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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.

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LEGAL ARGUMENT AT THE U N

World Copyright. Dy arrangement with Dady ¡¡erald,

International Crooks Fought By

International Police

N the eve of arrest, a big-time embezzler -slipped out of Britain

on a cheap excursion ticket

to Ostend, caught a night

train to Switzerland and

By Mark Priestley

WHAT'S GOING ON

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

N the brilliant blue and white Routh coast of France another season is

in full swing. It is a acason with a difference, for at Cannon and Cap d'Antibes the old order changeth.

Who is tonat of the town? A high-born beauty from Paris or London? A princess, a duchess. a New York heiress? It is Mille. Maryse Delort, Miss France of 1960.

Rich Americans, with villas and yachts, are few; so are Bri- tish "Milords." The Anglo-Saxon contingent consists for the most part of sight-seeing tourists,

hough the British fing in

MILLE. MARYSE

DELORT

Miss France 1950 and rape of the Cote d'Azur

kept flying by three yachts The station-master confirmed at present in Cannes har-the ticket Inspector's ruling, and bour.

the unfortunate. colonel, tired after his all-night journey, had express steam off to hte home towns

They belong to the Earl to watch n half-empty of Dudley, Group Captain without him. Loel Guinness, and the Hon. Mrs Reggie Fellowes.

Hard to know

Richest and ritzical visitors come from Italy. where the

THE AMBASSADORS of the aristocratic and big business

Western Powery in Paris are clasces, bolstered by matrimonial and commercial contracts

In a quandary. They all want to with America, maintain a way uf life which is no more than a memory in most European countries.

But here

el and talk with M. Alexis Pavlov, the Russian envoy whe presented his letters of credence to President Auriol on May B.

But M. Pavlov, it appears, is

is the biggest of all the changes in Riviera fashions. In hurry to meet them. The Many of the women this year matter is entirely in his hands: are shunting the ultra-violet rays is a la mode" in the evenings, to display shoulders and back of purest white, and not of golden brown.

for diplomatic etiquette demands that tie, the newcomer, should call formally on his fellow ambassador before normal con- jack is established.

Leader of this fetish Rita Haywer: but her husband, Aly

It In a tantalizing stuntion, Khan, remains the most un particularly as the bearded and burned-looking man on the Cote smartly uniformed Russian has d'Azur.

Polo sombrero

a reputation for being gay, witty, and a bou vlucur,

President Aurlol has told Sir Oliver Harvey and Mr David Bruce (V. S. A.) that hc is a man to tulk

Just a part of the Interpol sex HERE HAS been a fine week most Interesting

vice!

In a French seaport the police discovered the body of a woman who had been suspected of cur

rency smuggling. Sewn into the shoulder-pads of her cont were a number of forged £5 notes, and the police thought she was British-mona -

plane to Madrid, and finally hand, and a fourth man arrested The amounts and different types

dud money in in Venezuela. Before the case of

circulation established himself with a closed, their confederates

A were were exhaustively analysed. phoney passport in a hotel run to ground in Cape Town hunt began not only for every Inown criminal forger and,sus- În Mexico.

peets, but elore watch was kep!

that. extradition

ings would never

succeed,

But they were wrong.

A wily Belgian jewel knew that close watch

being kept for him t

an uniť.

re-

Forged Currency d

CUT-

archives.

of the play

of polo at London's Roc- with. hampton Club. When I went But, until M. Pavlay Hits the down the vigour and high curtain, his fellow ambassadors standard

shawel can do no more than bow that this man's gaine is by no politely and move along when they meet him at receptions and public functiona

means dead.

It was an exciting afternoon. watched by a stay, but meagre Included Princess crowd which

izabeth, who was driven down by Lord Mountbatten in his own

ear.

The up train

Ava's street

car

A FRIEND, just back from abroad, tells me something of the timing of Ava Gardner's new pleture, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman."

In several shots Ava appears reclining in the back of a large and shing Horch motor-car.

When the company came to complete the film in Britain a problem arose. More shots of the Horch were

required but how could the car be re- produced?

The

Headache

The Argentine team, mounted

magnificent Donles ແລ In the same way, when two on all the legitimate forgers" A Yard man was called in Five days later the local highly polthed con men

attended by a picturesque groom were who learned their strange craft He noted that the lingerie in in a sombrero, played a dash police pulled him out of bed released from Dartmoor, they in resistance movements during her sultcare was not folded in ing turne to their own accom

was too hot to the war. and hauled him to prison. knew England

the British way, but rolled paniment of bloodthirsty yells

Well-played polo iɛ i wonder. His lawyers assured him hold them and planned to

another netivities

a method of packing more often ful spectacle. I am sure that if proemd. summe

They had sphere

reckoned

Scandinavin. Sure it were properly advertised, and without Interpol. Via Scotland

Inter in the day. Yard, its rotund police chief, 4S a result, a lonely Finch rough. Stockholm checked the played

Interpol, Londoners would flock to see if Louis Ducloux, sent mut worn-

farmhouse was

raided. lingerprints through

were and the woman was identified the floorboards thief in that they might work to Beneath

within three hour, was gether, possibly by the pulse of wads of forged American France a wealthy Britisher and his rency to the face value of £50,-

There are new and unsolved Crooks but he succeeded in entering valet.

rarely change 500,000. Another fake currency

in the international WHEN Lt-Colonel W. Eusland through the Southere their methods, 1 was precisely chase, commenced on information cata

The munter nations.

Musgrave Hoyle,

company's one time Ireland route. and found in this rule that they tried to from Holland, led through the

aut to be n godsend in a London work a confidence trick in na Brilish zone of Germany to himself lodged

are drawing up plan to check chairman of the Manchester turned

murgding of go! Stock

at for two young and Impecunious aol within 24 hours.

Exchange, arrived opulent hotel In Singapore, Switzerland and Italy and ends di aeroplane

who had from and precious stones, and a new Liverpool

Dublin one motoring enthusiasts Perhaps they are si wonder in a hertic gun battle in Milan.

and detailed campaign to blunt | morning

for a few he found that there recently bought, 10th these Swill victories in how the ulice recognised

a 50 hp. Hispano- A British solder humi: on against international crime were them so quickly

the market In smuggled arms was a train on to Lancaster at pounds,

Sulza, and who were short of leave from Greece look four They are also launching a hush-0.43. zald sovereigns to a small po bush affervave to cheek the

But he was told at the barrier cash for insuring and licensing:

the monster. vincial bank to selt. He had theft of goods in traust.

that he could not board the

The Alm company and the obtained Sem qutle legiti-

Thanks to Interpol. the arm train. The reason? It stopped at

Fol to- of England of

the law has never been Lancaster only to pick up, not to motoring enthusiasts

gether. At the company's Ex- set down

pense the Hispano-Suiza has been re-sprayed and re-furbish-

d, licensed and insured.

Now it is acting as stand-in £10 o for the orch. Its fre: day.

due to Interpol. monted hea of an international

The long-

1.lice force is now a

#ghting

fnet. From its headquarters in

Crime Liaison

the Run des Sausales, Paris, INTERPOL was foundexi prigin- rately, but Bank

A

th International Criminal atly on the Paris Surete's in-, experts recognized them Poller Comunisalon tedag spuns ternational bureju. After the early perfect forgeries. Though

crook-catching web through war, however, the world's leath- they were gold, they were 19 35 member nations.

ing police chiefs realised they cunt and not 22 carat. would have to trap international,

Through Interpol flashed the counterfeiters, con men, thieves

that similar dud and emugglers on a global front, waning

Call-Sign

WITH the call-sign, IPCQ, it and at a decisie conference at overcig night be in circula-

the Hague they set up this lion. Sure enough, as soon Weven has its own radio network crime-fighting UNO with the the police and banking officials

as a matter of routine.

the organisation

special Watered Down

longer.

BRIDGE NO ONE DARES TO CROSS

By JOHN GODLEY

Farmors' glory

JUDGING BY rome of the reports on the Royal Agricul luraj Show. Colone the Lord Digby, D.S.0. (who 39 vice- president, was mainly respon- sible for the show's organisa- hnvo been in a

of other nations wère put wise bared on 14 radio stations, JP Paris bureau as its nuuleus.

to it, other counterfeit plemented by new ones recently opened in Trieste, Luxembourg Codes and schemes of identi- sovereigns came to light. and Jerusalem. When an excep- Acation had to be standardised,

Yard a tionally skilful currency mur At Scotland gler was arrested in Tel-Aviv, world crime laison section was the Israeli police radioed a nota staffed with Buguists. In Paris tion of his Engerprints to Paris in essential "nerve panel" of EY were discovered by the

Astara (Soviet-Iran frontier), a hundred yards away--tion), should is staffed by thousands in Turkey, and

Egypt, TEN yards from where I am on the other side of the stream gloomy frame of mind. only 20 men. These experts do hundreds turned up in

Not so. When I met him in the Russian standing is

They have

them not seen Interpol decked against the no

no scene-of-the-crime detecting Palestine and Yugoslavia. With-| |

since. The Russians moved the London he was in his usual good 35,000 sumes in lis criminal re- themselves but filter and far-out arousing suspicion, the men frontier.

humour. cord files. For quick reference ward the

had passed them were

entire civilian population away interchange who constant

Said be: "Conjectures about Through this quiet Caspian from the frontler area. it has the known plates and of messages from the active painstakingly traced to Piraeus.

our financial losses were fan- dows a Inzy thousands of Angerprints of all police HQ of the member the port of Athens. A gang of village frontier

I gazed across, at the under-tastic. This year's was the most 21,000пver: south of it is Iran; north put

side

through

have ever of Russia

this successful show wo watered-down sovereigns into of it is Russia.

chink in the Iron Curtain. On hield. The farmers did wonderful A single bridge spans the the other ide of the bridge business, and, after all, the chow In another case, a suspect Iron Curtain and connects the stood two Russian sentries, ins for their benefit."

traced at record

the village. khaki with

Lord Digby should know. He black caps. They tpeed two halves ¿ESIDES the exchange of radio was

himself, farmer Tiflor with fixed is a working and telegraphie photos and in- when the Swiss police reported Nothing has crossed it for four carried This enabled the Israell au formation, they catch the air through Interpol that be consi-years,

bayonets and were watching me drives his own electric milk van

around his Dorset estate. thorities to check on the sus mall with international dossiers gered himself an irresistible

through field glasses, Here, on the south sile, flu-

Next month he flies off to pect's dope-running activities, reci-tabbed for 'Arrest on lover. Last seen in London, he

ters the Iranian flag-red, white,

A battalion of Russian troops Africa. Object of his Journey"? though hitherto unknown Light, blus-tabbed for Send all had disappeared. Scotland Yard tud meen in horizontal stripes, is called on the north bank To visit an agricultural show. them. As a result, they ex information available". Brees- checked on every known woman

a bulialion of Iraniani dope-smuggling high. tabbed for 'Watch this suspect associate, and even scrufalem Across the river is the red flag and

troops is stationed on the south

crooks likely to operate across ions. the world's frontiers. The cur

rency smuggler, they reported, New Problems

had operated in Belgium au

Bulgorla and was also wanted

for dope tracking In Berno.

posed a

Istanbul and Calro.

B

13

Greeks had

elrculation.

bank accounts. their

of

way running through Solin, and report on movements."

unts. The clue of Russia. came In an application for In the centre of the bridze bank. Under Interpol auspices, the Danish currency from a Mayfair is an omate wooden archway top-ranking world police chief mannequin. Cross-questioned, decorated with a hammer and fully

Customs Fraud

A Russian cow grazed peaco

field. A in a Russian

lorry jollect slowly

A lady's favour

Pelham VISITORS TO S!r Warner's box during the Eton and Harrow match at Lord'a

along a dusty Russian road. wero surprised to see Lady

tains meet to discuss new crime she spoke vaguely of her plans sickle. Beneath the archway an Russian problems. At the last meeting, for a business trip-but, just informate Iron barrier bars the IN Greece alx international held in Berne, the 40 detectives case she was acting as cover-up, way. It is never opened.

racketeers devised an intricate customs fraud. Through stoo's present included Ronald Howe, Denmark was warned.

barrister chief of the British Harry Soder- they embezzled nearly £200,000 In receipts before they divided man of Stockholm, F.B.I. defe- suspect, but

gotes from Washington, many others.

In the Greek customs service CI.D., Professor

the apolis and scaltered.

A mile

I drove for five miles along Warner wearing a dark blue Hutrovian off-shore a Russian the south bank

of of the river flower-symbol Denmark had news of the satrol boat rides at Anchor. Both banko were heavily support."

he had slipped hanian chermen can come a barbed-wired. - Ag intervals of

This was a break from tradi- to Sweden. and through

Sweden for north as this and so fur mile alg

the tien. For as lank as most people the river reported that he had called for her.

Russians have bullt look-out con remember the great "Plum Australia.

Thanks to

Warner and his wife have sup- these As soon as their

Even Iron Curtain nationɑ cp- roumiy the worki messages,

When the Russian frontler towers Soft, high,

ported Elon, where both their 1010 the two were known, Interpol got crack-

was closed in

of platform

each sons wern educated. ing. Teleprinters flashed de- Prato in fighting the criminal, Sydney polico met the liner.

halves of Astara were cut off tower I could sco two armed: and both Poland and Czecho and Interpol got its man. ccriptions and records. The slovakia were represented.

from orte another completely Russian soldiers. At night they When the republié of Uruguay and without warning.. police of nearly half the world's

use searchlights, ports were alerted. Within two Interpol's Best laurels were decided to bring its police foICE International scratch, months, one of the crooks was gained in tackling the flood of up to

identities

On

the

prevent

Till then villagers moved free. To guard against intruders? prisoners picked up in Teheran. Two counterfeit money, that poured Scotland Yard was asked for ly acres the river, Many had Or others were detained in Switzer through Europe after the war, two senior advisoryofetals close relatives and friends who escaping?

Why the switch of allegiance? There is a simple and human explanation. Sald Lady Warner: "It is in honour of my grand- son in his first year at Harrow, (London Expresó Kervices'

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