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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937.

GAOL BALLADS OF "OFFICER IN TOWER

Story of His Tragedy Told in Verse

"I Am Not Kicking

EX-FIRE CHIEF IS RELEASED

(By a Correspondent)

London, Feb. 15.

BRYNOR ERIC MILES,

ex-chief officer of the London Salvage Corps, freed from Maidstone Jail yesterday after completing nearly three years of his four-year penal servitude sentence, said to me: "Don't make a martyr of me. I'm not kicking."

Miles left jail with one hope to be allowed to earn a living for his wife and children.

Scots-

His wife, loyal woman with a merry laugh, was at the prison gates to meet him.

Together they travelled to London. Together they left

the

evening

for the South Const where Mrs. Miles hus kopt a home going through three years of waiting.

"Now for the future," Mld Mr. Mlies to me. "The past is finished. My wife told me to take my punishment with my chin up.

I'va irled to do so.

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"I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm an engineer of sorts. have got to do something-to start| life again."

Deprived of Rank Ex-Captain Brynmor Miles-he

feelings. Not once in a long talk did he betray a deep emotion.

was deprived of his rank-masks his

He is much slimmer than in

February 1934, when sentenced at the Old Balley for conspiring with Leopold Harris, and accepting bribes from him. His hate is still black,

He his moustache neatly clipped. is a young man stilt (he is forty- one), but there is something

in his dark eyes-pain, suffering,

not easily to be forgotten.

Cary

"Don't think prison is an place," he said." "To a man with a sensitive nature, with feelings, It is loathsome. The punishment to a man's ferings is the worst holl,

"The prison system-it could, be riddied with criticism. You've just got to take It.

I was lucky. I made up my mind

never to complain.

while I was there.

Strange Picture of Mystery Marie Louise

FOR THE OFFICER IN

FOR FOUR YEARS NORMAN BAILLIE-STEWART

THE TOWER”—HAS

BEEN IN A CELL AT MAIDSTONE PRISON.

The young ex-Lieutenant, a sensitive, intelligent type, felt his imprisonment far more than most of his fellow-prisoners.

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His apathy deepened to despair until at a prison concert one day, he heard a singer Miss Marjorie Stretton.

Miss Stretton sang the famous waltz number, “My Hero,” from "The Chocolate Soldier." Baillie-Stewart heard it and was lifted momentarily from his despair.

On the occasion of the anniversary of the Polish uprising against Russia

In his cell that night he wrote on in January, 1883, the chief of the

a scrap of paper a poem of gratitude Pollsh army, General Smigly-Rydz, received veterans of the war. Theo Miss Stretton. He called this poem picture shows General Smigly-Rydz

"The Voice." It appears below.

Thereafter he found consolation (at left) shaking hands with one of

his feeling in verse. in expressing the veterans,

"Many of these poems," snid Baillie-Stewart, "were written when I was mentally in a condition of ulter moral bankruptcy.

THE DEVIL WILL BE

A SISSY

IN THESE SPRING

CLOTHES

Boston, Feb. 10.

Oh, Amazon and deaths' head vamp Men shiver at your tiny stamp

And rush to check their Mes.

They wonder now where, you might

be

In England. France, or Germany,

And marvel at your wiles.

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IDEALS

(What can replace that which is Ideals born of boyhood dreams

gone forever?) of

"Wero It not for this outlet in poetry I feel that I should have lost my reason and sanity." So the collection of tiny poper scraps grew until the ex-officer had La vivid poetical record of prison life.

He gave them the title "The Crab Seem to Apple Tree."

poetry.

His Trial

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boyish visions, plans and Achemes

spurn

haunt me, taunt me,

Picture

During his visit in Italy the German famous island of Capti. Premier, General Goering, visited the shows the Premier with Crown- prince Umberto of Italy making an

excursion on the island.

BLUEBIRD MAY TOUR EMPIRE

This shell of mine, this empty FAMOUS RACE CAR

urn,

For one by one I watch them

crash

now

to

"RETIRED"

dreams of record-breaking Bluebird has leisured just returned to England from the Toronto Exhibition.

thoughts like

Most of the verses deal with tho pathos and Irony which patchwork And shiver into dust and ash.

London, Feb. 10. prison life. But Balllle-Stewart did Acid came into their place

What is the use of a car not shrink from writing of his own And mouldered surely every trace capable of 300 miles an hour to

Of might-have been and It's going to be a colour-trial and sentence.

good a man who has travelled faster In eight moving lines he crystal- intent

or benton land. than any other living ful spring-in men's clothing. shed the feelings of an officer who is And every natural trend

disgraced before his regiment. For seeking truth and pute desire person?. This is the problem of Many intriguing and His mind went back over the Only to serve and brave the fire. Sir Malcolm Campbell, whose

and detalls of his trial-and the poem Tis farewell fascinating shades

"Marie Louise was the result. fools names, along with new Marie Louise was a a beautiful German Who graduate from

girl-the "mystery woman" "----men- schools; patterns and designs, have Lioned during the trial.

Gone are those frothy flights of been introduced for spring These pucnis, most of them written thought

"I don't know what to do with it," in the prison printing shop and hisWhich Masochism and summer wear, the New cell, give an unforgettable picture of Down through the abyss of my tha

only brought. Sir Malcolm said, "The trouble is that I promised Lady Campbell i mind,

wouldn't race any more 1 1 once.gol England Retail Clothiers' man who escaped from prison-in

Envenomed

shril above 300 miles an hour. That car and Furnishers' Association

was bulli to do 325 miles an hour, ling wind Scream in their tortured spiral and I am convinced that with sight says.

modifications, after my experience of the record run at the salt bed track in America, that it would do that, and the car to break it, and I am "But here I am, with the record out of the same for good.

The car is no good to me. I couldn't even drive it on a modern concrete arterial road without getting 'run in' for half. a dozen offences against noise, ex-

public danger. It will not do less thun about seventy miles an hour in top gear,

"I wouldn't like anyone to race it. Only four people have set in the driving seat of it since we started to build the original Bluebird in 1924- the present King. Edsel Ford, myself and my chlef mechanic. It is an

Such colours as "burma," "dawn". gray, blueberry" blue, and dubon- net will make their appearance in "Guards- summer suits and slacks.

man's blue," putty, steel, rust, corn- flower blue, Gloucester

"sky cloud," "meadow

Cggshell, I never did tones." "cavalry arms" and bottle

green will be new colours for shirts.

Part of my-sentence-I-worked-at-Necieties will be available-in-all carpentry. I loved it. Then I was kinds of dazzling colours. one of three librarians. That was Food, too.

"As such, I served out books to Leopold Harris and his brother David

[Leopold Horris brought from prison to give evidence against Miles].

wis

"For nine months they kept me at Wormwood Scrubs. Leopold Har- ris was at Maidstone. I suppose

they were afraid of our meeting,

"Then they moved me to Mald- stone. I don't know it he knew I was coming. We passed each other In the exercise yard.

T looked at him-we passed on. All the time we have been in the same prison, we have never sald a word to each other, though we have passed each other many times.

"And I dispensed his books for him. True, he made his requests to another librarian, but I handed them out.

Leopold Harris is part of the past, too, which is over.

Perfect Prisoner

*E had my friends-Clarence Hatry; the perfect prisoner, quiet and charming; another man-I won't give you his name-whose marvel- lous sense of humour saved me - from desperation. We laughed at all sorts of things together when we might have cried otherwise.

The food? Unbelievably bad. Is have lived for three years on por- ridge and bread. Couldn't face any

thing else. It's a fine.way to slim.

"The warders? They are called officers' now, please, Decent fellows mostly, but a few of them illiterate, brutal, stupid men....

One Idiotic practice an hour to - an hour and a half in 'D' hall, the height of privilege, each night. There you are forced, whether you Hko i

not, to associate with men who may be the worst possible in- Auence on you. Imagine the effect of that on a comparatively innocent young man.

So

"Agabi, I was lucky. I was allowed to stay in my cell. from. 5,20 till 10 p.m. every night I was in isolation,

"It was reading, reading all the time I read anything, everything allowed in the prison. But they will not let you write one line-surely a ridiculous restriction.

No Smoking

"It is possible to earn fourpence week by hard work and spend it on tobacco. I was a great pipe smoker. I thought fourpence a week wouldn't help, so I didn't smoke at all in prison..

To be sartorially elegant the man of 1937 should wear a summer suit of

gray or dawn

burma coal, with black tuxedo trousers.

A maroon bow tle with cuff links to match is worn with a soft front, pleated white shirt. A red

carnation

must be worn in the buttonhole of the coat.

Bright blue

and du- "blueberry" colours are new in summer |

In

now called "sandbags."

course.

THE VOICE And as they fall they gather force

To rise again in mad, ascent To that one alm on which is bent My utmost sum of vital strength And which I shall obtelnat

length,

With gratitude to Miss Marjorte Strett on her singing "My Hero," from The Chocolate Soldier,” in the chapel at Maidstone Prison. Softly a voice played over me, lap- Bitterness passed for a moment as

ping, caressing in dreams,

washed o'er the wounds of a lifetime

the melody's purging streams.

'staging an aching thirst,

million voices, but to I had heard

me this was the first Revealing in beauty, in sadness, those

things that are good on the earth-I To live to the play of the senses in a

Peter Pan Joy of rebirth.

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MARIE LOUISE

a sports shirt he can wear a Girl of composite form I vow, "jungle" shirt or "knockabout"

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shirt. There is "the Bolero," having You have made on ordinary bow

To a world agog for news.

DEGRADATION cessive smoke, or driving to the...

"For He breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds

without cause."

Job IX, 17. saw a face at a window through bors and a thick glass pane; The face WEB won and sickly

and grimaced as one inane.

A five-days' beard and a shock of historie car and a real monument to

hair made apparition crazed;

and peered at the form peered So strange and drew my breath Rinuzed.

There in the clouded misty glass

was a face I knew too well;

me from in the punishment cell.

a Russian effect, and is worn with slacks. It comes in shades of deep The M.I.S. have tried and falled, The face was mine that glared at lavender, bottle green and navy blue Staunch to dramatic methods nailed and

And Edgar Wallace views. made of broadcloth, silk and Clothed with maps and secret plans, 19. satin.

Underwear and nightclothes will You scorn to ride in civil vans, be made from featherweight ma- Preferring a Bght tank. terial and will bear the names of You wear a bayonet in your hat "clouds with a silver lining", and And keep a Bren gun at your flat "seaweed."

And own the whole Reichbank.

Bath Tub Murderer Curses His "Imitator"

New York, Feb. 15.

AS John Fiorenza prepared to die in Sing Sing Jail to-day for the “bath-tub" murder of Nancy Evans Titterton last April he cursed whoever was the murderer of Mary Case.

....

Major Green, a negro, is accused of killing Mary Case, wife of an hotel executive, in her bath a week ago,

・

once

Florenza: "moaned: thought something would save me, but that Case inurder has turned overybody against me again. It shot my chances to hell.

Fiorenza will die in the electric chair at midnight (1 pm. Hongkong

time).

··Mrs. · Titlerton was the wife of Yorkshire writer Lewis Titterton, who is an official of US.A.'s National Broadcasting Corporation.

board for real cullery and a white tablecloth with only just a gasp.

"That's the way of ilfe,

I suppose. I'm not squirming about anything."

I drove Mr. and Mrs. Mules, happy as exclied children trying not to show it, in a taxicab to the railway station.

"Mast buy a toothbrush, Miles "I left mine behind."

said. Mr.

"There," sald his wife, and wo My wife brought me my pouch.

could have sold it as a' souvenir." I loft. them together in traini to-day an old friend. But I'm go-compartment, still bravely uncon- ing easy, or I shall make myself ill. cerned, oven sitting in opposite seats. Il's easy to drift back into-the-But as the train which took them old way of living. London: doesn't home drew out of the station Mrs. scam sa strange. At lunch lo-day I willes had jumped over to her hus exchanged the tin mug and wooden band's side.

Strangest Boy in Britain

CAN'T READ, WRITE OR TALK-IN SCHOOL

British engineering, I would like to sce. It finish up in a museum, after a tour of the Empire."

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Free Churches

At Coronation

-But Not At Service

The

Free Churches will not take part in the actual Coronation Ser- vice, it has been announced, but six representatives will be given places

In the great procession and in the

where the Coronation.

Sanc takes

The representatives will be · The Moderator of the Federal the Rev. M. E. Aubrey; the president of

the National Free Church Council; the Rev. James Col- No matter how hard he tries, a 10-ville: the president of the Methodist year-old boy, here is unable to Conference, tho Rev. C. Ensor talk, read or write the moment he Walters; the president of the Baptist gels in school.

Union, Mr. H. L. Taylor; the Modera- Doctors are puzzled as to the tor of the Presbyterian Church of cause, and Worthing Town Council England, the Right Rev. James has made a special grant of £150, Burns; and the chairman of the which will be spent on trying to cure Congregational Union of England and

boy, whose name is being kept Wales, Rev. E. J. Price,

FROG FANCIERS the ARRESTED

New Orleans, Feb. 15. LBERT Broel- and his fellow Frog Fancier, ... Bylvester Schutt, have been arrested here..

They were advertising that their frors would lay 25,000.: CERT D. year, that in 13 years à brace of their frogs would show a profit of

£72,084.000,000.

secret.

The

almost unheard of, and some doctors say it

case is described as m

is quite new. The boy is normally EX-KÄISER IN THE strong and healthy and read, and write well.

can talk,

The cause of his complaint is .believed shock, which doctors think he may have received when he was very young..

SHADOWS

Amsterdam, Feb. 15,

A great change has come over the, fortunes of the ex-Kaiser. No longer "One German visitors paying homage to ja: Doorna miniature Potsdam, with nervous wilhelm

A doctor said to-day: often finds people whose system is so upset that they forced into stammering, absolute muteness quite now.".

aro but

this something

U. S. NOSES MUST SHINE

78-year-old ex No longer Is the Kaiser the proud, energetic exite. He is now an old man whose depres- sion causes anxiety, to his friends.

He is depressed because the situa tion In Germany seems to hold out no hope of his return and because of the abdication of Edward VII, to whom he is reported to have written mom to remain on the Throne.

He is hurt because Queen Wilhel- mina did not invite him to the Dutch royal

wedding although he sent a present to Princess Juliana."

advising him to Washington, Jan. 30.

Stenographers in the general accounting office may powder their noses at the end of the day's work, but not on government's flue. Acting comptroller general R. N. Elliott warned employees they must end their practice of quitting 15 minutes early to "repair the washroom.”——United Press.

He is suffering from kidney trouble. His wife, returned from Germany. does not leave his bedside,

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