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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
is better than cure, it is chiefly to efficiency of our police force that we must look for the protection of the colony against burglaries and all crimes of violence.
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The current tendency tach most importance to the the criminal as a means of eventing crime. To the writer it seems hat this is, in fact, the least important means of any, for the reason that it is the means which the State is the least likely to employ with success, and which, if it ttempts to employ consistently, is likely to detract most from the efficiency
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THE LOSS OF THE "ILTIS.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE ON DECK. We are indebted to the German Consulate
for the following particulars of the loss ill-fated Iltis -
the other methods at its disposal."
In considering the limitations imposed upon he reformative system would be the most the industrial development of Hongkong by desirable if the State could reform a consi- the scarcity of water it should not be for- derable, proportion of its prisoners, but its gotten that various small sources of supply ability to do this is disputed by Mr. may be found outside those used for the city SIMPSON, who argues that the conduct of of Victoria. When Hon. F. A. COOPER in his recent report on the waterworks prisoners when under surveillance caunot be accepted as evidence of the success of the spoke of providing a supply for "a popula- "tion of 266,000 persons, or the estimated system, and that the evidence afforded by the Elmira Penitentiary in the State of New
population in 1910" he was speaking
The gunboat Illis left. Chefoo on the 23rd York is altogether of a negative character. only of the city. The village of Shaukiwan July, at 4 am. Barometer rising and wind The Elmira system, with its lectures and has now excellent waterworks, only re-East, force 2. On the preceding days there discussions, its Turkish baths, massage, and cently completed; the Quarry Bay supply had been light east winds and sea calm, and the is also independent of the city supply; and barometer was regular. The sky was clouded gymnastics for prisoners, its reading clubs, if Causeway Bay, which is likewise outside on the 23rd and there was a little rain. Wel "its daily newspaper, its careful avoidance
haiwei was passed under steam and sail about the city limits, were built over, probably a "of everything that may hurt a sensitive
noon, and at 5 p.m. the NE. point of the Shan- prisoner's feelings, or remind him that he separate supply would be found for it too. tung peninsula was rounded. The wind had The establishment of factories along the gradually freshened and came now from SE., has done anything to be ashamed of, must Shaukiwan Road, in which a commence- force 7, so that the storm sails had to be set. inevitably tend to diminish, on the one "hand, the deterrent effect of legal penalment has already been made in a small way, From here the gunboat shaped its course in a may therefore be continued to some extent.parallel line to the coast and within sight of land. "ties, and on the other hand to encourage It would appear, however, that Mr. COOPER The watch below had, as is usual at sea, received "hypocrisy, self-deceit, and a very disagree-
hammocks at 8 p.m., and was called on deck at much impor- "able kind of priggishness among
the
10 p.m. to take in the sails, being assisted by criminals. It is stated that an inmate of tance to the new sources of supply that may the watch on deck. The watch below then be tapped in that direction, for when de went to bed. The ship laboured hard insa "Elmira has proposed with becoming
seriousness at one of the periodical debates precating the allowance of a high rate of rough sea, but not more than under previous "that the warders should receive the punish to the limited area of the latter and its proved to be a good sea-going ship. This was increase in the population of the city, owing similar circumstances. The Iltis had always "ments their prisoners incur, so as to work
on the latter through their sympathies present overcrowded condition, he suggests shown about a year ago during a voyogs from Kobe to Shanghai, when the weather was very that the increase should “to a large extent "rather than through their fears. One
stormy. In the present instance rain fell in be confined to Kowloon, and makes no men- suspects that there was more of the wag
torrents from time to time and the wind had "than of the prig about the man who made "the proposal, but there seems to have been "a sufficient lack of humour among his "audience to allow of its being accepted as a "genuine contribution to the discussion of "the best way of managing a prison." The coercive element, it is contended, is the most certain means of attaining the end desired, the diminution of crime; and by coercion is meant coercing a man to refrain from crime by keeping him locked up when he has proved himself an habitual criminal. In Hongkong coercion is ap- plied, so far as the colony itself is concerned, not only by imprisonment, but by a system of banishment, which has had most excellent results, though it turns the criminals over to another State, where they may continue their depredations until they fall into the hands of their own authorities. We have, happily, not of late years heard much of sentimental schemes of dealing with Chinese criminals, except that the kindly Dr. MARQUES, who recently retired from the appointment of Medical Officer of the Gaol, seems to have had an idea that the prisouers would mostly be honest if they were - afforded an opportunity of working for their living, and he suggested that they might be sent to the Borneo *plantations. – Borneo, however, would not welcome an importation of the criminal
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tion of any possible outlet on the island itself. The hon. gentleman, however, probably did not intend to exclude the idea of an extension of the population in the direction of Cause way Bay and Shaukiwan, where small local The water supplies might be utilised. quantity obtainable in that direction, how ever, must necessarily be limited. There is no possibility of establishing another Taitam or Pokfulam, and as manufacturers will not set up factories unless they can be assured of an ample water supply the whole year round the prospects of the island of Hongkong becoming a great manufacturing centre are not bright. When the extension of the Kowloon boundary takes place, however, we believe there will be no difficulty about an ample water supply on that side, and no doubt a manufacturing town will in course
of time come into existence there.
SHADE TRELS ON THE PRAYA RECLAMATION,
increased in force, but the engines worked well. In the morning they attained a speed of seven nautical miles. Towards 10 p.m. after the sails had been taken in, engines were put to slow. About half an hour after this there was a sudden violent shock. The ship had struck a rock and was set fast. Nobody know anything of the dangerous pro- ximity of land, as the night was very dark. The ship leaked; the engine rooms and the stoke-hole were soon full of water. The watch on duty got on deck in smart time; the watch below also rushed immediately to their re- The ship had been driven spective stations. by a strong current. running to N.W. little to the south of what is marked on the chart as "Flat Rocky Point of the
on the small reef which rises above the ses a
Sang-kan Bay, about nine nautical miles north of the lighthouse on the S.E. corner of the Shantung peninsula. The huge breakers
threw the ship continually against the sharp edges of the rock and thus weakened the vessel. The greater part of the crew stopped: on the after part of the vessel. The Comman- der, Captain Lieutenant Braun, and officer on duty, Lieutenant Prasse, stood on the bridge. Rockets and other signals were fired to attract attention from the shore and to obtain assis- tance, but no human aid was possible time, as the sea washed over the deck, and soon the ship began to break up. Att ment of the greatest danger the Comm
mustered the crew on deck, and told them they
Some surprise has been expressed that shade trees have not already been planted on the completed portion of the Praya Reclamation: Considerations of health and comfort alike require that this step should be taken, for at present to reach New Pedder's Wharf in the heat of the day is almost as bad as passing through a furnace, the glare and the radiation of heat from the con- creted surface of the road being intense. When the ground is built over there will be some shade from the houses, but in wide streets, such as those on the Reclamation, public. The only way to deal with the habitual criminal trees are proportionately more necessary to keep him in gaol for long terms or to than in narrow streets like Queen's Road, bunich him from the colony; but, as pre-Objection to them is sometimes raised on of the song is as follo
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s, and amongst our Hongkong criminals here are very few who have really been Liven to crime by want of honest employ- They choose a career of crime simply because they prefer to live by stealing than by working, and any attempt at reformative treatment would -yield very meagre results and
practically no protection to the afford
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were doomed to die. The officers and men there- upon raised three burrats for His Majesty the Emperor, in order to quit life with the name on their lips. Thus these brave seamen proved their loyalty with their last breath to t under which they had served.
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