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THE CHINA MAIL, TUES DAY, DECEMBER 9, 1947.
DEATH SENTENCE ARGUMENTS Hopeless Criminals Should Be Liquidated Public Debate In
Great Britain
London, Dec. 8. -
George Bernard Shaw, Britain's aged sage, is campaigning for “liquidation" of every Criminal who cannot be reformed into a useful law abiding citizen.
The 91-year-old playwright, entering a nation- wide public debate on whether-Britain should quit hanging murderers, said in a letter to the editor of the "London Times." "The public right and power of civilised states to kill the unprofitable or incorrigibly mis- chievous in self-defence can never be abrogated."
"A vitriol thrower should be duced a Penal Reform Bill ser- got rid of as ruthlessly as a eral weeks ago. The Bill itself cobra or a mad dog," wrote | says nothing about death penal- Show.
tica which now aro issued for
"A man who lives by promis- murder, treason and dockyard. ing to marry woman and desertarson but a large group of ing them as soon as he has Members of Parliament are spent all their money is a so- trying to abolish hanging. clal evil to be uprooted no less The death penalty is man- than if he drowned them in datory for a convicted murder- their baths.
er and only the Home Secretary "Dangerous Insanity, Instead has power to commute the aca of exempting. from liquidation, tence to imprisonment." should be one of the strongest grounds for it.
| Viscount Templewood, pre-
war Home Secretary who then' "Criminals who can
be re was an advocate of the death stored raise no problem and] penalty, salą today that he has should be left out of the dis- changed his mind and cussion," he said. "If they arej favours abolition. reformable, reform them."
Reform Bill
"Barbarian"
now
Lord Tomplewood, head of} The argument about banging the Howard League for Penal had been raging in public Reform, said he now regarded capital punishment as "bar- barian."
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One of Britain's leading, cri- minal lawyers, Dorek Gurtias- Bennett, now in Rangoon de- tending the accused slayers of
wrote earlier to The Times in defence of the death penalty. To abolish the death penalty, he said, would be "an invita-
NORRIS CASTLE Burmese Premier Aung San BURGLARY
Cowes, Dec. 7. Two men, one of them masked, forced their way into Norris Castle where Queen Victoria once lived, and stole rings from the fingers of two women.
Last night, Mrs. Florence Binbeck went to answer the front door when the men confronted and attacked her.
She was found lying on the floor by her sister, a Mrs. Lawes,
The men demanded the keys of the castle and took nearly £100. The telephone Ilnes were cut—Reuter.
Romantic
Their Majesties the King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Margaret, attended a Royal Command fim performance, at the Odran Theatre, Leicester Square, Landan. Photo shows, left to right, in the Royal Box, during the performaner, are: Queen Elizabeth; King Michael of Rumania; and Princen Margaret. (APhoto)
KING LEOPOLD READY
TO END EXILE
Brussels, Dec. 7.
tion to murder" to the "many King Leopold of the Belgians told a meeting at
to
evilly-disposed young men who have been so well-trained kill for the sake of their coun- try in war."
Another lawyer disagreed and cited evidence that murder has decreased in 21 countries which have previously abolished the death penalty for it.....
MP's Divided
Pregny, near Geneva, that he was ready to resume the responsibility as head of his dynasty, according to a communique Issued tonight by his secretariat in Brussels,
The King said: "I am ready as servations as to some of King before when it will be publicly pro- Leopold's actions; before and during claimed that nothing has tarnished this time.
the bonour of the head of- the Authoritative sources, in Brussels dynasty--to anume the responsibility said "on Saturday that M. Paul of these duties with double concern Henri Spank, the Prime Minister, for all Belglass beyond political was to release shortly a Govern- The
argument has raged parties in an element of salty and ment declaration that King Leopold through more than 200 letters national reconstruction and interon the war or the German occupation. concord, and to cooperate usefully in did not behave dishonourably during
but making certain reservations on
in The Times and the Dallyclonal solidar oath to respect the some of his actions. Router,
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"In taking the
the
Telegraph.
The present Home Secretary, Constitution and the laws of Mr. Chuter Ede, recommends Belgian people, I have contracted that the death penalty bo re before, the nation duties which It in tained until the post-war wave not fit for me to elude.”. of violent crime has subsided.. But the Government is report-
R.A.M.C. ed authoritatively to be plan- Driver
A Prelude
7,
ning to let Parliament decide The monarch was addressing wholly on the consciences of delegation of the "Congress for the individual legislators who are Solution of the Royal Problema," as divided on the subject us on-party
movement founded in the rest of the country-Asso- Belgium. ciated Press.
King Leopold's declaration
LONDON, DEC. 7. JOHN BENSON, 22-YEAR- OLD EX-R.A.M.C. DRIVER OF LIVERPOOL, WHO RECENT- LY SPENT FIVE MONTHS IN GERMANY TRYING TO GET HIS GERMAN. FIANCEE] WITA OTT, AGED 18, OF BERLIN OUT OF THE COUN-¡ : TRY, HOPES TO BE RE- UNITED WITH HER IN LON-1 DON ON WEDNESDAY.
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deprived of immediate political significance by the fact that it was addressed to representatives of 'an upofficial body, but it was generally here a prelude to .༢ declaration on expected some
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question," next week. While Belgium's three-yea?!
Bold problem of the monarchy was now
LONDON, DEC. 7. obviously entering a new phase, no SCOTTISH MINERS CON-clear-cut solution was yet in_view TINUE TO LEAD IN BRI- in face of the stubborn disagreement He has succeeded in raising TAIN'S INTER-COALFIELD on the issue of the country's the 18 plane fare and is now OUTPUT COMPETITION FOR leading political partics Socialists trying to sell his bicycle in order THE MITCHELL HEDGES Social Christiane.
to go to London and take her TROPHY.
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Spaak Declaration
two
of
and
north, the British Press Asso- The Intest results for the The Coalition Government is eam- 'ciation reported today.
When Benson was demobilia with a target of 445,400 tons,
week ended Nov. 22 show that, posed of Socialists who firmly oppose ed, he returned to Berlin in his they raised 476,700 tons: uniform, lived for five months
the King's return on the ground They have a total of 288 his "unconstitutional attitude," with the girl's family and was points and are 41 points ahead the Social Christians who have been sentenced by a British civilian of the South Wales mitiers who the' King's supporters throughout the Court to 28 days detention ag an raised 28,000 tons above their The Government, It was
dispute. illegal immigrant but wentence target 458,000 tons, tood, has already drafted a declara was suspended on condition he Northern Division, with 208 don stating that the King "did not left Germany Associated points and third in the list, profit his honour" during the Press.
have a weekly target of 788,600 when he surrendered to the Ger- tona and had topped this by 42, maus nor during the country's c 000 tons.Renter
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