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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936.

Condemned

British Prison System

Under Fire

Dave Beck, president of the Seattle Teamsters' Union Council and dominant figure in Seattle labour circles, accused by The Scattle Post-Intelligencer of. responsibility for the strike chusing muspension of that paper..

COCKROACHES FROM CHINA

ARE PERTURBING AMERICA

FREED MAN SHOWS NEED FOR REFORM

F a new book, "Walls Have Mouths," published by Gollancz at 10s. 6d., Mr. Compton Mac- kenzie cries: "Surely it must stir the public conscience to demand reform!"

"Walls Have Mouths" is by Wilfred F. R. Macart- ney, who was found guilty in January, 1928, on five charges of obtaining information calculated to be of use to a foreign enemy.

He was shown to have been working for the Russian Secret Service. His arrest and trial come soon after the Arcos raid. The Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to ten years" penal servitude, and

he emerged from Parkhurst Prison, in the Isle of Wight, in August last year.

INSIDE

Macartney, sensibly, does not talk about the events that put him into prison. He is concerned with events Inside the prison walls.

He tells of the dimculties which regulations place in the way of per-

to-day are holding 'up prison re- form.

The Prison Commissioners are not savage sadista bent on exploiting the power vested. In them. If they were, the Wakefield experiment-a brilliantly successful experiment-

treatment of Borstal and the new hoys would never have been tried at all.

OUTCRY FEARED Prison Commissioners know prisons

The

Fons awailing trial (and Mr. Mac- what Is wrong with their kenzie comments scornfully on "the parrot-cry that the English law pre-just as well as does the toward sumes the innocence of the accused League, for Penal Reform. until he is found guilty").

of

They know also what sort of a public outery there would be if they abolished all the dark for fress-prisons and substituted enlightened prison camps with a more enlightened regime.

But most shocking are the com. plaints he makes of the manner which convicta Arc semi- starved and dented proper exeselso with the object

making brutal discipline."

The present Howard League pro- The official statement as to food grainme, so far from wanting every- the nays) in liluminating"Saf-body locked up, suggests new parole Aclent to prevent wastage." And "ystems, even holidays for prisoners

(which would

the obvious Is undoubtedly maintained San Francisco, Sept. 30.

weight by lack of exercise and plenty of in the present system).

dangers of

Inherent sex repression Chinese cockroaches live at the starch. One becomes in prison We are now probably about half- United States mint and board at broken-winded, round-shouldered, a nearby delicatessen, read the

pol-bellied and spindle-shanked way between the state of mind which regarded the old prisons as just und and this is really what the system, necessary, and the point where we heading on a state department of in its hatred of the convict, de-shall look back on them na vicious agriculture report, submitted to mands, for fear that if the man barbarilles. Gov, Frank F. Merriam.

be decently fed he will rebel.. There

are cruder cruelties still.. The report sald

quarantine in-Macartney's references to solitary spectors, answering a hurried call confinement and Begging are not from the United States mint In Sen pleasant rending. Francisco, found that a large con- signment of Chinese silver dollars was housing a heavy population of oriental cockroaches, living on mites and ticks infesting the paper in which the currency was wrapped.

"DEMILITARISE"

Out of it all emerges Macartney's conviction that both human agony and

money could be quickly and simply saved by no more drastle a reform than the revision of prison "One of the guards on the night regulations-known to every con- shift, the report concluded, "volun-vict and every jailer as "Standing teered the Information the Orders."

He neita:

cockroaches left the cases about D o'clock each evening, moved in m army across the niley, where they dlet at a large delicatessen shop, retuming en masse in the morning hours to resume their abode in the money cases."

LONDON TO GLASGOW HUNGER MARCH

Permit talking, allow smoking. abolish flogging and bread and water ...pay decently for good work.

R. W.

Selassie's Umbrella-Man Awaits Trial

GIANT WHO WAS REPORTED KILLED

Addis Ababa, Oct. 10. Then demilitarisc Among the many criminals awall the service: Discontinue

the ing trial la the Addis Ababa jull 18 practice

of appointing governors Bala Hu, giant umbrella carrier of und deputy-governors from the the ex-emperor Haile Selassie, who Army, Navy and Colonial pollee was previously reported to have been forces. Make promotion to the executed. rank of governor something that Six feet ten inches in height, Dela every jailer could look forward to.) Hu was the tallest soldier an the The truth is that the idean on, Ethiopian army and had been chosen which the British prison system is by Selassie to carry his red silk

• Determined to get London before built are wrong.

umbrella daring official ceremonies Parliament opens, 400 hunger Public fear of criminals and public because of his exceptional height. marchers left here this morning to thirst protest against certain regulations of the Unemployment Insurance Act. They hope to cover the 375 miles on Tool Havas.—-------` `-------

Glasgow, Oct. 6.

for revenge created thr system.

More disquleting at is fact, whether we like it that these same ignoble

вест

Surgeons supplied the decorations for R. A. King (left) of Lamont, Illinois and Joe Jacobsors, of Kansas City, who added chills and thrills to thic Los Angeles National Air Races by crashing. Jacobson's Howard rocer smashed as he was landing after a speed dash. Previously, he bailed out en route to Los Angeles when his Bendix race plune exploded. Kling, avoiding a crowd in landing, crashed his spoed plane against a pylon.

JUBILEE

STAMPS

START

BOOM IN PHILATELY ··

:

collecting

Almost a Famine in Some Classes STAMPs and more philatelists than ever before.

reason is Hongkong's and other Colonies of the Empire's special Silver Jubilee stamps. They brought thousands of recruits of philately, and revived the childhood, interest of thousands more.

booming. the surplus stock after the issues had

The

The authors of "Stamps of the World," the Gibbons price catalogue, which tells what the market values of all the best bits of philately are going to be in 1937, state:

"This increase in philatelic activity at home, coupled with a very keen demand for stumps in the U.S.A.. has raised the boom of last year to record heights.

there has been almost a famine of "Business has been so brisk that certain classes of stamps,""

The result, from the collectors" point of view, would be that stamps centage over face value at the time for which he paid his denier a per- of issue, might, within a few days or weeks, be offered at the merest fraction of face by the wholesale dealers who would be the natural purchasers of the remainder."

BOYCOTTED

When news of this "new attempt to victimiso collectors" reached the leading dealers a boycott of all issues sponsored by the organisation was

ordered.

Panoma, which had "Innocently

stocks of stamps which were full of

agreed to the scheme," received-

Columbus stamps. errors, and the issue was annulled.

Ecuador actually Issued a series of

But no overseas dealers would buy them, and in the end the postul authorities exchanged supplies of the Columbus stamps for an equivalent

value in normal issues.

JOINED ARMY ON BAIL

Bala Hu also held the most envied SCHEME FELL THROUGH post of the entire Ethiopian empire: the that of drum major of the Imperial The story is told in the catalogue or not. Fanfare which was directed by the of how one or two nations of the cinations, Swiss-

#Maestro Nicode, who was also world thought a little while ago director

of the musical Lyceum they wanted for nothing.

they were going to get all the stamps director "Tafari Makonnen." Bala

But the Ku was tremendously

ebony dealers know how to tackle a situa- proud of his stick which possessed an enormous tion of that sort. Ivory head and was always

"A cultural organisation whose around the capital with IL

main aim is the perpetuation of the

London, Oct. 10.. About

four years ago, Bala Hu was fame and memory of Christopher One of three youns who should dragged in chuins before the Em-Columbus was induced to approach have appeared before the Southend peror together with a group of ban-various Latin-American Govern- magistrates to-day on a charge of dits

while captured

plundering ments with the suggestion that on stealing a sling bawley villages on the outskirts

of Addio

issue of postage stamps in honour of at £275, did not turn up. Ababa. His exceptional height Columbus should be made by cach caused Selassie to free the culprit and of them annually for a Itmiled immediately appoint him "Imperial perlod, Umbrella Carrier of the Lion of Judah."

IF YOUR LITTLE GIRL

Still Plays

with

Dolls

Before you know it that little girl of yours will be grown up, But now-her needs are a child's needs. ·

She must be carefully watched; she must be encour- aged in regular habits of elimination. When constipa. tion does occur-she should bave a child's laxative. For harsh, adult laxatives may double her over with a griping pain-or upset her digestion... sure proof that they are too strong for a child's delicate system.

Be cautious. Give your child Castoria-it is the laxative made especially for children-from baby- hood to eleven years. It is gentle-yet thorough. It contains no castor oil, no harmful, habit-forming ingredients. And children take it willingly they love its "candy" taste!

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THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE FROM BABYHOOD TO.11. YEARS.

"The organisations would supply When Selassie fled to French the stamps, free of charge, and Somaliland in view of the Italian ad- would have a right to the whole of vance on the capital, Bala Hu was left behind. He immediately had his band players change their musicni Instrument with rifics and spears and started looting the city and was or- rested by the Italian authorities and put in jail. Rumours immediately spread among the natives that the Italian authorities had placed Bala Hu before a firing squad during the night because of his imposing title of Imperial Umbrella Carrier.

Then romours alro published abroad have now been denied by the Prison Warden who recently In- formed the Vierray of Bala S exceptional appetite. In his report to General Rodolfo Graziani the pri- son warden stated that Bain Hu has been eating double rations daily for The Inst three and a half months and that although he is quiet and well behaved prisoner it would be wise to speed the giant's trint as his presence In the canital's Jail weirhs consider- ubly on the prison's budget.

Viceroy Grusioni Immediately fixed Bala Hu's trial for the end of October, -United Press.

Royal Temple Will Be Demolished

Windsor, Oct. 10.

The royal Axbing temple. built

by George IV. at Virginia Water is bring demolished by order of King Edward VIII.

George IV and WIlliam IV used the

temple, oriental in design, extensively. Since their how-

valued

army

It was stated that the young man, Arthur George Falleson, aged 15. of Rochford, had joined the while on bail.

The police were asked to verify the statement and if it were true to take no further action.

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