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Lord Baldwin has presented the manuscript of Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional". to the British Museum.

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In · 4 communication "to "The Times" Dr. H. I Bell, Keeper of the Manuscripts at the Museum tells the story of how the poem was rescued by chance after its author had thrown it away

Dr. Bell writes:-

CITY OF REFUGEES

Shanghai Cares For War Sufferers

Note: The following article was written by a leading mission- ary of Chine, a man who for years has devoted his time and efforts to the cause in which he is enlisted. An acknowledged authority an China and things. Chinetë, he is also a keen and competent observer of the affairs of Shanghai to day. He seeks no publicity, preferring" to remain anonymous, seeking only to set forth the facts that the world may now the real situation in Shanghai, and know the facts concerning these countien thousands of refugees, and, what is being done for them."

HATS OFF!

Shanghal, often called one of could now be well named, the the world's most wicked eities. City of Refugees"-city in which misery and privation go hand in hand-the result of the aggressions of war-like Japan and Kipling's "Recessional has been the invasion of Japanese armed number of people than almost read, sung, and quoted by a larger | forces.

any poem of recent times; but few of those to whom it is so familiar

Some

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Again, hats off to this noble be provided for many of the re- group of people! Clothes have to

fugees-given or sold at very low cast One camp had its tulfors making these clothes vegetables were prepared by an 27 Bales Paper

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other at very low cost for people from the street. In all of the camps the work is carried on in much the same manner.

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Since, the Shanghai hostilities began, thousands upon thousands of people of the area surrounding the Concessions have been driven of Salousy" be obtained from the know the circumstances of its first from their homes and have fled

publication, or box near it came into the city for refuge. to being never published at all.

At one place the buildings were have been returned to native pro-large and sunny temple, buildings Household Furniture In July, 1897, the year of vinces, but multitudes remain housing seven hundred: another Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, One wonder how and where they was a large unfinished residence. Sara Norton, a daughter of the are cared for. Because of,,' our in which are distinguished American scholar

vital interest in these suffering thousand. One camp was housing housed over two Charles Eliot Norton, was staying people, four of us spent one after its six hundred and, ten refugees with Mr. and Mrs. Kipling at noon visiting refugee camps and in Rottingdean, Sussex; in a house hospitals. The several camps and

a few small houses whose rooms were poorly lighted;" an- which they they had leased near hospitals we visited that after-

other had one hundred and sixty- to that of Sir Edward and Lady. noon were under the auspices of four in an old ballroom. Every Burne-Jones. On the morning of the Federation of Charitable, Or- available space is crowded and the 18th hosts and guests were sit-ganizations of Shanghai and the many matsheds have been erected ting together in one of the rooins Shanghai Church "Federation. In all of these places filled with of the house, Kipling at his desk The former now has forty-seven hundreds of suffering, bewildered where he was running through camps. having had altogether people, fina Chinese men and wo- Solne papers and from time to 90,032 refugees. time finging one of them into a been sent elsewhere until there splendid ability in their tasks of

Thousands have men who have charge, are showing THE Undersigned have received a wastepaper basket close to where are 37,293 remaining in these Miss Norton sat. Her attention forty-seven camps.

HOSPITALS Their hospi- attracted, she asked if she might

needy part of this stupendou

Hospitals form a look at the contents of the basket.

relief work of Shanghai. Enter a Leave was given and she picked out

hospital for a sheet of paper on which was

rooms of a large Chinese house

wounded soldier written a poem on the Diamond Jubilee, headed. "After." She was at once struck by its quality and protested at the idea of destroying

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tals have treated 25.899 of which 3.140 are soldiers. Such numbers in one organization give only a fraction of the numbers in all the organizations.

great, and

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with a bullet hole in his side. These are ministered unto by doc- tors and nurses who are volun- teering their services. the

What is Gratitude to those who serve them

spirit of these and an eagerness to get back into soldiers?

service for their country.

Emergency hospitals have also been established "for refugees. One is located in, an old restau- rant. As you enter you are im- cleanliness. Ал

.not

The Church Federation has seventeen camps many of which are in the church buildings, and 1t. It ought, she declared, in bets members are financing and published,

giving their services in caring for them. We visited two of these churches, namely Moore Memorial and North Gate Baptist Church. Kipling demurred to this idea, while it has been our privilege to but finally he yielded to her im-visit only a few of the camps of portunity so far as to say he would these organizations, we do refer the matter to the decision forget the many other camps of of "Aunt Georgie" (Lady Burne- the various other organizations. Jones). A few steps across the village green decided it; Lady Burne-Jones fully agreed with Miss. Norton's verdict. The poem must be published; and published it was. Kipling sat down to revise it, re- ducing its length from seven to five stanzas, Miss Norton suggest ed the repetition of the last couplet of the first stanza,

Lord God of Hosts, be with us

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Lest we forget-jest we forget. as a refrain in the second and fourth, and this suggestion Kipling adopted, borrowing her pen for the purpose and writing opposite the Arst insertion written with Sallie's jen-R.K." Then, still wing "Sallie's pen," he altered the last line to

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Thy mercy and forgiveness

Lord

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The spirit and work shown in pressed with its orderliness and these camps are remarkable.

Black Wood Wars. Teak Dining Refugees who have Room, Drawing Room, Bed Roo we entered each camp, we

been wounded, who are auf- and Ofice Furniture, Carpets, and greeted by scouta, Hats of to

fering from undernourishment, Rogs, Clocks, Cutlery, Ornamenta, these Boy' and Girl Scouts in their

any of the many Pictures, Porcelain and Glass Ware, neat uniforms who

diseases that ac- Bras and E. P. Wars, Gramophones pleasantly and who do invaluable company war and overcrowded and Records, Hand Sawing Machine, scrvice. Temples, school buildings

conditions are treated free. Radio Bots, Enamel Baths, Electric and churches were filled with re- Here, again, volunteer service is Table Lamps, and Heaters, ets, els fugees and the work, was carried

given by doctors, nurses and on in an orderly way. fugees are fed two or three times emergency Red Cross training,

The re- young people who have had short a day, and it takes about 10 cents per day to feed one refugee. We

saw some

making soldiers'

uniforms-in one place they were this service. Classes are held for given ten coppers, a jacket ter the children and places are pro-

vided for the sick.

arn

FORTITUDE

Some of these patients know their familles are. Some have not where the other members of

familles come from camps where their

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It is not intended to return to the traditional full dress of scarlet and blue. The expense involved, it is

are being cared for. Most of them are homeless and jobless yet they greet you with a In one camp we found three old smile, and a word of thanks, for ladies over eighty years of age any interest and help given them. (a change subsequently abandoned who had become separated from

These, as they are restored to in favour of the original version). their familles. One sees, bedding health await, with the other added an "Amen" and his signature, rolled up to be spread on the floor thousands who are concentrated and then wrote Beneath:-

at night and sitting on these rolls in Shanghal, the opportunity to done in council at North End babies, some of them not knowing

mothers holding their tiny return to what was once home- House. July 16.

now broken and destroyed "build- whether the husband and fatherings-to begin again their life of said, would be prohibitive. In ad- was killed in the mad rush to quiet and peaceful pursuits. And dition, the equipment of the mo- escape from the fighting zone. they will do it with their charac-damn soldier has undergone chan- Here and there bandages showteristic fortitude and endurance! A fresh copy was now made and that some were wounded.

ges which, in a large measure, These dispatched to "The Times:" and bandages show also the work of

But as we see these thousands, dictate the dress to be worn. we cannot but wonder when they next morning. July 17, the poem hundreds of doctors and

· UNPOPULAR HEUE nurses

will have the privilege of again appeared on the middle page of that who are giving their services so earning their Journal; under the now familiar sacrificially..

own living, moleated by war? title, "Recessional.",

Aunt Georgle Sallie

Carrie & me.

MISS NORTON'S TREASURE

The draft signed by Kipling as described above was given by him there and then to Miss Norton. She kept it among her treasured possessions, and it passed after her death, to her sister, Miss Elizabeth: Gakeli Norton.

The

A CENT A DAY FOR WAR RELIEF

Spontaneous Effort OfTM Chinese Christians

NEW UNIFORMS.

"FOR ARMY Smarter "Walking,Out" Outfit

The blue dress, issued only to un-troops taking part in the Corona-

tlon parade, has not been popular.. elther with soldiers or the public. The main objections to it are that it is not suficiently distinc- tive,

There are certain exceptions. In the Cavalry, Artillery and other Royal Regiments the cap-bands of, the blue uniform are coloured and the trousers have coloured stripes.

Rine regiments wear green in- stead of blue, but the other infan- ing to the "cent a day" movement is now being considered by a that practically all their distinctive try regiments of the line complain Just inaugurated by the National special War Office Commitice, as emblems. have been eliminated so Christian Council with headquart is hoped that before the next that they "do not look like sold- ters In Shanghai. This relief

Christians throughout the length and breadth of China are subscrib

Soldiers are to have smarter walking out uniforms. The whole question of clothing and equipment

reached,

Forty years have gone by since Kipling wrote his "after-thought" on the Diamond Jubilee, British Empire has this year once again .celebrated a great festival, the Coronation of King George VI: movement has grown spontaneous training season a decision will be ters." There is little discrimina and Mis Norton: felt that a more.

ly out of the need to succbur war The authorities have come to the and corps, ..

tion between the various regiments appropriate moment could not be refugees-of whom there found for marking the kinship and 750,000 in the Shanghai area alone and bearing, which are bound up mended in the khaki serviee dress. are conclusion that smartness in dress Modifications are also recom- the common heritage of the two-to provide food and shelter, to peuples, or a better means of dolig help them salvage what is left of potential recruit.

with tradition influence greatly the This is now generally worn by all so-than to present to the British | life.

regiments except the Household For ceremonial duty and "walk Cavalry and the Brigade of Guards, nation the draft of "Recessional," Christians all over the land have Ing out," therefore, the soldier is who with the bandsmen of other The gift was made to Lord Baldbeen contributing regularly to the promised a more distinctive, better regiments, retain the colourful win of Bewdley, an old friend of essential relief fund of the National fitting and smarter uniform. the Norton family, in order that Christian Council ever since it was For training and manoeuvre a

regimentál rull dress, he might make the presentation first begun at the end of August. more-hygienic and loose-fitting It has been gratefully accepted by. This new movement arose out of dress has been designed, and the Trustees of the British group thinking-from the earnest lighter and more comfortabe equip Museum; and the manuscript may endeavour of the war relief comment recommended by specialists now be seen in: the Exhibition mittee to find some other way to after years of study and expert Galleries of bur National Library. raise money for urgent relief work". ment.

working dress has engaged the at- The problem of finding a suitable

years. Recently, experiments have tention of experts for the past 10 been carried out in the field with the object of returning to "light" infantry.

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