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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH., FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937.

LONDON SOCIETY WOMAN FINED £1,500

IN ATTEMPT TO EVADE CUSTOMS

Our picture shows the winner in the great Motorboat race between

North Pavin in the

of Italy Venlee, a distance of 400 kilometres. which is the longest motorboat race in the world. The average speed of the winner was more than 10 Elo- .metres an hour.

London's

Phantom Police®

By HUGH BRADY

JIRELESS

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GAOL'S THIRD GUEST IN CENTURY

Sark, Channel Island,

June 8.

THE 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 gaol.

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

This miniature Bastille, little. larger CONDITIONS

than a single car garage, is stoutly constructed of stone.

Its 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 collage across the way. He keeps it on a shelf in the kitchen.

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

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 and press representatives remained to hear the last speaker

REMARKABLE STORY ·

TOLD IN COURT

LADY PRESCOTT'S ADMISSIONS

Lady (Ellabeth) Prescott, Glou- cester Square, London, was fined £1,500, and two guineas costs, al Croydon Police Couri, last month on a summons alleging that on April 25, at Croydon Airport, she was knowingly.con- cerned in a fraudulent attempt to evade

payment of Customs duty on two ruby and diamond dress clips, two bats, a silk night- gown, cotton costume, fur cape, and diamond, gold, and sliver vanity bax, valued £080 10s. ·

It was stated that the duty payable was £203 18s. 4d.

Mr. Colin Duncan pleaded guilty for the defendant, who sat imme- dlately behind him.

on

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

k Mr. Stephenson added, "in mỷ [ opinion this is a very clear attempt

indeed to defraud the authorities.

The value of the articles was 2680 10s, on which the duty pay- able was £203 18s, 4d.

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

"DELIBERATE FRAUD "

"In my submission," said Mr.

Stephenson, "this is a case which should be vislied with an extremely heavy penalty. It is not a case of a from abroad, and not in a position poor person bringing in small articles

to pay duty,

"This is a lady in a good position, Mr. D. M. Stephenson, who pro- setting herself out deliberately to secuted, said that Lady Prescott defraud the Revenue of its proper arrived at Croydon Airport about duties. It is only right for you to 3.30 p.m. She was seen first of all know that throughout the whole of by Mr. Coppard, Assistant Preven the interviews before the Customs tive Omeer, and she presented for Oficer she behaved in an extremely examination seven pieces of bag-pleasant manner, and treated them gare. She was asked if she had any with every possible courtesy." goods acquired abroad, and she de- There was no question of black-

slk dressing-gown, clared bedspread, and a pair of linen sheets, description, he added."

silk guarding them, or anything of that

which £5 103. Bd. duty was charged. She said that she had Mr. Duncan admitted that the nothing else to declare.

offener was serious, but suggested Selecting a hat box which belonged that it was not so bad as it at first this episode, the officer disght appeared. Was

he asked, a part of a business? That covered in an empty jewel case, feature, at all events, was entirely and then asked her where the con- missing. It was not a tents were. She then produced the being done in unfair competition clips from her handbag.

with persons lawfully paying duty.

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

to Lady Prescott, communica-

tion has reached such

a pitch of perfection in the Metropolitan Police area

that criminals are finding their lot a far from happy

one.

Scotland Yard's two big wire- less stations at Denmark Hill and West Wickham, Kent, are in constant contact with the Information Room at the "Yard," movements 50 and control police rapidly that they can be described as phantom police forces.

The cry for more men in the force has almost died since radlo caine into its own, and the co-operation between wireless, the telephone, and the mobile police is making the lone- liest parts of London

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

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

PUBLIC HELPING

The public also are helping the pollee more than formerly, and each month shows a rise in the number of calls to the Information Room at 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 Arst in- formation of a crime or an offence reaches Scotland Yard.

Mother has put

SHORTHEADS

in the

bathroom

She's introduced the Tek Shorthead tooth- brush to the family -one for each member. She knows) that the Tek is eat to measure and cut to clean that it fits right inside the arch at the back of the teeth and cleans the crevices ordinary

miss.

toothbrushes

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IT'S BETTER TO YAKE TO A

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*SHORTHEAD TOOTHBRUSH ·

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ALSO TER JUNIOR FOR THE CHILDREN

Prisoner No. 2 was a woman law- breaker whose name and offence are also unrecorded-'n trifling crimè," 'tis said.

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

The prisoner afterwards sai on the doorstep doing needlework. Friends brought their stools and knitting and sat in circle thatting to her until she was formally released.

Though now occupled again, the prison is still capable of dealing with any sudden crime wave. There is still one 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 rellance on imported oil fuel was the subject of a debate this evening in the House of Lords. Lord Allwyn asked whether the would consider

Government

Mr. Chu Hsueh-fan (Chinese work-

The offleer then asked her where a strong plea she had obtained them, and at first ers' delegate), make for the abolition of extraterritoriality she said she got them from a friend in China. It was, he said, due to as a present. She said that they extraterritoriality that foreign-owned were purchased in London, and that factories and business concerns were she herself had taken them out of exempt from China labour laws, and the country two or three days be- that all efforts to improve Chinese working conditions had met with

fallure.

It was Impossible to force the Chinese factories to comply with the

fore.

Mr. Stephenson said that he was not suggesting that the fact that the clips were in the handbag, was neces- sarily evidence of an attempt to smuggle.

case of this

She stated quite frankly what happened about certain articles on previous occasions. He asked what really was the state of defendant's mind in these

circum- particular stances.

"NOT TRAFFICKING"

It was quite obvious that she was not trafficking. She left Paris with The officer was not quite satisfied, a variety of luggage which he might sanity and safety regulations when and continued his examination and colloquially describe as "a very the foreign-owned factorles defied found two hats which had not been mixed bag." Taking it all through. the regulations and could refuse to declared. Lady Prescott said they it might probably be described as be inspected. Chinese workers ex-had been bought in Paris. Asked personal luggage..

were not declared she pected that some action would be why they

said, "I forgot about them.” taken by the ILO. to get rid of

"SIMPLY LIES" hindered extraterritoriality, which

"When this Indy left Paris," he went on, she left as a bona-Ade traveller with no intention of doing and obstructed the Improvement of Another officer asked her where anything wrong in relation to Cus- working conditions in China. He she had obtained the clips, and she toma or anything else. There was called attention to the fact that it said that they had been given to her no fraudulent intent of any kind."

by a friend who obtained them in If, before seeing the Customs off- was an easy matter for foreign London. She said it was rather cer, she had any intention of smug- capital to flow into China. Factories difficult 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, and the Chinese were exploited and close her friend's name. n world market flooded with cheap- labour goods.

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

de

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

"All these stories of purchasing in

did they suppose that the case from which they had come would have been left In her luggage?

It would have been cusy for her to have thrown the case out of the window, and to have placed the clips

the provision of necessity of combating unemploy-London were simply lies in her "at-upon her garments. dual-fring in all new warships, and ment by shortening the hours of tempt to evade payment of the pro- ;

commented on the difficulties that might be experienced In the event of war in conveying to this country all the oil required for an exclusively oil-fred Flect.

Since 1014, he said, our imports of oil 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 of oli

work.

Mr. Komarnicki (Polish Govern-

The fact that the case from which those clips had come was left in her cation that at that time she had no bug was the strongest possible ind}- Intention of committing any frau- dulent act at all.

the Navy, Inrge quantities of great were necessary, Poland waslin, and which she said she had for- confronted by the Customs officers,

per duties," said Mr. Stephenson.

Asked if she had anything further ment delegate) disagreed with the in her possession required abroad, Director's opinion that the problem she then mentioned the nightgown Again asked if of raw materials could be solved by purchased in Paris.

"VERY WRONG " to free International ex- there was anything further, she said a return

and there

was nothing further, but changes and that the problem had

Coming to the occasion of the Cus- Was continued, dis- no colonial aspect. A return to free exammation International

Mr. Kom-

closing a cotton golf costume, which toms Inspection, Mr. Duncan sald exchanges, amicki sold, was Impossible and she admitted having bought in Ber- "It is obvious that my cilent, when colonics

behaved, if I may say so in her pre- overpopulated. The surplus gotten to declare.

sence, like a lunatic. population in Polish rural districts The

the next thing found was had been estimated at five million. vanity box, and

on being asked that practical solution of about it, she said she had received over-population done, want you ficulties of Poland would be found Le Toquet in September 1936, and through the 1.L.O.

result of that it was valued at approximately the proposed collaboration between |3,000 francs (about £75). emigration and immigration coun- trics.

Air Force,

were required for industry and the

and however big a re serve we built up there would always be the necessity of maintain- ing huge imports. It warships were adopted to an alternative method of firing by coal in case of need, there would never be any dimeulty about fuelling the Navy.

DJ

Lord Stanhope, replying for the Government, sald that, with the excepilon of America and Russia, the

Powers were other maritime [dependent as we were on Imported all, and there was nothing excep- tional in our position. The sources of supply were numerous, and, aince we were never likely to be of war with all the other countries of the world at once, he did not think there would ever be any real dificulty about getting the oll we needed. Oli had various advantages over coal as fuel for warships, and it simplied the task of naval construction.

The technical arguments were so strongly. In favour of oll fuel that they were bold by the Admiralty to outweigh the disadvantages of having i to Import all. The Government res ́garded · · it` - as essential from the strategle point; of view to retain oll fuel for warships and not to go back {to' cóàl' or ́ ́dual' 'firing. A Sub- Committee of the Commitipe of Imperial Defence kept the question of all supplies constantly under re view and the Government hoped and bellevest that the measures being taken would provò adequate to ang need. Reserves of all fuel in this country were steadily accumulating and they had been accumulating for a number of yours.

"SMUGGLED PREVIOUSLY"

"She told a great number of lies. That was a very wrong and wicked

distinguish it from persons who come from Paris with a consignment of things with intent to defraud.

"It is hard

to understand how educated and sensible persons can be so foolish as to commit acts of

Mr. Schulthess, on behalf of the Asked whether the box had been Swiss Federal Government, strongly declared or produced to an officer this kind, and lose their heads and opposed the forty-hour week. "The before, she said that when she endeavour to cover up with fabrica- legislative undertaking of the forty-arrived at Folkestone she did not tions what is beyond repair." new consider it necessary to declare it. hour week," he said, "Is a

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

"That," said Mr. Stephenson, "was man W. Peet, the chairman, sald that good and we refuse to let it enter an article smuggled on a previous the defence had admitted a deliber- our wolls."

occasion, and she tried to amuggio ate offence. Mr. Markus, Soviet Government it in on this occasion."

"In our opinion," he said, "It was delegate, said that the representa- An officer, he went on, then noticed a very despicable attempt." The tives of the working-classes at the a fur cape on Lady Prescott's arm amount of duty was £203. To a conference could always count on which she said was purchased in lady in the defendant's position It the support of his country in favour December 1938, and brought here in was a paltry sum, and she ought to of the forty-hour week and against the following February.

have been able to resist the temp the consequences of depression, dis- Asked if duty was paid on it, she tation to defraud the Government of treas, and poverty.

said she did not think It was neces--this relatively, small amount"

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