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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

JANUARY 8,

1938.

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TORTURE WHILE AWAITING TRIAL

Buy Plan To Coney Island

For

A

The

People

From Robert Wallħman

New York.

PLAN to spend nearly £3,500,000 in converting Coney Island and two other popular beaches into city-owned resorts, has been placed before Mayor La Guardia by Mr. Robert Moses, New York Parks Commissioner.

The scheme, which aims at making amusement cheaper, cleaner and healthier than under private enter prise, involves the purchase of land in Coney Island, Rockaway, and South Beach, and the demolition of a

· ́jungle of entertainment houses which, long past their prime, have been deteriorating for years.

In their place Mr. Moses envisages long, wide boulevards flanking the beach, with a well-planned lay-out of sideshows, theatres, swimining pools, and parking grounds.

"The old Coney Island has gone

FOR THE POOR

foresight had left private interests in "People want

mechanical control of these resorts. amusement and more healthy, out- door recreation," he says.

"The beaches must cater for those in its place." with little money to spend. Lack of

and something different must grow

He wants the new Coney Island to

Save in

Pilot Saves

Air-Liner By "Instinct"

Imperial Airways' giant air- Iner Horatius, with Miss Ellen Wilkinson and 20 other passe21~ gers on board, escaped disaster by three minutes—and the pilot's Instinct over the English Chan- nel recently.

The place became heavily charged with state electricity on its way to Croydon. The pilot, Captain A. 13. wind in the acrial.

H. Youell, told the radio operator to

in

Three minutes inter the electricity the plane discharged into a cloud with a vivid blue Bash, tearing a foot hole in the port wing fabric and chorring a strut.

have better transport facilities and to attrael all-the-year-round custom.

It is probable that private in- terests will attempt to kill the plan, but Mr. Moses has fought and besten obstructionista before. Educated at Oxford, he has won

the admiration of New York by my attempts to make life more plensant for the poor.

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Really Horrible Scandal in

Some Countries

-Miss Margery Fry MISS MARGERY FRY, the famous social reformer, has returned to London after a two-months' tour of the prisons of Bulgaria, Rumanin, Yugo-Slavia and Hungary.

"My travels confirmed me in the view that the treat- ment of persons awaiting trial-in some countries a really horrible scandal-is the weakest point in the chain of justice throughout the world," she told a News Chronicle reporter recently at her house in Holland Park.

Miss Fry was accompanied by Mrs. Rackham, Labour member of the City Council of Cambridge, and Professor Kimberg and his wife. Professor Kimberg is official psy- chiatrist in the medical service of the Swedish prison department.

POLITICAL PRISON BAN

In no case, sald Miss Fry, were they allowed to see political prisons. Some 32 prisons or institutions for young delinquents were visited.

In Bulgaria they learned that a well-known citizen had been in the police cells for a month while await- ing trial. Even his wife, doctor und Jawyer were refused permission to: see him. The only news of him was from released prisoners.

other persona.

SOVIET

NAVAL

POWER

"BIGGEST FLEET OF SUBMARINES"

BY HECTOR C: BYWATER, An astonishing report on the

“It is common knowledge" la naval power of Soviet Russia Miss Fry, "that men awaiting triail has just been published in Ber are sometimes Ul-used to obtain in on the authority of the Ger- confessions от evidence against man Admiralty. It states that: Russia already possesses the

flect largest submarine

in the world:

A big programme of other con- struction--heavy cruisers, fast light cruisers, destroyers, and other cruft is in hand, with several 35,000- ton battleships projected; and

"In most countries It is the duty of the police to obtain prima facie evi- dence to show why a trial should be held. It does not, to our ideas, seem wise that the police should also have the custody of the accused during this period."

WITHOUT TRIAL

In Yugo-Slavia, it was found, off- cials may send people accused of minor offences to the police prisons without trial before a magistrate for period up to two months.

New naval basca of the first rank have recently been created in Far Enstern and European waters.

there are now in the Baltic and the According to the German report, White Sea 10 large, 30 medium, and 25 small submarine; in the Black Sen 30, and in the Far East 50 bouts of The cruelties practised In many various sizes, making a total of 151 countries on untried prisoners can

submarines. Italy, with 108 boats only be removed, like the scandal of built and building, has hitherto been slavery, Miss Fry belleves, when all people of decent good will throughout credited with the largest undersen

feet.

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The resolution passed at the recent Assembly of the League of Nations

The report further states that the inquiring into the laws which are supposed to protect such persons building of submarines is still going of several "A" class against the use of violence or other on, as is that constrain had drawn the eyes of the cruisers armed with guns exceeding a number world to this grave evil. Miss Fry Gin-probably 7.1in--nnd herself, helped by Professor Mann- of very big flotilla leaders, one of heim, of the School of Economics, which, the 3,500-ion Tashkent, has made a first attempt to collect launched from an Italian yard this

week. Miss Fry has the highest praise for It is pointed out that by a special the ploncer work of Miss Gertrude clause in the Anglo-Russian naval Eaton, who first aroused international agreement of July, 1937, the Soviet Government, may be relieved of the interest in the problem.

hopeful

obligation of furnishing information $5.90- sign is that through the about the strength of its Far Eastern Association Juridique of Paris, late or naval forces. Berlin, the interest of the lawyers of The world has been aroused. All

these laws.

A great programme of naval base development is asserted to be well

other societies in touch with the advanced. The island of Kotiin, in League are being asked to discuss the Gulf of Finland, is now equipped the matter at an early date.

with up-to-date fortifications and Meantime Miss Fry will be grate-W ful for any facts in regard to the the report

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In the Far East Valdivostok has been transformed into a thoroughly modern naval stronghold. But remote both from the open sen and the Manchukuo frontier, and therefore beyond reach of surprise attack, an entirely new Baval base has been established at Komsomolsk, on the Amur River.

BALTIC-ATLANTIC LINK

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Another new fleet base has been built at Pollarnole on the White Sea, not far from Murmansk. Here, it is stated, a large dockyard has been founded, and thanks to

curreni from the Gulf Stream the new por SCHOOLBOY ROMANCE HAS remain navigable even in winter. BEEN OUT-POINTED BY THE The canal now connecting the Gulf 'EXPLOITS OF RADOVAN SA-of Finland with the White Sea will transfer MARDJICH, WHO ARRIVED AT enable Russia secretly to

light naval forces, such as submarines THE DALMATIAN PORT OF and destroyers, from the Baltic to the SPLIT AFTER BEING GIVEN UP Atlontle, at least during the summer, FOR DEAD.

I is added.

If the statements and figures con-

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Bre

A young Montenegrin, unemployed tained in this German report and not wishing to be a burden to his accurate the Soviet navy has already parents, Radovan stowed away in the become a formidable factor. As re- Jugoslav timber freighter Rozina To- gards the number of Russian sub- pic.

marines I was informed early this

One night he disappeared over-year on excellent authority that there board in mid-Adriatic, He was re-were then between 40 and 50 bonts ported missing, and his death at at Vladivostock alone, and that the

sea was assumed,

CLINGING TO RAFT

Weeks later, Italian acamen calling at Split reported how they had res- cued a drenched, exhausted figure clinging to a crude raft.

He told them, they said, that he was three days without food and water on his raft and was washed up On one of the uninhabited islands of the Dalmatian archipelago.

Ile eventually launched his frail raft ogoln, but currents' carried the raft farther out to sea, and for three clays Radovan drifted to and fro,

PROTECTING HOME

INDUSTRIES

Wellington.

Estructural parts of new submarines were periodically arriving at this base by the Trans-Siberian Railway, ady to be assembled in the local dockyard.

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A promise that the Government Dr. Leipaldi, who thinks wine fa would shortly take action to protect better, is advertising for twins for industries the test, Ono will have milk rations, New Zealand secondary was given to Canterbury manufac- the other wine rations. Otherwise turers to-day by Mt. D. G. Sullivan, they will live under lite samn con- Minister of Industries, and Hallways, ditions.

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