THE
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1908.
TORTURE WHILE AWAITING TRIAL
Plan To Buy
Coney
A
Island
For The People
From Robert Walthman
New York.
PLAN to spend nearly £3,500,000 in converting Coney Island and two other popular beaches into city-owned resorts, has been placed before Mayor La Guardia by Mr. Robert Moses, New York Parks Commissioner.
The scheme, which aims at making amusement cheaper, cleaner and healthier than under private enter prise, involves the purchase of land in Coney Island, Rockaway, and South Beach, and the demolition of a jungle of entertainment houses which, long past their prime, have been deteriorating for years.
In their place Mr. Moses envisages long, wide boulevards flanking the bench, with a well-planned lay-out of sideshows, theatres,-swimming pools, and parking grounds.
FOR THE POOR
"The old Coney Island has gone and something different must grow
foresight had left private interests in "People want leas mechanical control of these resorts. amusement and more healthy, out- door recreation," he says.
"The beaches must cater for those with little money to spend. Lack of
in its place."
He wants the new Coney Island to
Save in
Pilot Saves
Air-Liner By "Instinct
Imperial Airways' glant air. liner Horatius, with Bilas Ellen Wilkinson and 20. other passen- cers un board, escaped disaster by three minutes-and Bio pilot's Instinet-over the English Chan- nél recently,
The plane became heavily charged with statle electricity on its way to Croydon. The pilot, Captain A. 1. II. Youell, told the radio operator to wind in the aerial.
Three mlautes later the electricity in the plane discharged into a cloud with a vivid blue flash, tearing fout hole in the port wing fabric and charring a strut.
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have better transport facilities and to attract all-the-year-round custom.
It is probable that private in- terests will attempt is kill the plan, but Mr. Moses has fought and beaten obstructionists before. Educated at Oxford, he has won the admiration of New York by his attempts to make life more pleasant for the poor.
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Really Horrible Scandal in
Some Countries
-Miss Margery Fry
MISS MARGERY FRY, the famous social reformer, A has returned to London after a two-months' tour of the prisons of Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Hungary.
"My travels confirmed me in the view that the treat- ment of persons awaiting trial-in some countries a really horrible scandal-is the weakest point in the chain of justice throughout the world,” she told a News Chronicle reporter recently at her house in Holland Park.
Miss Fry was necompanied by Mrs. | Rackham, Labour member of the
City Council of Cambridge, and SOVIET
Professor Kimberg and his wife. Professor Kimberg is offelal psy- chiatrist in the medical service of the Swedish prison department.
POLITICAL PRISON BAN
In no case, sald Miss Fry, were they allowed to see political prisons. Some 32 prisons or institutions for young delinquents were visited.
In Bulgaria they learned that a well-known cltizen had been in the pollee cells for a month while awalt- ing trial. Even his wife, doctor and lawyer were refused permission to see him. The only news of him was from released prisoners.
NAVAL
POWER
"BIGGEST FLEET OF SUBMARINES"
By HECTOR C. BYWATER, An astonishing report on the naval power of Soviet Russia "It is common knowledge," said Miss Fry, "that men awaiting trial has just been published in Ber- are sometimes ill-used to obtain lin on the authority of the Ger- confessions For evidence against man Admiralty. It states that: Russla already possesses the the largest submarine fleet in world;
other persons.
"In most countries it is the duty of the pollee to obtain prima facie evi- dence to show why a trial should be held. It does not, to our ideas, seem wise that the police should also have the custody of the accused during this perlod,"
WITHOUT TRIAL
In Yugo-Slavin, it was found, off- cials may send people accused of minor offences to the police prisons without trial before a magistrate for period up to two months,
A big programme of other con- struction-benvy cruisers, fast light cruisers, destroyers, and other craft -is in hand, with severn! 35,000- ton battleships projected: and
New naval bases of the first rank have recently been created in Far Eastern and European waters. According to the Germu there are now in the Baltic and the report. White Sea 10 large, 30 medium, and 25 small submarine: in the Black Sea 30, and in the Far East 50 boats of The cruelles practised in many various sizes, making a total of 151 countries on untried prisoners con submarines. Italy, with 108
boats only be removed, like the scandal of huilt and building. has hitherto been slavery, Miss Fry believes, when all credited with the largest undersea people of decent good will throughout feet.
the to
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he world unite to end at the recent
The resolution Pue of Nations
Assembly of the
into the laws
s which are
SEVERAL NEW CRUISERS
The report further states that the to protect such persons bullding of submarines is still golug against the use of violence or other on, as is that of several "A" class constraint had drawn the eyes of the cruisers armed with guns exceeding world to this grave evil. Miss Fry Bin-probably 7.1in-and a number leaders, one of herself, helped by Professor Mann- of very big flotilla heim, of the School of Economics,aunched from an Italian yard this which, the 3,500-ton Tashkent, was has made
a first attempt to collect these laws.
week.
Miss Fry has the highest praise for clause in the Anglo-Russian naval It is pointed out that by a special
the pioneer work of Miss Gertrude interest in the problem.
who first aroused. International agreement of July, 1937, the Soviet
Government-may-be-relieved-of-the-
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All
world has been aroused.
great programme of naval base other societies in touch with the advanced. The island of Kotlin. In development is asserted to be well League are being asked to discuss the Gulf of Finland, is now equipped the matter at an early will be grate-harbour works, and is described in
date.
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Baltic. It constitutes an outpost to
Meantine Miss Fry
for
laws In different
LIVED ON
DESERT ISLAND
rad.
In the Far East Valdivostok has been transformed into a thoroughly modern naval stronghold. But remote both from the open sea and the Manchukuo frontier, and therefore beyond reach of surprise attack, an entirely new naval base has been established at Komsomolsk, on the Amur River.
BALTIC-ATLANTIC LINK Another new fleet base has been bullt at Pollarnoic on the White Sea, not far from Murmansk. Here, it
is stated, a large dockyard has been founded, and thanks to 1
current SCHOOLBOY ROMANCE HAS remain navigable even in winter.
from the Gulf Stream the new port
BEEN OUT-POINTED BY THE The canal now connecting the Gulf EXPLOITS OF RADOVAN SA-of Finland with the White Sea will transfer MARDJICH, WHO ARRIVED AT enable Russia secretly to
light naval forces, such as submarines THE DALMATIAN PORT OF and destroyers, from the Baltic to the SPLIT AFTER being giVEN UP Atlantic, at least during the summer, FOR DEAD,
It is added,
If the statements and figures con-
plc.
BELGRADE.
are
A young Montenegrin, unemployed | Lained in this German report and not wishing to be a burden to his accurate the Soviet navy has already parents, Radovan slowed away in the become a formidable factor. As re Jugoslav limber freighter Rozina To-Eards the number of Hussion sub- marines I was informed early this your on excellent authority that there were then between 40 and 50 boats at Vladivostock alone, and that the structural parts of new submarines were periodically arriving at this base by the Trans-Siberian Raliway, ready to be assembled in the local dockyard.
One night he disappeared over. board in mid-Adriatic. He was re. ported missing, and his death at
sea was assumed.
CLINGING TO RAFT
Weeks later, Italian seamen calling at Split reported how they had res cued a drenched, exhausted figure clinging to a crude raft,
He told them, they said, that he was three days without food and water on his raft and was washed up on one of the uninhabited islands of the Dalmatian archipelago,
He eventually launched his froll raft again, but currents carried tho raft further out le sex, and for three days Radovan drifted to and fro,
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Dr. Leipolds, who'` thinks wine is
A promise that the Government would shurlly take action to protect better, ja'advertising for twins for
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