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THURSDAY, FEB 19, 1931,

FOLLY OF THE WAR DEBTS.

DAY BY DAY

GREEN

A SUSPICIOUS PARENT MAKES AN ARTFUL CHILD. Sam Slick.

The P. and .0. .. Somall, from Singapore, is due hero at 6 p.m. sa Baturday.

DETECTIVES IN REAL LIFE

AND IN FICTION.

By Cecil Bishop, Late C.I.D., New Scotland Yard,

Tyou by always an interesting the oflen instend of following

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having solvent customers for her! goods, and through the increase of their purchasing power, would be immense. Looking at the matter, as a purely business proposition, Mr. Goodenough says there can be no doubt that it would pay. These submissions tally almost to the word with the view of Mr. Wiggin,

The members of the Club Recreto who recently urged that the United

10-seo yourself as others see after them was busy writing in States Government should. "Torre reminded of the dance to ho hold thla evening at 9.30 o'clock in honour good business, reasons," make of their Shanghal friends.

experience, and the flood of do- their trail.

which shows o For a considerable time-after move for the reduction of war

Through slipping whilst climbing a tective novels

Sherlock Holmes astonished the debts. Ile pofats out thast businuas iadder to the cocklaft at 11, Percival sign of abating has given

of world with hia deductions, the umple foreign Street, Keo Yee-fo, aged 13, received tectives

opportunity because recovery 18x8

injuries to his head and died before he reading about themselves. ca-lamatour detective was exceeding-

Occa- sionally 1 take

an' ly popular in fiction. To-day ho 3 "busman'a nations cannot get enough money could be removed to hospital,

holiday" and read detective la distinctly out of fashion, and both to pay the war debts, with

Suffering from injuries to his head story, although I have yet to find meat writers acknowledge that interest,

ordinary and to buy American received through a fall from his bed,

Bolve Chinese Ngau Chuk-wan (32) of one that is as thrilling as some goods,

If the debts are sealed 22, Aberdeen Street was removed to of the eases which i have Investi-tective does

that as fiction murder problem. But, in order to they dowa, America's export trade would the Government Civil Hospital yes gated. I am sure

torday.

certain cases, in which I have give their hero "character,"

cndow him with some inevitably rise. An an American

had my life attempted five times either

on the peculiarity, such as whistling at journal expressed it, the proposal A recent issue of The Tatler gives in four days, would fall

moments or dressing in shabby in simply common-sense, but there photographs of Lieut. Col. I. G. Bird, grounds of Impossibility.

D.S.O., and bis daughter, Mina J. L.

Writers of detective stories, I'lothes. Peculiarities are fatal to " unfortunately, plenty

Bird, who both qualified for the "A" have noticed, studiously avoid any the detective, because they enable" Yet his disguise to be seen through by people who cannot see beyond their certificate of the Hampshire Flying suggestion of coincidence.

And detectives every detective will tell you that a crook. noses, to whom such a step would

Because he had refused his meats amazing coincidences occur overy amongst the best dressed men in

the country. month. I remember one case on smack of charity, altruism and In-

and was acting strangely, Cheung monu ternationalism." Since Mr. Wiggin Chi, aged 38, of Yeung Kong, a pas which I was engaged before the On Being Inconspicuous.

1 knew the criminal,

When I was helping John Long- put forward his ples, it has received senger on the J.C.J., Tjlerang from wor

falled to find her.den with a crook film, ho asko Batavin, was removed to the Govern woman, but n dumper in official circles, and

some real de- ment Civil Hospital for observation. Then, when i was lying wounded me to show him

certain in hospital, I found that my nurse tectives. We went to a reports state that as a consequence

After being ill for some time, a

лепт restaurant was no other than this woman.

Westminister, of the Government's polley, leading | Chinese, of 70, First Street, collapsed A year later, when I was again and 1 pointed out to him a num- now during his meal yesterday and was wounded, I was again pursed by bor of detectives. "Are thoke removed to the Government Civil this woman, although the second fellows teca?" he asked. "Why Hospital by his wife. The

"i name was given an Cheung Yo, nged hospital was two hundred miles they are better dressed than

la common with most away. Even that was not the end, am," for after the

Armistice, when people he imagined that detectives An employee of the Wing Cheun had forgotten all about her, Idki not worry about dress. As Ten shop, of Wanchai, suddenly col- walked atraight into her in Paris. a matter of fact, they are scrupul lapsed and died yesterday, his body What writer of delective fiction ously careful, always wear being removed to the Public Mortuary would dare to offer his readers correct clothes, be they morning The man was described as Wong Sal-such a remarkable series of coin-cont ar "talls," for it is important real life that that they should never be noticed in. aged 39, of 82, Wanchai Rond,cidences? Yet in

are,

af

Annnelers in the States are less inclined to co-operate with the Huover Administration.

Club on the same day.

18 years.

ground floor.

Whilst disembarking

man's

arc

the

In a crowd. happens over and over again..

Twenty years ago detective But perhaps the most amazing

the

On the general question of world trade, Germany has to some extent benefited by the fall in prices, owing to the fact that site is a manufacturing country and has to from purchase

materials row

A young Chinese student, Leung She is, therefore, being abroad,

Kiu, 26, Tung Tau Village, Kaw. fiction was full of technical mis- thing about detectives in print is forced to rationalise her industries toon City, was attacked and bitten in takes. Coroners were muddled up that they are invariably engaged the leg by a dog which ran out of with Magistrates, and detectives in murder cases. At the "Yard" to such a degree that she seema

to do things that there Tung Tau village yesterday evening.were made

is only a comparatively. destined to become an even greater The lad was inter inken to the Kow would have speedily earned them small squad engaged on murder, the "Back" at the Yard. To-day, for it is a rare crime, I should If, as seems most likely, Germany competitor with all countries in- loon Hospital for treatment.

writers show a far greater know- think that in print some

three from the edge of police methods and re-thousand murderers are hanged Lakes an early opportunity to terested in industrial production. secure a revision of her repara- As Mr. Goodenough points out, it Youmati Ferry on its arrival at omgulations, but they still make every year. But in London, for kong yesterday 2 Chinese, Wong

instance, the average number of Temple Street,few mistakes. tions obligations, we may expect would answer the world's purposes Chin-choung, of 1.

Writing of a detective in plain real murders ia only about 28 u to see the war deht issue again better if Germany could be relieved had his left foot crushed between the

hot and the pier. He was removed clothes" is the commonest. De-year. Murder seems to be of her debt and become a larger to the Government Civil Hospital for tectives are always in plain clothes only really interesting crimo, yet brought to the very forefront of

and never wear uniform, except my most fascinating cases have international politics. Slowly but importer of foreign goals, as well treatment.

as a disguise. What the writer is not been trailing murderers, but A Chinese man, whose name and ad- probably thinking of is a "unt-catching confidence tricksters and

man" Westminster Special Choir murely, opinion is being crystallias an exporter of her inva goods.

wearing plain Anding kidnapped girls.

The writer of detective Action From whatever angle the war debt dress are unknown, was knocked town formed and in the

by a Kowloon motor bus whilst he was beur is approached, it becomes in-riding a bicycle at the junction of clothes, but he is not a detective.

Economical Sleuths.

has, of course, many artilleal re- Prince Edward and Nathan Roads,

Perhaps the must amusing strictions imposed upon him. He plete overhaul of the war debtcreasingly clearer that a readyesterday. He was picked un in an

his move quick- which detectives by and read interestingly. There settlements, Britain is, of course, justment will eventually have to unconscious and serious condition and feature of detective stories is the must make

lavish way in spend Government money. If the fore he cannot describe the taking kernly interested in the matter, be made. The pity of it is that moved to the Kewloon Hospital,

A dance will be held this evening at writers worked for Scotland Yard of statements, yet this is probably but she cannot and will not make the fact is not yet appreciated in

the Chevro Club, City Hall, commen- any move on her own initiative, centres from which action ought ring at 8 o'clock: stale will be up for a week they would realise that the most important part of a de plied by "Florida" Band. On Friday nowhere la economy more drasti-tective's work. In the Crippen Every penny has ease on which I worked over 1,000 Her position has been clear from to come.

evening, at .45, a whist drive will be cally enforced. hek at the Cheer Club, tickets being to be accounted for, and woe be-statements were taken from dif- detective who spends ferent people, and Crippen, was 50 cents, including refreshments. Alltide the

in caught by the merest fluke. Service Men are cordially welcome: more than a pound a week

Extradition Difficulties. obtaining information. Believed to have fallen from this As a result of this, the detective! I always envy the detective of verandah of hey house at 24, Johnston of real life spends a great deal fiction the case with which they Road, Wanchai warried woman of his time making up accounts catch their man in Paris or Monte was picked up in the street and re-and writing reports. I have never Carlo and bring him back to

to the Government CHED

report-it inlaws make this a long and tedious Hospital suffering from interna! in known the detective in print sit London. Actually the extradition juries. She is thought to have been down and write lunging out clothes when she fell, as too prosaic. But the C.I.D. man business, and I always wonder story wd blankets and certain articles of has to sit down every night and that no one has written

a detailed report of his based on the case of the financter. clothing were lying beside her when write

activities. Nor do the detectives Jabez Balfour, who escaped of fiction tine

yet Argentine, with which we had no typeidered a extradition treaty. That great ability to type

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the start. She has consistently followed the tine of paying her ob- ligations in full. although at the same time nut seeking more from

It must be rather disappointing her debtors than will suffice to to the mildly ambitious to turn

bill from the United that Mr. Martin Harman wili nove her

This policy has involved longer be allowed to coin money for the inhabitants of Landy island. It เล sacrifices placed a huge burden on the tax-javema a pity because ownership of

a remote island has always appear payers of the country, the more so ed to be an excellent way of step-found. since Britain's settlement with ping outside this troublesome world America in the most onerous in its and becoming self-sufficient. Is luminaries, much as they apire-great asset in the force now, an detective Frankie Froest, went out

lands, it might be contended, were cinted Mr. Harman's points, com- it simplifies getting out reports. in disguise. lured Balfour terms of any concluded.

always meant to be diminutive pelled them to refuse to recognino These reports have to be signed board liner, kidnapped him, To show that financial option monarchies, and if the individual their validity. It is to be feared and counter-signed many times, and then arrested him outside the It is often forgotten that British England and in the United cannot escape from governments, that a stump in the remote islands and I think the writers of action three mile limit.

are, offering a useful hint to the States is at one in realising the rules, regulations and the scrutiny market will result from this de authorities. Many criminals have detectives do not, except on rare escaped because the man who was occasions, carry firearms. A Scot- hardships of the present position, of his fellows by going to a lonecision.

land Yard man has to apply for permission to carry a revolver, and give very definite reasons for believing that its use will be neces sary. This is another formality often overlooked in print.

in

we need only cite recent utterances ly island, there can be no limit by Mr. F. C. Goodenough, head of to the curbing arm of authority. Barclay's Bank, and Mr. Albert I. This appeared to be in Mr. Har- man's mind some years ago when, Wiggin, the Chairman: of the after building up a fortune, hu Chase National Bank of New York. purchased Landy Island, about a in extent, lying Mr. Goodenough points out that thousand arres

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when it was realised that the in the Bristol Channel off the [debtor countries of the worldcoast of Devon, and set himself could not, by any means discharge up as an island king. The place

under his suzerainty appears their wor debts, AN first have seen a delectable spot. Its arranged, without insolvency and inhabitants - paid no taxes. Ita conslstad of one economic chaos as a consequence, pólice force Britain. by a voluntary act of un-powerful bailiff, who put down paralleled generosity, underlock disorder with an iron hand. And not to exact from them more than Mr. Harman, true to the traditions of a minor monarch, issued coins

she might have to pay Amèrica. bearing a likeness of his own In this way, she cancelled the sum image on one side. It was that of $2,550 millions of war debt due to her. This money was dofinitely and directly. lost, but this action on the part of Britain has enabled

step, which as recorded on Saturday last, got him into trouble with the British authoritics, the King's Bengh Division ruling against him on appeal. Mr. Har the debtor nations and their man Insisted that Lunds★ Island peoples to continue their economic was a British Dominion and not existence. Thereby, Britain and a part of the British Lales, but the court refused to accept this every exporting and trading coun- try has been gaining the beneft to plea. Mr. Harman thus finds himself, in spite of all his offorts, some extent and should gain a

faced with the ignominy of greater benefit In the future. The being B mere British citizen. sume would happen to America, | It - was. oven 'argued on hia says Mr. Goodenough, if she were behalf that Landy Island had no to cancel the war debts due to her, Jegal existoner; that it was "out- which amount to nearly £2,400 side the world" as far as the law was concerned: The stolidity and millions. Tho gain to hor as a great exporting country, through matter-of-factness of British legal

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But perhaps the greatest dif- ference between the man in print and the detective in real life is his methods. The real detective usually plays no active part at 1 the time of the crime. Ila has to find out what has happened. The

detective in fiction more often has to find out what is hap pening, and there are

usually

some very good clues lying about. This is inevitable.

the

And this I would say; greatest writer of dotective fiction Talia lamentably when asked to do a bit of detection in rond life, while the greatest detective can- not spin a really good piece of flction. Several great

havo triod their hands at you

and discovered nothing the pro- blems are utterly different from anything in print because of the detail involved. On the other hand, the great detective is often so obecsact with truth to real Hfo and

detail that he cannot. write a good story;

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FIGHT WITH A BIG SNAKE.

IKE others who live in the Tropics I have often had ad- ventures with gakes, big and little, but my most recent

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