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PALL MALL.

Everyone knows that Pall Mall, which to-day forms the very heart of London's club-land, owes its

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to the French game of}

PUNISHMENT OF CRIME

WHY DEATH SENTENCES ONLY FOR MURDER?

OVERHAUL OF CRIMINAL LAW NECESSARY

"palle-maile,” which was intro duced into England by the Staarts. Few, perhaps will know that it was once called Catherine-street, in honour of Charles II's Porta I should employ the short in by adults from the jurisdiction.

my appointment of the criminal courts. guese Queen. But that name never berval between

In revolutionary Russia any and my assassination in -over- came into popular use.

Paille-maile, which was Angh-hauling the criminal law, which sign of disaffection against the cised into pell-mell, was a game seems to me to have lagged far State is punished with death, but played over an ay or a green behind what any intelligent per-the maximum penalty for murder Is a few years of imprisonment.. with a long-shafted mallet and a son would wish to see... wooden ball. It was not unlike To a large extent the law is no. On the other band, in some com- public tries political assassins often find by doubt controlled It had been played in St opinion. Juries will not convict much sympathy. I can see - no James's Fields in the time of King if their sympathies are strongly justification for treating political Charles L. with unch probability with the prisoner. But public conspirators with leniency.

Another Survival - over the very land which the street opinion is also influenced by the

Another curious, survival of the now traverses. The link with the law, and sometimes, I venture] game has survived; that with the to think mischievously.

nation that the State ought to Queen is forrotten.

The most salient example is! punish, sin is the attitude of the As early as 1598 Sir Robert murder. A hundred years 880 State towards suicide, which is there was a long list of capital still a crime in our law, though Dallington wrote of the game:

murder and high not, I believe in any other

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge)

I were made dictator, I think and remove offences committed

croquet

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Old

"Among all the exercises of offences; now France. I prefer none before the treason alone remain. There is civilised country. Faille-Malle, both because it is ala confused idea that the

As a Christian I am bound to gentleman-like sport, not violent. Testament sanctions the exec condemn suicide, though I must

of murderers and of mur- and yields good occasion and option

own that when a patient is suffer The trath portunity of discourse, as they derers only.

ing horribly, from an incurable. walk from the one mark to the that under the Mosaic law disease, I think there is much to other offences, including be said for reconsidering the un- Jother."

The mark was. an iron arch adultery and Sabbath-breaking, compromising condemnation which through which the ball was hit.

What Other

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were punished by stoning

is

Christian moralists have always A Different Footing passed upon euthanasia. The result of the change in our It seems hardly consistent to Your Daily Smile!

criminal law is that murder is fine a man for not putting a dog on a dif-br horse out of its misery, and He: "What will your father say popularly regarded as

ferent footing from any other to hang him for conniving at the Hong Kong, Friday, June 29, 1935. gentlemen who are out to raid when he knows we're engaged?”

Writers of detective decision of a friend to hasten bis the community. Not enough Girl: "Oh, he'll be delighted. Be crime.

stories almost always choose own release From the legal as attention has been paid to the always is."

the various

murder as their subject, the opposed to the religious point of experiences of trading countries with different

public is only mildly interested view I think a man has a right in anything else. The police, to declare his innings closed; and The very full report which systems during the last two or We hear always!

Wanted-Experienced sales people; when they are not shepherding I should always give a criminal we published on Wednesday of three years.

pedestrians across the streets, the option of carrying out his the speech made by Mr. S. No depression. because the de-male or female; no other need apply. pressed countries are in the

are engaged in hunting down sentence upon himself A Dodwell as Chairman of the

Another manifest absurdity is murderers: Hong Kong Brewers and Dis-limelight. We are not told that

the Scandinavian countries-- *Is he one of the landed gentry?" The public take a ghoulish de- to put on his trial for murder s CHANCE fillers, Ltd, was throughout a

"Not yet, but Helen is certainly do- Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and ing her best."

light in these mysteries:" and doctor who has accidentally perfect example of the diffical Finland are at present abso-

when the culprit is found, he is caused the death of a patient WITH ties imposed on our industries

bounded to his fate with a call while performing an illegal by our currency. We are

Hope Her Father: I do hope you appreousness greater than that of the operation. He ought to be punish- YOUR small community, unable to what can only be called a boomciate that in marrying my daughter Roman populace at a gladiatorial(ed, no doübt, but not as a homi-”

back when we "get it in the All these counties are you are getting a very big-hearted show. The mode of execution is cide. Nothing was further from neck" from our neighbours stabilised on sterling at a de-and generous girl

humane; the moral cruelly of the his intention than to kill his But has no other community

finite figure. Wherever the Young Man- "I do, sir. And I hope publicity is monstrous. Mean patient ever been in the same predica-English pound is the measure qualities from her father."

while, the police seem to be too

A Nice Question Has no remedy ever of value, they can sell their

busy to attend to burglars, who been found for the obstacle of goods for a price which they

It is a nice question how far are allowed to pursue their de the sympathies of the judge and la tariff fence?

are able to compute, and they

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that she has acquired those fine

TO KIDNAP

Guatemalan Consul's Child Vanishes

PUT ON SIDE VERANDAH BY CHINESE WOMAN

State's Rights

jury ought to influence the ver Idict and sentence. We do not I have not the slightest symwish to see the emotional appeals pathy with the agitation against which in France often gain capital punishment The State acquittal for the perpetrator of is quite within its rights in weed in crime passionel, and ing out thoroughly undesirable considerations namely, the good citizens. But our manner of do-looks of a female prisoner, are ing it is barbarous and unjust, certainly illegitimate. The If the authorities judge a male-mission of women to jaries, factor to be incurable, he ought I am told, namasked many sed to be humanely extinguished tive female malefactors. without any publicity, and with Behind all discussion of re

It is only a generation since can buy money's worth What SEEMING ATTEMPT USE

English trade began to feel the is called "the sterling bloc" has! pinch of hostile duties. The been able to use money which OUR

logan then adopted was "fight has had a fixed value as a pur Erotection by Free Trade."chasing medium to a greater MOTH

which meant that the higher extent than the dollar or the PROOF sale price made necessary by franc, or than either gold or

the tariff should be balanced by silver. BAGS a decreased cost of production It is quite true that it was due to the lowest possible cost often said that during recent of raw materials, secured by years silver was a more stable free admission of imports. The standard than gold That was rapid rate of increase of wealth partly because when the price due to the industrial revolution of silver was low there was no yesterday to kidnap little Maria out casting any stigma on his forms in criminal procedure hes The Largest Sanitary Laundrymen, Dyers and Drycleaners in the Far East end about 1885, but the increase, mines, and the quantity smelted daughter of the Guatemalan Con murder only Many murderers in school and college debating is considered to have come to an temptation to open up new Theresa, the four-year-old twin name or family. The capital sen- the question whether it is right tence ought not to be attached to to punish at all favourite topic.

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CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA IN LONDON

though slowed down, was notlout of mixed ores in the resul, Sr. J. G. Gonzalez de Bernedo, are by no means incorrigible societies. It is not very difficult stopped till the disastrous year fineries was fairly constant and living at No. 74 Waterloo Road, criminals; many burglars are so to straighten this matter out 1914. The reason was that as partly because the low price Kowloon

I shall never forget seeing a the purchasing power of money made it profitable to use about ras steady, investors could still 70 per cent of the production her twin sister in the garden from Stafford Gaol, they were on The child had been playing with hatch of prisoners just released

calculate their estimates with in the metal industries, in confidence, and rely on their which silver is very usefni as when, shortly before 4pm. she the platform of the railway sta- frantiction. Several of them were dividends buying as much as an alloy. For a long period was missed. After

search lasting half-an-hour, the fellows by the hand of nature their original investment would silver had been left alone by child was discovered on the side marked, quoted and signed to do London, To-day-The Britishr have done, had they spent it market operators practically

some deed of shame." No one Government gave a dinner last instead of using it to make new since 1875. In attaching our verandah where she said, work and wealth. It may be selves to China as a silver-Chinese woman had put her and would employ them; they were right at the Foreign Office said that if the dollar goes up standard country, we did as had run away when she heard simply turned loose to prey upon honour of Amir Saud, Crow the dividend will buy more; but events have proved, make a link shouts from the house. the fact is that if the rise has with a far more easily vulner-

been at all sudden there will be able currency bloc, even when

no dividend. Any industry China was still on a silver basis;

incurs certain fixed liabilities but when China abandoned the POST OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS that do not adapt themselves to standard by prohibiting export; FOR NEXT MONDAY-

variations in exchange, and except under a progressive

society, which no doubt they pro Prince of Saudi Arabia.

ceeded to do. The absurdity of Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel

our prison system was borne in Hoare, was in the chair British

Wireless Service. "pon me irresistibly.

Offences Against God

In all ancient codes, offences against God were punishe

when the variations are due to penalty, the slender cord Next Monday the General Post crimes. There was no dis political and speculative influ-jattaching us to the world's Office will be open from 8 am to between sin and crime. fences that cannot be foreseen trade was slit and we were left: 10 am and the Branch Post

the industrialist is not in a posi derelict. It is as though a Offices from 8. ·to". ition to take advantage of the sudden drop would put things! There will be one coll

rise or fall in the value of his right. It is not igh or the pillar boxes and

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