THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
PARDON ME!
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EXCUSE ∙ME!·
BOH!
OH, I'M SORRY! THAT'S NOT
I DIDN'T MEAN
TO SIT ON YOUR HAT AND COAT/
MY HAT
AND COAT, LADY!
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THAT'S
ME!
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H.K. CIVIL UNDER
SERVICE SHANGHAI FIRE
IN A COMMENT on Hong Kong's evacuation, the "North China Daily News" writes in its issue of July 29-In dealing with later representations made by the husbands, Hong Kong's civil servants appear to have been neither civil nor to have realised that they were the servants, not the lords and masters, of the public, thereby heaping fuel upon the smouldering discontent with which the original order was received.
Hong Kong residents are inclined to believe that things would have been very different had Sir Geoffry Northcote, the Governor, been in the Colony at the time. It was their misfortune that he was away on sick leave.
With the situation
East heading for a crisis, an or- der for evacuation of families would probably be much better received to-day than was the or- der of a year ago. This however, does not alter the fact that in- competence and favouritism seems to have been rife in the colony. The Home Government's order placed a heavy strain upon the Hong Kong civil service-a strain which that service, supposed to be one of the best in the British Empire, proved quite unable to take. News of the order seems to have leaked about in a select
Certain women who circle, in which the womenfolk | evacuated under the order were were able immediately to obtain able to return to the Colony with- posts related to defence of the out any effort being made to pre- Colony and to the Government. vent them. That these were wo- As a result these women were men of the wealthier classes not
in the Far: outside the scope of the order when it was made public. To lessen the hardships which such an evacuation must necessarily cause in a number of families, an exemption board was promised, but this board did not function until after the evacuation had taken place, and its usefulness was, therefore, confined to con- sidering a few cases in which ap- plications were made for the re- turn of women who had been forced to leave.
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unnaturally gave rise to the be- lief that there was discrimination being exercised by the Govern- ment-taipans' wives could return; the small inan's wife must stay away, in spite of the fact that the hardship on the small man, who had to maintain two households, was much the greater. All round, the evacuation seems to have been handled in a manner which re- flects little credit upon those res- ponsible for it.
One is tempted to quote the de- nunciation of the Civil Service re- cently made In the House of Lords by Lord Perry, who ought to know what he talked about, since he was Director of Food Production In 1918, is at present adviser to the Ministry of Food, and is also chairman of the Ford Motor Co., L.d. Lord Perry said:
The British permanent official bo- lleves that second thoughts are better thon quick decision, and that aver night consideration La better thun immediate action. The recruitment of this illustrious body of men seems to get a young man whose colling of ambition is short hours, little work, mediocre surroundings, and no res ponsibility, with the knowledge that he has cushy job for life. and there is nobody who can discharge him, except dedth, nobody who can promote him, except death, and, if death is kind, by the quick removal of his seniors, hé may get £3,000' a year with the Order of the Bath be- fore he retires on half pay at' 60. "Take no responsiMility" is the key- stone of the Civil Service....Adminis- tration cumbersome, procrastinat- ing, and short-sighted. These oppor tunista are swathed in forms. ceremonies, and red tape. Such a body is at a serious disadvantage in altempting to grapple with modern warfare.
These may seem harsh words, but in the present instance they ap- pear to be deserved. Many Britons in Shanghai who suffered during the 1937 evacuation of women and children from this port will be able to sympathise with the Hong Kong husbands from firsthand experience. It will be recalled that even that evacuation wes not without discriminations which were severely criticised at the time. It proved eventually to have been unnecessary, as it will be hoped the Hong Kong evacuation will prove. 'In the latter
case, however, it is possible that events may justify the Government's ulti- mate wisdom. But they justify the timing of the order or the manner in which it was car- ried out.
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