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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938. .

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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 laland shadow over the Legion- imprisonment so effective. Any- naires of the Iron Guard one who has been isolated on 2 small stretch of water- who have been recently surrounded land, as I have been, well knows the dreary com- rounded-up in Rumania.

pleteness 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 Sea, is like nearly all island events. prisons escape from it is almost

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MARRIAGE

The marriage took place on Saturday, 141h May, 1938, of Murlel, youngest daughter of Mra. Fardel

L. to

and the late Professor H. Fardel formerly of Japan, Commander Horace Frederick Fellowes R.N., H.M.S. "Adven- ture" eldest son, of Canon and Mrs. Fellowes of Windsor.

The

sen form a far more efficient

SIBERIAN exile is even preferable to insular de- means of immurement than all the stone walls ever built or the tention. The sight of constantly moving patrols on an otherwise iron bars ever forged.

deserted sea 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 interument of Italian political prisoners.

All Prison

THE United States made

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

The French penal settlement a wise move when it formed Alcatras Island, off the of Devil's Isle is a case in point: Californian coast 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, fish even more deadly than

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"I'll just wait and let the other man weigh out my meal. He has such small, dainty hands!"

GARBO is NEWS as

PUBLIC SPINSTER NUMBER ONE

By Seton

WAR

Margave

N the train the other morning the pretty girl in the Alcatras is all prison-a mass sharks.

brown hat said, "It seems such a pity that Greta Garbo of concrete buildings capable

But the conditions existent în craftiest

could not have fallen in love with somebody of her the defeating wrongdoers and, what is even Devil'e Isle are a commonplace 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 outside.

So ended the second "great engendered by the surroundings, think it is nice to fall in love at all."

I looked at my companion for In view of the increasing

One of the main advantages it may be that the rules of life

Alcatras a disadvantage there are not so strict and reactions. "What does it mat- love" associated with the name

as fiction writers ter if she is in love?" he hissed, of Greta Garbo. activity of the Japanese Navy of

The first concerned the late 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 resultant increase in the influx approaching the island is in- if the crook suffers, so does the should explain that he

reading the financial pages of Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish film

"The Atonement of of refugees to

this Colony, stantly spotted. The facilities guard.

Berling" his newspaper, studying what he director who discovered her in sourly called his insecurities. drastic, island

penal already obviously over-crowded, and extremely well guarded.

"At least," I replied, "lots of Hollywood.

I am sure Garbo felt both it is time that the authorities A sinister place Alcatras, as colonies is Fernando Noronha, constant watch of detention for Brazilian pri-

Greta Garbo, the strangest friendship and gratitude towards 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 equally powers, with

personality in pictures, has Mauritz Stiller. caring for this overflow from the maintained seawards night and soners of all orders-political, as

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

the road to fame and fortune. itself in a Hongkong fire. This fogs, and so comparatively small that its sheer stolid stoniness is not to suggest that any breeds in the most sanguine old shipmate in an expedition to Hollywood calls her the President this man who had set her on

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The great Indian Empire

far as space is concerned, there soners

is plenty of that, and there is

We were approached by a show towards filmgoers

and took

1

Gosta

her to

Steadily she has refused to Seclusion Mania

the

HOLLYWOOD did not understand or appreciate.

He re |ing sanctuary on British soil. As banishes its long-sentence pri- syndicate to attempt the release courtesies other film stars regard the Andamans, a of one Senhor Paqueria, of as part and parcel of their work. to

to whom we knew nothing, except She has declined to make per- the sensitive Stiller.

give turned home to die, disappointed that he was "a victim of sonal appearances, unfortunate circumstances."

autographs or interviews. She and disillusioned. Garbo never has remained the hermit of

forgave the

for. Hollywood.

Hollywood film machine breaking the man who made her Rumours

no reason to suppose that there

A

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 Bottled, 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

a

She was then stung into talk-

a star.

↓

CONSIDERABLE. sum was promised in return

Following his death she made for our services, so we hired a

THOSE who have worked

with her in films talk of seclusion a mania, she became It is not suggested that the speed-boat, shipped it aboard

tramp steamer whose captain the experience as if they had incapable of facing people, and was really afraid of the outside And out of this studied world. on South China ports may cause junfortunate refugee should be was willing to abet, and were been received by royalty.

jone night not far from the island

More recently rumour joined the Hongkong Government great treated as a potential criminal launched into the South Atlantic

rumour-all the more freely the names of Garbo and the di- embarrassment; for unless or even as an undesirable. Let-the parent steamer making no seclusion has grown, naturally,

since Garbo has never troubled rector Rouben Mamoulian, provision is made for the fleeing that be clear, so that there call there.

We headed for the shore, laid to deny anything said about her,

Together they went on be should be no misunderstanding. civilian population it may

An engagement was boat with canvas to hide it, and ago, when she lapsed into speech motoring holiday to the Grand necessary to check the influx. It Nor would the camps provided up in a stony creek, covering the except once, in Chicago six years

to say, "I am not ever going to Canyon.

presumed, a wedding expected. es-for such people bring any stigma got busy. is time refugee camps were

They The syndicate had done such marry."

were followed every- tablished in the New Territories, to their occupants. Refugees

Their wedding was more particularly in view of the should be free to come and go bribery as was necessary so far

epidemics 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 danger of

minister. Two, brought into Hongkong from the community life, even do their only a few hazards. There wns, Prince and the other that she 1934. They had been married" And there are some lown policing, under supervision, of course, a hue and cry, but we had planned to clope from at Williams in Arizona by a

were able to lie hidden until Hollywood with a Swedish mer- Presbyterian

witnesses said so. war zone.

are It seems likely that such ac-

such time as our parent freighter chant. sorts of epidemic which

None of it was true; but it. But the "loves" of Greta Garbo every bit as dreadful as an air commodation would bring noth-was due to return north.

and mado a great deal of conver- We set off, but during the had aroused, interest ing but gratitude from the raid.

tion of "Queen Christina." harassed population of China comfortless cruise-a good deal curiosity six years before that. Bation just before the presenta-

hurricane of the tail-end of a

The autumn of 1926, when she Frankly, however, there is a

which finds its way, here.

Another romance arranged for Jannoyed us our prisoner re- dual purpose in this suggestion

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, This one [of refugee camps. They should

It was did not got very far. 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 climinated, and my shipmate became infuriated. called one of the most famous "The Painted Veil."

decided that we should be doing

Gay, impetuous John Gilbert ended by George Brent himself explaining that his frequent and so on, which would serve in the refugee population finds its We went into conference and romances of generation. the future to accommodate the way back to ita native places or civilisation a better turn by did not conceal his adoration for meetings with Garbo were not

He proclaimed he was for love but for tennis,

The Idol of Garbo's girlhood always large indigent population into the Colony's structure, the returning him to the island, Gro

her if ho could persuade her to

was Carl Brisson. Relatives in and remove once and for all the camps which sheltered them which we did--much against his madly in love, and would marry

Sweden have told of how sho troublesome and expensive could be used wholly to house,

Actually, we had to knock him say "Yes." undesirables who at

out before heaving him ashore

The story goes that even the would go to sleep with pictures problem of beggars and patty those crifinals. These people might present do nothing more than and streaking away into the pro-wedding day was agreed, and of Carl under her pillow.

that they were driving to tho find some sort of refuge there clutter up the prisons when they tective bluel from the physical and moral are not cumbering the streets. That experience convinced me ceremony when they quarrelled “Mr. Garbo”

more implacable than any penal did not take place, and a few destructiveness of a social The scheme needs elaboration that an island prison is ten times bitterly. Anyhow the ceremony wa

Sawane Clairevis system which has never been and careful detalled planning, colony over erected on a main weeks later John Gilbert married

wiah.

has

come to