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· CULTURE · AND CRIME.

THE PROFESSIONAL AND

THE POLICE. George R. Sims writes in the Daily Chronicle ---

SPIES SHOT IN PARIS,

LEADER'S ORIM END.

THE PHONGKONG

LORD CURZON AND LORD ROBENT CECIL.

POLISH OFFENSIVE Three men and women suffered

AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. death at the hands of the French military authorities recently. Correspondance on the subjea“

They No one with a knowledge of

were Toque, Moses of the Polish advance which has facta in likely to dispute the con Lemoine, Herbert and Allee passed between Lont Curzon and tention of my friend Sir Leonard Anbers, all of whom hava bean Lord Robert Cecit is forwarded Dunning that crime is a profa-sion | activą agants for the Germans in the Daily Chronicle from the which every year becomes better the occupied regions of the North. office of the League of Nations educated and better equipped. a notorious organ of German Union,

the "Gazette des In bygone days an occupation. | propaganda,

It should be painted sat that necessitated as often as not by Ardennes," was produced under the decision to publish that day is surrounding circumstances, crime the suspices of Toque, a man of that of Lord Robert Cecil, and and that Lord Curzon points out that has for some years past been ad-considerable intelligence vancing steadily towards the journalistic ability, who at one he is left without opportunity of dignity of a profession. To-day period was in the French Colonial adequate reply. it is not only a profession, it is an ervice. art, and it would not be difficult' to show that some of its professors ba's made it a fine art.

The idea tha: educatioff would reduce crime was very largely bed during the early period ni the Victorian era, when the cam paign for a compulsory system was raging in the Press and on the platform. Juvenile depravity - would, we were wasured, disappear from our midt when every boy and girl in the land coull read and write. Blessed with a Board

Owing to this organisation many Frenchmen were betrayed into the bands of the Germinas and shot.

Lord Robert Cecil opens the correspondence on May 3. He its from the office of the League of Nations Union —-

Dear Lord Curzon,-As chair- man of the Executive Committee A COOL VILLAIN. ! Toque and Lemoine received of the Langue of Nationa Union. the announcement of their in- venture to draw your attention to the deplorable events CHAS pending doom quite calmly.

place in Central taking Europe.

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When awakened from a sound sleep and told, they had to die

For months past Poland has been they seemed to trceive the news

notoriously preparing to attack with stoic calm,

"Better death than a continu-Russia. As far as I can judge, School education, our lads and fance of this prison life," remark- the Soviet Government has made ropested and genuine offers of lasses would all grow up inteed Toque,

peace, which have been set aside model citizens. SOME EFFECTS OF EDUCATION.

on seemingly dimsy pretexts.

The idea was founded on fallacy. What education does is to widen your outlook and to suziga? greater oppormities for the alien af such ideals of

Io

Aubert, who had been a soldier, was confined in a military prison. When told his last hour had come, The result must be either at he babbled incoherently and was Polish success which will only understood to say that he was lead to reprisals later on--or a Polish failure, which may probably pleased that the end was near.

Imprisonmset had told upon his produce the disruption of Poland life, high or low, is you may mind. He laughed in a wild and for its conquest by Russia. possena. And that has been the delirious was, and the doctors either event a very seriona situa- effect of education upon crima,) were puzzled as to whether be It has not manufacturederiminals, was insane orfeigning madness. but it has widened the horizon of

incited the crimally

and suggcated to them creater opport- aaities of exercising their talente

for ill-doits.

The criminal, we have been told by acientific writers on the subject, is the product of cosmic, biological or social influences which pat him out of harmony with conventional morality and cause him to disturb the recognia-

ed sims of community existence,

Obedience to the law is a normal condition. Moralcharact- er depends upon the condition of equilibrium amid the emotional, volitional and intellectusi forces, In is when that equilibrium is disturbed to the pint of law. breaking that the hitherto peace- able citizen becomes a profession at criminal.

SCIENCE AGAINST SCIENCE. With the advantages of educa tion he comes to his work with a superior equipment and relies for his success largely upon bir fertility of resource. The cdc. cated criminal bas far greater fertility of resource, as a rule. than the uneducated one.

WOMAN'S WILD OUTBREAK.

There was a terribly poignant

scene of despair in the cell of the

woman spy, Alice Aubert, when

she learned that her lass hour had

come.

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There is one more point in your of Europe will have been produced.

letter to which I'should like 10 Nor is the situation improved refer. You stale that Poland the fact that Poland has ren-has rendered Fathunia, Latvia, dered her northern neighbours and especially Lithuania bitterly Eathonia, Latvia, and especialls hostile by her recent conduct. Lithuania bitterly bestile by her There is undoubtedly great ill

Foland feeling between recent conduct.

In these circumstances it is Lithuania. but Esthonia and regrettable that the machinery Latvia do not, so far as I know, provided by Articles 11 and 17 of regard Poland with hostillity. In- the Covenant of the League of deed, the Latvians appear recently be moved, she asked for permis. Nations should not have been to have refused to consent to sian to see the prison chaplain utilised; and I venture to express Russian proposal, which, though an immediate advantageous to them, would and to receive religious consolathe bore that

meeting of the Council of the have exposed the Polish left flank tion. This was granted.

League may be summoned at the to Bolshevik attack. instance of the British Govern- ment to deal with the situation.

She broke down completely, and dinging herself on the floor the feet of the officials she pleaded for meres.

Finding her 220lers could go

Two nucs from the prison accompanied the doomed woman to the firing posi a: Vincennes.

She was the last of the four to

H THE PAD OF PRADE

Torque's the most self-pufs- |

Artimex scution, ground, while the arrival of the wo landed iron the automobiles walked about, smoked It must be borne in mind thate; and, by way of being

As a matter of fact, he was

a

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replied on May 13, reiterating his at the Hongkong Hotel Main Replying on May 11 from the case at great length.. He callsfice, or at Repulse Bay Hotel.

Lord CurzoD attention to Foreigo

the fact that on Office.

J. H. TAGGART, writes:--

January 10 it was stated in a

Munazer. Bonar telegram from Warsaw which appeared in the public Press that

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My dear Cecil,--Mr. Before leaving Law's reply to Captain Benn in the cal written in the Min-rooss of Commons yesterday the Polish ofensive of that date luring his in-will have given you an indication served the purpose of feeling the of the Government's attitude on nation's pulse with regard to the the question of the League of active continuation of the war Nations and the Polish offensive agains: the Bolsheviks in the which you raise in your letter to spring!" And it was added that, me of May 3.

"judging from the Warsaw Press, all the necessary enthusiasm for Sir Leonard Dunning, when humors, complained about the support the view that" for months fresh ventures seems to exist"

There were other indications. spoke of the better education and reputed usgestuality of all woras: Poland bas been notoriously

Russia." he declares, both in the Englishân! equipment of the criminal pro-men, one of whom, he said, was preparing to attack fession, was addressing a body of keeping three men waiting to die. Until quite recently there Las and French Press. of the same

Alice Aubert arrived at last. hewn no evidence 10

e Biliousness, sick headaches, police. He was emphasising the point in order to impress these her bobbed hair flying in that the Poles have been cos To intervene now, he adds.fool-smelling breath: prevent the breeze, and bolding a emcifix templating an offensive against might possibly be regarded by Diarrhoea and Dysentery; relieve guardians of the law with a necessity of bringing themselves before hez,, she was led to the Russia: we base every reson 20 Poland as an unfriendly act.

Piles. Of druggists everywhere, up to the intellectual level of the execution pest escorted by the believe that their endeavours to though crents may show

or post free, 60 cents the visi,; two nubs who had come with her open peste negotiations were intervention would be for her the from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., breakers of the law.

nals truest kicdoess. Bat whether 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai. from the prison.

genuine. They WEIR only repeating an argument that TOQUE'S LAST CRY AND AGOSY abandoned when the Poles became that be or not, he holds, doss Toque at the last moment cried aware than the Bolsheviks were not alter the fact that in the our criminologists have been

concentrating opposite their frost earlier months of this year there- dealing with from the beginning out that he was innocent.

This probably unnerved the a large supply of guns and was a way or threat of war.“ of the centors, and that arg-soldiers, and upset their aim. for material captured from General which might have been brought ment is the necessity of having a

The Polish before the Coonil of the League scientifically equipped police to the valley failed to kill him out Denikin's

unnaturally by the British Government, and deal with scientifically equipped criminals. That is the point

rushed up and looked on this as a proof that the the opportunity for doing so was trat Sir Leonard was endeavour-sought to finish the wretched Batsheriks peaceful intentions missed. ing to drive home, and we need man by shooting him in the were not engine. I would also

If the Government feel that not lay too much stress upon the head his revolver, but. remind you that the Bolsheviks they are precluded from asking to the horror of the spectators, asked the Poles to choose a place for intervention immediately. Toque still lived and his groans for the negotiations and then surely at the very least tele-Tyang te were heartrending.

rejected it when chosen.

graphic instructions might be A second sergean: rushed up. NEW TYPES OF CRIMINALS. and, putting the muzzle of his vel uns case, this episode does sent to our representative on the The ware of crime which has volver close to Toqua's ear, blew constitute an outbreak of Council of the league now sit- bean sweeping over the country out his brains and put an end tour is is merely a phase of ating that he should bring the war which has been going on for whole matter before the buncil is largely due to the conditions bis life and sufferings. brought about by the war. A doctor examined the bodies some time and has not yet been and should urge that every pre- terminated. I do not see bow-weparation should be made to take considerable portion of the young and certified all four were dead.

soon as a reasonable able-bodied population has been Toque's companions had all died can invoke the intervention of action as

the League of Nations to check chance offers. unable to step out of the realms instantaneously.

an offensive by the Poles in the course of their conflict with the Bolshevike We told them that

suggestion that increased educa- tion is responsible for increased

crime.

A

of exciting and sensational melo-

drama and settle down contented-

right.

A sergeant

with

fessional criminai we have had

army.

Government at

LORD CURZON'S PROTEST. Writing on Friday, Lord Curzon

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Dear Lord Robert Cicil, My Their equilibrium bas been become a conventional figura in offer them no advice,, and that

choose peace or letter to you was not written disturbed to the point of law. fiction and on the stage: Rafiles they mus? breaking. To the breaking of and Arsene Lupin were thrilling war on their own responsibility with a view to publication. and I as long before the war. Goron, Having left the free to choose, am somewhat surprised at your the law they have brought a the head of the French Criminal I hardly think that it is open to expressed intention to send the mental equipment which was lacking in the old criminal Investigation Department, had us to attempt to repress their correspondence to the Praga-ins of brila 1927 A 1259.

crim already before the century began action when they have made the first instance without even KOWLOON WATERWORKS LEVEL. clasees. These amateur inals have added very con given us in one of his books a fine their choice. Such an attempt seeking my permission, and ther siderably to the difficulties of the account of the wonderful deeds of Woul certainly be regarded as with so abort an interval of time police because they are some-the scientific criminals with whom intervention in favour of the that I am precluded from sending in

our the detailed reply to your latest be bad had to deal Among them Bolisheviks and against thing new, They have no pre- vious criminal history. Neither were countesses and barons, who Allies a result which it would communication which I might otherwise have been tempted their records nor their finger-committed their crimes with the be difficult to defend.

Even were such intervention to do. prints are at Scotland Yard. X-rays or fragment of radium.

But the complaint that citizens desirable, it seems to me that the In these circumstances, if you. They have not set about their crime in the old way and left of superior education bare taken League of Nations (which cannot still think the correspondence date of gailees #ringan manin

of Kay, on their to crime goes back to the far off exercise its full power until its worthy of publicity, it must ap- their "handwriting"

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over half a century ago that a would be in a very discali, which it now wears this note, of Batimaal popal-) THE ONLY NEW FACTOR, magistrate addressing & delin-position in any attempt to course, being included and 1 Camp, para per 1-148 But the amateur criminst of quant exclaimed: “Prisoner, you mediate between Poland and spet content myself with the superior aducation is really the have bad all the advantages of a Russian Government which does remark that there are a number their weariness-quning, only new factor in the situation. good education, Ensin which not recoguise League's statements in your latest letter The scientifically equipped" pro- yall about stealing ducké b authority..

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