THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1960.
Crime Against The State
Never a whist
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CCASIONALLY some civilian tells me -with a veteran's pride --that he lived in Cyprus during the Eoka struggle, or, in Kenya during the Mau Mau horror, or in Madrid during the Spanish war.
I always respond--without any conscious sense of anti- elimax by telling them that I, as a schoolboy of 13, lived Manchester during 1920-21. ·
in
For that winter the militant Irish rebels, already wading a bloody and bitter conflict against the English m Ireland itself, selected my Tuative elly as a convenient focus of ter- rorist activities upon English
colt.
Arson was their most favour- and their range ed weapon, approximately 20 miles from the elty's centre. Within that fimil no one could foretell exactly where their stealthy when DT blows night full.
They struck ut mills, Javīns, cafes, warehouses; someilmes In clase and regular succession, comellmes
isolated in
and spasmodic bursts.
They set fire to the Victorin, Albion and Blackfriars hotels, They burnt down the stands at the City football ground. They were fearless, determined, de-
to
dicated fanaties, not averse varying the customary pattern by exchanging paraffin
and petrol for a gun,
drive
with
so much
at
stake
By EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
it. Sinn Fein but the Sinn Feinera stayed immune.
Number seven: The Sinn Feiners
roar as vast and milking crowds obstructed its approaches, giving policemen way reluctantly to carrying arms.
But inside the cont wat un unaccustomed vold; for reasons of security the publie were ex- cluded, and only a small, im- plicated audience was present to experience at first hand the tense und violent haired that throbbed like a live electrie cur- tent from the dock.
That current concentrated
Ono Irishman was shot doad on the spot; another, and one officer wara coriously wounded.
club; its martial drill, its mill- tury organisation. Its insurgent und revolutionary purpose.
'Fires'
About April 1 he was dann- or ingly
specific. "Мел We're the witness-box, and varied in ordered to book in at hotels," ke. Vollage with its occupants.
It-aid.
"Then start fires. They rose high for the English-enemy
were provided with tho stuf." It rose higher for
As Mr Holmar. Gregory, KC., detectives, certain witnesses from Ireland,
began to cross-examine, his who, for their own proteellen, clients, bunched together within were allowed to write their the bars behind him, backed his names,
questions with a dynamo nuted execration. drow
"When did you frat come "December," Murphy Manchester?" "December of last year.
"Where did you come from?" "Liverpool."
A whist drive or, at any rate, what seemed to be a whist Unit April 2, and the pounce, drive-was merrily proceeding The previous night had been when the pollee went in. 'The particularly rough. Not one, but players, though, did not con
themselves conformably more than half a dozen fires-all duct
incendiary with that
most respectable of learly stamped as work-blazed concurrently, pro- pastimes. ducing the effect of a badly miscalculated Guy Fawkes enle- bration.
Critiek of the police, which had been steadily mounting, now reached a new and angry peak. "Why don't
they cum Their keep?" was the canny As the wide scope
of their Lancashire question. operations grew more manifest, But the police had not been the whole Manchester region idie; the spadework was
done, rallied and combined against the the plans wero formulated, and, threat continuously overhanging that very evening, they moved.
11.
Many in the populous Hulme of Manchester vaguely
Resigned
Watchmen were re-equipped aren
Il rose highest of all, though, when Crown Counsel called the name of "Murphy," and a young man from Hulme confronted the young men from Hulme.
Murphy haİ
actually
of
to
said.
|
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE father
WALTHAMSTOW.
who forbade his children to play on a $900 saw, because "he saw no tutte la it," has been answered by the three Persiana.
They point out that nee-saw must be played in childhood, because an adult who takes li up seldom treats it seriously, "We are knot of pertending
that
Dee-saw is izzenshul for kerecyars of big bizniss, butt menny
insgnet wud bo bellihion with a plonk lim hiz
A
ums, To forbad chooldren to tho seesaw is to kondim them to
townicy, frendlez, mizzarubbul old age of pezzi- misum and thrustrayshuris, ho /ves.”
Prodnose: What is the point of heading the column "Walthamstow?"
Myself: It shows that 1 got about a bit.
Marginal note
WRITER on fashion pays a high compliment to the now fashions In women's clothes. They are "wearable," It is, of course, always an advantage, both to the trade and to people who wear clothes, to put on the market clothes which can netually be worn. Nay, more; "the harem Line 19 elegant instead of coyly provocative." As Mao West used to say, "Beulah! Peel me a grape."
Penthesilea to the rescue
en-
T Nimbleworth there was a fracas. Footie's traction engine mel, in the narrow high street, Elvira Mulch, who is alterapting to haul a barge over- land, by a rope clenched in her teeth, from Tavistock to Kendal, The two topes become
Elvira found herself Langled.
the hauling
traction engine backwards, and Footle was dragged against the barge. Mus- clewoman
bite Elvira con telephone directory to bits at one blow of her granite teeth. After a village uproar, during which a draper Wis nearly Elvira
They promptly drew revolvers on their uninvited guest, who, having anticipated their rep- tlon, equally promptly them. цроп
One revolvers Irishman was shot dead on the spot; another, and one officer, were seriously wounded
It was without doubt the most sanguin- ury whist drive that had taken arrested during the club rald, piâce in Manchester for
YCETS, Was subsequently discharged. ant now find turned King's evidence. As he took the call, 19 former comrades
strangled by the ropes, devoured him with their eyes.
The prize
and reinforced. Farmers, with knew the Irish club on Erskine rifles
grimly Street. at the ready,
It was the place where
But the police at least won a patrolled their land in the small the Paddles amused themselves hours.
en- Police resources and of an evening-not so much the valuable prize. Their xald
the Sinn resourcefulness-were extended assimilated settlers with families, led then to cruck
but the newcomers, mostly single Fein conspiracy. They got its the and barely out of their teens, documents, its arsenal, and And yet, from the first out who had quietly trickled into cadre of its men.
to the utmosi.
Nineteen of them stood irlai
been
Murphy repaid that compli- ment; he devoured them with his tongue.
The shadow of their impend- ing sentences grew longer with every stage in his examination,
Frein an insider's vantage
reges in November, more than the district since the war. four months passed without n Always ready for a joke, and at the Juty Assize. Outside the point he painted a vivid and real success for the marshalled a laugh with passers-by, always court was an unaccustomed up formidable pleture of the Irish forces of order und law. Ever apparently lurking gally with and anon that now familiar each other, they created a orange glow it up the mucky general
Impression of innocent
Manchester night sky; each bonhomie and a general idea time, with a kind of fierce re- that they only repaired to their
to the club for hurmless fun. signation, people went window or into the street to look.
"Sinn Fein," they said to each other-nobody seemed to doubt fen.
Authority, however, had long suspected otherwise, und pit those suspicions to the acid
A British Crossword Puzzle
3
15
18
116
ACROSS
1 Famous Air Force leader in
the hayield? (6)
4 Give support to a couple. (5)
7 Cigarette made from grapes,
(0)
Parched
about 100 and
pungent. (5)
10 Weighty weed? (4)
12 Writers who always. carry a
erib. (7)
16 Star I see moving. (B)
18 You've said it! (9)
17 He's partly American. (4)
10 It's between
Benghazi. (5)
Tobruk
and
20 Tells and sells. (7)
21 Comfortable, (4)
20
now
DOWN
feature
of
1 United. (B)
2 Absent-minded
Diapa? (8)
9 Farm stock in the West
Country. (4)
6 Disturbances. (8)
Scene of a way in Merein,
perhaps, (0)
D Land units. (5)
11 Youthful adventure? (8)
12 Act crabbiky? (5)
13 Wave about à feed con-
tainer (8).
14 He should emulate the ant.
(0)
18 Become less severe about the
weeks before Easter. (0)
23 Sort of race at the BBC 22 A bit of room decoration is
sports? (5)
24 Suitable name .for girl-
aiman? (6)
25 So precipitous as to be dif-
fleult of belief. (5)
20 Fish swallows female but
gels knocked on the headf
(0)
nothing to father. (4)
· YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 3 StrÁ-av hot, B Tralee, a Reprisal. 11 Pastimes, 12 Cede, 18 Ruled 18 Sorry, 10 Toll, 22 Lass-oing, 24 Reptiles, 23 Rep-ton, 20 Hand over (st), Down: 1 Stop 3 Pause, 3 S.ER-IOUS, | Teem, 5 Airo, 6 Hisseo, 7 Tiller, 10 Peter, 14 Lo-Cal, 16-Dremer, 10 Starch, 17 Pippin, 30 Ditty, 21 Agent, 22 Lido, 29 Jere,
WEEKEND Friell
"We must give the Germans nuclear orms so they will be able to make an effective contributio to Western defence in the event of the Government's
disarmament policy being successful!"
RESSNA'C.
"Do the stable lads realise that if their strike .continues it will bring the economic life of thousands of their fellow-workers to a standstill?”·
AHORA LE
PÈME DUOSI
'KE PROPER.
"It's quite simple, gentlemen, you 'just turn dire
key like this-oopst
"What for?"
"To look for work."
"To look for work?" The silent 19 glared their emphasia, station your "Wasn't a police
first place of call?”
"Well yes." "Is that a good place to work?" said Gregory.
get
get
there Eng-
"It's a good place ta information," Murphy suld. "Don't you know that are labour exchanges in
·lund?"
that.
his way carefully round
"Yes, I do," Murphy thought But, if you arrive in a strange city, you have to inquire where the labour exchanges are."
"You have to inquire where the police stations are, too," said Gregory smoothly.
"I happened to be passing one, and decided to go in."
Confident
"You happened to be passing one, and decided to go in.” Repetition, skilfully exploited ant Derenied, can sometlines be more effective than a comment, "Dld you ever happen to that same police station again?"
"Yes," Murphy said, after defensive pause.
"When?"
"A few days Inter."
on
0
hauled the engine the barge and
out Footle
to the common, where the muddle was sorted out. Today the plucky Amazon, the Penthesilea of Eumpton Regis, is complaining of toothache.
-(London Express Service).
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"And, again did you decido to go In?
"Yes, I did."
Murphy had finally chosen his | stance; not defensivenes, but
defiance.
"On that second visit to that handy police station, did you imppen to mention the Irish club in Hulme?"
"Yes, I did."
"What did you say about it?” Murphy was too honourable
or too wise—to bluff.
I said I surmised they were going to set fire to warehouse."
Gregory leaned back relaxed and confident. hands, that had been tauit, fell gently to his side.
His
"Did the police give you nny
| instructions" as to what you
should do?" he said.
"No," said Murphy, full of fight. "Thầy didn't,”
“You gave them your sumise about the fires, and nothing else was snid?"
"No," Murphy agrood. "Nothing else was sald at all.”
"Why did you tell the police??" Tone and content matched. The moment of truth ---- or thọ moment of falsehood -- hind arrived.
"Why did you tell the pollice?" insisted Gregory,
"I thought It would Belp me got a job," Murphy slowly said. Gregory, had made his point to maximum effect that Munghy might well have been a profes- slonial Informer. But Gregory did not, becoury he couldnot make the only point that would have counted 'In the end---that the information Murphy gave his bosses was untrue, peNULL
The jury marked that distinc- tion in their verdict: quilly | against all 'but two of the young mon from Hulmeli The judgë marked · it, in allotine punish- ment; the ́, ringtenders florand | themselves | £neido for fixteen
yours.
-London Express Service). NEXT WEEK: Lord George Gordon
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