Advocates Flogging of Natives
Most Efficient Punishment for Certain Crimes in Africa, Says Administrator Even Native Police Must be Punished. June 15 1923 LORD RAGLAN
Advocates Flogging of Natives
REVIEW OF REVIEWS
LORD RAGLAN
PROBLEMS of police administration in South Africa are of a different nature to those in any other part of the world, according to the British administrator, Lord Raglan, in an article appearing in The Nineteenth Century. The native police sent to enforce law and order in distant parts of a district are prone to fall before the great temptations of graft and tyranny, and in cases where witnesses from the villages claim one thing and the police another, the administrator finds he must call into play ruses not unlike those utilized by Solomon of old in order to discover which party is telling the truth. In most cases it will be found that both resort to all sorts of invention. Raglan takes this course: “If the a