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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY, 22, 1935..

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PLANE SHADOWED PIGEON TO BLACKMAILER'S LAIR

O

NE reason why In- terpol's intereep. tions must

bo

¡LA

swift as lightning is

because of international

criminals' constant recourse to air (ravel

these days. Crime fliesliterally.

Gangsters cat, as

Inter. from pol's files record, fly Paris to Amsterdam in the morning, snatch a diamond or two there in the after- noon, and be back in Paris to dine out on the proceeds the same evening.

the police, er mit be able to act with lightning speed Now a new em transmitting fatter-

station, exclusively

pol's use, heng built on the outskirts of Prac

The worst trouble at Swag

police

be with travelies a cheqim jongen bes The criminals, skoiva pickpcke, je Sastrational lauris, especially

دا

in

radway Ruther

Ings, and more then wullets und often their purports, als Many four sky, int cinement). from the enck's viewpoint, keep both in the same packet

Bogus 'Phone Call

142 $0.

The usual feeliniqtie in have the traveler's signation at the cheque's bussy insert a Ialse one, and then support this with a fake passpoli in geswats Fascat passed 3.17 skulen Gravellen i herptes 19- cently at

at à dc cd Swiss funky

Seventy-futur

before he was tought

But Hose who are not caught can quite easily beard a plane

to n fat country.

At une Indul airport aerint trafle 121 muggled Roll tas

tim

By A. J. FORREST

Then he ordered the pilot, an aceremplice, to circle low Dret a tuntas lake while he slowly FARLIGA UV Ted ber BICONS WAIS beely to the cockpit's side and. as it slumped there, balanced

between sky and wi fer, he gave is a final shove to pitch it ovST - feared theyugh the opened hood assumed such proportions that

The noisy splash as the girl's the lake dis- bltched into authen dies bnly police and custours have installed

apparatus turbed l

Audriun slitary known

**ld eye."

aneraft's errukie fisherman. The

Croused his Switched out as passengers pass flight had already Into the examination lds, attention Young and strong, he

phinged in and within eighty rings a bell whenever gold registerst

yards found the

girl. brought Beautifully dressed in gorge her ashore, uncut her bonds bus suris, the high Caste Hin and, though she was blindng women, basing declared them- fast and was truly bruised. no gold, he succeeded an reviving br caused the dricetor's She survived

wiver

Currying

recently

to ring maistenlly They The were asked to undress and their clothes were searched those oughly, but not a grain of gold could be truendi. wuld not be

means of transport

can aleo serve the forres of law. After a particularly bold, well- planted!

roblary watch Neuchatel,

Eugene ordered the pliot to virele low over a mountain lake while he slowly manœuvred the girl's neenselors body to the cockpit's side. As I slumped there, he gave it a Bon shove to pitch it overboard through the opened hood.

hit craft, circulating overhead,

bestan to shadow it

11

New It-

des

to blast the rock rotinucl with machine-gun bullets.

Air urveilance proved

મ ul when godsend York

ganger, having kropped "a judge's child, mailed

currier pageon to him, manding that he should attach the child's moth puaney 1,000-dollar b, Lo #capsule bard's 171

und und r

wing liberate it

The Judge, wisely, asked for police assistance the them freed the bird, with note attorbei, But is it took off, so two air-

+

Their task was not as diffeoll its ak seemnel, For, after a flight of about try anies, they ཐཱཏྟཾ ༣ the und zooin down to its luf The toll's position was radine il 10 -

sch casty local police alerted as the atrevalt approach- et their district.

E Louwag. - Monsieur F terpol's Preskient mud Honorary the Ispector Geral Belgian Ministry <if Justice, records in his book "Crimsaf and Thetles" Pahre Techique

Instance where

sunilar

Focus on FINCH

af

W

1wn Switzerland, Yet the "eye"

So the author fury switched on X-ray on to the weed ladys

Finch OULD Mr Peter

not be needing a case of champagne now, the wine merchant was anxious to

not

Swim defectives thew at once Fo e knew, Mr Peter Finch assured him, over Paris, where they thought theves had

the telephone, that the situation was at hiding 2

desperate. Then he poured me a glass of Inter Beaujolais.

and their secret was dumediately There this

Each

hot, the kerk

logist

swallowed

quantity of

Kold nuggets!

A

24 Viehtrese

Kick.

with

The FULL, authentic and the French

Surete,

they

inside story of INTER- mcked up tw

bufi'm contract had resulted in a flood of cails of them, POL, the organisation

Hilde K- national

Unik uf hei

Eugene,

tritrus rook

of Polish traction, tried

to

the

XL 1K 3

to be

His

!

year

after- The TAG

The news that he was to sign a £70,000 People wanted to his Dolphin Square flat. him to buy, to donale, to dine-or to pay

up.

"They all seem to think," he said sadly, "that I've already got the £70,000. That's the amount I'm supposed to get over seven years. If I last that long." (In 1961 he will be 45).

which fights inter-ringleader was

crime all found.

tulaway boy friend, over the world, which seemed perfect two has been the means ex of bringing thou-

Israeli Con of criminals al Bureau Though he will from sands hide

reported to In- draw his £70,000 to justice. Written pol from

on what might be called her, the under with the complete co- Tel-Aviv world's

it had caught

never system Finch of the a burglar call-fat time

hobo, od Shalom walter, sheep-hand) leaves staff of INTERPOL Gilter with

dono too He badly.

could particular has not little scope (of

up to date sufe-breaking afford that case of

champagne. Judge, the only

luxur

him.

Bul un

happily

fur

10 m-

system, operation

espacially Vienna,

effective disappearances.

that he

never-

But

Her hiding place wan son kit, which suggested discovered, so was her new boy might be an old band. fricaul Hts personality was then Interpol's pleasure when, he has thought of studied. Then, late one even consulting its dossiers, comparing permitting himself telephone call,

ing

she

✪ The news that he is reaching the top of a moving stairway to stordam starts the telephone ringing : but this is what the callers tenin.

[f

it

His £70,000

is not yet

in the bank

Helgian blackmalter

trled to

use a pigeon to extort money from ble victim.

The crook went to a big roll- WBY terminus 12% Brussels 1 dispatch his carrier bird to his intended viellin. There, te would knew, such a despatch excite little notice.

He ordered his vietim, under threat of exposure, to attach the hush money, in fils instance » 10,000 Belgian franc note, to an aluminium tube under the bird's WILK. After police consultation the plot of a Belgian military machine undertook try

10 follow the bird home

The police provide:1 a fast car to wack the aircraft and the alt- craft truckej the bind.

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The pilot needed to fly but twelve miles from his mirtie143 before, to his delight. he saw the bin five into

home cote The blackınınfer was watching. His hand stretched into the enge to grab the bird and The Justi money.

Burt The

scorerly hurt he calmed bird's Butterings before the law grabbed him, and it was his turn to flutter, inwardly at least.

Which Will Judge?

On subject for discussion al Interpol's General Assembly is! Home last mouth WHER Inter- national air

11 regulations relation to penat vitences eon- mitted in aircraft. It is hoped that member states will agree

udont a eltur-ent uniformity procedure.

At present, great complica- fins can arise it, for example,

Canadian Pinne tus

from Montreal to Barcelona in Spain, Then, while it is over the At- Intle, outside territorial waters, 5 German passenger CHA the plane stabs or otherwise fatally wounds

Turk. The 'plane lands Brst in Eire.

The captain at oner reports This criminal set he may even collect

from wit- statementet Bess. But what will the Eire authorities do about R7 Which

nation of those interested competent to try the offender?

explodes in all directions, I was recipien? of the usually the explosions."

A woman who met him aft eecing Othello said: "So you are normal. I saw you next to Orson Welles and thought you were i

sums uD on Welles: "There is no one I would rather with for go around the town drinks and laughs, even if I had to pay. But if he offered me £70,000—I wouldn't act with

tu

received

WILS the purchase bogas photographs, record and Anger- allegedly from prints, it discovered that Isruel's of an icon. And he her current escort, telling her burglar was none other than the decided he couldn't

notorious international Jewel afford that that her life was in danger as

This rascal

Soon Finch will Eugene had discovered their flat thief, Szulim 1-

Kot the at once

shock of a

"Daphno Laurcola" This was a Iltetime away and she must fly with him to safety.

when he found out that his true be seen in his first top starring

tremendous opportunity. "Make Me An Offer." role. identity was known, and severat

For Finch the stairway to The audlilon was an ordeal, him again." "Pack up a single suitcase

countries besides Israel

wero and meet the in one hour from

him at

crossroads, anxious to accommodate the now Schielasen-Spau," said the voice, in their prisons,

But

The suppression

own crops

of

at his success story.

Chapter

1:

Sir

Olivier, the Good hero of the story,

heroin of "I Can't Bear You!"

trame in Egypt lcd to many She obeyed impletly.

wity

feilahs in the Nile Valley growing their when she kept her rendezvous

མ་ two inaaked men stepped from noxious plants, including both

and closed in on

oplum and Indian hemp. They the shadows

she her. Before

could even disguised their drug plots well, was clapped sowing them in the middle of scream, hand

4 over her mouth, a hypodermic legitimate cereal crops, and for

authority needle jabbed into her arm, and bidding

Insensible, trample on their precious rics bundled, she was into a waiting car and taken at to investigate what might

to a private airfield. when she came to she wDE

beyond,

any

Tuesday,"

Laurence

Finch Sav

"It ever Sir

playing in Moliere you come to Landon," factory in Australia, Laurence told him, "do get touch with us" No

to

A BOUQUET

great."

insisted

stor with

to

"Elephant be made

4: Olivier Chapter Finch the top has been an escalator; but when it was over

should has but a slow one. He

not heard a voice saying out of the that Finch

Olivier in Lady dark; "You don' know me, got there overnight.

Walk," which was have

ployed young

l'in man, but

Edith Five big stars

in Ceylon and Hollywood. I'll be seeing you on major roles in the five chapters Evans.

He sent them off with his blessing: Lady Olivier retumed Edith 15

says Fairy and Finch, "and what presence of suffering from a nervous break- down and had to be replaced in mind she has, too. Once 1 got the film by Elizabeth Taylor,

RISING STAR something in my eye when she was in the middle of her big speech. Tears were coming down

was still in my chock, Somehow,

But Finch's Mar during

rising. As a prolego of the that complicated speech, she managed to whisper to me: Oliviers, Hollywood treated him Have a good cough, boy, in the will deference and paid him a next laugh. It worked, too. salary of about £12,000. At this The Finches arrived In Lon-

"When

I was forcing the slago Sir Laurence was begin- her ex-lover, knife in hand, bending

her, over

his investment, but he split the eyes But authority was not easily don and found a bouquet from comedy once she said a memorning to show a definite pront on

their able thing to mo: Comedy profit with Finch. dinting Hatred. "SO you fooled. Police inspectors took to "Larry and Vivien" in

parts out of thought to escape me, my pretty the air. Through their observa- hotel room and a message may firing powder

Chapter 5: Finch stars with cannons-not cannon balla sneered. darling."

"Father Guinness "But now tion glasses, in one season in Ing: "Do ring us."

Chapter 3: Finch at the Alee Finch rang and was soon on I have you secure in my cagle's the Assult district alone,

spotted oplum crops which, if the way to cocktails at the instigallon of Sir Laurenco Brown." And from that fine and nest above the clouds."

perhaps to Orson Welles's modest actor learned

"Guit "Don't

don't, Eugene!" she left undestroyed, would have Oliviers Chelsea cottage, with plays Iago

his most valuable lessan. opening Othello. acrtamed, as he reached towards yleided, they estimated, at least Sir Laurence himself

"took his mic- say than half tons of dope. Live and

the door. This was high living. From Olivier he had learned nes," he her. "I can't bear you! Kill me,

cess more calmly anyone that knife, it

Sir Laurence put him under dramatle discipline, from Dame In America also there is in- klli

me now with

tamo. That it you must she gasped hystericreasing awareness of the air contract. This was even higher Edith dramatic delicacy "From Wow how the ones

Orson," says Finch, I learned W hitting her harshly, "you can

In fact, four Texas

must be able to live equally

flying in a small aircraft, with Spotted From The Air|

his

lance.

they

of either fly away with me or leave sheriffa so outrage writers

"I

In

cannot

cally, "Very well,”- ka snarled, craft's value to police surval− } ]view glazi 10 say that he has how to dodgo bolter and fater to you or docen't: and that you Westerns today that, instead of a profit out of putting me than I ever dodged at rug well with it and without it. For contruct" rays Fir.ct football. With him standing can be won or lost for trifing So, pummeling her again into saddle has eight weet hun and moosi ir rensons

He high nearly, an

I think Finch

me for good-dead."

realised

hle rage, and stabbing her twice mult of a malefactor, they jump when he signed me up. F

this Which is something 'rare with his knife in her chest and into the cockpite of their own always been extremely gen-auch in diameter, I not only

didn't get upstage, I hardly got for an eator on the brink of Jeft shoulder, he bound and self-piloted

aircraft. |'erous.” official gagged her, having washed her Then if the runaway when Chapter 2: Sir Laurence co- Into the lighting pa

"I Inmated from him not to fame, in the teeth as she tried to bite spotted does not surrender in starred him with Exame Exalth

wiantly, they will not BONADĜO | EYEDE

Bridies have so much talent that it him.

in

Thomas Wiseman

require

15 for

Such problems quick decision. For the lows of most countries permit of deten- Bon up to forty-eight hours. a maximum, in most enves twenty-four hours only, pending an extradition witter. Then, it no order is forthcoming, the local authorities must grant release,

So it is caential in order to defeat crime in the air that the

international

Jechnique for coping with serial criminals shoul! be loophole-prest, swift- working and effeiet.

Thank to the ligh speel movemente of aircraft, and travel schedules which must be kept, time here is of the eri-f

minal's side. Unless, then, £1 well-oiled, fast-working legr1; machinery springs to fe at the very instam of his landing, he muy sill cheat justice usti

Interpol

CRUNC

urch problems.

unnecessary

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