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Council are of opinion that Rule 288 should stand as it is. When reporting on this particular point,
Major General Gordon wrote as follows:-
unanimously of
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"I think Rule 288 is
- very desirable. Our long sentence
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prisoners
or men-
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are
generally pirates of desperate character,
likely to attempt escape. We have but few guards. On the
have but few guards A long sentence chain-gang prisoner who has completed
one third of his sentence and may hope to earn another third remission,
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is not so
"
an
likely to attempt
prisoner
escape, as a
with a long term of
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imprison
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of
:sonment before him".
The members of Council entirely agree with this opinion, and
I trust you will therefore withdraw the objection to the Rule,
and