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THE · HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937.

GAOL BALLADS OF "OFFICER IN TOWER

Story of His Tragedy Told in Verse

"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. not kicking."

I'm

one

Miles left jail with 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 in the evening for the South Coast where

Mrs.

Miles has kept a home going through

three years of waiting.

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

Mr. Miles to me.

Inished. My wife told me to

take my punishment

with *J*

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."

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Deprived of Rank Ex-Captain Brynmor Miles-be was deprived of his rank-nasks his feelings. Not once in a long to did he betray a deep emotion.

He is much slimmer than in February 1934, when sentenced at the Old Bailey for conspiring with Leopold Harris, and necepting bribes

from him. His hair de stl black, his moustache nently clipped.

is a young man still the is forty- one), but there is a something

In his dark eyes-poin, suffering not easily to be forgotten.

"Don't think prison is an easy' place," he said. To a man with sensitive nature, with feelings. it is loathsome. The punishment to a man's feelings is

the worst hell. "The prison system- could be riddled with enfticism, You've just got to take it.

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

THE DEVIL WILL BE

A SISSY

IN THESE SPRING CLOTHES

Strange Picture of Mystery Marie Louise

FOR THE OFFICER IN

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.

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

in

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

And rush to check their files.

in his cell that night he wrote on Oh, Amazon and deaths head vamp scrap of paper a poem of gratitude Men shiver at your tiny stump Miss Stretton. He called this poem The Volce." It appears below.

Thereafter he found consolation

ng his feeling in verse:

of these poems," gald Buille-Stewart, "were written when I was mentally in a condition of utter

morat bankruptcy.

"Wero il

They wonder now where you might

be

In England, France or Germany,

And marvel at your wiles.

IDEALS

Il not for this outlet in poetry I feel that I should

(What can replace that which is have lost my reason and sanity."

one forever?) So the collection of tiny paper Ideals born of boyhood, dreams scraps grew until the ex-officer hud

ΤΟΣ boyish visions, a vivid poetical record of prison fe.

plans and schemes He gave them the title "The Crab

to Serm Apple Tree,"

His Trial

Most of the verses dent with the pathos und irony which patchwork prison lite. But Balllie-Stewart did not shrink from writing of his own trial and sentence.

spurti

urn,

houst me, taunt me,

empty

them

one

Picture Crown-

During his visit in. Italy the German famous island of Capri, Premier, General Goering, visited the shows the Premier with prince Umberto of Italy making an excursion on the island.

BLUEBIRD MAY TOUR EMPIRE

FAMOUS RACE CAR

"RETIRED"

This shell of mine, this

For ane by

I watch crash And shiver into dust and psl.

London, Feb. 10. Aeld enme into their place

What is the use of a car And mouldered surely every trace capable of 300 miles an hour to

might-have been, and good

a man who has travelled faster

or

intent

In eight moving lines lie crystal- shed the feelings of an officer who is And every natural trend or bent on land than any other living disgraced before his regiment. For secking truth and pure desire person? This is the problem of His mind went back over the Only to serve and brave the fire. Sir Malcolm Campbell, whose details of his trial-and the poema "Tis farewell now to dreams of record-breaking Bluebird "Marle Louise" new Marie Louise was a beautiful German Who graduate from leisured just returned to England from

the Toronto Exhibition,

and

and

Boston, Feb. 10. It's going to be a colour- ful spring-in men's clothing.

Many intriguing fascinating shades names, along with patterns and designs, have been introduced for spring and summer wear, the New England Retail Clothiers' and Furnishers' Association

says.

dithell,

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

+

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

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

For nine months they kept mej at Wormwood Scrubs, Leopold Har- ris was a Maidstone. I suppose they were 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. All the time we have been in the same prison we have never said n word to each other, though have passed cach other tany times.

for

We

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

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

Perfect Prisoner

had my

friends-Clarence Hairy, the perfect prisoner, quiet and charming; another man-I won't give you his name-whose marvel- lous sense of humour saved from desperation.

me

We laughed at

all sorts of things together when we might have enied otherwise.

"The food? Unbelievably bad. t

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 literate, brutal, stupid men.

"One idiotic practice-an hour to an hour and a half in 'hall, the height of privilege. cach night. There you are forced, whether you like it or not, to associate with men who may be the worst possible in- fluence on you. Imagine the effect of that on a patively Innocent young man.

"Again, was lucky. I was allowed to stay in my cell. from 6.30 till 10 p.m. every night I was in isolation."

the

I

"It was reading, reading alt 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 fournence a week by hard work and spend 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,

"My wife brought me my pouch to-day-an old friend. But I'm go- Ing easy, or I shall make myself i "It's easy to drift back Into me old way of living. London doesn't stem so strange. At lunch to-day I exchanged the tin mug and wooden

u luciles

burma." "dawn"

Such colours gray. "blueberry" blue, and dubon-İ net will make their appearance in summer suits and slacks. "Guards" man's blue,"

putty, steel, rust, corn-

"Gloucester" flower

green, "meadow old" cavalry armg" 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 1037 should

should wear a summer suit "dawn gray" or of "da

or burma" coat, with black tuxedo trousers. A maroon bow the with cuff links to match worn with a soft front, pleated white

A red carnation shirt. worn in the buttonhole of the coat.

Bright blue "blueberry" and dụ- ixonnel colours are new in

summer

muust

slacks, now called "sandbags,"

be

In a sports shirt he can wear a

THE

the was

restilt,

VOICE

fonts

mind.

Scream ini their tortured

course.

And as they fall they gather force To rise again in mad ascent

My utmost sum

has

the mystery woman-men- schools:

during the trini.

Gone are those frothy flights of These poenis, most of them written thought

"I don't know what to do with :," in the prison printing shop and his Which Masochism cell, give an unforgettable picture of Down through

only brought. Sir Malcolm said. "The trouble is the abyss of my

that I promised Lady Campbell 1 man who escaped from prison-in

wouldn't race any more if I once gol poetry,

Envenoned thoughts like

shri- above 300 miles an hour. That cur ling wind

was built to do 325 miles an hour, and I am convinced that with slight spiral modifications, after

my experience of the record run at the salt bed track In America, that it would do that, To that one aim on which is bent and the car to break it, and I am "But here I am, with the record of vital strength out of the game

shali

for goud.

The Car obtain-at 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 poise, ex- cessive smoke, or driving-to-the- public danger. It will not do less "For He breaketh me with athan about seventy miles

an hour in Iempest and multiplieth my wounds top gear. without cause."

"I wouldn't like anyone to race it. Only four people have sat 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 moment' as

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

ping, caressing in dreams, Bitterness passed for washed o'er the wounds of a lifetime

the melody's parging streams

on aching thirst. 'suaging an had heard a million voices, but to me this was the first Revealing in beauty, in sadness, those To live to the play of the senses in a

things that are good on the earth-I

Peter Pan joy of rebirth.

And which

length.

•

MARIE LOUISE

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"jungle" shirt or a "knockabout" Girl of composite form I vow,

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

To a world ugog fór news. Russian effect, and is worn with

satin.

stacks. It comes in shades of deep The M.IS. have tried and falled, lavender, bottle green and navy blue Staunch to dramatic methods nailed and is made of broadcloth, silk and Clothed with maps and secret plans.

And Edgar Wallace views,

Underwear, and nightclothes will You scorn to ride in civil vans, be made from featherweight mu- Preferring a light 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 But "seaweed."

And own the whole Reichbank.

Bath-Tub Murderer Curses His "Imitator"

New York, Feb. 15.

AS John Florenza prepared to die in Sing Sing Jail to-day for he cursed whoever was the murderer of Mary Case.

the “bath-tub" murder of Nancy Evans Titterton last April

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

Florenza moaned: "I once thought something would save me,' but that Caso murder has turned everybody, ngalast mo again. It shot my chances to hell. Fiorenza will die in the electric chale at midnight (1 p.m. Hongkong time).

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

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. Miles.

"Must buy a toothbrush,"

sald Mr. "I lett mine behind." There," said his wife, and wo could have sold it as a souvenir.! I left them together in a train compartment, stiil bravely uncon- cerned, even sliting in opposite seats. But as the train. which toole them home drew out of the station Mrs. Miles had jumped over to her hus band's side,

FROG

FANCIERS ARRESTED

New Orleans, Feb. 15.

ALBERT Broel and his fellow

Frog

Fancier. Sylvester Schult, have been arrested here.

They were adverilsing that their froga would lay 25,000 CREW A year, that in 13 years a 'brace of their frogs would show a profit of £72,084,000,000.

DEGRADATION-

Job IX, 17..

saw a face ut a window through bars and a thick glass pane;

Wos wan and sickly

one inane,

The

face

and grimaced as

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

hair made apparition crazed;

peered and peered at the form

British engineering: I would like to see it inish up in a museum; after so 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 glored ut

me from in the punishment cell. Free Churches

Strangest Boy in Britain

CAN'T READ, WRITE OR TALK-IN SCHOOL

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 Sanotuary, where the Coronation takes place.

The representatives will be:- The Moderator of the Federal Council, the Rev. M. E. Aubrey; the president of the National Free! Church Counell, the Rev. James Col- No matter how hard he tries, a 10-ville; the president of the Methodist

yeur-old boy here is unable to Conference, the Rev. C

Еплог falk, read or write the moment lie Walters; the president of the Baptist Fets in school.

Union, Mr. H. L. Taylor; the Modera- Doctors are puzzled us 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,

the 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 can talk, read, and write well..

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The cause of his complaint is belleved shock, which doctors think he may have received wiser ha was very young.

EX-KAISER IN THE SHADOWS

Amsterdam, Feb. 15, A great change has come over the fortunes of the ex-Kalser. No longer is Doorn a miniature Potsdam, with "Onc

German visitors paying homage to nervous Wilhelm.

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

fre

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

exile. 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 audiention of Edward VIII, to whom he is reported to have written. advising him to

remain on the

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 comptrollor general R. N. Elliott warned employees they must end their practice of quitting 15 minutes early to "repair the washroom."-United Press,

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,

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

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