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General News.

Portuguese Prison Reform,

SERVICE MATTERS.

China River Gunboats. The Minister of Justice on Mr. Winston Churchill, First January 28 presented to the Lord of the Admiralty, stated in House of Deputien a Bill for the Parliament on February 11 that reform of the present prison sys-be proposed to begin the con- tem, by which all classes of prisostruction of China river gunboats ners-Royalist and political as in the next financial year, and Among other neoilful changes the vice in China by the end of 1914 well as criminal-will benefit. that they should by ready for ser

hood worn by certain prisoners over their face and head will be abolished.

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Arrest of Mr. Debbs.

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The Royal Arthur, cruiser, will be recommissioned at Portsmouth on Feb. 14 and become a Third Fleet ship. She will take out Mr. E. V. Debbe, who was the reliefs for the river gunboats Teal, Socialist candidate for the Pro-Moorhen, Woodcock, Robin, Sand sidonoy at the last election, has piper, Widgeon, Woodlark, Snipe, been arrested on a charge of ob- Nightingale, Kinska, the torpedo- structing the course of justice by boat destroyers Famo, Virago, and an article which he wrote and Otter, and the receiving ship had published in a Socialist news Tamar on the China Station. paper, exposing the conditions which he said existed in Leaven. worth Prison. He was afterwards released on finding bail of £200,

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Chuenpec fort. As a midship- the supreme importance of a won the Viceroy's Cup on May- man he served at the blockade of highly natritive and absorbable fowl and rode for Sir A. A. CASSUM AHMED, the Canton river, 1858. For his food in small bulk cannot be ex- Apcar's stable. services he received the China aggerated. medal with Fatshan clasp.

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