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·THE | HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28; 1938.

Personalities of Old Hongkong

HONGKONG'S GREAT CONTROVERSY OVER FLOGGINGS WITH THE "CAT"

CONVICT WHO RECEIVED 239. LASHES IN GAOL

By T. Paul Gregory

A CONVICT now in Stanley Prison, serving a twelve

year term for armed robbery, was recently strapped to the triangle and given twelve lashes with the "cat-o'. nine-tails."

Twelve lashes is the maximum punishment now allowable under Hongkong law.

In the not so distant past, however, punishments of thirty, sixty and ninety lashes were not infrequent.

One Hongkong prisoner received altogether a total who received 239 (aslies in H.K. gaois, of 239 lashes, one of the most barbaric series of sentences

LEE AH-YEE

Insurgents On

New Drive Near Huesca

City Practically Surrounded By Loyalists Still

Bulletin.

Saragosso, Mar. 22.

STRIKE ON 20.MILE FRONT

Aragon, Mar. 22. Three hours of intense artillery fire and aviation bombardment preceded the Insurgent attack at 5.30 p.m. to- day north-west of Huesca, on a 20- mile front.

The attack broke, the Loyalist lines.

fever inflicted on a prisoner in this Colony.

During the Governorship of Sir John Pope Hennessy, the European residents of Hongkong debated

question of floggings with acrimonious conviction.

the

The subject became one that led almost to a crisis.

"Flogging is a barbaric institution and should be abolished," said the Governor.

"If whipping is done away with, how are we going to keep local malefactors in check?" asked his opponents. The Governor was confessedly were grossly exaggerated and in a dilemma, but being diplo-there were no harmful effects what- matic as well as an "advanced" ever.

DOYEN OF PROFESSION

DR. P. B. C. AYRES

King Drops Independence Legislation

Is

Popular Opinion Against Withdrawal From Philippines

that

1

Washington, Mar. 22.

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7.55 Closing local Stock Quota-

immediate indepen-Remin

Julie

And

8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Senator William 11. King told the Report and Announcements. United Presa to-day that as a result 8.03 Studio Revival of Some Old The new Insurgent drive is be-liberal, he did not press his point IN BATCHES OF THIRTY

of the Manila reparts indicating that Popular Songs by J.C.M.G. gun near Hausen, which for many until he had sought the opinion

In evidence of their statement, they sentiment had changed, he had “al-C.I.A.II. Continued. months, has been almost surrounded of the medical profession, and cited the punishment meted out to a tered its recent decision to introduer 8.30

Relay Music-Hall by Government forces. Reuter with this end in view, he ap-notorious. Hongkong criminal of the legislation for

a Commission, whose late sixties and early 'seventies, a dence of the Philippines. pointed

Empite Orchestra: Chinese named Lee Ah-yce. The re-

Leader, Leonard Hirsch; Conducted awaited with the cord of this individual may report was

be of He denied that Senator Key Pitt-by Heiliwell: Colleen Clifford First of interest to readers and it is greatest of interest.

conse- man's advocacy of a re-examination

John Rorke (Baritone); all, however, Sir John consulted quently appended here:

of the political status of the Philip Orchestra: March, Old Comrades with the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. "First sentenced April 10, 1985 to pines, and Mr. Paul V. McNutt's (Telke). Overture. Orplic

Orpheus in the (Offenbach); four years' imprisonment with hard statement on the same question, had Underworld

Colleen P. B. C. Ayres.

labour for daylight robbery and as actually affected his decision.

Clifford And Orchestra: My Lady lie. Jewel (Harry sault. Released on July 27, 1808,

Lu (Edwin Drill), but in breach of the conditional par- to satisfy what I haught

He added: "My only purpose was Dr. Ayres was perhaps the dopen don

was the Dacre), The Honeysuckle and the sent to

Bee

(William Penn): Orchestra: In several places, and the Insurgents of his profession in the Enst, and his pen he had received, wa

majority sentiment of the Filipino Selection prison again, where he effected gains of several mites from

of Marie Lloyd's Songs remained

people. Since then I have received (arr, Le Brun): Colleen Clifford, John Lierta United any years of experience in both until February 20, 1871. On Penbola towards

April India and China qualified him to 20, 1871, he

he was sentenced in seven

such conflicting reports that I decided forke, and Orchestra: Dinah, Press.

to abandon the project completely Moon am Shinin' (Stromberg), Coo- speak with authority; for his position years' imprisonment

and ninely of Colonial Surgeon and medical

strokes of the "eat" for a murderous for the time-being.

ee-co (Scott Mackenzie), Hello, my examiner of the inmates of the gaol assault on

"I know

that sometimes Japan a warder. Received a brought him into contact with

the

and Emerson);,

n); Orchestra: Waltz, hundreds of Chinese and the bandful the recommendation of

free pardon on October 27, 1870 on looks covetously at the Philippines. Baby (The Runaway Girl (Howard

This fact uppeals to me of Europeans who were incarcerated Supt. of Police and finally deported from the Philippines at the present, fit yer very well (Charles Yorke).

Capt.

so strongly Toreador (Popplewell Royle); John that I would not advocate withdrawal Rorke and Orchestra: Yer at don't there.

from the Colony for five years on

unless I am assured that an November 11, 1870."

over When There Isn't a Girl About (Cast- familiar and highly respected one in During this man's imprisonment he Weiming number of Filipinos desired ing and Collins). We All Go the Same Way Home (Harry Castling); the Colony from the late 'seventies to received 239 lashes on

Senator King's announcement 18 Orchestra: Selection, Veterans of the early nineties, but It is un-back with the regulation "eat" by regarded as a significant indication Variety (arr. Pether, orch. Bates). fortunate that there are ttle blo-order of the Supreme Court for of the gradually changing United 9.30 London Relay The News

INSURGENTS CAIN MORE POSITIONS

Hendaye, Mar. 22.

The Insurgents consolidated their positions in a anal assault on Gan- desa, and advanced by sharp guerilla attacks, the fiercest of which was at Raimundo, where, the Insurgents claim, they took several important positions.

Heavy Loyalist reinforcements apparently stopped the Insurgents" large scale movements,

Insurgents planes avolded Baruc- lona to-day and bombed east coast towns in preparation for further ad- vances-United Press.

Japanese Take Junk Men's Possessions

Women Found Safe In Looted Craft

"Hongkong to the

Another seizure of Oshing Junk was reported police yesterday.

Chan Choi-lin, the junk stated that he left Castle Pesk with

p.m. on March 21.

30 persons on board his vessel at 5

alongside and put on board the junk

a number of sailors.

All the occupants of the junk, with the exception of Chan's mother, wife and grand-daughter, were put off in

The name of Dr. Ayres was

♫

graphical data concerning his life:

Even the date of his birth is more or less conjectural, but it is thought that he was born in England about the year 1825.

He was past filty when, in 1877, the first mention of his name to any great

length occurs in the chronicles of the Colony. That WRI in connection with the subject of flogging of con-

victed prisoners, the question which Was so assiduously investigated under the aegis of Sir John Pope Hennessy

candia was due to Dr. Ayres' opinions that

was not dogging abolished in toto, notwithstanding the ardent wishes of the Governor; but the t practice as carried out in the Colony was deprived of much of its reprehensible effects, and whilst is still a potent element of criminal procedure, it is not

fearsome punishment of the past. PUBLIC FLOCGINGS

the

it

It must be understood that, previous to 1878, floggings were administered;

the

bared

prison offences. The list and num-States

uinely Press.

"Lee Ah-yee received lashes in three Instalments in 1871.

by order of the Supreme Court"

"Loo Ah-yee received nluety

ac

sentiment regarding the 9.50 Songs by Miliza Korjus ber of the strokes are as follow: Philippines political status-United | (Soprano),

Funiculi-Funicula

text (Denza, Zanardini); La Danza (Rossini).

10.0 Viennese Waltzes. My Darling (The Gipsy Baron' J. Strauss)....Berlin State Opera Orchestra conducted by Dr. Lee Blech; Blue Danbe (Strousa): Vienna Blood (Strauss)....De Groot & The Piccadilly Orch.

lashes in three instalments in 1873, Sultan To Pay

by order of the Supreme Court."

eleven State

"Lee Ah-yee received lashes at one time in 1871. for prison offences."

"Lee Ah-yee received thirty-six Lastics at one time In 1872, for prison offences.”

"Lee

Al-yee received twelve: lashes at one time in 1874. For prison offences.”

To this formidabic list of evidence,t the Medical Committee nded suc- einetly, "his (Lee Ah-yee's) series of floggings do not appear to have had the least effect on him." ABOLITION FAILS

In view of the weight of such Im- John Pope

more

Visit To England

and

London. Mar. 22. The Sultan of Muscat Oman left New York to-day for England in the Queen Mary and is due in Southampton on March 28. His Elghness will be a guest of His Majesty's Government for a period of

be

fortnight. He will

lias

received in audience by the

and a programme

King a

to

been

arranged which will enable him see various aspects of the National life of Britain, includ- ing the daily work of the fight- ing services-British Wireless..

10.15 Variety Numbers. Vocal-I'm In The Mood For Love (From 'Every night at eight'); I Wished On The Moon (From The

Broadcast of 1930')..

Lanny

Big

Ross with Orch. Accomp.; Plano Solo Melodies Of The Month, No. R.9

Wilbur with Rhythmn Ac

Humerous-Grub

companiment;

(Crick-Handley-Frankou); Music (Crick-Handley-Frankau)... Mur- gatroyd & Winterbottom (Two minds with not a single thought) with Monte Crick at the Piano.

10.35 London Relay-The Lin

coln'

A commentary on the Lincolnshire Handicap from Carholme, Lincoln,

10,50 Dance Music.

Piano Solo-Rosetta-Slow Fox- Trot (Hines-Woode); Wabash Blues Quickstep (Meinken)....Gerry

In public every Wednesday and the

the partial evidence, Sir master, Instrument of punishment was

regulation "cat o'nine lails," delivered Hennessy was unsuccessful in his with horrible effect upon the bared efforts to abolish flogging, but he did While fishing off back of the prisoner, who was strung manage to incorporate the ideas of though opium-smokers usually lost a Moore, with String. Bass & Drums Sho Chau, a Japanese vessel came up to the whipping-post. Since 1878, Dr. Ayres in the administration of few pounds in weight after entering under the supervision of Victor Sil- however, loggings, when they do such punishment, and floggings on prison, they easily and speedily reyester; Orchestra-I Still Love To occur, are carried out discreetly in the bared back were limited to twelve gained the lost poundage, owing to Kiss You the confines of the geol.

Goodnight-Fox-Trot inslies and were more or re the good food and regimen available (From '32nd Street')....Carroll Gib- In advocating his conviction that placed by the

hurinne and

and in gaol, so that it was unnecessary bons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans whilst flogging should be retained as equally successful deterrent in the for any special medical treatment. with vocal chorus. the junk's sampan and told to row

a means of punishment, it should not form of "canings" which are the res

11,0 Close Down. upon. the The junk was taken in tow be done with the "eat"

comised procedure to this day for DEATH CAUSES FURORE away. by the Japanese worship, which bared back, Dr. Ayres stated: "In bag-snatchers and other

of felons

On one ocasion, however, an opium steamed off in the direction of India fogging is always done upon this type.

JEWELLERY MISSING addict died in prison and the Anti- Taishan.

the breech, with a four-foot-rattan os After the flogging agitation bad Opium Society made a great deal of thick as a man's fore-finger. I have been settled, Dr. Ayres remained in fuss over the incident. Dr.

The loss of $80 worth of jewellery never, in eight year's

Ayres from her residence, in Prince Edward experience, comparative obscurity, although he proved equal to the occasion, and Road, some time between November sampun was sighted by No. 3 Police seen any worse effects than the in- was broke into print once more to a great deal of pains to prove that reported to the police by Mrs. Mc- by no means Inactive: About with his characteristic assiduity went last year and yesterday, has been Jury done to the skin."

1880, he Moreover, he was emphatic in his on account of his studied hostility to amongst the hundreds of opium declaration that floggings nd the then active Anti-Oplum Society, smokers who were passing through ministered to Chinese prisoners in which numbered amongst its

aders

the portals of the gaol during all the the gao! from 1808-1877 were dis-herents. Dr. G. J. Kerr,

years since he had been the medien tinctly harmful, as he claimed that American missionary of Canton.

examiner, this was the first death the Oriental felon on account of

It was Dr. Kerr's contention that which could be said to be due to his slighter build could not endure the the use of oplum was extremely de- narcotic, poisoning. Therefore, hc Infiction of the lash upon his bared leterious, and that drug addicts con- took umbrage at the attitude of his back as well as a European, who fined to prison suffered the pangs of crities and slated bluntly in so many he thought, constitutionally more heli when compelled to forego their words that the Anti-Opium Society able to suffer punishment with the daily "smoke."

were

rumpu minimum of ill effects.

About 11 pm, the same day, the

launch, and Chan reported the in cident. At dawn yesterday, the junk Was discovered off Tungku, which is west of Castle Peak, with the two women and girl safe on board,

Money, jewellery and fish to the total value of $430 were taken by the raider, and four muskels which had formerly been among the junk's arms wero also found to be missing.

JAPAN MAY IMPORT

MEXICAN OIL

WIN

B

veteran

Dr. Ayres, on the contrary, argued over nothing up a devil of

Colory

At length, the Medical Committee | that in his honest opinion oplum was

of Dr. Ayres' careou in. appointed by the Governor made ita no more harmful · than tobacco, the

Is that he was an excep- long expected report. Strange as it splits, or even beer. He seemed to tionally conscientious official and an may appear, the learned members take especial delight in this state- indefatigable worker in the intereals Mexico, City, Mar. 23. did not bear out the testimony of ment and repeated without of

it

of the public welfare. He did, much The Japanese Government Is their colleague, Dr. Ayres, but what equivocalion year after year in his for Hongkong, and being a versatile studying the possiblity of Importing they said was entirely to the con annual reports, bearing it out with writer, his annual reports are full of the production of Mexican oil fields, trary. Indeed, they solemnly at a mass of interesting statistics in interest. The Colony owes him a according to messages from Tokyo,firmed that they were of the support of his theory,

debt of gratitudo which la perhaps

· Reuter,

conviction that the evils of fogging" · "The gist of his thesis was that al-istill realised.

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