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THE · HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH,

‚· THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER

1938.

Reports from London were that the White Rajah of Sarawak has cut off his daughter, Princess Baba, without money or title, because of her marriage to the British wrestler, Bob Gregory. But that seems to be all right with plain Valerie Broolte, for here she is in Holly- wood with her bronzed and husky husband, moving to an apartment,

Famous Gaols To Be Pulled Down

PRISONERS NOT "GUYS" NOW

By A Parliamentary Correspondent

PENTONVILLE PRISON 100 YEARS OLD-IS TO BE PULLED DOWN AND THE SITE USED FOR A LONDON HOUSING SCHEME.

Other out-of-date prisons will be gradually scrapped, including those at Reading and Oxford.

For women a model prison is to be built, and Holloway, their present prison, will be used for men.

These were among drastic prison reforms which. Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, announced in the House of Commons last month.

The new prison for women which Sir Samuel has in mind I will be "more like a camp in the

country."

Better clothes, food, cell light ing and libraries, and less solitude, together with physical training, are to go hand in hand with this rehousing of the pri son population.

The need for better housing was emphasised by Sir Samuel. "We wish to have a housing for prisoners just programme

Dead Woman's Eyes Give A Sailor

Sight To Two Men

Went Full

Steam Ahead

as we have one for the other classes of the community." OPEN-AIR WORK FOR

WOMEN PRISONERS

she felt her clothes fitted her and she was not looking a guy.

They

were also trying the ex- periment at Muldstone of allowing prisoners to wear their own ordin- ary clothes when friends came to see them.

Anyone who had visited

Lighting in cells was being im Holloway, he added, would agree proved so that prisoners could read that it was impossible to have more, and an increased grant hud a building more unsuitable for been made for the improvement of libraries. Physical training, former- the ordinary woman prisoner. y confined to the younger prisoners, Could anything be more incon-was being extended to the older

this imposing ones. KTuous thinn structure built on the model of EXTENDING WAGES Windsor Castle with great walls all round it?

"We are, now going to stort," he said, as soon as we can get a sutt- able site, with the building of a new women's prison."

men

One result would be that they would be able to get rid of Penton- ville altogether. The

there or would go either to Holloway Wandsworth or possibly Wormwood Scrubs.

SMARTER CLOTHES

TO BE WURN

FOR WORK SCHEME

The temporary transfer of certain convicts to local prisons, so that might receive visits

Ironi they friends, was being arranged.

Habitual inebriates, who num- bered 107 men and 00 women, were of the most difficult classes of one

which to deal, es- prisoners with pecially the women.

At Holloway there were women

whole of spent almost the who spent their lives going in and out of pri- son. They made a regular habit of going into prison on a Monday on Observations on sailors, by Admiral

#five days sentence, coming out on The eyes of an aged woman who

things sie Martin

the Friday, and going back again Dunter-Nasmito, V.C.,)

Negotiations were in progress be- died sometime ago have brought

addressing boys of the training ship

tween the Prison Commissioners the following Monday. sight to a middle-aged man and a blurred,"

It will be a week before they are Arethusa in the Medway:

London County Council. One of the prison administrators and the youth in Snu Francisco, it is revealed |

snine of them said There is no better form of charac-with a view to the Pentonville alte told him that following remarkable operationable to leave the hospital, but San

Nothing being taken over toria housing when they were leaving on the Fri- which doctors hardly hopet would Francisco doctors, who prefer to re-

day "Keep 11 room for me next main anonymous because they do not fer building than sailing. sucered.

wish the public to regard the opera- called for quicker decision than a ship scheme for North-East London.

week." success, said:under sail. tion as a guaranteed

The interest of the operation hes in the fact that corneas from the eyes of in a diferent form. the old woman brought sight to mile-aged man and a youth.

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New York.

The relatives of Mrs. Margaret Carr, who died at San Francisco, donated the eyes of this 80-years old woman for transplantation to restore the sight of the Rev. U. E. Harding. who lives at Portland, Oregon and Arthur Morton, a 21- years-old Sacramento pianist.

Mr. Morton lost his sight in 1932, and the Rev. Hurding has been blind for 43 years,

ONLY SUCCESS Each received one eye from the dead woman, and when the bandages were removed to-day Harding ex-

claimed: "I can count my fingers and see colours."

Morton

cried:

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Then he fainted.

But steam brings out such qualities

A sailor was going on pension after "Out of seven transplantations of years service. When asked what of dead persons only these he intended to do, he replied: the eyes

"I am going to buy an oar, sir, put 1wo can be called successful."

over my shoulder and walk directly inland with it.

Pleading for eyes, the Rev. Hard- ing went through San Quentin Prison begging from convicts condemned to death but his appeal failed,

Mrs. Carr's relatives sald they gave her eyes because she would have wished it.

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In these days It was diffeult to get money from the Treasury for rehousing priganera, but he hoped to see a nes prison for men built Cable those at Read- ing and Oxford to be closed. which woul

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It was noteworthy that about 80 per cent. of the men and women who got into prison did not return. Earl Winterton (Chancellor of the to the new women's

Duchy of Lancaster), replying to the debate, announced that It hand Discussing changes that have been

an inquiry to be been decided that an nude in prison routine in the past held

into

juvenile delinquency 12months, or will eventually be should take the form of an investi- made, he urged the importance ofgation of 1,000 enses coming before prisoner. having not only better the Metropolitan juvenile courts and Iooking elothes but better-fitting of all cases coming

before the clothes, particularly the wonen. juvenlie courts of Manchester. His advisers, he said, rightly took Leeds, Nottingham, Shefeld, Hull the view that it added tremendous-¦ and Cardiff during a period of six ly, to the self-respect_of_n_women if months.

They met last month with 20-year-old memories of a German prison camp

ESCAPED IN A MATTRESS

SQUADRON-LEADER A. T. Shipwright, of the R.A.F.,

flew from Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to London one night last month to attend the reunion dinner of ex-prisoners of war who organised and took part in the historical mass escape from Holzminden Prison camp. It was the first time that he had attended the dinner.

To his surprise, a tall, smiling f Hils attempt, aided by Mr. Cole- ex-prisoner greeted him with man, took place five days after hei "Remember the day, sir, when had been released from the punish- I wheeled you out of the prison finent cells for his tunnel escapade. eamp in broad daylight?"

Squadron-Leader Shipwright look- ed closely at the tall man, smiled, and shot out his hand,

ALARM

The re-union last night saw 201 ex-prisoners of war meet and ex- change experiences.

"Good heavens," he said, "It'u One of them, Mr. W. F. N. Coleman! Do I remember? It's the Churchill, like Squadron Lender first time I've seen you since. That Shipwright, was

attending his first)

was 20 years ago.

re-union.

Mr. Churchill was a lleutenant in "I still remember those moments the R.A.F. when he was taken when 1 was hidden in the mattress prisoner. Now he is a Civil Servant' that you were so cheerfully, wheel in Malaya. ing to freedoin in ti barrow.

"My main fear was:' 'I'll bet one of those Jerry sentries will stick his bayonet through the mattress first to see that it is filled with straw."

Holzminden was the most closely- guarded of all German prison camps and the effort to escape was made in July, 1018.

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was

The tunnel, which led from cellar to the outside of the camp, 60 yards long. Eighty men Squadron-Leader. Shipwright's old were ready to crawl to freedom but comrade Is Mr. Arthur Coleman, only 20 managed to get through the Dagenham.

years

tunnel before the alarm was given, Twenty

were Of these, only ten renched the Dutcli both ago prisoners ot Holzminden-Llout. frontler. Shipwright an officer, and Mr. Cole-

THEIR FOOTBALL man a prisoner orderly,

Placed on a table at the dinner Squadron-Leader Shipwright was Inst night was a football which the one of the unlucky ones in the mass prisoners had played with while in escape through a tunnel that took nino months to burrow with the aid of kitchen knives, pokers, and sticks.

Ile Just falied to reach free- dom. He got as far as the Dutch Frontler and was re-isken a fow hundred yards from safety.

the camp and a tin of tinned tongue which contained rolled up maps of Germany, compasses, and wire clip- pers used in the escape. -

Guests of honour were the, eight| orderiles who helped the officers) cscape.

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