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OFFICER WHO HAD SAMPLE OF NATURE PUNISHMENT,

FAINTS AT FOURTH STROKE.

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

WEAK TENDENCY.

The Compagnie de Commerce & de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in their report dated Saigon. February Toth, state-

Dean Inge's article Is Civilisa. tion making its Soft," which we Owing to increased arrivals of reprinted from the Evening Stan- | paddy from the interior and salt dard, drewlyn interesting letter on shipping demand for rice, the prices | the subject of the comparative res have dropped and the tendency

sisting powers of an Englishman | remains rather weak. and a Safrobi native to physical pais..

As far as brokens, are concerned, there is a good enquiry from Europe and the market is very strong. ---

The total amount of rice export. ed from January 1st to January 87,046.330 tons in 1927. 31st, 1929, is 101,103.973 tons against

*Coirrord, Gloucestershire,

January 13th. Mourners who arrived at lonely little tarm at Fetterhill,

The letter: statne near Coleford, to attend the La" the King's African Rifles at funeral of Mr. Harry Par, a 35 Nairobi during the war a young years old sheep farmer, were shock-newly secunded from an English English officer of Sue physique, ed to learn that it had been post-giment, was present at Tammo (e We quote to-day White Saigon poned for the examination of the pin.) parade, and witnessed for the rice No. 1 3 per cent. brokena organs by a Bristol pathologist.

first time the punishment of soni askharis (native soldiers) by the pical of

round gun Hong Kong $6.53 per 14 B. fo.b. Saigon; The widow, who lives at the farm usual met hard of Kilku its per cwt. Lab. Saigon with her five children, had arrang-(hiasceres hide whip). ed the funeral for to-day.

It is not the thing for an akhari Yeu 2.90 per picul of 154 tha. fo.b.

Saigon. to show pain or to require (as very Unexpected developments tock casionally happens) to be held place in the last 4 hours owing to while he is receiving his strokes

down by some of his fellow soldiers statements alleged to have been Noting the phlegmatic manner in made by people who knew Mg which the pranishment was received. Pace. On the instructions of the evou hy z and offender, who got the full 24 strokes, the officer wen- coronar a post-mortem examination tosed the opinion in mess that a was made, and following this the ¦ white nun should be able to stand vital organs of the deal man were inch of the Kiboko

nasire. sealed in jars and sent to patholo- gists at Bristol University, An in- quest has been arranged but only formal evidence will be taken, and that is will then be adjourned until the result of the examination is known,

Married At 17.

The widow, a slight ruddy-com- plexioned woman of 3 with wavy brown hair, said to me that she would be glad when the anxiety brought about by gossip was over," and added:

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I was married at the age of 17, and may 18 years of married Fife have been absolutely happy, so you can imagine how distress...... ed I am about all this trouble. If it had not be for personal il-feeling of certain people my husband would have been laid to west without all this anxiety.

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Bravely, I think, and through an Honest desire to experience and ag preciate the punishment be himself might soon have to order, he arranged to test the matter, much. against the advice of the mess. The big native sergeant who usually officiated with the "Kiboko," was quisitioned and very reluctantly ared to perform. In the officer's bedroom, with the battalica doctor and two other fellow-officers pre- sent, the experiment took place, and the sergeant was duly warned would do to an askhari. The officer that he must lay on just as he fainted at the fourth stroke.

THE FACTS CHALLENGED.

AND A CRITICISM,

The letter drew an indignit pressed himself as follows:- reply from an ex-officer who ex-

Africna Rifles, whom duty impelled As an ex-officer of the King's

He was a quarryman and also

during the ww to witness owned a herd of 100-sheep, and many administrations of "kiboko" about two years ago was taken among our native troops in East punishment to misdemennants ill with a strange sickness. 1 called in a local stor, who frien, I write to express my. treated him for an illness which by your correspondent, Mr. F. M. amazement at the statements made was said to be due to arsenic Young From sheep dip. The poison was supposed to have got into bis system,

Unable To Walk.

21 strokes being administered to Mr. Young speaks of the full one offender who received them "in a phlegmatic manne". I am He greatly improved, but in kick" contentions, but I can not an authority or Nairobi July last his legs went stiff and he was unable to walk. They assure Mr. Young that, in Nyama- took him to Gloucester Royal Inland, 16 strokes were in my time firmiary, where they said he had the maximum given for very grave Is poisoned by arsenic. They offences, such as desertion on active thought this was from the sheep service, a crine for which a Euro- pean private would be court- martialed and shot.

dip.

Certain people hare said that I took him away from the hos pital. I can explain what hap pered Albough they were all quite good to him. he was not the sort of man to like hospital life. He begged me to take him away from it. He said he knew he was going to déc. and if he died he would see that it was in bis own home

I knew it would mean ending the hospital treatment, but what

uld I do when it was his wish Too Dl To Sign. His Name.

As he was too ill to sign his own mane, I signed the book that had to be Egned when a patient is taken away. It was a mistake, perhaps, but after all he wanted to leave, and he could not sign. Irimself.

These were administered not all the same occasion, but in two doses at such intervals as the medical officer deemed advisable perhaps a week. The delinquent's body could he protected to some extent by a thin blanket.

A Fearful Punishment. Even with those humane pressu

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According to the Japanese Fin ance Ministry, foreign trade, during the Jaguars quarter, showed. Yen 140,000,000 of exports, but there was an excess of imports over ex- ports of Yen -12,000,000.

The money market was quiet, and tak of lifting the gold enlarge was heard in certain financial quarters. The price of commodities which have been going down since last spring showed an advancing ten- dency.

informals diccnsed by the authori ties is expected to open business soon in the silk market.

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tions, there could be no poseille Bing CENTRAL 30. For doult in the minds of onlookers that eight full-arm "kiboko." strokes constituted a fearful punish- ingut, which I have seen only one though it is commonly accepted that askari meet without Binching, the negro can suffer physical hurt with far greater composure than the average European.

I can well believe that Euro- pean of robust physique would col There has been talk of him such a test certainly argues a high lapse alter four strokes. To face leaving a lot of money and how degree of physical courage, but it will help me if I marry again.

what are we to think of the be- I shall not marry again, and if haviour of such of the victian's people think there is a lot of brother officers as allowed (admit- money they can make their own tedly against their better judg inquiries and find out their mis-ment) such an outrage on good take.

order and military discipline to be perpetrated use flogging of a European band by one of his own native N.C.O.ST

Before he was attacked with the illuess two years ago Mr. Pace w715 believed by his friends and re- latives to be a healthy, rebus raan.

Bottle Labelled "Polson."

I learn tonight, writes a press correspondent, that with a quan- tity of sheepdip removed from the farm the police have taken post- sion of a bottle contamang a liquid

While Professor Hall Walker, of Bristol University, is examining. the equtents of the stomach the "bottle will be analysed.

Mr, Young states that three other commissioned ranks were present at this experiment" including the be interested to know what view battalion. medical officer. I should

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ber of címeinas was that they all "Poison." It was found by my last money to a very considerable didest daughter just before my amount. husband died. It was lying work.

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