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THESE TREMENDOUS

YEARS

IF this were really the ke the fees here, and 1 old:

age of the common man Ernie Bevin would have a claim to be its architect.

Not everyone understood that his prewar association with the International Transport Work- ers' Union gave him. # know- ledge of European politles, which wes a valuable-preparation for the Foreign Omro.

He was inexpressibly shocked when the German branch of the union disintegrated

war.

DISPERSED

before the

'Neither do I let's try the dining-room."

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1959.

MONKEY BUSINESS—BY JAK

Rampering through the ruined sewers of Berlin.

William Barkley's

Personal

Notebook

Part

Three

The curious feature of this lenfiel was that the printer had "When we had been there for

It would be interesting to left out the letter "p** a bit I said to Rught I don't know the reaction of femmi Mikordo looks 110L unlike ike the faces here either. We people the day that Hitler dist, what one imagines a Japanese ogroed, and sal silent for a bit. And if anyone thinks of making Emperor should look like. So 1 "Then sald to Hugh: *For a symposium on this subject wrote that the Socialist candi- heaven's sake let no have one I can give him a beginning. date was none other than the meal with faeca round us that

Mikado! we likee. This is it."

The man of Stool

i beur. The whole

Was

NO TOAST

Mikarda told a friend that this story put him on the map. From that moment his meet- Ralph Asshelon (Lord ings were crowded and

he

Clitheroe) was at Chequers and thanked me for making him on al dinner with the Prime MP. Who is one of the least ung Minister when the word arrived. Previously Mikardo had not chronicled winners of the war? He told me that someone ruled been widely known, but he I would say Sir Andrew Duncan. his glass and said: "Here's to played a very important part

AL Vie Lime, during his Hiller."

at the party conference in 1914. Ministership of Supply, worke

Churchill sald angrily: "W%0 He moved a resolution that was behind on the cement case-

the comrades males Is

Mulberry do not drink fearts to the dead." the party programme for the International

for

He pushed back hla chule end General Election should include were dispersed some to con

too fell into a reverie for A few the nationalisation of coni, roll- idea centration

others comps,

Then he said: "I ways, gus, and electricity, and, high placen

the moments. In the Nazi secret. The purpose of

me of course, the Bunk, work and is vital Importance suppose they will say of

Both Attlee and to the that the biggest thing I did was He did not know which he could not be explained felt sorrier for, but it was this men on the job, yet production to 'sack 5,000 officers In Celro," knowledge which stiffened him was tagging, to put teeth into the Socialist Party, 10 drive out told me that when Sir Andrew pacifist Lansbury from the visited the sites he transformed! Íeadership,

demand the outlook by the sheer

candour of his personality.

hierarchy.

rearmament.

ta and

-prewar Sir David

Once in the Cafe Bavaria in Geneva. he told me. he was PLEA

chatting with a French and

il

German Cunrade. They were all very matey, and with the

Robertson.

MP

was

A son of Sir Andrew's lied at Dunkirk. Much later

the feet in the interests of nattuned effort und commen Sacrilice.

me:

bast GHT NORAG humour the To the war I thought of teenil- German sat 10 The French- man: We will get on well together for a long time, but in seven years we will fight you." B, that was in 1932," he added, wonderingly.

Bevin was an Empire man. I took a nute of these views he

one gave the

ciny: "I you belong to an Empire and see the ship coming and going you are

This sort of thing was much not introspective. But a nation

when I watched which encircled is always in my mind looking home.

To keep

ills secretary, when I checked

appeated lo with him, "Please, please don't mention it. Ir Sir Andrew Kees In the paper he will go to bed for

bear to be week. Ile cannot reminded,"

the Sir Andrew Duncan rise in the

peace, destroy the introspelige Commons to oppose the Sucialist

Government's Bili nationalising

But the joy of his life was Iron and steel in November 1948.

hess of Germany,"

his work in the war,

Reason for a dinner

The debate lasted several days.

"On the first day I gave a full account of the Socialist case.

saw no reason to repent it

AFTER-DINNER speech of all next day when Sir Andrew

admirable honesty and Inllowed another Government mulce one of the made by Lestic speaker to warmth

Impressive mos! Halo (Socialist, West Old- half dozen

speeches 1 ever heard in

hom):-

OCCASION:

dinner given

House.

about

the

sitel

He knew more unexpected by Hale and than all the Socialist Ministers

with the ex-Ministers thrown in.

Hugh Delargy, MP. to put together,

friends.

THE WIT flew

I think the effort undermined with the wine, hlm. He never

Hut

again

Did I make

the Mikardo?

At the 1915 election some one sent me an omell Socialist Party leaflet advertising the Reading candidate, lan Mikardo,

Morrison argued strenuously in favour of free hand, but the resolution was carried and became party policy.

I the Soclulist Government

CAMAYTA

'I got the feeling you guys are trying to make a monkey outa me!'

-(London Express Service).

The Channel tunnel

DOVER. N odd-looking ship moves slowly up and

ΑΝ

tionalised these services, and down at her moorings

ir Mikardo made them do it,

and if I made Mikardo-wit a three miles off-shore. heavy burden Bes on me!

-(Londan Express Service).

Near the bows a timber

Detection is not so elementary now,

Watson

POLICE WAGE SCIENTIFIC WAR AGAINST CRIME

SHE

he sald,

съд

refilled luis pior beforE SHERLOCK Holmes carefully

answering Dr Watson. "My dear fellow," spreted Lady Ware from the very beginning.

"We deduced, if you remember, that the blow had been struck by a left-handed persun, about five feet two inches tall and lacking in strength.

"That description Atted only Lady Ware and I had only to discuper her mutives to solve the case. You ree, my dear Walsun, it was really elefhentary."

This year is the centenary of the birth of Sherlock Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the pioneer of scientific crime fiction.

★ ★

Tory THE deerstalker, the curved pipe, the tweeds, the cape and the microscope are associated with the age of the hansom cab and murder But one wonders what Sherlock Holmes would think of by gaslight. spoke We and lived only two or three modern-day detection, Were wondering what the years longer.

of it all was. "Let's purpose ask," I said, and inquired of the host.

It was a happy time

Leslie Hale replied: "It's liter this. Hugh and were sitting together in the Chamber when

I sald to Hugh: I don't like

Churchill

and the death of Hitler

news

pt Hitler's the faces here, Hugh replied: When the

Neither do let's Try the death came through 1 wrote Stoke Room."

some depperel (as well never discased about 1 "We went there, and after a printed) bit Hugh said to me: 'I don't rat reaping from his body and

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Might not even this prince among detectives boggle a little at the scientific war against crime being waged around the capitals of the world?

Today the major threat to the law-breaker comes from the army of little-known men who work with teat-tube and microscope.

Without doubt, much of the cred!l for the selenlife advaneos of the past 3 years belongs to Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Force.

By

TED HART

wilck a different stick for cach null-and examine his clothes for blood-stalns.

-this time it's

no day-dream

platform juts out over the Channel's grey-green waves.

As The engine pourfuls rhythmically a massive drill reaches down frumn the platform to the seabed, baring deeper

deeper atid

Into the rock beneath the water.

BY J. W. M. THOMPSON

I both answers are "Yes" — what comes next?

So instead, a fust service of cor transporter trains 19 en- ylangest. Such trains

are al-

First, the approval of the Bri- rendy used

Continent, on the

French Governments with huge double-decker trucks tish and

be sought. It is not linked to carry 70 or more cars, would

There

would also, of course, thought this would be hard to ready for the be other trains roaring beneath get. After that will come the question of raising the the

of samples

the Straits, carrying freight and crucial clay which the

passengeTA. apparatus hoists to the deck.

Engineer Ewen pucks

joboratory,

chalk and

A hazard

Mackay

Joined forces

money.

£100 million

That is how the plons go. The best guess so far is that cost £100 "We have to All up each What has happened to stir all the tunnel would bore-hole with a ton and o these plans and this expeudi- million. There is no thought of finance. tolf concrete when we've lure on the old dream? secking Covernment finished," says. "Otherwise Oddity, it begon with Suez The tunnel,-. bull, will be a the holes would be a hazard The dispossessed Sucz Conal mammoth piece, of international

Channel funnel under here."

when they start to build the Company and the more-or-less private enterprise,

Yes, once again, the idea of a

dormant Channel Tunnel Com-

The money would be ralacu in pany get together to talk about

the regular way, from the pub- chance, an Their futures. By American group began to look ik and from financial interests, into the tunnel proposition in The eponsors would look outside Britain. France, and America. They would expect support from

nost European countries.

channel tunnel has come to life. And this time. I suggest it should

They jolaed forces to form as an empty fancy.

Channel Tunnel- Study This ship's task is part of an the elaborate survey of the Stralls Group, a syndicate which now

They ins four members. by the tunnel's backers. are spending £240,000 probing the project, and this is not the sort of money financiers habitually pay out for day- dreams.

not be written off too quickly dependently at the same time.

Optimism

It sounds like an awful lot of money. However, the bankers and City men concerned bellave

Equal share the cash would be found.

Each is putting up an equal

As it happens, the chairman

shore of the £240,000 being of the English tunnel company Is d banker, Mr Leo D'Erlanger.

spent,

If any sample of blood found, he is immediately asked to account for it in the hope that he will panic and suggest it la either his own blood or the Chesney's blood of an animal--statements traces

of which can now be very

· 1.-British. The Channel frayed checked.

Here aboard the Ian Salvor Tunnel Company (20 per cent But the une advance the Yard II, as in the City offices where of its shares owned by British

Transport make con- the plans are made, there is on

would most like to

casily

The members are:

Confident

Scrapings from gernails showed blood and minute pink wool identical to the fibres of his wife's cardigan.

And to cdd the Anal touch, cerns the identitation of poitr of optimism-exeltement, banking and other interests. hairs from Chesney's head were sons. After a poisoning, it is even. Murder has been its speciality. found on the slippers of Mrs commonplace to read that the I has brought the art of detec- Menzies and the cardigan of his Yard expect to be able to Iden- Already, they say, the study tunnel company (controlled by said, at a guess, "Perhaps 10

Fine Art

tlon in this neld to such a ne wife..

art that it is now virtually Im-

possible to commit a crime of Great Triumph

can

some

violence without leaving jelue on one's clothes or person,

Even if the murderer Lakes the precaution of burning his

ashes rult, the

furnish enough evidence to hang him.

The big advance here is that (minute substances can today be Identified so positively in ecurt.

Classte

tizto

example of

con-

Chesney committed suicide hafore he could be brought to trial, but the Case Fldered

of the great triumphs of scientific delec- tion.

One

the

But un scientiflo Improves, so TOWS

the genuity of criminal.

is

nost operated.

A

the perfect murder ofte inished murderer Give-Away—Ears? It will most probably be not economle and scientific,

wife in February, 1954.

Well, the investigators do Commission) plus vive the green light, how long will it be before the tunnel is In servicet When I discussed 2.-Tench. France's own this with one of the experts, I that tity it within 48 hours. In fact, of the seabed suggests

French railways and Rothschild years?" He looked pained. "That would be it takes normally

Freres, around 21 making the tunnel

bankers) plus other is very pessimistle," he said. straight forward days to identify

the including lesser simply

There remains the question of known prisons.

International Road Federation. engineering jobs on a giant scale, prganizations

Even the likely form of the 3-American, A specially whether the British Govern- detection tunnel is now becoming clear, erented company,

Technical ment, when it came to a decl- thea This, they tell me, is how it will Studies Inc., sponsored by an ion, would anally veto the big-time

probably be built and assortment of financial interests, whole thing in the interest of The Suez defence, One British Govern- 4-International. The Federated Bureau of Inhard grey chalk which reaches owned by Brush Government). century ago.

It will burrow through the Company (44 per cent shares ment did so, after all, nearly a vestigation in Washington

across the Straits to France. This syndicate appointed a currently trying to find an alter-

My expert smiled confidently at either brilliant French engineer, Rene at this possibility. Fingerprints and footprints, native method -traz provided by the case of although

approaches of identification With Is

He quoted a bale part

infensive of de- to Angerprinting.

end, it will be at least 30 miles Melcor, to direct an

for ma a Commons statement the New Zealand adventurer tection, are by no means the only

Jong.

Inquiry into the tunnel, both by a Minister of Detence. In Ronald Cheney whe plotted types of prints which have es-

one tunnel-but-a-twin-passage. The report is expected by the which "strategle objections" to a-tunnel-were-brushed-side- way one tunnel for each end of the your. It should give And who was the Minister of Dill Turple-a. member of Scol- For many American criminals direction and it will be for final answers to the questions Defence who took this cheerful land Yard's Murder Squad for have deliberately burnt away the rail trafle only.

which generations have puzzled 30 years-telling me how he tips of their fingers with acid.

Running a motor road under over. Can it be done and would view Mr. Harold Macmillan, Chesney, who was living In helped to make impressions from Dillinger was the first to at the sea, it is reckoned, would it payt

-(London Express Service), Germany at the time, planned the knee marks of the strangler tempt this and Bugs Moran, the bring too many difficulties. Cars to visit Britain under an assum- of a girl called Buby.

Jleutenant of Al Capone, follow would make ventilation too ex- The outline of the worsteded his example,

pensive, the trame would be $18.00ed name, kill his wife and re-

turn to Germany where his allbl trousering was so clear that

It has actually been suggested too slow, and possibly too many 18.00 had already been prepared. paved the way for the conviction that identification of men with motorists would be reluctant to Despite having to alto murder of the murderer, George Stone, prison records should be made underinke the journey. 18.00

his wife's companion-a Mrs Another type of print which with sara as well as fingerprints. 25.00 Menzies he returned safely to convicted a murderer was tho No pair of cars apparently

Germany. Suspicion fell upon bite-mark left on the body of exactly the same. 7.50 him, but there was no direct his dead wife by Jack Gerringo.

American safe-breakers, too. ho at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 9.00 proot. Ten years earlier,

are experimenting. Instead of would probably have been sofe 1947,

But despite these advances, the normal sate ballast which 4.50 from the clutches of the law.

cannot be removed. from their Under the new scientiae

a member of the Yan's clothes, they are using a new 1.00 methosis, however, his clothes forensic laboratories told me type believed to be undelectable. 1.50 were examined. This is what

that he considered the nowo dotectives found: 1.50 1. Head hairs identical

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blood grouping technique the prising innovation is the use of mog (important scientifle aid the ballpoint per by forgers in to crime detection of the past the Ualted Stabos, :: Unliko nor- 20 years.

mal ink, the liquid in these pens

It is now possible to classlty cannot be dated,

the minutest blood-tain and, al-There is no way by which a

3 Blue and pink bres though this doosn't provide scientist can discover whether a

similar to the blue and positive proof, it can be a great signature is one day old pink fibres of Mrs Menzies' halp in breaking down a twenty years.

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