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now generally adopted!
I am happy to say
that, as the Chief
Justice points out in his Report, Chinese
criminals can
in
be
effectually
Hongkong without having
this dangerous expedient.
15.
The theory
dealt with
recourse
to
that the Hongkong
criminals are individuals who flock
the Colony from the adjacent provinces
of
China does not bear careful examination. It was a convenient
theory
in one
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of the Chinese and it was the constant justification
since 1866 for the doctrine recorded by the Gaol, Commission in 1876, that no reformatory...
agency
should be employed on Chinese criminals in the Hongkong Gaol. Mr. Tomochy, the present admirable Superintendent of the Gaol, has however shown the advantage of practice over theory. He has proved that the ordinary and well established!
into
but sie
Sing
Sole
Beford
parts of the Empire
ear
be
respect, for it covered up
grave defects in the Police system, defects
which, as I pointed out in of September 1878, had continued
the
year 187/4, it
my
minutes
from
was made the excuse
for many illegal floggings and brandings
mode of dealing with criminals in other
one
applied with. success in the Honghong Gaol. He has done this under some difficulties, bring the insufficient size of the Gaol, and the impossibility of having a proper number of separate cells and suitable working on the existing site. Plans for
yards
a new