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THE GANGS NEED ONLY A PUSH

By ARNOLD FIELD

London. They operated at Ascot, Epsom,

FS Britain on the eve of Brighton, Plumpton and Kemp-

gang

warfare? Will rival factions come into the cpen to protect their leaders? Scotland Yard is

ton Park racecourses,

They made thousands every car. They claimed "territorial rights" on the courses, and de- manded ground money,

alert to the danger sluce A lender, of the East End

the stabbing in Soho character nicknamed Spot.

of

was # Mob

insulted by the Boys. Three Jack Blaningham

hundred

... his

followers planned revenge. They went to Plumpion Again The nin-

Can gang warfare break out on a big scale in Britain ? It has happened. And it can happen again.

A push, a shove, an exchange of challenging words ог daring Intrusion into somebody ekte's business, could make the underworld a restless hell.

And suddenly could come the signal for a new phase of thuggeryke kind of thuggery

tra!

plagued rucecourses in

Britain more than 30 years ago,

Bluck years of violence. Mobs carrying revolvers, razors, Inuckledusters, fron bara, broken bottles, knives, choppers. The roughs stoppert at nothing. INDL even murder. They terrorised

blackmalled They

you

and

bookler and punters threatened: Pay up or suffer the pay-off.

Even the bookies who. saw notorious pickpockets round their stands kept sitemi. Silence meant safely: exposure resulted in thugs rushing in, or waiting to attack outside the course,

Didn't Complain

The brave and deflant were quickly "dealt with." They didn't complais again.

of

bulances were busy,

The Birmingham boss sought on armistice. He went to the home of his East End counter- talked.

part. They drank and Peace, thought both ranga. But the Binningham man was found shot outside.

None Would Yield

The wounded gangster would not prosecute. But his hench- men sought vengeance, Three men were ceshert. Hammers and sandings were used. AL Hurst Park a

man armed with in uxe was arrested.

The feuds alarmed the coun- try, but the terrorials were un- perturbed. None would yield to the other.

More bookles were slugged. More punters went home with Mare big Rights broken noses. between the rivals ended in gaol

sentences,

In 1921 the Birmingham Boys and the Leeds Thugs got 10- gether. They were out to finish the London Italians.

On the last day of the Epsom meeting a parly of the Bir- minghum Boys left in a motor- coach to head south. The Leeds crowd were on the same road.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

1955.

When Bulganin Comes To London Cummins

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The guna salute with

The Guards present arm with umbrellas-not vifies...

The police are given more

sympathetic uniforms...

Piccadilly Circus renamed

'Red Square'

a hymn of peace...

DID-AF HAPPEN

A

NYTHING can hap- in Hollywood. pen

21

Í had a job working for Paramount and suddenly 1 was given an along with And the gangsters prospered, The Birmingham contingent "assignment" They sold tickets to aid good thought they were the tallans. my friend B. to make friends-thugs in gaol. Bookies For ten minutes both sides Victims lay wounded

screen play out of "The were pestered to buy. Refusal battled.

Buccaneer,

play by meant a row which ended in on the roadside.

to many victims being take

Sabini? Darby Sabini caused Stallings and Anderson. hospitals.

more

trouble on racecourses Gangs who arrived early sold than any other man.

Of course there was need His gang pitches and suppiled betting cost Bookies thousands offor haste; that is always the Jists and tic-tac men to bookles. pounds of every meeting. They first necessity in Holly- They also wanted to be "pro- opposed the Birmingham Boys wood. And B, was about to tection men," determined to and other Invaders.

A wife. I rivals face

marry menecing the When Sabini arrived on #

but she bookies. At a price, of course, course extra pollee were called, which one,

Strongest and best known of But he mellowed. He retired number two or three in the the gangs were the Birmingham and Ilved in a semi-detached batting order. And this wife Boys, the East End Mob, the villa in Brighton. He died five

was one of the bluest blood of Los Angeles.

Italians and the Leeds toughs. years ago,

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"The Buccaneer" was not

*

IT was the usual Holly- wol premiere of that era. The surping crowds, barely controlled DU platoons of poller, could miss nothing of that was going on.

The visitors received by the P.M. in proletarian clothes.

London Express Barv:CD

WORLD PREMIE

the bride. The days slipped by weary of this three-handed upon Stallings and. Anderson's

1 оп

weary

apparently, and it seemed as if up by fast. cars bringing us, Awaiting us were invitations, directors-not even with make

Blaze of glory

bio-

and the pile of typescript grew arrangement.

pluy and Mr Rafael Sabatini- higher and higher as we raced It was the usual Hollywood ceased to draw upon the against our deadline. And we premiero of that era, with graphies of Sir Henry Morgon won our race. We had to de- millions of candle power being for incidents in the life of his liver

our work on a Monday; expended, along with a public Captain Blood something, I the Friday before. hotel stoutly abode by its de-

wo address system, so that the hasten to add, that Mr Sabatini elsion. So B. could give his new great play: it dealt with an in- checked the last page of type surging crows, barely controlled was perfectly entitled to do. Wo

end on wife a honeymoon in the new cident In the life of Sir Henry script,

Saturday wo by platoons of poller, could miss had been drawing on those same

on. sources, hotel, and he was set upon doing Morgan and it was wanting in drove back into Hollywood, all nothing of what was going The marriage

social so, just to show his new in-laws content-there was not nearly three of us, two of us

We were only writers, so that we were not invited to say a triumph to B. because then that blue blood wasn't every enough material in it to nil in and satisiled.

few words over the loudspeaker now, I believe Los thing.

two hours of the hectic action

We had been out of touch all to our admirers; in the matter Angeles society looked down

of the screen. So we had to this time with Hollywood; we of

But for one full hour we had Hollywood

But "The Buccaneer" had to pad it. scor

sonal publicity writers, of of personal upon

had heard no gossip, we had no course, could, not compete with seen cur screen play come to life be made into a screen play, and But B. could society.

give

not even, for that. adhered more closely to our new wife something which her by B, and me and quickly. No

The road between Hollywood knowledge of any new develop- film stars,

matter, with producers. nor with script than would have been the wealthy father could not give time to spare for honeymoons, and Palm Springs was burned ments until our return. his daughter, because in Palm

case if ever our play had reach- Palm in response to our telephone Springs a new hotel had just would have to forgo

for that vers up men, although we stood on ed the screen.

see it ell "Do we have to good requests

a level with electricians. opened with the announcement Springs or turn down a

every book that had and

through?" I asked. been written about the life of Saturday night. Warner Bros. that only reservations by Holly job.

In the end we found a

We passed through the crowd rom announced the world premiere way Sir Henry Morgan, and

Of course we had to. If two wood people would be accepted:

unobserved by алуспе. Оur the idea of course was that film round the difficulty: we went olt, these books we extracted in- of a new star, Mr Errol Flynn.

young men got up and stalked colossal adaptation of white in 4

waistcoats and tails out of a world premiere before Incident, putting slorg

then stay there B. and Mrs B. and myself, on a cident after could

by novel and "Captain Blood," into screen

Anished, Hollywood form on

was that was what one wore at film it without being pestered for auto- triangular honeymoon in

in those days in premieres new hotel. The bride could sit grafting them on to "The Bucs Rafael Sabatini. graphs.

al would be greatly offended: So of by the swimming pool in the cancer to make a sereen play Warner's had, allotted us seals though the bride'a ermine (she ended in a blaze of glory doing We went, all three us Hollywood--were wasted, we stayed, and "Captain Blood" Any such announcement desert min (what more could a

together without giving much was carrying on her shoulders naturally made the whole world bride d'estre?) while B. and I on the determined to get into that hotel worked and worked

very consideration to. the question the

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the screen play.

screen, plays, and "The Buc- Henry Morgan did at the end except whether the bride might not be the rewards of at least three just the same thing as our Sir

would pay the next stories had converged again. instalment), attracted 1 few

The applause burst out and alences in some slight compen- the lights came on and E. and I sation for her misery at Palm blinked at each other. The first Springs.

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The

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Ho has the typical water for farmers,

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Ho

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We entered the theatre

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of

our

screen

Triangular

thing we had to do was to ex- plain the situation to the bride, who had sat neglected through the performance-she ought to have been used to that by now. and And the next thing we had to we sat down in our seats, and do at any rate the next im

hours one day when my

the last lingering star came in portant thing, thirty-six hand suddenly began to dip and and sat down with only suf- later was to go to Paramount dip involuntarily," the major cient delay to allow the audience and be fired, ignominously, neck explained.

practised for Consider his record. He was Major Pogson, followed by months.

Soon the fame of the anal chance of inspecting the and crop. subaltern who could

The lights went out and the the local town council cham- seconded from the Indian Army his 65-year-old wife Hilda, whe Army

to the Madras Government to possesses tho same strange "see water under the earth ber, you would say "Indian and water in desert areas.

credits began to reel themselves power, entered the caves while spread throughout India.

and Mr Quarrell gave Army"--and you would be

them light

Madras

Government off through the projector,

Errol We were told that if we had Since he retired in 1930 e from a flickering lantern.

asked the Army to lend them "Captain Blood" started. has mode. 2 llying locating

for a three-month Flynn made his first appearance. stayed in Hollywood and heard breweries, In an echoing cavern 70, yards

trial period.

He was hand the gossio, instead of frittering Then followed He was good. of official employ-some, and he could act, he could away our time on a triangular leathery complexion, cor boards in all parts of Britain. began to "raverse"

along one ment. During that time he speak, he could fence. Clearly honeymoon in Palm Springs, we

between achieved

00 ретсепt rect manners, a fine upright He was the first man to strike wall, Suddenly his hands hold-

we were witnessing the rising should not have drawn our sub- ot oil in Britain, and the well be ing the "Z"-shaped piece and 100 percent success in of a new star, but B. and I had stantial salaries doing work that carriage despite

done by a his 70 divined" through hundreds of wire began to revolve rhythmi- diagnosing water, which tock no thoughts to spare for Erroi had already been years, an M.C. from World feat of granite near Edinburgh cally. His wife confirmed an him all over the country, into Flynn. For the arst episode we rival firm.

Parsee "Towers of Silence," and saw on the screen was the first If we had ever read "Captain' opisode in our newly finished Blood' There was no excuso "We traced # semi-circle many strange places,

script

ex- for us--Hollywood makes can locate hidden treasure. This from the cave wall round which NOT PSYCHIC

"Umph!" said D.

cures but does not accept them is how it happened,

the influence ran." the major

The scene changed and the Land we were fired. But that would

Tradition only scratch

the has it that

episode began to develop. second

a final footnote, Stallings the surface of the amazing treasure of the Druids is buried told me. Then we worked out

the centre of the whole circle. The major denies that his Errol Flynn camo striding onto and Anderson's play, "The Bue Major Pogson

somewhere In the 21-mile Your cup is there, 1 sald, power is psychic. "I feel noth-

an cancer,"

"ronched the screen two Within the next few weeks,

Indentured servant on the West years lator, having passed Major Charles Aubrey Pogson, caves round Chislehurst, Kant. Pointing to a spot on the cave ing special physical or mental. the screen again. He was

But by I do like peace and quiet Indian plantations, and he was through other hands. Other archaeological factors ex-Indian Army, will begin one

Mr Quarrell was amazed when I am dowsing." he said. serving a brutal master,

then the hero had ceased to be Without

Jamaica word of the strongest treasure hunts seem to support the claim.

he dug for a This is how he gels results.

walks Blowly A CHALLENGE ·

few moments and produced the He

Flynn

were the same and had become Laffitto in New dicated, "It's amazing," he told wire out in front of him with things that Sir dicary Morgan's Orleans. But the title remained,

concentrate master did to Sir Henry Mergan at least... "I Quarrell, me later..

not only in the biographies we WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED had read, but in the script::re. had just completed.

01D IT REALLY HAPPEN?

War I. and an

occasional is still gushing.

flash of "curry and red pep- per" temper.

J

"Influence."

Now he has proved that he

honeycomb of

So

Mr Charles

subterranean

•

But

over

the

cup-exactly under the spot in- ground holding the "Z"-shaped Er things that master' did to Sir Henry Morgan in

both hands.

The sources ------------------- "Limph to vu, weld I to B. The third episoda wan exactly

this country has ever seen-a bid to discover the hidden treasure of the ancient Druids,

He will uno only his hands and -two

-shaped wires secretary of the Speleological And so the amazing major elghtly, and try not to think made out of knitting needles, Society, who has marched for has been asked to make a full he says.

And If 'anyone can discover the treasure in vain for. many survey of the caves in Bercht As he crosses burled water or the gold of the Druids, Major years, recently issued -a' chal- of the Druids, gold.

either his left It will precious metal, Pogson

tia 'the' rear.

all over the take him a fortnight,

do .pulse lengo to dowers

or right hand begins Ever sincó

1813

when he world to prove their claims of

and I there really is anything up

down Tythmically. found he possessed the extra being able to divine burled there, I expect to find it the Sometimes both hands pulse. ordinary power of dowsing, he metals by finding the Druids, `major saki, My wife and Ho traces the influence, then has been achloving the seem- gold.

have

already discovered a counts the number and strength ingly. "Impossible."

only one dowser was confl- strange square of Influence In of the pulsos, A graph is, drown the same or the third episode in our script. The fourth. Doweing, or water divining, is dont enough to take up the another part of the

• drom - these roadlines and

was the same as our. the power of locating motals, or challenge the amazing - Major But how does the major do it secret oil coefficient depen-episode water underground, sometimes Pogson.

and how did he first discover dent on the geological strata of arth, and our fourth was the And through hundreds of foot of to test his powers, Mr the power? rock, clay,

his depth at the water or metal, the sixth episodes were exactly no scientific explanation of how where in the honeycomb of father-in-law, en architect. In Oil and different metals are

After that the two stories to divided by the variety of the power KOWLOON } major has been demonstrating, entrance, he had buried a silver.

that it is a deot for 40 years. cup' containing! 83 bil-crowne, že designed. "I was walking "irada pecret,

similar.

YES

NO

keep this panel by your walli" moviereir

other story, in this series

and sand. There is Quarrell, told him that some. · · 'He learned it fratrusts the district. This give the same as the film's fifth SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. done, but the amazing caves within 50 yen of the Indle who, bed the ulding hand movements, out this is a began to venre beches that Jee Hever

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