The Extra Commissioner of Police reports:
The total crime recorded for the month of July is contained in the following table: ments granted the operatives a flat increase of five cents each per day and promised to give them a subsidy out of the money realized from the sale of chrysalises and a weekly' bonus of twenty cents.
Six thousand workers of eleven filatures in Chapei struck again on July 12, owing to the failure of the management to issue the weekly bonus but went back to work the Murder Attempted murder Armed kidnapping Armed robberies 9
Other robberies 12 Being member of roads following day, July 18.
1,440 employees of four filatures the Settlement struck on July 13 the plea that their colleagues in Chapel engaged on similar work were receiving higher pay. They resumed seven hours later after the managements bad promised to readjust wages s0 a3 to remove the cause of their grievance.
Burglary 21 Receiving stolen Thetts Suntching property 2 Opium offences 274 Gambling 90 Other crimes 286
A total of 2,061 operatives lost their employment during the month through the concerns in which they were working closing down either [temporarily or for good. The number rendered idle under similar conditions in the previous month only amounted to 65 per cent. of this figure.
Total 14551800 1824
Accidents.—The total number accidents recorded constituted the There is a total of 1,455 cases of reported crime which is a decrease of 76 in comparison with the figure for June and 181 more than for the corresponding period of last year, 128 of these being opium case Property valued at $196,764.72 including $125,000 involved in one shopbreaking case, was alleged to have been stolen during the month 'a8 against property to the value of {$156,817.60 in June. The total value is made up as fall 3991.21
Property valued at $32,060.24 was recovered during the month.
Finger Print Bureau.—During the month of July the total number of records received by the Bureau from all sources was 2827, This shows decrease of sixteen as compared with Inst month and an increase of 644 by comparison with the corresponding period of last year. 2,083 gaul cards were received and checked, 1,000 being for verification of prisoners' identity on admission to gnd, 108 for checking of appeal decisions, 1,129 for verification Identity on release from gaol and 606 for checking of sentences and completing of records according to execution orders issued by the Court.
During the month the Crime Branch Studio took 290 photographs and printed 1,816 cop!
Amnesty—The number of pri-woners released under _Govern-mont Amnesty during July was 43, which included 17 habitual criminals, nine prisoners with previous convictions but who are not habitual criminals, and 17 who come within the category of first offenders.
Singe the commencement of the Amnesty 2,440 prisoners have been released under the scheme while 566 of them have been re-arrested and convicted for offences committed since their release. highest figure for any month during the year. The increase is attributed in a great measure to the larger number of pedestrians on roads at night time.
Negligent riding of bicycles continues to be the cause of a great. umber of accidents and the record number of 308 such accidents during the month under review has to be recorded. It is significant that at this time of the year when "joy-riding" is so prevalent during the evening hours, more than 80 per ent. of these accidents occurred between the hours of 6 pam. and midnight, and the number of bicycles greatly exceeds the number of ricshas involved between these hours. More than 20 per cent. of ed accidents involving motor-cars occurred during these evening hours.
The number of persons injured (450) is the highest figure ever recorded for any one month. Of these 8.22 per cent. were of a serious nature, There were fourteen fatal aceidents during the month—an increase of seven over June, and the record for the year to date.
The percentage of children under 16 years of age injured in accidents slightly less than last month, 213 per cent. as against 25 per cent. month 2237 prisoners' records passed Wentiteation Offs.—During the this ofice for identifestion prior to the prisoners going to Court. for trial, out of which number 762 were identified as having © previous con-from the Prench Police out of which Fo identified in the ro-fice, making the total 35
Men previously released under the Marks System of Remission of Sentence, re-arrested 22, The Chinese prisoners who have been arrested during the month are classified Strikes.—Statistics of strikes for the month under review are as follow: No.of Firat offenders, Second offenders, Third offenders, Habitual offenders, Novof working Area statis, hands, days lost, Settlement 88168978 territory 6 26852 O1Aat
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