Those who went there, went because they desired to live unde British rule. Eut there are diliicult problems as the Chine community in long-kong is partly transient, and not stable. hong-kong was so valuable as a source of refuge that its population went up from 630,000 in 1921 to 1,600,000 in 1941 - more than double and the result was that housing conditions were very difficult to control. Also with some of the population living permanently in junke ana sumpans as they do all along the China cosst, immigration was quite uncontrollable.
I think it most important that the Colonial Office should now start re-training an administration staff for that Colony, that they should get people to start learning the Chinese language now, especially the Cantonese dialect, and most important of all, to understand the ways und habits of thought of the Chinese people. We want people who can love and sympathise with the Chinese. in the past the prison administrative system in Hong-Kong was not one of which we could be proud.
The reason
wus that when we first went there in the 19th century the standard
If one of punishment on the mainland was often barbaric. compares cur own prison system one could say than an English prison could be regarded as something of a paradise.
We want
an enlightened and intelligent prison régime of which the British Ampire can be proud. We want to redevelop the cultural link which Hong-Kong can give between China and Englanu.
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