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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23,

1938,

Personalities of Old Hongkong

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

LEE AH-YEE

CONVICT WHO RECEIVED 239 LASHES IN GAOL

A

By T. Paul Gregory

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 twho received 239 lashes in H.K. gaots, of 239 lashes, one of the most barbaric series of sentences

ever inflicted on a prisoner in this Colony.

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San Diego, Cal.

The safest seaplane base in the entire Pacific Ocean is the harbour of Pago Pago, in Ameri- can Samoa, near which the Pan-American Samoan Clipper recently exploded and was lost with all hands.

Commander Thomas Kirkpatrick, U.S.N., who recently returned here after a tour of duty on the South Sea possession of the United States, sald the little island of Tutulla also is strategically important from a military standpoint,

DR. T. B. C. AYRES

During the Governorship of Sir John Pope Hennessy, Boy Who Will 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.

report was awaited with the greatest of interest. First of all, however, Sir John consulted with the Colonial Surgeon, Dr.

He pointed out it is equal-distant P. B. C. Ayres.

from Yokohama and Manila, and 4,000 miles from San Diego.

DOYEN OF PROFESSION

soever,

IN BATCHES OF THIRTY

Become A "Twin"

Washington.

science to make him a Siamese A 16-year-old boy has allowed twin to enable a 13-year-old girl

be of ago. conse-

RADIO BROADCAST

Old Popular Songs Revival From the Studio

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of 848 .c's; 9.52 m.e's. per second.

H.K.T.

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from

John's St. Cathedral.

12.30 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra & Charles Kallman (Tenor).

Stradella-Overture (von Flotow- arr. Balfour)....Orchestra conduct- ed by Sir Dan Godfrey; The World ls Mine To Night. (Marvell & Pos- ford): By The Dark Lagoon (Badde ley & & Leigh).... Charles Kullman; Love, Here is My Heart (Ross Silesu). Ch

..Charles Kullman; Three Country Dances From Nell Gwyn: 1. Dance, 2: Pastoral Dance, 3. Merry- Dance; Chanson Triste makterg

arr. Stewart).... (Tschaikowsky, Orchestra conducted by Sir Dan God- frey

1.0 Local Time Signol and Weather Report,

1.03

(Tenor)

Georges Thili

&

1.30 Router & Rugby Press, Wen-

1.40 Schabert Planoforte Quintet In A Major ("Trout" Quintet Op. TE . Dr. R. E. Morgan sald the children

Played by William Backhaus with were "doing well." He hoped that Mangeot-Violin, Howard-Viola, Clara would emerge from it a nor-Withers Cello and Hobday - mal human being,

Double-Buss.

2.15 Close Down.

•

Orchestre Symphonique de Paris.

Musette Et Tambourin (Rameau) Orchestra conducted by Francois

Norwegian Ruhlmann;

Rhapsody Orchestre conducted by The Governor was confessedly were grossly exaggerated and that to become a normal human be- (Lalo)

Pierre Chagnon; La Damnation De

A Faust-Invocation

La Naturc in a dilemma, but being diplo there were no harmful effects what-ing. matic as well as an "advanced"

An

(Berlioz); Werther-O Nature Plcino 18-inch tube of flesh made John

and liberal, he did not press his point

Melvin Bonner

Clara De Grace (Massenet) Georges Thill; until he had sought the opinion

Howard one individual. The opera-Orphee Et Eurydice-Ballet (Gluck) In evidence of their statement, they tion linking the two negro children,

....Orchestra cond. by M. Elle of the medical profession, and cited the punishment meted out to a if successful will enable surgeons to

Cohen. with this end in view, he ap- notorious Hongkong criminal of the graft new skin on the body of the pointed a Commission, whose late sixties and carly seventies, a girl to replace flesh scared by a Brether Forecast and Announcements.

cord of this individual may Chinese named Lee Ah-yce. The re-in North Carolina more than a year interest to readers and it is quently appended here:

"First sentenced April 10, 1805 to four years imprisonment with hard labour for daylight robbery and as- sault. Released on July 27,

1808,

The girl was scared by the fre.

6.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. but in breach of the conditional par- Her Resh was burned so desperately

7.0 De Groot & His Orchestra. Dr. Ayres was perhaps the doyen don he had received, was

said she couldn't re- sent to that doctors

"The Waliz Dream' Selection of his profession in the East, and his

prison again, where he

the remained cover. She did recover but

(0. Straus)....Orchestra; Destiny many years of experience in both until February 20, 1971. On April flames left her body a mass of sear (Baynes)....Orchestra; Waldteufel India and China qualified him to

1871, he beak with authority; for his position years

20,

was sentenced to seven tissue, so extensive that her right Memories (Arr. Finck)....Orchestra. imprisonment and of Colonial Surgeon and medical strokes of the "cat" for a

ninety arm was joined to her body.

7.15 London Relay-Take Your murderous Surgeons were able to replace a

Choice. not oblain passports

2 warder. Received a portion of the seared skin in grafting.

entertainment feature brought him into contact with

A weekly them to visit

free pardon on October 27, 1870 on operations. But the major transfer presented by William MacLurg: 'In-

recommendation of ever, the naval officer added, this

the Capt. of skin necessary to restore her to traduction The Singers

with the Supt. of Folice and finally deported normal required linking her with Orchestra; 'Inspector Sharp Takes up situation causes no concern in the islands, where he pictured a race so

from the Colony for five years

skin-donor to permit his blood the Case by the Melluish Brothers; contented with their existence they

The name of Dr. Ayres

November 11, 1870."

stream to join with hers and enable 5: The Case of

No.

of the Balled have no desire to go to other places.. familiar and highly respected one in During this man's imprisonment he a graft of 24 ounces of flesh..

Bridegroom: *Songs It was not until 1929,

the bared Young Bonner volunteered. Since Each week a well-known artist ometal-the early nineties, but it is un-back with the regulation "cat" by last November, the two children the stage or music-halls will come to ly under the jurisdiction of the fortunate that there are little bio- order of the Supreme Court for have been in emergency hospital United States, although this country graphical data concerning his life.

The prison offences. The list and num- preparing for the operation, the microphone to sing for you; "The

Spinner Death Episode 12: has carried on administrative and

geons slit his side in an 18-inch cut, Showdown: An adventure serial by protective work there

almost from

rolled the flesh into a tube and al- Franklyn Kelsey, introducing Jim the time of the first exploration by

Ah-yee received ninety lowed the tubo to hang loosely from Travers and his friends, Terence Lashes in three instalments in 1871, his body, connected to his bloodsteamer character, Mr. Silan; 'Yours a U. S. Navy party in 1839.

and the O'Malley and Jeremiah, by order of the Supreme Court."only at its extremities.

"Leo Ah-yeo

Sincerely-The Orchestra.

Kirkpatrick, who In addition to other duties, served as superinten- dent of the public schools in Tutuila, said native Samoans, in a sense, are a people without a country.

can-

They are not citizens of the, speak United States, and, as permitting examiner of the inmates of the gaol assault on

other lands. How hundreds of Chinese and the handful of Europeans who were incarcerated

there.

was

a

Baid, that Samea was placer Patrick the Colony from the late 'seventies to received 239 Inshes on

The first American consular office was established in the islands In 1853, and in 1872 the navy establish- ed a definite base at Pago Pago.

The governor of the island, with Its population

pulation of 1,100 natives, in an of approximately 76 square commandant of the miles, is the naval station.

area

Even the date of his birth is more ber of the strokes are as follow: or less conjectural, but it is thought **Leo that he was born in England about the year 1825.

He was past Dily when, in 1877, the Arst mention of his name to any great length occurs in the chronicles of the Colony. That was 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, Just as the Island was the base of It was due to Dr. Ayres candid operations for American wholers in opinions that flogging WAS not the early '80s, to-day Pago Pago has abolished In toto, notwithstanding the reassumed its importance as it is to ardent wishes of the Governor; but play a key role in the trans-oceanic the practice as carried out in the alr mall and passenger service be- Colony was deprived of much of its tween the United States and New reprehensible effects, and whilst it Zealand and Australia, Kirkpatrick is still a potent element of criminal said. United Press.

procedure, it in not the fearsome punishment of the past. PUBLIC FLOGGINGS

LOW-DOWN ON LIPSTICK

For

-By Mrs. Roosevelt

New York. women throughout the United States to-day the big news was not St. Valentine's festivity, but the news that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has begun to use lipstick, For the first time in her life, when

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

In

ם תס

received ninety Under a local anaesthetle, the two

watched fashes in three instalments in 1873, children

the

operation. by order of the Supreme Court." One end of John's Lesh tube was severed from his body. An incision "Lee Ah-yee received eleven was made in the little girl's elbow. lashes at one time `In 1871, for The fresh tube was inserted and prison offences,"

"Leo Ah-yee received thirty-six Lashes at one time in 1872, for prison offences,”

their blood-streams intermingled. United Press,

of

Re

7.45 London Relay-Songs of the Seasons.

No. 4-Winter; Ten minutes winter- time music with Janet Lind, Bernard Clifton, The Radio Graces, and The Presented by William Mac- Band. iure:

7.56 Closing local Stock Quola- tions. 8.0

Local Time Signal, Weather

"Lee Ah-yee received twelve Brothers Apart 50 Years Report and Announcements.

lashes at one time in prison offences."

1874, for

Meet

Windsor.

8.03 Stadio'Revival of Some Old Popular Songs by J.C.M.G. And C.ILAH, Continued.

Bloggings do not appear to have had Windsor, walked up to his brother Leader, Leonard Hirsch: Conducted

the least effect on him." ABOLITION FAILS

8.30 London Relay-Music-Hall To this formidable list of evidence, Two brothers met here for the first Reminiscences. the Medical Committee aded suc- tinte in half a century on a railway

Orchestra; Empire cinctly, "his (Leo Ah-yee's) series of platform. Martin

Tho B.B.C. Ryan, 56, of

by Clifton Helliwell; Colleen Clifford Hugh, 58, who was on his way to

John Rorke (Baritone); Liverpool after 14 years in Vancouver, Orchestra: March, Old Comredes

(Soprano), and slapped him on the back, saying, (Teike), Overture, Orpheus in the in public every Wednesday and the In view of the weight of such im- "Well, old boy, I guess we have Underworld instrument of punishment was the partial evidence, Sir John Pope mat at last.” regulation "cat o'nine talls," delivered Hennessy was unsuccessful in hla with horrible effect upon the bared efforts to abolish flogging, but he did back of the prisoner, who was strung manage to incorporate the ideas of though oplum-smokers usually lost a Bee up to the whipping-post. Since 1870, Dr. Ayres in the administration of few pounds in weight after entering however, floggings, when they do such punishment, and floggings on prison, they cosily and speedily re- occur, are carried out discreetly In the bared back were limited to twelve gained the lost poundage, owing to Rorke, and Orchestra: Dingh, de the confines of the gaol.

less re the good food and regimen available Moon am Shinin' (Stromberg), Coo-

In advocating his conviction that

whilst flogging should be retained as

and were more Or

Cifford And

Colleen My Lady

Lu (Edwin Brill), Julie, Jewel (Harry Dacre), The Honeysuckle and the (William Penn); Orchestra: Selection of Marie Lloyd's Songs (arr. Le Brun); Colleen Clifford, John

by the more humane and in gaol, so that it was unnecessary ce-oo (Scott Mackenzie), Hello, my

successful

deterrent In the for any special medical treatment.

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

be done with the "cal"

India

upon the cognined procedure to this day

Dr. Ayres stated: "In bag-snatchers and other felons

she appeared in Washington to-day, baredging is always done upon this type.

After the fogging ngitation

for

DEATH CAUSES FURORE.

of

Baby (The Runaway Girl (Howard and Emerson): Orchestra:

Waltz, Toreador (Popplewell Royle); John Rorke and Orchestra: Yer 'at don't On one ocasion, however, an opium at yer very well (Charles Yorke). hddlet died in prison and the Anti When There isn't a Girl About (Cost-

had Oplum Society made a great deal of ling and Collins), We All Go the

Ayres Same Way Home (Harry Castling);

her lips were touched light red.

Women reporters, with the de- the breech, with a four-foot-ratian as lightfully unabashed curiosity which thick as a man's fore-finger. 1 have been settled, Dr. Ayres remained in fuss over the incident. Dr. is their special characteristic, clus never, in eight year's experience, comparative obscurity, although he proved equal to the occasion, and Orchestra: Selection, Veterans of tered round to ask her all about it.seen any worse effects than the in- was by no means Inactive. About with

with his characteristic assidulty went Variety (arr. Pether, orch. Bates). The Ludy of the White House, jury done to the skin.”

1886, he broke into print once more to with equally delightful candour, gavė

of pains to

prove that Moreover, he was emphatic in his on account of his studied hostility to a great deal of them the low-down.

amongst the hundreds of opium- declaration that floggings (12 ad- the then active Anti-Opium Society, smokers who were passing through She said she decided to uso lipstick ministered to Chinese prisoners in which numbered amongst its ad-the portals of the gaol during all the John Boettiger. It took her a con- tinctol tram 1865–1877 were

harmful, as he claimed that American merr's contention that; which could be said to be due to

dis-] herents, Dr. G. J.

It was Dr.

Kerr, a

veteran years since he had been the medical of Contant.

examiner, this was the first death

on the advice of her daughter, Mrs. the

aldorable Ume to put it on, she ad- the Oriental felon on account of his mitted, but she added philosophically slighter build could not endure the the use of oplum was extremely de- narcotic poisoning. Therefore, he that her daughter had reminded her infiction of the lash upon his bored leterious, and that drug addicts con- tool umbrage at the atlitude of kis that "practice will make it easier." back as well as a European, who fined to prison suffered the pangs of critics and stated bluntly in so many was he thought, constitutionally more hell when compelled to forego their words that the Anti-Opium Society able to suffer punishment with the daily "amoka,”. minimum of ill effects.

Postman Scarred By

Sydney.

Dogs

Tom Hill, 85-year-old mall carrier, insists the job should be included in

wore

Dr. Ayres, on the contrary, argued over "Da devil of a rumpus

more harmful, than

At length, the Medical Committed that in honest opinion opium was A summary of Dr Ayres career in appolated by the Governor made lis no

tobacco, the Colony is that he was an excop- long expected report. Strange as it spirits, or oven beer. He seemed to lonally conscientious official and an may appear, the learned members take especial delight in this state indefatigable worker in the interests did not bear out the testimony of mentand: repeated - it without of the public welfare. He did much their colleague, Dr. Ayres, but what equivocation year after year in his for Hongkong, and being a versatilo the list of dangerous vocations. In they said was entirely to the con annual reports, bearing it out with writer, hid annual reports are full of 30, "years" of delivering mail he has trary. Indeed, they solemnly af- a mass of Interesting statistics in interest. The Colony owes him á been bitten more than -100-times by demed that they were of the support of his theory.

debt of gratitude which is perhaps conviction that the evils of fogging The gist of his thesis was that al- still realised.

(Continued on Page 5.)

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