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"M.P. for the North Pola"

Among the spectators in the Dis- tinguished Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons recently was the Hon. George Black, Speaker of the Canadian Dominion. Par- liament. Mr. Black has had A romantic career. He was

MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1933.

SHOCKING PRISON

REVELATIONS

HARSH TREATMENT IN

SOUTHERN STATES

RENTING" CONVICTS

in the Gold Rush of '98, and Shocking conditions have re-ja sum which is never adequate to when representing Yukon, the most northerly constituency, was known cently been revealed in a number cover the negro's needs for cloth- of Southern States as to the ill-etc., purchased at high prices in ing, tobacco, medical supplies,

as M.P. for the North role.

Though over 50 when war broke treatment of negro and white pri- the plantation store owned by out, he organised the Yukon Ma-soners and conditions of virtual the planter. chine Gun Unit and saw service. He

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Frightful Conditions, is a man of the open spaces, good peonage, writes the New York

These conditions, often humoured, and direct of speach. correspondent of the Manchester posed in the past, have just been

{Guardian.

described again in a striking Revolution Heroes on Stamps. The precipitating incident was book, Georgia Nigger, by John L. The first issues of Republican the murder of Arthur Maillefert, Spivak, an experienced and reput postage stamps are now being made

|able journalist and a former-

and

by the Spanish Government Hither-B young white man, who was kilmember of the staff of the New to the new regime has been contented in prison at Jacksonville, York World. Mr. Spivak, whose to use the old Alfonso issues, sur Floria. Maillefert was punished staternents are corroborated by charged with the words "Spanish for attempted escape by being numerous other witnesses Republic."

are accompanied by documentary. a small wooden and photographic proof, describes the dead revolutionaries of Spain. structure, like a coffin stood on the hardships which even under

The new stamps commemorate strung up in A blue 40 centimos issue is engrav-end, beneath the burning tropi- the best circumstances are en- These ed with the portrait of Emilio Cas-cal sun until he died of exhaus-dured by the convicts. talar y Ripole, the Republican phi-

men travel to and fro in a huge tion. losopher and politician who was

cage on wheels like that in which The guard who thus punished wild animals are exhibited in a one of the heroes of the 1868 Revo- lution, and died in 1899. And a 30 him has just been sentenced to zoo. They work in a group, centiaion stamp, appropriately co- twenty years in the penitentiary, chained together so that all must loured red, is dedicated to the mem the maximum sentence possible move in unison, and an untoward ory of Pablo Iglesias, the founder

gesture by one individual may of modern Spanish Socialism, who under the law, but no informed cause agony to his neighbours. died a few years ago.

person supposes that the system They are given the coarsest food, of similar punishments for refilthily prepared and served. fractory prisoners has been ended, Their sanitary arrangements, are or is likely to be ended, until a primitive in the extreme, they

are rarely permitted to bathe public opinion has been created a real hardship in a semi-tropi- area-nor are they given throughout the South which is cal

infre- For complicated clean clothing except at hostile to it. reasons, growing primarily out of quent intervals.

When one of the guards (us the conflict between the whites ually a half-illiterate, badly un-

Your Daily Smile.

BARE LIVING. cently remarked: "The more the

"Some actresses are just the English-speaking South African turns the other cheek, the more same off the stage as they are on," he gets it slapped. Every con- says a gossip writer. It's a won- Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 23, 1933. cession to extreme Nationalism der they don't catch coldi -

for the sake of racial peace is merely used as a vantage point Believe It Or Not-

Many a man shows his worst side and negroes, that publie opinion derpaid representative of the for a further assault upon ourį

at present hardly exists., South African Politics. patience, and we shall soon not to his better half.

have a shred of British right and tradition left to us." The only

bit.

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NECKS, PLEASE.

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"poor white trash" of the South) decides that one of his charges

Men

Cruel System. The worst aspect of the convict needs punishment, this is meted. system in the South is perhaps out in a sadistic fashion. private contractors, who use them trussed up like fowls and flung rab-the renting out of prisoners to are beaten or whipped; they are to work on roads or as labourers ing, sun; they are hung up by the on cotton plantations, in sawmills,

Many of these con wrists; and so on.

The "sweat-box" which caused

If a woman neures her thumb and so on.

down to lie for hours in the burn..

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Certain changes are visible in thing that can sway the balance Muffing up the throat with fur the course of South African poli- to allay this sense of grievance is is merely a matter of habit says tics, which may lead in turn to the help of a sufficiently large doctor. And often a matter of changes much greater. The body of reasonable Boer opin abandonment of the gold stand-ion; and this, it is believed, ard and the possibility of a Tiel-Judge Roos can secure. So con- A Safe Ret. man Roos-Smuts Coalition man fidently is it felt that his speedy [South Africa. The Hertzog Gov-that expectation awaits a Govit's the one she keeps her husbandimen, who rule strictly by use of in common use. throughout the a leader is assured for a thousand pounds you can bet tractors are cruel and brutal the death of Arthur. Maillefert is change the whole" policy of success as

legirons, revolvers, and the whip South, though usually the victim ernment (which is Nationalist by ernment defeat as soon as Parlia-under..

There are well-authenticated cases where they have beaten an end to his suffering.

is taken out before death has put name and, in the narrowest pos- ment meets, in which event 4

THE REASON.

death for refusing to sible sense, by nature also) re-Cabinet would be formed, com-

A doctor states that it is far safer men to cently suffered a sharp and un-posed, in equal parts, of moder

the plantations where negro expected reverse in a by-election ate Nationalists and members of for a max to kiss a dog than to kiss work or attempting to escape, and methods of punishment used

a girl. A dog, of course, can't pos-even in a few instances because labourers are working out their for the mining constituency of the present Opposition. The pro-sibly persuade a man to marry it.

of "malingering" when in fact the debts are not dissimilar, The This posal holds out, the chance of a

man was too ill to work. Germiston, Johannesburg.

chief difference is that when a It has often been pointed out man is a convict and is killed it is was the first urban election at new grouping, not along racial which women had exercised the lines, which would mean the

that the condition of these cou-reported that he was "trying to two

victs (of whom most, but not all, escape," while a man killed on a vote. The result was so striking drawing together of the as to lead to much hard thinking. white races, than which no great-

are negroes) is worse than was plantation simply disappears or

of no-confidence in the Govern-Africa., How, it will be asked,

Facts You Did Not Know.

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It was widely regarded as a vote er boon could be won for South A scientist at the Field Museum that of the black slaves before else his body is found and the ment's economic policy, though would such a development affect of Natural History has found that the Emancipation Proclamation (white) coroner's jury brin the condemnation of provocative the movement embodied in that poison ivy is more dangerous in the of 1863, for the slave-owner verdict of death from brings

sand dollars or Boin hia racialism was equally plain. Gen-Natal Devolution League already spring, when the leaves are expand had an investment of a thou-known.

(Continued on Page 11.) to eral Smuts, leader of the Opposi- mentioned? Would the proposal ing and the poisonous sap is rising, human property, and it was

his interest to keep the slaves tion, a man to whom South Africa to break up the Union in the hope that at other times....

healthy and even to a certain ex- and the Empire as a whole owe a of rebuilding it closer to the

English agricultural implement tent contented, while the contrac- great deal, interpreted the pro- heart's desire forthwith be aban-

Natal builders have developed a Diesel tor who hires prison labourers can test in both these meanings, and doned? Probably not. plainly linked them together hopes to attract into the Union motored machine to pulverize and make more money by working his when he declared that the Nation-that good British ally Rhodesia, aerate the soil through the opera men to exhaustion, or even to alists had received notice to quit and knows that only a truly tion of two rotating steel rings to the point of death, and then re- on account of their gold standard federal system has any chance of which are attached 12 plow arms. placing them with others.

Debt Slaves, policy - which, as everyone doing that. Besides, and most krows, was persisted in mainly important of all, her determina-i By studying the form and size of Equally important is the com-

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C. M. S. GIRLS' SCHOOL.

Bishop Hall Welcomed At Prize Day.

a gesture of disagreement tion is to reject any half-mea-tree rings, which were influenced mon practice among plantation with Britain. Like other ges-sures that might later be rescind-by the weather centuries ago, a owners of obtaining labourers by

The Fairles C. M. S. Girls' School tures of that kind elsewhere, it ed. General Smuts, well under-New Mexico scientist has decided paying the fines of negroes ar speech day and prize-giving_tool has cost too high a price. Re-standing Natal's grievances, that the ancient pueble dwellings rested for some trifling offence, place on Saturday afternoon, in St and then letting these men "work Stephen's Girls' College, and was cognition of which and of certain would almost certainly be willing, were erected about 780 years ago,

out the amount other facts brought about air in office, to increase very

of money largely attended. A welcome was been startling, largely the powers of the Natal startling conversion -

paid Carried by a motor truck, a tele- which has

on extended to the Rt. Rev. Bonald Such that is to say, in the suddenness Provincial Council, but has descoping tower that can be elevated their behalf.

employ-Hall, Bishop of Victoria, who made of its announcement, but no finitely declared himself against a to a height of 30 feet by a hydraulic ers

often juggle their books a most interesting speech. Mrs. doubt a process gradual and un-federation. But, assert the jack has been placed in service at 80 that no matter how long and R. H. Katewall distributed the observed. Judge Tielman Roos, spokesmen of Natal, all that Milan, Italy, for repairing electric hard the negro works he never prizes. a former Nationalist Minister, might be done short of the one power lines and street lights, gets out of debt, and while this The Headmistress, Mrs. Cheung,

is the case he is a prisoner on the read the report for the year. resigned his position on the great step might, and probably Bench of the Appeal Court, and would, be repealed or vitally

plantation,

Successful Puplis It is often the case that he has The following received re-entered politics. He does so amended by some prejudiced Par and this is the point which liament of the future. Safe

been given a suspended sentence ficates: The Right Rev. Bishop of to prison by the Court, which is commands attention as a guards are wanted, and nothing

Middle School Graduates? preacher of racial reconcilement. less. There is no confidence felt Victoria will distribute the prize in a conspiracy with the planter, Wong Chu Mei, Chan Yuen Ching, There is certainly need of such a in the spirit of Hertzog. What, at the annual ceremony to be held and if he were to flee would be Lei Tae Lin. Mung Yan Taz, Chan crusade. Nor could it come more then, of the spirit of Roos? at St. Paul's College on Tuesday picked up and put into gaol. But Lal Fong, Tsoh Sz King, Fung Yak attingly and potently than it That, if proved sincere, will be as next, at 8 pm. The Hon. Dr. does from a man like Tielman welcome in its degree as the S. W. Tso will take the chair. A even if this is not so, his chance Ching, So Fai Pei, Yip Yan Of

of getting away is slight, for the

Primary School Graduates: will follow the prize plantations are patrolled day and Roos, who may well join forces spirit of Smuts has been. Yet concert

Wong Chui Yuk, Teang Sau King, with that other Dutchman, Gen-still it may not suffice to remove giving

night by armed white men on Ng Ngaan Ling, Young Yuen Fong, horseback, and bloodhounds are Ma Ching Yee, Lei Hru Kuen Fung used, just as they were soventy Sau Chan, Tsang Lai Ha, Cheng years ago, to find anyone who Mo Ying, Leung Chui Tung, Cheung

News In Brief.

eral Smuts, long a fighter in the the fear of fresh reaction. The cause of closer unity. Time was turn of events may well be ima- CONCESSION TO STUDENTS. when Judge Roos was deemed gined as bringing the case of!

certi

rather a fighter on the other side. Natal right to the front as a test All foreign students who have has run away, Kwok Fan, Mak Lat King, Tsoh Er But to-day the erstwhile threat of the new sincerity which seeks been duly registered in an Italian When labour is scarce it is not Sam, Lei, Lal-yuk, Au Yeung Ing Saul appears as Paul, the to banish old hatreds. The con- University will be allowed a reduc- at all unusual for the white she Poon-yln, Fung Lal-ngaan, Yeung healing evangelist. There is much tention that those hatreds have tion of 50 per cent. of the ordinary riff to arrest a number of negroes Chi Laan, Cheng Blu Haan, Man to undo, much that bad brought found ways for their fostering in railway fees who have been guilty of no crime Chia Kuen into being the spirit of the s too centralised method of goy- In order that those who are con whatever. Then by prearrange St. John Ambulance Certificates:- Natal Devolution League, which ernment is worth examining in cerned may avail themselves of the ment, they are given their choice Wan War Hing, Teoh Sa Wal, aims frankly at separation, with the light of the recent past,, as is reduction application should be of six months or a year in gaol Fung Yuk Ching, Teoh 3z King, So a view to a reformed and federal also the claim that federalism made to the Italian Consulate on some trumped up charge or Fei Fell Chan Lai Fong, Lau Chung system. Bupporting that pro-would provide a fitter framework Kayamally Building Queen's Road going to work for some near by Shang Mung Yan Ts's, Kong La

Central gramme, the Natal Mercury" re for friendship.

cotton planter for $8 a month Chan