the comment reply to France, supporting non-
persons presenting exactly the sion the system was used in Eng- of his opponent, Mr. Shinwell, intervention in Spain. The Times
same "vein map." This. it is land, though the possibility was. "What else can you ex says that the Government is un- Customer: "I want a nice firm stated, also applies to animals, and palm-prints had received the at- pect?" It was the same all
cabbage." questionably right, and that it is: jover the country.
Former Hat Salesman: A fairly the new system is already being tention of Scotland Yard for sever imperative that a general policy large head, ma'am say, about seven used as a means of identifying al years. Mr. Lansbury, tearfully in-of non-intervention should be and three eights?”
(Continued on Page 6) dignant, did nothing effective, (adopted.
if he tried to do anything at all, The principles for which the to secure his opponent a hear-two sides are fighting are dearly ing in Bow and Bromley. Mr. cherished by the majorities and Gallagher, the Communist, minorities in every country. The warmly repudiated the charge first care of other countries must that Communists were concern-be to ward off any danger of the ed with the breaking up of pub-conflagration spreading. Europe is lic meetings. Yet the first thing full of tinder which a single spark la Communist Government would of partisanship may set ablaze, do, if it had the chance, would and the civil war in Spain might be to deny the right of public very easily become a civil war in meeting at all, and, as in Mos-the whole of Europe--Beuter. cow. treat spoken or written criticism as treason. These people object to the police tak- ing notes of the violent things
Mr. F. C. Chichester and his which they say, but clamour passenger, Mr. Herrick, left Hong for copious note-taking when Kong at 11.30 am yesterday for the Fascists are dealing ruth-Foochow on the next leg of their lessly with their interrupters fight from Sydney to London via Mr. Baldwin very truly observed China and Russia. The fliers ar- last November that to shout rived here from Indo-China on people down and refuse to hear Friday last. The prevailing bad arguments you do not like is weather conditions between here "the seed-bed of dictatorship." and heir northern destination
CHICHESTER TAKES OFF ·
Sir Stafford Cripps a year held up the D. H. "Puss. Moth" ago denounced the police for until yesterday.
"trespass" when they insisted
on being present at a certain public meeting against
the
Lau Ming-chan aged 23, пл employed, was this morning charg-
at
wishes of its Socialist convened before Mr. S. F. Balfour ers. In the action which fol
the Central. Magistracy for offer- lowed the Lord Chief Justice! decided that police officers could
jing a bribe of $3 to Lo Kwong, not be ejected if they had rea-remanded for 48 hours.
The case was a public servant. sonable grounds for believing that a breach of the peace might take place, and thereupon violent speech and another. the Socialist League passed a Black, red, yellow, pink or blue resolution viewing the positionit is all one to them. They with alarm" and "deploring the are all a nuisance. Policemen consequent threat to the liber-lare, sent wherever, violence is ties of free speech and criti-anticipated-and it may be re-] cism." It is the old story they called that Socialists strenuous- want for themselves full rightly opposed the Bill which con-
the to eject and incite, but for ferred
power and the everyone else the fall rigour of police have a very difficult the law
Įtime. But as Socialists and Mr. Pritt charged the police Communists hitherto have been with being biased against "peo- the worst offenders against ple of the Left" and taking free speech and the most their cue from the hierarchy envenomed protesters against of Scotland Yard..: What rub-police note-takers, they should bish! The police do not dis-turn an introspective eye into fcriminate between one kind of their own bosoTIB.
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