CRIME IN INDIA.
THE SALVATION ARMY'S TASK
General Booth and his army of workers have lifctje idea of the enormous diffW culty of the task of reclaiming the wandering and criminal tribes of India (comments the Englishman, Calcutta.) Here crime is hereditary, and the descendants of tlies tribes carry on the vocations of their forbears. The criminal instinct is born in them. They are nomadic in their character, and often assume respectable callings for the purpose of carrying out more effectually their criminal propaganda. For years past the Government of India' and the several Local Governments and' Administrations have been engaged in devising means for the control of these criminal tribes. Those described by Mr Trethowy in his interesting report form but a fraction of this vast comunity, among the most prominent being the Mcenas, Bhadaks, Moghias, and Banjaras. They infest every district of India, and are responsible for many mysterious crimes. 'The difficulty has been to get them to settledown to any form of Industry or cultivation. Mr Trethevvy’s idea of deporting them to an island seems to be the most feasible. ■.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 9
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183CRIME IN INDIA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3112, 7 January 1911, Page 9
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