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No. 22615. EÉFAAAN AW#AGA4TE HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931.
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UP TRAINS
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Ka,10j No. 5 No. 13 No.11 No.10 A.NAM. A.M.) P.M."|| P.M. |
Kowloon.Dap. 6.35 8,00; 8.24 9,05 19,00 12,03 1.18 Taamati, Dop. 6,44 -9.15 19.08 12,13 1,23
Shatin..Dop 6.58
Taipo...Dop 7.10
Твіро
Market. Dep. 7,15
Fealing..Dep 7.25
Shaung.
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Bram.
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WHAT A SENTIMENTAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS.
THE OPINION OF AN "ADVANCED". WOMAN.
Capital punishment, introduced by the Normans, extended itself to heresy by the great statute: Con- cerning the Burning of a Heretic
multitude of crimes that the Report to treason; and finally to such a
reminds us that at the early part of the aineteenth century hardly a crime escaped the far-flung net. 7,074 people were sentenced to death between 1809 and 1818!
According to the, Home papers appear on the shme page. Their y speaking, to where we were he the report of the Select Committee conclusions, couched in a high rhe fore the Norman Conquest. Homi- on Capital Punishment makes quito toric, are garnished by an excerptcide then was no matter for the good rending, but will not carry from Victor Hugo. What all these Law of Moses-life for life. The much weight. In the first place, no'l gentlemen have said is not evil man's kindered had to be compen- one can but hesitate to embark on donee, and that a report written sated, and so had the king, for his so grave and hotly disputed in the style once described by Mr. peace had been broken. 3.19 3.40 5.99 6,388.43 change in the law on the strength Squire as the Sec-how-many- of recommendations signed by only authors-I-con-mention" style is not eight out of the fiftcan members of ¦ what was wanted. * the Committee. A bare majority
The opinion of a well-known is not enough. In the second place, woman harrister who is a leader the cight have not presented their of advanced thought, Miss Helen case in a very convincing manner. Normanton, is also of interest. Surely if there ever was any pro- Miss Normanion writes vision of the law that ought to be
The Select Committee on Capital discussed in a hard, cold and disPunishment have presented a de- passionate spirit, the death penalty finite recommendation that Parlia- ought to be that provision. But Mr.ment should abolish execution by Barr and his colleagues have given hanging for an experimental period ends, and of this 7,074 only 608 were Brutal severity defeats its own way to sentiment and, even worse, of five years. They further definite actually executed. Reprievca, tratis- to pootry. They quote Shakespearely recommend that, pending the portations, boneft of clergy, and other modes of evasion operated and Scott. They also quote a pas-passage of such a law, the death largely. Concurrently, there was a sage in dialect which appears to be sentence should be commuted by | passionatethovement for the reform by Burns and add: "This is borne exercise of the Royal Prerogative, process which adorned the reign of of the Criminal Law, a beneficent out by the evidence before us." and that the penalty now attached Victoria. They remind us of Draco (who, to reprieved murderers should be
Nowadays, the sentences to death was Archon of substituted. In other words, ativo-between 1090 and 1929, 220 they inform 118,
are far fewer, but much more effec Athens and published his laws in secret prisoner might be detained sentences of death were pronounced 021 B.C.), and that his decrees were until death, a killer by sudden vío and 158 carried out. An average said to be "written not in ink but lence for a longer or shorter term of nius per year wore, reprieved during that decade, nothing worec of years,
occurring than occasional bursts of annoyance, such as occurred in, the Ronald True case.. Tn. Scotland. thers were only two executions be tween 1919 and 1018.
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Diary of Coming Events.
To-day... (January 16.)
Cathedral Hall: Lecture by Mr. Bassom Johnson on "Social Work of the League of Nations," 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Not Bo Dumah."
World Theatre: "Knight of the Burning Temple" (Chinese picture)
Star Theatre: "Protection." Central Theatre: "The Vagabond King."
Toa Dances H.K. Hotel, 4,30 p.m. Dinner Dances:, H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
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