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THE CENSORSHIP
A PROTEST..
[BY SIR ARTHUR QUILÍKR-COUCH.
I.
BRITISH TRAPS FOR THE HUN
READY TO MAKE IT HOT FOR HIM.
THE LAWYER AND THE SOLDIER MAN
(OR THE TRIBUNAL THROUGH THE LOOKING GLAS.)
(WITH APOLOGIES TO TWESPLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDER.)
Mr. Philip Gibbs writes from British |Headquarters on June 23th:-The senior officers of a British regiment wankaround the lines the other day. They asked one man what he thought would happen if the remy attacked on his sector. The man thought for a moment, to measuro things up in his mind, and then he said,They did their very best to make in his driest way :---
We who hold the present censorship of the Press to be wrong in "principle and disastrous in practice, may take for-par. able the recruiting myddle of 1914; for the sane mischief lies at the root of both.
When the war broke out, the country called Lord Kitchener to the War Office n our best military organizer. Neither nation, nor Government yet foresaw that this was to be a struggle calling on the whole civil population. If Lord Kit- chener foresaw it, he was still a pro- fessional soldier, admirably acquaicted"
The word interesting" covers the with the Army machine, but by his pro deep and, terrible meaning which that fessional knowledge tied to the Army- active and retired-for his belpers. He soldier had in mind when he thought of knew that he needed some hundreds of the defensive preparations that had thousands of volunteers, and he did wons
Wolk sir, if he comes over here, we shall make things darned interesting for him.!!
the enemy and put every bunker in his way and make death-traps into which his men would stumble when they wer ordered forward in an assault all along the front.
This time of inactivity may seem very trying to people cager for war news, cager to know that another stage has passed bringing us toward peace.
----
Search lights were shining on the Sea Shining with all their might:
The Harbour clear and bright, And this was odd, because there were
No submarines in sight.
The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the ray Had got no husiness to be there
Turning night into day. 'Tis very fude of it," she said,
To stop the smugglers' plas."
Her men were dry as dry. T You could not see a Hon because
Of Huns we're rather shy;" No planes were flying overidad→
There were no ‘planes to fly,
The Lawyer and the Soldier Man
Were talking close at hand; They wept like anything to see
The young men on the strand- they could all be sent away," They said, it would be grand.”
:
If seven maids with seven mopa Beat them for hålf a yeur,
Do you suppose,", the Lawyer said,
That those could make these clear? ...I doubt it," said the saldier Man,
And shed a bitter-seer.
»
O, Youngsters, cume, and talk with us!
The Lawyer did beseech,
A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,
Along the briny beach; cannot do with more than four To give an ear to end":
The infit youngster looked at him,
But more a word he said. The nafit youngster winked his eye
And shook his heavy head leaning to say he did not choose,
To leave his cosy bed.
ders in arranging to train them. But he been mide during the week to tangle up Hongkong was wet dy wet could be,- did not know what the Government know perfectly well-that there existed through out the country a system of civilian government administered by faithful men who had given a great part of their lives to it; men whose acquaintance, through magisterial and committee work in a score of ways, reached every street and hamlet
THE MARGIN OF SECURITY. in the land; who anderstood their neigh- bourhood and their neighbour; who
could
The officers and men are full of con- collectively within a week have so organizadence that the Germans will take the ed the prevailing enthusiasm that every knock," as they call it, when they try ht volanteer was enlisted, billeted, well to smash through next time, and, how cared-for, until the military found them-ever horrible it is to think of another selves able to take him over. As it was, series of battles having to be faced before the Government ignored this elastic and the year is out, it is good to know that working machinery, and this War Offer the soldiers have this belief in their de having used up its fresh and intelligent fensive strength and that as every week cfficers, fell back the "
KITIX- dug-out."
passes it gives its greater margin of ed him with indefinite power, and seat- tered him over the countryside, ignorant, security. The British are not in a hurry cursing, elbowing, hectoring; a very good for the enemy to begin, fellow, no doubt, at a spa or in a golf. house verandah, but in this business lack ing at once the humility to learn and the capacity to improvise. As a result thou sands of volunteers were turned back, dis- The young lads who have.come ont to pirited, from recruiting offices unable to join the veterans have a pretty excitingWe cope with them while the accepted re-time along the roads which the German cruits often suffered hardships incredible: gunners have registered, in the villages being fed like wild beasts, and bedded on which get knocked about at odd hours by the stones in sodden "civvies." in town high-velocity shells, and in the trenches, where a telegram putting the Mayor in where they have to be quick with their charge would have ensured good quarters,
gas masks and handy with the machine- bedding, a generous meal web' cooked.
guns and steady when the barrage comes with plates knives, forks, and an eager
down before a night raid on outposts. service of waiters and waitresses
Minor operations, which do not make IF Apply this parable, and you get thuch show in the newspapers, are as im- story of the censorship. Everyone knows portant as any other kind of battle to that in war-time there must be a conser them, and they are not out to make big ship af news,
and within right limits.istory unless strictly necessary. When firm censorship. But it is a delegated the time codes they will go through with power-delegated by the nation respons it in the usual way that the British ible for accepting this war and concerned soldier has done through all the battles in prosecuting it: and this means that the of this war, to the wonder of all men limits of that power should be clearly who see them in action. understood between those who delegat So now life is normal on the front, and those who exercise.it. So, nad not with the usual nount of shell-fire, knock otherwise, can it operate justly, wiselying out a few men here and a few men tactfully. The rough limit is that any thing may be reported which does not give away information useful to the Now we do not deny, that this is a delicate business: but we deny that, even in the matter of news, the retired military intelligance summoned to it had either the intelligence or the tact. It knew nothing The business of the day proceeds--a of an editor's business of the sifting, vast business, impossible to describe as arrangement and presentation of news: one travels from base to front and along while as for censoring opinion, it might behind the lines for a hundred miles or just as well bave been put to conduct an more--with, transport columns moving orchestra I knew nothing, on the other up, with the usual supplies of rations for hand, of free public opinion, which it men and guns, with labour companies hated with the hate, scorned with the working on roads and digging new scorn, and, above all, feared with the fear, trenches, with battalions in rest train- of ignorance. It butted in with its fixing hard in the open fields and battalions iden Stand aside, you people. This i
in support putting new drafts through our war, not yours. You have no right to their paces, and all the activities of any pews but that which we choose to give millions of men, doing a hundred thon- and meaning-to perfect every part of sand jobs which have only one purpose that highly complicated machine known as the army in the field.
you.
from
there on this sector, and providing a norutal amount of work in field hospital and casualty clearing stations, And de monstrating that there is a war on to the people who are not likely to forget it.
THE BUSINESS OF WAL
This attitude, by the way, has sprea
one Government department to another. We are, after all, a nation of shopkeepers, with the qualities of our defects Individualism has been, at any Wherever one goes, the same old pie- rate, a school for teaching men tơ kuqs tures meet one's eyes, so that, after four. their own business. Farmers and butel. ers, for example, know abous weat, nep- hews know about uncles, and so on; and One gets to wonder if the recent Great Gooseberry, or Caterpillar-Endowment, arder, be indeed the last word of the bright young amateur,
-
years of war or nearly, one's impressions are dulled by the familiarity of it all- gunners watering their horses, sentries guarding ammunition dumps, columns of troops on the roads, divisional bands practising in the farmyards of dilapidat. ed villages, heavy gums crawling on caterpillars up long, straight roads be But, to return to the censorship. We tween avenues of poplars and market. contend that has been wrong in pringiple
working like ants Kuares, and men and disastrous in practice. In practice it has been disastrous because our editors among ant heaps, which are trenches and have been at once told, too little and too gun positions in the chalky "earth, where much; told, under a privileged secrecy, weeds grow richly and fresh-made pits things which their conscience warned them show where the latest shells have fallen. they ought an honest men and for the That is the general background of public good to discloss; and thas have soldiers' lives, as I have described it in buen diverted from their true. function detail so often, and days go by and it of reporting genuine news to a false func never changes, though the men change. tion of running campaigns, in the security and new men come ont to take the places that the essential fact is hidden from the of those who pass.. reader,
The censorship, further, is wrong, in practice, being worked by men who, apart from the incompetence I have mentioned, are seemingly untrained to civilian standards of morality in reporting mat ters of fact. The mere excision of a line of manuscript is often enough not two only to emasculate a document or a letter, but
to falsify it. Such excision, if prac tised by a scholar in editing a manuscript, would be reckoned by fellow-scholars as little less than a sin against the Holy
Ghost
1 speak here only of the censorship of news, of information about facts. Of the growing tendency to consor opinion. I hardly see how an Englishman can trust himself to speak.
IV.
But the practice is wrong mainly be cause the principle is wrong. The whole nation, not the censor's office, accepted this war, is intent on this war; is suffer-
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On victory. To whom has it ever issuedia Headquarters: Office and draw belts licence to hide the truth from it, oven by at 5 p.m. pa Wednesday, August a tittle? When, and by whom, and to what censor, bus it ever surrendered its courage! Who is this that would put out Samson's eyes, with a purpose, more fatu ous than any Philistine's↑ "There is
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MOUNTED POLICE.
Inspector Gegg takes over the duties of Warning Officer during the absence on Lave, of Troop Bergeant 630 Arnold.
wrote Milton, the incredible loss and detriment that this plot of licensing pats as to. More than if some enemy at sea should stop up our havens and ports and creeks, it hinders and retards the importation of our richest merchandise, truth." This war is being fought by the P.- nation, and should be fought by a clear-1 sighted nation-Daily News.
STEENGTE.
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Rap tour young conscripts hurried up
All eager for the treat! Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,
Their shos were clean and neat This was not add, becage, you know,
Powell's had shod their feet!
Four other conscripts fallowed them,
And yet another four; And thick and fast. they came at last
From office, bank and sTOTO--
And lounging on the floor.
All hopping out of bamboo chairs,
The Lawyer and the Soldier Man Taiked on a week or so.. The while they rested on a bench
Conveniently low ;
And all the little Conscripts stood,
And waited in a row...
The time bas core," the Lawyer said,
**To talk of many things:
of guns--and ships-and summarises. aminfluge und Kings--
And why the war is bailing dub
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And whether Huns have wings."
But, wait a bit," the Conseripts cried,
Berore wa nave our chat,
For some of us are out of breath,
Anu must of us are rat! No hurry said the Soldier Man.
They thanked him much for that.
A line of red," the Soldier said,
is what we chiedy weed; Paillets and gun-powder "ossides
Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Conscripts dear,
We can begin to get."
But not on us!" the Conscripts pried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness that would be
A dismal thing to do."
•
The fight is fine, the Lawyer said,
Don't you admire the view?"
* It was so kind of you to come
And you are very nice." The soldier Man said nothing but Enlist them in a trice;
I wish you were not quite so deaf,
I've had to ask you twice."
N
It seems a shame," the Lawyer said,
To play them such a trick, After we've brought, then clit so far And made them work so quick!" The Soldier Man said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick ! ''
I weep for you," the Lawyer said,
"I deeply sympathise," With sobe and tears he sorted out
Those of the Jargent size, Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Eefore his streaming" eyes.
O, Conscripts" said the Soldier Man, Shall we be trotting home again?"
You've had a pleasant run!
But answer came there none... And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd listed overy pre.
THE
DEPORTATION OF GERMANS
FROM CHINA.
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY,
AN OPIUM CASE,
A Chinese was charged with being in unlawful possession of four taels of opium in excess of the "quantity per mitted by the Government.
Mr. to-day:
Wolfe remanded the case
AN ASSAULT CASE..
till
A Chinese was charged. on remand, with assaulting another Chinese on a steiner in harbour.
laspector Gordon stated that the com plainant was still in hospital, bus hist condition was improving.
Mr. Wolfe remanded the case.
เน
THEFT OF RUBBER TYRES. A Chinese pleaded guilty to stealing two rubber tyres from a private ricaba
Inspector Gordon said that the riesha was left in Shanghai Street by the owner, who went home to have his meal. The owner's brother happened to be passing at the time and noticed the defendant cutting off, the tyres from the wheels. The tyre of one wheel had been hidden under some scrap-iron which was lyg in basket. When arrested, defendant' claimed to be a marine hawker. When witness asked him if he had any money
he replied No." Defendant had only been in Hongkong two days.
Mr. Wolfe sentenced defendant to one month's hard labour.
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ALLEGED THEFT OF ZING.
A Chinese was charged with stealing six ziņo covers from the military block houses on the Kowloon Range; whila' another man was charged with receiving the property knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared for the recriver of the gonds. *.*
» Inspector Davitt stated that the first defendant engaged a junk and two coolies. at the Kowloon Wharf and proceeded to Sai Wan, where he stole the zips, sheet- ings. Witness visited the junk, and, finding the stolen" property, arrested the first defendant. Later on he arrested the master of the junk for receiving the stolen property.
Mr. "to-day.
Wolfe regarded the case till
A PROPER SORT OF SNEAKING.
THIEF.***
A returned banishee was charged with stealing the axle of a trolley-wheel at Sam-sti-po..
Sergeant MeTullpeb stated that defend. ant bad been been loitering about the place for the last three days. The trolley was being used for the carriage of gravel from the hillside. Defendant was arrested at the Tai Wo Marine Stall, and, when questioned, replied that the" axle was given to him by a man at Mongkok to take to the stall.
Defendant as banished on May 23rd last for ten years. He was the proper sort of sneaking thief."
Defendant had nothing to say. Mr. Walfe sentenced defendant to one month's hard labour for the theft and a
year's imprisonment and four hours' stocks for returning from banishment, the sentences to run consecutively.
ADVENTURES OF A MARRIED WOMAN.
Before Mr. R. Wood, a Chinese was charged, on remand, with unlawfully detaining a married woman in Yaumati
Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared for the defence.
Inspector Brazil stated that the woman had run away from her husband. On July 5th, she was travelling
with another.woman when they were acconted by three men, who invited her to come to Hongkong. She accepted this invitation, and in Kowloon she met the accused, who persuaded her to live with him for several days. The woman was ten from place to place, until the polles traced her to Yaumati.
Mr. Gardiner said that his defence was that the accused knew the woman to be his clansman's wife. When he saw her adrift in Hongkong be detained fer and wrote to the brother of the woman's husband as to her whereabouts.
Inspector Brazil said that the prosecă- the minute it is proved that 10,000 tion could prove, that the accused wis
The Deutsche Tageszeitung states that Germans are to be expelled from China bargaining with a woman in Warttui for the woman for $200, and had already of the French occupied districts and received an advance fee of $25.
and interned in Australia the German Government will select 10,000 inhabitants
709 Wattie resigns an leaving for send them to gaol until the Germans are Active Service
sent back to China and compensated for August 19th, 1918,
their losses.
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The case was adjourned until Wednes
day next.