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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
DEVIL'S ISLAND TRADE
S'HAI'
IN SOULS OF CONVICTS
.ARMY
PARLEY
FRENCH POLICE HUNT FOR STRANGE GANG
SOLD FREEDOM TO WEALTHY CONVICTS
Nice, France, Qet. 30. Riviera police are collaborate ing in an energetic drive to stamp out a gang which is mak- ing big money by helping de- ported convicts escape from Devil's Island.
The "contractors" are believed to have their headquarters in Marseilles, but they have rami- Beations throughout the south of France.
The price for the escape of an "ordinary" conviel is U.S.$1,300, In the case of "life termers," orį
whose relatives are 'éon- sidered wealthy, the price higher.
men
is
In case the escape is unsuccess
refund the ful, the gangsters money.
Three Escapes In Year Authorities are certain that a recent mass escape from the colony of 11 prisoners was the work off the gang. This is the third in- cident of the king reported this year.
The police theory is that the "contractors" of these "guaranteed escapes" are doing their Bourish-
Arriving for the big conference in Shanghai of military and diplomatic officials, Major General Neijl Okamura, chief of the Chinese Affaire Department of the General Staff at Tokyo, is shown at right above. With him are pictured Mr. K. Horiuchi, first
secretary of the Japanese Embassy and Rear. Admiral Salo.
Chaplin And Dietrich As
British Film Stars
ing. business hand in hand with HOLLYWOOD CROSSING THE ATLANTIC unronscientious native joliticians
French Guiana, in colony is located..
where
the
Every underworld cafe along the Mediterrancan shore is an agency for the contractors. The traffic is established on the Riviera bernase Marseilles and Algeria are the big Rest. purveyors for the convict settlement.
The refunds for foiled escapes are made not because there is "honour among thieves," but he Cause the contractors fear the vendetta of the prisoners' relatives and connections in France.
Escapen frum Devil's Island and the Maroni River settlement are ascribed to a dearth of guards due to lack of funds. The colony is alrently tosting French taxpayers the annually, and $2,000,000 government is loath to increase the expenditure.
While the steamer, La Martí-; niere, salled a few days ago, from La Pallice with nearly 700 con- viets, there were men on board who were making the trip for the third time. Each time they ds- caped, they had found their way back to France and had been, pes captured.
Book Reveals Experiments
MARLE
Southampton, Oct. 30. ȚARLENE DIETRICH is to make a hum in London next year. Charlie Chaplin favours the idea of making a picture here; King Vidor, perhaps the best-known of present-day film producers in Hollywood, has been en- gaged to make films in London.
MARLENE DIETRICH Trouacrn would take London by atorin.
minor His Appendix Was
On The Wrong Side
In a book, "Inferno Beyond the Seas," ghost-written by Dr. Aage Kaarup Nielsen from the experi ences of a Dane who spent seven yonrs, in the colony for a
committed military offence he while serving in the Foreign Le
of convicts gion, there are cases having crossed and recrossed the ocean in the prison ship a dozen timta because of their insistence on returning to. France after each escape.
If police are not successful in their efforts to drive the escane gangsters out of business, Devil's 1sland may be abolished and con viets may be forced to serve their time on the Continent.
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An operation for appendicitis being performed on Henry Collins,
1935.
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12 Acknowledged now to be in. 13 1661.
16 A
A wry face in a refreshment house.
city
17 Keep me in remembrance. These were some of the in-
10 Agitated or imperturbable:de- teresting pieces of film news
pends how you take it. which Mr. Alexander Korda, 21 "To one who has been long in chief of London Film Produc- tions, had to tell when he arrived 23 The richest often live on this.
21 As dense as possible. at Southampton from America 25 Net big pots to make a song. 28 Oysters should be this for safe in the Berengaria.
eating.
DOWN
Mr. Korda, who was accom- 20 Figid after the battle. panied by Sir Connop Guthrie, the 30 Highbrow craft.
nanelal brains-behind-the-recent. merger between London Film Pro-! ductions and United Artists, pro- phested a big. Invasion of talent from Hollywood to London.
20 Films A Year.
"We plan to produce 20 films a year at the new Denham studios," Mr. Korda said, "and the total ex-10 penditure on these pleturés Will be, About £2 million.
for
"They will not all be London Film Production pictures. some of them will be made by the American companies. associated
with us.
"Practically the whole of the Hollywood firms are anxious to make films here, and I hope to get such well-known pro- ducers as Eddie Goulding and Frank Lloyd over here before long.
"Marlene Dietrich will be here next April, and I am hoping that Goulding will come over to make the first Merle Oberon picture at an athlete, aged eighteen, the new studios. By the way, Quiney, Massachusetts; was held Merle is now in the first three up when surgeons could not dis-film favourites in America." cover the appendix.
Mr. Korda added that America It was eventually found in the patient's left side the first ease is definitely in favour of British of its kind in the hospital records. films to-day.
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winter games. 218's gentle anagramı.
Understanding.
A bird I encere.
5. Miserly conduct.
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while so engaged. People like to be in this at all
Heasons.
14 A single man, or-perhaps his
property,
15 Su be it, D; do better.
18 Quieter when told than when
lighted.
21 This takes lots,-cappers mostly. 21 Pertain (anag)),
22 Prison and imprison (two words,
4. 2).
26 Hems get twisted in shrimp
nets.
27 The heart of many planta.
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