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THE CHINA ́ MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, -- 1958.
It Tots Up To JUVENILE CRIME
Moonshine
Landon, Mar. 19.
Scotch whisky drinkers
in Britalo were In high spirits after a recent an- nounce.nènì thai extra sup- plies would be available for the Coranallen.
But today, their happiness was diluted. The Scotch Whilsky Association Issued 2. statement saying: "In view of the recently. In- creased demand we wlab to put the matter in the right perspective."
The perspective view of the increase: one-eighteenth of a nip extra ali round.
For the whole of 1053 there will be only 150,000 gallons niore for bomo consumption than last year total of 2,750,000
Kallons,
The Association sald: "We regret the dollar situation does not permit more."--- Reuter.
MISS LEIGH
ON WAY
ΤΟ
MAJOR PROBLEM
IN SOUTH KOREA
Pusan, Mar. 20.
Rapidly increasing numbers of juvenile crimes in war-torn South Korea are adding to the headaches of the Syngman Rhee Government and South Korea's social workers.
Recent surveys showed that at least 1,200 minors, 99 per cent of them boys, have passed through Pusan's Juvenile Court in the past six months..
Court officials In Pusan esti- mated that at least 1,000 of the youths were war orphans and approximately one per cent of South
Kurea's orphans have been tried in open court by Pusan authorities during the past half year.
Court records showed that most of the crimes attributed to youthful offenders were thefts, but that there had been a mark- ed increase in South Koren in
the number of "Juvenile in- tellectual crimes" crimes in which tho thieves must be
BRITAIN extremely intelligent.
New York, Mar. 19. Miss Vivien Leigh, looking
walked pale and fired,
down The rump from an air liner the arm of her actor husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, ht Lit Guardia airport today after fight froin Los Angeles.
Miss Lelah had nervous breakdown
making
while
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Minors between the ages of 12 and 16 have outwitted and
both the outsmarted
South Korean police and the military security forces of the United Nations.
Pusau's Social Guidáneo Bureau and officials of Pusan's District Court tell a story of remarkably .it
organbert crine rings, and their origin in the aftermath of wor
of
making
im at Hollywood.
Miss Leigh spent some weeks in Ceylon recenly, location scenes for the Purn amount film "Elephant Walk," based on the novel of British author Robert Standish,
Then she had a 12-hour plane Journey from Colombo to Holly- wood for studio scenes of the
film.
She collapsed in the studio while working on these scenes. The flight was believed to have
her ic
contributed prostration.
Sir Laurence Olivier flew to her bedside from
Italy
Crime rings,
well
at the entrance of many black- markets which sprang up all over South Korea.
CATCHING UP
Many of these ill-cared for and abandoned children of war joineet the underground as guerillas and Communist agents. But most of them joined gangs of thieves.
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Ofelals in Pusan ure now slowly catching up with their activfiles.
Communist Many
have been plonge solved through juvenile actions.
Pusan's small detention houses for juvenile criminals are 50 small that many of the serious juvenile cases have been sent to ordinary prisons to mix with hardened criminals.
more
National police have attempt- ed to remedy the situation. A detention camp was built on an Island off Pusan, but guards Have not been able to stop end- less escapes. Probation officera calf that the little thieves are
"Just turning composed
up again and gain".
shoeshine boys, giri divers,
beggars and messenger boys", frequent Pusan's piers, Covern- ment offices and United Nations supply depots ta ilving as best they cau
earn their of them can show a full pocket when they are apprehended.
Some
South Korean Government officials believe that some of the shoeshine boys loitering around United Nations' installations are
Communist
under- ground spies who collect vital information from the soldiers as their customers tutk among
actually 10 pollee.
fneed
themselves...
HUMAN CONVEYOR
Shoeshine boys and beggars Tacse small, dirty - nervous
orchins are believed to be part | are constantly giving trouble to of
blackmarket. 11
"Buman | United Nations Prisoner of War
authorities. holiday in conveyor belt" which links port camp-
Ometals with the black market | bellave that it is extremely easy Mareas week-end. Leigh's condition was so serious itself. They are the "buyers" for a boy neting as a Communist
and the black market is that it was decided she should
the agent to slip a message through acluni link with the "Con- role and return.to leave her
to prisoners. suniers". England.
Just
Last night she was given oxygen and carried to the plane by stretcher for the flight from Los Angeles to New York.
The studio announced that Miss Leigh's role had been
น
allotted
British-born Elizabeth Taylor, wife of the British actor, Michael Wilding. --Reuter.
Trout Gets The
First Bite
Otley, Mar, 10.
The first "bite" of the trout sensen goes to the trout. Derek Brown of Otley, Yorkshire, Angling Club, hooked it from the River Wharfe. As it was slightly under the legal size of 10 inches, he had to return it.
The trout bit him as he was removing the hook and drew blood. Brown returned it to the "Arst bite of water after this the season In reverse.-Router.
A
British
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South Korean officials recently that any warning
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When United Nations forces nrst reached a stalemate on the issued present battle line about 20 civillan, regardless of age, would months ago, they left behind be shot ir found passing clothing them about 100.000 war orphans messages, food or giving assist and approximately 80,000 "pruance in any form to prisoners of fessional beggars.
war. The warnbig WAS United Nations Civ attempt by the Syngman Rhe Assistance Command and South Government to combat a large Korean Goverment
communication network operat- Social orean
Communists and Affairs Ministry joined to building between approximately 120 orphanages prisoners in the camps. Reuter,
The
to give temporary shelter to 18,000 orphans, all under ten of age. The remainder years slayed on the streets, uncured
for.
They lived under rubbish, along railroad tracks or omong
RARE FIND
the foundations of buildings IN INDIAN
shielding themselves from the cold as best they could and spending thele time thinking of ways to fill their stomach
of Some
became them shoeshine boys for American soldiers, come, became "guides" for prostitutes, others took jobs as helpers for oplum peddlers, and still others became "guards"
Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Drive back (5).
4 D1fculty (6).
8 Fruit (0).
10 Fruit of the oak (5).
12 Religious discourse (0).
14 Tablo support (7).
17 Mark of a lash (4).
10 Encroaches upon (7).
20 Examined carefully (7).
22 Staff (4).
27 Venerate (BJ.
23 Green (7).
29 Stadium (5).
30 Specimen (6).
31. Noiseless (0),
32 Encounters (3).
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25
1 Send (6).
DOWŃ
2 Chaplain (5).
3 Minimum (8).
5 Sitio (4).
0 Made reparation (6).
7 Doctrines (0),
0 Ease (7).
11 Dastard (0),
13 Performs (7),
15 Roll (4).
16 Without warning (0).
18 Spare (4).
20 Vows (6).
21 Artificial (0).
24 Territory (5),
25. Sufficient (5),
20 Loelt (5).
DESERT
an
Rang Nahal, Mar, 19. Sweden's 11-member archaeo- logical
In expedition
the Rajasthan Desert, North Indio. hus uncovered fare gilt coins "never before found" daling back at least to the time of Christ.
Dr Hanna Rydh, Stockholm orchaeologist who heads the excavations, declared that three of the gilt coins were discovered In a batch of 20 coins of all types in a tiny dwelling room In this excavated village.
"We can always guess that this building was a shop or a business house," Dr Rydh speculated.
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