Shanghai Police' Commissioner on Converting the Criminal Just to inflict punishment on the guilty is not the best means to minimize, not to say stop, the ever-increasing number of criminal eases in Shanghai, is the opinion of Gen. Yen Chun-yang, Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung Police.
"Conversion is better than punishment" says the Commissioner, who has given instructions to his' st to make an investigation of criminal cases and classify them, Criminals, he says, should be given lectures on law so that by common knowledge of the law they wil know what to do and what not to do because it is wrong. If the criminals really "repent for the wrong they have committed" the authorities will give each of them 5 to start in business. Should they be found peaceful and successful after a lapse of three'months the authorities will advance $2 more, Lectures are to be given. to criminals on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays,
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