THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1948.
Want To Buy A Ship Or An Aeroplane?
BY J. W. TAYLOR
MADE a call the other day Dodge cars sold to the Burmese operate as a bus lino along on Britain's largest second- now hand selling organisation- tungle roads where our troops once used them amid a purgatory of flies, the Ministry of Supply--and heat, dirt and sniping. Adel for found business was fine. This superstructure has been added for is not surprising, considering the comfort of peacetime travellers. that in the last two years they Pumping equipments, Balley brid- have disposed of £480,000,000 ring and Mulberry harbour parts are helping the Dutch to rehabilitato worth of surplus Government their dooded countryside. Hundreds been stores and equipment, the pro- of miles of Pluto line have
from French recovered
territorial ceeds being returned to the recovs, and the work of clearing the Treasury for the benefit of the Narandy beaches of scrap taxpayer.
for Britain finished months ago, to When next you hear of
A the benefit of our foundries. dump of storos allegedly lying
OVERSEAS DISPOSAL neglected in some outfield, be
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steel
sure the Ministry have it In In addition to disposal overseas," a mind and will deal with it in large amount of surplus stores has all good time. Something has been exported from the U. K. Bri- fisti surplus planes, sold overscas to wait, when you consider that
and exported, are now operating in their vast task of collecting practically every country in the valunting and selling stores world, chiefly for passenger tran- rendered surplus at the end of sport and charter work. Thousands the war not only covers
the of surplus planes nol love aviation purposes U.K. but extends to 63 foreign a
up for scrap and used largely for countries where disposal of wor the
construction of aluminium stores has already accounted for houses. One Lancaster bomber pro- £160,000,000,
saleable for been broken
vides enough aluminium for three houses. กระเ niready five aircraft fhelories are engaged on aluminium house production.
FINDING MARKETS The Disposals Directorate of the Ministry find the marketa for all kinds of goods in huge quantities, ranging from Lancaster aircraft and blockbusters to cast-off battleships, materials unused
toothbrushes and feeding bottles. They have a nice
even Mulberry har lured
piece
ece al bridging down 813.000
Disposal of ammunition by break- down for the recovery of component in story in itself. At more than infants Pembrey. North Wales.
pro- 80 tons of fertilisers have been
from Auch source. Royal
have factories
braken
line in interested. Per- Ordnance
it
its a
tons of ammunition,
a length of Pluto and stocks in factories awaiting
treatment
total 85.000 tons. The
outre wanting, or a pipeline they have It. Blankets, treats sheets, parachutes, bedding, dinghies, total ammunition taken from Ser- chemical plant. clothing, limepieces, vice depots as surplus Is 700,000 cranes, furnaces, tools, and other tons, or 3,000 trainioads, and already 2,000,000,000 rounds of small what-nots are on their disposals list, over
es are the following choice ideas arins ammunition have been broken
ps to the use some of their goods down. may be put.
JESTS AND JEERS
Many a housewife has had cause to speak well of the Ministry for thetr nld in time of supply shortages [and rationing of goods. Millions of articles have found their way in- to British homes from the surplus stocks.
METHOD OF SALE
It looks as though the Chinese tins, Reds are retreating in the direction cases
of their opponents.
blankets
of to
Such necessities as kitchen equip ment, utensils, pots, pans, bottles, sheets, pillow trays, and
have been disposed
domestic They users, frequently by auction. have been made available in small on lots to allow the individual buyer
purchase Where vehicles ready markets have been found for most types of Service machines, such as amphibians, artillery true- tors, Bren guns, carriers, tank of 59,000 40,000
At least there's
one point which both sides in the civil worto are in agreement — that Yenan is of no strategic value whatsoever.
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are
concerned,
Anel
of understand you've been study-transporters, Jeeps and ambulances. ing methods for increasing your The sale to oversens salary. How did they turn out?" British pedal cycles
"Not 50 well. The boss was motorcycles bas contributed much studying how to cut expenses at to the export drive, Holland being the same time."
one of our best customers for the bikes. Methods of disposal are by sale under agreement back to the
by competitive tender members of the trade concerned; by open competitive tender, and by auction. Any member of the public And then there was the pretty is entitled to make bona de bids girl who married an Egyptologist for goods which are sold by open
A man who is lucky in love is manufacturers and distributors; known as a bachelor.
restricted to
SAVE
FOR
VICTORY
¡QUIRED) Пу
RAIL
An ASTROS
"Says he's trying out an economical family car.”
American Angle:
WITCH HUNT WARNING
By C. V. R. Thompson
NEW YORK.
FROM Columbus, Ohio, has come a warning of what can happen when a democracy takes up witch-hunting.
A fortnight ago Frank Hashmail, a 29-year- old ex-Now Yorker, proclaimed himself a Com- munist. Whipped up by their local newspapers, the people of Columbus decided to "purgo" hlm.
They telephoned him night and day to heap him with abuse. That failed because they got the wrong number and spoke their insults to an outraged Tory.
Then they started throwing stones,at Hash- mall's home.
Hashmall asked the sheriff for police pro- tection for himself and his wife and child. Sald the sheriff: "I am going to see if I can have you declared a public menace and run out of town."
Then Communist Hashmall got his polico protection-too late. He and his family escaped just ahead of a gang which entered his house. after a barrage of stones..
They smashed his furniture, but left Intact four bookcases filled with Communist literature.
Britain's new Criminal Justices Bill proposes to abolish flogging by cat or birch except for serious offences by a convict in gaol. Would this load to an increase in crime? Here, two former Home Secretaries give their views on a question that has aroused a great deal of public opinion.
SHOULD OFFENDERS BE FLOGGED?
VISCOUNT TEMPLEWOOD or other, OR some reason
the world at large gets very excited over flog-
convictious for robbery with vio- lence Incrented in the years im-
mediately after the passage of the
Garrotters Act, and that there was no foundation for claiming that the activities of the High Rip gangs in Liverpool had been brought to an end by the sentences of flogging im posed by Mr Justice Day.
Amid applause - for the gang's display of "patriotism," there tvas some doubting among the burghers of Columbus. "This." said Police Captain Joseph Tibe,, for example, "is just what the Communist people want."
note
that
WAGS in Washington
the official tlle ΣΟΓ the European bass of the Marshall plan will be "U.S. Special Reprċ- sentative," or, in intinis, U.S.S.R.
ZIONIST8 have started Ticketing British Alms
show- ing on Broadway. Hechtists march up and down outside the cinemas, carrying signs reading "Money for British Alms means more bullets for Bevin." Columnist Ed Sullivan
Not every hoy turns out well, but asks why they do not
2 The Rt. Hon. the great majority nequit themselves American films to protest against
F
J.R. CLYNESTM
ever
A
picket
with credit and fit_into_the_life_of_US._ "craven policy" in Palestine. the community. 115 honest and
NEW NEW LOOK for American serviceable citizens.
women is announced from OR many years past, whon-
Many, when they have reached Hollywood. Newest styles designed Parliament
has that stage, nad have the aid of by Ilyana, dressmaker for. the touched subjects of crime maturity and understanding look stars, feature bucules which will and punishment it has, in the back upon their Borstal period as have built-in jardinieres in main. displayed fine human a time of profitable training, having real flowers and ferns can be worn. permanent values without ever
THE prohibitionists have Many people seem to regard
Finally, they pointed to the case feeling and a wish to raise the seeing a birch.
their own candidate it as a matter of principle, of Scotland, where crimes of rob- level of prison life. That also
All the saine the birch is well sident, Dr. Claude Watson. many more as an effective de- bery with violence are rarer than in describes the outlook of prison known to have its uses in the mere opening speech of his campaign, he
is no
fact of being there. there terrent against crimes of vio- England, although
came out, of course, 'for prohibition. power to inflict corporal punish-
But with a difference.
ging.
lence.
ment.
In view of this evidence it can-. not be claimed that logging is an essential deterrent to crimes of
So far as this feeling is due to
the victim
of a for sympathy horrible crime, it is understandable. The question, however, arises as to whether a brutal punishment that is
a survival (roin more Bavage violence. the best way timea, is really
victims from protecting harmless future outrage.
of
In any case, at a time when we are overhauling the whole of our to and attempting penal system rationalise it upon a basis of actual fnet and experience. It is ingvitable we should reconsider the case for and against this particular form of judicial torture.
It may perhaps be said, as it is said about capital punishment, why trouble about a punishment that is now so seldom inflleled?
yent.
on
been
co
It is true that sentences of flogging
have lults Imposed steadily diminishing and have now fallen to the number of about 20 a 1 claim, none the less, that The first point to notice is that there is no justification for
an antiquated punishment, the present position is indefensible. (inuing
whole spirit of counter to the modern criminal science and prac- tice.
authorities, from the Commis- to the humbler sioners down toilers, our gools.
Time and circumstance are formidable factors in inducing reforms of substance, and while we have travelled far towards some of the the humanities, best tendencies of mankind have suffered a jolt in recent years.
The public mind has been much disturbed not only by the number of crimes but by their character and tendency. Rough and lawless men have not hesi Lated to carry death weapons and commit acts of violence ensure-their-escape-
.
which
put for Pre- In the
up
Flogging is an ugly word which touches more formidable matters
"We do not oppose, people taking and relates to any groups of rascals
a drink," he said. "We just who employ the
same methods of approach to frighten their victims Pose liquor power dominating our and rench a speedy end to a profit-politics and Government."
MERICA'S best-known artist, ablo raid.
Rockwell Kent, announces that The ordeals of an armed hold-up can reldom be forgotten. Sears, in- he has disposed of his £2,600 dairy juries, cuts, bruises and often the business in the New sight of blood will deepen the town of Au Sable Forks. memory of a fight with enraged and
Only a month ago Kent had been selling milk to 300 customers.
he New Dealer,
then Always a came out for Henry Wallace, the
disappointed thieves.
York
State
This is an agony item quite com- nion in cases of brutal attack, but not noticed by good folks who look Independent Left-wing's candidate with sympathy unon a prisoner in for the presidency. the dock. Ils suffering victim may Just have left the hospital, and left there a limb that he will miss for
-aszel --emeleri ---up--ly - becoming a tender-or-by-nuction.-The--lailer--The law on the subject is a curiosity....uven on so small a sente, that runs make robbery effective' and fe.
mum.
is this a hand laundry?" "Yes, sir."
"Well, wish my hands."
method has proved very popular shop of odds and enda. and has provided the fairest and simplest method of distributing much needed goods over the widest possible area and to the benefit of the community at large.
A STRIP OF BRITAIN
ON THE AUTOBAHN
Britain has agreed to a Russian request
to close
a vehicle repair station in the Soviet zone of Germany, but reserves the right to set it up again next winter. Life at the station is described in this message--
By EVELYN IRONS
TAUGHTY miles out on the autobahn
which runs through Russian- occupied Germany from Berlin to
the Western Zone, the Union Jack Alles over a tiny plece of Britain. It is the car repair station which the Russians have asked us to vacate.
O far from corporal punishment being used as a deterrent against the worst forms of violence,
It is
In face of terrorism ending sometimes in killing and often in injury it is hard to plead for the abandonment of flogging or
restricted qulte haphazardly to rob- THE question of whipping boys the use of the birch. Birching
mis-
THE
bery with violence and a
14 is under of lesser cellaneous assortment offences. They inw has, in fact, different category. grown up piecemeal as the result of agitation and emotional panic.
In
{
in a
somewhat
While there is a great difference between judicial whipping and whipping in a school, some people confuse the two, and seem to think that what many be good in a school is equally good in a police court.
A sudden agitation or sensa- tional crime has from time to time stirred up a demand for its exten- sion to some new offence, with the result that Parliament has legislated
an atmosphere of emergency, Be this as it may, the judicial, without either understanding
the whipping of boys has almost dis- full implications or bringing new law into relation with the old, appeared as a punishment. In 1945 there were only 25 of these sentences, In 1708, for instance, a London in my opinion it is much too simple lawyer served a summons for debt und perfunctory a punishment to be
the Secretary of the Russian of any real use.
on
the
is an uncommon form of chas- Lisement used only in cases of very bad misconduct. The cul prits are generally young men or youths.
They need not fear any lack of
sympathisera, Оле watchful
་
In the House of Commons and two recent cases evoked questions letters to the Home Secretary,
eny
have heard that these barave spirits refer more, in pride, to the way they can stand
than to it physical suffering they endured.
It seems clear ought not lightly to be discarded and that in exceptional cases it can, as a weapon in reserve, have both. a personal and social value and is a potent aid in prison discipline.
ALLOUS crimes of great brutality hove so Increased that ap
the minds prehension disturbs
of
many who have not been attacked but who fear the worst.
The day after Truman spoke of "Henry Wallace and his Com- munists," Kent's customers began. cancelling their orders.
In a few weeks, only 100 of his 300 customers, remained, and even two of his farmhands refused to
go on working of him.
for Still campaigning
Wallace. Kent handed over his business, "and what good will remains," to The best efforts are made, with the two farmhands who had stayed depleted police forces, to protect the public, and we have daily evidence with him. of the courage and skill which, un-
armed men diaplay.
OPINION: The
Boston Herald thinks it can explain the I could quote a score of cases extraordinary political appeal alike in their features of unconcern General Ike hus for Injuries left on man or woman.
No wonder that the chairman of
for America's voters. "His quality is the some
the Prison Ofcers Association has one that prevents him from exploit- asked "for the death penalty
ing it his lack of political ambi- . វ៉
tion." these awful cases, whether murder is the result or not."
a
to
Americans can too for. but it would be a step back land for
That is on unlikely step as going HOME: For £50
now buy a miniature Brook
their that the birch ward it now the blow were softened
drawing-rooms. for these villains and they read the Each member of the
family can glad tidings that no matter how race drawn-to-scale care around the
by odious their crime they would not 10ft track manipulating
magnet. The car's top speed is be fogged.
No wonder the Lord Chief Justice seven miles an hour, equivalent
a full-sized suggests more severe sentences for 100 miles an hour In these revolting crimes and has said cor, and the trick comes in negotiat- that no mercy should be shown to ing the bends at speed. the
CITY: While Washington I would not in these days weaken telling Americans that the ster- a aside the whip in the case of men
for America's Big who behave like beasts to persons magazine
this month:
"The inarked for robbery, no matter what Business, saya
safety and welfare of the United the cost,
These men do not seek the chance States depend as much to work, they seek the certainty of sterling area and the pound as they wealth by robbery-and need be did on the British Navy before the by murder.
D
Tog
100
have associated many
That is birching with Borstal.
10 make Borstal institutions medium for the questionable wit of music-hall comedians.
runmen.
ja
With an absolute rule that Embassy. The Czar made so furlous The problem of juvenile delin- they must not leave the enclosure a protest that Parliament passed the
complicated to be except to go on the autobahn, and Diplomatic Privileges Act, under quency is too with a complete ban on going to
which anyone who repeated the solved by rough-and-ready methods. What is needed, if we are to reduce village, the nearby
the British
Jawyer's offence was able to be
number of
young the the formidable The Act s still on soldiers lead a strangely
self- fogged.
offenders, is a more thorough in- Statute Book. contained existence.
quiry into individual cases, and The result of this mixed collec- better system of long-term training. not a just judgment nor is it wise the arm of the Law by throwing | Hng area ought to go, Fortune, the They have just sufficient space In this outpost, on a patch of for a cricket pitch; a mobile cinema ground measuring 150 by 100 yeards, calls every. Wednesday; and they the officer in charge of about twenty amuse themselves by playing ond- of the REME, RASC and less darts and table tennis. ► Military Police, is tall, slim, Captain Desmond Haselhurst, of the Wor- Corporal Arthur Layer, of the
who
Police,
ilves cestershire Regiment,
who
at comes Military from Plymouth,
Rrentvale-avenue, Wembley, said: "With a 100-mile trip every day to As we strolled in. the enclosure, patrol the autobahn, I see plenty with its neat garden surrounded of life. This is just the job."
men
by nowly white-painted ropes and rails, he said: "It will be a pity
It wa go. The peas are just coming up, the wallflowers ого nearly out, and we have planted our potatoes,”
WATER PROBLEM
to
tion of bits and pieces is that, while @ggravated assault crimes lice
A sentence of whipping allows &
magistrates without robbery, or like rape, are few reactionary not subject to flogging, robbery with escape from their responsibility of violence and minor sexual offences finding the right sentence. Benches have been brought within reach of of this kind will be brought into the cat.
line by the Criminal Justice BU that prohibits all judicial, whipping
As
Is
be
The conclusion that surely shoutd be drawn from this confusion that, if corporal punishment really a deterrent, It should applied to the most serious crimes un a methodical plan
Can It, however, be said to be a The station services about -six | deterrent? The very representativo vehicles a day. They make their | and impartial Cadogan Committee own electricity for the three huts. that reported. In 1938 came to tha The only, recent trouble has been unanimous conclusion that it was Officera de one-month spells of with the water supply. The Russians not a deterrent. duly at the station. In the fort refused to allow a lorry bringing night he has been there. Captain new pipes for their artesian woll Haselhurst has seen the Russians to pass their check-point outside only twice, when they asked for Berlin. So the well had to be re-
They made a detailed examination of the cases of 440 men who hod been convicted of robbery with violence between 101Z and 1930.
patrol. This he was not allowed to paired temporarily and all drinking csult showed that a sentence glvo them. as they have supplies water has to be
be bolted.
at their own.
A VETERAN
When the men leave, Blapid will go with them. He is the dog (breed unknown) which they have adopted as their mascot, and which they say Corporal Cyril Moody-thort and is
is one.
one of the cleverest any, of them - {ively--gold he was "one-of the has known.
veterans of the station, which has Footnote: OD my trip I was nover closed since it was opened in stopped only once by the Russians „August' 1940.
of imprisonment or penal servitude without corporal punishment was no lesa effective In deterring the offender from committing further offence of robbery with violence than à sentence of Imprisonment combined with corporal punishment. THE Committer also found that the
at the now check-point just out-1 records of the men who had
"I would have liked to spend the side Berlin. They examined my summer here, before my demobili-papers with great care and let me ration In August," he said.
through without question.;
been flogged. were subsequently worse than of those who had not been, flogged, that the number of,
They are necessary and helpful training grounds for many whose future requires present restraint and the provisions which shape rond character.
PAULA By DENNIS WHEATLEY
WIZARD PLACE TO WORK - SHOULD THINK,MISS PAULA,
LOTS OF GLAMOVIC AND
EXCITEMENT
•HUH?
M NOT REALLY,
SERGEANT-
IT'S JUST A JOG
LIKE ANY OTHER
war."
Detection Sergeant Meadows of the C.D., calira ints the film studios on an attempted murder charge." finda himself in a strange world."
ACTUALLY, WETU
QUITE ORDINARY
'PEOPLE.
RATHER DULLYBULL)
FIND.
·MIKO YOUR BACKS PLEASE.
оп the