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It is recommended 12. The Governor has asked for our views on this matter. that ho should be informed that the question has not yet boon the subject of a submission to Ministors; and that for the reasons outlined in this briof, thoro could be no question of the introduction of the death ponalty for unlawful possession of explosivos, otc. It may happen that the situation in the Colony may deteriorato to the point where the Governor considors it necessary to tako storn measures to deal with the unlawful uso of oxplosivos. In this event the most that Ministors might bo propared to consider would be the introduction of emergency rogulations providing for the death penalty for the offence of attempted murdor by means of explosivos, ctc.
(c) Communist Schools
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Of this total,
Corrunist schools are those owned and run by organisations such as
Thoro Left Wing trade unions and other Communist bodics in the Colony. are nearly 20,000 childron in all grades of such schools. about 12,000 childron aro in primary schools, 6,000 in middlo schools and
1,500 in vocational training classes.
In
14. Until this year these schools overtly complied with the education rogulations and wore reasonably co-operativo with school inspectors. recent months, however, they have indulged in political activities to an excessive dogroo. To begin with the education authoritics deliberately rofrained from inspecting thom mainly to avoid open confrontation and in the hope that the situation night quicton down during the school holidays. By July, houovor, political activity in the schools had reached a pitch where
Police raids on school intervention by the authoritics bocano unavoidable.
promisos, which bogan in mid-July, found then to bo stacked with crudo woapons, inflammatory documents etc.
15. On 17 August the Department of Education sont a circular letter to nino Communist schools informing thon of conditions to be complied with when tho now tom bogan in Soptonbor; warning then that they would not be permitted to be used for the dissemination of inflammatory propaganda or subversivo toaching, and stating that broach of the conditions laid down would ronder the school concornod liable to closure.
16. During the first half of Soptonbor three Communist schools word
It was foared that those inspections inspected by the education authorities. night bo usod by the school authoritics for the staging of incidents which In the ovent right force the Government into taking suppressivo noasures.
the inspections not with rocoptions which varied botwoon being quite friendly end just short of hostilo. Inspections of other Communist schools are
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