THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER ・・ 16, - 1936.
British Prison System Condemned LADIES' WOOLLEN
Under Fire FREED MAN SHOWS
Dave Beck, president of the Seattle Teamsters' Union Council and dominant figure in Seattle labour circles, accused by The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of responsibility for the strike causing suspension of that paper.
COCKROACHES FROM CHINA
ARE PERTURBING AMERICA
San Francisco, Sept. 30. Chinese cockroaches live at the United States mint and board at a nearby delicatessen, read the heading on a state department of agriculture report, submitted to Gov. Frank F. Merriam.
NEED FOR REFORM
F a new book, "Walls Have Mouths," published by Gollancz at 10s. 6d, Mr. Compton Mac.
conscience to demand reform!"
"Walls Have Mouths" is by Wilfred F. R. Macart- ney, who was found guilty in January, 1928, on five charges of obtaining information calculated to be of use to a foreign enemy.
He was shown to have been working for the Russian Secret Service. His arrest and trial came soon after the Arcos raid. The Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude, and he emerged from Parkhurst, Prison, in the Isle of Wight, in August last year.
INSIDE
Macartney, sensibly, does not talk about the events that put him into prison. He is concerned with events inside the prison walls.
Ile tells of the difficulties which regulations place in the way of per song awaiting trial (and Mr. Mace kenzie comments scornfully on "the parrot-cry that
the English law PES aumes the innocence of the accused until he is found guilty").
But most shocking are the com- plaints he makes of the manner in
semi- are which convicts slarved and denied proper exercise
The object of with
making brutal discipline."
The official statement as to food (he says) 1 kuminating-Suf Acient to prevent wastage."
fo-day are holding up prison re- form
The Prison Commissioners are not savage sadista bent on exploiting the vested in them. If they power were, the Wakefield experiment- experiment brilliantly successful and the new treatment of Borstal boys would never have been tried
et all
OUTCRY FEARED The Prison Commissioners know what is wrong with thele prisons just as well as does the Howard
Lengue for Penal Reform,
They know also what sort of s public autcry there would be th they abolished all the dark for- tress-prisons
and
substituted enlightened prison camps with a more enlightened regime.
The present Howard League pro- gramme, so far from wanting every- body locked up, suggests new parole
obvious
| portart
Surgeons supplied the decorations for R. A. Kling. (left) of Lamont, Illinois and Joe Jacobson, of Kansas City, who added chills and thrills to the Los Angeles National Air Races by crashing. Jacobson's floward racer smashed as he was landing after a speed dash. Previously, he bailed out en route to Los Angeles when his Bendix race plane exploded. Kling.
weight is undoubtedly maintain stems, even holidays for prisoners avoiding a crowd in landing, crashed his speed plane ngainst a pylon.
by lack of exercise and plenty of starch. One becomes in
prison
(which would lessen the
angers of sex repression inherent In the present system).
We are now probably about half-
broken-winded. Wered. | way between the state of mind which
pot-bellied
and
regarded the old prisons on just and
R. W.
and this is really what the system, necessary, and the point where we in its hatred of the convict, de-stall look back on them as vicious
fear that if the man barbaritles. mands, for be decently fed he will rebel. There fre cruder crueities still. in-Macartney's references to solitary spectors, answering a hurried call confinement, and logging are from the United States mint in San pleasant reading. Francisco, found that a large con-
The report said quarantine
was housing a heavy population
of
not
"DEMILITARISE" signment of Chinese silver dollars Out of it all emerges Macartney's oriental cockroaches, living on mites conviction that both human agany und money could be quickly and and ticks intesting the paper in which simply saved by no more drastle a the currency was wrapped.
reform than the revision of prison!
to every con- "One of the guards on the night regulations-known
the report concluded, "volun-vict and every jailer as "Standing teered the information the
cockroaches left the cases about D o'clock each evening, moved in an army across the alley, where they dlet at a large delicatessen shop.) returning en masse in the morning hours to resume their abode in the money cases,"
LONDON TO GLASGOW HUNGER MARCH
Oriters."
He asks:
the
Selassie's Umbrella-Man Awaits Trial
GIANT WHO WAS
REPORTED KILLED
Permit talking, allow smoking, abolishi flogging and brend and
Addis Ababa, Oct. 10. water ..pay decently for good
Among the many criminals awail- work.
Then demilitarise the service. Discontinue the ing trial in the Addis Ababa jall is practice of appointing governors Bala llu, giant umbrella carrier of and deputy-governors from the the ex-emperor Haile Seinsste, who Army, Navy and Colonial police was previously reported to have been forces. Make promotion to the executed.
Six feet ten inches in height, Bala rank of governor something that every jaller could look forward to. Ilu was
truth is that the ideas
The
which the British prison system is
the
JUBILEE
STAMPS
START
BOOM IN PHILATELY
Almost a Famine in Some Classes
TAMP collecting te booming, the surplus stock after the Issues lind
Prices are rising and there are been withdrawn from sale. more philatelists than ever before.
The
reason is Hongkong's and other Colonies of the Empire's special Silver Jubilee stamps. They brought thousands of recruits of philately, and revived the childhood interes: of thousands more.
The authors of "Stamps of the World," the Gibbons price catalogue, which tells what the market values
of all the best bits of philately are going to be in 1937, state:
"This increase in philatelic activity at home, coupled with a very keel
demand for stamps in the US.A.
record heights.
has raised the boom of last year to
"Business has been so brisk that
"The result, from the collectors'. point of view, would be that stamps for which he paid his dealer a per- centage over face value at the ilme of issue, might, within a few days fraction of face by the wholesale or weeks, be offered at the merest dealers who would be the natural purchasers of the remainder."
BOYCOTTED
When news of this "new attempt to victimise collectors" reached the leading dealers a boycott of all issues sponsored by the organisation was
ordered.
Panama, which had "nnocently agreed to the scheme," received stocks of stamps which were full of errors, and the issue was annulled,
Ecuador actually issued a series of
vas the
tallest soldier in on Ethiopian army and had been chosen
by Selassie to carry his red all there has been nimost a famine of Columbus stamps. umbrella during official ceremonies į certain classes of stamps." because of his exceptional height.
envied Bala Hu also held the most
built are wrong.
Public fear of criminals and pu
public created revenge
thirst
Glasgow, Oct. 6. 'Determined to get London before Parliament opens, 400 hunger marchers left here this morning lo protest against certain regulations of systrin. the Unemployment Insurance Act. They hope to cover the 375 miles on foot Havās.
for
the
More disquleling still is the fact, whether we like it or not, ~~~~that these same ignoble emotions
IF YOUR LITTLE GIRL
Still Plays
with
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post of the entire Ethiopian empire; The story is told in the catalogue that of drum major of the Imperial Fanfare which was directed by the of how one or two nations of the world thought a little while ago Swiss Maestro Nicode, who was also they were going to get all the stamps director
of the
the musical Lyceum they wanted for nothing. But the Makonnen. Bain Hu Was deniers know how to tackle a situn- tremendously proud of his ebony ton of that sort.. stlek which possessed an enormous
ivory head and was always Бесп "A cultural organisation whose around the capital with it.
But no overseas dealers would buy them, and in the end the postal authorities exchanged supplies of the value in normal issuesK Columbus stamps for an equivalent
JOINED ARMY ON BAIL
London, Ort: 10. One of three youths who should
main alım is the perpetuation of the About four years ago, Bala Hu was fume and memory of Christopher dragged in chains before the Em- Columbus was induced to approach have appeared before the Southend Latin-American Govern- magistrates to-day on a charge of peror together with a group of ban-various
Ashing bawley valued dits captured while plunderingments with the suggestion that an stealing a villages on the outskirts of Addis Issue of postage stamps in honour of at £275, did not turn up. Ababa. His
It was stated that the young man, exceptional height Columbus should be made by each
aged limited Arthur George Paticson. caused Selassie to free the culprit and of them unnuntly for
of Rochford, had joined the army Immediately appoint him "Imperial period.
while on ball.
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Umbrella Carrier of the Lion of "The organisations would' supply. The police were asked to verify Judah."
the stamps, free of charge, and the statement and it It were true to When Selassie led to French would have a right to the whole of take no further action. Somailland in view of the Italian nd- vance on the capital, Bala Hu was left behind. He immediately had his band players change their musical Instrument with rifles
and And
spears and started looting the elty and was ar
by the Italian authorities and rested put in fall. Rumours immediately spread among the natives that_the Italion authorities had placed Bola Hu before a firing squad during the night because of his imposing tille of Imperial Umbrella Carrier.
These rumours also published abroad have now been denied by the Prison Warden who recently in- formed the Viceroy of Balu
HALM exceptional appetite. In his report to General Rodolfo Graziani the pri son warden stated that Bola Hu has been eating double rations daily for the last three and a half months und that although he is a quiet and well behaved prisoner it would be wise speed the giant's trial as his presenca In the capital's jail weighs consider- ably on the prison's budget.
Viceroy Graziani immediately fixed Baja Hu's trial for the end of October. -United Press.
Royal Temple Will Be Demolished
Windsor, Oct. 10."
The royal Bahing temple built by George IV at Virginia Water is being demolished by order of King Edward VII,
George IV and William IV used the temple, oriental in design, extensively. Since their reign,"how- over, the temple has served chleßy as a musetim.
The temple interrupted the velw from the King's Fort Belvedere Apartment overlooking Windsor Forest-United Press.
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