T. Wang, made the statement) thet China most provide a modern penal system before she can hope to induce the major fore to give up consular officials here have beet seriously plan ig to clean up the Kuangtung penitentiaries and gaols. Mr. Lo Mau-chang, head of the Appellate Court, and' the provincial govern. ment's most trusted advisor on legal 3 matters, has prepared an elaborate report having to do with penal con-ions, and in it he recommends that alterations and repairs be made to certain prisons, and that others be entirely rebuilt, It is mostly of pressing needs that the report treats.
The reader of Mr. Lo's interesting survey of prison conditions notes that the prison in the county of Chungshan the homeland of Dr. Sun, is the model institution of alt Kuangtung. That of the Taishan istrict also is somewhat ahead of those in other parts, for it is mainly Taishan people who £0 to the United States, where they have picked up many progressive ideas, and no longer will they stand for filthy: and overcrowded prisons. They! even have a reformatory la that district for first-timers, a scheme which Canton is contemplating me traducing.
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