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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1940.
They Left
Paradise To
TOO FEW CELLS
Seek It In Britain
men.
๖ ม
fresh milk. He starts the day
*
FOR TOO MANY PRISONERS
his
Heme
Would you leave the isles of population to the US. and Lotit The coloured worker rarely perpolual "summer, the palmgirt |American have largely been cats meat and does not get much gems of the remantle Caribbean seried. Sea, to journey to perhaps a Recently attempts were made with "augar-teo”—a large dollop Full reports on the ggol-breaks bread, and cocoa. A few months third shore
in to of one room
persuade Brazil and Vene [of · sugar, broken down with will be on his desk When Mr: Jugo the
Secretary told average Birmingham Leuenient, A place zuela to take some of the unem-water and flavoured with a, vory Lionel Fox roaches his offico in Parliament that the on the street corner in Cardiff's ployed coloured labourers. They little tea and tinned milk. His Horseferry House, Westminster. prisoner's intake in calories wis Tiger Bay or in the employment replied they were sorry, they main meat consists of vegetabica Mr. Fox, spare, 53-year-old 2,712, against a civilian average queue In Liverpool's Leece wanted, settlers but not coloured such as yams and sweet potatoes, Civil Servant from Riddlesdown= |ot_2,700, street?
a small piece of salted cod from road, Purley, Surrey, is the £40- Prison routine is simple, atark. If you were a British West Now, any British subject, Newfoundland, and perhaps week chairman of the Prison Prisoners are awakened between they must Indian you would. Four to five whatever this ruce. colour or some rice cooked with a little Commissioners. With
two 0.30 and 7 a.m.; hundred are on their way to creed, can coine here and look fut.
fellow-Commissioners; Mr. Fox wash, tidy, up, breakfast in their Britain, about the same number [tor work. All he needs
The beggars of the West In- is the man responsible to the cells. Then out to the work HK$18.00 are believed to be ready to en-valid passport. Most of the dies rank as the most enterpris-Home Secretary, and the public, shops, or field work if they are H.K.$38.00 bark, and three British Minia--West-Indians on their way here ing and persistent in- the-world, for the good management. of lucky, back to the cella_ni_mid- tries- Labour, Colonies and are ex-Servicemen. They be- They follow you into shops, they Britain's 35 gaols and 15 Borstal day for a 'meal, and a further Health are not 100 sure what came accustomed to a higher pull at your clothes, and are not institutions.
period behind bars. Back to they can do to cope with history's
content with the simple appeal: Mr. Fox has many neute pro- work at 2 p.m., return to cell "nt "Can first pioneering movement in re-
blems Just now, and guol-breaks 4.30 p.m. verse from Colony to Molher
the
There are also regular exercise lond.
the. periods.
p.m. Around 5 gets a last meal-roll prisoner of bread and mug of cocon-and- there he is until next morning.
Reformers attack. that long night, about 13 hours, and soy it is then that the brooding prisoners get up to mischief, plot escapes, especially in com- munal colle,
HK$72,00
Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead, C.B.E.
P.P,C.
EDGE OF THE SICKLE
the
In Whitehall they fear a stom- pede from the Isles of paradise of every able-bodied coloured man who can raise £30-all that is necessary to get him here the hard way.
situation, but the A strange British West Indies are the home'
of topsy-turvydom. There, If
sugor,
Bahamas,
By VICTOR HUDSON
They
Д you spare copper state
quite firmly
omount they
think
уси
CAU
afford to give.
This, cells say, is due to
the demoralising effects of unem-
ployment and
not because
West
Jazy,
Indians are shiftless or
Reporting To Whitehall
Aware
British
of
BY JOHN HALL
ore
and
Without Bars
What can be done? A Royal Between the wars, when law.correctional enough.
they can you are a coloured, Jabourer, you standard of life than
the achieve in the isles, where the
unly one of them. These all the sun in
• In
may have
dreary the commenting on
They so attack the ox-Servicemen's world and no place to work in It, offices, of
Associations are thronged with wave of terrorism in Malaya, plenty of sugar for your tea but
It is argued that there are not are some of the others;
medieval castle prisons, urge for the waiting for something to suitable jobs in Britain
1. There is an acute shortage more "prisons without bars" like a British newspaper ingenu- enough money to buy a little men
West Indians, but
nt the coloured of cells, and in many gaols they those Wakefield and (for milk to put in your turn up.
When there were a few hun ex-Servicemen say they learned are having to put three, ously says that there is no te nd
and women) Askham, Yorkshire. trades during the war, even four, prisoners in one celt- A lot of offenders. they say, dred inbouring, jobs availalle skilled sign of direct Russian inter-
when they
they intelligent and it is in such cells that most are being gaoled BTC vention. There is no need Overcrowded Islands: 9.000 men lined up. Those not proved
accepted tore down the fences enough to learn others.
escape plans are batched.
should be put on probation-
over- for Russia to intervene so
curve which would that if the In a fury of disappointment and They say
2. The crime-wave
case, the that all the world can see: Unemployment is so bad that had to he dispersed with tear- Government con And jobs for steepest since the early years of crowding prison carnbigs should
Europeans it can Tnd the century, is still rising.
be higher and more. should be Non-Russian Communists are the authorities have considered gas. There is no dole, and the Central
separate People are being gooled at the done to
"bad hats" clock buck a few average labourer, when in wark, jobs for British subjects, that if putting the slavishly ready to execute decades by prohibiting the im- carns about 55. a day on the they were good enough to fight rate of 100,000 a year, and the from casual offenders.
of Inbour-saving
In short, they contend that the the Kremlin's policy in any portation
ma- sugar plantations, All Imported for Britain they are good enough "resident" prison population to- The Islands Jamaica, foods are dear, and although the to work for Britain.
day is nearly 20,000. Pre-war general system is much too hap- It is only when chinery. country.
10,000 Whitehall is Barbados,
Trinidad, main industry is the growing of
the averaged between
hazard, is too punitive and not "national" Communism Tobago, Leeward and Windward fond the internal economy does seriousness of the altuation.
11,000. reaches a certain pitch that islands are over-crowded. and not allow for production of mueli
Sentences up to three years for the surplus food for home consumption. Commission has spent six months breaking decreased, several pri- are mostly served at local gaols the Russians come out into former outlets
Inquiring into things on the spot sons were de-commissioned, with convicts serving three Years the open and take charge.
and another five months con consequent loss of cell accontand more go to Dartmoor, Park
Isle at and Canterhurst, or Camp Hill, Communism is feverishly, at
sidering ways-and-means-It-ismodation. Preston work all over the Far East.
now writing its report. *
bury gools have been recommals Wight, This Commission has been sioned.
Pathway to prison from the It is feverishly at work in
considering not only the rehabil. 3 There is a shortage of war police court or assize court dock India, where optimists say
flation of ex-Servicemen in Bri-ders and wardresses. While the 1s routine. At the gaol the now tish
and Korduros
British prison population has nearly comer has to the situation is now "settling
strip, bathe, Guiana, but has been exploring doubled-since 1930 the number handed a prison outfit, heavy down." It had often been
the possibility of settling large of prison officers has risen only underclothes. dungareesuit of proclaimed, since 1918, that
part of the surplus population of from 2,550 to 3,000.
grey or brown. Warders cite cases of one man
Immediately he, or she, the West Indies there Palestine was settling down.
Unfortunately, it is one thing being expected to supervise 700comes a number, is allotted to merely because there was a
for a Commission to collect the prisoners, a near-hopeless task.
a cell 13ft. long 1ft. wide 9ft. the elso lull, born of temporary ex-
4. Liko facts
recommenda- and make
everything
high, stone floor. small barred For barefaced impudence or raise an army to make Shelly tions and
another to get them cost of keeping people in haustion, in the fighting be-
gool window high in the outside wall. has gone up.
And the cell may have to be tween the two contending delonair bravado the latest re- US.A. territory: that he is the put into operation.
man who has quest for Marshall Aid takes only
time a judge shared nctively
by three or four pris- nationalities In the Holy some beatng.
fough Communism in Sicily.
of onera: Problem On The Land. In India today, the It has been made by a 25-year-
old Sellian bandit, Salvatore To cap these claims he has working Communists are
Doorstep asked the Americans for a ship- Giuliano. strenuously and unceasingly
supplement his The bandit's request for Marmet of guns to against the Hindustan Gov-shall Aid,
his .icsued
ewn armoury. Iram stronghold" near Banditry, and piracy have been ernment. The heat will be mountain turned on more and more as Palermo, was based on the fol- on the increase recently in the lowing remarkable claims; Mediterranean area, and much the months go by.
That he alone could save Sleils of the blame has been placed on from the threat of Communism: his young, shoulders. that he would be prepared to
Bandit Asks For Marshall Aid
By G. D. K. McCORMICK-
Labour
Leader
Refuses To Speak
Washington, July 3.
way
Pre-war every
or magistrate sentenced
an
Stark Monotony
15
be
n'
fender he became a £3-a-week Letters out and in are strictly charge on the taxpayers. Today rationed; the prisoner is allowed
bill is £4 10, and a visitar every two weeks if the weekly the 'overall cost of the prisons First offender, otherwise one a The men now on their
now totals more than £4,000,000 month. from the West Indies are bring a year. Crime makes us pay.
Where does all that money ing the problem right on to the
-Punishment inside gaol in- Whitehall doorsteps, and maybe go? The warders say they don't they will get action. The stendy get It. Their pay averages £4 cludes being put on No. 1 diet now of 50,000 unemployed 63. a week.. plus quarters and (11b. of bread daily and water): The French police have reason coloured, men Into the British uniforms. Gaol governors aver- No. 2 diet (11⁄2 lb. of bread, 8 oz. to believe that the Sicilian has Isles is not a prospect that can oga £20 a week, plus quarters potatoes, 1 pint of porridge, and agents in Algeria and Corsica be Ignored.
Prisoners say they don't get water): or having to sleep with- from whom he gets-aITES. One
The Commission will probably it. They can earn an average out a mattress. • of their officials in Algiers told recommend some such scheme of 7d. a week, mostly making
as the African ground-nuts plan. those mailbags you see on rail-i prisoner can cut his sentence by
ine:
"I believe Giuliano has created For some time there has been way platforms, a legend about his mountain steady decline in the output of stronghold. I think he uses a cocoa from the Gold Coast owing
·yacht-as-his-headquarters.
Stark Routine Prison diet is
By good conduct a short-term
ime-third.
But none of this even scrapes the problem of the monotony of to disease. It is possible to intro-
mostly soup, nol life, which is the chief cause Giuliano repudiates all connec-duce large-scale production of porridge, minced-mest, potatoes, of those 'break-outs. tion with the terrorist Matla cocoa beans in British Gulana (Black Hand) "gang, which has
and British Honduras. This
long mengced Sielly. Part of his would provide work for many propaganda published In his coloured men... Locensional. "bulletins" is... tha1,
like Robin Hood, he only
Another suggestions-the robs growing of rice for which there the rich to benefit the needy. le a world-wide demand. But
"He is reported to dump ration
the_planning. and development
of the paddy fields will require
The aim of the Commun- ists should be manifest to an intelligent child. It is to win control of the whole of Asia, with its fantastically huge resources in manpower and raw materials. While Bri- tain remained in-India the consummation of that aim could not possibly be achiev- ed. But now it is another story. There is nothing to prevent Asia ultimately fall- ing under. Russian influence if we supinely accept the Bolshevik challenge. It is true that General MacArthur The AFL president, Mr. Wil-gifts on the doorsteps of the anonce. And the altuation is is still in Japan, but his liam Green, today said that he Sicilian peasantry, to send money one which will not brook delay.
to by post to people facing starva- The Colonial Office cabled to tenure of office there is pre- has rejected an invitation Hon.
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After looting her mansion be the men wantedb hostility to him is none the CIO President Philip Murray went to pay his respects.
One of them organised a meet- less implacable by reason of has not yet indicated whether he Sald the duchess: Take what ing and cabled back that thirty similar invitation, you want, but leave me, I beg had volunteered for the mines. accept a the brilliance with which her. Murray will be one of the of you, my cugagement ring-thirty for the RAF and fifty for has managed affairs in delegate to the Convention- from cherished memory of my youth." the Army. The Colonial Office Japan. If the Kremlin were Pennsylvania.
The bandit removed the ring. promised that the men should be kissed her hand and replied: Interviewed on their arrival but ever to get the Continent of
A spokesman for A.F. Whitney, "What you have just told me pointed out thoy could not Asia firmly in its grip there president of the Brotherhood of will make me cherish it all the guarantee acceptance-in-advance, would be nothing to prevent Reliroad Treinmen, said that the more.. I sholl wear it always in The Invaders have won Round it capturing the world, es-Union President would accept the your memory." pecially if the Russians, by invitation to speak to the
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All four have been lukewarm considerable part in further- President Truman's candidacy ing the fortunes of Bolshe- for a full four-year term in the vism in Europe. On strate-White House, Mr. Murray is re gic, grounds both as to mill-ported to have been one of the Democrats working behind the tary and political strategyenes for the draft Eisenhower the Russians are determined movement to head thờ to capture Spain, and the cratic ticket-United Pross. first step towards that end must, clearly, be to bring about the fall of General Franco. Russia's attitude towards Spain should be enough to persuade any sensible Briton that ours ought to be the polar op posite. And yet Socialists in the House of Commons con- stantly pass offensive re marks about General Franco. America is acting much more realistically, It would act still more realistically, in the shape of increased help to Spain, if it were not that
Paris, July 3.. European Socialists would
In a telegram to the Angual make trouble in that event. Congress of the French Socialist The Bolshevik-inspired out- Party here today Tran Ngoc Danh, rages in Malaya are not, to the Vietnamese Socialist leader in Paris said: "It is in the suprema state the obvious, Isolated interest of the
French
Socialist efforts. They are part and Party and France herself to act. parcel of a universal plan, in concert with Ho Chi Minh whose
ultimate triumph (Leader of the Indo-Chinese au- Would annihilate not only demanding the opening of ne
tonomy movement). Join with us Great Britain," but also
gotiations for an understanding Sociallsin wherever the Bol- with Ho Chi Minh's Government thevik writ might; run. for it is not too: late.”--Reuitar.
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US To Supervise Distribution Of Aid To China
Washington, July 3.
A State Department spokesman today pointed dut that the major difference between the Euro- pean and Chinoso ECA agreements is that tho United States will have an equal voice in tho: distribution and processing of ECA goods which #China-recoives.————————
Article four emphasized that this will mean an ex- tension of the present limited Chinese ration- ing and prices controls.
Other informed sources' re- A State Department spokesman gard this as the outgrowth of said the United States has no suggestion for the the unsatisfactory UNRRA and present CNRRA experience in which stabilization of currency and said. goods handed over to the Chi-that China was pledged to limit nese authorities allegedly some-expenditures and practice eco- times plossumed in the blacknomy in the Government.
market.
China, is a special case in the ECA operation in any event be- cause its programme was creat- ed separately from that for Euro-
pean nations.
tion
Unreal Rate
Another article which ap- pears only, in, the China: ugras- "ment,provides-that-an exchange.
rate be determined Jointly. The spokesman said this is a This made possible a provt. frank recognition that the Chi- article three which nese Government rate is unreal pledges China to try to Improve and also that there is a possibility. with all that the rate set under this sec- commercial relationi
by, among other tion-article five zub-zcellon 1-C Countries
"fair things creating
and will be lower than the open oquiable", impurt and exchange market ralo, _estations. ~
The State Department further. ...This is also subject to United explained that "the agreement Statea review and it is hoped by will mean that Chinese currency United States business interests piled up in a special account will
out of. circulation." that it will relax the vexing con- be taken trols which at present Inhibit United Press. trade.
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Lisbon, July 3. The State Department sald, Twelve British motor fishing however that the provision vessels of between 50 and 70 tona article two suli-section-A-built by the Admiralty during and which pledges China to locate a-since the War in the Mediter= sots owned by Chinese nationals rahoon arrived at Labon" today In the United States is not unl en route for Briinfa
To save fuel and Crows · four.
Dome observiers -regarded this of the sinsiler boats are being s an important clause, negertha: towedugison"arrival in Britsila less, in view of frequent reports they will be released by the ad that Chinese nationals have large miralty to the fishing industry, holdings in the United States; Associated Press,