1937-09-11 — Page 11

HE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1937.

GP.O. CANNo Gaolers TACKLE ANY LANGUAGE

How Errors Are Avoided

Or Cells In This

Prison

work the "prisoners gather on the steps of their huts for a smoke, chat, sing- song or games.

A prison without cells from which] At the end of the there is never an attempt to escape. This is the example from Aus "It does not matter whether you

tralia to the Home Secretary in his speak anese Russian, Greek or Basuto-the British Post Office will search for prison reform.

see that your telegrams are accu- rately and swiftly despatched to any part of the world you choose, writes a correspondent.

I was given this assurance by Post Office official when seeking an explanation of a grievance expressed by a German visitor to England.

Recently the German wished send a telegram in his own language to Munich He telephoned the foreign telegrams department. stated to dictate the message.

All ages of men In this prison, a farm about 100

Jing work miles from Brisbane, the convicts often on are free to do as they please, except that they give their word that they years.

will not break bounds.

They live in huts, each having his own small home.

place,

enterice

ILY WAGE

Every man is paid

There is a central homestead for of fourperice, and meetings and social intercourse af-provided Extra to his ter the day's work is done.

man is allowed one

there rang.

TOMB OPENED FOR INSPECTION

144 Years Old Custom

A strange

rite," recalling the days of the Resurrection "Men" like the infamous Burke and Hare, Sutton, Surrey, was observed when a service

was held

in the Gibson Tomb.

The tomb, which

An

Tere

cofins contain members pray each Lege fresh member of OFTEN WORK ALONE

milk, a ration of

dried the vault it The huts and the homesteads have fruits or jam or syrup per day, the keys thrown locks on the doors, and there are no which are not reckoned as rations. Jordan. gaolers. The farm itself is a wide- Thus there exists a system of Gibson family spreading stretch of land which has "exchange" the men liking an ex-ago, but the ce NOT IN THE BOOK

Scrub by tra quantity of tobacco trading their tinues. When he used the town's German been cleared of bush and me Munchen the girl to whom the men, and laid out on up-to-date

dictating said it did not ap-agricultural lines.

he pear

all the prisoners rise early and go of the messa to their allotted work on the farm.

lengthy and their own, or with only one as the girl knew no panion.

"As a matter of fact,” said a Post Office official, this is an

sual and unfortunate case.

It s should

not matter in what language." telegram is sent, if the rules- phoning a telegram are observed.

"This analogy system should al- ways be used; this entails spelling out each letter, thus: A for Andrew, B for Benjamin, C for Charlie, and so on. The system is explained in the Telephone Directory.

U.S. TRIUMPH FOR BRITISH FILM

Greatest SuccESS Since "Henry VIII

com

claimed for Herbert Wilcox's “Vic-

Σ com

parish

ed and

years.

by the

of seven ains: of

sont family, and

hen the eighth

is buried in p and

into the River

mown the

out

way years

my

still con-

syrup, and so on, with "fellow-con- At the time of the death of Mr. James Gibson the fear of body-

victs.

The farm "prison" is managed and snatchers was intense, and his two run on scientific lines under quali daughters. Miss Elizabeth and Miss fied agricultural experts. The soli-Mary Gibson, left considerable ms on trust so that the vault tary warder spends most of his time organising the transport of should be opened each year and

kept in the produce Brisbane and lng in supplies and requisites for work

THLM STARS PAY

Livestock, as well as produce, is $12 FOR TORTOISE raised, and already the farm won prizes for its cattle at the Bris- bane Agricultural Show.

MAKING GOOD CITIZENS MJE Whitney, Comptroller Prisons of Queensland, whose perim this is, will tell you

ay be crooks but honour among

The greatest success gained by a the "If this method is employed-and British film in America since "The have the operator may insist upon it Private Life of Henry Vill" any name or word, in any language, can be dictated, even if the girl at (toria the Great.” the exchange does not understand the language.

Mr. Wilcox, who has returned to England from New York yesterday, eception given to says that the

was quite "Victoria the Great

CHECKED BACK. "After the message has been taken down on a typewriter, it is sent to a

It has already been booked by department where each word is checked. The

names of cities and 2500 cinemas, and the Radio Pic countries are kept in an official list tare Corporation estimates the dis- with the alternatives in French and tributors share of the box-office German; finally, the meassage is takings throughout the world at read back to the subscriber again £600,000 of which," Mr. by analogy if necessary.

"So that in any instance it does not concern the girl who takes the telegram whether the place-nam are given in French, German, or English, so long as she has the spell ing correctly.".

The official added that there are roughly 25,000 Post Offices in Lon- don where a telegram can be handed

added, my share will be very com fortable."

While Mr. Wilcox was enjoying

triumph hon Broadway, Arma Neagle, who plays the Queen, was having a rest at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where new cinema attractions are announced by the town crier.

FIVE YEARS' PICTURES As a result of the success of "Vic- has in personally, so that the need for toria the Great Mr. Wilco telephoning, except at night, need sold his output for the next not often arise.

BRITAIN'S PILOT

NO.1

C. Moore-

the

First

years. He is to make four pic

at

2

of £150,000 each, all designed the world

Certain Rać ing Ginger Ro-

ars, possibly

Tent

Mr. Wilcox has come back verted to colour.

ene

weeds

Queen

in colour,

amatic that

at the

cheme

Hollywood's demand for the geo- metrically marked tortoise, found

nly in the Ma

reserve

Cook

by

Gas

district of

is so great

tened with

much as £12

cope with

Corneil has

ereste