AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM MR. C. J. TRAILL-HILL.
Friends.
As you will doubtless have gathered from various delays in our mailings, we have fallen into some confusion. The time has now come for me to be frank with you, letting you know what the problem is and telling you of my plans to overcome the present problem and prevent it arising in the future.
Following on the scurrilous attack in The People, in which the nature of our business was distorted beyond recognition, we had a visit from the CID, armed with a "search and seize warrant", under which they took the whole of our stocks of books, photos and equipment for inspection under suspicion that they were obscene.
They did not in any way interfere with our rubber garment business, nor with the documentation relating to it. This is intact and operating fully.
Also, they did not express any interest in our mailing list. No-one, and I repeat NO-ONE is involved in any problems apart from myself. If there are any problems, I have accepted full responsibility, exonerating all my staff on the grounds that they were merely carrying out my instructions for their wages and were not the authors or promoters of anything that has been done.
All RUBBER NEWS correspondence has been consistently destroyed. There is NOTHING for any of you to worry about in this connection. All my authors and artists have also been protected, as well as my models, photographers and the rest.
At this time, I do not know what the outcome may be. It is possible that I shall be prosecuted, although I am advised that this is not very likely because of course the resulting publicity would do more for me than years of patient effort. (As a result of the article in The People I have received over 100 interested enquiries).
Anyway, this is my worry and I do not ask you to share it.
Black Panther
Black Panther runs to 74 pages - the last three or four have popped off their staples in this issue.
Please read below to get some idea of its content. The copy I have has all of its 5 prints still stuck in position. (Very Nice)
BLACK PANTHER
The first print of BLACK PANTHER is now SOLD OUT. We are reprinting as fast as we can and shall not keep anyone waiting long for a copy. The price of this 74-page Guide to Rubber and leather is just £1 to SUBSCRIBERS to RUBBER NEWS. To non-Subscribers, the price is strictly £2.
BLACK PANTHER is a complete Catalogue to everything we make, print, publish and sell _ and a lot more besides.
It is crammed with Book Reviews, Photo Reviews, descriptions of garments in rubber and leather, of restrictive equipment in leather and metal and of our whole range of Hoods, Masks and Gags. In addition to numerous drawings, this book is illustrated by 5 glossy photos, each 6" x 4", three from our BONDPIX range, and two Rubber Glamour shots.