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CHINA YEAR BOOK
(1938 Edition)
EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.
The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)
Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures)
Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy.
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cleth bound, #18 net.
Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers: THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD. P.O. Box 707, Shanghai
THE CHINA MAIL, JANU
DOCTOR'S SENSAT
Wants Sex Criminals If Guilty They Would Be Gassed While In Court
Dr. H. M. Stephenson, a Dorset country doctor who thinks brutal crime should be punished with brutality or even death, declared in an aston- ishing speech, at Dorchester, that lethal cham- bers should adjoin all Assize Courts. The chambers would be installed to execute per- sons of continuous criminal habits or guilty of sex crime.
were
Dr. Stephenson, who was debat, violence, was perfectly sane but ing that "The leniency with which found great difficulty in controlling crime is treated nowadays is be-his impulses. coming a menace to law-abiding He was last sent to gaol for 18 citizens," attacked "people who months. "You might as well give a think that soppiness with a tiger 18 months and expect it to criminal pays.”
cease to be a tiger when it came There seemed to be a growing out," said the doctor. idea; he said, that if one sweet and gentle enough to a thug, he would shed a few tears and cease to be a thug. A greater
To deal with such cases by pri- mistake could hardly be made. son is wrong." For crimes of vio- He spoke of the hopelessly delence there should be flogging, praved class of criminal, one of which was cruel but effective. whom he knew has spent 13 years Dr. Stephenson said he would not in prison, though he was only 28. punish recidivists and sex perverts. This man, guilty of a crime of He would say to them, "I am sorry.
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Shoals of sprats are now in Torbay for the local fishermen to harvest. They go out in motor launches and are back in harbogr in three or four hours with a good catch. Photo shows a fine catch. A scene in Torbay harbour as the sprats are unloaded.
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Bringing Up Father
DAUGHTER-I'LL BE GLAD WHEN MAGGIE GETS THROUGH WITH JURY DUTY- ALL ME FRIENDS WILL BE IN JAIL IF SHE REMAINS THERE ANY LONGER-
SO WILLI- MOTHER IS
GETTING AWFULLY CRANKY-
WHAT- SHE'S HOME EARLY AND I THINK SHE'S CRYIN-
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FOR GOODNESS SAKE-WHAT'S UP-MAGGIE ? DID YOU HAVE
ANOTHER QUARREL IN TH' JURY-ROOM?
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