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EVERY EVENING
From 7.30 til 9 pm.
FISH (fried) with Chipped Potatoes
75 CENTS
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1925.
“BOW STREET,”
"A HUMAN SKETCH.
A door, in Bow-strect Police Station opens on a small tiled room in which each morning all the prisoners on their way to the celebrated dock gather to await the call.
It is an exclusivo apartment. Visitors are not allowed. Unless you break a shop! window, punch "a policeman in the stomach or become publicly full of
qa cvil spirit you will over. see it. It wif due only to the courtesy of Bow-street that I was allowed in for.a moment like ac ordinary prisoner Here i found a strange assortment of human being gathered together" by Fate-or
gay
alcohol!--for Monday morning's crime generally originates in
should
a bottle!
The
room is tiled and looks like an ordinary waiting-room till a policeman opens the door that leads out to a court Fard and then you see a second door twenty .or
SAUSAGES (Dairy Farm) with Mashed Potatoes composed of stout iron bars
85 CENTS
including Bread, Butter and Coffee.
Freshly Cooked for Each Customer.
10 MINUTES COMFORT
FOR ONE
CENT!
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*
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About
thirty men were sitting round
the room talking to the policemen who had arrested them. Most of them were weary, some of those who had been let out on hall looked smart, a for still retained traces of their fateful debauch, and all had lost the divine afflatus which had flung them into a pair of blue arms. The Atmosphere was rather like that of a headmaster's study in which are gathered a group of bad-boys waiting for the cane.
CESAREAN NAVY.
A stoical old man dozed peacefully in a corner. So might dear old Falstaf have bared his grey hairs in a moment of regrettable trial. A navvy with the head of Roman emperor sat huddled in his clay soiled clothes, silent, grim He reminded me of Trajan's bust in the British Museum. He should have been dressed in a toga instead of sitting in Bow-street with fine of EB. hanging
-J young man with
mild
over him! A
face sat near him, the kind of MAR
man who keeps, rabbits in 11 back
I wondered what odd circumstance had brought him in conflict with law and order. Among a group of seedy and tattered people I noticed a smart man wearing spots and bolding antat umbrella.
It was the strangest roomful, you can imagine.
How wonderfully British! I do not imagine that the police and prisoners of any other nation meet together as captor and captis in the same cheery, almost social, atmosphere.
"You broke thr law and I did my duty, and that's that. Let's forget it
That is the atmosphere in the "Pri soners Only room. Thumbs in belts, the policemen talked with their prisoners about racing, the weather and, as far 35 E
could gather instinctive good anything but drink and brawls. breeding! Here and there a prisoner who took his captivity lightly laughed and joked with the man who brought him there.
What'll I get?!! one prisoner asked. "Oh, about twenty without the op- tion replied the constable. Then a man with a notebook became busy with the day's evildoers, a name was called, and as the first prisoner pulled himself toge ther and strode out dockwards a flutter of interest went round the waiting room. and the old man awakened with a start and asked where he was.
SIR CHARTRES BIRON.
Enter the Royal Arms sat Sir Char tres Biron, white-haired and exceeding ly wise to human nature. He was deal. ing with a pathetic collection of women prisoners who had been waiting in a prisoners only' room of their own. Constable after constable described scenes of revelry in which it was alleged that the inadequate Bacchantes in black bonnets had been urged to deeds ni violence.
Some women pleaded guilty and got it all over quickly. Others clasped and unclasped their hands-appealing, thie, worn hands grimed with work-and tried to impresa Sir Chartres that "two glasses of port had been the cause of all their trouble. They were faed and went their way, some with an assumption of be Jated dignity, others jauntily. One old fady was so pleased with her sentence that she danced down the corridor ba tween two lines of policemen promising never to look upon the wine again.
SORRY AND FOOLISH.
Then one by one my friends of the wait- ing-room came "up for justice: Drunk and disorderly, drunk in charge of a motor-car, creating a disturbance, using insulting language. They all looked sorry for themselves and exceedingly foolish. Five deaf and dumb youths bad, it appeared, pushed a policeman off the payement. The mother of one of them interpreted the case. talked to
them in baby, ked them if
they had really
to
the p They nodded their heads and speak, but only vague, tortured sounds, heart-reading to buur, cume from their mouths. They filed out, bound" over,
Then Cesar strode into the dock, said he had been drank, accepted his fine with- out a trace of emotion, and walked from the dock with an invisible cohort before him and visible bettle sticking out of his coat-tails!
doce
When he has done his day's
"work Hir Chartres Biron feel more like Inugh- ing or crying. I wonder.-H. V. MOR- Tox in the Daily Express. *
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QUEEN'S THEATRE. Invisible Fear," an Stewart starring vehicle which was direct ed by Edwin Carewe, contains some beautiful sets which are highly artistic features.
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(LONG, LONG TRAILA
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all killed by
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