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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1930,
AN ALLY FROM
THE WEST
prison. This article tells -
THE "VERY ÍÐEA”'
IT'S TIME TO DRINK ABOUT
What Punishment With The SUMMER
??
Cat" Is Really
MAN now serving five years Imprisonment in Stanley Prison received twelve strokes of the "Cat-o-nine-talla" last week. Yesterday another robber was sentenced at the Supreme Court to receive 12 Inshes.
The "Cat" can only be administered by order of the Court or the Governor.
Not many years ago Hongkong witnessed floggings of prisoners in public. One convlet received a total of 239 lashes.
What is the "cut"
It consists of a long wooden stick, to the end of which are attached nine 28-inch long stripa; of cord, interspersed at every six inches with knots of silk cord.
For what is the "cat" administered?
For offences within prison-inciting to mutiny, assaulting a prison officer, or for a particularly brutal assault upon a fellow convict.
The court can inflict the "cat" for robbery with violence and also upon men convicted as "Incorrigible rogues of a certain type of offence
while
slavery connected with
The "cat" is usually administered in doses of twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, or thirty-six strokes. If more than twelve strokes are given the flogging is carried out by two warders, one left hand and one right hand.
When copvict is to be fogged he is taken to a place away from the other prisoners and is examined by the prison doctor, who has to certify him able to receive the punishinent.
Like
Then the man is stripped to the waist, hand- cuffed, and his fect fixed to a steel contraption like a tripod..
This causes the man to raise himself slightly on his toes and bend forward to receive the lashings.
Then two wardera place a screen over the back of his head as a protection to the neck, while another two officers place a similar screen across the lower part of the spine.
The prison governor, chief officer, and the hospital attendants are all present. The doctor is the only man to stand in front of the prisoner in order that he may determine the condition of the convict as the flogging progresses.
BANDAGES
If the convict shows signs of fainting, after even the second lash has been indicted the doctor has the right to stop the flogging, and, by law, the convict can never again be brought up for the rest of the punishment.
After the flogging is over, a lint bandage soaked in ointment, is placed on the wounds, and the man is returned to his cell.
Humanists decry the "cat."
About twenty floggings with the "raf are administered in British gools every year. The number shows a gradual increase.
This is due to the appearance of the gangster element in this country, and it is at present re- garded as the only effective method of stamping out this menace.
The Prisoners
of
Czecho-Slovakia
M
-By-
VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE
At the Peace Conference this view
By Ed. Kelly, Hot Stuff
BY Jove!
That was a real spot of thunderstorm we had the other night.
Which reminds us that summer is a-coming,
If any good looking girl wants to be taught to swim during the next few months, we are available.
We specialise in teaching the crawler stroke,
We like dancing in the winter and Jantzen in the summer. Especially when there's some- thing nice in the Jantzen.
We confess to a certain hand- someness and manliness in our bathing costume, although missus doesn't agree with us.
our
་
were
Only the other day we asking her about our 1936 bathing costume.
"Call that a bathing costume," she said scornfully. "It's indecent. You might as well get one tattooed If you must know, I'm using it as a duster."
on you.
"A man can nover keep anything in this house! What are people go- ing to say when we go on the bench with no bathing costume on?"!
"We must see about getting a new ice chest for the matshed."
"LISTEN! I'M TALKING ABOUT MY BATHING COSTUME!"
"Why?"
There's no Answer to that. But we shall be there, doing a bit ice- of lolling and munching an cream cone. Watching the break- ers break and pinching towels.
Anyone of the opposite sex who wants to know how to loll will also be taught by us.
We are experts at lolling. The last time we tolled was responsible for us getting married.
We notice that feminine bathing costumes are going to be more dar- ing than ever this year.
Rubber brassieres will replace last year's cotton, probably be- cause they found that cotton brassieres torso.
Mr. Kelly did not stop here. We did.-Editor.
Hongkong to-day extends a welcome to His Excellency the Governor of Macao, Dr. Artur Tamagnini Barbosa, one of Portugal's most distinguished and popular diplomats. When the Portuguese warship which brings him here exchanges salutes with His Majesty's re- presentatives they will have
OST blunders in life minutes, digests, drafts, sum- as an oppressed nation entitled more than ordinary significance.
have to be paid for. maries and maps. The result to indulgent recognition from was that they imposed a settle the Allies. They will punctuate another
The blunder of
ment entirely in the interests of chapter of the story of Anglo-
was pressed upon the been subjected to cold-blooded Portuguese friendship which creating that synthetic and the Czechs.
called
Supreme Council with much expropriation and oppression. spurious Stäte goes back nearly 900 years.
bogus evidence to back it up. A Every effort has been made to Czecho-Slovakia may well The Great Bluff It is a rather interesting and cost Europe another war.
"THE agreements and bargains typical example was the notori- suppress their languages, and were made behind closed ous "Pittsburg Agreement" of the Czech police have tried to instructive friendship, that Of
gate, Mr. Lansing, in his his- and Slovaks were supposed to persecution.
a State. This was negotiated maritime powers which were in Paris this was the worst. tory of the Peace Conference. have agreed to combine to form Loaded With Spoils
the Realm Act was passed became President of Czecho- always in the forefront in the Yet the biggest ramp in One British journalist who was by Dr. Masaryk, who afterwards A few years ago à Defence of
to which Czecho- early days of colonisation and diplomatic history passed prominent in the hole-and-corner
Slovakia owes her baneful and Slovakia, during a propaganda which exposes any German or Hungarian to instant deporta- discovery. Britain has played a fall but unnoticed at the dealings
time.
tion from his home on the fron- fraudulent oxistence boasted in tour in the United States. part in Portugal's history from
tiers to the interior of the coun- The Czech and pro-Czech a speech that "a few experts, Repudiation the earliest times of Portuguese
minds and nationhood. When Ferdinand of intriguers who bamboozled knowing their own
a given end, can sometimes ac- sented to the Peace Confer- Czech authorities.
For, loaded as they are with it occurred to no one to Castile partly recovered what is the peace delegates had an concentrating all their efforts on WHEN the document was pra try at the whim of the local
easy game.
over- hieve ends unattainable by the ence now Portugal for Christendom, worked and weary states- leaders of uninformed
opinion point out that the Czechs and spoils, the Czechs have a guilty driving out the Moors, the men were under
strong and uninformed statesmanship." Slovaks who had accepted it conscience. They have armed foundation of the present re-pressure to finish quickly
The Peace Conference was were all American citizens, and intensely without regard for the to which they owe their adven- making Czecho- as such hardly qualified to de- spirit of the Treaty of Versailles, public
laid. In 1095 their recasting of the map bluffed into Portugal won independence as of Europe and get back to Slovakin. That bluff has lasted cide the fate of Central Europe. titious existence.
very near to being called. 1. Le Barbier de Seville. Ouverture,..Rosaint the hereditary ficf of the great the urgent problems await- almost twenty years. It is now Yet when it had served Its pur-
Count Henry of Burgundy; and ing them at home.
A small set of self-secking or Counterfeit Labol Elgar.it was his son, Alfonso I, who,
time-serving "experts" flooded assumed the title of King of them with one-sided memoranda, THE very
which has existed between two done all the docltless things doors," says, the American dele. May 30, 1918, by which Czechs break their spirit by systematic
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Berlin, where the just claims of turies later Portugal was to and Africa, and with distinction. Coward. come to England's aid in the Britain has not forgotten to be which is a perpetual danger to
This Central European sham, signed on a public holiday.
Bat Czechs and Slovaks com- Hungary for the recovery of her grateful. greatest war in history.
the peace of that part of the bined number only 81 millions. lost nationals beyond the Czech
thetic consideration. Continent, was contrived in the Accordingly, by all sorts of border have also found sympa- Meanwhile, Portugal flourish-
The dragon's teeth that the It is natural that Mucno's interests of the Czechs, a crafty, specious arguments of which the ed. And in her most trying Governor should be warmly wel- race, who managed to keep a peace delegates in their haste Czechs have sown are sprouting
personality foot in both camps throughout would admit no robuttal, the by trade rivals jealous of her alone would assure him of that. the war and at its end claimed Czech leaders asserted a further all around them in a crop of Drending this menace of re- peoples of entirely different
tribution, Czecho-Slovakia made growing power and her rich But besides his own attributes, an extravagant reward from claim to annex large blocks of deadly dangers.
he is a representative of a nation the victors for their duplicity. possessions, England helped her.
whoso people, under the old code Subject Races
In this way Czecho-Slovakia a pact of mutual assistance with Against the might of Spain of North America's Indians,
was rounded out on the North by Russia. A large mission of Red England was her ally. In the would be Briton's blood brothers; THOUGH Czecho Slovakia has the inclusion of 84 million Ger- Air Force officers at once cate
14,000,000 inhabitants, only mans
who had hitherto been to Prague and has sat itself to Peninsula War against Napo-for they have fought and died Moreover, as
7,000,000 are Czechs. Half the under Austrian rule, and in the organise the use of Czech aero- leon, Portugal and Britain were in the same cause.
population has managed to annex South by the ruthless appropria- dromes and fuel supplies by again shoulder
shoulder. Governor
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Government, for like the British Czech nor Slovak.
as the prisoners of Czecho- adventuring, they were settled
people of Hongkong they are These Czechs were one of the Slovakia. They were handed wrath of Germany, for Czecho without bloodshed. -
defenders of the same civilisa-subject races of the Austro- over to the Czechs with no more Slovakia, thanks to the position When the Great War broke tion, the same principles and Hungarian Empire before and consultation than if they had carved out for her in the heart throughout the war. Owing to been cattle, and have been treat of Europe, might well serve as out Portugal responded to the ideals; and he and they have the fact that the Czech soldiers ed by the Czech authorities with an advanced base for a Soviet British request for aid. com- the distingulahing characteris- deserted in unusually largo no more regard for their rights attack on Germany. From aero- dromes on Czech soll the -Bol- mandeared all German and Austics of empire-builders who numbers, it was possible for and feelings. trian vessels in her waters. In carry their country's flag to far pro-Czech busybodies in England. As captives of a race notorious, shevist bombers could be over
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