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PESTS OF

THE WEST END

THE heavy prison sen- tences imposed last week on five Maltese for demanding "protection money" with menaces from three women in Bond-street, W., have served to remind the public that the vice gangs are back in London.

Scattered or driven under- ground during the war because the women they preyed on most- ly flitted between military camps outside the metropolis, the gangsters have alimed back to

their fashionable haunts.

Arms in car

When' arrested, the Maltese had a revolver and ammunition in their car,

This could not have surprised the police. Ever since home cuming soldiers sold off a flood

by

JOHN E. HORWELL, O.B.E.,

former Chief Constable of Scotland Yard

of looted weapons, the denlers In vice have added firearms to their knuckle-dusters, their razor-blades and knives.

And the only way to do it is to drive out of business, for then the de- their foreign street women

generates who batten on their earn. Ings will go out of business at the same time.

the remember

This will give the police a chance to arrest them on sulistantial charges which will result in their going to prison for very long terms,

Needless to say, they will then quit Britain and go back to the country of their origin.

Before the First World War the majority of this type of man in the West End were of German origin, | and many were armed.

round-

they

I discovered ibis In the up on August 4, 1914, when were nrreated 46 enemy ollens. Many were in possession of Mauser | pistols, ammunition and daggers.

POCKET CARTOON

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

,

an

In sentencing the Maltesc. For many more years than I care

They had seldom displayed these IT was suggested the other the Ol Bailey judge said the to

patrolling by arms in the streets, but I knew that day that it was a far more evidence showed that the num- foreign-born, well-dressed women in they made their women dupes aware serious matter to find a mouse

the West End of London and in a that they went armed, ber of such depraved foreign- few of the larger provincial cities

in a bottle of milk than earwig, both friendly visitants born men was

in has been a flagrant disgrace, Increasing

having turned up for a drink Britain. He is right. Under

at one time or another. the present weak laws of this country they are bound to pro- pagate their vicious breed.

But this need not be allowed in my opinion, backed by many years of experience, I say here is a canker that can be cured.

A LETTER FROM AMERICA:

NEW BRITISH

LOAN TALK

They toil not

rule Павя and

These women and their "alavers" foll not, neither do they spin. They cut-our food, they often live in valu clothes.

wear tho finest

Under the present laws, the police do their level best,

Dut every time one of these women is arrested for soliciting, the first thing she produces in the charge room is a British marriage certi- flente, followed by n British pass- port, even though she can hardly speak a word of English.

Within half an hour of paying her 20s. One she has earned it back again -and the man who "runs" her stays in the background and gets his rake-off.

How can we drive these people

By Gerald Johnson out of business?

names Lippmann

no figure and says nothing about Including Russia. But he argues that the destruc- tion of a large part of

Western Europe constitutes a single problem with that and should be handled fact in mind.

NEW YORK, May 10. NFORMED quarters in Washington have known for a long time that the British loan was inadequate, and efforts to increase it have been quietly conducted for months. Their He is delinitely of opinion, how- success is still problematical, ever, that American economic power to check the but the difficulty relates to pur- should be employed pose rather than to the size or expansionist tendencies of Russia, terms of the proposed new loan.

Public opinion will support any. thing in reason that is necessary to re-establish British economy. not out of altruism, but because a pros-

Canada, perous Britain is, after America's best customer,

NO 1918 ILLUSIONS THE effect of this on the ordinary is to confuse him

American

more than ever.

I suggest, and have done so for many years, that our marriage laws must be altered,

Any foreign-born woman who marries a Briltall sub- ject should be placed on probation for two years.

At the end of two years she should be compelled to produce evidence

that she has become an asset to the country of her adoption. Only then should she be granted the privilege of a British subject and be given u British passport.

Between 1030 and 1940 I looked into many cases of marriage of con. venience and found that foreign- born street women married abroad He no longer cherishes the illusion low-down types of British subjects

It was learned much since 1918.

that the U.S. can withdraw from

Europe.

Advancing money to save a good customer temporarily embarrassed

He is aware that tils country Is strictly business. not charity.

must put up a great deal of money Unfortunately, some Americans for reconstruction, and if he is not cherish doubts as to the real pur- quite happy about it he is reconcil- pose of the loan.

ed to necessity.

Politicians in both countries have the waters that the so muddied common man is perplexed.

for prices (pald to the man) rang ing from £50 to £200.

She and the man parted at the each register office nover to see other again. Many of the men had criminal records.

Full inquiries

One well-known gang of Italian origin has been known to the police for the past 25 years, but little can be done with them under the pre- sent state of the law.

J

No street woman would say any thing against them for fear of re- prisals.

'Little Al Capones'

A magistrate replied that he did not agree. Anyone might swallow an earw but nobody would be likely to swallow a mouse." Speak- ing progressively, I perceive that a gnat would be more serious than an earwig. A squirrel, on the other hand, would not matter. Nobody would be likely to swallow it with- Their game has been to engage out noticing it. But It is when we shady solicitors and have full come to the question of giraffes in quiries made about the men to whom enormous subs of milk that the con- they marry their street women. troversy really begins to be, flerce,

and tempers are lost.

They seek out and engage expen- give us for the women, charging them exorbitant rents.

Serudne made by the Home Page Hippopota wus grophig for milk..

nights until recently, und

They have never engaged in street for the best part of most years they have Music by correspondence spent their time between here and and Paris. Most of their women aro Freneli.

Euch member of such a gang has eight or ning women paying Wim protection money. They make £20 to £25 a week out of the woman.

Just as Al Capone monopolised the black-market in liquor, so the leading gangs of overseas-born

little All British subjects become Caponcs, monopolising the market in Immoral earnings, engaging thugs ta hijackers and the intimitate the muselers-in.

THE XYLOPHONE

FTEN culled the auctioneer's holiday, as it is played with o small hammer. A laugh can always. be raised by hitting the wrong note, or by pretending to get held up down one end of the instrument, when the note you want is up at the other end,

you

fire

But Prodinose;

not As to how giving any instruction to play the various instruments,

Myself: You may rely on me to do everything in my power to keep you in a state of ignorance. I don't want you to play anything. I did not even ask you to read this.

They put up a facade of business They to cloak their evil game.

In sometimes have a few diamonds their pocket and engage in a little Mimsie Slopcorner buying and selling of these stones.

Need of proof

on the set

MIMSIE SLOPCORNER was given

a

studios. Her success as the Haulage and Freightage Queen led Hogwasch To prove a charge against a man living on the immoral carnings of to the obvious conclusion that she was the one girl to play George a woman, the police must prove

Ellot in the musical film "Adam that he does not earn money by

Bede." Mimsic was asked to enter labour or employment or some ballroom and

"Thanks legitimate business.

mlilion, sister," After seventy- Secondly, they must have a state- three attempts she mailalled Hog- ment from the street woman detail-

Her

who was there, Husch. mother, ing the amounts of money she has said, "I do so think art is im- paid over; or, alternatively, the portant in a nailon's Ute." Her police must

be- keep observation

father "I could fench

said,

Η parrot mian and woman and to say that line in half the time." Before these marriages took place tween the

actually see the passing of the Mimsie was then Introduced to Mon the "slavers" financing the women

Gutler, who is directing the film. made exhaustive

at money. inquiries Somerset House to satisfy them-

If they could be caught, such Mop said, "Swell" Mimsic, in an selven that the man who created

was to men could be jailed for 12 months attempt to capture the atmosphere." contract the murrlage hat never with hard labour, but the rarity of replied, "That is OK. by me, chief- been married before, or was such a conviction proves how hurd iain." widower.

it is to bring it about.

But he also remembersH with painful clarity that some two and a half billion

of American pounds

after Into Germany money went Loud voices have been, assuring the last war and was used for him that this money will be used

rearmament rather than for re- only in part to rebuild and re-equip construction. British factories-and-that-much-of- it will go to maintain the Army

memory

has

an

This to shoot Jews in Palestine and to atmosphere in which cynicism maintain a palisade of little Hi- flourishes. lors along the borders of Russia.

NO ENTHUSIASM

AXCEPT among extreme reat-

E donarles, who are few, there is

It is stimulated by the failure of General Marshall to come to any Arm understanding at Moscow:

This showed the vice gangs did- their work thoroughly, and were

As I have sald, the way to forcu

Falih in the ability of the exist- prepared to stand any expense to to change our laws. ing leadership to .cope with the

no enthusiasm for a loan to be de- sifuntion is being subjected ξυ voted to any such purpose.

run their trade inside the law,

A

SECOND

sums is

severe strain, and the prospect of

leadership furnishing such

with It took the power of both parties, money in astronomical supplemented by the Consorvative somewhat bleak. Press, the Catholic

Church ond

many large banking and industrial WE ARE 'GOOD RISKS'

interests, to whip up sufficient sup- port for the Greek-Turkish loan, which was a relatively small one.

N the other hand, sympathy for the British people has risen to

A British loan ten times as large a new high level. The events of would encounter ten times as much last winter did it.

to

method stamp out the trade would be tó increase the penalties,

the

At the moment 1. belleve magistrate's power is limited to a fine of 40s, or a month.

An Apology

these creatures out into the open is MR. NURGLE WADDLEFLOCK ("Beachcomber") wishes to However much the police increase apologise to Mr J. Eustace Cockle- carrot for using his name in their vigilance they are fighting an derision, and at the same lime

battle unfair

against. vice these reforms are passed.

until demands an apology from Mr. Boocock and Mr Cocklecarrot for And however much the gang war- suggesting that his name was Bar- rolshott or indletramb, Mr Wad- fare may increase in violence, don't dieflock has not a drop of Barrol imagine for a moment that the a shott blood in him, and is only a

will kill each other off.

Al Capone was

I suggest that the fine should be low, not by bullets. Increased threefold for the first

opposition If the impression pre- They were well reported in the vailed that it was to be used for American Press, and made a pro- should be imprisonment with hard political and military rather than found impression.

for economic purposes.

LUMP SUM IDEA

complication is

ANOTHER

It, was not all sentiment.

The sleadiness of the British {

offence up to the third offence, and for every subsequent offense there

labour without the option of a Ane.

After the sixth offence the magla- the under severe hardship strengthened trite should have power to commit idea now being advanced by the belief that they are good finan- the woman for trial in order that should be granted she should receive a longer sen- leaders as far apart as Henry Wal- clal risks who

ience. lace and Walter Lippmann that the all the credit they need. time has come to cease making loans in detail and to advance Jump sum for reconstruction of Europe, to be apportioned not by Congress but by some nuthority composed of financiers, industrialists

and economists.

If politlent doubt could be re- 1 propose that such women should solved, a new British loan would be denit with as vagrants under be highly popular,

the Vagrancy Act. And if there is sili no cure they should come up Wallace overstated the case when for trial again as incorrigible roguts, he charged Americans with mar-when the penalties can be ching towards imperialism.

very

heavy.

The male creatures behind these

Wallace went so far as to fix the

They are not marching anywhere. figure at twelve and a half billion

They are simply milling around women are lazy and worthless per- i pounds, four billions of which he in utter confusion, unable to make sons who are all the time out for would reserve for Russia, the rest up their minds to follow any of the something for nothing, being parcelled out where it would lenders, who are pointing In every do most good towards restoring direction. European economy with no regard

+

to strategic or political consideru- Hence their course in the fame lions.

diate future is unpredictable.

NANCY

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As soon as they find that there is no more money to be made out of street women they will try their hand at stealing, house-breaking, burglary or somq other felony.

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