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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937,

LONDON SOCIETY WOMAN FINED £1,500 IN ATTEMPT TO EVADE CUSTOMS

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London's Phantom Police

W

By

HUGH BRADY

VIRELESS communica- tion has reached such a pitch of perfection in the Metropolitan Police

area

that criminals are finding their lot a far from happy

onc.

Scotland Yard's two big wire. less stations at Denmark Hill and West Wickham, Kent, are in constant contact with the the "Yard," Information Hoom at and control police movements Tapidly that they can be described as phantom police forces.

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The cry for more men in the force has almost died since radio came into its own, and the co-operation between wireless, the telephone, and the mobile police is making the lone-

risky llest parts of London 15

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venue for the marauding criminal as the heart of the West End.

As suburbs continue to grow the new districts are protected by the phantom forces that the radio daily calls into action....

PUBLIC HELPING

The public also are helping the police more than formerly, and each month shows a rise in the number of at calls to the Information Room Scotland Yard by persons who pre- viously would have sought the help of a patrolling policeman.

Almost every day arrests are made a few minutes after the first in- formation of a crime or an offence reaches Scotland Yard.

Mother has put

SHORTHEADS

in the

bathroom

She's Introduced the Tek Shotthead tooth- brush

the family 10 -one for each member. She knows that the Tek is cut to measure and cut to clean that it is right inside. the arch at the back of the teeth and cleans the crevices ordinary toothbrushes miss.

· 47'S BETTER TO TAKE TO A

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GAOL'S THIRD 'GUEST' IN CENTURY

Sark, Channel Island,

THE

June 8.

Gaol From Which No Prisoner Has Escaped, the State prison here, was opened to-day to receive its first "guest" for nine years.

Arthur Baker, a postman, arrested on a charge of stabbing his wife, is the third inmate in the century-long history of the gool.

This miniature Bastille, little farger than a single car garage, is 'stoutly constructed of stone.

It only weak link is the entrance; a wooden door giving on to "the village street. The gaoler's key is guarded by the occupant of the cottage across the way. Ife keeps it on a shelf in the kitchen.

Prison records have been rather neglected, for all that is known of the first tenant is that he was a deserter and that he was locked up "a long time ago."

Prisoner No. 2 was a woman law- breaker whose name and offence are also unrecorded--"a trifting crime,” 'lis said.

She began to weep as soon as the door was closed. The sound of her Lobbing was too much for the keeper of the key, and after about an hour he opened the door.

The famous Irish satirist, George Bernard Shaw, is seen speaking be- fore the microphone in London dur- ing recent broadcast to school- children.

CONDITIONS

OF WORK

IN CHINA

APPEAL TO I.L.O.

Geneva, June 13. The Director's report was again discussed by the International Labour Conference for four hours yesterday,

A mere handful

of

speakers und press representatives remained to hear the last speaker, Mr. Chu such-fan (Chinese work- ers' delegate), make a strong plea

REMARKABLE STORY

TOLD IN COURT

LADY PRESCOTT'S ADMISSIONS

Lady (Elisabeth) Prescott, Glou- center Square, London, was fined £1,500, and two guineas costs, at Croydon Police Court. last month on # summons alleging Croydon that on April 26, at Airport, she was knowingly con- cerned in a fraudulent attempt to evade payment of Customs duty on two ruby and diamond dress clips, two hats, a silk night- gown, cotton costume, fur cape, and diamond, gold, and silver vanity box, valued £680 10.

It was stated that the payable was £203 18. 4.

duty

nary, as it was a present, and had been worn, and seeing that it was not silk she did not think that it had to be declared.

"In my Mr. Stephenson added, oplaton this is a very clear attempt indeed to defraud the nuthorities.

The

of the articles was value £880 10s, on which the duty pay- able was £203 185, 40.

The maximum penulty which the Bench had power to impose in this case was £2,653.

"DELIBERATE FRAUD "

said Mr.

"In my sub,nission," Stephenson, "This is mense which should be visited with an extremely heavy penalty. It is not a case of poor person bringing in small articles Mr. Colin Duncan pleaded gulity from abroad, and not in a position for the defendant, who sat imme- to pay duty. diately behind him.

Prescott

of

"This is a lady in n good position, Mr. B. M. Stephenson, who pro-setting herself out deliberately to secuted, said that Lady

defraud the Revenue of its proper arrived at Croydon Airport about dutles. It is only right for you to 3.30 p.m. She was seen first of all know that throughout the whole by Mr. Coppard, Assistant Preven- the interviews before the Customs tive Officer, and she presented for meer she behaved in an extremely examination seven pleces of bag-pleasant manner, and treated them gage. She was asked if she had any with every possible courtesy." Roods sequired abroad, and she de- There was no question of black- clared A silk dressing-gown, all guarding them, or anything of that bedspread, and a pair of linen sheets, description, he added. on which £5 10s. 8d. duty Was had snid

that she charged. She nothing else to declare,

the

Mr.

Duncan

that the admitted offence was serious, but suggested Selecting a hat box which belonged that it was not so bad as it at arst this episode, sight appeared. Was to Lady Prescott, officer dishe asked, a part of a business? That covered in it an empty jewel case, feature, at all events, was entirely and then asked her where the con- missing. It was not a case of this tents were. She then produced the being done in unfair competition clips from her handbag,

with persons inwfully paying duty.

"There is no suggestion," he said, that this lady has been making a practice of it."

She stated quite frankly

what

The oficer then usked her where she had obtained them, and at first for the abolition of extraterritoriulity she said she got them from a friend in China. It was, he said, due to as a present. She said that they The prisoner afterwards out on

extraterritoriality that foreign-owned were purchased in London, and that doing needlework. doorstep Friends brought their stools and factories and business concerns were she herself had taken them out of happened about certain articles on the country two or three days be- previous occasions. He asked what knitting and sat in circle chatting to

exempt from China labour laws, and fore.

really was the state of defendant's circum- her unui she Was formally

that all efforts to improve Chinese released.

the

Though now occupied again, the prison is still capable of dealing with any sudden crima wave. There is still ons cell empty.

Navy And Oil

Imports

GOVERNMENT ASSURANCE

Westminster, June 10. The danger which may arise in a time of emergency from the Navy's reliance on imported oll fuel was the

whether

subject of a debate this evening in the House of Lords. Lord Allwyn the Government asked would consider the provision of dual-Bring In all new warships, and commented on the dimeulties that might be experienced in the event of war in conveying to this country all

oil-fired Fleet.

working conditions had met with

fuiture.

It was impossible to force the Chinese factories to comply with the sanity and safety regulations which the foreign-owned factories defled the regulations and could refuse to be inspected. Chinese workers ex- pected that some action would be taken by the IL.O. to get rid of extraterritoriality, which hindered and obstructed the improvement of working conditions

in

"NOT TRAFFICKING"

Mr. Stephenson said that he was mind in these particular not suggesting that the fact that the stances. clips were in the handbag was neces-

evidence of sarily

an attempt to

It was quite obvious that she was smuggle.

not trafficking. She left Paris with The officer was not quite satisfled, a variety of luggage which he might and continued his examination and colloquially describe found two hats which had not been mixed bag." Taking it all through, Prescott puid they) it might probably be described as declared. Lady had been bought in Paris. Asked personal luggage.

she were not declared why they said, "I forgot about them."

as "0

very

"When this lady left Paris," he went on, "she left 014 a bona-fide traveller with no intention of doing anything wrong in relation to Cus- toms or anything else. There was

"SIMPLY LIES" Another officer asked her where China. He she had obtained the clips, and she called attention to the fact that it said that they had been given to her no fraudulent intent of any kind."

by friend who obtained them in 1f, before seeing the Customs off- rather cer, she had any intention of smug- Way пл easy matter for foreign London. She said it was capital to flow into China. Factories dimcult to say where they were pur-gling or carrying out any fraudulent were established by foreign capital chased, and she did not wish to dis-intention with regard to the clips, did they suppose that the case from and the Chinese were exploited and close her friend's name,

world market flooded with cheap-

which they had come would have been left in her Juggage? tour goods.

Mr. K.

Mr. Komarnick! (Polish Govern- ment delegate) disagreed with the

When the Chief Preventive Officer said he understood that she had in fact acquired the clips abroad she

It would have been easy for her 1o have thrown the case out of the window, and to have placed the clips upon her garments.

de Jonge (Netherlands admitted it. workers' delegate) insisted on the

"All these stories of purchasing in necessity of combating unemploy-London were simply lles in her at ment by shortening the hours of tempt to evade payment of the pro-

The fact that the case from which work.

per duties," said Mr. Stephenson. those cups bad come was left in her bag was the strongest possible indi- Asked if she had anything further cation that at that time she had no in her possession acquired abroad, Intention of committing any frau- the oil required for an exclusively Director's opinion that the problem she then mentioned the nightgowa dulent act at all,

of raw materials could be solved by purchased in Paris. Aguin asked if to free International ex- there was anything further, she said a return

was nothing further, but was continued, dis-

Coming to the occasion of the Cus- changes and that the problem had there

A return to free examination no colonial aspect.

exchanges, Mr. Kom-closing a cotton golf costume, which tome inspection, Mr. Duncan said: international arnicki said, was impossible and she admitted having bought in Ber- "It is obvious that my client, when behaved, if I may say so in her pre- were necessary. Poland was in, and which she said she had for- confronted by the Customs officers.

sence, like a lunatic. overpopulated. The surplus gotten to declare.

Since 1814, he said, our imports of all had increased from 2,500,000 to 12,000,000 tons and most of this came from foreign sources of supply.

In addition to the requirements of ove Polish rural districts

the

re-

the Navy, large quantities of bil were required for industry and Air Force, and however blg serve we built up there would always be the necesalty of maintain- ing huge Imporis. If warships were adapted to an alternative method of Aring by coal in case of need, there would never be any difficulty about fuelling the Navy.

Lord Stanhope, replying for the Government, Bald that, with the exception of America und Russia, the

other maritime Powera were до

dependent as we were on imported oll, and there was nothing excep-

had

the The next thing found was vanity box, and on being asked

"VERY WRONG "

"She told great number of lica. been estimated at five million. He hoped that practical solution of about it, she said she had received That was a very wrong and wicked over-population and economic dif-it as a present. from her husband in thing to have done, but I want you ficulties of Poland would be found Le Toquet in September 1930, and to distinguish it from persons who through the ILO. 48 a

result of that it was valued at approximately come from Paris with a consignment

of things with intent to defraud. the proposed collaboration between 3,000 francs (about £75). emigration and immigration coun- trics.

*SMUGGLED PREVIOUSLY"

tional in our position. The sources good and we refuse to let it enter an article smuggled on a previous the defence had admitted a deliber-

The Tek was approved in writing by ef supply were numerous, and, since 98% of dentinis to whom it was sent.

were never likely to be at war You can't get a substitute for Tek.with all the other countries of the Tek is registered-legally protected

world at once, he did not think there from Imitation...To clean your teeth

be any real difficulty from behind as well as in front, you would ever must get Tek, the original shorthead. about getting the old we needed. Oil had various advantages over coal toothbrush.

as fuel for warships, and it simplifted the task of naval construction.

The technical arguments were so strongly in Iqvour of oil fuel that they were held by the Admiralty to outweigh the disadvantages of having to import oil. The Government re- garded it as essential from the strategic point of view to retain fuel for warships and not to go back

A Subt to coal, or dual fring. Committee of the Committee Imperial Defence kept the question of oil supplies constantly under re- view and the Government hoped and believed that the measures being taken would prove adequate to any need. Reserves of oil fuel in this country were steadily accumulating and they had been accumulating for la number of years..

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"It is hard to understand how educated and sensible persons can Asked whether the box had been be so foolish as to commit sets of Mr. Schulthess, on behalf of the Swiss Federal Government, strongly declared or produced to an officer this kind, and lose their heads and when she endeavour to cover up with fabrica- "The before, she said that

she did not tions what is beyond repair." opposed the forty-hour week. legislative undertaking of the forty- arrived at Folkestone

week," he said, "Is a new consider it necessary to declare it.

After a brief retirement, Alder- hour Trojan horse which will bring no

"That," said Mr. Stephenson, "was than W. Peet, the chairman, said that

our walls."

occasion, and she tried to smuggle ate offence.

"In our opinion," he said, "It was Mr. Markus, Soviet Government it in on this occasion.".

that the representa- An officer, he went on, then noticed a very derpicable attempt." The delegats, said

a fur cape on Lady Prescott's arm amount of duty was £203. To a tives of the working-classes at the

purchased in Indy in the defendant's position iti conference could always count on which she said was the support of his country in favour December 1938, and brought here in was a paltry sum, and she ought to have been able to resist the temp- of the forty-hour week and against the following February. the consequences of depression, dis- Asked if duty was paid on it, she tation to defraud the Government of treas, and poverty.

salt she did not think it was neces-this relatively small amount."

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