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GENERAL
Colony Crime Up In 1938
SINO JAPANESE
WAR BLAMED · The Sino-Japanese hostilities -have had ambrikat otherɔ, the following effects;-(a) an in- flux of poverty-stricken | re- tugees leading to increased numbers of beggars and haw- kers. (by an influx of Shang- bal criminals mainly pick- pockets. (e) za mcrease in multsal cases of a technical nature. (d) "an increase in technical arms. cases nature, according to the An- nual Report of the Hongkong and Kowloon Magistracies for the year 1938,
of" a
There have been marked in creases in convictions for various offences. The most serious is in
oplum respect of
and heroin offences which in Hongkong in- creased from 500 and 243 to 936 and 419 respectively. In Kowloon the increase was most startling from 351 and 84 to 1259 and 681 respectively. Drug addicts form
a large percentage of the criminal population and divans are their favourite resorts.
Post Office Profit
REVENUE EXCEEDS
1937 RECORD
Balance of revenue over expen- diture charged against the depart- mental rota for 1938 was $1,848,410 the annual report of the Postmas- ter-General, tabled in Legislative" Council yesterday, revealed,
Revenue totalled $1,791,127, against $2.277,473 in 1937, and ex- penditure 3942,717 as compared with $787,755 the previous year.
The increase in expenditure was mainly due to the payments re- quired in connection with the Em- pire Air Mail Scheme and addi- tional transit' charges incurred as a natural result of a general `in- crease in the malls.Revenue again improved and exceeded the 1937 figure which stood as the previous high record. Beavier mails due to abnormal conditions. and a full year's working of the Pan American Airways Service were the cause contributing to the expansion in Revenue.
The Empire Air""Mall Scheme, under which all first class mail between participating countries is
carried by air as the normal means of transport, was extended to in- clude Hongkong in September.
The total weight of air mail re- ceived and despatched by all air lines during the year was 439,989 Ibs, as compared with 89,316 lbs, in 1937 an increase, mainly due to the Empire Air Mail Scheme, of 350,673 lbs. ·
There has been in both" Magis- tracies serious increase amount- ing to 25 per cent, in convictions for Larceny from the Person In- mainly earring snatching. creases of 100 per cent, are record- ed in mendicancy cases. This 18 due mainly to the Sino-Japanese
The total number of parcels incident, Robbery (mainly armed) shevis an increase due to the handled shows a large increase amount of arms in China.over the 1937 Agures. The increase The number of licensed hawkers was due to the maintained im- has decreased but unlicensed ones provement in local trade and to the continued diversion to Hong- have increased as measured by the
Such kong services of a considerable number of convictions." cases form nearly half of the total amount of traffic which, under heard and the magis- normal conditions, would be rout
whether ed direct to Chinese Offices of ex- feel doubtful the energy therein expended change. especially by the Police is of much avail
cases tratės
guest
At the weekly lunch meeting of Magisterial sentences for adults the Y's Men's Club yesterday, Mr. whether" punitive or reformatory Wong Kwok-fang, the show few changes. Noticeably speaker, addressed the gatheringTM fewer bonds were enforced and in an breeding and management of were canaries. Mr. 8. B. Tan presided Hongkong fewer persons bound over. The average fine paid at the meeting. has increased from $2.82 to $3.28; the number of persons fined having increased by 2,725 but the number inisoned in default of a. fine has dropped by nearly 400. This is due to lighter penalties be- ing imposed.
MORE JUVENILES CASES Juvenile crime shows an la- crease in cases of pocket pick- ing and watching of earrings.
tendency A disquieting
of juveniles to work in gangs often under the tutelage of an adult is appareat. Another serious factor is that many juveniles aged 12-16. have pre- vious convictions; the figures are 26 as against 6 and all are in Hongkong. Several have been banished. Several juve- nile drug addicts have appear- The ed before the Court. Juvenile Court is much bandi- capped in its reformative work without a Reformatory.
Sentences on juveniles show an increase in canings ordered main- ly in cases of larceny from the person. More bonds have been en forced against the delinquent's parents...
OTHER ASPECTS Proceedings were taken under the Extradition Acta against · 12 persons for crimes committed out side the Colony. Both of them were discharged.
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Summonses... under the Separa- tion and Maintenance Order Or dinance, 1935, in Hongkong num- bered 16 as against 4. in 1937. Order were made in 9 of them. In Kowloon these pummonses num- bebe 5 as against 5 in 1937.- Or- ders were made in all of them
EMERGENCY REFUGEE
COUNCIL
The accounts of the perform ance of the Oratorio The Resur rection," performed by the Choral Group on May 18, are now com pleted.
A very satisfactory balance of $493.35 has been added to the Funds of the Emergency Refugee Connell.
The Choral Group and Orches tra are to be congratulated on this satisfactory result.
Chan Sut Lam, 27, and LAU
Heng, 22, were remanded for 48 hours, when they were before Mr. E Emswor Kowloon Magistracy, with ing various suns menaces. that further
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