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BRITAIN'S FOREIGN

POLICY

NOTES OF THE DAY

LAWRENCE LEGEND

S

ARE YOU A GOOD DETECTIVE?

By FRANCIS ILES

QJUPPOSING that you tumbled | Again, what do you ever see of into one of those situations the person who sits opposite you in which, according to fiction, the the train or omnibus? Try to jol stage, aus. the screen, await the down the particulars of dress and most humdrum people at almost appearance of that one person. The probabilities are that you can- Any moment, .

not do it.

The Very Idea!

OUT AT THE LIDO

Eddie And George Have A Gala Day Out

By Edward "Willdo" Kelly

TE WENT to the opening WE

After the Kitchener legend we are to have a Lawrence legend. That ingenious Italinn newimper, the Ottobre, having survived the atage anger of the Duce over its exclusive and altogether erroneaits reporta about British activities in Abyssinia, has returned from its mare's nest with the tale that

of the Repulse Bay Colonel Lawrence is not only still Supposing that you could exirie-

Lido yesterday, taking alive but on his way to Ethiopin,ate yourself from a nasty mess only by employing hitherto uncall-

Yet in detective would be aide to George along so we wouldn't presumably to stir in trouble at

ed-for powers of detection to un-give you the most minute details get our pocket picked in the The expense of the Italians, Those

mask the real culprit. Could you sont in his compartment. Why? crowd of taipans out there. of the appearance of every single

who

Because he has been trained to use We got our pocket picked his brain in conjunction with his just the same. We think it eyes. He absorbs mentally any- thing he looks, at, and the impres-Was George.

thought that with the į do it? lamentable death of Afrcraftruan It looks so easy and so obvious, when the detective explains in the last chapter or just before the final

Shaw The storleg of his serrel ner- vice work would necessarily come Ito an end do not know the indo- mitullu spirit of certain Continen- tal romancers. They have mal the | slightest difficulty in producing "Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark, and could probably give lessons in tergiversation to Barim MunchlauseU himself. Evidence fot a sort tu prove that Lawrence is

"still alive" may be expected crap from time to time for years.

to come. Those who like to expose British machinations and the pers dy of Albion will not let him rest, It is well, however, that the cabin- niators of British policy should have to rerurl to such fairy tales.] They answer gå #harthward wes

They reveal that their authors' ingenuity is nearing bankruptey.

BOY EXPLORERS

A great deal of rubbish is talked today about the decay of our youth and the poor quality of our young people, It is thever and absoluter motesense, So said Lørd Twred-

curtain.

"Well, of course, you say. "There was nothing else he could have done." But--could put have done it?

With your present rental equip ment, almost certainly you cinild

not.

sion Is automatically recorded in his mind.

Somehow or the other wo didn't take much interest in The brain of the ordinary person the Lido after the opening

because

We got

has, netually, been trained by, ex- perience to the opposite. It has speech been trained to reject anything (amongst some friends and that is no use to it, or which it is thenceforth admired not specially anked to record.

the

1f

it did not. its owner would go fizzical charms of, cham- mail.

pagne.

"But the detective, the real de tective in real life," you point out, is more intelligent than I am.

And yet, as I wrote above, you We felt rather marked He was a undformed constable first. the situation requires you to em-way, because the chany gne ran are detective yourself, whenever about the whole affair, any- Besides, we know that in real life ploy these three facultion, it is the organisation and the maching that does ninety-nine per Take a simple instance: Your cent, of the work. 1 count to the are interviewing an applicant for remaining one per cent, as well as Mituation. The post requires an anyone else,"

Lenorgelle person of vareful habit

You reject the applicant: you don't That is True; you could, But really know why: you just feel with your present mental equip vaguely that he or she was not ment, m And yet, curiously suitable; perhaps it was something ough, you are something of a de-he shid; you don't know. tective already, without knowing it. is the process that went on in your Anyone who lives in a crowded subconsious mind: world has to be.

Yot thin

But before we had finisned.

It wasn't the same as the last show we worked nt.

We used to be the Biggest. Pygmie The World Has Ever Known for one half of the show and the Smallest Giant on Earth ·

ZÁBAVNÍNUNATIO CALLOUS INCIDENT

Journalist Victimised By Practical Joker

CRUEL SCOTCH HUMOUR“

Observation--The sides of the acles of his shoes are muddy. There are three faculties which There is a greasesjint, small but but which in the detective have to not raining to-day and the streets everyone possesses in some degree perceptible, on his waistcont. It is be trained and developed above the fare dry, but it did rain yesterday. As the result of a practical joke | normal-- observation, clear think-

merning Mr. Edward Clear Thinking--His shoes have yesterday

Kelly, the well known but in- "It is not the British way to smuir, and he might have mentioned ing. and, constructive imagination. nust been cleaned since he got them pecunious journalist, is IOW in

in prout of his words the explora.

By constructive imagination 1 muddied yesterday. A person who hospital, dangerously ill. He is not sacrifice old friendships for new, tive expeditions made by students mean the ability to make best use drops a spot of grease on his waist-expected to cover. but that is not to say that we and schoolboys. This year's ex-

of a clue, what methods to emples jogat is a careless person; a person do not seek to add new friend-pedition by the Public Schools Ex according to your knowledge of her lazy one.

in the tracing of a missing girl who does not remove it later is a pelling a shroff when a letter arrived. ships." In these words. Sir ploring Society is to unknown parts character and habits, and so on Samuel Hoare replied to French of Newfoundland. It is no plea- criticisms of Britain's foreignsure trip. Some of the forty-seven policy, particularly in connection boys have been munking special study with the Anglo-German Naval ƒ of natural history to qualify for the Agreement, in the course of his work and to endlect specimens for teworthy speech in the House the British Museum, and the other of Commons on Thursday. No

As for clear thinking, it is as

Kelly was in the net of ex-

Opening the missive Mr. Kelly and the shroff were astonished to see a Constructive Imagination. I co$100 note in the envelope. The shroff this person in the post, I see him ( immediately dashed off to inform his

tonishing how few people can ren mislaying letters, spilling the ink, son clearly from cause to effect; being late in the mornings; and Í and still more rarely from effects that he would not do.

gut, which is the mysterions and all-important "deduction" of

detective fiction.

But it is in observation, which these three powers, that most one would think wre the easiest of people fail.

ordinarily observant person, here If you consider that you are an is a simple test: Make a rough sketch from memory of the front observed, are not thinking of of the house in which you live. money-making. Riches do not lie that way, Rather have they as

There is a subject that you have their ideal the dictum so well ex-een hundreds and thousands of premed by Sir Iain Colquhoun:--- times. Yet in all those times have

it is better by far to have little to you ever really looked at it? live on and much to live for than to Have much to live on and nothing

to live for

answer

the

1

fellow shroffs,

When Mr. Kelly revived he exa- mined the note

closely. it was stamped, on both slics, the word "Forgery.”

Астона

with the bank-note:

The following letter' was enclosed

Dear Edward,--1 sympathise with you in the lack of "sense of humour displayed by the Banking fraternity,

mentioned in the "Very Iden" to-day, and hasten to tender another contribution bearing out

That is what happened; yet you have not the least idea that you re- jeeted the person because of the a tiny grease-spot on his waistcont. few specks of mud on his shoes and

The process of your thought is so

doing just what a detective is enre osttal in a buay work that it is instinctive, though you have been

your statement-HUMBLE SCOT. Mr. Kelly is left with the forged fully trained to do, and that is to for having in his possession. The nute. He is fiable to imprisonment deduce character from appearances, shroff's will not believe that the noto But with you the process was unhe received was the one he shower conscious; with the defective it is them, conscious.

So much for observation. “As for clear thinking and constructive Anyhow, try the sketch. And if imagination, let me offer you a test you find you get all the details cor- for these out of real life, reet-the spacing of the windows! A girl was found murdered on a from each other; their height in lonely common. Only two clues relation to the front door: the could be found: a regimental badge number of panes in them; the num-and an ordinary coal-button. length of house in proportion to ber and position of the chimneys;

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Here was no case where routinemAENUANIČENJA RESISTEN its height; overhang of the caves; or the machine could help; the de ant features-if you get ever half wits. He got his man. and a dozen other equally import-tective in charge had to use his in the other half. We got worn

How did out running from one tent to an-, pf them right, you may lake the go about it?

other, and in the end had to give up our job because one of the cus person.

tomers pald to go into bh tents. One of our greatest friends in that show

was Zamponnga, the Egyptian Witch and World Famous Phrenologist and Charac ter Render.

members will all have their serious part to play. In physical fitness, one who has read the full report | too, they are of the stuff that realll of that speech can help but feel men are made of. Though their that it was a clear and masterly average age is under eighteen their exposition of the bedrock prin- under six feet, and their average average height is only two inches

ciples on which the Govern-weight more than ten and a ment's foreign policy rests. It half stone. Theme boys, it will be was an utterance marked by a broad and logical survey of that policy. one to which no nation having the interests of world SEBESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS peace at heart could possibly take exception. Fidelity to the SSSSSSSSES League of Nations and the prin- ciples for which it stands re- mains the basis of Britain's A BROODING SPIRIT

What is behind this world-wide world outlook. with collaboration in a system of collective secu-assauit of materialism? What is rity, ind the obligations which ing over the globe? The question the Spirit that seems to be brood- are thereby involved, as the is naked by one who tries to view corner-stone of the structure.world conditions as a whole, and that you are a very exceptional

though he does not As Sir Samuel Hoare rightly question he may give a new direc | declared, any weakening of that | lion to the thoughts of many, who Most people will be doubtful even

policy must tend in the reverse are bewildered by the spectacle of of the number of windowsl

modern life. Wherever the eye is direction of the old and discredit-directed a single and definite in- ed system of alliances. Thus fluence seems to be at work. No to-day, the British Government need to say more of Russia, the arch-destroyer, or Germany, or any still adheres to the principle of other formerly Christian country. friendly relations with all, and It is not only Christianity and special alliances with none. The Mohamedanism is being submerg

Judaism that are being attacked. Foreign Secretary's references ed in the land of "The Faithful." 10 the Anglo-German Naval China an ancient religious. Agreement constitute the best tem is being undermined. defence of that understanding mena

Along with these religious pheno- eur social philosopher yet made by a Government classes such modern tendenciou as spokesman. He showed how ugliness in aesthetics, architec many opportunities had been music, and the intensifiention of painting. sculpture, and allowed to slip in the past fifteen sex appeal. Whence come all

these things, wo years for evolving a satisfactory many in number and yet all of

asked, so disarmament agreement, and kind? Are not they all manifesta- cited_the_agreement with Ger- tions of some central controlling as furthering the pros her leaves us, conscious of the nuse?, And there our philoso pects of a general naval treaty presence of a brooding Spirit, for rather than prejudicing it, say "We may almost hear the beating ing that it provided a chance of of his wings." eliminating the chief cause of)==

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The things that women used to tell us would astonish you. Wo have been convinced over since that something has gone wrong in our life. We should be a million- aire, or a taipan, or a Under- Under-Secretary of a Hongkong Government Department, or some- thing equally famous. According to Zampoanga,. however, one of the lines on our hand has got a dent in it, and it's spoilt every- thing. That is why we have to- day escended to the base lovel of

a journalist.

We also have very loose habits, according to Zam- poanga, but here we have dis- agreed with her. We have no loose habits. They're all firmly welded to us.

She said that we had to beware of a dark woman, who would exercise A strange fascination over us. This was the beat bit of information she gavo us, although we have been waving and winking for three years now at every decent-looking brunette we've So far we haven't had any chance to do any bewaring,

Anyway, gotting back to the Repulse Bay Lido.

saen.

After the elxth or soventh champagne we sort of Jost George. Our maternal Instinct immediately rose up on its hind legs and we became frantic. We dashed off to the Children's Room, expecting to find him sobbing all over a nurse, but he wasn't there. We found out subsequently, that all the

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