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FRENCH POLICE METHODS.

ALLEGED TORTURE" OF ACCUSED MAN,

DEMAND FOR GOVERNMENT ASSURANCES.

There was a lively debate in the French Chamber in Paris last month on the methods of the French police and the rights of accused pet

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DANCING TO SAVE | FROM LONDON TO

HIS THRONE.

THE FAT KING WITH SPLAY-FEET.

LENINGRAD.

law and cannot be prosecuted in the ordinary courts. It has also come to light that the police withhold.from the examining magistrate sems of the documents concerning the case, and it was alleged by the interpel- lators to-day that the reason of this was that the documents were favourable to Almazian. Further, the police have given interviews to newspapers in a sense hostile to Almazian, although it is illegal to publish any information. about a criminal instruction, which is recret.add to the motion words approving All the interpellators, however, in M. Tardieu's declarations and de

This the test to which some sisted that the real importance of claring the conadence of the Cham-

African tribes submit their rulers A division was then taken on the when they are showing signs of these incidents was that they were ber in the Government. typical and that they occurred in

question of giving priority to Minefficiency, according to Lady too many criminal cases. They de Dandier's motion as it stood. M. Dorothy Mills, who describes the The whole question of per-manded that the law should be up Tardieu opposed the priority mak-urdeal of one king in her new book, Sonal liberty was involved, and what plied as it stood, and shoulding the question one of confidence, The Golden Land."

Amended to give further guarantees and gos a majority of G. priority the debate really demonstrated was

of individual liberty.

for M. Daladier's motion being re that France needs a Habeas Corpus

Premier's Reply Unsatisfactory. jected by 321 to 287. It is probable Act. The occasion of the debate

M. Tardieu made a reply that that the debate will, at any rate, was three interpellations about the treatment of Almazian, the Ar did not satisfy the majority of the make the police more careful, at

least for a time. menian tailor accused of being the Chamber. He declared that he was author of what is known as the

true to the principles of individual trunk murder. The interpellators liberty which had been his at the were a Socialist deputy, M. Monnet, time of Waldeck-Rousseau and the

Women are setting the pace at and two independent deputies of the Dreyfus affair, and that he intended Edmonton. They preside at the Left. M. Guernut and M. Lafort, to apply the law. He said that he Urban District Council and the the former of whom is the seerctary would give orders that the police Education Committee and several

Pom, pom-pom, pom, paru-pom of the League for the Rights of should not in future give interviews standing committees of theac, bodies,

to the press. He did not, however, and a woman is vice-chairman of poin. His leathery splay-feet, that Man.

When Almazian was interrogated answer any of the other specific the Board of Guardians. The Coun-led from the cute of many sharp 'cil's meetings, which used to aver little stones, never ceased in their by the police as a witness he was questions that had been put to him.

M. Monnet and M. Lafont com age three houra, now seldom go monotonous stamping, though his locked up for the whole night in the police station, that is to say plained of M. Tardieu's failure to beyond an hour. Recently an Edu-top-heavy body swayed a little, and imprisoned, in fact, although he reply to them, and the young cation Committee meeting lasted there was a glassy, strained look in fifteen minutes, and a meeting of his rolling eye-balls, and his breath was not under arrest. For a bed ho Radical deputy M. Cot made a re- was given a plank in a small roommarkable speech in which he chal- the Schools Free Meals Committee, cante in uneven, painful gasps.

"Round him in a ring, gloating in the company of two other ar-longed M. Tardieu and the Minis under a woman chairman, finished in rested persons. Almazian has also ter of Justice to declare whether five minutes, and several members over his growing exhaustion with the air of wolves waiting to attack, accused the police of having tor- or not they intended to apply the complained that they arrived when tured him to extort a confession, law and prevent the, police from all the business was done. All the his subjects crouched on their haun- and has laid an action for assault | violating it. At this point of the women chairman concerned belongches in the dust.

the atmosphere in theto the Labour party. The opposi and wrongful imprisonment against tehnte X-that is, some persons unknown Chamber became somewhat charg tion Conservatives state that they (although, of course, he knows the ed, and M. Cot was loudly applauded do not discuss questions so much names of the policemen concerned), by the whole of the Left and part as they would do if a man were in the chair, their reason being a sense because in France the police come of the Leit Centre when he re

of chivalry. under the system of administrative sumed his seat,

M. Rollin, Minister of Justice, replied to M. Cat, but his reply was a vague as that of M. Tardieu. M. Daladier moved a resolution de manding that the legal guarantees

ON BOARD A SOVIET SHIP. of individual liberty should be res- pected and enforced, and M. Tar- dieu said that "he entirely agreed

The Jan Rudzutak is named after the present Transport Commissar with the resolution, but it could not

A King dancing to save as of the U.S.S.R. It was built and accepted it as it stood because it included no expression of confidence throne, dancing all through a blaz-engined in the Leningrad dockyarda, in the Government. M. Haye, a de-ing African day until sunset, know and is one of five similar ships, two puty of the Left Centre, moved to ing if he stopped before the sun of which have been completed re touched the horizon he would becently and two are to be ready next year. Their displacement is about dethroned.

5,300 tons. The cabin of this new

wood steamer is panelled with veneered with triangular pieces of light brown and grey bird's-eye maple, and decorated with nine de- Every pic- lightful water-colours. ture has been carefully chosen or In this particular tribe the king painted to suit its situation, and was a man about sixty, enormous the dominant light blues in all of' ly fat, dressed in his robes of state them match the blue, natural pic- great cumbersome draperies of emtures of the sea and the sky seen broidered wool and cotton-balane through the cabin windows. As the ing on his head a load that did not spectator's glanco passes from the weigh less than eight pounds. pictures across the cabin windows no change of feeling is necessary; The smokeroom has a large oil painting of the University Quay, Leningrad, by Kuznetyov. This pic- ture, though good; is not so excel- water colours. The latter flash na lently appropriate as the cabin bravely as the sunlight and son and sky outside the cabin, matching creditably their transparency and blues and greens beside nature.

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He shuffled round in the dust, the perspiration, pouring from his wrinkled face down muscular black arms and legs.

Rolling Eyes.

This ship has been in commission grad and the Diesel engines were two years. She was built in Lenin-

also made there. The taste of the fittings is at least as good as any other ships.

Comfortable Foc'a'le.

The crew's quarters are thought "But he was game! Will power to be uniquely comfortable says a alone and pride of kingship and waiter in the fanchester Guardian. hatred, maybe, of his would-be auc-They have a handsome cabin in the castor, who watched from afar with poop, with piano and gramophone ili-concealed anxiety-supported and musical instruments. There is him un that blazing after-a bronze bust of Lenin flanked by noon through that interminable

vases of flowers. Berths for passen. dance.

gers and crew

are particularly sulidly made. As a piece of ship- building this Russia-built ship seems admirably done. The crew are obviously co-operative, the master- and-man atmosphere being non- existent apparently. An. American passenger who has just crossed the Atlantic remarks how gentle and intelligent are the crew compared with those she met in her liner.

Sunset Drama.

As I returned later on I saw the end of the little drama. The red ball of the setting sun touched the edge of the horizon. The king, with greg, distorted face, was still dancing!

"There was'n feeble shout from his few adherents as he threw up his hands and fell forward and was borne by them to the seclusion of his mud palace.

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"There was a sound of angry murmuring, and many downcast; faces among the rest of the crowd as it trickled disappointedly home. "The general election was over! The Government remained in

But not for long. Lady Dorothy heard by chance that the old, king had died from the bite of a snake and that his cousin reigned in his stead, and snake-hite may mean anything in Africa when a man, king or commoner, is unpopular."

THE 12 MEMBERS OF THE 13 CLUB.

LUCKIEST MEN IN ENGLAND.

The Russian ships sailing from London to Leningrad pass through the Kiel Canal. The Rudzutak sails down the canal very slowly. I am told the canal is about 50 miles long and the fee for passage through it £35 for ships of this size. A hundred ships may pass through in a day. The fees go to pay re- parations, niter deduction for work. ing expenses. Along the canal banks quite a lot of Russian is spoken. Russian labour assisted in building the canal before the war, and during the war many Russian prisoners were employed in connee tion with it. After the war, many

German of these married

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Widows and settled down here-

abouts.

Some magnificent bridges have been thrown over the canal. They are distinguished by the lightness of the steel-girder design. One railway bridge has about 10 steel

The twelve luckiest nm in Eng-piers. land are the unhappiest men in London. They are members of the 13 Club, and they are bored with blin

The 13 Club was founded for the express purpose of defying fate. It had thirteen members pledged to eat thirteen At table, sworn to walk under ladders, to refuse to pick up pina, to avoid black cats, and deliberately to disregard every good luck omen.

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Tea of Russian ten and biscuits. One member of the club died last Dinner is another square meal. year, and the remaining twelve After dinner we settle or stroll on have entered on an orgy of mirror- the deck, watching the world smashing, a frenzied extravagance beneath the stars. of ill-omen-but nothing ever Presently a stewardess appears. She is trying to tell us something. happens.

"It's no good," said Mr. W. G.It is nine o'clock. "Chay, pitz," "What?" we Randall, secretary of the club. she seems to say. "We are the luckiest men in Eng. Bak "Another meal!" So it laud. We were not caught in the | seers. We assemble in the dining Wall-street smash or in anything saloon for the fifth time. Tea and else. Nothing ever goes

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have not had much exercine and fully that he never suffered ill have already accommodated four meals this day. But it is enjoyable to observe the Russian custom. It is noticed that the strawberry jam is eaten with a spoon and not spread- on bread.

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The ladders I have gone under, the mirrors I have smashed! Even rank outsiders come home when I back them, and the income tax BBCssors forget me!"

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