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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1948.

Establishment Of Penal Labour Camp Approved

Rebuilding Of Hospital Planned

Plans for rebuilding the 70- year-old Methodist Mission and Hospital, at Fatsban, West of Canton, have been made.

The rebuilding echemt will HK$550,000 of which HI£$279,442 has been collected.

The Mothodist Misionary Suciety yesterday mude appeal for donations to make up

balance necessary

coat

the

n

| HK$270,558. The appeal fol-

towa:

tractes of Namhot, Shuntak and

or,

Harvest Festival Services Held

CORRESPONDENCE

On Palestine

but

this

www

no

*

public

Tug Of Wor Sir,-Much 1.00 ..the chagrin, we are treated to a tug- the Drivers of-war betwegn Union and the Taxi Companies

thelr

[GUARDIAN" under the heading]. It would be much cheaper and they weile in their column of fur less painful to cut your own Establishment of a Penal Labour Comp in Hong

Sir, Your issue of last Sunday Comment and Criticism": throats, now before, Government,

the with

headlines "Kong has been approved in principle by Gov-

"THE ARAB LEAGUE". running

Jin your-bost interests --of course, ""PALESTINE" "WHAT 19 THE The Arab League looks like does it for you. ernment, according to the 1947-48 annual

written by "Special breaking up quy day now. There

FATHER TIME "report" of the Commissioner of "Prisons."

not only misis no longer any pretence of a P.S. Any Taxpayer who would leading the public, but is also far common policy toward Palestine like to book in advance a nice Suitable sites for the camp are under consideration, away from the fact, which is in and there never was a common alry shock constructed entirely of It is proposed to accommo, ably treat all male prisoners from existency at present, I am in na policy, on anything else. A 50-wood guaranteed to originste date between 800 and 200

the hawker who was sentenced way an authority in the near called short-sentence prisoners to be

has been put to-rem tlie chaos in which Cham East issue. to seven

Car Pulpviplonal-Government days for having ne

one is sure that unskilled work licence to the employed at

murderer whose if your

gether in Cairo by the Egyptians page has been delivered at his correspondent

as expense to the very best Govern- of. Muft, and on develoment or reclamation original sentence was commuter "special" one, then he should and the relends,

from menf officials, and situated on one hotables to ife imprisonment, works:

from the have

some thorough education of

eighty Arab

alble' hillsides, should, apply im- The Commissioner's

report boy of 10 years to the old Ing of tory of the past few years, but various parts of Palestine have more remote and macces- odded that the partially de-

60 years or more with between not to mislead, the public as such: been invited to meet tomorrow to medlately in writing to the above

I take the opportunity to quote Southpolished Victoria Gaol, parts of 20 and 30 previous convictions,

place which are used an a Remand

wn choice, as this is the only Satisfactory means of employ-certainly one of the world kan och it at Garn an inevitable signesli

which in Palestine Home, is being, rehabilitated.

ment

do not exist at Stanley Newspapers which impartiality is of any size

known the world

army When completed, there will be Prison for more than 800 pri

able to Egypijan

was Over THE

Gover accommodation for 500 prisoners. sonors, aided the Commissioner MANCHESTER GUARDIAN" pnd occupy. Naturally They will be remand cases await-

the weekly widely send "NEWS ment" (which bas about, asmuch ing trial,

trial, debtors, pepprices and

REVIEW". I think it is only fair hold over the country as that rhort-suitepen prisoners up to

Uhat your readers should be well of General Markes over Greece)

over the drivers' strike, now over 1 to King command does not

itself to informed after such tendonefous: maximum capacity.

Temporary

remedies to сере

deluding statement to get niso Abdullah, whose troops have done a month's duration.

In this içial of strength, thors most the with the increasing prison popu

of, the news from other points of most of the Arab side and now in a pretty near-guess that both

fighting there has Kong will not lation of -Hong

view.

been.on. There were capacity attend-

The "News Review" on July of Palestine and according

by far the greater part des will emerge not unscathed effectively meet the existing situa-

Andrew's 20 "This Mission Hospital, calation and make no allowance for ances at both St.

financially. to 1946 Jasuc is writing sa of

.༢༠- lished for 70 years on the edge of

At the outset the Union was ports from Cairo, he has lost the future growth of the prison Church, Kowloon, and at the follows

order "go slow" precipitate to Fatahan, serves the three magis population, id the Commission. Holy Trinity Church, HMS ISREAL

in making his objecting toties As a crude form of ex- time

Is the From Tel Aviv,.capital of the known. More interesting Tamar, when special Harvest Festival services were held young State of Isreal, "News Re-news that the Prime Minister of asperation perpetrated ut yesterday morning and even-view Correspondent Maurice Iraq is visiting him at his capital expense, the owners readily saw only fully-equipped Hospital ir.

ards it through. Naturally this gave towards ing, respectively.`

Fagence, this week sent the fol- to discuss their attitude

them full Justification for with, this area. The present 150 beds

At the commencement of the flowing,poźlrgit, of a new Style:-Gaza. If Iraq and-Translordan can drawing their vehicles from this arc под insufficient for the greatly increased work since the

Judged thus, who is to The birth of a Nation, and there agree on this, the right of the services at St. Andrew's Church, no doubt that that the Provisional Government"

will roads.

blame? If a strike must

ba end of the war. The buildings: the rate of 1,000 a year-children of the Sunday School con

ur legislative provisión of alterna paraded

with State of Isreal has been duly de- not run far beyond the Egyptian blame are dangerously old. Dainugo

Into the church

emphatic way The war years when nods and tives to Imprisonment for the their gifts of fruits and flowers. Ilvered is not quite the

arblirary measures should protest, Arab League,no one will shed any white ant seriously added to the

When this limit hawking-without-a-licence claus Special hymns and psalms; for ut fovered. populaces and Ger outpost. If this is the end of the/ called as huve destruction, the buildings

of offender

Addresses that writers of tears, except the British Foreign ba discouraged. the occasion, in both churches. become unsafe for patients.

lead to spica Commenting on Stanley Prison,

were Come, ye thankful people; fo

to expect. Office, which has always hoped to has been exceeded, it is bound to sit-see some day to pull itself and place in jeopardy the very cause Commissioner "Necessity and the offer of help the

for parlamentary

which the come; We plough the fields; Now,

strike is called; from the China Relief Mission of while, architecturally, it is prob- thank we all our God: 0, worship lings is

Eastern

further, the resort to any ultra Government ably the best in the Colonial Em- the King, and psalm 65.

English

together into some sori American prompted the rebuilding this year pire, it should be restricted ad

unity. Washington has and the second-from The Minister from whom you sibility of the League; London has The Methor ist Missionary Society,

St. Luke XII under whose auspica, the hospital

The time has surely come to think The

Deu-set the world" "alight" turns out average

daily prison Trinity, the lessons were i ran, has made the maxlinum

population

last

ing atlitude only tends to widen year was more leronomy XXVIII 1-14, and, St. to be harassed as if he were a of an alterative way of approach grant assible from England. UPANA

than 2,000,

Matthews XIII 21-38.

local epunall choixman

to the Middle East. on the day 10-1

the rift, The plans have been draws up

This is not written for argu- From the day Stanley Prison Fruits sent to the churches were when every bridge, has chos

Are there leaders among both or dispute, but is unly for by the Society's architect in Lon-

aldes who can sublimely "rise to was opened in 1937, the mere ac- inter distributed among hospitals; crash, every sewer to get

the dent

been Inade- charitable institutes and needy in- up, and the water supply to faill information as

the occasion, to and a most ac- "The building is to be of rein-commodation has

the Commissioner.dividuals.

Yet behind all this there is dual there is any) can be presented in ceptable solution to a alfitation forced concrete and red

brick, quate, sald

J.H. Ogilvie conducted plannings: both for existence and other way. Anyway we

which has admtitedly inconveni- raised on concrete

above le added that on completion of. piers

all male prison

choose between MANCHESTER the Brevice in Kowloon, and Rev. for the building up of a hoW | PITTARDIAN and NEWS REVIEW/ enced the public for so long? flood level with an open air sann- the transfer of

B. L.B. torlum for tuberculosis patients es to Stanley after the prison C. Davies in Hong Kong.

or your CORRESPONDENT The was opened, the muster stood at on the top (4th) floor. building, 250 feet long and 30 feet 2,216. By November 1937, it had wide, will have 140 beds. It is reached 2,758, and by December

It was-2:008. half completed

to 1930, it was 2,00 According present plans it can be completed by the end of the year,

Samshui with a population of more than 3,000,000.

the

It is the

The Solution

He added that the solution to the growing prison population -progressively Increasing

waid

at

thal

of the fit of three main blocks ministratively to use as a Convic!

vists

One resembling an

In the Kowloon church, the first peeting

school-roam, ex countriling Middie

the

of organic

NEC sympathy.

alienate

dels would go far

requires more than ordinary to iron out differences.

called Int In the Anal scherne. Prison for no more than 1,000 | nomy XXVI, 92-23. At the Holy expect an interview. which continued, to, hope for the best act and a sincère spirit on both

Jesson was taken from Deutero- Heng groutes Ally world Shutong been sceptical about the pos-

prisoners.

The prison Was built with single cellular accommodation for 1,578 prisoners, exclusive of the hospital and punishment blocks.

No Provision

Στον.

LORRY FALLS

INTO HARBOUR

must

Stale. The first of these lasks have been

miraculously successful, as the defeat of all Arab Army Special Correspondent a point of

proves.. comera

can scarcely believe that only

Shortly after two o'clock yes months ago the waiters who were ertiny afternoon, lerry No. 8734 serving the coffee during the day to the top at night, which was temporarily left unat-Were going

view.

sides

Anything less then a compromis

New Minister

Palaces For Parasites Due Next Month

Sir,-and it is worth a thought

The Reverend Mr. G. N.

tended in Gloucester Road near The latest mobile column saw that a number of those palatial Stevenson, new minister to the the British · or ́Amafidan Armies cupied by ofcintyrly be ocHong Kong Unlon Church, is due

"For the past year the hospital staff and a committee organised from the Church have been actively raising funds in China hoth privately and by publle

He said that no provision was

Salvage operations were im- eppents. Friends of the hospital madle for classification of prison-mediately commenced and the in England and a Hong Kong ers although Stanley Prison was lorry was lifted out of the water second to none';: lowing is a summary of the sums intended to house and presum ralzed converted into Hồng Kong dollars:-

have also contributed. The fol

Sums Raised

"U.S. Government China

Relief Mission Methodist

HKS

131,842

Missionary Society, London .....

98,000

Raised in China

21,400

Friends in Hong Kong Friends In England

11,700

Total

by 5.30 p.m.

Hard Labour Verdicts

In HK Said A Farce

to Industry

•

No. 2 Police Station, inovod back-was equal to anything found. In Bats will most wards and fell into the harbour.

of the Income to arrive here next month by the-

moins. Glenogle. Their military ability was of the Tax Department whose highest order and their moral function would now. appear to bel Mr. Stevenson was born at to squeeze; enough out of the poor Drummpre in 1914. Educated at Israel has drawn up

unrepresented uncon Stranraer High School, he Inter a Four wretched Year Plan to get itself through the sulted involuntary and tyrannised graduated from the Glasgow Uni- most difcuit period economically taxpayers to maintain themselves veralty where he obtained a Mas- the first four years. Its sedno- and their fellow bureaucrats inter of Arts degree. His theolo

gical training was undertaken at mic experts say when the country i sybaritic luxury, become "static", that is, when the This pampering of the privi Tanity College, Glasgow.

While still a student, he was bulk of immigration policy com leged tow, the bureaucrate and

It should be more pleted, it.

of.. course..

well-assistant Minister at Springburn- than officials, is,

"Mill Parish Church, a busy Indus- selt supporting.

known corollary to the setting up telat parish In the City. He was Will have to be im- of any and all forms of Dictatorileensed in Glasgow Cathedral, and the capacity of the ship.

1940. For 18 months he was As- widened

It is also noteworthy that Gov-alent Minister in Dumbarton' to make this posible. Regarded as producernment officials in Hongkong are Parish until he was called to the tive investment, this will cost invariably referred to as "Gov. parish of Inveraven in Speyside. During the war, he volunteered other £210,000.000. But it is beernment. Servants" and not, as in lleved that it will raise the living; a Democracy atie “would”

first on home basis, and later on standard In the new State among the

Are we going to accept this flag: Germany.

the stall of Commander-in-Chief, highest in the world. (The Arab rant example of irresponsible ex Later, he was posted to 3rd prisoners has become a nightmare.

living standard in, Palestine when penditure of Pubile lands without Commando Brigade, ond Hong Kong residents who havo Finding employment for pri soll on which to employ them re-fighting began, was halfway be-protest or are we going to insist drafted to the Far East.

to kindly consented

act

of the gularly.

tween that of the Jews and; that on a little, of this much vaunted, Mr. Slevenson is well-known in sponsors and further detalls both zoners, he said, is one

The Commissioner said that of the Arabs in

theding!

but iltte jp evidence, Dempericy Hong Kong and was, for a time, of the work of the Hospital and most difficult problems of the

the only real "hard labour" de countries). Much of this

the rulex of the people, by the the Superintending Minister of of the proposed selieme are prison authorities, particularly

volves on to the staff in finding to be spent in Britain where hun people for the people for the the Church to which he has now obtainable from pamphlets which at Stanley because of the in-

sufficient employment fer pri- dreds of miles of irrigation pipes promise of which we have already accepted a call. have been prepared,

The Reverend

soners as will prevent completa

ends. Messrs.

hundreds of · Dicesi, engines fought two wars. Idleness.

aro and, sumps Evison and W. G. B. Ream and

18,500 Any sentence of imprisonment with hard labour in. Hong Kong is a farco, reports the Commit- sionor of Prisons, Mr.-W. Shillingford in hiz 1947-48 annual report.

HK$279,942

"The estimated cost of the

black will be HK$550,000 thus He added that to find work for masses of unskilled

leaving HK$270,558 to be raised

in the present appeal. A list of

CB

creasing prison population.

Fi

"He added that given sucient orders the workshops in the ppl-

+

ferred.

{

all Jews and Arabs them. 10 bo. #Publia,servan péct í fór service in the Royal Navy, ---

Wake up, my children, wake

and

was

COOLIE INJURED

The writing on the wall is very Fatul injuries were sustained, by

Dr. J. R. Rose, Superintendent of son can absorü only 800 prisoners. 100 prisoners is employed daily ending irrigation expert told up-earch your memories

obe ridded that an average n. A on order. the Hosplat, will be "in" "Hong "Other Government depart-levelling a nearby Hillock to the fer

pre-consult your history, books. Kong for the next few weeks ments are extremely reluctant to West, of Stanley prisch and using engaged on this appeal supported place any orders with the prisons. the soil and rock for reclaiming menon to Mandat Church basis on which to build n up object of forming a playground and special, Correspondent" which yeu are inevitably doomed it started to move away from the

the tekular Industrial programme."to the East of the prison.

reported Mr. Shillingford..

by a Commitice of Chinese gentld-Consequently there has been no an area from the sea with the noregoing further, may clear and concise-the very least acpolle, Siu Chru-ming,.22; who

Their Headquarters will be

A Nightmare.

Choice Of Evils

your

lah arms ara

on one more points, could of the future unpleasantnesses. to fell from the rear of lorry 0111 os

grayes of so many

of Arabs as is an increase in he can and Jews ring, near to Rate":" The British

comprado

in the In

battlefield of AL Alemain, Gon

And other

Tasks are not given because, Italy B

to

or

least in. There will be

ttle

Provision of work for masses rather than to do it, quickly and grave; is; For

from other instance,

not, to say

Sallors and Soldiers Home, Hennessy Road, Hong Kong.

"Twenty-five years ago the re sidents of Hong Kong contributed In the meantime, he added, all towards the building of one block sorts of odd Jobs are done by a choice of two evils, he consi of wards the Hong Kong wards such skilled and semi-skilled pri- ders it better for a prisoner -which is now. the only block of soners as are available.

do a job slowly and make it last the present hospital not condemn ed for demolition. It is hoped et unskilled prisoners has become then, be into for a long time.

Because of this much unneces- that they will again make their a nightmare as apart from the contribution towards the present sunl domestic and sanitary part- sary cleaning of pots, pane and fance, Egypt where King scheme in order that the very les efe Is only a garden of premises is done to prevent com- matic, was forced on a point of

appoint valuable heavy equipment given about three acres of very pour plete idleness for other unskilled

Minister who was by the British Red Cross, UNRRA

prisoners.

little pro allled during the criticat and other agencies may ha

No...system of extra-mural 1942 A1 Alemain Battle. There worthily housed and that the

labour in lieu of imprisonment is

Haganas men about work of the Hospital may be "Methodist, Missionary. Spelety" in force in Hong Kong.

The mass

40.000 led by Cal, Kisch D.5.0. maintaloed in the large and thick and sent to The Reverend Mr. Commissioner of Prisons said etc, who fall in this battle. There ly populated area which it D. B. Childe, c/o Sellors and that it is considered that any were also Haganas men with serves."

Soldiers' "Home," 22 Hennessy such schemo could be successful the world best trained Cheques should be made out to Road, Hong Kong.

ly operated in the Colony,

Snake At St. John's Cathedral

python

While a gorylca", was: In

led into, the compet

"the" "Standard, Morrison Hill quarry at about

11,80 a.m. yesterday.

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