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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."

one

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

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

Together they travelled to London, Together they left in the evening Const where Mrs.

for the South

Miles has kept a home going through

three years of waiting.

"Now for the future," said "The past in

Mr. Miles to me.

inished. My wife told me to take my punishment with my

chin up. I've tried to do so.

"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

Bryninor Miles-he

was deprived of his runk-masks his

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

He is much simmer than in February 1934, when sentenced at the Old Balley for conspiring with

from him. His hair is still Black. his moustache nelly clipped. Je is a young man stil (he is forty- one), but there is a something

Leopold Harris, and accepting bribes

On the occasion of the anniversary of the Polish uprising against Russia in January, 1863, the chief of the Polish army, General Smigly-Rydz, received veteráns of the war. The picture shows General Smigły-Rydz (nt left) shaking hands with one of the veteran.

THE DEVIL WILL BE

A SISSY

IN THESE SPRING CLOTHES

Boston, Feb. 10. It's going to be a colour-

Strange Picture of Mystery Marie Louise

FOR

NOR FOUR YEARS NORMAN BAILLIE-STEWART "THE OFFICER IN 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.

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.

In his cell that night he wrote on 1Oh, Amazon and deaths' head vamp,

a serap of paper a poem of gratitude Men shiver at your tiny stamp 10 Miss Stretton. He called this poem "The Volee." Il appears below.

Thereafter he found consolation in expressing his feeling in verse.

Many of these poems, "zaid Balille-Stewart, "were written when I was mentally in a condition of utter moral bankruptcy,

"Were it not for this outlet In pontry I feel that

should

live lost my reason and sanity.” So the collection of tiny paper scraps grew until the ex-officer had a vivid poetical record of prison life. He gave them the title "The Crab Apple Tree."

His Trial

And rush, to check their flies.

They wonder new where you might

be

In England, France, or Germany,

And marvel at your wiles.

•

龠

IDEALS

(What can replace that which ta gone forever?) deals bom of boyhood 'dreams or bayish visions, plans and

schemes Scem to spurn

This shell

urn,

haunt me, taunt me,

of mine, this empty

For

one by crash

one

I watch them

Most of the verses deal with the pathos and irony_which_patchwork And shiver into dust and ash. prison #fe. But Baillie-Stewart did Acid came into their place

During his visit in Italy the German Premier, General Goering, visited the famous Island shows the Premier with

of Capri. Picture Crown- prince Umberto of Italy making an

excursion on the island,

BLUEBIRD MAY TOUR EMPIRE

FAMOUS RACE CAR

"RETIRED"

London, Feb. 10. 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 trial and sentence.

ΟΙ might-have been and good In eight moving lines he crystal- intent

a man who has travelled faster

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

Many intriguing, fascinating shades names, along with

disgraced before his regiment. mind went back aver

For seeking truth and pure desire person? This is the problem of and

the Only to serve and brave the fire. Sir Malcolm Campbell, whose andri

details of his trial--and the poem "Tis farewell now to dreams of record-breaking Bluebird has "Marie Louise"

was

the result. new Morle Louise was a beautiful German Who graduate from leisured

just returned to England from patterns and designs, have

the Toronto Exhibition. Gone are those frothy flights of

fools

tioned during the trial. girl-the "mystery woman"-men- schools;

been introduced for spring These poems, most of them written thought

and summer wear, the New cell, give an unforgettable picture of Down through the abyss of my wouldn't race any more if I once got in the prison printing shop and his Which Masochism only brought, Sir Malcolm said, "The trouble is

In his dark eyes-pain, sullering England Retail Clothiers' a man who escaped from prison-in

not easily to be forgotten.

"Don't think prison is an easy place," said. "To a man with a sensitive nature, with feelings, It is loathsome. The punishment to a man's feelings is the work! hell

"The prison system-it could be riddled with eniileism. You've just got to take it.

"I was lucky. I made up my mind never to complain. J never while I was there...

did

"Part of my sentence I worked at carpentry. I loved it. Then I was one of three librarians. That was good, too,

"As such, I served out books to Leopold Harris and his brother David." (Leopold Harris brought from prison to give evidence against Miles].

Ayas

"For nine months they kept me at Wormwood Scrubs. Leopold Har- ris was at Maidstone. I suppose they wore afraid of our meeting.

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

"I looked at him-we passed on.

and Furnishers' Association

says.

Such colours as "burma," "dawn" gray, "Blueberry" blue, and dubon, not will make their appearance in summer suits and slacks. "Guards- man's blue," pulty, steel, rust, corn- flower blue. "Gloucester" green, eggshell, "sky cloud," "meadow tones," "cavalry arms" and bottle green will be new colours for shirts, Neckties will be available in all kinds of dazzling colours.

To be sartorially elegant the man of 1937 should wear

summer suit

of "dawn jay" or hurma" cont, with black tuxedo trousers. A maroon bow tie with cuff links to match worn with soft front, pleated white shirt. A red carnation must be worn in the buttonhole of the coat.

| poetry.

THE VOICE

With gratitude to Miss Marjorie Strett on her singing "My Hero," from "The Chocolate Soldier," in the chapel at Maidstone Prison. Softly a

voice played over me, lap- ping, caressing in

dreams, -for-a-moment-as Bitterness-passed-for

the melody's purging streams Washed

o'er the wounds of a lifetime sugging on aching thirst,

I had heard a million voices, but to

me this was the first Revealing in beauty, in sadness, those To Bve to the play of the senses in a things that are good on the earth.

Peter Pan joy of rebirth.

MARIE

LOUISE

Bright blue "blueberry" and du- bonnet colours are new in summer slacks, now called "sandbags."

In a sports

shirt he can wear a "jungle" shirt or a "knockabout" Girl of composite form I vow, shirt. There is "the Bolero, having You have made an ordinary bow a Russian effect, and is worn with To a world agog for news.

The M..S. have tried and failed,

All the time we have been in the slacks. It comes in shades of deep Staunch to dramatic methods nailed

lavender, bottle green and navy

we

mme prison we have never said a word to each other, though have passed cach olher many tlines.

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

of the

"Leopold Harris is part past, 100, which is over.

Perfect Prisoner

"I had my friends- Clarence Hatry, the perfect prisoner, quiet and charming; another man-I won't give you his name--whose marvel- Jous 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. I have lived for three years on por-)

satin.

bluc

And Edgar Wallace views.

and is made of broadcloth, silk and Clothed with maps and secret plans, Underwear and nightclothes will You scorn to ride in civil vans, be made from featherweight ma- Preferring a light tank. terla and will bear the names of You

a bayonet in your hat "clouds with a silver lining" and And keep a Bren gun at your flut "senweed.'

And own the whole Reichbank,

wear

Bath-Tub Murderer Curses His "Imitator"

New York, Feb. 15.

S John Fiorenza prepared to die in Sing Sing Jail 'to-day for the "bath-tub" murder of Nancy Evans Titterton Lust April ridge and bread. Couldn't face any-he cursed whoever was the murderer of Mary Case.

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

"The warders?

They are called "oulcers' 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! like it or not, to associate with men who may be the worst possible in- diuence on you. Imagine the effect of that on a comparatively innocent young man.

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

ance

Florenza moaned: "I thought something would save me, but that Case murder has turned everybody against me again. X shot my chances to hell.

Florenza will die in the electric chair at midnight (1 p.m. Hongkong time).

Mrs. Titterton was the wife of Yorkshire writer Lewis Titterton, Broadcasting Corporation. 50 who is an official of U.S.A.' National

Again, I was lucky. I was allowed to stay in my cell. from 5.30 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 a week by hard work and spend it on tobacco. I was smoker. I thought fourpence a week great pipe wouldn't help, so I didn't smoke at all in prison.

board for real cutlery and a white tablecloth with only just a gosp.

"That's the way of life, I suppose. I'm not squirming about anything." I drove Mr. and Mrs. Miles, happy as excited children trying not to show it, in a taxicab to the railway station,"

"Must buy a toothbrush," said Mr. Mites. "I left mine behind."

There," said his wife, and we could have sold it as a souvenir." I left them together in a train

uncon

"My wife brought me my pouch to-day-an old friend. But I'm go- bmpartment, still bravely Ing easy, or I shall make myself ill.cerned, even sitting in opposite seats.

"It's easy to drift back into the old way of living: London doesn't

But as the train which took them home drew out of the station Mrs. 300m so strange. At lunch-to-day 1 Miles had jumped over to her hus exchanged the tin mug and wooden

band's side.

FROG

FANCIERS ARRESTED

New Orleans, Feb. 15.

ALBERT Bract and his fellow

Frog Faneler, Sylvester Schutt, have been arrested here.

They were advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace of their frogs would, show a profit of £72,084,000,000..

Envenomed

mind,

tike thoughts

tortured spiral

ling wind Scream in their

L'OUTHC.

"I don't know what to do with it,"

that I promised Lady Campbell

shril-bove 300 miles an hour. That car was built to do 325 miles an hour, and 1 am convinced that with slight modifications, after my experience of the record run at the salt bed track In America, that it would do that.

"But here I am, with the record and the ear to break it, and I am out of the game for good. The ear no good to me: couldn't even drive it on a modern concrete arterial road without gelting 'run in' for half a-dozen offences against noise, ex-

And as they fail they gather force To rise again in mod ascent To that one alm on which is bent My utmost sum of vital strength And which

length,

I shall

*

oblain-at

is

DEGRADATION cessive amcke, or driving to the

public, danger. It will not do less "For He breaketh me with a than about seventy miles an hour in tempest and multiplieth my wounds

without cause."

Job IX, 17.

I saw a face at a window through

bars and a thick glass pane; The

face

was wan and sickly and grimaced as one inane.

top

gear.

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

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

hair made apparition ernzed;

British engineering. I would like to peered and peered at the form see it finish up in a museum, after

50 strange and drew my breath a tour of the Empire." amazed.

There in the clouded misty glass

was a face I knew too well;

The face was mine that glared at

me from in the punishment cell.

Strangest Boy in Britain

Free Churches At Coronation

-But Not At Service

The Free Churches will not taka part in the actual Coronation Ser- vice, It has been announced, but.slx representatives will be given places in the great procession and in the Sanctuary, where the Coronation takes place.

The representatives will be:- CAN'T READ, WRITE OR Council, the Rev. M. E. Aubrey; the The Moderntor of the Federal TALK-IN SCHOOL

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 Walters; the president of the Baptist. Conference, the Rev. C. Ensor. Laik, read or write the moment he Union, Mr. H. L. Taylor; the Modera gets in school.

Doctors are puzzled as to the tor of the Presbyterian Church of cause, and Worthing Town Council England, the Right Rov. 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 the boy, whose name is being kept Wales, Rev. E. J. Price, secret.

The case is described as almost unheard of, and some doctors say it is quite new. The boy is normally strong and healthy and

talk,

read, and write well.

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can

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

A doctor Bald to-day: often finds people whose system in so upset that forced into stammering, absoluta muteness quite now.",

EX-KAISER IN THE SHADOWS

Amsterdam, Feb. 15.

A great change has come over the fortunes of the ex-Kaiser. No longer Is Doorn a miniature Fotsdam, with. On German visitors paying homage to nervous wilhelm.

are

they

No longer is the 78-year-old ex- but thus Kaiser the proud, energetic exile. something He is now an old man whose depres-

sion causes anxiety to his friends.

Ho is depressed because the altua- 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 advising him to remain

the Throne,

U.S. NOSES MUST SHINE

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 time. Acting comptroller general R. N. Eillott warned employees they must and their practice of quitting 15 minutes early to "repair the washroom.”—United Press.

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He is hurt because Queen Wilhel royal wedding-although he sent mina did not invite him to the Dutch present to Princess. Juliana,.

a

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

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