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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Coolles, and having no means of

BISHOP OF HONGKONG ON RECENT REMISSIONS

In the course of his Notes in the current 18sue of the St. John's Cathedral Review, the Bishop of Hongkong writes:

In 1933 there have been two remarkable ramisalann of the death sentence hero In the Far Enat. one in Shanghai, ono in Hongkong.

These acts of clemoney are important because they offer us a choice of twa. roads. Inevitably we must choose one or the other. (1) The first is the gradual development of colour or money discrimination in administering justice.

(2) The second is the use in every case of the preroga tive of mercy, so that the death sentence itself will

die.

arousing intorost and sympathy in thomsolves as persons will die.

That is how colour- or money. discrimination will Inevitably arnish the bright shield of Justice.

every case,

CHINESE Y.M.C.A.

ANNEXE TO BE BUILT AT KOWLOON BRANCH

The Kowloon Branch of the One of two things is possible:: (1) We can prosa now upon the ..C.A., opened in the nutumn of Government the necessity 1929, has been adequately full- for granting reprieves in ing the needs of the young people In Kowloon and dally becoming a (2) We can make sure that in vital community centre for their overy casa. of the Donth activities. During the past two Sentence, the condemned years it has beon folt, however, man or woman has the same that the growing demand for opportunities for interest, greater facilities, owing to the Bympathy and appeal as steady increase in the youthfui ware given in the early part population, has frequently taxod to the utmost capacity the baths, of this year, to young Chiness of wealth and in- tennis, volley-ball and basket-ball courts, tho social room as well as fluence. If we do not take one or other the dormitory of the Y.M.C.A. again the of these ways to make clear to Branch. Time and

limited accommodation the Government that the best present public opinion of the Colony la necessitates the turning away of against the enforcement of the many who have left their homes. leath penalty the resulting dis- and have a keen desire to reside crimination in the administration in congenial and healthful quar- If we do not deliberately set of justice will be our fault and tors during their sojourn in the ouracivea to follow the second not the fault of the administra Colony.

In answer to this pressing need course we will be driven by cir- tion.

and in order to continue serving cumstances to follow the first for

Hongkong Psychology.

the Kowloon community, the his reason: public opinion can

But you will say, "Surely Hong Board of Directors of the Chiarse no longer tolerate the execution kong cannot take the law into its V.M.C.A. has decided to add of a murderer whose existence own hands in this matter. It annexe to the Kowloon Branch at a person has

become vivid and must follow the Old Country." I the cost of $40,000. Work has real to it.

entirely disagree. That sugges- already begun and it is expected Money and Cetour.

tion is bad colonial psychology. that the now extension will be The small number of the white Sound colonial paychology takes ready for occupation early this community in the Far East will exactly the opposite view. make this happen in the case of almost any European resident. However much we believe a man to be guilty doca not matter some deep sympathy in us makes us insist that the death penalty in this case is wrong. In the same way, where money power makes possible the briefing of barristers and organizing of appeals a Chinese murderer becomes so rea! as a person to both Chinese and European communities that on active sympathy is aroused which insists that the death sentence, however much deserved, be re- *mitted.

Coolies however being only

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A colony is a place for new experiments. Wo лге Bmall enough and compact enough to place for co-operation between make experiments which will be of offelal and non-official classes, between Chinese and service not only to Britain. but to and

an experimental China. The proportion of educat- European, in od people in the European com-action which may prove invaluable munity must be almost unique in to places less ably governed.

I plead for a new paychology in the world. The proportion in the Chinese community, in spite of Hongkong. the large number of labourers and artisane, is very considerable. We have an efficient professional government. And again in pro- portion to our numbers the officers of Government are quite unusually

numerous.

Surely Hongkong is an ideal

Let us claim our right to be an Imperial Laboratory in which ex- periments can safely be made. Let the euthanasin of the Death Sentence he one of the first experi monts of this kind. So may 1934

a new era in the life Hongkong.

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