to Ichang When Captain Joseph Miclo, of the Yangtsze Rapid Ca, and well. Known' in Shanghai, disappeared in mysterious circumstances" from the eamship. T-chang, of which he was the skipper, on July 18, Liew. tenant P.8, Hogarth, of the U. 8.8, Oahu, on the Yangtse Patrol, took charge of the vessel and sailed her into Tehang.
Captain Miclo, who has been in the service of the Yangtsze Rapid Ca, for the ast, four years was missed. off hi midnight, cabin with a unable to find him. only shortly out of Hankow when the discovery was made that was not on board, although he bad. deft. with the ship.
Lieutenant Hogarth was returning USS. Oahu, control, and wired the occurrence:0 the naval headquarters and Ameri-
een unable to give any explanation. gan Consulate at Hankow, who pave The I-chang was on a trip through the Gorges at the time.
enjoyed good health and there From all reports, Captain Milo EpPears 19 have been no zeason Why he should take his own life, 'The first intimation of appearance of Captain Miclo came when the 1-Chang signalled a United Seagal Wiehe was on the bridge gunboat the Following ay. when' the vessel left Hankow on et sufficient attention to gaol administration which had become so. important as to warrant the creation Of a separate Gaois Department under the control of an officer directly responsible to the Council for the administration of the gaols, From the comment submitted by the Acting Commissioner of Public Works, it was noted that the cost 'a new gaol with 3,000 cells was estimated at Tls. 2,750,000 inclusive of the cost of the land. Alterna. tively, if the land now reserved for the foreign gaol were utilised for the extension of the Chinese gaol to provide an additional 1,820 cells and a foreign gaol built on a new site, the approximate cost would be Tls. 950,000; this latter scheme would not, however, fulfill the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police for the separation of long and short term prisoners, Replying to. members, the Commissioner of Police stated that a contributing factor to the present overcrowded state of the gaol was the discontinuance by the Special
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