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"If you stick around until I finish the sport page, I'll plead with you a little."

Jerry arou

"Of course he went to work this morning, Isn't he there yet?"

"It's not genuine ermine, of course, just imitation."

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE

1960,

Singh was

as dead before his GUNFIGHT IN

TUESDAY, January 22, 1918, was just

another day in Hongkong, a dispirited kind of day, falling between the Christmas and Chinese New Year holidays.

The morning's news from the war being fought miles away in France and Flanders was depressing. The ambiguous headlines framed with pseudo-optimism could no longer hide the fact that the stalemate which locked two enormous armies in an exhausting struggle, seemed destined to con- tinue until not a man on either side would emerge alive.

The casualty list showed that yet another of Hongkong's young English policemen who had volunteered to fight with the British Army, had fallen in battle.

Inspector O'Sullivan down at Charge of Wanchai Police Wanchai Police Station thought Station. As Sims approached, sadly

upon these lines, and the dotective threw himself down wondered how many other and lay across the pavement young men would leave the like a hag-ridden done end. Hongkong Police Force and sur- render their lives upon the battlefields of Europe.

Suddenly the telephone rang. O'Sullivan lifted the receiver from the hook and listened carefully. He had some difficulty in making out the message, for the Chinese detective at the other end was out of breath. O'Sullivan replaced the receiver hurriedly and summoned Ser- geant Clarke.

Shots

The detective had telephoned to say that an armed robber band who had been terrorising Hongkong had been located at No. 6 Gresson Street, Wanchai. The detective had seen some stolen goods taken into the house.

O'Sullivan and Clarke led a party along Queen's Road. They

detective

who ignored the lounged as a tattered ruffian ut the corner of Gresson Street, O'Sullivan and Clarke slipped through a narrow court and entered the house from the rear, The Chinese defective ambled a ille nearer and waited. Shots rang out with terrifying violence, was a momentary then there hush all round, a quiet, strange- ly disturbing.

o'clock,

In the distance, the detective saw Inspector Sims, Officer in

Sims stopped and bent over the figure. The detective whispered all that had hap- pered and then staggered back into a court at the back of Gresson St.

Inspector Sims telephoned Wandhai Police Station for help. Sergeant Mac Walter with a party of policemen arrived on the scene.

Uncertain of the fate of O'Sullivan and Clarke, the Ser- geant and his men climbed to Fat the roof of No. 13. Lan Street. They saw three robbers leaving No. Greeson St, and immediately opened fire. The robbers, much better shots, re-

By

JOHN LUFF

turned the fire, and P. C. Tang Wai was wounded in the arm.

At this outburst of firing, two of the robbers made for the back lane between Gresson and Lun Fat Streets.

body hit the pavement

WANCHAI

ED KYANG

discovered) had four revolvers detective was told to mingle it sufficed. As the police closed thed to his wrist, so that as one with the crowd, and then make on the building, the robber was

He had a Wis emplied, another fully his way towards No. 6 Grésson seen to be dead. loaded, was caught up.

St, and ascertain the force and he had threatened, taken his own

ар positions taken by the life.

But the toll was not yet com- Now the crowds, growing more

The Idea was all gangsters. bold, began to form and the right if only those covering plete. As the police went police were severely hampered the house had been let into the through the yard of No. 6, an*

onlookers, secret. curious

other body was found. At first, it was thought to be a robber. but

investigation subsequent showed that it was the body of a Chinese detective.

by

the

Women and children began to cross the line of fire, and the robbers, taking advantage of such compulsory lulls. began to edge safetywards.

Failed

The detective followed his Instructions, but as soon as he

badly

Little left

There

were firing on the run, and all their shots were wide of the mark.

Inspector Sime still ran on, and called two constables to his aid.

The three charged down

At one o'clock, the Governor, broke into the opta, one of the Inspector Sims had posted Queen's Road in pursuit, but

police fired at him. Fortunately, himself there in anticipation of P. C. Mullah Singh was ahead St. Henry May arrived, and as the marksmanship was on a par

was little left to do. of the party. He saw the rob ex-Chief of Hongkong Police, he with the rest of the police The Chinese detective glanced such an attempted outbreak.

Sime jumped in the path of oers turn into Ship Street, and began to ask some lively endi markomen around. A nearby clock showed

that day, and the As the dusk began to close on that violent Tuesday. It could the hour

exactly

frightened detective at

The robbers blinded round the corner in full embarrassing questions. eleven the rubbers,

Some of the Army top brass

be seen that all remaisted to be oponed are, but it was dodged my.

escaped to cover.

done was to comfort the wind- and the by Sims who ran in pursuit of A robber was waiting, joined the besiegers,

So, all other methods having ed and take away the dead. them. Fortunately, the robbers and as Singh turned into whole situation began, to assume

For hours, a curious crowd failed, the Army were called in, and Major Robertson of the lingered, half-frightened, half- Army Ordnance Depot was hoping that the robbers would turn asked to do something with a return and once again At half-past one, Mr Messer bombing party,

Gresson Street into a dangerous decided to initiate a one-man As Major Robertson primed playground. ment.

reconnaissance patrol so Ser- his bombs, the police went roemd But with the dark, peace re- Central Police Station was geant Wills was summoned. His clearing the houses which ad- tured, an uneasy peace. Never- called up. They sent down 3 orders were to crawl up the joined No. 6,

the The inhabitants theless.

Tobbers stayed Loree af armed men led by, back lane and discover if any poured out weeping and wailing, away.. leaving their dead to be Captain- Superintendent of thing could ce seen of Inspector forming 2 pitiful cavalcade as cared for by their chemics. Police. Mr Messer.

O'Sullivan and Sergeant Clarke. they turned into Queen's Road. By nightfall, the count was

Wills made his way up the Meanwhile, a lusty voiced complete. back lane and made his way policeman hailed the robbers Inspector O'Sullivan, Sergeant Detective Constable back with a bullet through his through a megaphone, telling Clarke, leg.

Wong Kut, and P. C. Mulish Singh, were dead.

OUT TO EVERY HOME IN BRITAIN GOES

AN ANTI-RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA BOOKLET

Has M.R.A.

now become the

London.

IKE millions of

L'

other

people in Britain, I found

on my door mat the other day a 32-page booklet bearing the chilling title of Ideology and Co-existence. Examination

of the back cover, showed that it had come to me from Moral Re-Armament-the name by which Dr Frank Buchman's controversial Oxford Group of pre-war days is now known.

I learned also that it is being published in 20 languages and scattered by the million through- out Western Europe. In Britain the aim is to send a copy into every home.

An ambitious enterprise, I thought. And costly too. Who

DEOLOGY

by

voice of

America?

BERNARD HARRIS

could possibly be footing the and that the facts need to be

bill?

If you estimate the production known so that the right choice cost of each copy at 3d--and is made."

the

£250,000-let alone £1,000,000.

the

IT WARNS us against admit- United ting China to Nations.

IT WARNS us that we are

Bright idea

Ship Street, the gangster the aspect of a side-show. fired at point-blank range. Singh was dead before his body slumped to the pave

I

Suggestions

"Then, and only then, did them what was going to happen. and calling upon them to sur- someone have the bright Ides render.

The wounded were Sergearrt Wills, Detective Sergeant Sun Tai, P. C. So Kai, P. C. Kwong Sang, P. C. Tang Wul and F. C. Tana Singh.

The gangsters left two dead, One was shot by Sergeant "Kid” Marriot of the Royal Naval, Dockyard; the other who turn- ed his gun upon himself. One robber escaped up the hillside, and two others made their way out of Hongicong via the Praya as the search party entered the

Charles McIlvaine Messer was soon put in the picture, and he made it his main objective to ascertain the fate of Inspector of taking over the house in One robber was located hiding O'Sullivan and Sergeant Clarke. Queen's Road which overlooked behind" a piece of black

Mr Messer posted his men all No, & Gresson St and so bring wood furniture, and he replied round the building, took over the gangsters' headquarters that it any attempted to take the house opposite No. 6 Gresson under fire from every angle, him, he would kill them on the St., and also the house adjoining

The house in Queen's Road spot, and then turn the gun on No. 4, and his orders were that was occupied, and the first sad nimselt. his men were to fire at anyone sight which greeted the Police He was given five minutes to moving from or moving in the was the bodies of O'Sullivan surrender. Five minutes went besleged premises.

and Clarke. They lay across by-six-then seven. In went Someone moved across the the floor of a small back room, the bomb. window of No. 6, and in- apparently feless.

But at the last moment, it had mediately a fusilade of shots

Then occurred an absolutely been decided to substitute a rang out. Nothing loathe, the ridiculous incident, A Chinese smoke bomb for an explosive house, robbers returned the fire with uncomfortable accuracy. It be-- came increasingly obvious that if the police were to move the robbers out before nightfall more drastic measures would have to be adopted.

Suggestions were made to the worried Messer, Smoke them, out. Send for the fire hoses and flood them out. But even more than getting the robbers, Messer was worried about the

Bolder

fiable to subtle Communist fate of his two men, brainwashing from "what we hear on the radio and even in the pulpit."

IT WARNS

us that the

י.

on the

police, and

L

THE QUIET GIANT NEVER TALKS OF HIS PAST

Hitler's henchman gets

'away from

it all

from LLEW GARDNER

Glengariff.

who was willing to identy had a surplus income for the when you remember that the witen, for some rouson that will and Its 30 acres of garden for he would say nove the oppor- enough so long as they don't

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them.

Mammoth effort Then there is the cost of dis- Or to Indicate just how much

cash is being poured out tribution.

In some rural areas M.R.A. what the Buchmanites call this the wake teams are distributing the book "gigantic effort to

let at their own expense. But free, world,"

оп

The warning

Even if it sold all its invest ments, they would produce

no

So the question remains

Then the robbers began to fire steadily, and although the police were unaware of it at the time.

IN this sleepy Cork beauty spot overlooking the still waters of Bantry 16, then, the money caning Bolshoi Ballet is "a weapon ofthe fire was directed to distract attention as one of the robbers from funds already accumulated war.",

Bay they have a name for the new tenant of the white chalet perched IT CLAIMS that MR.A; alone got out of a window by MRA?

high on the cliff edge two miles outside the village. They call him The that could be on the low side-

the blind side of the сад "make efective Who are these unnamed

That seems most unlikely,

Common Market, scaled the water pipe with the

Quiet Giant. cost of the 15,000,000 citizens?

For the latest accounts of the European. coples being distributed in this I could find no one in the

about German zoof to safely.

It is nearly a year since he "My dear fellow, I just like Glengari country would be £187,500 for MBA news headquarters bo- MRA company still registered Nato, and all schemes to same intention of climbing over the

Odd stuff, isn't it? Especially The robber reached the root bought the house, Lough Dine, farming" he said. That was all "invasion of Ireland, production alone.

bind London's Berkeley Square under the original name of the and extend the free world."

"Oh, sure they are nice Oxford Group show that it

original purpose for which the never be known, he lifted his about £7,0002 But no ase I did not. year of only £15,000.

Eme bother us and keep tortbent- Oxford Group was formed was revolver and took a pot shot at a

knows of his past. Hardly any tunity of putting the

And after all, they are happened to be one has exchanged more than 4 question to Baron Doernberg; selves. "the advancement of the woman who

"Good morning" on A framed in the window of

Fine He and the baroness are on bringing Bome money ginto Christian religion.”

nearby house.

trunting trip in Austria, day" with him,

Ireland," said my taxi driver, This was a most unfortante

But the villagers who have But a boatman- tolajthis story We all help

His name? Baron Alexander met the barones-she is more about the barogies-- action for the robber, for the house happened to be the home Doemberg. And the past that tallalive than her husband — "She asked me how much it, Because of those religious of Mr Marriot, known as "Kid" he does not speak about to the say she has spoken of the would cost for a trip spinal the of a national distributing agency a copy of the "MRA, Informa- where is the money coming

He was once Chief of baron's desire to find a safe bay, I told her 10 bob if she Marriot of the Royal Naval Irish? tax objects, the

authorities

Protocol to Adolf Hitler. -Dockyard Police who are walking 350,000 miles tion Service." on their task.

if she waited until the boat was Marriot was off duty, but But if the 6ft. 19in, baron and retreat away from any political made the trip by hersel, ce 35. Those who have read the recognise the Oxford Group as a charity which means that it So the final bill for. Britain

full. She waited nearly halt an "A student in Bristol sold booklet and it needs an effort can recover income tax on gifts there is one thing a man dialkes his dark-haired wife should ever

'It's funny' alone cannot be much less than his canoe and seat 210. A girl to do on could be excused for mande to it under covenant and more than another.

especially want to talk over old times

hour for the boat to fill up." £250,000—and it could be more sold her pony and gave £30, thinking that among

And house-painter Jim Sul- when he is off duty, it is some-with other Germans they have

plenty of opportunities in re next time they want to be our glass of porter and said. It's

"If there is going to be a

van shook his head, sadly" over, a Add in the other countries and A Chichester man got an unez mysterious financial backers is also on its investment Income.

State Depart indirectly

So, as taxpayers, we all help one firing into his home. It becomes clear that M.R.A. is pected windfall from the sale the American

to subsidise its Marriot picked up his rifle, land

For there are now four times of it," said Mr Donald Chance, funny thing that the Gering

· ngending "at" least £1,000,000 on of a house and gave £500, ment.

and got the robber in his sightn mammoth propaganda *A colonel wrote and en- Certainly the policies advo- If, as the booklet now coming just as the latter was about to as many Germans in and as who sold them Lough Dine should be coming here wi

And the

Mr Chance was suprised Trishmen have to leave the closed £100. A trade unionist caled in eology and Co- into our home suggests, the leap to sutely. The gangster there, were in 1939,

mamber is growing all the time, when I told him of the baron's country every day Where is all that money com--sent 10 Another gave his exlitence would have come energies of BERA have been dropped to the gemmd dead. ing from?

examination. It was Before going to Glengariff 1 old job in the Nazi-set-u The Tri-Ned week's wage packet. An East mended themselves to that diverted from the advancement

Upan The only clue in the booklet London headmistress gave half, department in the days of the of religion to the propagation of discovered that the robbers had asked Herr Peter Bielenburg and the impresion he was Association b itself is that it is being made her month's salary. A grocer Late Mr Dulles,

polities, sonà mướ think, I A most ingenious method of former top West German, civil one of Hitter's victims and had com available for every home by sent £5”.

The booklet WARNS us do, that this tax concession keeping up a raold fire

servant who now farms at suffered at Hitler's hands," wald able t citizens who believe that their.. One thing is certain. Gifs against seeking to increase our ahould be withdrawn V

This dead amster (and Coolkenna near Wicklow, what Mr Chice.

There are mixed feelings in foreigners. countries are in great danger, like that do not add up to trade with Rizada.

--London Express Vervíce. others, as it was subsequently bad bronight. him to Ireland,

elsewhere the job is being The only reference to finance more than £53,000. undertaken by 8,000 messengers I have been able to trace is in

effort.

This is what it says:---

from?

its

activities.

strife.