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HONG KONG'S FIRST "FREE" REFORMATORY

In three former food godowns Thore are, at present in the, fortable. Each boy is provided } in the hilla above Tytam Bay camp, 91 boya-ranging from 9 with two warm blankets. - an experiment is in progress. to 10 years of age. All are serv In the shop' building is It is Hong Kong's.firat "free" | Ing terms of up to two years schoolroom, complete `with roformatory, "free" reforma-1 for minor misdemednours such gular desks and blackboards; tory is described by C.H. Noras petty, larceny.. plek-pocketing, the rattan shop anul ne man, acting superintent of prl. etc.

pentry shop. The activities in the latter, Mr. Tappenden ex- plained, have been confined, toj- wood chopping_and"other_rough work pending the Arrival of a carpentry instructor.

- By BARBARA

PRICE

Яппа, дя a correction camp The camp a self-sufficient where regimentation is held to organization. The boya, under a minimum and the boys are al- the direction. of reformatory of lowed as much-freedum as pos- ficers and Instructors, do their sible. It is a place without barb. "RUMJAHN, Unaf Rumjan,

ed wire or posted guards, aged 82, at 4, Seymour Rond, When Reformatory Officers sesterday morning at 11.16.| H.R. Tuppenden üzd 't.c. Funeral at the Mustin Crofton opened the canip Cemetery, Happy Valley, to day at A.16 p.m. No flowers request. (Liverpool, Shanghal & Tientsin papers please copy).

ARMS AND THE MEN

On

December 16. It was what Mr. own · cooking, tailoring and Tappenden sailed "authing but mending, wood chopping and jungie." The godowns weren-up work. Thy did the rundown. Weeds and jungle

initial clearing of the Inn growth clotted the hills around round, the camp and overhaul the buildings.

ng of the buildings,

Two Sections Today just two months later --the three structures

The first building one enters have been cleaned up and converted at the reformatory is divided

administration

into offlach,

two main sections: the

into

•

on the other.

{

Rattan Shop

The rattan shop is one of thel most popular spots in the camp.) In It, chalra, settees, baskets and brooms stand in all stages of construction. The framework is built by the instructor but all weaving is done by the boys themselves. Proceeds from. Anished products sold will.p toward purchasing equipment and materials. Mr. Tappenden: saki.

A

and, eventually, a football field. nurse, twice weekly by and printing pletures is to permit an exercise ground-

Just A Beginning

Shiting at

is.

the holds

soon

of

The year's "Statement Relat-school rooms, work shops, dor- dining hall and kitchen on one Latest piece of shop equip. ing to Defence," presented to Par-mitories and eating quarters. alde, and the administration of- ment to have arrived at the liament by Mr. Alexander, the Undergrowth has been removed ice, infirmary and tailor shop camp is n-new forge which wil new Minister for Defence, is in from the grounds. A driveway

uore sombre has been mouthed. Growth has beds and an appreciable steek teach the boys the funda-

The Infirmary

contains five help to train future tinsmiths. some respects # ocument, than the similar White teen cleared in the valley below of medicines. It is visited daily mentals of taking, developing photographle studio, to Paper presented Fast February by Mr. Altice. At that time it was

physician. One of the boys acts to be set up. hoped that the three. Services to.

This is just a beginning, ac- charged with keeping the sick the boys is a new experience,

as "hospital orderly" and gether would include only 1,100,cording to Mr. Tappender, a room clean and the patients is an important-and time-con-

School, which for most 000 trained men, plus 100,000 former officer at the reforma-comfortabic. under training, at the end of tory at Causeway Bay.. Manila 1946. It is now shown that the

suming phase of the reforma- Mib Tappenden envisiona

apedal-driven actual figure was 1.427,00 men

A Singer Sewing machine,

"tory's rehabilitation programme. and women. Even with this larger from the streets of Hong Kong, up his latest creation-an apron, three-hour sessions three other

camp wherein delinquent boys camp "tailor" proudly

Classes are held in all-day ses- alons three days a week with figure risks have been taken, as Kowloon and as far away as for the carpentry shop. the new White Paper stresses, in Walchow earn citizenship, Building Two is the dormi-

dayn, releasing trained personnel into frede, and most important, tory. Arranged in thret sections readin', ritin and 'rithmatic na Lessens ure qu! coufhed to rivil life and industry.

self-respect. Ho feels this can o Voluntary recruiting for the nest be necomplished by treat mediate and older boys can be In addition to the "Three N's" that the youngest, inter- the following schedule shows. Regular Services. has not been ing them not as criminals, but bedded in separate compart- Citizenship, history, geography; satisfactory, and the reconstítu- | 43 potentially constructive ments, the sleeping quarters are letter writing.. hygiene, generat tion of the auxiliary Forces is only citizens

Immaculate and the beds com- cleaning, general knowledge and fjust beginning. Thus it' cannot be felt that the number of men re-

essay writing are taught. Įtained in the Forces under Na

Mr. Tappenden Aniel

con- tional Service, is excessive, and the

siderable time is devoted to the ¡Gavernment estimate that at the

study of Chinese history and ead of March next year we shall

Ktography, still require 1,087,000 men and women. In addition, not far short of hali a million civilians are en- gaged in supply services of inc kind or another. At

a moment when the whole country, is in volved in a crisis due, among ther cause, to an insufficiency of manpower in one great industry, it is easy to wish that the de- inds of defence were less, but it woukl be folly to mistake wishes: for possibilities,

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What Obr defence commit- ments are can be briefly sum marised from elie outline

given is the White Paper under two beads. current and long-

terin.

Of the

current commit-;

re-

Marlborough Clubs Likely To Go On

Herford, Germany, Feb. 20.

The British Army'a Mart borough Clubs, which through the tradition that an slashed unbridged social gulf separ ates officers"from have a good chance to be con

the ranks, tinued despite recent that they might be abandoned, reports

They're Dictionary Words Now

ke, jitterbug, jukebox. dirndl. Webster has popped in words zoot-ault, strip-tease, cheesecake and moppet.

After Care

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YARD GOODS

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"Would, a small deposit hold this for me until the fire

sale starts?"

The New Battle

Of Britain

The now Battle of Britain---.

1,000,000 workers tils time cesnantic receivel fresh impetus on Monday when

land's inidlands. back into factories

streamed in Eng-

ndustrial blackout which heut

This broke the countrywid~ | insted_n_fortnight because of ¦

By DEWITT MACKENZIE

slipast foun shortage, in coul production, fe blond of the natloin.

re-

"LAY ON, MACDUFE

Lonion, Feb, 20, "Lou on, MacDuff" said Macbeth in the famed haule of Shakespeare's drume.

MacDuff laid on two reulie- tically at Oldham Repertory: Theatre on January 30 and today Harold Norman, who portrayed Machrih, died from dagger wounds at Oldhau Royal Hospital. Enited Prens.

blood alone they are spared in these piping days of peace." Blunt But Accurate That was blunt, but an ne-

- Last week Britain's Socialist situation without precedent in reformatory already austerity-weary

coun-I is fighting for her life.

A great concern to the of Offcially, the future of these ficials clubs where a colonel and

now, Mr. Narnija - In-

Soma 4,000,000 workers aformed me, is organizip an chat over a glass of beer private can have

A friendly "after care programme where mained tile in other-parts of

England, but coat was moving | or the boys can be annlated in get in appreciable quantities again. curate way of summing up a wine is "under consideration." Ing jobs, clothes and in some declare, however, that they ex- charge from the

Responsibie Army | sources | casÉR homes, following dis-Government appealed to the modern English history. Bri- terparts of them, to go on as done primarily by volunteer all-out effort to meet an econo: that the contral. fact of 1947 peet the clubs, or at least coun- As in England. this job must be try for further adcrifices in an Government's appeal declared before.

The British have four auch

mic crisis threatening the la we have not enough resour- fe can get the opera foundations of the nation'nces to do all that we want to clubs in Germany Berlin,tion of Interested perple here," way of life. It was an econo and hardly enough to do all Hamburg, Badoeyhausen and the prisons superintendent said, mic call to arms. Herford: Another, in Brussels, "We can form an organization was closed, but that was at which will really help these tributed to the reduction

in young

fellows find 1 troops stationed there.

place for themselves."

The clubs were born of the

war, chiefly to provide a meet- ing place for brothers, or

groups or ladividuals. ·

.

that we must do." Lord Beaverbrook's Evening

Therefore, it added, Britain Standard snid tho

things present must attend to "rat useful Government "offers the Brtist-trictly control imports. ..tial people toll, tears, sweat; get production into high gear and skarply increùng. exports before the fast dwindling American dollar loan. runs out.

fathers and sons.. of widely BARCLAY ON

differing rank.

With the rush to arms, re- Intives and friends of equal social status at home often

found themselves at opposite ends of the scale when in uni- form

BRIDGE declared that unless the coun-

BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"

HOW CAN YOU TELL HIM?

..

to lend. This time, however, it Lunde no difference, as the dia- ound was a natural in any case,

•

try concentrates on really, im- roriant things, "we may haver restore the foundations of our national life."

This is a grim situation, but I believe economists will ̈ ̈ And if in not of mushroom growth. It has been developing over a tang poriod. This crisi has been precipitated by the. but had its inception way back world before even the frat

war

ments Germany is outstanding, and it is doubtful whether our forces there can be further duced. A Peace Treaty with Aus- tria may enable us to withdraw from there, and evacuation of

A droves of new words that Venezia Giulia. and Greece may aren't featured in the Oxford shortly be possible. What forces dictionary have appeared in 1946 Palestine may require in the next editions of Webster. and in few months it would be rash to brand new English dictionary, guess, and the requirements in In- Odham's.

Regulations which forbade dia and Burma remain an equally inscrutable problem. From Japan

all officer to entertain a non- officer in his mess or club, we have partly withdrawn and in

schocimates or members worked hardship when -old the Netherlands East Indies our

If you see the declarer play ot The new English dictionary chanced to be on duty or

Ing as if to threaten a throw-in East took that first trick with task is completed. The remaining.

families, of differing *rank, immediate tasks of our forces is a bit more cautious, but lats: leave in the sambares.

play against your partner, you the A and returned the 2 to the conflict. on

fitain's position; as I sco naturally want to protect him K. South ruffed The diamond fthe preservation of our communi-

Corny: (US slang)

if you can. cations in the Near and Far East

You want to save 8 with the-heart. 2, then led the it, is due to the fact that it The Answer fashioned. and the garrisons of vulnerable and violent attack.

Blitz: To subject to sudden ing the

him from winning the trick heart 4 to the A The heart 10 le not aclf-sustaining nation. The Marlborough Club, bear which will compel him next to was won by the I and the do. It achloves economie might colonies--ge into the two main

name of the house lend back into a tenace held by clarer continued on his plan for eat of importing raw materials, largely by the almple expedí- long-term commitments of the information.

Gen: (RAF slang) reliable

from which Winston Churchill the declarer of dummy. Some-a throw-in if East had the club, fabricating them and re-export. descended, security of the United Kingdom

was the answer times you can't do it, because He could take the club R and ing them at a tidy profit, in Each club is essentially the and the safeguarding of our linksly and absent-mindedly,

Doodle: To scribble simloss same as an officers club ins you have no card high enough A, then lead the 10 to the Q English ships. This was he with other parts of the Common-

far as services and facilities to win the crucial trick if your East now would have to return companied by the creation of a wealth.

Jitterbug: One who dances are concerned, with the excep partner discarda his highcat. a diamond, which could be ruf- great banking and Insurance Our third long-term commit- energy. An alarmist.

to jazz music with spaardenle tion that no spirits are served. But if you do have the next fed in the dummy while South Business and the favourablo. ment--the contribution to forces

Оле fundamental rule ranking card, your can tell your discardel a spude.

geographieni, location of tho Gremlin: Imp or goblin allox-governs the clubs: an officer can partner to chuck his big one. of the United Nations is still an

But when the club A and K. British Isles was of vast na- ed responsible for mysterious enter only with a non-officer, How? By merely giving a high- were played, West was on his sistance.. unknown quantity. So severe is aeroplano faults (from goblin and a non-officer the strain in which these commit-and Fremlin, a brewer in whidse only-with-an-officer

can enter third, bignal, ör“ better still, u toea. Seeing what was up he put

high-low-en-earlier tricks."

the 9-on the first club triet and lowever, times have changed

A Major Change? . ments involve us that irresponsible bottles, the Imps were supposed Bcope of the clubs gradually

was ready to play the 2 on the greatly since the turn of the voices are never lacking to sug

S. AQ 7,5 Increased so that not only re

next. But the 9 was enough of century: Up to then England's gest that we should abandon any

latives or old friends Jsed

H. 8.5 4 2

a signal for East, who threw steel, cotton and woolen pro- attempt to maintain them. Such a

them as meeting places, but

D. 9.7

hi Qun the next trick. Soducts pretty much covered the policy of jettisoning our defence

69 did officers and non-officers

West's won the third club. He world. Even responsibility is always superfical-|

who had not kapwn one ans. J 84-

America—now ly attractive to a peace-loving pen-

other before. There is no dia- Unction as to max.

H.70 ple. But, as Mr. Alexander's Bo White Paper indicates, we have stance derived from bacteriai tain friendly with a sergeant Consequently, an army "cap-

to hido)...

Commentator: One who com mentates.

Commentate: Make a cum. mentary on...

Sucker: (US) gullible per Penicillin: Germ-kliling sub.

!

had the experience of two major mould. wars in one generation to point

In the ATS (British WAO), to the tragic futility of such a bomb,.

Odham doesn't list": and probibited from inviting

atom.

her to an officers' club, can foot-auit, [policyanide,

strip-tease. soup-opera, Juke box alap-happend a pleasant evening with her at one of the Marlborough py, wolf, five, nutter, hep, ear

spots.

ALL D.Ps. LIABLE

FOR WORK. ⠀

London, Feb. 20.

C. J982

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Tomorrow's Problem

8.A 10.0 H: 76.3, 2 D. 9.

came

9. K1062thon led back a spado, through the gruntent, producer of steel H. A 10.

the tenace, and assured defeat-bought from Britain." But of the contract. D. QJ 105 W ED A632-

then the United States forward with a rush, Indus- AS CTO

trially. So. fd other nations::: The first world war, by occupy"- Ing Britain's Industrial resour- des forced other countries to expand their. maŋufactures. Development continued. Even mighty India,” which had pro- vided England with an unlimit 8. QJG

ed market for cotton goods, H. 10864 began to manufacture her own Hand today is no longer depen 0,68 2 dant on the mother country

G. A 10 G

or spine.bash, Nipe, on the In Hamburg, the Maribor, beam set-up, type (person); ough club tried to limit entry vulnerable.)

(Deafer: South North-South weed (tobacco), blue, (night); only to officers and non-officers South West Mr. John Hynd. Head of the to know what the score is, what cause the club was large enough

Britons don't seem to want of opposite sexes-largely be- 1 H Pass

Austrian Affaire, stated

S. 7432

EN

North Daint D. AK 104 W

1.S

Department for the German and the drill is to give anyone away,ith accommodate lê who wichs LENTA Pans 2H..

a. the Hound of

Commlesion they don't shoot through, cd to gather there, harden Age 8÷HP+ 4÷1 Commons today that all employ drink slope, tear strips off of This did not set well with able displaced persons in the Bri- fending partike

tali Zone of Germany were labis Odham saye cheesecake is, "a

for employment under Garmant, cake, made from sug curds He was replying to

to whether he would and butter

sauranel that? no "displaced person MA dronto is "at would be inquired to work against crows Df south-east

would:1

Pass

Dad, bad bidding, considering

cffect, it imply became club accustomed to using every the troops, They said that, in thing the defenders were players

for officers to entertain lower unitary

Tanks for the feminine, perspa- give

nul "They argued)

Been

·CKTO

°Hów, Khould:800

44 vulnerable:)

* Beat - the dir Ah

B-No. Trun

So I believe, wo will find würf -tain's present crisis is a labieni development which has its roota in the act that the country:*)

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