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66
he said.
RECKON that just about hits the -nail on the head,”
I had seen that Martin was reading Stuart Gelder's article "You Coward!" (which gave the view of a young wife who was upbraiding her husband for to wavering in his allegiance
a peace pledge".) I had put the paper down and was think ing about what she said.
"Don't you agree?" he said. "I wish I could.”
"You surely don't support the idea of war?"
He's twenty-two, just getting his teeth into a decent job in an underwriter's office. There's a girl, too.
I didn't quite know what to say, I could see he was half on fire about it. He said: "Hang
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When I Would Fight
By
AN EX-SERVICEMAN
been
to France
it all, you kan what war is eye-that ancient devil's argu- It's not really very long in his- "There isn't a good general- You were in it. You've said a ment?"
tory-not long for all men Hamilton, Allenby and the rest dozen times you'd have to be "It's no good, Martin, abusing everywhere to have reached not one of 'em who hasn't de- fetched between fixed bayonets me. may be stupid. I'm the sanity."
nounced war," he said. next time."
war generation. I've
"Do you think anybody ex- "That's right. I denounce it "I know." I Was feeling through uil you're going cept and beyond the out-and- 100. So does everybody. But pretty miserable.
through. I've run the whole out pacifists have reached it?" face the old generals with a gamut from going
"Yes, I think so. I think all diciator running amok. They holding ideals to coming back those men who have decided to wouldn't hesitate again.” HE said: "You've said; worn out in body and spirit, dis- hold together in the building of "You don't deny that most Make the slightest illusioned, cursing patriotism, peace and, if the need arises, to people in all nations are good, concession that you'll fight for nationalism and the rest of it, fight together against the break- decent people?" this or that and you'll be caught I've lived through several er of peace in order that he may be crushed swiftly-I think all -caught in the same old filthy, phases." and
murderous and futile business,
"And now you've returned to those have reached sanity." killing decent ordinary folk with
your beginning, fine ideals- whom you've no sort of quar- ideals for war again, bands play- rel.***
ing, marching men." He was bitter.
CENSORS TREAD ON SHANGHAI TOES
So far unexplained, seemingly unwarranted, the Japanese military authorities' action in Shanghai in placing
"Yes."
"Well? Are you going back on it?"
"It's not so easy as it was.” "The propaganda's got you as you said it might if you de viated an inch."
censors in all cable offices in the International Settlement can be expected to cause something of a stir. If the appointment of censors by the Japanese to act in the Chinese Government
He was a bit scornful. radio oflices was not altogether "Look here, Martin," I said.
"Are you happy about surprising. this latest develop-
what
"I'm not back to my begin- ning," I said.
}
"No, I don't deny that. But if they're so misled and mis- guided as to be doing devil's work, the agents of a criminal, they've got to be dealt with."
"Even with bomby and bayonets and gas, I suppose."
"Even so, if there's no other way until such time as they come to their senses."
Jment is a very different matter./happened to Abyssinia and about slogan; the same firm in new gree or purpose--only beginning planes, more men-o'-war, worse
The
caule offices affected are
S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. operated by foreign-owned com-
York Building.
Chater Road.
what's happening in China?**
"You think there are things worth going to war for?"
"I'm almost grieved to say it, Martin--but I do." "How far off?"
"You really believe a League "For one thing," I said, of Nations war would be differ- "there's a fresh idea in the world ent from any other? Any more that didn't exist in 1914-collec- justified than any other? The "YOU'VE given up tive security.”
slaughter, maiming, poisoning,
hope," he said. "Arm to the teeth, outdo every other "War for a new ideal, eh?, burning-would be the same.
more 'War to end war' under another."
"No not the same, not in de- nution-bigger. guns, at all if a vast number of coun-, Kas. That's it, eh?" premises ?" Happy!"
"I profoundly believe that "You can say that, of course, tries had sat as a jury and de- "Does any means suggest it- Don't think I'm happy about it. cided who was to blame, had would be it," I said, "unless we Lopanies of neutral nationality self to you of stopping mili My common sense--won't let me. done their utmost to persuade stand with all other law-abiding
and they are on
neutral soil. tarists from doing what they're The wife in the article we've the aggressor to arbitrate, had nations to create a new league
doing except by force?"
been reading thinks if we did been repulsed-and had then, for peace, so determined to act The Japanese action would ap
He said: "What_good_would nothing, didn't resist at all, the combining their mighty autho- and so ready to act that nobody pear to ben-denint-of--that
killing decent Italians do?
invaders would feel so ridiculous rity, decided to crush-swiftly dare start war wantonly as_8. aggressor. With neutrality. There can be little Would you burn up a child in they'd pack up and go home. and as mercifully as could be, condemned
"Can you see it happening? the nation behaving brutally nations ready to pool their excuse for the Japanese Tokyo for one destroyed in Nan-
forces the need for swollen king? Would you sack Yoko- The conquerors of the richest and acting wantonly."
He said: "If a man's dead, armaments disappears."
"And supposing," he said, offices of the Settlement than hama to set off the destruction country in the world, of the
of Shanghai? An eye for an greatest Empire, feeling so he's dead. If a child's blinded,
"we find ourselves involved in in cable offices in any other
foolish and mortified by reign- it's blinded. Nothing can jus-
a war that isn't approved ing over a quarter of the globe, tify it. Life's sacred." neutral port. Moreover, the
and so bored because we don't "Ought to be. To militarists sponsored by the League a war shoot at them, that they run it isn't. Don't you see there'll arising from imperialistic or
national aims." back whence they came." be no peace and quiet so long as
"Then I don't fight.. So long "You're gibing," he said. murder can be done without a "No. I can respect the hearts hand being lifted. You don't as the League exists, I don't fight unless the League has of the extreme pacifists, but I get respect from Al Capone by failed to settle the dispute by can't stand with their heads. putting your hands up. Eng argument and by economic sanc- It's too easy. They don't face land is peaceful and safe because tions and has approved war."
we won't tolerate gangsters with "I fear that will never come "That's what Diehards always sawn-off shot-guns. Why has to pass," he said. "The League
liberty vanished from Germany
moru
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censor-
or
Meanwhile, according to mes- sages from London, the recent remarks of Admiral Nobumasa Suetsuga, the new Japanese facts." Interior Minister, have caused a The effect of this censorship stir in England. Speaking of say.
"You're gibing now, I'm as and Italy and Russia? Because will never have the courage or not be immediately ap the continued assistance which far removed from a Diehard as people aren't ready to give their unity. So you will never fight." "I hope it will never be parent, perhaps; for fortunately China is receiving from foreign well, as you are. The belief lives for it—not enough people."
"Is that another thing you're does function that way, I shall necessary, but if the League there seems no likelihood of the powers in resistance to the that the world was ready for a
invasion, Admiral new age wherein war would be prepared to go to war for find myself marching again. employees of the cable offices Japanese
banished has faded, that's all. liberty?"
And I'm driven to this conclu- refusing to work under such Suctsugu is reported
Perhaps we expected too much. "You make me feel like hell, circumstances, as did the staffs declared that such sources of Eighteen years since the last. Martin. But yes, it is."
will
to have
of the Chinese Government supply would have to be cut off. the International Radio In this connection he observed:
in
Telephone 28021. Japanese
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MY FRIENDS THE
ore certain trees in various di- there.
visit those trees as it is to visit cs-
TREES
An aventie over a quarter of a
nut trees.
sion too-that unless enough
of us make it clear what we are prepared to do in dire need, and talk less about what we won't do, war will come stendily closer,"
quieting. If Admiral Suetsuga teemed friends. Indeed, each tree My brother and I "owned" one know there were times when it is merely expressing a fatalistic has its own characteristles, just like each, and many a time did we climb wasn't so pleasant to sit tight
them. The hawthorn in the south
we west corner seems rather stand-ofsh, but 19 ♫ staunch old retainer atu
nevertheless, and very friendly to
into their swaying heights, and pelt
favourite.
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Offices. Were such a stoppage "If Japan comes to clash with to materialise in the cable offices Great Britain that cannot be
"It will be the same as last helped." Such words can be in- I AM great lover of trees. There memories of my boyhood holidays it would be serious indeed.
rections around my home, and several mile long ran from the house down time," he said. "It will demand terpreted in at least two ways; miles away, that I often go specially to the main road. At the house and more courage to refuse to fight Meanwhile, because tho
dia- to see. It is as pleasant for me to of this avenue were two large chest- than to go." and either way they are censors walked into
"Perhaps," I said. "But you the Chinese radio offices and the
n human being. staffs walked out, the twelve
indifference to such a develop- Shanghai wireless stations are
i know intimately every tree in my visitors from our strongholds; using in trenches, either. It's nearly to over-praise as to silent. This throws an addition-ment as that he mentions, it garden, and can see in them different the beautiful shiny nuts for those we as a
moods and expressions according to liked, and the prickly husks for an under-praise the men who stay would seem to indicate a lack how the weather may be trenting occasional one who was maybe not at home." al burden on the cable com-
of vigour: for stateamen,
He got out of the bus. "So panies, and already they are
We bulit nests away up there, long," he said. "I shall keep burdened enough, what with have been taught to suppose,
least attempt to be the masters the birds. The two rowans are like where we could read, and could even out of it." faulty connections and no cable
"Unless I'm andly affectionate twins, and one of them have slept in safety if we had ever
wrong of their country's fato, In quite lovingly spreads its branches wanted to do such a thing. At a ship yet available to effect re-
bend in the avenue was the "apy-tree" about you, Martin, you won't pairs. The ship is on her way, Janother light the remarks of the over the arbour where my wife and I from which we could see to either not if it starts. Darned few of would sit on moonlit nights in sum end from the house gate, to where us will. We wobbled into the Minister might be interpreted as mer if we had time, and if the sum- the avenue Jolned the main road.
mer was sufflelently summery.
We shall only steer From this tree, loo, we could get a last war. threatening. It is reported that If there is any further Inter-)
The solitary beech is tall and mus- glimpse of the road about a mile clear and atcer civilisation clear His Majesty's Government will ference with Shanghai's
cular like an athlete, and the lovely away, and we always watched that by making it plain which road com-
we're taking. And that's the But little birch with its graceful sprays point for the last waves from a a of munications and any serious press for an explanation.
of tiny leaves always makes me thinke Parted friend, or for the first sign
Joyful arrival, League road whatever the con- it is likely developments, more of an enchanted princess I used to recogniilon on many
It mayn't mean [inconvenience to business, tho
I have not seen those trees for sequences. bo in love with In a fairy tale, a than any words, will illuminato umciently long time age before many a year, but I bear them in mind safety all the way but the des- reaction will unquestionably be the Japanese policy with respect met my wife, to prevent her having for the sake of those times, and tination is all right."
shall not forget them any more than directed against the Japanese to Great Britain and her lawful any feeling in the motter now.
Á visit I paid to an old country
I shall forget my human friends. The bus was moving again. who are Inslating upon this up Intercourse with China.
house recently awakened many tree
"Telegraph", Page 6, yesterday.
however,
Coo
de-