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CRIME IN SINGAPORE. CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES,
He thought it only fair to Singapore to. point out, that the difficulties' of polier | work in” this place, were greater than in almost any other, town in the whole! world.
TRADE IN THE STRAITS
SETTLEMENT.
FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1923
B.E. The Governor of the Straits Settle
advantages of co-operation and organi sation were inculcated throughout China. China was the main recruiting-ground for At a meeting of the Legislative Coulled the population of Malaya, and when the of the Straits Settlements Jast week My. bad characters in Southusyu China made LOWTHER Keur inquired whether the things too hot for themselves they untur attention of the Government had been rally led to the south seas. In addition drawn to an article which appeared in to this noong the more faw-abiding po bar of the local papers (some time agopulation, owing to the unfortunate goa- under the hodh-The-Policy-of-Til dition of civil war, the young men who Ajn." He preseded to read there qanundinarily rains here and settled down tations from the articls Jobich appeared to janevalle occupations, had been inured in the the business houshed mecserned in the use of therefore-with-le-Chinew population period of trap-the total declared
follows:-
arms, and practised in the arts of squeez The country swarms with blacking and looting, All these facters had guards why blackmail under threats, and shoot, stuh, or bhalgeen if their hai their influence, and there was an-). deminds are resisted,"
other local factor which had hail more Murders have taken place in the influence than was geneéntly réalised. open streets faction lights are of almost weekly ocurrrner, secret socicuring 1921 and 1929, when the slump, ties are allowed to harish, and there was in" Pistence, large numbers of abe are, highways in the Peninsula, which died, men weis - thrown out of work, a lonely car hardly dare alive along, and they naturally took to bad ways. the risks of being held up by an armed! gang are so great."
There are honest filk here who bave to submit to merciles extortion in
order that they may be allowed to live and keep what belongs to them, and if they handed their tormentars, over to the police, it would be signing their own th-warrants.
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In his opinion. Mr. Bentry centiuned, it was not due to, the suplarnets of the Government that the conditions which existed today had arisen. Heferred to the activities of the police and the Protecturate, and added that the presis dent and the committee of the Chinese
Advisory Board, and the public-spirited dividlard members, bail given splendid fissisträfice" to "hini this' gear. It was not the ense that Government allowed rooie ties and extortion to exist. The peice and Protectorats were constantly waging war against these two evils,
CHINÉSE-SPEAKING OFFICERS,
NO LONG-ARM OF THE LAW,
Match: ***
The total trade of the Colony for the first six months of this year shows con- silerable improvement upon that for the value of both imports al exports being nearly 18 million dollars more than that of the first half of last year, an inorense af 33.85 per cent. The total declared Tale of exports increased by 34.5 per cent,
Th Colony's export of merchandise to countries outside British Malaya amount- first half of the year, of which Pára rub- to nearly 311 million dollars for the her alene totaled 1921 millions, or s per cent, of the total of the Colony's ex- ports. If the figures for British Melayu, are taken instead, they amount to 140
rubber
The articles
under review the Colony imported ore from countries outside British Malayn at a total increased cast of 60 per cent, as compared to a 41 per cent. inervase in average value with last year the extra cost being due All these cuestions were being consider and a 20 per cent, increase in quastity. ed; but he wanted people to appreciate Maleyan ore was imported coating in the the difficulties under which the police aggregate 20 per cent. more than in 1929, were working. The question of money but there was an increase in average ynlua for information had already been dealt of 34 per cent, and a decrease in quantity
But with. Government had been most gene of 11 per cent, rous to the police, and were prepared to give more money if necessary. they only asked for more money when
FIND EVER MADE IN CHINA. their results justified such a demand, and GREATEST ARCHEOLOGICAL it would not be until they dealt mora directly with informers that more money would be required.
V
PRICELESS BRONZES.
Their greater trouble was the language question, Over ais Chinese dintecte-and-several tailian languages: were spoken in the town, and it was withs, in the course of an matness taxo the Chinese side that he wished to deal. Week rowing the Budget for the Colony, Over 70 per cent, of the population öf Singapore was Chinese and over 30 per ernt, of the crime was Chinese. It was that the police had mostly to deal, it he was sorry to say that only a few of the higher officials" in the police "could speak Chinese, and practically none of the superior investigating officers. When the latter class was in a position to deal directly with the Chitirse, much would be gained, and he proposed to put for ward for the consideration of the Govern
wat propwals to encourage the study of Chinese among that part of the force
million dollars, of which Pars stationed in Singapore.
Another difficulty was "experienced | accounted for 150, million of dollarse or ver the question of identity. So many 41 percent, of the whole. people came into Singapore from So The average declared value of rubber many different places that really all the xported luring the first six months of police got was a description of a wanted; 1900 was 2881 cents per h., while that for with possibly a tane, which could the same period of this year was 51.21 These, he saith, bere very grase and
be changed at-will-Perbay's saine form ersts par lb. If the quantity exported. serious charges. The good name of the
of registration might get over that from the Colony this year to cutries out ficulty, but in any case it should be held side British Mainga be calculated at lase Colony was a patter which was of the
that people who changed their names year's value, viz., 28.61 cents per 1,, is very closest conserputer to them all.
were more or less suspects. In dealing would amount to 65 million dollars, so They had been in the limelight quite gun-
with this question a knowledge of Chinese that this year's total value, viz. 1285 was alsolutely necessary, because it was million dollars, shows an inervibe of over siderably lately in donneetion with the
only by the most earful enquiries that 34 million dollars, er say 6 milliva they could establish identity and even: Sterling it valun the British Malayan Naval kiss, and it must have come as
The article reförred, to" appeared to
wally ran the man down,
figures are substituted" for the Colony's, Enther a shock to some of them to hear have bees perd on account of a slan
the total increase in value would bo |of the evil reputation, they, held in some fight "which took place here on September },
The third great difficulty, the speaker nearly 65 million dollars, or say $2 per Curtiss, Could they imagine the gleeth or 10th. It might surprise honour-
able members to hear that since the year contined, was that in Singapore there cent,
The other articles of export which show with which the gentleman, who describe 117, when he assume control of the was practically no long anti of the law, Singapore as an immoral and pesti Protectorate, there has been only three! By that he meant tha; the criminal, on an increased value are benzing, tin, petro- The total imports increased in Intial cesspool" would read that article plan fights opposed to society fights.away from Singapore, was away for leum, cotton pirce-goods arecanuts, and
In this fight the parties were natives good. He personally felt that the vast sugar, He would be able to say that the new of a portion of Chinn the inhabitants majority of criminals had a homing in value by 33.5 per cent. gr those of the papers of the Calay referred to it of which were generally recognised to be stinet, and if they know that they could same period of last year, practically a sink of iniquity. Also he mentally and, morally of an inferior type, not go to their homes that Had a deter-which show increases are fara rubber, tin would read that the Governor and high He disagreed with the remark in the rent effect. Once the criminal got away ore, motor vehicles and nccessories, cotter officials were spending money on nurseries article that by the expenditure of few from here, he could go where he would, sarongs and kain, and piece-goods. The and furniture for themselves which should thousand dollars they could arrest and and that meant that all police work, to figares of tin ore show that in the period more properly be spent on the police, port bundred of bad character. To be successful, had to be done within 15 The Secretary for Chinese Affairs and formation was very useful and necessary, hours. That was à difficulty which it the Inspector-General of Police were the but it was insufficient by itself. They bad was very hard to get over unless there two officials who were responsible for this toviosc and sift and corroborate infar was some very rigorous system of cheek alleged state of affairs, and be wanted mation, and then they had to identify the ing people who left the island. in all seriousness to know whether these mana treat dithculty in a city with charges were true or not.
250.000 Chinese inhabitants When this hdd been dong, it was most extraordinary PROTECTOR OF CHINESE, REPLIES. how elusive such bad characters became The PROTECTOR OF CHINESE, in reply, once they suspected that they were either said that he welcomed an opportunity of being watched or wanted. It was quite replying is these remarks, because it easy for them to shift from one portion would seem that the article referred to of the city to another, or to another part of the countryside or to go over to might have caused unnecessary alarai in certain quarters. To unciilien readers, Johor, In his experieuse, the Protecto. or readers without a knowledge of the rate, had for years past been receiving considerably more information, than it facts, it would appear that Singapore could properly digest. In one mense he
The question of protection was another was a very Alsatia, a kingdom of anarchy thought the department was under-staff:
The population_in and misrule. He thought that that was ed., The Protectorate had not been able very difficult one.
The greatest archnological find ever made- a wrong impression and that the fags to deal with the information it feceived: China had een accustomed to pay for in China, says a Peking news agency, has were not as bad as had been statel. "Rebecause there had been an insuficient protection, and here they naturally cen- just heen unearthed in a mound marking ference to published books an old Singa supply of qualified Chinese-speaking tinued the custom. It was their desire to the grave of a member of the royal family pore and to reports and documents by offers. The Governinent were not to show them that such protection would be
the walls of Hsincheng Hsien, Honan. Mr. Pickering, who formerly held his lame lor this state of affairs, for both given without the customary fee, and if of the old fendal state of Cheng, within (the speaker's) position, would show that in the years 1923 and 1923-suficient pro- that was done he felt zure that the porn- this de iption would more properly vision was made in his department for lation would assist the police and without The contents are thus described by Mr. Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institu apply to Singapore 30 years.ago than to
the Protector of Chinese and his assist the assistance of the public police work Carl W. Bishop and Mr. Wenley of the the state of affairs to-day. It was well ant, but the effects of the war were still could never be really efficient. Once they tion of Washington, who went down to to bene in mind that they in Singapore potent throughout, the world, and had had attained that idea! he hoped that view the work at the request of General lived in a great seaport which was on had their effect on the supply of pro- the societies and gangs which were the Wa Pei Fu, whose toldiers are doing the the direct aute between the West and perly qualified cadets. "During the war real trouble would suffer a reverse, and
nt Cheng. the East, and that was the focus of there was no recruitment of young cadet reckoning that was perhaps overdue. Excavating. Most of the specimens have the steamship routes throughout the officers, and he would like to point out The police were being supported by Gor een removed and are now Peninsula. It was, therefore, natural that it tack about thrre sears to qualify crument in every possible way, but it chow
This mound was discovered by, a man that bad characters should drift to this a Chines-speaking cadet in the language hati to be realisest that time was neces-- port. In this Colony there were special law, and after that it took at least sary. Training and Warning language ligging a well and there has been taken problems to be dealt with partly on one year before he could be of adequate meant several years of hard work, but ent close to one hundred pieces of bronze, the effects would be seen steadily and some of which is covered with gold and necount of the composition of the local use. He trusted that in future the population. and partly on account of would be a steady and constant supply Erotically. One wastant touch was es inlaid with precious stones. Because of conditions prevailing after the war. In of officers to staff the Protectorate. "tablishel, he did not think that the the lack knowledge of those unearthing Chinese eximinal would have a very easy the find, much of it has been broken. As the first place the local population was
He (the speaker) thought that coli- time, and he looked forward to the day it stands, aside from its untold value to preponderatingly Chinese, and, the Chi- nese were well-known to be as a whole tions could not be said to be so good as not very far distant-when that state of science, the collection is estimated by Mr. Bishop to be worth a half million dollars a law-abiding and peaceable people who they were a few years ago, but he did affairs would exist.--(Applause.)
merely as fine old bronze. made excellent colonists. Unfortunately, not think that any Government could
CHINESE MEMBER'S VIEW
. The skeleton of the dead man was however, wherever they settled, secret possibly have prevented these conditions societies sprang up, and got a free-hand from arising it was necessary to re-
Mr. TAN CHENG Lock said he had se found in good preservation since the ver in exaction, extortion, and oppression members that lawlessness and contempt of
the body had gone through and impreg chiefly beenUSE the population, as authority were to he noted, not only crised information that there were in milion used in olden times for preserving whole was law-abiding and peaceable, throughout the Far Enst. but throughout existence two rival secret societies inated the bones. It is thought that he De world. It took time to deal with con Singapore, whose numbers came to some-
was interred sometime between 1000.and. They preferred to suffer from exaction,ditions such as had arisen, and he had thing like 50.000. "I do not quite extortion, and oppression, rather than
of a ruch mat under and above the body appeal to the Government which con no doubt that the efforts of Government understand," he continued, how these 500 B.C. There was no coffin but traces give the aid. That was one of the fto deal with the state of affairs now societies have been allowed to grow were found, also impregnated with ver
million greatest difficulties they hard to deal with, existing would be successful in the course such an extent. I have been discussing of time. They would be greatly helped with people the question of the remedy.
The bronzes of this early Chow dynasty Notwithstanding the fact that public- if the internecine strife in China would I think the basis of my idea is the co: spirited members of the Chinese Advisor Board brought to his (the speaker's) tone to an end, and if the price of rubber operation of the Chinese community, which have been found include a war notice cases of oppression from time to tin and other local products would do not think touch can ever be done until thariot with three sets of chains, four the Chinese community co-operates with large hells, one weighing three thousand time and notwithstanding the fact that up and remain steady. (Applause.)
the authorities.My idea is that, in the ounces and seventeen mull bells. about our fect high, a wine pot with inserip-" when the victims could be got to give!
THE POLICE POINT OF VIEW.
first place, 'Government might appoint a gvidence these people were dealt with
committee to consist of trustworthy and tions on if stating that it was given to and no evil effects to the victims follows:
The INSPECTOR GENERAL OF Rotary also energetic representatives of the Chinese the royal family, two large suses, thres ed. there was the greatest difficulty in getting persons to come forward and givred, and said that be welcomed this community chosen fren all over the and half feet high embellished with con I think vention strolls, and bulls and rims heads direct information. If these peon opportunity of making some remarkacity, and in that would not assist the Government, the want this article from the police point ariminals would be brought to book projections and several bronze tripods. hands of Government were tied in deal of view. He would like to point out that and information would be available for large pots. ing with the bad characters. Ne Govern. Singapore was by to means unique in of the particular person who cause: Mr. Bishopted that they also" dag ment would safely deal with alleged bad the present state of affairs. Other towns the trouble, I think the real foundation ap mother-of-pratt beads and fragments characters merely on bearsay. »
in the Far Ens were suffering from the of the averet sieties must be, perhaps, of jade evrouets as ch an important sarpe trouble, and the cause of the dis- couple of people who are benefiting person would have worn on his head in cases was not very difficult to first. The from the whole show. The 50,000 people those days. Mr. Bishop also secured a Great War was the principaksuse, and who are members are not members be small jade tiger finely carved and men in Singapore, the speaker onto the trouble in South China. The cause they want to be but because they suring about two inelics in length,
general disregard for law and order are compelled to be. A great thing There are several other mounds in this was due to secret societies, who wred the existed throughout the world, and the would be to add to the strength of the district, which Mr. Bishop thinks was the macy which they collected, firstly, for lower class of criminal became more authorities from those people who are
mound which has just been excavated was their own purposes, and secondly, for re- inured to the use of firearms and modern forced to join und who refuse to do so." burying place of this royal family. The taining the services of their fightingmen. methods. It was difficult in the East to The honourable member suggested the en-about twenty feet, derp, with several pa Before the war there were a number of keep pace with changes of this kind; and operation of the Chinese newspapers. 20ges leading to the centre where the body small, separate societies carrying out what they wanted now was to train the that it might be made known that people lay with the bronzes placed around it. their operations within local limits. When police to deal with new methods. Govern who are troubled by the societing might
General W. Pei Fu who immediately the war broke out large numbers of ment was doing its best to further this be invited to communicate with thepro took over the work when it was reported known had characters were arrested, with instruction, which would make a great posed committee or the police. the result that the powers of these difference to to police in the future. When societies were temporarily broken. How their men were thoroughly trained by ever, as the war progressed, and Espe going through a course of instruction
“The honourable member for Malacca Mr. Wenley to study the find and to make cially in the later years, the doctrines they would always have trained police of Bolshevism and Communism and the in the stations and on the streets. In the will hardly expect me to say whether a plan table drawing of the mound, "He power and strength of terrorism #prend past, owing to recruiting difficulties the Government endorses or condemns had asked their co-operation, in opening One pamphlet he had seen said, "By the which affected not only the European his suggestions, the Acting Colonial the other mounds so the destruction by use of the bomb, the knife, and drown but the Chinese. Indian, and Malas por Secretary, but any suggestions he may soldiers ignorantly digging in the prosent ing you can so terrorise the whole of the tions of the police, they had had to use anake will have the full conta of one may be avoided and the specimenia The co-operation of the braucht out whole. The bronzes are people that you can order them to march intrained" men who had practically had. Government. to the right, and they will march to the to teach themselves, In the future they Chincao, community is a thing we look awaiting their late as to whether they.. right, dr to march to the left, and they hoped to have only trained men dealing for and have been looking for, for years, will be sent to Peking or put in the
Museum in Kaifeng. It is exactly what we want. will march to the loft," Moreover, the with orime,
BOLSHEVISM AND COMMUNISM, Most of the extortion and
way
that the and had been made by a man ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.. who wan digging a well, extended the courtesy of permitting Mr. Bishop and