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It added that the crime situation, coupled with the Government's attempts to raise taxes to offset the deficit, doubled the burden of the public.
"While the Government is planning next year's budget, it should also try to combat the crime situation with more determination. The reintroduction of the death penalty should be the main theme of this campaign," the paper ended.
Kung Sheung Daily News (14.12.75) said that although the results of the vote in Britain were disappointing, the people in Hong Kong should not be discouraged. They should step up their efforts to restore the death penalty.
It reviewed the situation in Britain and said that the death penalty was used as a tool in the struggle for power between the major political parties.
However, it said that public opinion in Britain was turning in favour of restoring the death penalty, and added: "It should not be long before the hypocritical weaklings in the British Parliament are defeated, and the death penalty is restored."
Although Hong Kong was a British colony she had her own laws, and Kung Sheung said we should not be swayed by the opinion of a British political party.
The paper said that the death penalty would deter violent crimes which threatened our lives and property as well as our commercial and industrial development.
"Therefore we must be firmly resolved to restore the death penalty pressing for action through all possible channels," it ended.
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