FLOGGING PENALTY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 6

FLOGGING PENALTY

CRIMES EROS BEING RESTORED BRITONS' RUSSIAN WIVES (Special Correspondent.) LONDON. April 18. Perturbed bv the growth of crimes of violence, British High Court juc'.'s recently conferred and decided to u.n ploy sentences of flogging as a deterrent. At the Old Bailey this week floggings were ordered in two cases of men convicted of robbery with violence. Chief Justice Goddard has shown by ordering floggings in several recent cases that his view is that physical pain is the omy punisnment like.y to actor violent crimin i!s. * * * Two tins of one of the world's most expensive perfume bases were sioien by a thief who entered the strongroom of a well-known firm of perfume manufacturers at Chiswick. The two tins, weighing 1 libs., contained the pure wax of jasmine flowers, from which 100,000 bottles of expensive perfume could be made They were valued at £SOOO. but jasmine concentrate is so rare that it is as difficult to sell as any well-known work of art. Tiic concentrate also cannot be processed without expensive piant. * * * The 10ft high figure of Eros, God of Love, one of London’s best-known statues, will be back on its pedestal in Piccadilly Circus in June, states the London County Council. Skilled polishers are at present engaged in cleaning the gleaming aluminium bodv oi the statue, which was dulled by seven years and a-half in wartime storage. The Eros statue, officially known as the "Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain,” was erected to’ the memory of Lord Shaftesbury in 1893 and was designed by Sir Alfred Gilbert. This will be the statue's second return to Piccadilly Circus. It was removed in 1925 when a new underground station was built,-and after six years in the Embankment Gardens, was repolished and re-erected in 1931. * * * A Government committee of experts has recommended that steps be taken to preserve the famous terraces of 374 houses near Regent's Park designed by the Regency architect Nash. Architects’ estimates tor modernising the accommodation of all the houses

behind the existing facades is between £4.OOU,UU(J and .EU.OUU.OUU. Tlie Government, in a statement issued in conjunction with committee's report expresses sympainy wAli the desire to preserve these outstanding examples of Regency architecture and states that, when repaired, the houses should be used for private accommodation and not as offices. * * * Miss Alice Bacon. Labour member for Leeds North-east, speaking in the House of Commons, said that when she visited Moscow last year she was informed that one of the reasons why the Russian authorities refused to allow the wives of 15 British ex-servicemen to join their husbands in Britain was fcecaus" the Soviet authorities wanted only the best tvne of Russian woman hood to go to Britain and the British husbands had pot chosen that type. Sir Hector McNeil, replying ' for the Government, said: Happily this Government dees not want to add to its burdens by scekme to approve the spouses chosen by its citizens. * * * . The Dean of St. Paul’s. Dr. Matthews in a letter to The Times, expresses the hope that the Government would support the London County Council, the Corporation of the City ot London and the Southwark Borough Council in opposing a proposal to erect a giant power station on the south bank of the Thames facing St. Pauls. Ihe dean points out that the proposed sta tion would be of rpproximately toe same width and height a ? the cathedral and flanked by two Hso. t. chimneys. and that it would mar Inc famous vi'ta of the river dominated by (he cathedral.