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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 27, 1940
ACTING GOVERNOR BROADCASTS
WAR FUND APPEAL
IN A BROADCAST last night, H.E. the Acting Gover- nor, Mr. N. L. Smith, made an appeal on behalf of the War Fund which was started about ten days ago by the "South China Morning Post.”
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"I might say at the outset," said His Excellency, only an hour or so ago I received a message from the Secre- tary of State, expressing the thanks of the home Govern- ment for the handsome remittances already 'cabled to Lon-
don.
The immediate success of the drive "There must always, I suppose, be?
I think have a tendency in a colony ten thousand for contributions must miles away from the seat of war to get astonished even the most optimistic of a feeling, unless one guards against it, its sponsors, and the only fear per- that this is not altogether our war. haps is that the vast figures which We have been told to carry on out are published daily in the list of con- here as well as we can on a normal tributors may dissuade some who are It is to these, and peace-time basis. We have been told still hesitating.
feel that our man-power is better employ-more particularly to those who
is hardly ed in Hong Kong than on the field of that a small contribution battle. And so far our trade has worth making, that I am trying to ap- prospered and the revenue has poured peal to-night. You may recollect that
on a somewhat similar occasion It is true that the war organisation certain old lady, when all around her Fund has worked wonders and is still were putting up large contributions,
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of several thousand dollars a week coins which are reported apart from valuable contributions in been worth, at current exchange rates, kind. It is true that the Government exactly one farthing. Probably she which I represent has augmented its hardly gave it any more thought than that her norinal peace-time defence contribu- perhaps a sinking feeling tion of six million dollars per annum meagre food ration would have to be by two special gifts which have add-reduced for a day.
ed well over three million dollars to that total.
Don't Be Scared
What she almost certainly did not
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And it is true that the or less Colony has accepted more gladly the special War Taxation legis- lation which is now making itself felt. know was that her action chanced to
by someone be observed But it was left to Mr. Ben Wylie, with a touch on the pulse of public keener sense of values than most of opinion which Hitler himself might us and was commended by him as be- well envy, to launch his Blitzkrieg of ing in itself a nobler gift than, so to a drive for funds at the very moment speak, the five figure contributions of when the fortunes of war were not the taipans of these days.
of looking too easy from our point
in view, and when Colony was longing to do something concrete to help on the war effort even though fate would not allow him to join the Aghting forces in person.
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So don't be scared off by the big the figures; even if you can only afford the cost of two seats per week at a movie you will probably get the same sort of glow out of it as the widow's mite gave to her. Send it anonymous- ly if that makes you feel easier, but do let us have this as universal
comes possible. When the time hope of course that there will be impressive grand total of dollars; but what would to my mind be even more impressive would. De statistics of the number of individual contributions showing that almost everyone in the Colony had done something, however small.
I think the promoters were wise in announcing the objects of the fund in wide but quite understandable terms. The money is not going to provide ambulances or socks or cigarettes. On the other hand it is not to be ear- marked for bombing aircraft or des- troyers or batteries. Simply we say "Clearly the war is not going to be a short one before victory is secured. Clearly there will be need for more and more men and for more and more equipment. Clearly this will need money and yet more money. So here is every penny we can spare."
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Writing out a cheque may not seem so romantic and dashing as work in a minesweeper or a fighting aeroplane, but it's a good deal less dangerous; and if fate won't allow us to do any- thing except writing out a cheque surely that is not asking too much.
I wonder if I might end by appeal- ing to my many Chinese friends to bear their full share in this drive. I shall not easily forget those words of: Mr. Caine in Legislative Council last November, with the war only two months old, when he encouraged in that soft voice of his certain opponents of war taxation who had ventured to sug- gest that the peace-time defence con- tribution in our annual budget might perhaps be all that we could afford. He said:-
"What do honourable members imagine would have been the effect if the taxpayer at home had said "We have paid to keep up an Army and a Navy in peace-time and we shan't pay any more now?" The present war, gentlemen, would have been lost by now and, if that policy had been pur- sued, there would be no British Em- pire and rio Hong Kong."
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