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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10232, 15 August 1911, Page 3

Far away down the river beyond the docks and the wharves and the rarehouses.. tlio low banks of the Thames are left much as Nature made them, and for miles and miles a drear waste of mud and swamp stretches out on either side. Here is the region known as "The Flats/' and many a weird talo is told concerning it in the bar parlours of the riverside inns. Dark deeds are the most commonplace features of these wild, trackless wastes, where wooden shanties, half submerged in the mire, give shelter to coiners, anarchists and the criminal outcasts of London's underworld. T|. is to be feared that many an undetected murder is committed in the heart of this horrible " Xo-Man'fc-LantL''