Last. Friday's Gazette contained some interesting correspondence between Council and Consular Body on the above topic: On April 12 Mr. Brooke-Smith wrote urging the reintroduction of punishment by the bamboo" at the Mixed Court, for crimes of violence only, and emphasizing that "punishment by confinement without corporal punishment has little deterring effect. on the criminal classes, as is indeed borne out by the criminal records of those countries in which corporal punishment is inflicted in the case of the more serious crimes,'"
And on May 15 the Senior Consul replied " that the Consular Body is, not prepared to consider the. reintroduction of corporal punishment under any circumstances." This is disappointing, and_ quite opposed to what, as Mr. Brooke-'Smith rightly pointed out, is a very common practice in other lands.. Not many weeks ago we had a note on the increasing use of the "cat" in London police courts for crimes of violence: and indeed experience amply shows
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