PRISON REFORM.
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Cauton Officials' Visit to Hongkong Prisons.
Judge Loo Hing-yuen, formerly nating Chief Justice of the South
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Captain Francis McCullagh's Abolition of a Governorship?
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The Portuguese Government A meeting in support of the Gazette published lately a pro- China Supreme Court and at pre-Appeal for the Russian Clergy, posal to be abortly brought for sent Procurator-General of the the object of which le to send ward before the Goa Legislative Constitutionalist Government at comforts to those in prison, was Council by one of its non-official the Victoria bold recantly at King's Collego. members, Mr. Figueredo, pur. Canton, visited Gsol, Hongkong, on Friday. ReCaptain Francis McCullagh, who porting to do away with the posts two ancient Portuguese was accompanied by two assistants. has gained an intimate know. of Governors of Daman and Diu, The object of his visit was to get ledge of Russia under the Soviet the suggestions and to learn new as a newspaper correspondent, in possessions that constitute along vast dominions in methods for the introduction of re. striking address, emphasized with Gos the sole remnants of formis in the prison administration the falsity of the pretence that their once in Kwangtong Province. Judge there is uo religious persecution India. The proposal has met at Daman, with general disapproval, in the country. Loo, as Procurator-General, is ex-
All forms of religion, he do-and provoked a vigorous protest officio supervisor of prisons.
It is the intention of Judge Loo Clared, were persecuted, and even from the Municipal Corporation. to erect a new prison in Canton the Salvation Army's balls were At a meeting of the Corporation, closed because starving childron under the prosidantship of Dr. with all features necessary to assisted bean fed there, without, as Castelino Fernandes, there was a the authorities to reform the character of those who are com.the law required, the food being large attendance of the leading pelled by circumstances to be there, accompanied by a quotation from citizens of the place. The Muni Judge 1.00 is organising a prison Karl Marx. There was a great vipal Corporation of Nagar Avely. reform commission to undertake danger that the Red Church, (which is a portion of Daman the supervision of the construction which had been formed by a cli- proper separated by a wide strip And administration of the proposed quo of Bolshevist priests, would of British territory) also associat new prisun. The commission will do more harm to the Russian peo ed itself with the Daman Corpora- The Deman Municipal President conriet of leading Chinese and ple than the Government wae in- tion. foreign residents at Canton, indicting on them..
The lecturer said be had been spoke first dwelling on the neces "order to ensure an institution
which will meet the approval of present at the trial of the Rosity of the Corporation voicing, man Catholic ecclesiastics, and he before. H.E. the Governor-General the International Commission of Jurists which is coming to China read some notes of the proceed-of Goa, the protest of the inhabit to study and report upon the new ings showing the ferocity with ants of this place against the Chinese judicial system will the which the victims were pursued. abolition of the governorship view to sholishing extra-territori. They were charged with a sort of after over four centuries, of ite "dumb mutiny," that of onter-existence, as such a measure ality of foreign powers "in China. The proposed Canten Prison Retaining hostile feelings to the would be disastrous not only to Soviet without expressing them. the ancient traditions of the place, form Commission will trustees of funds appropriated by Mr. Remsay MacDonald had de- which the people highly cherished the Canton Government for build.clared bis belief in spiritual in- but also to their moral and dependence, but if his sentiments material interests, besides lower- ing purposes, which will be had been expressed in Moscow he ing their political status and
certain measure of! plemented by public subscriptions.
30 latels It is the desire of Judge Lon to would have bears in the Soviet cutting a
law, and "by that law you must financial autonomy keep the prison administration diel" exclaimed the Public Pro-granted to them by the Govern- entirely free from politics.
ment of the Republic.
Mr. Francisco Xavier Soares de Judge Loo W86 received at secutor at the trial. Victoria Gaol by the Superinten- FIRST BREAK IN THE DARKNESS.
The Reds were intoxicated and Viegas, the President of the: dent, Mr. J. W. Franke. He later went over to howloon to inspect the self-bypnotised by that cry, and Municipal Corporation of Nagar temporary prison there, the Buper-reminded the speaker of Dor- Avely, speaking on behalf of the intendent instructing Mr. Wiltshire, viehes. But the wear cry of the people of that region, said that he the principal warder, to conduct Moslem sounded to him friendly associated himself thoroughly the Judge and his party across the and even cheerful in comparison with the views expressed by Dr. Harbour. At Kowloon Chief War with that of the Bolsheviks, which Fernandes and wished to enter der G. Passmore and Principal implied only death and slavery an emphatic protest against the
promulgation of the measure.
He was followed by Mr. Con- Warder Wiltshire explained the in this world, and no future.
The British protest was the
Roque da Costa, a working of their temporary chargerst break in the darkness of the stancio.
Judge Loo, usked for his impres- Bolshevist night, and those who former plenipotentiary under the sions of his visit, spoke highly of had been dead to hope raised Municipal Government and one
their's again. "That" (they said) of the biggest landed the efficiency of the Hongkong "is the England we used to know, pristors of Daman. He showed prison administration, mentioning not the one that barters honour the futility of the proposod for bide and loses both". The abolition of the governorship especially the cleanliness of the cells. He was greatly interested, be said, in noticing the variety of heroic Arcbishop who had been which, under the circumstances trades being taught to the Victoria sentenced to death was reprieved in which they were placed, would 36 a result of the protest, but he certainly bring no appreciable Gool inmates within, the compara. tively small compound and the was now in prison, and it was measure of economy to the tros- excellent quality of some of the said that his mind was giving way, sury, and approved of the proposal Yet Krassin in luxurious quarters of representing before the Gua atticles made. Ho, however, could
in Loodoo was declaring that Government the strong feeling of not understand why corporeal punishment was still is force as there was to religious persecution, the inhabitante against the adop-
A better motto than that of "Hands tion of such a measure. Hongkong: he was shown some of off Russia," which had been dis The speaches being in Portu-
io the apparatus for that purpose the prisonchapel. Judge Loo udded played in Trafalgar-square, would guese were interpreted in Gujarati that Canton abolished corporeal he "Open the prison doors of Red for the benefit of a section of the people present at the meeting, and punishment more than ten years ago. WORLD'S MOST GHASTLY TERROR, the proposal of Dr. Fernandes was
Dean Inge, in moving a voto of unanimously carried. Mr. Jue Checkman, district thanks to the lecturer, said that magistrate of Beungsban in the thought of priests tortured, telegram to the authorities in Canfor their faith had brought mem- tuo bus just given a fearful picture bors of various religious bodies of prison conditions in Sheki..the to that platform. Russia was capital of bis district. He announces passing through the most ghastly Are you pale and wonk, tired: hia intention of making a sweep terror that the world had seen, most of the time, uut of breath on ing reform of the district prison. but it could not last. Blood slight exertion?
According to his telegram, from thirsty fanatice had declared war Are you nervous, is your sleep the higher officials in charge of the against the strongest instincts of disturbed so that rest doce not re- prison demo to the warden and the human race-religion, the fresh you? other minor official, corruption is family, and private ownership
to the visitors.
Prison Life in Sheki.
Russia."
pro.
HAVE YOU ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS?
Is your appetite poor, your
the order of the day. Many pri and the blood of the martyrs digestion weak and do you have soners whose terms have lung expir would be the seed of the Church. pains after eating?
ed are still being kept there, while Whatever happened, the conse- If you have any or all of these not a few who are weak and sick are quence must be a great religious symptoms you need a tonic. Read not given proper medical attention, revival and English Christians what the tonic treatmout will do. Mrs. George Finklo, of No. 340 The workroom of the prison is said might hope for closer relations
to be in a condition similar to with the Church that had passed Spring avenue, Troy, U.S.A., says: "I became so weak and run down junkshop. The farm belonging to through the fiery trial. the prison is now a neglected field
Monseigneur Canon Howlett re- that all I wanted was to go to bed, filled with debris and garbage. Mr.marked that the present condition I was nervous, my digestion was Jue considers it his duty to gee did not concern Russia alone, out of order and I had no appetito. I had no strength at all and wes that reform is introduced and it is but the whole civilized world.
found guilty of corruption.
A PUZZLE A DAY.
A grocer had a number of eggs. He sold them to four customers
his determination to begin by up- The Chief Rabbi welcomed so distressed after eating that I plying for the dismissal of these signs of an awakening of the thought I should die.
"I had used Dr. Williams' Pink officials of the prison who are English conscience against mass
massacre as a system of govern- Pills as a tonic some years ago ment. Accounts of the horrors and I decided to try them for this had been issued, but there had debility. I felt better after taking been no protest by the League of the pills for a few days, and when Nations, and England was asleep. I had taken them for a while He hoped, however, for the hon- longer I was much stronger and as follows: To the first customer, our of the human race, that there could sloop well, something that one-half the number, and a halt would never again be such silence had been impossible owing to my an egg over; to the second, ons-in the face of religious persecu nervous condition. I could also eat well without any after dis balf the remainder, and half an tion and extormination.
Commissioner T. Unswarthy, of tress. My husband and I always egg over; to the third, ons-half of what still remained, and half an the Salvation Army, described the take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills if egg over. He then had four egge persecution and sufferings of the we get run down and we think left, and sold them all to the last girls of the Salvation Army, who they do more for us than any customer. How many eggs did had given food to starving people. other medicine could."
he have in the beginning?"
Saturday's answer:
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