THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1937.
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LABOUR PARTY AND ARMS
Major Attlee Corrects A Wrong Impression
TOUGHEST GAOL NOT SO TOUGH
Alcatraz, America's grim island prison, set in the middle of the swift currents of San Francisco Bay, is reputed to be one of the world's toughest" jails to every- one except the convicts themselves.
An inmate of the prison, just re- leased, "debunked" stories of snarl- ing maniacs and constant brutality in an interview at San Francisco.
He was one of the first consign- ment of prisoners sent to Alcatraz
He had never seen or heard re- ports of brutality in any form, he said.
No "Big Shots"
The discipline was rigid but not harsh; the silence rule nerve-rack- ing but bearable; the food far above ordinary prison fare.
No Support For Rearmament Policy
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
Cambridge, To-day.
"The Labour Party has no intention whatever of supporting the Government in its rearmament policy."
THIS EMPHATIC DECLARATION WAS MADE HERE YES- TERDAY BY MAJOR CLEMENT ATTLEE, LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY IN THE HOUSE, OF COMMONS, IN THE COURSE OF A SPEECH.
Major Attlee said that it had been frequently asserted that even the Labour opposition was behind the Government on the ques- tion of rearmament.
He wanted to make it quite clear that Labour did not, and would not, approve a policy of spending huge
"Every man has a cell to himself with more sanitary facilities than you find in most prisons," said Reuter's informant. "There are no 'big shots' and no cliques, sums on arms. though every man has his Own "The Labour successes in the London County Council elections,"
friends."
But the 36-years-old ex-convict, he continued, "were a severe blow anxious lest his more than two for Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Winston years on "The Rock" for dealing Churchill and the press lords, Lord in bad checks should appear to have been too comfortable, hastily point. ed out that "it is a tough joint to do time in.”
Of
"It's up to the individual. course, if a man can't take it, it's unfortunate--for him.”
No Schoolkids!
TELEPHONE CABLE
CUT
Man Sent To Prison For A Year
Famous Physician Honoured
Vienna, To-day.
Eminent physicians and scien- tists flocked here: from all over Europe yesterday to celebrate the eightieth birthday of the famous Austrian physician, Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg.
Dr. Wagner-Jauregg was award- ed the Nobel Prize for medicine in
1927.
Letters of congratulation were and other statesmen. received from President Miklas
a
triumph was the discovery of
Dr. Wagner-Jauregg's greatest
means of healing progressive par- with malaria germs. alysis by inoculating the patient
He also discovered that several other diseases could be cured by the same method.
His discovery was made acci- dentally, while he was experiment- ing on an entirely different sub- (ject.—Trans-Ocean.
Rear-Admiral W. H. Allen, of Fung Sun was this morning sen- the U.S. Navy, is passing through Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere."tenced to six months' imprison- the Colony in the President Wilson, ment at the Central Magistracy accompanied by Mrs. Allen, bound when he pleaded guilty to the theft for Naples. Major Attlee went on to forecast of a quantity of cable, the proper- that Mr. Herbert Morrison, leader ty of the Hong Kong Telephone
MR. MORRISON EXTOLLED
Lady G. C. Gilbert-Carter arriv- of the London County Council, would Co., at Aberdeen. For malicious-led in the Colony aboard the Pre- one day lead the British Labour ly damaging the cable he was sen-sident Wilson. Party in the House of Commons. tenced to a further six months.”
"A man who has shown himself Mr. W. A. MacKinlay, for the "Naturally they are not like a so eminently capable of deciding the Telephone Company, said that dur-
Miss Ray Latimer, Mr. Greenhow bunch of contented schoolkids," destinies of the greatest city in the ing the last two months, cables had Maury, and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. said the man who had spent most world, will be equal when the neces-been cut in four different places Carter arrived in the President Mc- of his "time" working in the pri-sity arises, to the responsibility of and the subscribers in the district
Kinley to-day. son's clothing room, in daily con- also ruling the affairs of a great were completely cut off. In this tact with 286 other prisoners.country."-Trans-Ocean. "They know they have to obey rules. and they know who is boss. Most of them behave.
"If someone breaks a rule now, he get a "stretch" in solitary. That means a dark cell with no bunk and with only one meal every three days.
"But even that doesn't happen so often any more.
instance a message for medical aid could not be sent through. The Telephone Company had now de-
ECONOMIC TALK vised an automatic alarm which
AT THE HAGUE
Recommendations For Oslo Convention Signatories
"Even the boys doing 100 years are doing it 'easy' because they have! found that it is the only way to
The Hague, To-day. do it. They know this, too. They The economic conference held know escape is impossible. I don't here between the signatories of the see how there can ever be one.” Oslo Convention, concluded here,
yesterday.
The R.MS. "Empress of Britain" is due at Batavia to-morrow at 11 a.m. and leaves on Thursday at 5 p.m. She is due at Hong Kongmon. March 21 at 3 pm.
would indicate at the Head office, whenever a cable as tampered with.
At 11 o'clock on the evening of March 1, this alarm ran, the Police at Aberdeen were communicated [with and the defendant arrested. About 35 feet of cable, valued at $40 had been removed.
Law And Commerce Society
Mr.
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At the Tenth Annual General HOW DO THEY AFFECT YOU? Countries participating in the Meeting of the Law and Commerce Even though you may have been conference were Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norsity, the following were elected of have failed to effect improvement there the Netherlands, Society of the Hong Kong Univer-afflicted with rheumatism for a long time and though many treatments may way, Belgium and Luxemburg. fice-bearers for the year 1937-8 is no need for despair. Tonic treatment An official communique summar- President Prof. R. Robertson, through the blood with Dr. Williams' ising the results of the talks de M.A.
Pink Pills has banished rheumatism in clares that the experts drafted 2
numberless. cases, Graduate Vice President
znany of them A piano 46 inches long and 57 number of recommendations to be Douglas Hung, B.A.
chromic, when all else bad failed. inches wide has been made in submitted to a conference.
of re-
Honorary. Vice-Presidents:
Rheumatism is due to poisons in the Brunswick.
presentatives of the governments
Chairman of The Chinese Cham-blood and as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills adhering
to
the Oslo Convention.
rapidly create fresh supplies of new, ber of Commerce.
good, red blood, rich in oxygen and- Text Changes
Chairman of The Hong Kong iron, it is just this factor that has made General Chamber of Commerce: tions in the text of the Oslo Conven- Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, BA,
Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, J. P.
tion in order to facilitate the prac-LL B. tical application of the principles embodied in the Convention.
A motor-car valued at £1 killed a man in New York.
Mr. Frank Giles, bellringer at Biddender Kent, parish church for 50 years, is retiring.
Fourteen new cases of war-blinded ex-Servicemen were admitted to St. Dunstan's during the past year.
Four people were drowned when their car phraged into the Bhine.
The recommendations include proposals to make certain altera-
their reputation as a successfül · treat- ment for rheumatism, lumbago, 'scia- tica, and kindred ailments.
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With such blood as these pills create Chairman-Mr. Leung Sik Kwan. system is invigorated, nerves are flowing in your veins, your whole Hon. Secretary Mr. Fu Gee strengthened, digestive disorders are quickly corrected, and you look and feel
Williams' Pink Pills to-day, their fifty year old reputation speaks for itself.
The communique stresses that Tuan the negotiations at the Prelimin- Hon. Treasurer- Mr. Hung Mo fit for anything. Begin a course of Dr. ary talks were conducted in a Chin spirit of excellent understanding Hon. Auditor Mr.T. A. Martis, From chemists everywhere. and friendship," and proved the ex-LA. S. A A
treme usefulness of the establish- Representatives-Miss In Wall ment of personal contact between Ying, Miss Rose Pau, Mr. Andrew There were 11 more cases of representatives of the different Lu, Mr. Wilson Heng, and Mr. Chia drunkenness at Dartford last year, nations Trans-Ocean.
Kee Sian.
DR. WILLIAMS I MATCH YOUR PINK BLOOD WITH PHS TRON