1950-04-25 — Page 9

DRASTIC INCREASE IN CRIME IN BRITAIN

London, April 24.

This once law-abiding country is suffering a plague of teen-age mobsters. They room city streets singly and in gangs. Today's newspaper reports a suburban theatre performance stopped while police chivvied rioters from among the audience and fought with them in the street. London was once the safest city in the world. The city's most loyal de-

fenders would not make that claim today.

A WHALE OF A MESS

Straonsay, Orkney Islands, April 23. The harbour master of this little fishing village sent out a

The London Bobby with is this year or next is not well sup- kettle hat and cheerful manner ported by the available facts. still patrols his beat with There has been a steady increase Reither gun (nor knife to pro-in crimes of almost all klads in tect himself and the citizenry. Great Britain over the past 30

Weapons of the young hood years

may have a short

nerve

luma

From 1940 to 1946 crimes of and their girls range violence against persons incrcus- froni razors to knuckle-dusters, ed from 2,424 to 5,183. In 1920 black jacks and a peculiarly erines of all kinds recorded in vicious instrument from a bicycle chain.

contrived the United Kingdom numbered 113,080. Ten years later the an- The chain

nuni cɔunt was 303,771. I 194 call for help today. The towed at one end with heavy tape to 305,114, In 1948 British po kandle to it merely be wrap the figure had risen only slightly, has 96 whales stranded on the bryan: which is 10 to 12 inches lice reported more than $23,000 beach and does not know of flexible steel lesh. Even this crimes. The year 1930 may sen what to do with them.

weapon has been refined by Lon- the gure exceed 000,000. Seventy-six mammals diction's teenage tough guys. They Scotland Yard is the overnight since the schoot was file the tip of the chain into ing-centre of Britain's battle against stranded in the sand by an ex-ged teeth.

crime. The emergency services ceptionally high tide yesterday Young

Answer up to no. 098. oung girls sometimes Join up and the others are threshing their with the young mobsters who g Anywhere In Great huge fails and kicking up spray

Britabi out to malm and rob for money,

those three numbers will instant- and sand in death throes.

liquor, clothes and dance halls. ly reach the police, fire and am- S. Clements, the harbour mas-Satne of the young men of these bulance services. In the Scotland ter, sent out a plea for Senndina- vian whalers to come and get an

packs dress

in the exaggerated Yard wire rooin there is a cun- zoot style favoured by estimated 250 tons of whale mest.

young

stant clamaur or calls spuiting American pluguglius. T. J. Barry, district sanitary In-

crime or suspected crime in the To a visitor returned to Lon-Metropolitan area, spector, said the town has no bull

For Bucking- don after an absence of nearly 30

ham Palace in the city dozers to remove the whales and sent an

Windsor

Custle, the British ears, the criminal violence re- appcul to

the Roya Ministry of Health,

ported daily by the Press Family's country place, there There is a whale for every to shocking, almost unbelievable.

a special watch and alarm. Ab people in this little town. Al-

emergency call from either place though all the men here are

flashes ' special signal which fishermen, they are not accus-

would put a great army of civil tomed to taking on fah of this

officers in movement.

size.

Mr. Clements sald there is no hope of the 20 still alive getting back to the sea. He said, "They are in such a tight bunch that the dead ones will stop all chances the weak but still living whales have."

Just kids

1%

pro.

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is

British justice admits itself difference, baffled by the adolescent mob.

It recalis the bad old hibition days in Chicago or New York, but with A These London mobsters really are just kida

the London of the carly 1920's crimes of violence were few. Punishment was almost in- Ranging in size from 12 to 28 evitable, and it was, without ex- feet in length, the wholes lie inception, severe. an area of less than half a square the penalty for murder, and not Haaging was more than one in 100 cscoped it There is no smell yel, but

aver a period of years. wait a week," said Mr. Clements. -United Press,

mile.

U.S. MEMORIAL TO GANDHI

Washington, April 23. Plans for constructing the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in Washington are being actively taken up. Representatives of the Memorial Foundation are here to meet the Fine Arts Commission of Washington, D.C.. In whose hands lies the

siers.

Becoming terrified

"I suppose." Lord Goddard sold in discussion of the problem "there is nothing that is agitating

as the public so much now as the amount of crime among adole- scenis." He

conceded the impossibility of punishing young people.

The worst that can happen to

For violent crime such as the sluggings and maiming now so prevalent here, the penally could young criminal is to be sen- and often was the whip. The tenced to a reformatory," he said. British whip was a

ત્ cat of nine

cannot see any element of punishment in that,"

be

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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1980.

Concentration!

Photon

These close up photographs show Marianne Allwright, aged 6/2, during a friendly match at St. Bride's Institute, Floct Street, London, Marianne was the youngest player in the Sri- tish Girls' Chess Championships at St. Bride's, Taught by her 11-year-old brother Barrie, Marianne, says that she prefers chess to dolls. She lives at Finchley, North London. show: top left: a pause to deliberate once again on the con- Bequences of the move. Top right: a mental review of the game as Marianne: ponders, the next move. Bottom left: a plance of frank approval at an astute move by her opponent. Bottom right: Marianne gazes wistfully at the chessboard an she loses one of her pieces. (AP Phetoj.

Amateur

་

a flying

building saucer

San Francisco, April 24.

Armed with a butcher's saw, a paring knife and some balsa wood, a 31-year-old house painter has set out to build a "real flying saucer."

It was said with considerable From the Opposition bench in evidence that a man once flagged the House of Lords Conservative After four-and-a-half months' work, Tony Aloni

with it would avoid a offence in the future.

The Socialist

Ear! Howe

Howe said:

flogging

revealed his partially completed "saucer", "It is a fact that prople are he

about seven feet in diameter. Government coming terrified. You are faced which came into power in 1945 with the possibility that the pea-

"It's a real saucer," he said, the law into ther] "not a leadership to was committed by its intellectual ple will take

disc like ing and the death penalty for bour Lords that he had oppose plucing two saucers (coffee type)

abolish both flog-

some have banda." Lord Goddard reminded the La-

built." murder.

Alani, modelled his saucer by abolition of the whip in 1948 and face to face. at that time had predicted that

Judges' opinion Hanging survived, bul

which make it

unier

OW!

the headlines

B

engine

How does it come down? Alani already thought of that. He sald he will install a parachute at the centre.

Two things have delayed com- pletion. Alan lacks money and dools.

crimes of violence would multiply ke

The outer frame model looks when the lash was put by. His wheel. Later he hopes to attach will become

multiple-spoked glant Lordship had

an con-any day's newspaper to prove

after covering the siderably more likely now that that he had been correct in that saucer with model plane paper. The Commission has offered convicted murderer sentenced to prediction-United Press, what is considered an attractive die on the gallows will obtain the

final

site,

decision regarding the conditions

site adjoining the present pro-elect the covers perty of the Embassy of India, 2700 Macomb Street.

Foundation.

property of the Government of

arrangements

But Government did abolish the whip.

day

AURIOL APPEAL

TO FRENCHMEN

Lorient, April 23.

No experience

A friend's excitement over "flying saucer" reporta gave Alani

However, he hopes someone interested and nid producing a full-scale model. "Maybe if this saucer pays off, can buy a home some day," the painter sighed.-United Press.

the urge to build one to show TRAMWAY STRIKE people what a saucer really looks like.

Alanl never had any engineer-

TO END

LEOPOLD

ISSUE UNSOLVED

Brussels, April 23.

The Catholic Premier-de- signate, M. Paul Van Zealand, will meet new difficulties in. forming a Cabinet even if Belgium's three main partich agree to a formula for exiled King Leopold to give up the throne temporarily to his son, observers. stated today.

The three-Parties Catholic, Socialists and Liberals have agreed in principle to implement the Monarch's own plan for solving Belgium's five-year-old "Royal question".

Their delegates met again to- day to thrush out anal details of the compromise, which has run Into heavy weather about what the King should do while

19-

year-old Prince Baudouin tem- porarily occupies the throne.

Soctallats and Liberals say that Leopold should return to provi- slonal exHe immediately after delegating power.

The Catholics, the only Party wholly favouring the King's re- turn, say what the King does is entirely up to him.

Leopold himself, according to a note given to the Socialist leader, M. Paul Spaak, yesterday by M. Van Zeeland, envisages a prolonged journey through the Belgian Congo.

This itself has brought snags. Socialists and Liberals want him to travel incognito, the Catholics as a Sovereign.

But even if these problems are overcome at the thred- Party round-table conference, other problems awalt M. Wari Zeeland.

The Catholics claim that when the King is called back to Bol- glum to hand over his prereza- tives to his son he must also be received with Royal honours. But Socialists oppose any return in State. In this case, they say, they will counter-demonstrate.

Finally, the Liberals want the out-going Catholic-Liberal coall- tion to continue under the former Premier, M. Gaston Eyskens. On the other hand, M. Paul Seghers, Catholic Minister of Communica tions in the Caretaker Cabinet, has said that he would never join a Government planned to banish the King.

"We want the King to stay in Belgium so that he can, if need be, guide the first steps of the Prince", M. Seghers said.-Reu- youthful,

- experienced

Ler.

non

ENVOYS' BOYCOTT

Jerusalem, April 23. Members of the Diplomatic Corps boycotted an official recep tion given here tonight by Pre- mler David Ben-Gurion to mark the second anniversary of Israel's formation as a State.

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The reason was that they re- fuse to recognize Jerusalem capital of Israel.

The site, consisting of an area

There is great clamour in the of three acres, is partly United United Kingdom now to restore States Government property and the lush, The Press largely sup- partly privately-owned. The pri- ports the effort to resume log-

In his nation-wide broadcast vately-owned part of the land gings for violent crime. The let will-have-to-be-purchased by the fers columns of the newspapers

Melbourne, April 23. ing experience. He never built-Melbourne

carlier this evening.. Mr. Ben-. vdel planes as a boy.

tramwaymen on Gurion declared that Jerusalem In fact, strike since February 23 decided had now become Israel's capital The proposed site is said to

indicate public

he hasn't even any The President of the French plans. He began by tossing pie sume work tomorrow morning.

drawing at a mass meeting today to re- The batt support.

battering day after have many advantages. Points in impact of violent crime has per- Republic, M. Vincent Auriol, plates in the air and then started

in fact and in practice. Its favour include: it adjoins the sunded several British judges to said here today that perman-moulding appendages on them.

Whether the city's

tram services But this morning the Diploma- will continue to run normally de- tic Corps presented their congra- from the Bench for nu-ent agitation and sabotage are

model just about Allspends on the track maintenance tulations to President Chalm made for an cements fuld be thority again to sentence offenders retarding the reconstruction of his apartment living room.

to be whipped. The dispute has the country, prolonging the about $70 so far and Alani thinks return to work-Reuter. Embassy grounds to the memo-

The saucer

men, also on strike, who will meet Weizmann model has cost tomorrow morning to discuss

at his residence at rial; has a central location, where the Lord Chancellor, Vis-ening France in

reached

the House of Lords, misery of the poor and weak- it will be double that before he

aRehovoth, near Tel-Aviv.-Rex- easily accesible by street tran-

tor, sport; the memorial building, Labour Government would stand

count Jowitt, ann

the eyes of is finished, announced that the foreign countries.. perched on an elevation of 300

Most of

the additional sum feet and overlooking well-pat against flogging.

а

The President

will go for a model plane motor, speaking mounted in the centre. Alani sald after

the promoting damaged port to the Legion of duce engine turns to 800 revolu- much-ne will use delicate gears to re- Honour.

Lions per minute.

Korinally that type of engine turns at 8,000 rp.n.'s.

Alani'

thinks that slanted ducts will draw the air in wat the top and expet it at the bottom as the umbrella-shaped model rotates. "That's my

main theory on what is going to raise the thing,"

wooded valley. would look very Impressive. Reuter.

of

SOVIET PLOT IN SOUTH AMERICA

Buenos Aires, April 23. Evidence of the establishment "Soviet Union of South America" was found among Com- munist documents seized by the Bolivian police, a pro-Govern- ment newspaper reported today.

The "Noticias Graficas" said in a special despatch from La Paz, Bolivian capital, that the docu- ments show that the central com- mlitee of the alleged union is functioning in Uruguay United Prosa.

But

pressure for the whip is increasing. Lord Jowitt suggest ed that the public should wait through this year and into next in hope that the tide of violent crime would recede,

Lord Goddard, the Chief

was

It would be dangerous to con- ceal the revolution now going on in social organisation, M. Aurioi Lora sald, or to think that one class

Justice, spoke for the could continue to dominate an- Bonch. He warned

the Gov.plher. But progress could only ernment that if the crime wave

be based on order. continued the public demand for flogging would ba whelming.

over.

Goddard said. "I hope it will not "Then it must be applied," Lord be too late."

"A democracy where the vlo- lence of a minority over-rides the freedom of the citizens and flouts he said.. the law is a democracy only in name," M. Auriol said.

that which the fanatles hope, may. "A dictatorship, which is never result and make these fanatica regret the liberties and laws they have destroyed."

Steady increasa Viscount Jowill's expectation operation between that the crime waye will abate I classes-Reuter,

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Gears for motion

How will it go forward? "That's easy," the painter smiled. "I' run gears down from the enging to propellers. They will give it forward motion, and counteract social the torque caused by the rotating

Baucer."

The President appealed for co-

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