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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930.

There are THREE REASONS WHY we have been

entrusted with the installation of

CENTRAL HEATING

HOT WATER & SANITARY SYSTEMS

at the following Institutions, etc.

SCHOOLS

St. Stephen's College Diocesan Boys' School St. Stephen's Hostel St. Stephen's Staff ....

Quarters

Repulse Bay Hotel

CLUBS

Hongkong Club Hongkong Cricket Club Hongkong Jockey Club U. S. Recreation Club Royal H.K. Golf Club

BUILDINGS

OTHER

Mountain Lodge

Pallonjes House, Canton

Stubb's Road Garage

Police Station, Sham Shui Po

FIRSTLY.

SECONDLY.

THIRDLY.

HOSPITALS

Victoria, Hospital Matilda Hospital

Alice Memorial Hospital New Tung Wah Hospital Nursing Home, Canton War Memorial Nursing

Home

Oriental Hotel, Canton Aigburth Hall

South China Morning Post Building Sisters' Quarters Matlida Hospital Branksome Towers

All systems are designed by a memeber of the Royal Sanitary Institute aad Institute of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, thoroughly acquainted with local conditions and requirements.

All work executed by our own staff, under expert European super. vision, thereby eliminating scamped work caused by sub-letting.

We do not interest ourselves in so called "cheap" jobs. All systems"" being designed to reduce maintenance charges to an absolute. minimum.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

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WHEN YOUR TRAIN GLIDES OVER · CRISP NOVEMBER'S MOUNTAINS

UTUMN colors fade and the

AUTUMN Colors fade and the

Cascades and the Rockies- ever changing panoramas, beau- tiful to the eye. Yet not a hint of cold comes to the traveler in Milwaukee trains, except for the freshness of the night air as he sleeps in the well venti- lated cars.

Every day and night, through fall and winter, Milwaukee trains are just right for comfort. The air within is clean and smokeless, untouched by sud- den cold snaps, heated by steam and yet not over-heated. Cor- rect temperature is another phase of the service to travelers that has earned the Milwaukee

Road the name, "The Comfort- able way."

For further information inquire of American Express Travel Bureza, China Travel Service, Thos. Cook & Son, your nearest steamship office, or

Gawl Agent Pas. Dipt. Seattle

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The Comfortaal

WOMAN'S LATEST ACHIEVEMENT.

EASTERN PRISON PENETRATED.

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PASSENGERS.

Departures,

The following passengers left ye terday by ms. Tatsuta Maru Mr.. C. S. Wang, Mr. P. K. Lubg. Mr. P. Wang, Mr. W. F. Choy,

BRIGAND· SENTENCED TO 101 | Mr. C. S. Shee, Mr. K. L. Ning,

YEARS.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Hong Sling. Mr. and Mrs. S. Waung, Miss C.

No woman had ever entered the Chettle, Mrs. Chang, Mr. Simon ancient city gaol of Symran until Tee Yan, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. IIyde, Miss Daphne Martin-Hurst, who bas Mr. Ko Leung Hee, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Chang Hung Tani, returned to London, and whose Wong, Mr. Tang Biu Shu, Miss A. article, describing her visit, appears Remedios, Mrs. V.. p. da Rocha, below, was introduced by Hamit Miss M. Barretto, Mr. Chen Fun, Rey, brother-in-law of the Turkish Mr. Ng Ziang, Mr. Wong Eng Minister of Justice at Angern.

All doors were thrown open in honour of her visit, and murderers -who constitute 70 per cent. of the inmates-mixed indiscriminate- ly with thieves and tax-ovaders to

welcome Fer.

Yao, Mr. S. M. Lovant, Mr. Walter J. Brown, Mien Hui Ng Khoo, Mrs. Young Ju Fung Yu, Mrs. Fan Tong Mo Fai, Mr. Narsindas Gulumal," Mr. A)

Dean, Mr. L. A. Dean, Mr. Geo, Fernandez, Rev, and Mra, N. The most picturesque figure she met was Ali Efe (Ali the Bold), Eldor, Mrs. B. G. Simpson, Mrs. H. Clark, Master W. Clark, Miu the last of the brigands. He mea. P. Brown, Mr. T. W. Magill, sured. swords unsuccessfully with Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish Pre.r. E. A. Schmidt, Mr. Martin F. Vernago, Mr. Francisco Lopez, Mr. silent, and is now serving a sen--

J. F. Paramanandam, Mrs. C. P. tence of 101 years' imprisonment.

Overton, Miss D. B. Overton, Miss The greatest contrast in Izmir- as the modern Turks call Smyrnar. B. É. Riorean, Mr. S. Harris, J. B. Hulton, Mr. W., Salomon,

is afforded by two buildings which Mr. S. N. Lec, Mr. H. P. Lai, Mr. stand on either. side of its principal. K. Mui, Mr. P. C. Mui, Mr. thoroughfare.

On the right is the modern School of Gendarmerie, its parade ground over-looking the sea; on the left a massive gate guards the entrance to the ancient city gaol, dating from the reign of the infamous Mustapha III., which, if one excludes the notorious Black Hole of Sinope, in the oldest and "worst prison in the country...

A warder was our prison guide |--a stooping old man whose blue uniform hang limply from his de- crepit figure.

Armed with a bunch of gigantic keys, he led us slowly down a stone, passage, through a massive barred door, out into a circular courtyard, from which radiated seven long, low blocks of whitewashed buildings, be- tween which were lanes leading to the various colonics.”

Hu Cheong, Mr. and Mrs. Cheung C. H. Tong, Mr. H, P. Chai, Mrs

Chau Tuan, Mr. Wong-Puk Chow, Misa Tam Wai Yun, Miss Tam Suk Yun, Mr. P. C. Chan, Miss Chu Sui Ping, Miss Tam Yuk Bint, Mr. C. C. Luk, Mr. Sam L Akai, Mrs., 8. Chow, Mr. L. M. Liang, Mr. Leong Ah Go, Miss Leong Tai, Mr. Chun How, Mrs. Rosie Hung Mui Wong, Miss Sarah Kain Jan Chun, Master Ernest Wai Hung Chun, Mrs. Low Shee, Mrs. Yuen Shee, Mr. Shiu Ting Wing.

COLOURED SEAMEN

PROBLEM.

A CARDIFF PROTEST.

in Cardiff have become a burdea. The unemployed coloured scarmen

upon the rates, and proteste are: Three of those blocks were in being made by the Public Assirl- habited by men under remand; one ance Committee, who have to: sup- was for short-term " prisoners port 800 Arab and Somali soamen serving sentonces up to five years; who have failed to obtain atua while two were for convicts son- tions on ships.

tenced to from five to fifteen years These coloured man live in board. and from fifteen to 101 years, feing houses in the docks district spectively. The seventh building because there is no room for them. contained the school, sick-room, and in the Poor Law institutions. Turkish baths.

The yard was crowded with pris-Committee have to pay be, a week. Consequently the Public Assistance oners, who talked together and folter their maintenance, as they are lowed me about wherever I went. destitute.

No two were dressed alike. Many wore civilian clothes, but one little Assistance Committee waited upon A deputation from the Public man with a tanned face, shaved the Ministry of Health, stating head, and fierce black moustache that great concern was felt at the appeared to be wearing uniform. I

en who have to be supported by public money.

asked if he had been a soldier, growing proportion of alien sen

No," said Hamit Bey, he is an agricultural labourer serving five years for wounding."!

"Why is he in uniform then?" "He is not,' said Hamit. Look closer."

There has begu recently an in crease in the number of coloured samen at Cardiff, for a portion of those who wrs domiciled on the north-east const have removed to

South Wales because of the distur

And then I saw that his military "uniform" had been cleverly co- trived of patchwork. The smart red bances on the Tyne. The Ministry stripes down the sides of his trust to the present, and the Public As

of Health has taken no action up. s.rs his epaulettes and resplendentistanco Committes are informed med ribbons had all been cleverly that seamen must be kept at the sewa on civilian gear.

A handsome, intellectual-looking expense of the rates. man, with early grey hair, wearing a smart morning coat, had been in the employ of a European shipping firm.

One day he found a compromising letter written by his wife, his ac- knowledged belle of the city. He excused himself from the office, úrovo stenight home, and cut off her head

Now he is serving fifteen years.

Lifers are given the privilege of remaining ut Izmir as long as they behave, but if they are "silly they are sent to the fortress of Sinope, on the Black Sen.

Divorce Sentencer.

Finally they had pitted their strength against that of Mustapha Kemal. It had been a case of the last of the brigande defying the first really strong man the country hind known in centurion.

Perhaps I might like to talk to Ali and Hussein?.

Unguarded Briganda,

The Governor, Fevzi Bey, rang A moments later both briganda, un bell and Inter gave an order." "A fow

guarded; strode into the room. --

Ali. Efe (Ali the Bold) was n proud, handsome, man of about Probably 70 per cent. of the con- twenty-eight, fair, upstanding, and victs were serving sentences for more than six feet three inches in murder, 20 per cent. were in for theft, & per cent for debts to the Government (unpaid taxes), while

height.

He was smartly dressed in high, shiny riding boots, whipcord riding the remainder were largely respon breeches, and a military coat. Ho dents and co-respondents in divorce, sported a button-hole, and from his nction, for, by the new law, all khaki jacket depended a festoon of guilty parties in matrimonial suits silver watch chain.

are liable to imprisonment up to Katchuk Hussein, short and dark,

two years.

In Turkey, I was told, "crimes less attractivo person,

Ali had belonged to the famous

of civilisation," such as blackmail, Kotaiakli band, which had plunder- forgery and bogus company pro-ed the rich on a magificent sente. moting are unknown.

“distributing their spoil among needy

I asked the governor Inter whe- peasants. This twentieth century ther there were many prisoners Robin Hood, beloved by all save his serving a sentence of 101 years. victims, was the band's sole sur

Only two," he replied, "both vivor. of whom are brigands. As they were captured quilo young, the death sentence was mercifully com

muted."

As we left the prison the great gatos of the gendarmeria were flung wide, revealing the sea, nlive, moving, and free in the sunlight. Many of the bandits, he said, had

Bebind us, in the gloom, there was been killed, others had returned to bago barred gate through which their norinal cecupations when I saw men's heads and arms ail peace pottled on the land, but these houtted against the sparse light two-Ali and Hussein-hod. carried behind.

(Continued on next Oolumn,) :

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