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LORD BYNG'S POLICE THE PRINCE AS WAR

ARMY

STAFFED FROM FIGHTING FORCES.

ADMIRAL HIS SECOND IN COMMAND.

GENERAL AND FOUR COLONELS.

PILGRIM

AMONG THE CROWD AT BETHUNE.

THE SMUGGLER KINGS.

TWO YEARS TO TRACE THEIR EXPLOITS.

STILL THEY CAN DEFY THE LAW.

BERLIN.

SMILES FOR CAMERA GIRLS.

LILLE. August 7th. The Prince of Wales, as patron of the British Legion, to-day join- detectiva tale in a week, but it has The popular novelist writes", n' ed the army of pilgrims visiting taken the police two years to com- Although Scotland Yard is re- the' battlefields and cemeteries of

pile the wonderful but true history garded as pre-eminently a civilian France and Flanders.

of Herr Karl Lindemann, who is organisation, Lord. Byng, when he After halting at Béthune to re-entitled to bear the solemn title of takes up his appointment as Com-ceive the greetings of the munici Commercial Councillor, And .of missioner of Police for the Metro-pality, he motored to Lille, where the more romantic title of King of Herr Bauer, who has been giren palis, might well be excused if for he was the guest of the Prefect of the Smugglers. a moment "he" imagines he is back the Nord Department. with the fighting Services.

The Friace, who was accompani-Germany.

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The two heroes of the tale are accused of amuggling spirits into

ed by General Trotter, motored It had been discovered that a from Boulogne to Béthune, which number of small factories for the was decorated with British and were getting illicit supplies of preparation of liqueurs in Berlin, French flags. ↓

spirits. Inquiries led to the con- clusion that the spirits were being brought to Berlin by "water, and suspicion fell on A smart motor- yacht called the Inge."

He will And that his fimmediate staff, unless changes are made in "the meantime, includes a rear-

admiral, one major-general, golonel, thres lieutenant-colonels, a major, and in the junior ranks an officer of the Air Force. Of course there is a leavening of civilians, but it is rather curious how men of the Navy and Army have become policemen.'

The full stall will be something like this:-

Commisioner: Lord Byng. Deputy Commissioner: Rest-

Admiral C. R. W. Royds. Assistant Commissioners: Hop, Trevor Bigham, Mr. F. L. D. Elliott, Maj. General Sir Wyndham Childs Deputy Assistant Commissioners: Mr. Norman Kendal, Lt.-Col.

C. Carter.

a · first

New Béthune has been copied from old Béthune, and glimpse of the Grand Place, with its gold belfry and Gothic build- ings, gives the illusion that the old town has been untouched by the tide of war.

and it was found that she was in Her movements were watched, the habit of lying up against a big sailing yacht called the Pelican, which was anchored off Stettin,

When the Customs officers board- Whole Town On Holiday. ed the Pelican, which was the pro- But the illusion soon disappears.perty of Commercial Councilior The new belfry contains only a few Lindemann, of Berlin, and his of the stones of 13th-century struc-yacht was fitted up with tanks and brother, they discovered that the ture destroyed by gunfire. Every pipes for holding spirits, and that building is new and the citizens by an ingenious system 660 gallons are very proud of their model could be delivered in a very short town.

While to a boat alongside.

As soon as she had the stuff on

the board, Pecuemünde, where Captain Bauer, Inge sailed to

certificate of membership of the the Smuggler King, used a forged Imperial Yacht Club through to Berlin.

to pass

A decorated platform had been P. R. Laurie, Lt. Col. J. Ferected in front of the belfry, and Chief Constables: Mr. F. Wens was occupied by the civic digni

long before the Prince arrived this ley, Mai. M. Tomlin, Mr. Htaries, led by the mayor, who wore D. Morgan, Mr. T. J. La his sash of office. Ex-soldiers of don, Col. J. Whitehead. Secretariat: Mr. H. M. How formed a guard of honour and, France, many of them cripples,

fraternised with British ex-soldiers while waiting for the Prince, of the Legion.

grave-Graham, secretary Assistant Secretaries: Mr. W. S. Mylius (Traffic), Col. S. G. Partridge (Establishment), Mr. Hi A. Tricy.

Legal Barriers, Now although the police have tale, they cannot bring the men taken two years to compile the

they accuss of breaking the law to Admiral of the: Fleet Earl Jel-justice because the Prussian judi- Few people realise that it takes John Brown, and Major Cohen,

licoe, Colonel Crosfield, Colonel cial. procedure stands in the way. The Customs authorities must so many eminent men to run the the legless M.P., in bia wheeled calculate how much Metropolitan Police Force, but be chair, chatted with French officers smugglers will have to pay them. money the enuse they have never seen it in its The whole of Béthune seemed to be. The income tax authorities must entirety they also fail to realise on holiday. Even the white-clad also calculate how much they have what an enormous "force it is.

masons engaged on the new church | lost-and 80 muat those Including the reserve and auxili- ceased work to enjoy the scene from superintend the turnover and other ary force it numbers well over 40,000 their vantage-point on the roof.. taxes. men and polices an area of nearly The arrival of the Prince was 300,000 statute acres with a popula-greeted with cheers, the call of tion of 7,500,000-so after all the buglers, and the roll of drums.”“”. Commissionership is really big job for a big man.

who

the authorities the Commercial To each claim put forward by

Councillor and King of the Smug- The Prince, who wore a grey glers can object and carry the mint- flannel suit and black hard felt ter to first one court and then to Many of the chief men at The hat, ascended the platform and another. They may keep up the Yard are quite unknown to the immediately entered into An game for years and may, in fact, public, although of course the animated conversation with the die of old age before ever the time. names of Admiral Boyds, Major- mayor, who proudly pointed to the has come for the authorities to act. General Sir Wyndham Childs, and more impressive features of the Mr. Wensley are familiar to every town. Some other occupants of one." The admiral, who is mainly the platform were joining in the responsible for the personnel of the conversation. There WLS Force, is the great Rugby Sen-formality.

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IN NEW YORK. who by virtue of his headship of a pilgrim, revisiting places be had the Criminal Investigation Depart-known in the war. ment cannot avoid the limelight. There was no set, programme which also beats fiercely upon Mr. and the Prince, leaving the plat very gallant rescue was effect. Wensley, his chief executive officer form, mingled with the crowd ined by a young Englishman when and the first man to become Chief the square, shaking hands and con-of the actor Mr. Dennis King, saved Mr. Leslie Wright, brother-in-law Constable of the Criminal Investi- versing both with English and the life of a little girl mounted on gation Department. Lieut-Colonel French ex-Service men.

Laurie, one of the Deputy Assistant The girls of Béthune, most of a runaway borze. Commissioners, is also known be them armed with cameras, rushed Mr. Wright was severely injured cause of the remarkably efficient to the front and snapped the but the girl escaped with a scratch arrangements he makes every year Prince, who smiled at their eager- the face. for the handling of Derby. Day nest. Other traffic..

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girls waved from the open windows of cafés and offices. For nearly an hour the Prince chatted, now in French, now in English, and the population of Béthune looked on and approved.

The incident happened while Mr. Wright and his brother were riding along a bridle-path at Greatneck, Long Island.

Both saw the little girl, who was 'mounted on big black horse, in danger of being thrown as the

restive animal took fright and went off at a hard gallop ahead of them.

Incidentally, the. Mounted Police are his special care, while Mr. F. L. D. Elliott, one of the Assistant Commissioners, is generally respon- sible for traffic control in the

·Miners' Greeting: metropolis. The other Assistant Motoring from Béthune to Lille Commissioner, Mr. Trevor Bigham, the Prince was greeted on the way They started in pursuit. Mr. son of the famous judge now Lord with cheers from women and men Wright gained the lead and drew Mersey, takes other police duties working in the fields. At La close to the runaway. He picked under his care; there is probably Bassée he shook hands with the the girl from the saddle but his no one in London who knows more mayor, while the miners surged mount swerved, throwing the girl about night clubs than be does, for round his car and cheered.

and her rescuer to the ground. these are one of the things, to which More formal than at Béthune

Mr. King, who witnessed the he gives special attention.

was the Prince's reception at rescue, said that in a heroic last- Of the Deputy Assistant Com-Lille, where he was greeted on the minute effort his brother-in-law missioners Mr. Norman Kendal is boundary by a company of the covered the girl with his own body, concerned with the C.I.D., while 43rd Infantry Regiment under the the hoofs of both bores striking Licut. Col. Carter finds his duties command of its colonel, with the him. embracing all kinds of police tasks. regimental colours and band. The As a hospital the doctors found

The four Chief Constables, other Boulevard de la Liberté was lined him suffering from

B broken than Mr. Wensley, are responsible with troops and the route to the shoulder and severe injuries to his for the uniform branch of the prefecture was decorated with spine and abdomen. Force, and have charge of districts. flags.

Later the girl learned the name embracing a proportionate number After a short rest in the prefec of her rescuer, and he learned hers of the 26 divisions into which the ture the Prince received the local as Miss Marselle Gwrazinaki. Mr. Force is divided,

authorities and the British Pil-Wright, who is 22 lives in Bir- grims and French ex-Service men's migham, England, societies, whom he addressed. !...

larga During the evening crowd watched the Prince place a wreath of lilies on the monument to Lille's war dead The ceremony was short but impressive, the great crowd standing silently while the The French nation has been National Anthems of both coun- deeply thrilled by the pilgrimage tries were played, and as the of British mothers and orphans, Prince retired the people of Lille and of ex-Service men, and the gave him a hearty cheer. Later he maimed and the blind who lost dined privately with the Prefect their limbs and sight in the war, Early in the day Col. John BrownWhat has particularly impressed had placed a wreath at the French all that is born in Franco-is-the Lighthouse of Memory erected near quiet dignity of the pilgrims and Vimy, which light guides the the reverent manner in which they spirits of the fallen home. Here are visiting the sacred soil where British pilgrims fraternised with so many Britons died." high French military officers, who All reports agree in pointing to subsequently shared on Vimy the intense feeling of comradeship Ridge the luncheon which pil-and-affection between the British grims, took from cardboard boxes and French nations which bas

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