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Yesterday T. Paul Gregory told you of the Hongkong convict who received 239 lashes in prison. This article tells -

| THE “VERY IDEA”

IT'S TIME TO DRINK ABOUT

What Punishment With The SUMMER

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"Cat" Is Really

MAN now serving five years Imprisonment, in Stanley Prison received twelve strokes of the "Cat-o-nine-talla" Inst week. Yesterday another robber was sentenced at the Supreme Court to receive 12 lashes.

The "Cal" can only be administered by order of the Court or the Governor.

Not many years ago Hongkong witnessed floggings of prisoners in public. One convict received a total of 239 lashes.

What is the "cot''?

It consists of a long wooden stick, to the end. of which are attached nine 20-Inch long strips, of cord, interspersed at every six inches with knots of silk cord.

For what is the "cat" administered?

For offences within prison-inelting to mutiny, Assaulting a prison officer, or for a particularly brutal assault upon a fellow convict.

The court can inflet the "eat" for robbery with violence and also upon men convicted as "incorrigible rogues of a certain type of offence connected with white slavery,

The "ent" is usually administered in doses of twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, or thirty-six strokes. If more than twelve strokes are given the flogging is carried out by two warders, one left hand and one right hand.

When a convict is to be nogged he is taken to a place away from the other prisoners and Is examined by the prison doctor, who has to certify him able to receive the punishment.

Like

Then the man is stripped to the waist, hand- cuffed, and his feet fixed is a steel contraption`like a tripod.

This causes the man to raise himself slightly on his toes and bend forward to receive the lashings. Then two wurders place a screen over the back of his head as a protection to the neck, while another two officers place a similar screen across the lower part of the spine.

The

prison governor, chief officer, and the hospital attendants are all present. The doctor is the only man to stand in front of the prisoner In order that he may determine the condition of the convict as the flogging progresses,

BANDAGES

If the convict show signs of: fainting, after even the second lash has been inflicted the doctor has the right to stop the Blogging, and, by law, the convict can never again be brought up for the rest of the punishment.

After the flogging is over, a. lint bandage soaked in ointment, is placed on the wounds, auid the man is returned to his cell.

Humanists decry the "eat."

About twenty floggings with the "cat" are administered in Brilish gaols every year. The number shows a gradual increase.

This is due to the appearance of the gangster element in this country, and it is at present re- garded as the only effective method of stampingt out this menace.

Hongkong lograph The Prisoners

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1938.

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BY Jove!

That was a real spot of thunderstorm we had the other night.

Which reminds us that summer is a-coming.

If any good looking girl wants to be taught to swim during the next few months, we are available.

We specialise in teaching the crawler stroke.

We like dancing in the winter and Jantzen in the summer. Especially when there's some" | thing nice in the Jantzen,

Wo confess to a certain hand- someness and manliness in our bathing costume, although

missus doesn't agree with us.

Our

were

Only the other day wo asking her about our 1936 bathing costume.

"Call that a bathing costume," she said acornfully. "It's indecent. You might as well get one tattoned on you. If you must know, I'm using it as a duster."

"A man can never keep anything in this house! What are people go- Ing to say when we go on the bench with no bathing costume on?".

"We must see about getting a new ice chest for the matshed."

"LISTEN! I'M TALKING ABOUT

| MY BATHING COSTUME!”

"Why 7"

Thoro's no auswer to that But we shall be there, doing a bit of lolling and munching an Ice- cream cone. Watching the break- ers break and pinching towels,

Anyone of the opposite sex who wants to know how to loll will also be taught by us.

We are experts at lolling. The last time we tolled was responsible for us getting married.

We notice that feminine bathing costumes are going to be more dar- ing than ever this year.

Rubber brassferes will replace Inst year's colton, 'probably be cause they found that cotton brassieres torso.

I

Mr. Kelly did not stop here, did.-Editor.

We

which has existed between two done by the deckcess thing, doors," says the American dele. May 30, 1918, by which Czechs break their spirit by systematic

to which Czecho-

one to

Hongkong to-day extends a welcome to His Excellency the Governor of Mueno, Dr. Artur Tamagnini Barbosa, one of Portugal's most distinguished i and popular diplomats. When the Portuguese warship which brings him here exchanges | salutes with His Majesty's re- presentatives they will have more than ordinary significance.

OST blunders in life minutes, digests, drafts, sum as an oppressed nation entitled They will punctuate another: have to be paid for. maries and maps. The result to indulgent recognition from

was that they imposed a settle the Allies. chapter of the story of Anglo-

The blunder of ment entirely in the interests of At the Peace Conference this Portuguese friendship which creating that synthetic and the Czechs.

view was pressed upon the been subjected to cold-blooded spurious State called

Supreme Council with much expropriation and oppression. Czecho-Slovakia may well The Great Bluff

bogus evidence to back it up. A Every effort has been made to It is a rather interesting and cost Europe another war.

THE agreements and bargains typical example was the notori- suppress their languages, and ous "Pittsburg Agreement" of the Czech police have tried to instructive friendship, that

were made behind closed S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

gate, Mr. Lansing, in his his- and Slovaks were supposed to persecution. maritime powers which were in Paris this was the worst. tory of the Peace Conference. have agreed to combine to fored Loaded With Spoils

a State. This was negotiated Chater Road. always in the forefront in the Yet the biggest ramp in One British journalist who was by Dr. Masaryk, who afterwards A few years ago a Defence of early days of colonisation and diplomatic history passed prominent in the hole-and-corner became President of Czecho- the Realm Act was passed discovery. Britain has played a all but unnoticed at the dealings

Slovakia owes her baneful and tour in the United States.

Slovakia, during & propaganda which exposes any German or time.

Hungarian to instant deporta- part in Portugal's history from

fraudulent existence boasted in'

tion from his home on the fron- the earliest times of Portuguese The Czech and pro-Czech a speech that

"a few experts, Repudiation

tiers to the interior of the coun-' minds and nationhood. When Ferdinand of intriguers who bamboozled knowing their own Castile partly recovered what is the peace delegates had an concentrating all their efforts on WHEN the document was pre- try at the whim of the local

a given end, can sometimes ac- sented to the Peace Confer- Czech authorities. easy game. Those over hieve ends unattainable by the once it occurred to no

For, loaded as they are with now Portugal for Christendom, | worked and weary states- leaders of uninformed opinion point out that the Czechs and spoils, the Czechs have a guilty driving out the Moors, the men were under foundation of the present re-pressure to finish quickly

strong and uninformed statesmanship." Slovaks who had accepted it conscience. They have armed The Peace Conference was were all American citizens, and intensely without regard for the public Was laid. In 1095 their recasting of the map bluffed into making Czecho- as such hardly qualified to de- spirit of the Treaty of Versailles, Portugal won independence as of Europe and get back to Slovakin. That bluff, has lasted cide the fate of Central Europe, to which they owe their adven-

titious existence. this agreement

Had it not been for Hitler, the very near to being called. 1. Le Barbler de Sevlite. Ouverture...Rossint. the hereditary flef of the great the urgent problems await- almost twenty years. It is now Yet when it had served its pur-

Count Henry of Burgundy; and ing them at home.

pudiated by Dr. Masaryk. Ho Czechs might never have had had pledged himself to secure to rue their evil doings. But Elgar it was his son, Alfonso I, who A small act of self-seeking or Counterfeit Label

for the Slovaks a parliament of the immense development of assumed the title of King of time-serving "experts" flooded

them with one-sided memoranda, THE very

"Czecho their own and autonomous gov- armed strength in Nazi Ger- Strauss, Portugal in 1139. With the

Slovakia" has no sense.

It ernment in the new State. To many now threatens them with help of English Crusaders he

was a counterfeit label without preserve their own preferential retribution. The grievances of

Germans who captured Lisbon in 1147. Cen joined the British, with their historic or ethnographical signi- position, the Czechs got out of the 3 million

allies. They served in France ficance. One might as well talk the bargain by saying that it live under the oppressive rule turies later Portugal was to

of "Anglo-Holland."

did not count because it had been of Prague are not unheeded in Berlin, where the just claims of Coward. come to England's aid in the Britain has not forgotten to be which is a perpetual danger to

This Central European sham, signed on a public holiday.

But Czechs and Slovaks com- Hungary for the recovery of her greatest war in history:

grateful.

the peace of that part of the bined number only 81 millions, lost nationala beyond the Czech Meanwhile, Portugal flourish-

Continent, was contrived in the Accordingly, by all sorts of border have also found, sympa ed. And in her most trying Governor should be warmly wel- race, who managed to keep a peace delegates in their haste Czechs have sown are aprouting

It is natural that Macno's interests of the Czechs, a crafty specious arguments of which the thotic consideration.

The dragon's teeth that the hours when she was challenged come here. His personality foot in both camps throughout would admit no, rebuttal, the by trade rivals jealous of her alone would assure him of that, the war and at its end claimed Czech leaders asserted a further all around them in a crop of growing power and her rich But besides his own attributes, an extravagant reward from claim to annex large blocks of deadly dangers.

peoples of entirely different Dreading this menace of re- possessions, England helped her. he is a representative of a nation the victors for their duplicity. гасе.

tribution, Czecho-Slovakia made Against the might of Spain of North America's Indians,

whose people, under the old code Subject Races

In this way.

Czecho-Slovakia a pact of mutual assistance with was rounded out on the North by Russia. A large mission of Red England was her ally. In the would be Briton's blood brothers; THOUGH Czecho-Slovakia has the inclusion of 3% million Ger: Air Force officers at once came Peninsula War against Napo-for they have fought and died 14,000,000 inhabitants, only mans who had hitherto been to Prague and has set itself to leon, Portugal and Britain were in the same cause. Moreover, as 7,000,000 are Czecha. Half the under Austrian rule, and in the organise the use of Czech aero- again shoulder

population has managed to annex South by the ruthless appropria- dromes and fuel supplies by shoulder. Governor

neighbour and dominate the rest. Even tion of three-quarters of a mil- Bolshevist war-planes. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. Even when disputes arose be-Colony of Macao, he would al- after 19 years of systematic llon of pure-blooded Hungarians.

tween these two nations, as was ways find a ready friendliness "Czechification," one-third of the

These two solid contingents of Smouldering Wrath bound to happen in their colonial here, as do the subjects of his population can speak neither foreigners have since been held THE only effect of this has

Government, for like the British Czech nor Slovak. adventuring, they were settled

as the prisoners of Czecho- been to fan the smouldering. people of Hongkong they are These Czechs were one of the Slovakia. They were handed wrath of Germany, for Czecho without bloodshed,

dofenders of the same civilisa-subject races of the Austro- over to the Czechs with no móre Slovakia, thanks to the position When the Great War broke tion, the same principles and Hungarian Empire before and consultation than if they had carved out for her in the heart out. Portugal responded to the ideals; and he and they have the fact that the Czech soldiers ed by the Caech authorities with an advanced baso for a Soviet throughout the war. Owing to been cattle, and have been treat of Europe, might well serve as British request for aid, com- the distinguishing characteris deserted in unusually large no more regard for their rights attack on Germany From acro mandeered all German and Austica of empire-builders who numbers, It was possible for and feelings.

dromes on Czech soll the Bol trian vessels in, her waters. In carry their country's flag to far pro-Czech busybodies in England. As captives of a race notorious shevist bombers, could be over March, 1916, Portuguese troops places.

and America to represent them for petty meanness they have

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