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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1956.

Beginning tomorrow..... THE BIG WEB

PERCY HOSKINS has been recording the background to the conference of Interpol-the international police organisation in Viennis, Now comes the big. surprise. Beginning in the China Mall tomorrow: "THE BIG WEB." This is fact ....this is fiction-BOTH blended to make a compelling story from the city of the Third Man. But first, more, of "My Vienna Crime Dossler," by Hoskins."

Where the REAL

Third Man

is buried

Vienna.

TRIKING illustra- tions of the maxim that crime does not

pay-or

if it does not

for long are to be found in this city.

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CHARMAINE BEAUTY SALON the original "Third Man."

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The tombstone bears the Name Nikolaus Borrisov, but he was known to the operating smuggling gangs

the Iron on both sides of Curtain as Benno Blum.

one montive

Bull protection In his smuggling activities,

In a very short time Blum had expanded considerably the kidnapping end of his business. Mysteriously people begun, to vanish, never to be heard of again.

In one year from the other side of the Iron Curtain he

brought into Austria tons of cigarettes, at 11 cost to the Austrian economy of Home 22,500,000.

His

world of violence and 1980 chicanery collapsed in when six police bullets shot him down in the French seeing of the occupation zone.

.

A second example is to be

found to a 10-foot by six-foot

call of Stein Frison. Its occupant

the

the long arm of Interpol,

It's fact and fiction both

for the past thres and probably The Austrians found him

next 12 years is Manfred

and double Lentner-Fraxmarea victim of guilty of murder

his bigany, but

defending cotanisci

to appealed

the Supreme Court and pointed out that his client had only been extradited by the French on a charge of murder, and could not

well.

THREE WIVES

PRAXMAHER was a survivor therefore be tried for bigamy as

of the ill-fated yacht Kan- garon in which millionaire play- boy Freddie McEvoy and his wite were drowned when the capsized in a storm. off the Moroccan coast in November 1951.

Although he gave false names, Interpol established that Prax- inter WES wanted for the murder in 1945 of a Berlin

The Supreme Court agreed. blgamy senience Was

The

quashed.

Praxmarer's matrimonial remained unsolved tangle until last autumn when he de

cided to clear up the mess by introducing divorce proceedings against all three wives,

Like the fictitious HarryY Lime he dealt in flesh and blood. Beginning in 1947 as a small-time cigarette smuggler carrying lorry-

It

the Arst probably loads of tobacco across

The French authorities extra- time in the history' of any Austro-Hungarian border, For every Russian-born cils-

placed person abducted from dited him to Austria, where court that a man had pleaded he then became a kidnap Western Austria and delivered it was discovered he had to be divorced from three ping expert.

to the Soviets he was granted different names.

the

woman,

WYDUS

women at the same time.

Concluding HANOI UNDER HO CHI MINH, by

STYLED FOR SMUGGLING

ON viw in Vienna:

a anuggler's waist- coul. Packets alk over the body are atmiled with ́rald bare This is "the big-ting crime that Tisterpoll·la fighting urry day.

After a hearing Hosting O As in most Continental judi- little over an hour, a Salzburg clary systems a suspect is treat- judge arrived at a Solomon-Ilke od os guilty until he clears decision to divorce Praxmaret himself. from his first wife and manual the two other marriages on the grounds that they were unlawful. Now Proxmarer back in his cell with no more matrimonial troubles, and secure in the knowledge that he has escaped the consequences of his bigamous activities,

concern-

But he all keeps his lips tightly shut on the many un-

answered questions. ing the last

McEvoys.

hours of the

An Important factor which enables Vicaneso police to keep the fact that down crime is they make it so tough to prove one's innocence.

Russell Spurr

FEAR IS UPPERMOST IN

T

visitors. No

matter

THE RED WAY OF LIFE

who

especially

HE now Vietnam

Foreign Office af- Security is a pathological condition with fected the reception the rulers of the new Vietnam. Everything office system of from buildings to harmless statistics are Communist China. A room with plush upholstered closely guarded. There is no reason for furniture was set aside for this fear, says the author in the last you came to see, you landed of two articles unless it be that. up there, perched on the edge of one of the chairs, sipping sour black tea or puffing one of the excellent cigarettes made in Tonkin at what British American tobacco companies. Never a glance into a private office-always the same road block at the head of the corridor, com- plete with slogans and portrait of "Uncle" Ho.

were

once

So are even the most harmless

I began to ask myself it it were due to fear of internal

But no, the real

economic statistics.

of

usual

the necessary

There is no Act of Habeas Corpus, and innocent men have been looked up for as long as a couple of years.

||

The investigating judges are mostly young men training for a judgeship or a State prosecutor's carcer arıck the more scalps they can pin on their belts the better.

INNOCENT

THE judge can Interrogate suspects whenever he likes, at any hour of the day or night, and he can also ¿telde to leave them in gaul, for any length of time,

Sometimes the judge comm- ploJety forgets his part and becomes prosecutor, behaving in way that would not be tolerated in any English court.

1

It is probably a blessing that Austria has abolished_expital punishment Quito a' few men behind the grim walls of Stein Prison are probably innocent.

FOUR PLACES

He or she sees that townfalkNTERPOL has rolved the turn oul to sweep their street

of α

riddle of the man who ap- twice 2 week, attend area

have achieved the evening classes for

Indoctrina peared to

Incredible feat of being in four In addition to the required different countries at the same, uprising, mer these per quat quota of political meetings. He tur counterattack.

or she answers to police if Buy** explanation seemed the ane-ecurity is part of the thing goes wrong,

He was the most wanted man Communist way of life. It sup-

Malcontents are speedily ro plies

ported to the authorities. The on the files, but a close examina- of the allegations showed tions in a Socialist society result is not quite what Staliniston

Communism that to be guilty of the offences, where tbe mainspring of experience

Tho must have bem in London, of anything capitalist competition has been would lead one to expect.

Rome, Zurich, and Barcotona "Would you speak in French way,

A party worker, not a police not only on the same day but, milltary

could not even removed. It exhibits the stick, plesa" he said in French.

to the flag atop the however Hghty, crities, man will call at the person's in two "I am speaking in French" I photograph

get his foot said-in French.

Vicinameso citadel because it slackers and such-like saboteurs house Ho wil

Not that the brand of Com Inside the door and stay there. The voice

a military area". in patient, was was

and

Everyone was suspicious and munism in vogue in North Viet- He will talk and argue for as the soothing. It came slowly

much as four hours until he get over-sensitive,

they

are nam is either threatening or

an admission of error. If been distinctly out of the earpiece.

There have Would Monsieur please speak liable in any new Asian coun- oppressive. in French."

try. Ask an American tourist no large-scale purges since the does not get it, back he comes Marseilles the man was able to "1,1"words falled me.

who

has ever tried to photo Vietminh won power. Only in the next night and night after prove he had

countryside have a few ant the night after that until city. EVERYONE IS

graph the bare-breasted women the

"wicked" landlords felt the the

strayed lamb stagger ex- of Bali.

The explanation was not hard SUSPICIOUS

There was the sure fear of force of the government's power, hausted back to the fold.

Incredible,. I have this, not to And,

A gang had":"forgot" my taking pictures which might

SHAPING OF

from the Communists, but from four copies of his passport and Vietnam up to ridicule.

the

senal!

circle od foreign were touring Extropo under, his hold Snaps of street peddlers were

observers, who watch with in name Interpol caught them all frowned upon as "A relic of the

terest the shaping of this now in its crook-trapping radio web Comrade Duc took me out on old regime," and I

Communist state.

in a matter of hours.

It was here that I met my mentor and suche, Comrade Phan Duc, a resistance worker

TOOK a rickshaw and went round to the Foreign Office, of course it was shut.

Was

A STATE

THERE is no doubt though that

from South Vietnam. Ho had my first photographic cxpedi- steered well clear of the shut-T population la closely

to administer throughout the articles. eight years of war.

for

ended

been an organiser in one of the tlon. I'd expressed a wish to tered French shopping centre. watched. This is particularly so areas the Communists managed take a few pictures,

my But confidence grew with the in the cities, where colonial in- by fucco was longest maintained. half expecting to be passing days.

Hanoi has been divided into photographing almost anything I met with a blank NO.

quarters, districts, blocks of two "They will never let you enop wishock.

Security is a pathological or three streets, down to groups a thing."

So said the bar crowd in the condition with the new rulers of of three or four houses. Metropole. But they were now Vietnam. All important person is responsible for each WTONE The nuthorities were buildings are closely guarded. organisational unit.

N

STUMBLING

ALONG

OC-

TOW he was in Hanol, along with other political workers who had pulled out after the armistice.

told casionally of his experiences, in the English he had so cleverly learned. from gramophona

once did ho cords, but never once express a wish to march back. by peaceful means"

"Unity

he would any, without a trace of home sicknesses. Ho had a wifo and baby daughter in Hanoi, and seemed happy enough with

the Press Section of the Foreign Office.

Comrado Duc soon fixed me

up with the DOG COSITY

pases. Ho got down to im-

THE

THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL

THAT OIL:

WHERE

WILL IT END?

By FREDERICK ELLIS

taking our oil away. It prize

basin. mediate discussion of my pro-is a steady and continuing

grammo.

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One

Americans aro the KUWAIT field, the richest oil market. Héro the Americana of all the Mid-East oll steadily increase their, grip on

the garages. It was a pity, he said. process..

Sir John Blmon, conceded to They own 30 percent of

Andrew American

Mellon that I was stopping auch a

them--the Essos, the Clevolands, Once the Americans hall-share of the riches. Last and the Mobligases short time. Things couldn't bo hurried,

dominated the world's oll year the harven was 54,000,000

And now the latest penetra- Ho was right. North Viet-because of the vast reser tons, Stars-and-Stripes tankerI nam still stumbled along at voir contained within their carted away half, a

flon-the Texas Company's 177– French colonial pace. Everyone

Then

camo

ADADAN, once a million-dollar acqulation of observed the afternoon

own bordera. -

Then the Middle East die of the Americana,"

British preserve, long the envy TRINIDAD OIL... from the President downwards.

With it will to a million tong Offices clamruned up after lunchcoveries were made. And they Britain was kicked out and of rich Trinidad crude and a and even the faulty telephono | grow;

ever-growing the nywiem lay down 'and drowned. Today, the world's oll key is the price of coming back was share in the glistening prospect

share the

with a riches

horde that I came near to

Jungey on

CANADIAN allgold.... one the Mickle East. And the of American companies. afternoon trying to contact Due Americans boss. the business' There aro 140. them giants "Go: American" is the plan. urgently at the office. I picked where once the British proudly to Uddlers. Between them they And with it will go another

now boks 40 percent of Abadan, 13

the hometown percent of room of the Metropole Hotel

American raid on where once they had nothing. surages making the American you it had one too mod fried Mid-Row In TRAQ. It was the biggest carve up stake. 42,4 percent — almost the to break through a mulier of Before the 1914-16 war there over d

same as bossted by the home. was no America Interest, Now

Abadon #play" as the spun Shell and B.P. companies. Affairon America, holda 23% percent of all men call the

The Americans believe in oil. Etrange 1

my best that

which

leod 18,000,000 tons a year and They know it is the fall of the wrench last 2020 33,000,000 tone or black gold" increase.

Morn Vitraeniowe, and a lot of last year

Will It off and ana elucking from the Semale operai Next came the biggest raid, byways of ELITAIN. AThiral, whony: Are sure to lose our oilt (2017) A ̃monei cama on the low, Clos. Britain Azam íchtrolled, a richa prize for young wealthy. Must we lose our oil resourÓRE

| up the phono in the reception | proven (LTN

)

Hoff Now .coma Mihane,

instances at the same

hour.

Yet when the French police. caught

with up

himn

never left that

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