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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1955.

MAKES

But There Are Not

Enough Gum

Tips To

Go Round

Melbourne, June 19. Australia's cuddly koala bear is thriving today as it never has before.

Twenty-five years ago, this national pet was nearly extinct. Today, under a system of "koala farming," numbers have increased tenfold in Victoria alone" and the authorities are now faced with a problem of ensuring that there is enough food for them.

The harmless woolly bear of the Australian bush has only one item of food gum leaves.

There are plenty of gum trees in Australia, but the koala is se chocsy that it eats the tips of only a tow species of eucalyptus the most important of which is the manna gum.

STARVE TO DEATH

If the koala cannot get manna Am leaves which are exactly right it will not eat and starves to death.

Naturalists are satisfied that most Australians today would not harm the koala, but the "New Australians," Immigrants who have arrived since World War II are a serious problem. Conservation officers have found that they do not understand protection laws and regard any bush animals, or birds, as fair game."

*HA HA PIGEONS"

Onc *horrified naturalist learned that Australia's kooka- burra, the laughing and friendly Naturalists

about bush bird with the d.sagree

powerful what are the vital elements in snake-killing bill. was omg the gumn leaves upon which the into New Australians pots to koala depends. But they

do make a tasty stew under the know that the gum leaves must name "Ha Ma Pigeons." have, the exact chemical balance, or the choosy koala will die.

A's the white men occupied this country, they chopped down to clear land and shot trees koalas "for their pelts. At the numbers turn of the century, had already greatly diminished. Then a pneumonia epidemic hit the animals.

Bushfires summer toll.

go

ZLE

Despit the increase in the numbers of koalas here, it is unlikely that any more will overseas. The only koalas present cutside Australia

own from Sydney to San Diego Zoo, where the woman curator prepared for years for their

arrival.

were

COMEBACK Westernised PRISONS SHOULD

Cypriots To Enlighten

UN Members

Nicosia. June 19." Cypriot Greek leftwing organy- isations decided today to send a delegation to the United States to "enlighten" United Nationa members on the Cyprus question. of leftwing Representatives bodies, including Akel (the and the Communist Party) Trades Unions Federation, met

here today and decided that such a mission should leave soon.

Thie woollen wwin suit features CONSERVALINEar and simplełty and was shown at a roount beach wear display in Tokyo. The plak one-piece attire is accented by a row of white buttons nown from flie top to the bottom of the out- it. The model weary

white water-proof nylon beach hat and holds a terry cloth cape ber... besch complete costume. The beaolewaar dir- play originally intended for the fashion-conscious women turned out to be more popular the men-folk who AMONI spent their lunch hour for peep at the costumes, and of the lovely course,

YOUDE models.--Exxprese Photo.

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Holiday Weat

Survey Of Ex-Prisoners

Of War

BE ABOLISHED

SAYS LAWYER

Copenhagen, June 19,

Denmark, having successfully introduced. prisons without bars, ought, according to a leading Danish legal authority Hr Hans Jensen, to abolish prisons altogether except for hardened offenders. Prisons without bars are proving a great

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success here for certain classes of offenders- because they do not produce the so-called "prison mentality" and greatly facilitate the rehabilita- tion of offenders and their return to "normal society.

Er Hans Jensen, who is load- oneself is impossible-It is a sort ing a campaign for the abolition of cancer which gradually makes of prisons for lesser offences, prisoners grow rotten inside and bases his opinions partly on study destroys them human beings and observation and partly on his own experience, for he him- self once served a short sentence in a Copenhagen prison for an offence which he does not specify and which Danish newspapers have tactfully ignored.

"Instead of prisoners in cells, what are nooded are prisons without bars and without cells.

WHAT HAPPENS

"What really happens in the case of a man being sentenced

the

He has already expounded his by the Court is this first of all, views on the Danish radio and Ands himself punished by

in most countries, the offender hopes to do so also in Sweden publicity given to his case in the Norway, Italy and England. He newspapers, often before he is".

to trial

is working in contact with the brought he has to suffer what-

well-known Italian prison re- former, Signor Filippa Grama- tica, on a campaign among law.

ever sentence is passed by the yers, policemen, public officials. Court, and finally he must expect to be punished for the third time prison warders and politicians,

when he leaves prison and b ORDINARY PERSON ..

cast again

or the possibility without triena Be world, often Speaking" of his own personal of Ending work. experience in prison, Mr Jensen

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the normal prison the in- says: "Apart from five to ten telligent prisoner soon realises social conditions per cent of hardened, offenders, that there is something wrong

the people one meets in prison with the system.

Edinburgh, June 19. A confidential survey health and

of

the are ordinary persons who

among men who were prisoners of war in Japanese hands is to be made by

the National various Federation

of Far East For Clubs and Associations.

one

The aim of the survey is to

men may be suffering from after effects of their experiences.

ways have

Many prison officials would agree with him.

view

is that

got into trouble. That is the chic fact They say: It does not make much must bear in mind when sense but we cannot do anything about

out it. considering prison reform.

W "Prisoners nowadays still go about reforms it is no use de- people want to bring

find out the extent to which the which is really only the applica.manding things which the not-

through

kam of punishment Paris, June 19. In policy declaration, the

tion of the law of Moses of animal man cannot understand. Our Mr Nehru, Indian Premier, to

cell and prison meeting resolved that "the

eye for an eye and a tooth for punishment should no longer be Cyprus people claim immediate night attended a performance of

a sort of given The survey was announced at a tooth, and is without the Tchaikowsky ballet "Sleep- self-determination,

any but hardened of the Federation's vengeance demanded by public offenders. look their annual that of parts of Australia, she however a promise of granting ing Beauty" at the Kirov Theatro the close

planted masna gum to provide military bases on the island. to ported in a broadcast monitored

in Leningrad, Radio Moscow re-annual conference here today.

opinion, which forgets that the true aim of punishment should food and waited for years for

It was said that many former be to rehabilitate the the

koalas to arrive. But Aus British forces."

sposcrvationists say A memorandum is to be sent Mr Nehru, who is visiting the Far East prisoners of war were What I demand is what every that to send konias, overseas is to the United Nations Se-Soviet Union, arrived in Lenin believed to suffer from physical normal sensible man can under to

cretariat claiming the right of grad earlier today by air from or mental disorders attributable stand. First of

Cyprus. Sverdlovsk in the Ural region.to their imprisonment, Chira system must be abolished. Iming in the North Sen. While this be self-determination for

Mail Special

In a climate very similar to

Twenty-five years ago, there were only five known koalas left in South Australia, a hand-tralian ful in Victoria and New South Wales, and a

a Strong colony in to condemn them to death, and Southern Queensland. But dur- the experiments will never ing the depression the Queens-repeated-China Mail Special.

land Government removed its protection of the bears, so that unemployed workers could get some money by hunting them and selling the pelts.

*So strong Was Australion reaction that buyers shipped the pelts to the St. Louis fur sales in the United States 35 "wombat sking" using the less of

and another

marsupial. popular, Australian It was

reported, incidentally, that the principal market for the skins was Canoda

name

where

they were made into rugs for the cold winters,

FIRST MOVE

The Arst. "save the koala" move came in South Australia where 31 zoologist, Mr Keith Mincham, saved the last koalas in the State, collected sume more. which had been on

city store, and hibition in a ba

what he called "Koala started Farm on the edge of the city.

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Ex-

Over a period of years, the koalas thrived and he was able to establish new wild colonies, some on the animal sanctuary of Kangaroo Island, off the South Australian coast.

In Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, other natural- ists started similar sanctuaries.

One Melbourne newspaper organised thousands of school- children into growing manna gum seedlings in plots and the State Fisheries and Game partment planted out the trees 10 previde food for future koalas.

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Meanwhile. they carefully. nursed groups of koalas 01 Island sanctuaries and through the war this work was almost forgotten

In 1947, the humble koala burst into the Melbourne head- lines again when it was dis- covered that they had increased to such a number that they had eaten all food on their

and homes

were

: starvation.

INCREASED

island dying, of

The Department then began an organised move to shift koalas from the islands to mainland colonies. With the now supplies of foód, numbers

tive plates of the heads continued to increase.

of 42 species and many

useful drawings in the

The Department's aim was to text, The wilter of this sprend the colonies as widely review would have throtago the State as possible po

benefited greatly from

this book when station ed in Hong Kong some years ago.

that future epidemics, bushfires,

or any other form of

destruc

tion would do least damage.

Even now,

With the spreading of koalas on referring to it, me through the country, naturalista 40 unfamiliar speeles have tried to make Victoria on which notes were koala-conscious. They have said made at the time have that discovery of koalas in the almost all proved easily bush would not be unusual now identifiable-D. W. S. and begged, tourists to leave!?

them alone.

· (Extract from ""The Ibia" official

organ of the British Ornithologists? Reinforcing this plea comes Union, British Museum).

legislation to protect the koala. Anyone who "interferes illegally. in any way with the animals KOWLOON is liable to a fine of £50, or

Imprisonment, or both.

S. C. M. FOST ··

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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

ONLY ONCE -- {ER-(GULP)-TELL IN USING KARTA ME WHAT

→→TO BRING YOỪ }}YOU'VE BEEN

HERE. WAS

THAT EVIL?

prisonment

DOTNS ALL

TALK

THESE YEARS.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiler

By Frank Robbins

TELL ME IF I AM NOTT MISTAKEN DOESN'T THIS LEVER OPEN THE

BONEL EAY?

THAT'S RIGHTA HEY!" DON'T. THRONE Ten· THAT ME!

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"A leading police official,

Paludan Mueller, has' that young ordinary

agenders,/aspect

Bahar stora bead of being sent

all the cell werk with a trawler's crew Ash-

in a cell alone by is a sensible idea, the times are

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

TEK JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS"

DAIRY BOX

MILK

CHOCOLATE

this situation"

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San Miguel

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not yet ripe for it

"My ideas are not original but in view of my experience as

ławyer

a

as a former prison

and as inmate in ucusual combination

-I can

perhaps

awaken the public conscience more easily

than many others."

Denmark has already gone a

long way towards realising the aims of prison

reformers.

there is

In

addition to

to prisons without bars, is a system here whereby those sentenced

certain offences, such as being drunk in charge of a

car, are sent to prisons where they can have their food brought in from out- side, if they wish, may have chair and some furniture of their

awn in the celi, and may chocer the sort of work they want to do. They may also write and receive letters, and may even decide when they will serve the term of imprison- ment.

OBVIOUS REASONS Thus, for obvious! reasons. offenders in this class of case. usually choose to purge their offence in prison during their summer holidays. In this way, their side-slipping is not, a

known to their employers.

A story is told of a man who was sent to prison for three weeks for being drunk in charge of a car. During exercise in the countyard, he met a colleague from the same Birm, but could not speak to him as tids Was against the rules.

That

evening a warder came

to him and said "You" friend says will you please remember after you are released that he is spending his holiday in the south of France?

........

"Ok" replied the first prisoner, tell him that I am on holiday in Sweden, Haw strange that

we should meet!"-China. Mail Special

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