First picture of quads
Quads-all Girts--were horn in Westminster Hospital, Londen, to 27-year-old Mrs. Eliza- beth Cole, wife of a browery engineer, David Joseph Coles, arjed 31, of Kent House, Pulford Street. The hablen were born prematurely. They were expected in November. They were
are, hour, and are between three and four pounds. all born within
They are doing quite well, silhough rather weakly, and are in new-type incubators i ken to the tiospital 1 few
The Coles have a son, David, aged five.
student Photo shows
Janel Hour earlier. Daloent with the quads le their special incubators, at Westminster Hospital. (AP Photo).
Three's a crowd even in prison
By John Hall
Breakfast today for 22,440 people in Britain was served at 7 am. under lock and key -parridge, bread and mar- garine, and a mug of tea →→→ prison breakfast.
For about 16.000 it was break- fast behind bars too; they ale in their cells, some of them as they Insletree to a cell,
It is 30 year since there were sa inary people in jail in this county. The pro is now twice us high as it was before the war, and it is still rising
More required
the kaw-abirting işterwar years the Prison Commissioners closert 25 local Jails, Since the war they have
Reopened seven of those closed Jatts;
T-ken over ate foriner naval Jali;
Started four now "open" prt- sons alut two petion empt
Opened eight new Borstal stitutions, and a ninth will
under
be given five to 14 years proven- tive detention, and those 30 with "records" up 10 four years corrective training.
:
nurse
You get the house Down Under
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1950.
SWEDEN TAKING STEPS TO COUNTER INVADERS
Sweden, neighbour to Russia and neitral in the last war, la deeply perturbed about Communist penetration. Several bladen Jotely liave shown that she has real catine for lien concere.
To guard against this penetration she is taking mortant precautions, and is being urced, by many of her citizens to po atiti further.
By Ralph Hewins
Frontline Sweden is taking 1 separate futernment camps for reprees special precautions to prevent different enterones of
awälting Interrogation. At pre
Communist agents from be-selit all rofujicos hire Nak
bind the Iron Curtain inated it Gattrorii, 32 miles
of Stockholm, and Altrating into the country us discharged seamen, political that their collection in one centre renders collaboration chay refugees and "ship-jumpers." for false political refugeva
und simple the task of at ting at " konuldo Zugitives.
Hard to trace
Investigations corried out by the Swedish Security Police prove that at least half the scores of m
who have left Polish verrela in Swedish harbours during the current year on MA pretext or another are in fact agents of the Soviet Union and Its satellites.
It is feared that amongst the Poles are highly trained and specialised naboteurs who would remain in hiding in Sweden until war brokę out.
Most of the work of the agents' Is. however, thought to be less ambitiou-to bulld 11t the Framework for a fifth column in cunjunction with the very few Swedish citizen, including Com- urists, who would be prepared to serve as active traiters if it come to the point.
Spying on refugees
Another task of the smuggled agenta la to spy on the thousands of genuino refugees from the Iron Curtain, particularly the Baltic States, Poland and the, Eastern Zone of Germany, who have found asylum in Sweden.
By J. C. GRAHAM The effect has been that young
Tenants in State housing persistent offenders who might previously have "got away with settlements throughout New say, 12 months for स BurglaryZenland are today preparing enn now be given up to
to buy their home for pay-metal years corrective training,
ments of less than 30s, a week;
'Spiv complex'
nud
four
Thousands
those
Picked Poles are believed to bet as courlers between the Cominform and its adherents in weden. It is thought that sab version in Foreign countries is generally carried out by Soviel organisations independent of Russian ant satellite organisations abroad.
Consequently a strict with Increased personnel Leen initiated at the
quyn Stockholm,
Gothenburg cther Swedish poris,
of
State houses were built every year by the the former Labour Government There is evidence that courts are imposing longer sen- and the State became by far the lences, both by way of preven-biggest landlord in New Zealand. tivo detention
corrective Now a Government which is in training and in lieu of the fact power has the housing policy of "own your own"; and, in accor- that they can no longer order the
dance with its ideal of fastering "rat."
In the areas where crime has property-owning democracy, Is wuned police chiefs
the putting the Stute houses on sale
io tenants. TC- longer sentences have been
They have sponsible: crime less attractive, for the con-
concerned. measures the firmed ciminal
years
say
made
risk in terms of the "stretch" he that may
whether get, and "stretch" is called preventive de- tention or corrective training matters not to him. It will be seine
before Lac
the results of the now strategy pened late this month,
can be assoszed, especially its stifl But cell arcuimodation is
who as the three-to-a-effect on young offenders, nadequate
are the main probieru, ell conditions show-and unless
the risin there is a check to prison-population_inore. Jalls..wili have to be buikt.
It is 30 years since a new pri- son was built in Britain-at Camp Hill, Isle of Wight, opened In 1912,
New Zealand State housing settlements have been acclaimed as among the best in the world by overseas experts.
To avold monotony, the lieuses are bullt to hundreds of different designs, so that two
in the same neighbourhood are exactly allice. Also, they stand af diffe-
vent distances from the road and are built in varying materials, some wood, some brick, some plaster. In some towns, indeed, the Stato housing suburbs decidedly the most attractive
For too many a prison sentence no longer carries a Stigma, and there are hordes of well-meaning people who are too ready to ex-districts. cuse the law-breaker.
oature of it.
Planned on modern lines and
from
Britain
Social worker, say we are 'st reaping the harvest of the plywell equipped with labour-saving complex, the quest for an easy devices, the houses are in keen If you ask how the country has managed, in the matter of crine,ving without scruples about the demand. And here a word of
The prisons
warning-settlers ture to put the clock back 30 years full of would-be "wide boys."
have no prospect of stepping Into √ and more, experts will give you a
As a young prisoner told a pri- One beesuse there is a long wall- variety of answers-the war m
Son governor: "Yes. I'd ko ing list of urgent cases, most of Ns aftermath, lowered moins,
straight if i could get u £15-a-wlifeh have been waling several housing difficulties, slack parents,
week job that hadn't too much rationing and scarcity of col1-
hard work in it." sumer goods, excess of new re-
gulations, too much pampering and not enough punishment of Inw-branker.
Paint to ponder about new le- nistution is that in the last ten years nearly 30,000 new inwy and regulations have came into being, and in that time the prison population has risen by 10,000- a ratio of three to one.
U.S. MILITARY MISSION IN PI
Manila. September 19. A joint U.S. State-Defence Department Military Survey If you go back 30 years for comparisons the facts are blackerMission opened a series of con than the figures.
ferences with Philippines Arm Thirty years ago the largest ed Forces leaders on the island". number of prisoners were drunks, defence, needs. petty pilferers, and mendicants,
The United States sroup ahy of whom were sent down headed by Mr. John Melby bi without the option" of paying the State Department and Major. Graves S. Ersking
discussions with the
a line.
Today there bra few drunks,
General
years.
But to existing tenants the Government's new policy opeus up a bright prospect. The terms are so favourable that purchasers will have to pay little more weekly than they have been pay. Jag as rent. For a start, 10 per cent of the purchase price is held in suspense and is written off completely after the occupier has lived in the home for seven ycars,
No compulsion
Only live per cent of the pur- chase price is required as deposit, and as long as the buyer com Unues to live in the house he has to pay only three per cent in-
almost no tramps or beggars, andarine Corps); settled down of terest on the money still owing.
"time to pay" an optional
is standard practice. Today the largest number of prisoners are his ald
Chief of Stoll
and
find 1
M. Chetadane written off if the breadwinner
aldes today after a preliminary burglars and thloves, and worst conference with, President
rent Elpidie
Under no mortgage insurance schémobil money outstanding is dies before the age of 60; the widow Inherits a debt-free home.
of nil is the Inege Increase in the Quiring and the National. De in the case of a £2,000 hot, number of young wrongdoers, | fence · Secretary,
Ramon weekly payments, spread over 40
Magsaysay on Mondays wears, work out at 208. 10d.
•
Change in strategy THO mission
probably remain in
in the Philip- There is no compulsion to buy. War brought a crime wave, but pines for two weeks. They care Tevents, who, when to continue the rise has been since
-after simitar, paying ront have been guaranteed 1840, the end of the war in with other Far Eastern demos that they will not be disturbed. Europe.
Houses, will be sold only to the cracles.
Occupiers,
tornis,
A year ago there were indica Mr. Melby declined to answer tions that the wave was subsid-a question whether the U.S. So attractive are the ing. Many police chicts, includ- might extend military aid in the however, that, about five per ing those in the London, gres, Government drive to suppressent of State Legants lipd taken reported,, and are still reporting, Communist Hukbulhaps med steps to buy their hones willfu lexa crime, though in a few areps forces riding in Latron, province, the first week and a much larges notably Scotland, crime Is still Associated Press.
proportion had sought details.. Increasfrig
A cliango in strategy In the war on crimo ling resultert in more prisoners, for inw-breakers aro being "plit away" for longer periods
* This change in strategy boat with the Criminal Justice Act, of 1040, the Act, which expunged the word convict, abolished penal servitude anti; except for nifescos committed in prison, the "eat" and the birch,
BISHOP'S DEATH
The scheme will undoubtedly make yest differente through?) louf the hufé State housión sollte.. Vatican City, September 29.
ments. Henceforth, a large num- Monsignor
Aldde. Marina, ber of the residents will pco- Titular. Bishop of Ellopolf and ple who, as the Government says. Apostolic Nuncio in Lebanon, are making thelt house their dica last night in a tomb hos sayings bank and creating án tư-- Set for themselves and their (de-i pfal. He had been till fär av pendants;, leffend af: paving reno
hionths, Monsignor Marina, born on for the rest of shule ver May 24, 1887 near Fistenza, With this alm in Vlowi Whitherglen more time to reform decles to be in expect in Oriontal cu Haystems t
Itals was considered in Vatican Cluverenite la: introducin and reclaim. habiittial, wrongdoers The courts were dispowered to religious matters. He served at which twin mRNA. Impose, preventive detention or Apostolle Delighte; in Farsit and sandliestyl Corrective trainin
To give the prison and Borsial
MiLawbreakers över. Lyonne of
Toplamarjased without bein –Shamen
who have "records" car now. Prekyba antroerest indules hav
watch has at and
authority to
The Swedish authorities are olso agitating for check ships' crews on arrival and departure Instead of just relying en the word of each skipper as has been the practice hitherto.
Such an innovation would not be one-sided so far as Poles are The Polish harbour authorities have for years sul- jceted visiting Swedish sesion imposed drasile regulations for to the strictest scrutiny and have tong ashore. Many Swedes who have wittingly or Inadvertently infringed the regulations have been imprisbued.
tive.
Suspicious men
Refugeas
trek to
South
More than 100,000 lestitute Gfinese lugees, jurvivors of Jaat muger's foods In hast chinui fire trekking slowly Southward in a search for some other. Must then are without way to les body and soul to-
any reduces beyond clothes on air bacle by the few popsessions they wer abie tu savage before the lied waters inundated their houses, families
bing the Sivedin authorities and live stre
But the intruders most pertur,
migh
Power.
the
who never come under curvelliance it all. These jun
Omotal Cairaunist reports ad- are dimcult to trace, ginčo karia of thourpads of furitives from it that the lure of 100,00%, is Eastern Europe have been given on scumplete statistics feines hore ghice, 1930, and
Sunmile,
raporis nhà thắt kh mongst them pre plenty of help fint city, bringing the number of recently made their way to ing hands for agents of forelando refugees to over 23,000.
mäelliten, 25,000 minte had gone ti Settled refugees live nigre South Kiwiesu, 20000 to Pukow over become accepted in Sweden and 10,000 to Southern Aliwel.
The reports spuke liopefully es and accordingly have access to
would establishing relief and accommo- much intelligeros. that ordinarily be hard for a hostile tatlon stations in various locali- Power to assemble. It is justics, and said that publicity cam- such materia) that wandering phigns would be Imunchtd to #gerts are expected to' collect.
“trengthen the confidence of the refugees." It was apparent, how- A further precaution advocated over, that tile real help would Lere is an extension of forbidden be given. Some commillée meet- defence zones ол something Ings were held at which It was approaching a wartime scale. At: decided to follow the principal of present such zones are limited. | “self-salvation," which means just as mucli as possible, thus point that. lug out to foreign agents just where to investigate.
Reports from Shanghai said
of the flood refugees were ing the streets and sleeping | A precaution demanded by a nut of doors. Local residents wide section of the auti-Comi~ tried to obtain accommodation for munist Swedish Pross is the in-them in coffin repositories, funeral troduction of the right to search parlours and family associations. the persons and cameras of but willigut much success. It was
privileged hitherto
diplomatic feared that inany would die off personnel. It is considered use with the first cold snap-United less to go on obtaining the regnil Press. of
diplomats after Communist they have penetrated forbidden zenes and taken pictures. Diplo mats thus abouing their rights cre simply roplaced. The stable door is merely closed after the horse has bolled. The "dirty work" goes on.
Saboteurs
Chief diplomatic offenders are the Russians, The movements of two of the Empassy stuff-one in the Stockhoki archipelago und une on the Baltic island of Gol- land are at this very time said to be under review by the Swedish Security Police.
Czech business men have also excited much suspicion since it transpired here that they have roch. received detailed. instruc- ions for economic espionage and recruitinent of Swedish traitors
cn setting out
CATTLE DIE IN SHIP'S HOLD
London, September 18. Forty of 400 hend of cattle died today in water-logged holds
OA
board the steamer Kenmare dur- ing a voyage from Cork, Eire, 10 Liverpool."
The crew described it as one of the worst crossings ever, i
Mountainous seas, whipped by gales, pounded in from the At- They had to look help. antle. lessly at the cattle, which Week being tossed from side to side as the ship rolled. The animals fell on top of one another, lowing piteous in their death throes.
Steamfors crossing from France und Ireland brought home holi- day-makers green and Kroggy after the worst crossing of their their lives.
before travels.
The North, West English tomat was pounded by an exceptionally Already anboteurs have ex-high tide nil yesterday and work- perimentally put the Swedish men fought to save the £350,000 electric grid. out of action for illuminations at Blackpool-- from three-quarters of an hour. This being destroyed.
higher was an inconvenience in place. winds aro forecast In war it might make the differ- Reuter. chce, between life and denth for Sweden's costly defence,
which
ix Britain's most easterly bul- wark in Europe North of the Mediterranean.
Bome such tightening up of the Swedish powers seems impera,
The police have ample proof that Polish boats plying regularly every 10 days or so to Swedish ports habitually leave suspicious rien ashore and re- turn lot them a trip or two later. What these agents actually, do or with whom they collaborate is not easy to trace, for the dis- embarked agents are armed with falsc papers and Identities. When these men have done their are mysterious errands, they pleked up and the work appears
Washington, September 10. The Senate Armed Forces Cam- to be carried on by fresh sub-
provided with appro- mitice today approved the nomi- stitutes. priate new forgeries.
nation of General George Mar. Another innovation which the shall a Secretary of Defence.-- Swedish authorities want to sturt❘ United Press.
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