1947-05-31 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.

HOW GREECE WILL

USE U. S. AID U.S.

An interview with the

Greek,

Prime Minister, Demetrios Maximos

by

VIRGIL PINKLEY

(United Press Vico-President for Europa)

Greece must use purt of the money advanced to her by the United States to make herself secure against aggression. De- metrios Maximos, Greek Prime Minister, said.

In an exchange of cables Maximos replied Trankly to questions regarding the future of his country. He made the following principal points in the interview:

1-Greece must strengthen her military forces to restore normal conditions through the country and

to face external aggression."

2-Greece feels the evidence in dicates there is an apparent concert- ed action against her territorial in- tegrity and her political stability,

3-le expects effective results

offensive from the current

against Greek guerilius soon "unless new reinforcements are given to the re- bels from outside."

was

On the food question Maximos said it and improved considerably during last year. This improvement due in great part to UNRRA's assis- tanee. The average food ration Is now 2,000 calories per day.

But since January weather condi- tions have caused a considerable de- crease of agrarian production. This year's crop is expected to be from 35 to 40 percent lower than last your's,

have

number corresponds to 16 percent of the population, while the greatest part of the rest resides in buildings lacking window panes, light, heat and generally having nuffered damages of all sorts,

The Prime Minister sald 470,000 persons out of a total population of 7,500,000 are tubercular. One hun- dred and seventy thousand of thesp are in need of hospital treatment.

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In order to re-establish normal conditions in the country and to face external nggression, strenghtening of our national mill- tary forces is indiculed, Maximos sald. It seems a considerable part disposed of for of the aid will be organisation in the many as well as its supply and modernisation so that the Greek people will feel complete- by secure and will be able to devote themselves undisturbed their

to peaceful occupations.

Maximos said Greece will never abandon her claims to North Epirin based on ethnological reasons, and added that a slight rectification the boundary with Bulgaria claimed by Greece is an essential guarantee against new aggresión by Bulgario.

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YOU CAN'T SAY THAT

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EXCEED MY SOAP RATION-

ALL RIGHT! ALL FIKIHT! ILL USE MY SHAVING CREAM

by HODGES

ARE YOU THERS,

DEAR?

WOMEN DON'T FALL THESE TRICKS

FOR

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NE of the publica- tions I'd like to get my hands on but never will is Scotland Yard's re- gister of known confidence trick-

sters and their methods. There's

a new edition just coming out with the names, pictures and tricks of a thousand crooks in it.

The reason we'll never see it, neither you nor I, is that owing to the law of libel it can circu- late only among the police.

So, on behalf of potential vle- tims who are hot policemen, I propose that we find out about the subject in our own way. And the man for our purpose is Mr Percy Hoskins, the noted crime reporter.

Mr Hoskins said: All right, what shall I start with? The Brass, the Rag, the Pay-off or the Jargoon?

IT'S FUN

FINDING OUT

(this week about

shady customers)"

This goes on all the afternoon un-

til every man in the place but you you seems to have made a fortune. However, you still have a chance to join in; and the last race is going

coups. to be a coup to end all

So you do something you've never done before and put every penny you have on a horse. You're among All magicians and you can't lose. the same, you do, for your horse comes in second.

How's it done? Well, every horse mentioned had already won its race when the alleged bets were made;

by BERNARD WICKSTEED

For certain reasons the name of

So you turn confidence tricksler yourself and try to persuade him you're such n big shot In business that he ought to let you in on the

racket.

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

HE voice over

THE

the telo-

phone began shouting with- out any introduction: "Hullo! Buy 400, 700———, 300– Have you got that?"

"There aren't any," said I. "What the devil do you mean there 'aren't any?" "They've all been with- drawn," said I. Look here! Who um spooking to?" "Leadgett and Fillicule, Iron-mongers," sald I, and rang of.

(Tomorrow: "The Nastiest Girl at

St. Aldred's.") The trombone

«ASTHER,' fetch your trombono and piny something for Mrs Nevil." How often one hears that sort of thing in these days of in- creased musical facilities. A girl who plays the trombone is usually serious minded, and will make a good,

steady. wife for a man who likes the trom- bone in his home. By stuffing old rags into the aperture, the latest modern musical noises may be pro- duced,

and very small girls have been known to become so devoted to the instrument that they curl up in 北 and go to sleep

sleep. Did not the Wesen- donck woman capture Dick Water summer- Then another gang, primed by by getting him into the the first, look over and got away house and playing "Du Schruckst im- Geschoschgehausenstruttol" with £30,000 by the International meinen 'Stock Exchange trick. A year later

on her mother-of-pearl trombone? an American team took him in hand, Conversation at the byre and by means of a system called the Rag sold him dud gold shares for another £30,000.

They have records at the Yard of a man who lost £135,000 to con. men in three years. First of all £75,000 went on the infallible bet ing system.

AND what, pray, do you think you

are" queried the cow.

After that he drowned himself. We are still left with the Jargoon, which Mr, Hoskins saya is another nummo for selling diamonds made ut glass. Many of the victims arc black marketeers who have cashForthcoming books

Ment" replied the whale. "And you?"

they

want to invest but daren't take to the bank.

the

"Fish," said the cow.

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exciting announcements One way of working the Jar- from publishing houses is the Koon is to

switch dud diamonds long-awaited fifth volume of the for real ones after having them "Oficial List of Huntingdonshire valued In the

presence of Cabmen." The names will be in al- client.

phabetical order as in the previous and the work has been care- volumes and by a well-known cab- fully

man. An Innovation will be the addition of the nicimames by which MET two confidence men once the cabmen are known, as, for in- in Detroit. No. I said he was stance (I quote from page 41): Sop- a Canadian and had a foolproof kins, E. T. ("Dirly"). method of making money by spin-

Coin Spinning

Asked about the guerilla situation, Maximos said operations against the rebels are proceeding in satisfactory way. Although I would be hazardous to give on approximate date for their completion, the pro- gress of operations permits an esti- note that effective results will soon

"Hold hard," I said. "Just a be attained unless new reinforce-

minute. Wo don't all of us move in And the horse you put your shirt on Maximos said that 1,200,000 Greeks ments are given to the rebels from the same circles. These names mean had already lost, as you'll find if the horse is such a close secret that

nothing to us. We have sheltered you check up on the time the trick- even you mustn't know it. So you ning coins and doubling the stakes. Tail-piece aunts and little children among our sters "phoned" the bookmaker and can't back it with your own bookle. He proposed we try it out on readers. Be a bit more cultured and the time the race was run.

No. 2, who was an amiable old THEY are a-saying in the City that But if you give your "friend" the

Ta certain indiscreet financier has historical to start with, anyway."

Aricansas. men can do better money he'll place it for you.

man from But the con.

The project . fell

through because somehow I dropped another gold brick. "Very well," said Me Iloskins, than this. They can take huge sums

And that's that. If there was an much that I didn't want to swindle Uked the man from Arkansas 50 "Once upon a time thero lived an off a man who does know something

betting system

there him. to the secret of wouldn't be bookmakers. ducing him the "Infallible Betting System." The beauty of this system is that it doesn't matter what happens to the horse. You win anyway.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith emperor who was very vain, and two about racing. They do it by Intro- Infallible

COPIL 1149 BY NES BERVICE, INC. T. M. REO, U. §. PAT. OFF.

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men came to his court and said they could make him a magle robo so re- markable that it could be seen only by those fit to hold their office.

The Magic Box

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"You know the story? Well, those confidence tricksters. So was Tit Eulenspiegel, who sold a bogus magie hat to three sailors for 400 crowns. And so were the old alchemists who collected funds to cover the cost of turning

lead into gold.

"There's-a-modern-version-of the alchemy trick that's used today. It's called the Magle Box. You put pound notes in the box and leave thom for two hours. When you come back, you are told, each note will have been split in two (or else per- fectly reproduced by a wonderful- now photographic system).

You simply back a berso some time before the race when the odds are the odds have shortened. The only thing you have to know is that the horse really will run and that the odds will get shorter and not longer.

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The Pay-Off

Otherwise, they'd have had my money, I'm sure, because I was completely taken in.

What sort of people are these trickstera? Most of them are very charming, just like you and me, in

from their own talents

PRIESTS KILLED AT DACHAU

TOR clients who fancy themselves

better as financiers than puntem fact. there's a variety of this trick called

According to semi-ocial Vatican : Apart the Pay-off. And equally in- fallible for the Iricksters. In this their great lock-in-trade is that statistics, some 2,000 Catholic priests case the big money syndicate which their victims feel such fools after lost their lives at the Dachau con- your friend so happily knows about wards that they don't tell.

centration camp. Reports taken from deals on the secret, "International

the camp's Ales have been sent to For some reason confidence trick- friend the con, man can help you.

This is where your new-found Stock. Exchange."

sters seldom get big money out of the Vatican for study. Not only that, but by sheer women. Is this because women It chonce you find out he knows a are more honest than men? He happens to know there's

More detained from 25 different na- syndicate. of big money behind. good deal more about this non- discerning? More cautious? Or istions, 701-of-them Poles, 201 certain horse and it will start in existent exchange than he admits. it just that fewer of them have so

In fact, he operates on the race, even if it has to run on

Germany, as on much money?

122, French, 74 Aus- three legs.

Also they're going to agent for a big American outfit With that question to ponder over trians, 73 Czechs, 38 Dutch, 34 Bel- put so much

sends him code money on it that the which

messages Mr Hoskins and I will now leave glans, 20 Italians and almost 1,000 odds are bound to shorten.

about what to buy and sel},

you-and mind how you go.

of other nationalities.

"What really happens, of course, ALARIC JACOB

is that when you come back there

are no notes at all, no box, and no takes a day off to

confidence trickster.

Well,

in 1938 a Frenchman called M. Robbins was done out of £30,000 in the West End by this method. the trick works even if the box docsn't."

So

Now we'll ask Mr Hoskins to tell us about the Brass. He says the trick known by this name doesn't work on people who know anything about betting. But, presuming you don't, you are taken to a club where everyone is talking about horses.

They keep telling you what's going to win the next race, then going to the phone box and backing it. After a bit they send out for an evening paper and sure enough the borse has won.

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LAST WEER'S SOLUTEN- L'LL RYŠIRANKL

MOSCOW.

SHOULD I feel guilty about taking a day off and spend-

family? I think not. ing it with Nikolai Petrov and

Although there is no auch thing as a typical Russian family, and Nikolai is no Soviet Everyman, I feel I have got something from the Petrovs that clarifies this conference for me--perhaps for you?

MEET

THEY:

Take home £17 a week Pay rent by the foot Are puzzled by US. caviare pancakes

Eat

Petrovs

appears

that priests wero

THE PETROVS

Mrs. Petrov cooks on a kerosene slove in the parlour, but takes her turn with the other tenants in

walked on these flat feet of ming all the way from the Volga to Ber- in. What's all this about tho

keeping the joint kitchen, bathroom Americans declaring economic war

and hall-way clean.

Because Petrov

(500 roubles)

£23 monthly, he pays

carns over

the top-grade rental at is. 3d. per square metre living space, which works out at £$ 2s. 6d. monthly, including central heating, but not light.

lunch at

It was one room out of a five-room

Normally the Petrovs Some Moscow families live better apartment, but when the than Petrov's, some worse. But here evacuated to Tashkent during the the office canteens while the spinster is exactly what ensued when I climbed war their subtenant, who was in the feeds Galya, but today Mrs. Petrov five nights to Petrov's flat at nine buliding trade, cut the 20ft, room. Insists on entertaining me. o'clock on a bleak morning.

Mrs Petrov greeted me nervously. Into two, with folding doors, So "I hope you won't write us up as they actually have a tiny bedroom though we were funny animals in a as well as a parlour, with three fron zoo." were her first words.

beds wedged in between two cup-

Samovar tea

PETROV

boards.

an "engineer," or

On the wall is a photograph of Petrov's father, a bearded peasant,

Bliny for Suppor

on us? Are they kidding?

*

Bevin a sound follow? I feel a great deal depends on him."

Petroy's plan for Germany based, of course, on what his papers tell him, is unify the country under o German Government supervised by troons at the Aue fùm nú yOATI

Let the factories produce, freely cars, furniture, railway and electri- cal equipment, so that all devastated nationa can rebuild their Lives, leaving the balance for German home consumption and normal

AFTER a walk up the Leningrad export.

Chaussee to watch the crowd out I tell him that does not confilet side the conference, we sit down to with British opinion. cabbage soup, meat balls and fried

Ha protis me phyfully in the potatoes, sweet macaroni and tea.

more precisely a draughtsman and Mrs: Petrov's father, a captain I take Galys to school, then do a waistcoat and says: "Is there such in an electrical goods plant, had

little shopping myself for an evening a thing any moro? Or does poor gone to work Galya Petrova, the in Czarist uniform.

meal, returning with sour daughter, aged 11, and Mrs Potrov

cream, old Bull have to think what Sam vodka, caviare and coffee. The tells him?" Petrova rarely have coffee because It needs too much milk.

were having breakfast which they The parlour contains a dinetțe set asked me to share. It was black bread, with four chairs, an aged sofa and cautiously spread with butter, and опа cany chair with spotless tea from a samovar.

antimacassar reserved for guests. "The neighbours laugh at us for keeping such an old-fashioned gadget bought cheap from his plant.

and a five-valve radilo which Petrov

Spinster

Mrs. Petrov is giving us bliny for supper, pancakes, rolled around the Petrovs and, Andreyev agres Russo need fear, Germany. caviare, a real party dish.. but we think it makes the best

no more because: the Slav nations she explained. So It does. Samovar

At five o'clock Petrov comes home are on top-and the Teutous know, Mrs. Potroy says they hear the with Pavel Andreyev, an old balle ten has a delightful pesty flavour.

Mrs

· It Petrov, 43, dressed in blue B.B.C. in Rusalan, but prefer Radio coming who recalls Pavlova dancing"

aged sergo coat and skirt had the day, off Roma because the music is so pretty. before the Czar. from her job in n library which pays The B.B.C. she thinks is" "fresh,

£34 a month. Her husband sarna EST

Uttle ten but sometimes, when the month- but the ly plan is exceeded, he makes 24 10s, dentious, don't you agreo?" moro in bonus,

In the room

next door lives a mother and daughter, next a family of three, next, a married couple,

Split roo

news seems, a

"The Fritzes daren't Uft`n finger.

nt

us again," Potrov concludes,

Today's ballerina Ulanova, he says.

airnost equals Pavlova but "unless another great power workd not quite, but then the dance, has on them. You know, the trouble become more complicated, of course, by each ally suspects the other of Pavlova was not asked to do the,

wanting to Airt with Germany. complex steps of today."

Why can't we let the old, (he used a word I'll translate na "drüb") remain a plaster. Then we will all feel secure.!!

He knows

DETROV, namall; untidy

thap

WHILE Galya began homework next an elderly spinster, who, since Wafter the meal (she goes to school the Petrovs cannot afford £11 108. from 2 p.m. til 0.80 pa. because monthly and all found, which do with grey moustache, was in- the building has to be used in two meaties get nowdays, looks after tensely curious. ‚shifta`daily) "Mrs Petrov showed mo

her home.

Galya for a small consideration.

custache, was in we drank to that in vodka, bo

of an expert on Germana, bieving (tomis, utp