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THE CHINA 'MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.

SECRETS OF

INTERNATIONAL

CRIME

The FULL, authentic inside story of INTERPOL, the organisation which fights international crime all over the world, which has been

the

means

of bringing thousands of criminals to justice. Written with the full co-operation of the staff of INTERPOL.

By A. J. FORREST

66

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TEP this }ાયાઝા, ''

way, mehandise, 18

value abit The was many times hieher

The

when

assayed voice, curt

proved to be heavlly reined. In authoritative, fact, I was the purest of pus

The

particular

young gel.

GIRLS' PART IN GOLD SMUGGLING

or beneath wooden flours or paving stones in the houses of town dwellers,

So, today, the black marksteer In gold han unprecedented opportunities. And, as interpol well knows, the smuggling evil Is causing enormous losses to governments all over the world.

India, por leularly, Is a rich dumping ground for traffickers. According to

to reliable estimates, French settlements in India im- ported 25 lines more gold than

they needed in 1951 and 1953.

and Portuguese settlements eight times as much.

During the last three years, iftigt gold

reized by

The Indian police and customa authorities mounted 11,000 kilogrammes.

Thut, huge as this haul is, it dwarfed by the ten tons of "black" gold rocketeers are now

"black"

is

precautiona

man like a fusilade of gun. gabl, elever, unscrupulus menging into India yearly af

fire as he was settling into his vabin aboard 14 Jinr od for Britain. He look. ed up, fear in his eyes, fu find himself confronted by two plaurelothes officers of men the Melbourne Police, accustomed to dealing with tough mucketeers.

Hy was

properly caught. He knew it. Just when it scored he was all set for a pill Voyage with rich profits at the end of it.

"So That's How!"

Calli

Per vet. ,m the case of allscovery, enormous profl's to themselves.

my possible utentification of H In China, Kren, Thailand, Coman! source.

Altogether.

the Internal nat dans medistri. know Stouggler

Sydney E

a tafive or 20 Sydney, admitted that he had tave led

or

evasions, far Jes to Colombo

and twice to Londen,

111

400 DANCI

rie?

money

Burma-to

mention four conlres only-those fortunate enough to have desperate to convert it into gold, The almost regardless of price.

in Thand, growers

SCE instance, no sooner collect and sell their harvest The they to Berret rendezvous t and there barter their notes with Chinese gold kings for as good a bargain as they can strike.

Value Not Lost

of

Here's

the

WRw other

wha

Searched by suspicious customs officers at Lon- don Airport, the attruo- tive Joung girl found to have a sm

glor's leather pouch concealed ander her two sweaters,

Accord- e le police lehet, he elected hasley eff £20,000 J "islark" goli,

safely unbelled in Colombo, and £40,000 for 400

unters smuggied lato Earpe

The Just fer kold is titl "I man's most ris

inst lable craving Gold, they consider, will never Thousands have been mucdered love its value; and the zolr for . temples pillaged. iols truЛeker is well content to guin

erninsunt.les. passive They let

and vast ha private broken

local quantiles

example of

ing roll of customers who took Que trafficker, feeling that he There.

ke Hire's wish his 11. et s

Jews, currency, permitting him, if it

way they work. A large-scale shot of heroin every

siting pretty with 170 Their pessØKSSONS thrust high. They asked him, stripped of

is an opium-raising country, to distributor of horoin in whole day, at n rate of ten U.S. ounces In gola destined for the down to thes nt we hity un trajtat almost

very gold lines float

Tuckel sale bigger new and

lots, arrested

market, from recently in

dollars, approximately £3 11x, Thalland

which world-wide ramifications, Seoul, wis a North Korean who For, fastened in their teeth hlavy body bell

with

per half-grantune dose.

his gang hoped to extract profits and be trufale, his as Clavie

Pumber of countries and at even mere lucrative in

ran a flourishing trading store

Others, unable to afford such of £30 an ounce, never Rucesed where currencies are midable, lu amuggler varied a goldmine in

himself

confederates. and and his

house

lic of ill-fame.

special as he crossed lund working wn. hones! Several gangs Iz Imanta tare

Ching

spoke perfect Chinese. And it Treatment. So thieves, pick- members of a rival gang hed an *** Qual's H

works." lizens, US well 33 many according tea good evidence,

the highlight

in- of his

pockels and other

tenants of interest in his welfare. is lo Launch prefer to whose de ire grunted

he shiftless palicernaty a ཏྠt》《ཐཱ༦

famous trade, Ananced with the "Ditch" at Pusan

One of them, a gitt of striking ingered his primmer's belt, rat pack

their keep

hot far-reaching corrup- Chinese gold, to use the women supplied at rates ranging from beauty, smiled at him and on

their setruet

Lion. 10m) iwelve

ispatch en by wealth ta guld than to keep it m

agents

he employed not Increly 10 one to two dollars per diluted the pretext of leading him to a ten banknotes, invest it abr ad, or loaded with black market guid rewn pockels, he empJed

of club customers, but to turn shot of .09 obtain

to .01 grammes

where entertainment and Ingots of

some adil gold and

925 rust it in way form to their in one hand, and with herein In

Tare good heroin. them into drug addicts.

were provided, pirern. When weighted,

banks any

official associations. the other. Thus equipped, they

Britain suffers, Loo, from persuaded him to follow her up totalted

dw... Its

Even 391

vast can worm France,

their way

These girls, North Koreans, traffickers into any

in illegal gold, a dark stairway. ite Waa quantities of gold, amounung to city, almost into any society, and often of good family received Criminal receivers in London surprised to be admitted into a millions of pounds in value, are finance, often beneath the noses bonuses whenever they added u

and provincial elties pay up to roo

room where, to his astonishment said to be galted away under- of ufliciat investigators, the dis- regular drug addict to. The Bim's

£10 an ouNED for stolen gold he saw what appeared to be an ground

the gardens of tribution of their murderous clientele. And this monster's N

old woman today, Such rowarda encourage

squatting In peasants' plots, behind the walls, dope.

den, when searched, disclosed a

robberies.

corner, stirring the evening

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in

and

HIS

ONE MAN FINDS SECRET OF HAPPINESS

T

rates.

transfera

were

Continent's

allowed

were

Д

that

But if the receiver his gold to the mont

black markets It "1 verta pleased you follow

Mr Gold Man," sald the me. him bumper profita, can cun

# Kiri. her friendliness suddenly fetching up to £50 an ounce,

freezing.

He started to leave. disposed of in the right quarters.

but too late. The corner Agure Girls As Decoys crouched over the crackling pot was no helpless old woman but Attractive girls are frequently a determined, muscular rufan used by the gangs 05 carriers, who, having plucked an iron go-betweens and decoys. Early rod from he boiling water, on the gold this year a twenty-four-year-old brought it down London girl was intercepted at trafficker's head, knocking him London Airport. When customs out cold women searched her they found Immediately, the man and girl clothes and ripped that strapped "Deart stop us, mate," the for her budgie' and then she'll

her back, tore off his

the gold-Alled driver asked him. "We want to look at her hands, surprised, beneath two heavy sweaters, open

'Daddy

she can't do and say:

3 carrying

After

hours, leather pockets.

BUITIC get back before dark."

"But it's dark now," persisted this....

stuffed with

this unfortuna'e man came to in gold coin

Rowledge.

By JAMES LEASOR

2}-

THE voice that

swered the phone spoke the most cheer- ful "Good morning" I have ever heard.

"What have you got to be so cheerful about?" I asked.

-Everything." he

said-arid

2k

by accident through Just routine phone call, found my Mau of the Weck

him

WENT TO HELP

B

A Greck householder begged to cut a way through minefield near his house, Row- fedge went to help.

But

Howlodge knew

then

when someone Sugges

BORI that Rowledge can't do

to sets out thing, he at once prove them wrong.

"Don't be silly, it's only two o'clock John

that he was blind.

"They told me I couldn't pick "AL Or the year of operations blockberries," he grins, that followed to regain hla right-I can't.

sight, the pain, the loneliness, backwards into the bushes

the branches for of being alive at pull down the wonder

In others.... cll, let Utile be said now.

1945 Rowledge was

November Nov

Rowledge is always cheery; never, never Krumpy or

or outwardly war ried. How can he be so cheer- fu)?

wns

pouch

to

mcret

volued at £130 and platinum a dark and deserted alleyway. valued at £1,522,

to

his he tottered off to the

Afraid

Her commitment was

report back to

to fly gang,

and

turned informer

to Paris and unload her precious police

store there. She would, against both his own organisa-

her

he

which had trapped him.

"Black" Gold

But I can push Prearranged, visit a certain cafe on and that of the rival gang

and wait for a man to sit down and beside her.

Then, directly he gave her the codo sign, the would hand him Over

Governmenta of gold- and smuggler's pouch,

producing countries are frankly would

drop £20 for

services worried about the seale of their rendered into her handbag.

gold leakages today.

South The trouble," an Interpol African gold-mine corperations official tells me, "Is that whereas share the Union's concern over small agents in this racket are such losses which appear to be often

caught, the big men, increasing. And, quite apart

of international

great lomes suffered thus official or

governmental

LUCKY ALIVE

"I'd

from

by

sit rings,

on a

Knives May Flash

But when went to meet him the reasm for his chestfulness

discharged with impaired eye- never, far to seek. stemed very

sight, a husk of For 40-year-old

a man whose depressed. John Row - edge, telephonist to the Port of health had been his pride. Bristot Authority, hos no hands But still within his wounded trev the spirit burned and only one lcg. And he

has body

end whole. He set out to do been blind as well

This month, 10 years ago and all he had done before,

He sits back in his chair in world away,

back. halt n

2069809 "When I first came home,

seventh-floor his

exchange-sm Corporal Rowledge was in felt bashful," he admits. room where he deals with 500 virtually in safety, manipulating treasuries, the gold so spirited Greece with an R.E. section, wait until everyone was out of calls a day (in seven years he their rackets global basis

their tactics with, international crime.

is a fearful 'stimulant to AWBY secking enemy mines,

the room before I'd try picking s

tras only had eight days and altering the hooks absence,

cleverness something up with

whenever influenza), great through

For, ότι the black markets of they'd given me for hands, lights a cigarette (lighter held danger coems to light on their

gold con any country,

bo Then

changed I'd keep on trying irmly against the table top, his tracks."

into опу desired until I'd got the hang of it." other "hand flicking it open)

commodity-dla- currency pr He made himself special

and

monds, forged passports, whisky, thinks the question over. gadget to fit a spade so that he

"First, I'm lucky to be alive

Every kind of ingenully is fast faunches, private alteraft, could dig in the garden as he at all. That's worth being

practised to transport the gold. printing presses, narcotics, guns had done before the war.

cheerful about, surely?

and ammunition. The first week-end he went "Next, I don't regard myself Six kilogrammes of gold

Not surprisingly, conspirators platinum, grammes of out to try this, neighbors, now as being different. meaning well, gathered round made up my mind never to be smuggled out of Austria last in crime, with the world as their stamping around, treat tho As he lay, conscious but help to watch. He pretended he had beaten..... can lay the year, were found concealed in. less, the Greek he had tried to done it all before, and forced table, wash the dishes: has even consignment of dried calf aldaa. racketeer in "black" gold as the

with these vital Hinchpin that keeps help bent over him. He pulled himself to dig under the curious made a fender for his fire-The casko, packed

child.

were routed for Italy, wheels of their evil enterprires out a knife and coolly cut the

gaza,

place, toys for his

turning, lanyard that held Rowledge's Now he can do all he set out In conquering his disabilities, and it was the vigilance of the tumin

If international polled co- watch and made off with it. to do. "It's just that it may and in making his mind his Italian customs which resulted

operation could only scrub out Rowledge remembers it with trke a little more thinking master, John Rowledge bas, by in their seizure.

"I hope it kept about... 11

ver, even smugglers in his notorious activities, scores of However, chance and accident, also dis-

would And commodities, big-crime bosses good time for him," ho

ho saya.... Rowledge married

,, a giri he covered a secret sought by so gold, as in other

And If one black their rackets falling to pleses. He wis strapped to a met at hospital In Roehamp many and found by so few, the can fall cut.

Next Week: Stolen stretcher and taken to hospital (on. They have a little daughter accref of happiness and a cheer-marketing gang undercuts a rival

organisation, 80 miles away. Half-way into of three,

fül mind.

Coat Trick Unmasked "Sometimes," says. Rowledge, the hills he asked for a drinke

And that is why, for me, he paths, then knives

and heads bo split,

Swindler in Millions "sho'll go out pleking groundecl in the Man of the Week.. of water,

By Frank Robbins

A booby-trap exploded under him, throwing him, minus both handy and Д jeg, barbed-wire fence,

out randouT

011 to a

JOHNNY HAZARD

AS ANGELA RUSHES OUT OF HER: APARTMENT TO MEET, JOHNNY

LBKE 18 SPOTTED, BY THE

WATCHFUL GIFT AND DOOLEY!

· THERE SHE GOED) MUST. HAVIL AN APPOINTMENT WITH HAZARD AND WE'LL ÍTÁS ALONG TO KREP IT

He

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sicins,

AND, UNAWARE THAT HE IS WALKING

INTO BANJO'S TRAP JOHNNY ARRIVES

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