OCR Text |
Show CRIME DIMINISHES I 1 UNITED KINGDOM Expulsion Orders for Un- ' desirables Readily Issued by War Officials. Special Cable to The Tribune LONDON. Sept. 25. One 0 the bene-fits bene-fits which the protraction of the war has , conferred on the home community Is the marked diminuation of crime throughout the United Kingdom. The expert wbo has dealt mainly in forging American express ex-press note indorsements, letters of credit and crimes voncocted with the1 underworld hus practically been obliged to so out of business. . The cessation of traffic 10 and from the qontlnent has done much to shut down t lie letter of rrenit business, while the new powers given to the Ihome office with regard to alien expulsiojn have enabled en-abled the police tb clear out any would-be would-be offenders. All that the police have to do 1." to hand the home offibe the past record of any undesirable anfl he or she is forthwith deported. In the earlier stages of the war these undesirables only had to clairfu American citizenship and they usually escaped for a time. The trouble thus ca Jsed to the American embassy in Ixmdo 1 lias been incalculable. In one rase a German 1 odor, who had made the acquaintance of more than one continental prison, was known tn be living on crime, but he had so cleverly covered up bis tracks that the police were nearly nonplused, unti they discovered dis-covered he was an unregistered alien. He at once produced Am srican naturalization nat-uralization papers and succeeded in persuading per-suading the American einhas iy to inter- vene on his behalf. Tie thu; 1 " eluded internment, in-ternment, but the police countered by obtaining an expulsion order and a passport pass-port was issued lor bis extradition to the 1'nited States. British criminals are dea t with by prescribing or proscribing tht Ir residence in any given area. |