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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1954.

A NEW GRIPPING STORY BY LEONARD MOSLEY STARTS TODAY

FIND THIS BOY!

THE POLICE DOSSIER SAYS:

Mother-murdered Father-accused The son-in peril

"W

ELL. !!. we want was away from home ha

teerk-end....*

arrest him r They were right about the

don't W

aske

man from the Director

sad eyes,

The free that stared thep at me war that of a sick atsi of worrei anget. ile looked as f

Public Prosecutions. Inying he was desperately anxious and

to

down the official report. “On this evidence, if we go trial with him, he will hang We have a good case and 1 think he killed her."

1 looked at his round. complacent free und, not for the Arst time, thought how it was for him--de- easy ciding the guilt from type written sheets of foolscap, It feels a bit different when it is a person you have been trying to read, and met column of words.

"You think he killed her. too, don't you, Stanley ?" he anked. "Yes, I do," I said. "I'm certain of it."

"Wel, He rose to his Teet then, why the hesitation When they bring George Rawe in here

huge bin In an hour's time, with murder He battered bis

unhappy.

To juige from the facts we have gathered since the murder there had been at his mother. plenty of reasons why 10-year- la Tony Rowe both looked and Nel that way

I came to this murder euse straight out of

After

++!

or at the pictures, Relling my

AL Risi look at Cinemascope. four o'clock on Thursday after- on, there, on the screen, was M195 Terry Moore,

least 4471 long, reclining hastly un Half an hour later I a divat. was u

Earls Court fat. booking at C different kind of baly sprawling across the divan

Mrs Diana Itowe had been battered to death.

By the Ume 1 arrived the outine examinations had been

ads, and already the case had. p Stampe. By early evening we haew for whom we were look-

The woman caretaker, who

wife to deutli 11 deserves afl he gets, and what be get, when our case is through, in the hived in the busement hat, was

gaflows.

D

1 said: "But what about hoy?"

our principal source of Inform

She spent a

the alton,

tig by het window.

"Don't worry about him," he door, And your ink

replied,

going tu the

"Well And him

nee, he'll help our case, not harm it."

It was more.

anad: them linge

★

sud,

pass by.

No.

lot of time

she 'I HEARD

watch-

people HIM CALL

you

this

MN FOR HIS MOTHER, THEN . . .'

any

Rowe trada't Thank visitors all morning pust twelve home

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in the more clubs.

THE BOY drawn by ROBB.

1

"I shall not take up much of your Limo, Superintendent Stanley," he said. He took Sunday paper trom under his arm and pointed to the picture of Tony Rowe on the front page. "It is about this boy. Have you found him yel?"

"Not yet, sir," I said. "But why should it interest you?"

"Ail my patients interest me," Robinson aid. "But this one particularly first because he is a nice but unhappy child, and Не second because he is "

bent his face towards me and a note of urgency came into his "You must final voice.

Rowe quickly, suporn Antony

I raid: "We're doing our best, When these children run It always takes a little

A woek But in

away.

time.

days

or

10

"In 10 days' time, superin- tendent," he

cut in abruptly, "Antony Rowe will be dead if you don't bring him to me."

a long for I stared at hin moment in stupefled silence,

"I know and then said;

you would not joke, but can you really mean this?"

He nodded. "I have never been more sure of anything in the whole of my medical career. to the six Antony Rowe caine months ago for a debility test. won't go into detalls, but I discovered that he was suffering from a serious disease of tho blood wasting disease, super-

indert, wslet had reached

much stage that he was al- Into the decline ready going

that leads to death,"

He paused

✩

*

anch

then went

huve on: "I saved his life. I continued

Nuvo hiy itre,

to

month after month, by giving him #twice-weekly injection

which relords the wastage But he has not been for injections for the

Just

PETROV

TELLS THE

SECRETS OF THE SOVIET SPY

SERVICE

Cummings "Quick, Nikolai! You go change your disguise into a police

inspector's uniform while I disguise myself as a bishop,"

GLIDING TO

PLEASURE

By Jack Senn

TN this jot age, there are hovered over Dunstable for aveair-minded Britons who 22 hours, combining skill

werks, superintendent. He still prefer to sour in a and endurance. badly in need of them already; glider at a comfortable pace

If he is not found · and brought

to me before the middle of next over the green fields of Eng- week at the latest, he will die." | land.

sat in a daze for A little

Then picked

up

Twenty-five gliding clubs the telephone,scattered over the country

But the gull-like craft are at the mercy, of wind and cloud, where even skill can- not prevail.

Noun,

France's Lucien

sorld West End boy. Why don't you find Tony?

He was there when i went into while after the doctor had gone. Someone had Informed George the Bat. He'll tell you I didn't spoke to the commissioner, and contain 1,300 members de. who a year ago flew 50 miles

We found do it. Why don't you And my called the Press officer.

her.

to

this

airbome pilots,

of 14,000 ft. at a height over the Alps into Italy, undertook the task fully

"Hello, Joe."

suld "I'm voted

the six desperately anxious to find that pastime. To

missing boy Tony Rowe, and Iliding means a test of fly- He need the help of the newspapers ing skill coupled with an aware of the dangers should

and the B.B.C. It's good story Innate joy in reaching the he meet bad weather. And then, for them-so I want their maxi- skies. The excitment they his luck held.

me!

ftowe about

him in the Bat, sop" letters from protesting at the way she was Theo he fung his head into

watch: treating their son, abusing her, his hands and threatening her.

years since he has seen me, and We sent out the "red"" signal: he didn't recognise "Bring in George Rowe," We was frightened when I spoke to pit checks on every road, rail him and ran away." way, and river going out of the getting to his feet: city "May be decoinpauled by terrible thing when his son,

Antony Howe, slight, deltente, dark-haired, aged 10."

✩

Bat when

WC

11

doesn't reoognise his own fathert

We questioned him all through Saturday

We fitted in the rest at the George Rowe In Kensington and through the night

"Isn't it a

mum co-operation. Could you

NEXT

call a conference with derive from their "circuits"

Press

the

for Is as great as that provided me? Tell them Scot-by any football match. lend Yard is going to ask

At half- around for years, but 1 recog- Tony Rowe came alsed him. I let him go because I knew

"He was obviously looking for useless to argue Any "Surprised me to are him, tl his son, because he kept shout- Even my own mind was aid," the caretaker said. "He ing Tony. Come back, Tony! made up about George Rowe, usually stayed at school for has And It was while he was stanik- The farts against him were dinner Only decent meal he lng there. Just before he overwhelming.

got, poor kit. A proky galloped IT down the street, As 1

There at my desk child--and the way that womit that I noticed it.”

saw him go into this morning, Angertag y uwn treated him' #

paused! The caretaker

and rejuart in the case, I knew the the house and I heard the door

There was blond, doubts to my mind were foollen of the flat stor

is voice then sald:

Mood all over his hands and --but that did not stop thealling Mum! Mum!"

Bustering And whent

crash or kur

picked up the way from upstars," she said, "hu! wlate photograph stared at the I just thought i was her slop story later.

High Street, yesterday morning, from the front pages of all the

the poor bairn again." ptrix

It looked like an easy. if

he was by himself. He was getting I was

un for two sortile, case Diana Rowe had standing outside

cinema, Howe, ani the the pretty. faithful asking uluvlug once been

small boys and giris: pieturu and descrip

tion. with the on The wife of a busue in a serebant- "Have you seen. a boy named

I don't know DHA) when Tony Huwe eat s

thes mon, nut

"Tany---Tony Rowe?" when a He looked terribly sich, delightful, if delicate, son. Then paterman on crossing-duty

aft ke mad muidenly, she raid bod rho

durlist

to the Press room. The blood wh cognised him.

wondered alost the Cromwell Rod. A few bushand's leaves,

if I should the marriage still on his coat. minutes later, she heard the broke up.

After whitch they

hated to do it, for, in spito George Rowe, down in the cells, brought *1:21 While he was at sea she ap him to me.

the of the Row-fat

Оп, уса, не рго-

ferocity with waiting to he tried for murder, and a man came rushing out.

For he had a plied for a separation.

he killed his He was tested his innocence. "I didn't which

wife, he shout his son, "I knew who he Wis A told about it but did not contest kill her," he kept saying, very seems a decent enough man, but vital stake in this too. one 2 son su "I was Mos it. She got a judicial separa-

"She was dead when at 6.30 quietly

someone else."

Sunday newspapers.

It was the photograph

ernah. tun by u

headne re

of 1 o'clock They

eine Lasten 10

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SAU- POLICE HUNT EYED BOY" DEAD WOMAN'S CHILD

A story on another page rald "Has 10-year-old Taip Ruce. possible teliness of his mother's murder, fled to

to Manchester" The aunt he used to visit livet there, and police think this sad- eyed boy

her. For hi

her, but we have gone to see

he was at sen

were

mother

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hours. the la

We sent out A note from Tony Rowe

for Tony Issued his

what the boy dink can tell us when we and hin, drawer, doubi if it will helps his father, across anyway.

of

suvage

Some, of course, believe Bife of in record-breaking lights. Tny Rowe, There Usually International aces.

for they enter the championships held

ths People of Great Britain to help us save the

isn't much time.'

down } pul

haud telephone, out of the

a

Drifting

But

Others have not been so fortunate.

Mr Lorne Welch, a Sur- the world rey gliding instructor fly- ang 8,500 feet above Dover,

In the ually at Great Hucklow, in was once forced to "join" a Closk

cloud and drift all the way during two and prepared to go Derbyshire,

to Brussels. He made the weeks in July and August.

200-mile journey in six

tell

in time to save his life, George

Two Tests

hours and 20 minutes.

Mr Bernard Thomas tried

to glide from Sheffield to It becomes a matter of the South Coast. But the evening charged If Tony Rowe was not found two tests of distance and wind "let him down" and he Ilford sports ground, just outside Lon- don.

But even the most ex- perienced cannot beat wind and weather.

Oxford's

Howar's hashara, the one she Han and custody of the chill, I got there. It must have been George Ruwe with murder.

" got the separation from white And suddenly she became une

I must have

in been about an houre's last chance of mapport speed over a period of four landed He hadn't been of those young women you see I said: "How could it have hour later when there was

try his own story would die to eight flying days. Howe? been, Mr

The only knock

and my un my door. flat were ow

clerk came fingerprints in the

in.

"Beg pardon, with the child and he would

Only the experienced can hang. certain of it. he said, "but there's a Mr those of the decensed, the boy,

I decided to tell him later. I achieve these records. Men the caretaker, and yourself. Your Robinson asking to see you, Says

for

and, like P. A. Wills St buzzed he's prints were on the heavy

my assistant poker

in 1952 a doctor, sir, from

when he came in, said: "Get me soared to an unprecedented which part of the attack James's Hospital." with

a travel voucher for Manchester The seaman's knife was made. with which you slashed her--

Shall and find out the time of the last height of 22,000 feet, while

train. I'm you wiped

to take a Flight Lieutenant A. W. going that clean but you I show him in7" forgot the poker."

The door opened and the most chance. I'm going North to see Bedford holds the He looked at me with no ex- famous blood specialist in the If I can and Tony Rows there, distance record by flying 257

Let Manchester police know,miles from Farnborough t pression of dull desperation, and country, the man whose name murmured:

didn't do it, gets hung up on palace walls will you? I say! She telephoned and when monarchs are ill, walked asked me to come and fetch the in. He shook my hand,

Every aspect

by

"Mr Robin Robinson?"

"That's the name, sir.

"Yes, sir," he said. "I'll pack Usworth

you some sandwiches."

near

Professor G. Varley, An entomologist, British is naturally interested in

Newcastle. As early as 1938 a Falcon

WHITEWASHING THE FORCED

NOVIET propaganda has

found it necessary to react, at least in-

LABOUR CAMPS

By Walter Kolarz

directly, to the flood of in-speakers-mostly high Komsomol Varkula "a mining

areas.

toll"

radio of the

other contexts

aro

town" and

all things winged ---- even gliders.

A gliding enthusiast, he decided one day last Easter to visit his old university- Cambridge-by air.

Sceptics

Then, only 25 miles from Kidlington, his machine, bo- gan to lose height. The

but not encouraged to depart to professor selected a green more congenial parts of the stretch which looked velvety country.

In fact the Vorkuta delegates Amooth. As he was about Melals-there appeared cd quoted a description of it given speech made it plain that little to land, the wind aprang up formation which has re- denly an obscure engine driver in the central organ of the Kom! mate provision is made for and deposited him some cently come out of Soviet from Vorkuta. He purported Republic, Za novy Sever ("For these so-called "free workers" what "bumplly in the next. Russin about conditions in to speak for "the young people a new North"), which spoke of than is made for the slave in-field.

of the Polar region, miners, such ill-famed places as the railwaymen and

No doubt new buildings going up and sald bourers themselves. builders" who that "soon Vorkuta will be one he was not allowed to say as Taking his bearings, he Vorkuta conl-mining und were "gladdening the Mother of the most beautiful towns in much as he could have done unw before him an imposing the Kolyma gold-mining tand with their successes in the Soviet Union." ·

about conditions there, but, he brick house with a spacious There is no doubt that these did voice a few grievances,

drive to it. Just as he was But in The press and

100, regions are, in fact,

being CONDITIONS HARD on his way to seek help free world during recent months both Vorkuta and Megadan, two developed and that their

In He said: have been in a position to give towns which owe their existence populations are increasing.

"The young people there, he noted to his dis- of the Polar region, with every appointment (and relief) the public a great deal of up-to entirely to the forced labour February 1963, Magadan waa there, first-hand dale,

Information communities

boing promoted to a town of territorial right, count on having more that he had almost landed brought into the news. There Importance, and in ubout the forced labour system

December concern shown for them, Suoh

in the grounds of Chequers, In the more remote

story of meaning, however erroneous, to was formed And Vorkuta. In where displayed. Some of Vorkuta strike in the these cames which have hither the case of Vorkuta, however, young miners of Vorkuta live country residence..

inr, to had so sinistor a significance. the ellmalle conditions are such in hard of 1953, in particular,

dwelling conditions, But despite these flights, mada a great impression in the PHOTOS PUBLISHED that there could be no question without well-equipped which often fall short, or

the Coal West, and news of it has no

of a growing population" there,

Comrado On March 2, 1954 the Soviet ware it not for the forced labour doubt penetrated over the ether.

Zaryadko, overshoot, the mark, pilota to the other side of the Iron Literary Gazette published some system and for the Soviet Goy ought to settle these questions, a say that gliding is as safe

bit Curtain

photographs of Magadan. The ernment's determination further mor quickly. The building So the Soviet press has every article which went with them to develop an area rich in coal, of a Paldeo of Culture has been a car cruise on an empty

show that contained such try to

phrases cs; (MĄ. The

to whom begun in Vorkuta but it is going road." Vorkuta and Magadans are real beautiful, well-bust towar with the Vorkuta delegate of te slowly, Young railwaymen DE Sceptica still doubt the

a Komsomol Congreed referred our department have no club at ly normal localities whatever many-storeyed houses, with the former camp Inmates may the clubs his la Magadan to aro in some way connected with. We have neresis of the "tree" and Mr Thomas answer that

theatre, hospitals, kindergartens can only be boys and girls who all and no gymnasium, although sport's safety. To this Pro Very long winterfessor Varley, Mr Welch

the Soviet empire. The is of is a clear attempt to give a new 1953. a new administrative area concern, however, is not the Prime Minister's offlelat,"

the

summer

fell the world..

The Soviet counter-campaign_day." eached a climax : during the

Artiole in Izvestia on Komsomol (Youth

League) January 21, 1954 gave a similar Congress which, ended recently, ky roxy picture of the develop Among the carefully selected ment of Vorkuta. Its called

tha labour camps, whether they

hostels.

n, are the children of inmates, of workers are so heglected, 000 there are some hitches to administrative and palice per hesitates to contemplet but only when the glider

exe conditions which set must be sonnel, or themselves convicts who have been freed micured by the Mave laboures, iin hot mirbörné,