Crime Outbreak

at Suva Causes Alarm

(From Our Own Correspondent) WIRE guards and shutters < Suva shop windows at nig) are a result of what might called the city’s current crime way Two cafes were burgled on Ju 18, £4O worth of cigarettes beiJ stolen from the Peking and anoth £4O, in cigarettes and cash, fro the Regal.

Meanwhile, cases of breaking a:, entering have occurred in resident, areas, and a number of nigh prowlers have been going 11 rounds, causing great disquiet amoc women. , „ All things considered, Suva normally a law-abiding place—i markably so in comparison w: larger cities overseas and the pi sent outbreak has caused a go deal of commotion.

More policemen are on patrol night, but it is clear that the poli with a suburban prowler-hunt their hands as well as keeping eye on the central area, cannot impossibilities.

Various citizens have come with suggestions for extr e it measures. One is that a detachmu of Fijian soldiers should be s< home from Malaya to reinforce ' police. Another is that photograj of convicted prowlers and burgll should be publicly displayed to identification by householders s to deter reprobates who, howes hardened they may be, usually o like publicity.