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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

DEVIL'S ISLAND TRADE IN SOULS OF CONVICTS

FRENCH POLICE HUNT FOR STRANGE GANG

SOLD FREEDOM TO WEALTHY CONVICTS

Nice, France, Oct. 30. Riviera police are collaborat- ing in an energetic drive to stamp out a gong which is mak- ing big money by helping de- ported convicis escape from Devil's Island.

The "contractors" are believed to, have their headquarters in Marseilles, but they have rami- fcations throughout the south of France. ".

The price for the escape of an "ordinary" convict is U.S.$1,300. In the case of "life termers," or whose relatives are con- sidered wealthy, the price is higher.

men

In ease the escape is unsuccess- ful, the gangsters refund the money,

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Throo Escapes In Year Authorities are certain that a recent mass escape from the colony of 11 prisoners was the work of the gang. This is the third in- eident of the kind reported this

year.

The police theory is that the "contractors" of these "guaranteed escapes" are doing their tourish- ing business hand in hand with unconscientious, native politicians in French Guiana, where the colony is located.

Every underworld cafe along the Mediterranean shore is an agency?

NOVEMBER 6,

1935.

S'HAI

ARMY

PARLEY

Arriving for the big conference in Shanghai of military and diplomatic officials, Major General Neiji Okamura, chief of the Chinese Affairs Department of the General Staff at Tokyo, la shown at right shove, With him are pictured Mr. K. Horiuchi, first,

socretary of the Japanese Embassy, and Rear Admiral Sato.

Chaplin And Dietrich As

British Film Stars

HOLLYWOOD CROSSING THE ATLANTIC

Southampton, Oct. 30. JARLENE DIETRICH is to make a trim in London next year. Charlie Chaplin favours the idea of making

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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1 London suburb; might be noisy. 8 Also cute (org.),

A wild woman. 11 Ruminate.

a picture here; King Vidor, perhaps the best-known of 12 Acknowledged now to be in. for the contracturs. The traille is present-day film producers in Hollywood, has been en- established on the Riviera because

Marseilles and Algeria are the big-gaged to make films in London, gest purveyors for the settlement.

convict

The refunds for falled escapes are made not because there 1s "honour among thieves." but be cause the contractors fear the vendetta of the prisoners' relatives and connections in France,

Escapes from Devil's Island and the Maroni River settlement are ascribed to ̄n-dearth of guserda-duo-il to lack of funds. The colony is already costing French taxpayers|

the annually. $2,000,000

and government is loath to increase the expenditure.

While the steamer, La· Marti- niere, sailed a fow days ago from La Pallice with nearly 700 cons vict there were men on board who were making the trip for the third time. Each time they es caped, they bad found their way back to France and bad, been re- captured.

Book Reveals Experiments

In a book, "Inferna Beyond the Seus," ghost-written by Dr. Aage Kaarup Nielsen from the experi- ences of a Dase who spent seven

MARLENE DIETRICH Trousers tould take London by storm.

years in the colony for a minor His Appendix Was

military offence he committed while serving in the Foreign Le- of convicls gion, there are cases having crossed and recrossed the ocean in the prison ship a dozen ings because of their insistence on returning to France after each escope.

If police are not successful in their efforts to drive the escane gangsters out of business, Devil's Island may be abolished and con- viets may be forced to serve their time on the Continent.

SALESMAN SAM

;

WELLYG’BYE, SAM!REMEMBER,

On The Wrong Side

These were some of the in- teresting pieces of film news which Mr. Alexander Korda, -chief of London Film Produc- tions, had to tell when he arrived at Southampton from America in the Berengarin,

13 1851.

16 A wry face in a refreshment

house.

17

Keep me in remembrance. 19 Agitated or imperturbable:de-

pends how you take it. 21 "To one who has been long in

city

23 The richest often live on this." 24 An dense as possible.

25 Not big pots to make a rong. 29 Oysters should be this for safe

eating,

DOWN

Mr. Korda, who was necom-29 Field after the battle. panied by Sir Connop Guthris, the 30 Highbrow craft. financial brains behind the recent -merger-between London Film Pro

ductions and United Artists, pro- phesied a big invasion of talent from Hollywood to London.

20 Films A Year

"We plan to produce 20 films a year at the new Denham studios," Mr. Korda sald, "and the total ex- penditure on these pictures will be, about £2 million.

for

"They will not all be London Film. Production pictures. some of them will be made by the American companies associated with us.

"Practically the whole of the Hollywood firms are anxious to make films hero, and I hope to get such well-known pro- ducers as Eddie Goulding and Frank Lloyd over here before long.

"Marlene Dietrich will be here. next Aprit, and I am hoping that An operation for appendicitis Goulding will come over to make being performed on Henry Collins, the first Merle Oberon picture at

eighteen. an athlete, aged

the new studios. By the way. Quiney, Massachusetts, was held ferle is now in the first three up when surgeons could not dis-jälm favourites in America. cover the appendix.

Mr. Korda added that America It wan eventually found in the patient's left aide-the first ense is definitely in favour of British of its kind in the hospital records. films to-day.

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