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THE REPUBLICAN TWIN DRIVE

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SATURDAY, J

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1952.

by Cumming

THE LIBERAL SIX A prewar model- always about to be laid up, but somehow never is.

THE TITOBUS Jumps off the line.

London Express Service

OF DR FIRTH

THE CASE BOOK OF

N duty in Manches

ter, only a

short

distance from the

centre of the city, Cunliffe

Police Inspector

stopped to chat to a cyclist.

Beyond a fairly large bag on the back of the cycle there seemed nothing unusual about either the machine or the two men engaged in the conversation.

It was the bag in which the eilleét, a few minutes later, dis- played rather more than normal interest, Inside he had seen a rather tonglet mass of electric wire and lampholders.

A glimpse of the contents was sufficient to show that the wire was old and worth only a shilling or two, but it started Dr Firth and his staff on one of the longest and most intensive inquiries over conducted In their Preston Iaboratories.

Every day for # month Detective-Inspector A. L. Allen, one of the Doctor's senior assist- ants, spent hour after hour peer- Ing through a highly-powerful microscope. looking for tiny markings that would enable him

A Dead City Rises Again

By Hugo Kuranda

Pompelli ຕ riddle. Analysing ancient THE dead Roman city of plans they could not understand how, th this crowded city with Pompeii, 1,878 years ito narrow street, No mult after its destruction, In space could be "wasted on a growing! Erupting Mount garden,"

It was accumed the Vesuvlus, towering over the

the whole Pompeiian plain, 16 miles area might be "suburban"out-

side

the city wall. Only 4 Low south of Naples, took a weeks ago however this theory finally disproved when more three days (in 79 was

even A.D.) to wipe out the great parts of the wall and

new gate only dow hundred Roman Empire's most

yards away "were

cre unearthed. luxurious colony-including As soll L zamoyed from the 22,000 of the city's 25,000 inhabitants.

arca, villa

In 1941 Science had just

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anticipation of Pompell's lovellest

the

Boors and frescoes

Already on succeeded to lay bare again garden site, two beautiful white three-fifth of the 60-odd marble statues of dhiphing, In- fountairi, ornaments, dicating Acres which comprised the have been found, wonderland city of Pompell. The cabilo market and zoo ure Then war-and the work on the theatre. stopped.

a.

Now, however, 204 years after first German orchncologist

dug his spade Into Pompeilan soil, Italians have resumed werk to uncover for posterity the re-

other side of the

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have

The zoo appears 10 served á double purpose of keeping wid ahimals on show and using some of theta for maining two-fifths of the city. the blood-curdling circus games,

When it is

The cages completed and

are impressive open for Inspection, the half

their size and cumber, and million visitors who flock to judging from bones coming w the ancient ruins cach year will

light

have housed Q be able to see and appreciate amazing variety of beasts from

the greatest and mest perfect all

nity of all parts specimens of classic civilisation Empire, in the whole world.

and

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mighty Roman

from Bons to wolves and bears. From some of the cages subterranean corridors lend

to To achieve this,

record the theatre's area. a number of 280 labourers have

From these and other indica- started digging-on a five-year lons historians are now try- Government-backet plan cosl- ing to reconstruct the pro- Ing £1,500,000. Centre of the

gramme of Roman-Pompeilari new attack is Pompell's "Ken- shows. In them professional sington" in the easternmost gladiators, naked and armed the Amphitheatre, which

It was of this stage that Drorner of the walled city, ncer only with pards and

Firth was called to help. Mr David Noel Jones, who had been

was

Tought the lions-and fiel

the scene of the cruel Roman lost. gladiator games.

•Theory of ever since it opened, went out, it The excavators expect to And Important for future visitore

Knife's Edge

By KEN COMPSTON

Markings on the and of fine electric wiro, less than one three-hundredth part of an inch in diameter, lad to a Manchester, man's conviction after he had boon found in possession of stolen goods.

Though the markings could barely be seen with the naked eye, Detectivo-Inspector A. L.. Allen, one of Dr Firth's senior assistants, proved after a month's experiments that they had been caused by the imper- fect edge of a khile found in the man's possession.

The laboratory experiments in the case of the stofan wire lasted a month.

to prove that the contents of the wire for a single plate that might the yard at his Wythenshawe bag had been stolen from a hut it a newly-cut wire brought from nursery one Sunday morning. In Whitworth Park, Manchester. the RAF. hut. It was the ting

printing on ribbon woven A fow hours before in the pitch The cable differed little from diagonally round the wire that darkness of Northenden's deserted the thousands of yards of electrle gave him the perfect Joint. One flex dangling from the ceilings of letter had been cut clean in two! roads, a senior police officer had hundreds of Manchester houses.

questioned a cycllét åbout a bulky The Ane wire was only three- Cheered by his early success parcel he was carrying. hundredths

en Inch In Inspector Allen pleked up the diameter, and, to the naked eye, knife. Under the microscope he found on the blade an orange-

a staff biologist at the laboratory

new finds,

ta

however

the city's most lovely private leave all did not take long for Mr Priestner

garden, its cattle market, and proglou, on the exact spot to find freshly-cut cabbage-stalks its 200, buried, under 30 and where they were excavated. in his nursery, and, back at more feet of soil.

Hitherto some

of Pompeil's Preston, Mr Jones was nearly as The

great garden and villa lovellest mosaic Boons, frescoes quick to show that the cabbages which lie in a favoured position and statues were removed to

and found on Mr "y" fitted exactly between the Amphitheatre and Naples

other riational Grande Palcatra the stalks pulled up by Mr the

municipal grm.) belonged to The impressions of life, 2,000 Priestner,

one Julia Fallee, a tremendously and more years ago, will be

in these for rich Roman woman, who perch more completa

ed in the dieuster,

excavations than in any other For almost two centuries her section of the city: very wealth set archaeologists

...

But, that was not enough Dr Firth and Co. With the same care that the late Dr Bernard Spilsbury performed, his post- mortem examinations on murder victims, Mr Jones dissected the two sections of the cabbage- |·| stalks.

As the microlome, a baron- slicer type of instrument, cut alices from the specimens, he compared the cross-sections As Detective Chief Inspector Colin Campbell, the Lancashire Con- stabulary fingerprint chief, might examine "dabs."

The findings were conclusive. The cabbage had come from. Mr Priestner's field. Though they were valued at little more than a shilling, Dr Firth and his highly- trained experts had spent hours in order that on innocent man should not be accused.

In Manchester magistrates court a dew days later Mr "y" was fines £5 and ordered to pay Oh yes, they were spring ca costs for taking the

his vegetables,

allotment the hight before, but when the offfeer, went to examine

one pieze was much the same as coloured deposit, later proved to cabbages he had picked ri another.

be metallic copper deposit daso But, under the bright beam of clated with soft red wàx material, an overhead light, Inspector Allen spotted the first clue......

minute printing on the canvas binding that Insulated the wire.

Finally, with the wire magnified

EXACT SPOT

a hundred times, he produced Now came the wire, on the end amazing photographs on which of which Inspector Allen hoped could be seen well-defined to find some outstanding mark- marking that were invisible to Ings as it had been cuti

the naked eye. The tiny ridges Even when magnified ten times stood out in the enlarged pletures the wire end was still less than a as clearly as the hills and dales third of an inch actoss,

of North Lancashire would

appear to a cartographer study. The problem confronting hin ing a contour map.

now was "Has the Hnite been used to cut this wire?"

PILFERING

The War had been over

Cutting a piece of soft lead with the knife the Insperior was left with the exact markings-lefi by the Imperfect edge of the two blade. Now, he had to find the

cut was made.

Inspector Cunliffe and the cyclist exist spot on the blade where the

the plot of ground there was no Next, Saturday: How flakas of sign of "bleeding" cabbage-stalks paint trapped an East Lancashire that would indicate freshly-cut "made" the

"hit-and-run" motorist, and reputation of Dr vegetables.

Firth.

ACANTUUS-

"Here is the list of comrades who were so persistent in their tage claims. I am happy to

report that they are no longer concerned with the cost of living i”

London Express Service,

JAUNDICE IS BECOMING

A WORLD PROBLEM

By A. W. JARVIE

Glasgow, Jaundice or virus hepatitis As to the other kind of jaun✩ HERE are two kinds of as it is called that unlike in die which usually bellas Tundice, roughly Quenza, falciple

nuenza, jaundice, does not be with a history of not feeling chalted together. Workmen were

because up to the mark, or even of already demolishing old, balloon Disturbed only occasionally barrage huts in city park».

by Dr Firth allpping in to see the speaking, and it is just vast numbers of people are its minor illness, this may be duo to bile plament being set-free In several districts there had for Allen worked on patiently. Eden is suffering from one

In the blood, liver disease of progress he was making. Inspec- possible that Mr Anthony victims.

The armles in the Meditor obstruction of the bile duct day by day, he while the Duke of Edin- ranean zone were hard hit by as in gallstones, Bay.

been reports of pilfering. In Hour by both the Whitworth Parle electric wire and struggles Lampholders were missing and impossible Instinctor.Cunilife was suspicious

inat the contents of that cyclist's

maidział.

seemingly burgh was hit by the other. it in the Second World War, but the fatality rate was very

It was weeks later that he

quietly into stepped

his chief's

Certainly the history of

big might be some of the missing room, carrying a set of pictures the Duke's Illness - 'flu, and a typewritten report. Not then jaundice suggests Mr "X" seemed surprised when only had he found the exact shown, the contents of the bag,

spot

small.

on the blade at which the cut had that is infection is due to Glasgow University's been made, but by producing a virus.

fessor of Medicine, Sir "It's my bloyclo ant bag. I do enlarged pictures Dr. Firth was

McNee, is an expert on type of jounded, and in Just how this virus in- of this year described not know anything about the able to prove to the court in wire, I have not put it in," he Manchester later, when Mr. "X" sald in answer to the Inspector's was sentenced to 12 monthsfection is spread is not yet having now become quertions.

Emprisonment, that the cut had certain. Droplet infection problem. been made away from the body among close contacts has

The doctor's job here to find out what is causing the jaumlice and to deal with it, -

Light diets, with fate much Pro- restricted. are

prescribed for John

this the patient who may have to March. stay in bed for up to a moath, it: ns But the thing the vellina world have in ceramon is the yellow

discolouration of the 20th,

aire 1yThis results when the bile

The following day, the contents with the right hand while the been suspected and more weakened by poverty, in

Among people from the hut in Whitworth Park Just as one might sharpen a recently rejected, but there trilion and lease: epidemic Busts blocked, holding back

of the bag, specimens of wire wire had been in the left..

and samples of light distemper pencil.

from the hut walls arrived at Dr.

Firth's laboratory. "With them

is some evidence that there Jaundice, reaps, for higher toll the bite (which is a juice that is & clone absociation with outisid and looked after

than antonione well helps the work of digestions, forcing "It back to the ilver then to the blood streáin and lotto numberà, of flies with

thecently dietid have, begun to round the body, infolafting the epidemics which are 801png testa investigation into the skin. The first Di Friestner new liable to break out..

the potentity for Wells disease, j

came a pocket-knife taken from THE CABBAGES

the cyclist when the police had

accused him of being involved in,

the theft of the sire.

**** about half a dozen spring, dab-ba

Me matália, dydealery, andis üle. Usually the under Detective-Insphotor Allen bagus stolen from his fold was I la notne consolation to enteric armazze us; femera: being the virun – 16undión. sösrohed, the varied collection of when a patice ameur rode into } those who are "vistune "ör vitliä" responsible for epidemies, 40's the second kind;

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