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The China Mail.

Hong Kong, Saturday, April 16, 1932.

Our Antediluvian Prisons?

The Breen Commission, better

| known, perhaps, as the Retrench-

It is notified in the Gazette that the name of The Tee Wo Restau- rant, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

A Chinese was yesterday sent to the Government Hospital, suffering from cuts to the head, caused by -being-knocked down by a Private motor car, which was being driven, at the time, in Upper Albert Road by Miss Zimmern.

Captain Fleetwood, R.A., yester- day sent his brown and white dog to Kennedy Town for observation, as it had bitten Gunner More at yemun Barracks. Gunner More received treatment at the Military Hospital, Bowen Read.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932.

ONLY A LODGING HOUSE KEEPER

BUT AN 'ODE HAD BEEN WRITTEN FOR HER.'

Mrs. Mulger.

on, and

By. Lord Dunsany.

flashed through her thoughts all in a moment, like ghosts going home at cock-crow.

Her mother had been a lodging- knew what poetry led to. When house keeper before her. And now; she did marry she married the in the same northern town, she too secretary of a branch of a trade Anzac Day, April 25, the 17th let lodgings, she too a widow now union, a plumber in a good way of anniversary of the landing of

as her mother had been, and time business; everybody wanted A Australian and New Zealand

still flying. Not that she thought plumber; and when he died he left Forces nt Gallipoli, will be

of time as still flying; rather it, her very well off. The other young observed this year by Ausseemed to have flown while she was man died long ago. The two men tralians and New Zealanders resident in the Colony. In the not watching. For she was far on morning there will be a wreath in the forties now, so it must have laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, flown, looking at it that way. And

More talk and more lines quoted, and a dinner has been arranged yet with Spring coming for the evening. Over 50 persons two young men from the University and gradually the lines began to ar have already signed their inten her lodgers, sitting at that table of range themselves into a pattern that theirs talking poetry, time 'mightn't grew clar to the widow; not the tion of attending:

have moved at all.

meaning, whatever that might be, but the sound of them, and certain She had come into the sitting-sounds and sights of springs that room to see after her goldfish, and

to hang and glitter along the lines. were gone, which seemed somehow It seemed funny to her what things would call up couldn't tell what would do it.

memories; you

In the words of Oscar Wilde-notice. "All that we know, who be in

gaol,

Is that the wall is 'strong."

Personal Pars.

So she

stood still, smiling

And then from

sharply.

"But I am afraid," he said to her, that the poem we are discussing

is scarcely of interest to you, Mra.

ed away from him down the years For a moment her thoughts tura-

and came back again.

"You know,” she said, "my name's Rose,"

"A most perfect non-sequitur," said one to the other.

there they were talking away. And His Excellency the Governor in it might have been thirty years ago. Council has been pleased to direct which only seemed like yesterday, that the name of Mr. Hugh Frede when her mother's young lodger had rick Charles Colman be added to talked the very same stuff to her.

"The incomparable majesty of the the List of Authorized Architects. She couldn't help stopping a while-

to listen to them after she had fed Ode to a Rose," one of the young His Excellency the Governor has her goldfish: it brought the years was still standing there smiling men was saying, and Mrs. Mulger been pleased to appoint Mr. Marcus back so. No sense in it, any more slightly, and he turned to her rather Theodore Johnson to be a Member than there had been in the talk of of the Harbour Advisory Committee, that other young man so long ago, vice the Honourable Mr. Charles but the same fervour, the same Gordon Stewart Mackie, resigned, overwhelming certainty about some with effect from April 13, 1932. thing, whatever it was, as there is

Mulger:" in the blackbird's voice in early His Excellency the Governor has April, when he seems so certain of Kong's modern prison it may be

appoint said, as at present it cannot be said been pleased to

the spring. of its antediluvian prisons, that it Honourable Mr. William Henry Bell to be a Member of the Authorized will serve the purpose of a prison Architects Consulting Committes slightly, and listened as they talked as usual. and not a pound from which it is during the absence on leave of the to each other. Poetry

Honourable Mr. Charles Gordon And the curious thing about it was easy, apparently, to escape,

Stewart Mackie or until farther that though she could not under-

And when she had insisted on stand a word of what they were having it explained what that saying, yet not a phrase was new to meant, and having got. at the mean- His Excellency the Governor has her. Sometimes she almost thoughting, she said: "Not so much of a been pleased to appoint Lieutenant she could have completed their sen- non-what-you-call-it as all that." James Francis Wright, Hong Kong tences for them.

And there she stopped, thinking ment. Commission, the lengthy

Again, in the matter of staff, if Volunteer Defence Corps, to be one the curious phrases one of them all of a sudden of a gun she had findings of which, together with.

our prisons are overstaffed, as the of his Honorary Aldes-de-Camp, began to quote lines from an old once heard fired in a wood, when Government's commentary, have Commission holds, and with which during the absence on leave of poem. They were praising it with she had gone five miles from the been appearing in instalments in finding the Government agrees-it Hong Kong

Lieutenant Harry Owen Hughes, their queer words, lavishing praises town to see the spring, and all the

Volunteer Defence upon it.

birds were singing: and at the the China Mail this week, in re- has approved of the reduction of Corps, with effect from April 12,

"I am afraid We ake talking sound of the gun their singing had poetry, Mrs. Mulger," said one of ceased at once. She wouldn't stop porting on the Prison Department, the European staff by ten-then, 1992.

them. made recommendations for the re-in connection with the escapes from

their merry talk, she thought, as "Never mind, sir," she answered. I what she had been about to say duction of prison staff and "report- our prisons, which are becoming,

"It doesn't do any harm.”

would have stopped It. Never ed to Government their views on as it were, a characteristic feature the necessity of building a new of them, it seems to us that the time]

The following British warships gaol." For reasone which, frankly, has come when the public should were in harbour to-day:— we do not appreciate, Government be acquainted of the steps that has not reproduced these "views" have been taken to render escapes In commenting, however, upon the from our prisons not easy of ac- observations of the Commission incomplishment. Also, whether these this respect Government states:- many escapes have been traced to

"The site, for the gaol has

negligence on the part of prison been decided upon on the ad-`

staffs, or

whether they are re- buoy. vice of a Committee specially

garded as being due to the in- appointed for the purpose. To adequate types of our present pri- reopen the question now would

Inadequate from the point only lead to further delay. It is hoped to commence the bull- ding next year."

sons.

of view of construction. If negli- gence on the part of our prison staffs is responsible for these ex- Next year is a long way off, and capes, what disciplinary action, These the time, when "it is hoped to com- if any, has been taken?. mence building" is indefinite. It are matters which ought not to be may be anything between eight to concealed from the public any eighteen months from to-day. In longer, and we hope that Govern- ment will take an early oppor- view. of thia, and In view of the fact, that the Com-tunity of making a statement or mission regarded the existing plans In need of thorough |

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prison construction,” also in view of the additional fact, that Govern-

As a precaution against the ment had found it necessary to 1-apread of meningitis, the concert struct the Director of Public Works arranged to take place in the and the Superintendent of Prisons, European YMCA, Kowloon, on in accordance with the Commis-Tuesday, has been postponed. i. alon's recommendations, it seems to At the Kowloon Police Court:

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

Bridgewater-East wall. Bruce West wall. Cornwall-West wall. Cumberland-North arm. Hermes-No. 1 buoy. Keppel--No. 7 buoy.. Marazion--South wall.

Medway and submarines-No. 2

Moorhen South wall. Orpheus-East wall.

Parthian-No. 10 buoy. Seamew-East wall. Tamar-Basin. Veteran-South wall. Vindictive-North wall. Whitehall-In dock. Whitshed---No. 18 buoy. Wild Swan-North aïm.. Wren-No. 18 buoy.

Foreign-Men-of-War, Argus-French river gunboat. Canopus American submarina

tender.

Chiang Ku-Chinese gunboat. On Pak-Chinese gunboat. "g" 36, 37, 89, 41-American Submarines.

GANGSTER'S "SQUEAL ** BEFORE EXECUTION,

Respite Granted When He Reveals Secrets.

Ossining (New York),

Make March 18.

us that some useful purpose, may yesterday afternoon, Chan Chen- A Brooklyn gangster, who have been served, If the Commis-wah, a constable, was sentenced to was to have been executed in slon's repart, on the building of a three months hard labour, with an Sing Sing Prison last night, Additional fine of $10 or 14 days, gained a respite by breaking new gaol, and its recommendations on charges of theft of clothing, gangland's jealously observéd of building a gaol in the light of giving à false name when pawning modern prison · construction, had and misconduct as a police officer. been published.

It le now net to be expected, perhaps, that: Govern mant will see. Its way to

on what

the publ

code of silence. -

Evidently terror stricken by the nearner Cof, the, ordeal, the The third general meeting of the man talked

officials. Hong Kong University Engineer He gav

of hill a back ing Bociety will be held on Friday, dozen unsolved

April 22, 8.30 pm. in Boom "K," information:*

entitled

Nor did it, if one kept away from mind whether there was any sense it. Curiously, enough, she might in it or not; let them talk, and let once have married a young man the birds sing. So she ended up that wrote poetry, wrote it himself, with: "It's a nice poem, I'm sure." that lodger of her mother's, a But that ode had been written. University student and all; but she her. Manchester Guardian.

THE

"CHINA MAIL" OBSERVES

1. That, according to a newspaper poster this week, "Bóndits Hold up a Train.”—Who is as the bride at this banditarrige ceremony?

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2. That it can be said of our prisons Stone walla do not

prison' make nor, iron bare ́ a cage.

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3. That the Soochow Creek did not ¡creak' when, under `the

cover of night, the 88th “DI vision"advanced.'

4. That when “Britáin Pays Up"--"All the World Admires."

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5. That the squatters if they persist in squatting are likely

to be squashed.

6. That "Nugget" will be an appropriate name for "Gole

Mine's" offspring.

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