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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.

AM PO

The

THE PSYCHOANALYST

сове

Mystery

Voice: Delmer

leads the hunt

PRAGUE.

IVERY evening, just before

E

11, I have been sitting by

shortwave GOV

The second

tongue, which is

based en Austrin, is now, according aiming to plant regimes friendly to the West and more independent of the Sovies

to the Soviet theory,

The experts point out:---

That the station is easily traceable; it broddcasts regularly at anngunced times with the help of a know-all on announced frequencies. In Hungary and Slovakia, friend, I have been twiddling 2

dials with the best of them.

and

STANLEY MATTHEWS

-concludes the interesting story of his life

Secret of the Dynamos: How I beat 'flu and broke a record:

HE most sensational chal-

lenge ever, made to British Soccer prestige came with

the visit of the Russians in November 1945. ---

The Dynamos were a law unto themselves, and in their opening- game they held Chelsea to 3-3.

I don't think there was a dribbler in the alde All the time the bal was being pushed along the ground -from back to half-backs to Inaldo forward to winger to centro forward. and at great speed.

As I saw. It the secret of the Rus- alans' success was their wonderful ball control, plus exceptional fitness.

I was hoping to try my luck against them, and when I heard George Al- 11son was trying to raise a strong team for the Arsenal match I offered my services.

A story against myself

Flashlight of "Tiger" Fomich, the Dynamo goalkeeper, as he least-but failed to save-in the forscreened Arsenal matéli

On the Friday morning I left

Before I close I must tell you an amusing story nguinst 'myself. 11 concerns the match against Switzerland on the England team's Continental tour of 1938.

The match was at Zurich, and wo thought we wero on a good thing.

But we lost 2-1; we were overs. confident.

I was told I was in for a parti~' 'cularly easy time because Swit- zerland's 'left back-a pleasant fellow by name of Lehmann-was the leader of a popular dance band In a Zurich night club.

He was supposed to stay up l the early hours of the morning, and Jiwas Puckoned he would only last for the Brat half. and then I would be able to prance round and glvo, him something to dance about.

There were 05,000 fans packed in the to Wembley on this bleak January. day. The snow that had fallen pre- viously had not entirely disappeared misled.

The queer line-up of the Arsenal Blackpool, but after being in team-some folk called it."George train an hour I began to feel des- Arsenal's XI."-was: W. Griffiths parately. (Cardiff City); Scott, Bacuzzi (Ful→ ham); Basin, B. Joy, Halton; Mat- thews (Stoke). Drury, Rooke (Ful- hend begun to swim, and I came ham), Mortensen (Blackpool). Cum- close to passing out.

ner.

Unseen game

ANE of London's pen BOUD fogs have been the strangest came that came down that day and it must the 54,000 fans never saw.

ful it would cut right across

If such a movement wère success- I must go down as the most far-

the cical match on record.

Soviet's

strategic and economic lines of communications

the

very

slo

That to judge by its signa strength, its transmitter I have been trying to tune in has a power of not less than 5 to the Freedom Radio ork and therefore not Slovakia's anti-Soviet, anti- kind of gadget that one Communist, anti-Czech under- trundle around or hide ground. Without success. The casily. station appears to be off the air for the time being.

And from all I have heard about these broadcasts, I think that is a good thing.

Until recently, this station has been broadensting regular- ly every

morning, noon and night on the same frequentcy of 6,370 kiloxycles (44.5 metres) a violent invective against the Soviet, Slovak and Czech au- thorities.

of the speakers whom

- the

Not only did the crowd fail to Southeast European system, and so any of the seven goals scored isolute Yugoslavia from

Czecho-the Russians won 4—3—but 1 my; slovakia and Poland.

self could not see more than a vard That is why the Communists, or 30. alarmed by the Implications they read into this clandestine The Russians scored in the first their minute. but Arsenal had established made station, decided to speed up

a 3-2 lend of half-time. This was wiped out by another Dynamo

I

which

second-half raily.

from the pitch.'. My breathing became difficult, my

The England team were handed. special truck sults--blouses and long trousers of aky-blue. Some of us felt a tile self-conscious,

Given chance

In London Bill Volsey, the Eng- "land trainer, was taken aback when he saw me stagger through the hotel.

that had how gat hald af me. lounge, eyes half closki with the Bu WHILE was the 'doubtful starter

for the game. It was Erenkle

"Up to bed," he said, "and In Soo who had to pull out shortly be get you something to make you fore the match because of a twisted

Weal."

+

It was wonderful to get between the sheets, and I woke ufter a doze to And Bin beside my bed with a glass of hot milk and some whisky.

1

knee muscle.

This situation give Jesse Pye, of Notts County, now with Wolves, the chance to make his first appearance for England.

I slept again, and awoke wet with

It was not a great game, and, al perspiration. Bill Volsey fussed though we won 2-0, I think round me that night like hen the crowd were a little disappointed. nursing a sickly chick,

But for myself, I must say I enjoy ed it because I forgot about cold.

He is something of a psychologist, and gured that if left to my own I am afraid the second half is depression my chances of playing better forgotten.

next day would be small.

sotne

The experts insist that these broadcasts could not be Without the connivance of some plans.

They carried out their coup In authority. And, of course, the Hungary. In Slovakia they are just Russian suspicion is that this about to begin a purge of the

either Slovak Administration. conniving authority is the British or the Americans,

Economic unity This suspicion of American spon-

booing. There was much BELIEVE that both in Slovakia sorship of the secret radio is en-

fouling, and twice my shtet was pull- In hanced by the circumstances that despite the purge and

situationed out of my shorts; but 1 have the Boliemia-Moravia, if the one

visited station announces by name is Pro is allowed to go on developing as into complaints. fessor Ferdinand Dureanski, presi- the 18 months since I last

A Russian explained afterwards dent of the Slovak Action Commit- Prague, there is ittle danger of the that shirt-pulling is not considered tee whose headquarters

at country, going Communist, or being foul dacties in Russia. "After all," Fairfield-avenue 2,908,

divorced from the Western world. he declared, you can't get a broken

delegation is here A Polish U.S.A Connecticut,

toleg or bruised kage by somebody than in discuss and plan nothing less Another circumstance noted

pulling out your shirt!" this connection in that the broad- the Integration of the Polish casts were first beard in March of Czech economies,

creation Will the

of such year, just about the time this.

exclusion Truman made his de economic unity mean the the President

MADE my 44th appearance for claration concerning the Intention of the Western world from Western Powers and Soviet of the United States to resist Com- market? The Czechs say no.

England against Belgium at Wem- Russin.

non-Czech The

experts munist imperialism.

60 with bley on January 19, 1946, and If these broadcasts do, in fact, whom I discussed this question ac-brake Eddie Hapgood's international

Sheer record. of cept the Czechs assurance.

But how close I came to have the support, or toleration

It has transmitted orders Ro members of an anti-Communist, anti-Czech resistance movement in Slovakia.

It has spoken of the im- minence of war between

Where it is

orc

Bridgport,

to

and

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this

Train ordeal

So he stayed with me telling me stories of old-timers

Before lights out he gave me a good rub down. I had a good night, and woke in the morning with just a sore throat.

I'll play

my

After the game there was a ban- quet, but I went to bed two hours after the match.

20

Never before have I been so

A bad time

E. started off well enough, and' TY when in the last five minutes Į was able to trot round: Lehmann as I liked, I was happy,

But soon I realised the band lender could do other things besides waving a baton or blowing a trumpet.

allhaushen I attemptæl do take the

ball down to him he would come in at me like quicksilver and sweep It from my toe.

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This went on with such monotony, that I was hoping and praying he would crack up as the result of the late hours he kept..

But there was riot any sign of his ring by half-time.

He was galloping about the field like a racehorse, and seemed to have the staying powers of a Marathon

runner.

J

At half-time I said to Alf Young: "If that guy really stays up thi four o'clock in the morning I suggest we recommend similar training methods for the Englund team. He's killing

I could hardly speak on the Sun- day morning, and was thoroughly me." miserable on my journey back Blackpool. Depression set in, and I spent the next four days in bed.

It

The flery enthusiasts in the red shirin

roaring had set the crowd after 30 minutes when Aeby, the left was not until the following winger, headed a coal, but almost Friday that I began to feel a little before the echo of the cheers had botter, Stoko

Im- come from the mountains, England City hind an

a penally by portant Cup tie against Sheffield had equalised from

Bastin after Jackle Robinson .. (Sheffield Wednesday) had been

brought down.

THE football reporters began ring- United.

ing up to know whether I would play or whether I would have to postpone the smashing of Hapgood's 13 appearances for England.

"What shall I tell 'era?" asked Bill, "Tell them I'm playing." I whis- pered hoarsely.

the United States authorities, then economic necessity, they say, com- missing it.

I had breakfast in bed another the authorities concerned stand ac- pels Czechoslovakia to do most of

I had been on night duty with the rub-down from Voisey, and was as its trade with the West.

Sefton Delmer RAF, and by the Thursday before nt as I could possibly be in the cir-

the game I had a really bad cold.

NOW,

I should have no strong

cused. views about all this if the

There can be no question that the _broadcasts_came from Slovákia, broadcasts have played their part or from Soviet, Russia, or per in bringing about the present dan-. situation in 'Southeastern haps some inaccessible spot in Herous

particu- Bulgaria or Yugoslavia. Or if, Europe, and Hungary In

-lar. as the station itself pretends, it were broadcasting from Franco Spain.

come

Soviet belief FOR the Kremlin the broadcasts,

T

cumstances.

Should juries be scrapped?

which were assumed to be un- But a direction-finding fix has der American sponsorship, appear been made by the Czech au- as a counter-offensive, aimed nt

Soviet out of thorities, in collaboration, I am driving the

those Southeast European told, with the B.B.C., to find out where, they have recently

territories establish- where the broadcasts really ed themselves.

TRIAL by jury in civil cases from. This has shown So the Kremlin accepted thesc,

has been since 1939, like that the station's transmitter is broadcasts as confirmation of their as they believe, American sponsored aither in Southern Austria or in theory that the

many of our prized liber- have ties and rights, in suspense. Americans Northern Italy the most

and pre- tried to carry out a political cise estimate places it in the economie placer movement against writer on constitutional law that the district of Udine-and in theso the Soviet in Southeastern Europe. whole constitution of our country is territories it is the British and already gained its first objective by 12 men in a jury box and taking and One tongue of this 'pincer has bused upon the practice of putting Americans, and not the Soviet, the establishment of the Americans accepting their verdiet. An illustra who have the blg say,

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in Greece and Turkey,

It has been sold by a learned

SIR CHARLES DOUGHTY,K.C

Recorder of Brighton

replies to the attacks

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on one of the only

remaining safeguards of liberty."

Hy

I reported to Stoke on Saturday morning, and told Bob McGrory, the manager, I was not ft.

Bob asked a specialist if he could prescribe sothething."

The specialist gave me two

pills used by the Luftwaffe before cupsules which he described as pep taking off to rald England during the

·war,

I took the pllis an hour before the kick-off and they gave, me the necessary stamina to pull through and help Stoke City beat Sheffield United-but the after effects were extraordinary,

About nine o'cloett that night I was feeling somewhat tired after the game, and was dozing in an arm- chair when suddenly I became wide awake,

It was just as though something inside me was determined I should get out of my chair. I felt so keyed- up that I had to leave my chair and pace up and down the room.

Controversy

THE score was still 1-1, with 20 minutes to go, when the Ger- man referee awarded a penally kick against us, that enused tremendous controversy.

Young bent forward to meet a centre from the right wing with his. chest.-The-ball bounced-a-yard-in front of him, rose awkwardly on the treacherous surface, and struck his

arm.

There was, of course, an excited chout of "Penalty" from the Swiss, and cheering when the referce point- ed to the spot,

Abergten, the inside left, took the tek and pinced it out of Woodley's rench,

We were now up against It, and I could do nothing against Lehmann.

Sa completely had he taken my measure by the end of the game that he offen sprinted over the other side to lend a hand to Minelli nt right back.

go into special training--by staying

If I never knew before I certainly up all night for montht

meaning of delayed

expense, there is some justification for this practice; but it is the out standing duty of all British people 10 See that their liberty and their rights are protected by the pable law. In the administration of that law Juries have been and always I would willingly have gone out.

and played a game of football there eppose a band leader again, I shall will be the safest bulwark.

If anybody ever tells me I have to Magna, Charia an Englishman has and then. - been entitled to trial by: his equals, tion of this is found in the famous

A fudge and the police know the Arts inve tried to coerce juries action!

T certain periods now long past learned the iriat of the Seven Bishops in James

verdict It's reign. That

daracter the

ať the prisoner--who made "blessed

d revolution."

is sometimes à man who lives on the occasionally a supposedly perverse Lawyers of bygone day and fruit of his crimes the jury do not. jury was detained for a whole as ze lawyers of today "argue that the The police often know of facts and cared round the county to be deposited in 11 ditch at the border finest tribunal ever set up in any conclusive of guilt, but for some country is a High Court judge and reason are unable to offer evidence of that county-but such practices of London special jury. Such of those facts, or perhaps such facts their independence, and the poorest did not succeed. Juries have retained- a City HE Russian objection to the to run his estate in Willshire. Terry a jury is seldom passive and by no would not be admissible in evidence. their freedom.

Salvation Army, in.

Ger- perferred "fun in London to prodding means dumb. They bring a know- and so a guilty man may escape,

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

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tied.

A party from the Balkans was Paul Treuson's cyca stone,

theatre, the commissionaire got mixed Tell-tale figures

zud" rettering figures to prove the success of honest

ly. The guide inter put right by explaining that the resplen dent uniform had nothing to do with the Yugoslav Army, and the com misztonaire was released.

Starlight and Slime ...

A

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because it is a "military cows." In holf an hour it was set fedge of the world and of business. iminal caser is very rare. The long before juries recognise their.

really perverse verdlet in Most lawyers who have practised many.

both organisation." calls to mind the empty Dower House and manage the judge and cotinsel.

Men ludicrous incident of the, Yugo- estate leaving Flaxferd free to play slav generni.

the fool wherever be liked. "Pity ALL juries may not reach this in murder cases where the nlen is and women are called mych, ngainst

Insanity.

their inclination and to their great A standard of perfection; but the you're not married" sald Flaxford.

The definition of insanity in crime inconvenience. They looked bored sense of tuir play is so innate in the is difficult for juries to comprehend, for the first half-hour, then they get. being shown the sights of London,

British character that juries honestly and is, in the opinion of many too a grip on the case, feel the respons and s they passed A lafte im

and sincerely. and most patienlly narrow. No harm is done, because bility of their position, and display listen to the evidence and the direc. In such easen, where the accused is real and serious interest in the up with them. He found himself VESTERDAY, the Ministry of tion or advice of the judge, and bring on the border of insanity, linking arms

ms with a dark little man Bubble-blowing issued the follow in a verdict which they believe to be verdlet had been guilty. The death

decision, who said Schpolk

has been suggested that a Come hardly over

missions to be appointed to Other occasional Instances arise inquire into the fury system." Two where the law is out-of-date (perhaps questions, no doubt among others, 0.281 Generally the mistakes (If they are based on some outworn ecclesiastical deserve consideration. 0,100 mistakes) are of two kinds: (1)-A doctrine) and the jury express in

are: (1) "The playment of 08.430 guilty man is acquitted or (2) their perhapa perverse verd et a common juries of Yeasonable PAUL TREASON cursed Staunton Duplicates hed, for confirma- severely injured person, or a widow cound and more merciful.view. indemnity; and (2) The question

Farragos beneath his breath, and Lion

1,704 and children at a man killed recover

whether their numbers (in other then above it. His head was filled Partial re-issues sent back

00 damages from a defendant (generally” crazy. schemes for making Delayed licences guaranteed

remaining safeguards of liberty. duced. It is. suggested that seven wrest Permanent substitutions con-

pany) upon very slender evidence The present generation, brought up would be a reasonable number. quickly to

sidered Krusp of his success.

of negligence or bread of duty on English ideas, do not contemplate Surely it is desirable to retain for tival. Had not? efe. Did This ought to slened criticism," | Dut there must always be some the existence of tribunals which are civil cuses the right to claim (und she not? etc. Was she not? ete, bald Suet, Esqi

evidence of fault, For the case it merely the truments and servants pay for) m special jury-

quali (See "How-To Pad Out A Novel." In passing

stopped by the judge.

of the State which nowadays means fleation, owing to the fall in the value pp. 8

86-143.) Paul was walking dis

the bureaucracy,

is not high, and there is: consolately along Piccadilly, woring A other day for giving a fnise age

WOMAN Who WAB fined the criminal cases the jury see The famous book of Lord Howart in all juries alper standard cheery voice hailed him. Looking

directed by the judge and advised. (The New Depotem) was the first of occation more experience up, he saw the berry: Flaxford. famous company, When Doriaparte | beyond reasonable doubt; and if they growing;;

face of his on her marriage certificate was in by counsel that they must be satisfied Waming that the country and of this in pusation and

ganger. More and more It.mity be

be said with confidence "How's tricks?" shouted

puted the rich and forephine were tried in Paris are in doubt the prisoner is entitled statutes provide that claims or rights that only In two periods of Engilsh playboy, "Come and

1700, made himself overal to the benefit of that doubt. As a of the subject if disputed shall be history have politics influenced juries. Over the drink Terry, learned

med that years older tinn he was, and the result a guilly man may escape, desded by a Minister, or by some "They were a short period in Charles Treason was in a bad way, and made herself coveral years younger. 14 is better that 20 guilty aliould get tribunal set up by hing. Je T's reign and under George III. Treason learned that this friend was. And Bonaparto gave his birthplace, off: than that one Innocont should be looking for a decent type of fellow as Paris.

convicted.

with enough Lynette from

the

old schoolfellow

681 indemnified by up. Insurance RIAL by jury is one of the only than capital cases) should be re-j

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› No doubt there are instances where when the famous John Wilkes, was on grounds of expedition, or even bettyó In City of London aftalts,

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