1930-08-27 — Page 6

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DEATH.

GARDNER. — At Shanghai,

August 26, W. Gardner, Hongkong, in his 68th year.

The

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found diamay to the possibility | 01 that, should the Round-Table Conference fail to propound, a Constitution which will command the support of the best elements In Indian nationalism, Britain may become involved fa mensures which will mean the cessation of peaceful government. It is polat- ed out that neither Britain nor India has anything to gain from the use of force, and that

no

DAY BY DAY

THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. LIFE, INCLUDING ALL ITS POWERS OF LOVE, OF JOY, AND OF ADMIRATION.

Ruskin.

The P, and O. s.s. Kashmir, from Shanghai, is due here at 6 n.m. on Friday.

Bay Hotel.

Breaking Out of Prison.

A Thrent to Murder.

he had

threatened

to

TT is not uncommon to hear of, the time, as he had provided him--"

a break-out or escape from self with the means of getting prison (writes James Murray, over the wall and back again to The Mercantile Bank of India,

ex-Prison Official. in the the outside of the prison. Ltd., has declared an interim-divi-an effort should be spared to secure dend of 8% per annum, less Income Sunday News).

When a man is In regard to escapes from in "durance vile," it is in his prison, those who actually attain a basis of agreement along peace- Tax.

nature to try to get himself at liberty for any length of time are ful lines. In this view, the spon-

The health return for the past liberty if he can concoct soma plan few in comparison with those who sors of a policy of conciliation twenty-four hours shows one non-which may be successful, and make the attempt, and are either have the support of the Indian Chinese case of typhoid and one many have been and will be, the frustrated at the beginning or attempts-in most cases unsuc-only enjoy a few hours or days party leaders who, in urging In-Chinese case of diptheria.

cessful-made by prisoners to of liberty. · dian participation in the coming Mrs. Howard M. Cavender, wife attain that end.

But to break into prison seems

Escape From the Quarry, Conference, have declared that a of the Dollar Steamship Line's

On Dartmoor attempts used to General Agent in Manila, is at pre-a senseless act, and probably only policy of strong measures and re-sent on a visit to the Colony. Mrs. one auch case is on record. be fairly frequently made as the Dartmoor Convict Prison was mist coming suddenly down on the pression on the one hand and the Cavender is staying at the Repulse the scene of action, and a coloured out parties favoured the attempt. pursuit of direct action and open

man who had previously served a Some 30 years ago two convicts. infringement of the law on the

A previous conviction of two term of penal servitude there was while attempting to escape from other, can only serve to increase months imprisonment being prov-the principal actor. He had been the quarry, were shot down by the ed against him for larceny, a Chia badly-conducted prisoner and of civil guards, whe surround each the already acute tension.

nese was sentenced by Mr. Whyte violent disposition, and in addition party of outworkers, and were Up to that time the It is suggested by these lead-Smith to four months imprison- to other punishments had been killed.

guards' rifles were loaded with ball, but as a consequence of this ers of public opinion at Homement, for having stolen some scaff-flogged.

olding beams.

happening the then Secretary of that the Government should em- phasise that the aim of the coming 'An attempt to commit suicide by He had developed a violent dis-State gave orders that only buck- Conference will be to arrive at tying a pair of trousers tightly like to certain of the officials shot should be used in future.

around her neck was nipped in the whom

This latter remedy was usually proposals for the attainment of bud when inmates of an annum-murder when he attained his eficient as it brought the prisoner

down Such threats by violent serious injury to the person, as without inflicting алу Dominion Status, subject only to bered fut at North Point found liberty.

Chu Liu (36) a female worker, at prisoners are by no means uncom- the prisoner's back was usually. transitional safeguards, and that 9.30 p.m. last night. The woman mon in prison, but I cannot re- in order to secure the attendance was immediately taken to the Gov-member any case in which they exposed to fire and the shot usual-

ly took effect on his legs.

A few days in bed in hospital and co-operation of Indian lead-ernment Civil Hospital for treat-have been carried out or even an

attempt made to do so.

after the extraction of the shot However, 5000 after this ers, an amnesty should be grant- ed to all political offenders not A peculiar kind of theft was prisoner had been liberated It was usually sufficed to put him on his

legs again.

At times a prisoner would.get guilty of violence. On the first reported to the police by Li Yuk-reported that he had been seen

Shenag of 1, On. Hon Terrace, hanging about in the neighbour-clear away for a few days, but as on hood of the prison, and the officers the attempts were usually made point, the Government has surely when he stated that whilst already gone as far as can be ex-board the S. S. Angers prior to whom he had threatened became in winter time and the individual her departure yesterday, a Euro- on the "qui vive" and took pre had little knowledge of the moor, pected in making known the pean passenger took a silk shawl cautionary measures for their the discomforts of lying out all ultimate end in view, whilst in valued $20 without having paid safety, as he was known to be a night with little to eat drove them.

determined and desperate man..

In those days a strand of wire the arms of warders who were

from their hiding places and into · port without payment being made.

ran round the top of the prison obviously be some real guarantee

roads and of the cessation of all illegal ac- A Chinese was sentenced to three wall. If the wire were disturbed, watching all the

months' imprisonment by Mr. as it would be by anyone trying avenues leading from the moor.

One man, did succeed in getting tivities before the release of pri- Whyte Smith this morning for hav- to escape by getting over the wall, off the moor and reached a rall- soners is considered warrantable. Ing stolen a bicycle, which he later & bell would ring in the gateway station, where he hung We are all for a settlement of the tried to sell, from the Kwong Fung keeper's room.

bicycle shop, on August 25. Mr. outstanding issues by mutual Whyte Smith remarked that thei agreement, but the present is no larceny seemed to have been pre- moment in which to contemplate meditated. The value of the bicycle was $15 and the defendant tried in any relaxation of precautionary to sell it for $6. in measures or for any bargain-mak-

on

of

ment.

Telegraph regard to the second there must him for the article. The ship left

WEDNESDAY. AUG. 27. 1930.

THE OUTLOOK IN INDIA.

around until a goods train made a Robbery, not Revenge. temporary halt. He boarded a wagon and crept under the tarpau- One night at this time the wall-in cover. He remained in the.. bell did ring, and on the alarm wagon for some hours, not daring being sounded all officers muster-to look out. When the train re- ed, and a search was instituted mained stationary for some time, inside and outside the prison. The crept out and proceeded to re- No prisoner was found missing, connoitre, in the hope that he had.

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Despite the bomb outrage Calcutta and the unearthing

What is believed to have been that city of a terrorist plot, the ing with revolutionists. Britain a motor accident on the Taipo but on a search of the outbuildings arrived somewhere near London, general situation in India would has shown beyond any semblance Road near Shiu Um Shan village. (within the wall) the coloured or some big town.

To his great astonishment and appear to be taking a turn for of doubt her anxiety to deal fair-was reported to the police yester-man was found hiding.

day morning when, at 3 o'clock, a His object in returning to the chagrin he found he was at Pen- the better. The latest official re-ly and squarely with India. It is Chinese named Wan To-wai (52) prison was not revenge but rob-zance, the direction of the train having been the exact opposite of view of the position indicates that surely high time that a friendly belonging to the village, was found bery.

He knew that, as next day was what he had reckoned on.. there is marked improvement in gesture of some kind emanated lying unconscious on the main

road. It is believed that the man pay-day for the officials, there was

Through Prison Bars. most of the provinces, particular- from the Congress leaders, had been knocked down by a motor considerable amount of money

car which did not stop after the ly in Bengal and the Punjab. In

accident, the latter, we are told, there is a definite and practically univer-

The "Mosquito" Press.

in the storekeeper's office, and he Perhaps one of the most daring had conceived the idea of break-escapes was that once made from ing in and appropriating this cash. (a local prison in the Midlands.

He naturally knew a good deal The man, who was of fair size,

that the salutary lesson administer about the moor life and the was employed at outdoor work in sal decline in Congress activities, The case which came before the ed by virtue of yesterday's damages arrangements of the prison, but the prison yard, where some build- and the movement there is mori-Puisne Judge yesterday when a will imbue those responsible for he either did not know or had ing operations were going on and bund. One feature in connexion a young Chinese lady sought to the publication of "mosquito" news-forgotten the existence of the tell-ladders were in use. He knew with the boycott of educational vindicate her character following papers with a keener sense of their tale wire on the top of the wall. that if he could get out of his cell But for this omission he would he would have no difficulty in get- institutions which it is pleasing a highly offensive article in a pub-responsibilities and a wider appre- probably have been successful in ting over the wall.

lication with the title of. Tai Fai ciation of the feelings, of others. his enterprise, at all events for (Continued on Page 7)

to note is that the students of Fut serves to centre attention again Allahabad University have re- on the somewhat obscure publica- volted against the interference tions which have sprung up in the with their future careers. They Colony and which are known as the have evidently come to a realisa- "mosquito" press by reason of This class of tion of the fact that Young Indis their dimunitive size. is the real sufferer in foolish periodical came under official no- movements of the kind indicated.tice some time ago when political views were expressed in certain so-

posit etc., there can be no control

It would be premature, however, called news-sheets which called to regard the Indian situation as forth the disapproval of the au- being anywhere near composed. thorities. We are Informed that at Indeed, the official statement in-the present time there are a dozen dicates that whilst the situation is or so organs in the Colony which distinctly easier, there is as yet form the "mosquito" press. Some no province in which conditions of these concentrate on politics and regale their readers with stories of are normal or in which it can the lives of generals, while others safely be said that the civil dis- dwell on so called "social" topics obedience movement may not as and have West Point life as the sume fresh vigor. In the mean-basis for many of their articles. time, it is interesting to speculate These dimunitive newspapers cater on the developments of the next to a certain class of reader, and comply with few months. It is common know. providing they ledge that efforts have been made the Ordinance which calls for de- to arrange a truce with Gandhi, over them so long as the matter in the hope that the Round-Table they print is not seditious or does Conference which is to assemble not constitute, an offence against later in the year may be held un-public morality. If they discuss der conditions which give promisa individuals in their columns, then of success. Very little has, how they lay themselves open to the law of libel and consequently to the ever, been heard recently of the payment of damages. If the scur- facilities which have been given rilous article which formed the sub the Congress leaders to confer onject of the action yesterday is any the situation. This matter is one criterion of the general tone of the of extreme importance, and

"mosquito" press, then it is to be There can only hope that some progress

unhesitatingly condemned. can be no excuse for scurrilous at- is being made in the conversa-tacks on individuals, who, however, tions. As to the prospects of the are sometimes loath to take the. Round-Table Conference, we necessary action. We agree with notice that many leaders of public Mr. Lo that some kind of deterrent opinion at Home have recently la- is necessary for that class of writ- sued a joint statement in which ers which takes hold of gossip and they plead for a mutual effort to serves it up with the aid of crafty and unkind pen to what must be compose the situation. In this, a comparatively unimportant sec the signatories. look with pro-Ition of the community. We trusti

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