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PRISON ISLES

By: Captain FRANK H. SHAW

group of desolate islands some distance away from the coast in the Bay of Bengal and uncom fortably near the Equator.

But in the Andamans the discipline imposed is far less harsh than that common in

EAR of banishment to most island prisons. No matter what his colour-dark, middle- the dreaded Snake dark, or white-every attempt is Island though it is made by humane methods to unlikely that such extreme restore the prisoner to society as

a useful citizen. punishment will be meted

It is the sense of hopeless out to them-hangs like a immurement that makes island shadow over the Legion- imprisonment so effective. Any- naires of the Iron Guard one who has been isolated on small stretch of water- who have been recently surrounded land, as I have been, rounded-up in Rumania. well knows the dreary com- ploteness of that isolation, with This bleak place, some 20 no sounds from the outer world miles off the coast in the Black to indicate the movement of Sca, is like nearly all island events. prisons-escape from it is almost

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REFUGEE CAMPS

sea form a far more efficient

SIBERIAN exile is oven means of immurement than all

preferable to insular de- the stone walls ever built or the tention. The sight of constantly moving patrols on an otherwise iron bars ever forged.

deserted sen brings home the Many such islands in remote fact of incarceration at every corners of the Adriatic and seaward stare-and there is Mediterranean have been used nothing much else to look at but

the sea! for the internment of Italian political prisoners.

All Prison

I have known of many offenders driven mad by this sheer relentlessness of island imprisonment.

THE United States made

wise move when it The French penal settlement formed Alcatras Island. off the of Devil's Isle is a case in point: Californian coant into a place of crooks in their efforts to escape detention for long-term offenders will risk horrible death by thirst, drowning, sharks or barracoutas, against the law.

fish even more deadly than

Alcatras is ali prison-a mass sharks. of concrete buildings capable of defeating the craftlest wrongdoers and, what is even

outside.

But the conditions existent in Devil's Isle are a commonplace

more

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"I just wait and let the other man weigh out my meat. He has auch ernull, dainty hands!"

GARBO is NEWS as

PUBLIC SPINSTER NUMBER ONE

By Seton Margave

Wus

"N the train the other morning the pretty girl in the brown hat said, "It seems such a pity that Greta Garbo could not have fallen in love with somebody of her more important, their associates to-day; and, as the guards suffer own age." The not so pretty girl with her rejoined, “I

too from the dreary apathy

In view of the increasing

engendered by the surroundings, think it is nice to fall in love at all.” One of the main advantages it may be that the rules of life I looked at my companion for So ended the second "great activity of the Japanese Navy of Alcatras-a disadvantage there are not so strict and reactions. "What does it mat- love" associated with the name-

18 fiction writers ter if she is in love?" he hissed. of Greta Garbo. in South China waters and the from the crook's point of view heartless

is the fact that any vessel sometimes try to make out, for "Does anybody really care?" I The first concerned the late resultant increase in the influx approaching the island is in- if the crook suffers, so does the should explain that he of refugees to this Colony, stantly spotted. The facilities guard.

reading the financial pages of Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish film. director who discovered her in for making a landing are few

Atonement of Gosta already obviously over-crowded, and extremely well guarded. One of the lesser-known, but his newspaper, studying what he direct

her penal sourly called his insecurities. drastic,

to- Berling" and took island it is time that the, authorities

A sinister place Alcatras, as colonies is Fernando Noronha,

"At least," I replied, "lots of Hollywood. considered ways and means of tight as a bottle in its holding off the Brazilian coast; a place people are talking about it." I am sure Garbo felt both

powers, with a constant watch of detention for Brazilian pri-

Greta Garbo, the strangest friendship and gratitude towards. caring for this overflow from the maintained seawards night and soners of all orders-political as

I am equally find day-an island little troubled by well as criminal.

personality in pictures, has Mauritz Stiller. surrounded herself by a wall of sure she was profoundly affected I was once associated with an silence so impenetrable that by the death, eight years ago, of fogs, and so comparatively small that its sheer stolid stoniness breeds in the most sanguine old shipmate in an expedition to Hollywood calls her the President this man who had set her on

the road to fame and fortune. rescue a notorious malefactor of its Clam Club. heart a certain fatalistic accep

from the island. tance of the law's power.

Steadily she has refused to Seclusion Mania We were approached by a show towards filmgoers the

not HOLLYWOOD did syndicate to attempt the release courtesies other film stars regard of

understand or appreciate. one Senhor Paqueria, of as part and parcel of their work.

He re- whom we knew nothing, except She has declined to make per- the sensitive Stiller. that he was "a victim of sonal

to give turned home to die, disappointed appearances, unfortunate circumstances."

autographs or interviews. She and disillusioned. has remained the hermit of Hollywood.

Rumours

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are not adequate supplies of food (certain type of very nearly help- available. But in the Colony less individual who finds the only Speed Boat Escape itself the settled, urban areas, means of livelihood in begging! that is-there is a limit to the or in theft, or both. number of refugees which can be absorbed.

Further attacks

CONSIDERABLE sum was promised in return for our services, so we hired a speed-boat, shipped it aboard

ja tramp steamer whose captain the

was willing to abet, and were been launched into the South Atlantic jone night not far from the island the parent steamer making no

Garbo nover forgave the Hollywood film machine for breaking the man who made her a star.

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THOSE who have worked

Following his death she made with her in films talk of seclusion à mania, she became It is not suggested that the

experience as if they had incapable of facing people, and was really afraid of the outside on South China ports may cause junfortunate refugee should be

received by royalty. And out of this studied world. the Hongkong Government great treated as a potential criminal

More recently rumour joined embarrassment; for unless or even as an undesirable. Let

seclusion has grown, naturally, rumour-all the more freely the names of Garbo and the di- provision is made for the fleeing that be clear, so that there call there.

slace Garbo has never troubled rector Rouben Mamoulian. We headed for the shore, laid to deny anything said about her, civilian population it may be should be no misunderstanding.

Together they went up in a stony creek, covering the except once, in Chicago six years necessary to check the influx. It Nor would the camps provided boat with canvas to hide it, and ago, when the lapsed into speech motoring holiday to the Grand is time refugee camps were es-for such people bring any stigma got busy.

to say, "I am not ever going to Canyon. An engagement was

presumed, a wedding expected. tablished in the New Territories, to their occupants. Refugees

The syndicate had done such marry," more particularly in view of the should be free to come and go bribery as was necessary so far She was then stung into talk- They were followed every- Their wedding was. danger of epidemica being there, and to organise their own as the guards were concerned, ing by two rumours: one that where.

and we collected our man with she would marry a Swedish "definitely established" early in brought into Hongkong from the community life, even do their only a few hazards. There was; Prince and the other that she 1934. They had been married" war zone. And there are some own policing, under supervision. of course, a hue and cry, but we had planned to elope from at Williams in Arizona by a until Hollywood with a Swedish mer- Presbyterian minister. Two, sorts of epidemic which are It seems likely that such ac-were able to lie hidden

such time as our parent freighter chant.

witnesses said so. every bit as dreadful as an air commodation would bring noth-was due to return north.

the

But the "loves" of Greta Garbo None of it was true; but it. raid.

ing but gratitude from

We set off, but during the had aroused interest and made a great deal of conver harassed population of China comfortless cruise a good deal curiosity six years before that. sation just before the presonta- which finds its way here.

of the tail-end of ↓ hurricane

tion of "Queen Christina." annoyed us--our prisoner re- The autumn of 1926, when she.

Another romance arranged for Later, when all the misery of vealed himself to be such a played in "Flesh and the Devil"

dyed-in-the-wool crook, so soul-opposite the late John Gilbert. Garbo concerned George Brent, be built about a semi-permanent war and its inevitable after-less and revoltingly vile, that saw the beginning of what was at the time of the filming of core of cook-house and hospital math has been eliminated, and my shipmate became infuriated. called one of the most famous "The Painted Vell." This one:

did not get very far. It was. and so on, which would serve in the refugee population finds its We went into conference and romances of generation.

decided that we should be doing

ended by George Brent himself the future to accommodate the way back to its native places or civilisation a better turn by did not conceal his adoration for meetings with Garbo were not. Gay, impetuous John Gilbert explaining that his frequent always large indigent population into the Colony's structure, the returning him to the island, Garbo. and remove once and for all the camps which sheltered them which we did much against his madly in love, and would marry

her if he could persuade her to The idol of Garbo's girlhood troublesome and expensive could be used wholly to house,

was Carl Brisson. Relatives in Actually, we had to knock him say "Yes." problem of beggars and potty those

who át

Sweden have told of how she out before heaving him ashore

The story goes that even the would go to sleep with pictures criminale. These people might present do nothing more than and streaking away into the pro-wedding day was agreed, and of Carl under her pillow. find some sort of refugo there clutter up the prisons when they tective blue!

that they were driving to the

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He proclaimed he was for love but for tennis..

from the physical and moral aro not cumbering the streets. That experience convinced me ceremony when they quarrelled "Mr. Garbo" destructiveness of 3. social The scheme needs elaboration that an island prison is ten times bitterly. Anyhow the coromony more implacable, than any penal did not take place, and a fow system which has never boon and careful detailed planning colony ever erected on a math-weeks later John Gilbert married Table to provide adequately for u but the idea behind it is wood land.

I

love has now come to

Greta Garbo, if she