The Hongkong community have been for year
arged
to build a new
gaol
on
the
Separate System, I for years they have
big
been reluctant to do so d
urged
Suferiority of the flogging method.
of
Lattuly
there has been mo
mo money
hut
the
t
daa new prison; I am glad to
af
see that Mi Marsh allows that as
soon as money is for thecoming form must be built.
a new
I think it would be a mistake to
alter the law of flogging
the practice
I understand
.1. because it is now, as
on all fours with the English law
after long brderation
by ord;
2. because rightly or wrongly, a few years ago flogging was im great 539 188 measure done away with; and it is
to reverse the
very.
deation
undesirable again
But there is
to conferism the 2 Aleman
Cares
the
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the mark
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3. because
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is allowed the 532
8 flagging
with power local people will to all in their
to pot off the now gool, saying that
now they can
they
flog they
new ele expensive position
do not want an
The argument for flogging in Hoyting
is that it is close to the mainland,
and becomes a
receptacle for the
rascals of China. In the same
3
way England being close to the continent is a receptacle for continental rascality the difference between the two cases is that the cruelty of the punishments in China Makes Hongkong unusually
attractive.
theory
that an
It is not a ver
sound
Ushould bid
English colony against the brutality of the reighbouring Country; and further.
there is little reason
to doubt that solitung confinement properly
carried out would be as deturent as
flogging. It Ayres in his evidence before
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