A LESSON IN SPEED

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1921, Page 3

A LESSON IN SPEED

AMERICA LEARNS SOMETHING An American voice drawled over the

telephone, “Hullo is that the headquarters of the city police ” The reply was in the affirmative (says the “Sydney Daily Telernph”). “Well, I’m at the Hotel ——. I’ve only been in this country four hours, and I’ve been robbed. We talk of speed in America, hut we’ve got nothing on you down here, I guess. Will you send one of your men around to see me, right away?” A detective was told of the American with tile ill-luck and ideas concerning speed. He went round to the hotel and l '-ated the visitor froift the other side of the Pacific. The American explained the situation. ! “Whom have you met since you landed ” asked the detective. “Oh two or three chaps; but mostly X have been talking with a. guy who has been in the Aviation Corps in the war, I was wounded over there, too, and we had quite a. conversation. i The detective smiled. “I can tell you who it was that robbed you,” he affirmed. i “What’s that?” burst out the mucli-

! surprised American. I wager you | can’t.” i The detective took him around to police headquarters, turned up a hook of photographs, and pointing to one said. “That’s the man.” “Why, that’s, the guy I told you about, in the Aviation Corps.” “I thought so,” smiled the detective. “That’s an old storv of his.” The American was beaten for words, hut his astonishment was increased when the detective located the stolen property. “Wall,” drawled the man from the Land of the Stars and Stripes, “I’ve , heard a lot about speed, hut this heats I all. Why. we’ve gotten about as much chance of competing with you ns a snowball in hell.’