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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988.

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The case of the Brighton father who ill- treated his young son received great publicity in Britain, Indignation at an act of cruelty blinded the public to an important aspect of the case.

This article suggests that there are better ways of treating an offence than “making the punishment fit the crime.'

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criminal causes is becoming a reasonably exact science, how near are we getting to the stago, when punishment will be made to fit the criminal rather than". the crime, will be designed to have a curativo effect, not to be

deterrent through foar? Magistrates are

and more leaning towards the idea that they have a duty to the de- linquent rather than towards the authority of the position they occupy. Evidence of that is to

a

more

tional and organic disorders and was producing a nervous condi- be found, if nowhere else, in the just the plain pain they bring. tion in which a sense, of right increasing attention which is The question is the outcome Pain, in that respect, is a curi- and wrong was ceasing to have being shown throughout the country by county magisterial gives your automoblie that sought of a series of discussions that ous thing. Some people are not any significance.

have just concluded in London aware that they suffer pain A case of unnatural practices organisations in preparing syl- with the return to widely scat since it is so much of their daily was cured, not through the labuses of their meetings to the tered districts in the provinces life, as exampled in another counteracting of wrong sexual question of including lectures on of nearly 30 doctors who are respect by the recent discovery idens but through the removal the medical aspects of crime... convinced that the fundamental of the boy who had a constant of a malignancy which made the and also to the use that some basis of practically all crime is ticking in his head and did not man shy of associating with benches are making of experi to be found in the medical his- know that he was abnormal. The women and therefore resentful enced paychiatrists to catch out tory of the criminal, interpreting subject may not be conscious of life; fraud had its beginning the sprucer who is prepared to to avoid the word medical in its widest that the pain suffered is the ex- in warped acquisitiveness try anything once aense to cover the physical and ception, not the rule, but it has brought about by a hyperchon- punishment.

The Home Office, as part of ita inental condition as developed a mental effect all the same.

driacal fear. The fear removed, by upbringing from birth.

there was no repetition of the new consideration of the penal thought of the need for fraud. code, has appointed a committee And the cases of cures I have to inquire into the causes of titioners and medical officers of And crime appears to have its just quoted are not merely child delinquency. The causes, health concerned with the lower birth mostly in such medical dis- examples of treatment of people in most cases will be found to be first offences to environment and ill-health. Let strata of provincial industrial advantages to the leading of a charged with life.

normal life; though unconscious whom their delinquency is not us acek then to fit punishment to and probation pain is the extreme example. yet a habit. They refer to con- the criminal, and much crime officers, by suggesting for re- This fact has emerged from sistent criminality over a period will be prevented. mand certain classes of delin- cases investigated among the of years where discovery has It seems that we can arrest the quents for observation, and au- lower stratas of society, the been avoided and success might desire for wrongdoing before it thorities of approved schools by police courts and the alum areas be thought to have completely becomes habit. Let us do so, so

Birmingham, deadened the moral fibre. putting into practice the treat- of places such as ments recommended as the re- Wolverhampton and Liverpool, jsult of diagnosis, not of the as well as London.

crime, but of the

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1936.

CRITICAL DAYS AHEAD

Under the guns of a river fleet which is alowly pressing up the Yangtse, supported by squadrons of bombers and pursuit planes, | Japanese bluejackets and

of the regular army are advan- cing spectacularly from success

men

The doctors themselves 'were

representative of general prac-

Magistrates

mental and A shop-lifting manla Was

Then, if it is correct to claim Physical health of the criminal, cured following a cure of a func- co-operated in the investigations, tional disorder in a woman which that diagnosis and treatment of

It was claimed that the science of diagnosing criminal tenden-

to success, their ultimate goal cies, causes and cures has now Hankow. They fight forward reached a degree of exactness

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less sauve qui peut.

The Chinese Knew

relentlessly, with unquestioned which permits a form of treat-A ingenious Frenchman has just courage and with a ruthlessness ment for the delinquent to be re- of conducting great wars. It is most Battles by Gramo-boots, reduce them to a state of help-

by the worthy

trained apposite cause, commended

thing should) Before them, fighting back with psychiatrist with almost the happen Just now, when

as the ordinary people seem to be going in constant same facility much gallantry, every bit as

medical practitioner advocates death on a

dread of battle, murder, and sudden mass-production scale, and their hope still high, their con- the use of bismuth when he has quite appropriate that the distin- fidence in their leaders still diagnosed indigestion and guished inventor should be a country- unshaken, despite their repeated bromide when it is insomnia. man of Jules Verne, the volatile Shattered Morale reverses, go the Chinese armies. of recently trained peasants and And ever

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Admiration for M. Baze's ingenious theory must not, however, blind us to the fact that it is as ancient as the hills, though only in the present writer whose romances thrilled 50

has It age of mechanical miracles One main point stands out as many Victorian and Edwarlan school-

However for twentieth-century been feasible to give it a convincing the fundamental to be looked for boys.

culture may appear to have strayed practice. Solomon's dictum about apparently in all diagnoses of

The name of this inspired French from the naive Christian principle of there being nothing new under the the reason for a criminal ten-inventor is M. Baze, and, not to beat turning the other checks, human sun appiles even to Mr. Braze's in- they draw nearer to a final dency. It is the resentment about the bush, his proposal is that nature is not so inherently wicked vention.

sadialic int it will insist on mighty battle which may spell factor in the life of the delin-settled by pure, unadulterated noise. ble safety realised without it. Thus ed philosophers when the stil intel-

future international affrays should be and

The Chinese, who were sophisticat bloodshed if its ambitious hopes can ultimate disaster for either side, quent, since practically without M. Baze's idea is to equip the

the fighting be Yet, as these two contending exception offence against the law forces with mechanism of such trans-we suddenly envisage something re- World's inhabitants were still intel- SSSSSSSSSSSSSE368363nations, both powerful in arms or consideration of offence re-cendent loud-speniter wireless power markably like that battlefield condi- lectually papfed barbarians, invented urge from a that the mingled and combined up- tion for which so many humorists in gunpowder. And they employed it and men, approach what both ceives its primal

the soiled khali sighed during the Great originally merely to terrorise the foc feeling of unfair

will absolutely overwhelm

He will reproduce, on

War. admit to be the greatest test

by the awful sound of its explosion. life.

These blithe spirits constantly it reinforced their fiendish war erles, either has ever had to face on

artillery barrage,

the voiced their hope that the next war and fearful masks. It was part and the battlefield, the comparative

denfening zoom of millions of aerial would be fought with inflated blad-parcel of their system of producing engines, the crashing reverberations dera on hoopsticks, after the manner in the enemy's ranks that desirable risks each runs become more

of light and heavy Gulliver describes of thousands

not for conflict, condition of mind described by scien- mental lassitude, tifle Freudians as inferiority complex, apparent. The reason for the

which produces the criminal has whistic of myriads of machine-gunj in one of his

vulgarly and pointedly Chinese confidence becomes

been found to be attributable not bullets.

There is nothing logically absurd known as blue funk. clearer. China willingly admits only to environmental upbring-

in this loud-speaker idea of modern

Even our most up-to-date military Though it was apparently M. warfare. Victory under present con- that her finest fighting men, bering circumstances surrounding. Baze's original intention to employ ditions belongs, almost invariably, to training does not exclude a similar When modern troops newest war machinery are clus-childhood, bereavement, lack of this terroristic orchestration as an the side that can shake most effec stratagem. tered about Hankow. There parental control, slum atmos-gating mechanism,

adjunct and reinforcement to existing tually the morale of its antagonists. Come to the hand-to-hand charge, whether cavalry or infantry, they are there can be It M. Baze's wireless orchestra сап she will make her greatest stand.pheres--but by ill-health, badly little question that, if his idea is achieve this, and succeed in putting ordered to raise the most diabolical

shout that they can possibly

im- A victory for her here will not balanced gland conditions, func-given the fullest possible expression, the wind up the enemy's hosts by its shout

provise. When regimental drafts all such dangerous and lethal acces-terrific onslaught on their nerves provi sories would quickly become super- through their cars, it will full its were being put through the hoop in sclentine purpose perfectly. It will the circus at Etaples, and charged over trenches with fixed bayonets against formidable arrays of dummy sacks, they lost marka if they did not omit blood-curding yells of frenzied onslaught,

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The resentment against life tankes, and the Intimidating, sibilant but for o post-Liliputian travels, but more

And to

will mean the defeat of a cess. Japan, on the other hand, is Japanese army operating far fighting time. In spite of the from its bases, with long lines fact that General Doihara speaks of communication still threaten-glibly of ten or twenty years of warfare, that would not do for ed by thousands of guerillas, Japan. Even five years of war and the whole occupied country would so injure that nation in hostile in the extreme wherever the economic field and in the villagers or peasants are left-markets of the world that she alive. And this army which would conceivably find it im

possible to recover. Japan will risk in the throw rule an occupied but still un aguinst Hankow is a vital one in conquered China will require her China

Its every yen's worth of gold and. campaign. serious defent. would be apt every ton of trade Japan can to threaten the whole of find. She can afford to lose no

machine War

Sho in China, more on this adventure.

needs a quick victory, or she and China will not be slow to may find that she will be forced pursue any advantage. With what terrible relentlessness the Chinese can fight in victory the Japanese will remember from such scones as Taierchwang,

the

to fight an over widening circle of enemies. That, of course, is the chief danger inherent in the China war for Japan. To re- capture desired markets, to find the money with which to pro- Defeat for the Chinese, on the

Becute one campaign, Japan other hand, will mean no more may bo forced to wage and no less than the loss of Han- othora. Perhaps that is kow, and the weight of another prospect to awe the Nine- Japanese victory against the Power Pact signatories, In morale of her people. It may be any event, taking a broad view, looked upon as a disaster, such | China has reason to approach. a loss. But it will not be the battle for Hanków without decisive. There is still a vast trepidation, but rather with hinterland beyond and below renowed hope. Except for the Hankow which can be stoutly terrible price that must be paid defended. And the Chinese aro in victory or defeat, China might aware that every day they can anticipate the battle of Hankow prolong the war, that much with something very different nearer are they to possible suc- from apprehensiveness.

fluous.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Dvar, 1918 By-Umhed Pistacy sedation, Tom-

"How could you think of cancelling our trip to Europe then I've

· gone and told everybody about it!!

Just the same theory inspired all. the now obsoleto military panoply of former times. What is the Guarda- man's gigantic bearskin for, it not to convey to the quaking enemy await-

Ing his assault an impression

ot

colossal size and tremendous ferocity? Behind all fighting theory reposes this bedrock idea of shaking the ponent's morale. Even the profes- sional pugilist has not neglected It. Dempsey used to take the ring for his big fights with a two days growth of beard emphasising his enveman aspect.

Mass-Produced Panic

Now that International chivalry do- liberately includes the civilian popu- lation in its lethal objective, this eclence of moral Intimidation obvious ly affords fresh opportunity for elaboration. If M. Daze can cause the sinister zoom of invas

of invading bomb- to resound above an enemy's capital, and exactly reproduce the affrighting sounds of bursting high explosive derial torpedoes, ho will have widespread and disastrous panic weil behind the fighting front, cripp=" ling the offorts of the enemy's a the field. actually in use of necessity, be lueld

must

There

armies

In an actual air raid, But

intervals in

M. Baze's Imitation ones, being machine-made and amenable to mass production, could Un incessant. Imagine the state of mind produced on a civilian population in any con sankaritovun "by dwelling night and day in a perpétue?<jproar of terrifie

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