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THE CHINA MÀIL, OCTOBER 8, 1988.

NEW DRUG PERIL SWEEPS BRITAIN

SON'S 6-YEAR FIGHT WON

HATRY'S EARLY RELEASE

London, Sep. 14.

The decision to release Clarence

Hatry, the financier, from prision 18 months before his time is up

of his 24-year-old son Cecil.

Plant Grown In

In the East-End opium-dens have been replaced by is reifert dam's, where: for an entrance-tée mof-five

Cottage Gardens Forlings, each visit, it is posible

Soho Cafes

The British public are asked to communicate

with the police at once if they see growing in coun

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try gardens a straggly plant from three to eight feet tall, with dark-green leaves hanging in bunches of seven, each leaf having saw-toothed was due to the persistent efforts edges. They may save hundreds of people from

I discovered yesterday that for Wrecking their lives. more than six years Cecil Hatry has, week after week, been to the House of Commons interviewing M. P. s in an effort to get his father's

sentence reduced.

And he has been helped by Mr.

C. B. MeClure, the man who assist

ed Sir William Jowitt in the Crown prosecution which led to Hatry's imprisonment.

Ceil Hatry was a schoolboy when his father passed to prison from the luxuries of Mayfair.

For marijuana, deadliest narcotic drug, is being grown in certain gardens scattered through the countryside. That is the theory of Scotland Yard, following evidence of drug-smoking in London and the big provincial cities.

Marijuana is the Mexican name certain Soho cafes, in several West- of Indian hemp. In the late summer End bars and night-clubs, and in its leaves and flowers are gathered, some dockside shops. They are on in Glasgow, Liverpool, and dried, and made into a coarse to- sale

Hulk They are known as "reefers.” bacco.

Scotland Yard is trying to stamp From that moment he set him-

It is peddled in England as ciga-

a shilling to the traffic out. It was at first be- self the task of getting the assis-rettes, costing from

lieved that maripuana leaves wère. tance of as many M.P.s as possible. two shillings each.

DID NOT DENY GUILT ·

After one cigarette the smoker being smuggled into the country Eventually these M.P.s formed a feels intensely happy. Two cigar- from Belgium and Holland. That committee to deal with the matter.ettes make him bad-tempered. Af-theory has been abandoned. One of them told me last night: ter a third all sense of time and Only a few pounds could be smug-

A second seems gled in through our ports. "Never once did the son attempt space vanishes.

The Yard is now working on the the belief that a small syndicate is behind this traffic. The plant grows Frost is the easily in England. only thing which kills it.

£3,500 CROP An America police figures prove Members of this syndicate, it is that over thirty per cent. of sex though have bought several coun- Friends of the Hatry family be- crimes are committed by men and try cottages, each with a few acres lieve that. Hatry and Mrs. Hatry women under the influence of mari-of ground. There they are grow- ing marijuana from its easily ob- will live in London when he is re-juana.

It is possible to These cigarettes can be bought in tainable seeds. leased.

grow 125 pounds on an acre, worth roughly £3,500. ·

to deny his father's guilt. It was like an hour. the degree of guilt which he ques- tioned.

"The sight of this youth, grow- ing to manhood while he spent his days pleading for his father, tou- ched the sympathy of many mem- bers of the House."

LEADS TO CRIME After the fourth cigarette the smoker in nine cases out of ten, has homicidal impulses.

Millionaire Woman Tours in the pay of the syndicate are a

Night Clubs, Dies

New York, Sept. 14. After a night spent in New York night clubs, Mrs. Harold Strotz widow of Jap Gould, the tennis champion millionaire, and daughter

few waiters and the propritors of small cafe-bars. They are supplied with the weed and make it into Mrs. Strotz was daughter of crude cigarettes. They receive Douglas Graham, heir to a Chicago twenty-five per cent. of the price arms fortune, and Princess Kaiki- of their sale. The rest gose to the lani, cousin of the last reigning syndicate. queen in Hawaii. She

ofan Hawaiian princess-killed father's wealth and boited her |

herself by gas to-day in the kitchen exotic loveliness. of her fashionable

apartment.

Park-avenue

mother's AUSTRALIA'S

When she married Jay Gould in PLANES NOT

1911 "the Princess," as she was

Her second husband, a rich stock-called by friends in New York FAST ENOUGH broker, found her lying on the society, became the most, photo- floor, dressed completely in black graphed beauty in America. Beside her was a sealed note ad- dressed to "J eighteen-year-old son by her first marriage.

‚ ́ ́my`darling," her Jay Gould, whose grandfather Force, expresses the opinion inj

built up a huge railway fortune in America, died in 1985, when he was forty-five. He won the amateur ten- nis championship of England in 1907...

in

Five gas-jets were turned full on. gave Strotz called police, who artificial respiration. Then, for four

His sister Vivien, who died ́ ́hours, oxygen was administered, but Mrs. Strotz stirred only once. 1931, was the first wife of Lord

Her note was opened by the Decies." police. In it she told her son to love his step-father, and carry on with his studies. She gave no clue to why she should take her life.

Sir Edward Ellington, Inspec tor-General of the Royal Air his report on the Australian Air Force, that the American type of 'plane known as the Wirraway, now being built in the Melbourne Aircraft factory, should be re- garded only as a temporary ex- pedient.

The plane, he states, is not The last queen of Hawaii was speedy enough for a modern fight- deposed in ʼn revolution in 1898, ter, and should be regarded only and a republic was set up. Hawallas a 'plane for advanced train- now belongs to the U.S.

SAFEGUARD YOUR HEALTH

HARPIC

"JANE" LAVATORY CLEANSEN ·

ing. New orders should be de- ferred until a suitable type of plane was obtained from Brit- ain:

Sir Edward is impressed by the high qualities of the officers and men of the Australian Air Force: Dealing with the subject of recent

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KING'S

OPENING

TO-DAY

'HERE

COMES CHARLIE

The man of the year in THE HIT OF THE CENTURY

the show that has everything

The

GOLDWYN FOLLIES

IN TECHNICOLOR

ADOLPHE WENIOU THE RITZ BROWERS ZORNI KENNY ANDREA LEEDS HELEN JEPSON PHIL BAKER FELLA LOGAN BOBBY CLARK JEROME COWAN 95 AMERICAN BALLET

and introducing the comedy sensation of the world

EDGAR BERGEN and CHARLIE MCCARTHY

Songs by

· GEORGE and IRA GERSHWIN Story by BEN HECHT Directed by GEORGI MARSHALL, Released the UNITED ARTISTS)

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