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WHAT'S BEHIND AMOY ATTACK?
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(and at the same time to protect | 30,000 Formosans resident there, has rather greater significance than the invaders admit. The:
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fact that they bother: making excuses for their action at all indicates that they arej aware of the construction which inevitably must be placed upon this new phase of operations in China.
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can obtain war materials from the outside world if she is even to hope for quick victory, Japan realises that the longer the strangulation of China's com- merce is delayed, the longer the war will Inst. Whether or not Japan is capable of entirely cut- ting her enemy's lines of com- munication is not the question. She must try. And the adven- ture will cost her many millions of yen and many hundreds of lives, for the Amoy affair can- not be settled with the capture
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tain, Ireland and the Dominions be
yond the seas, Emperior of India, a year ago, was a man well qualified by birth, temperament, and upbring- ing for the great purt la world affairs he had been called upon to play.
Born 42 years ago in a quiet Eng- fish house by the sen, at Sandring- ham the unofficial country home of British Kings and Queens, his sur- roundings from the first have been those of happy domesticity.
KING
The King broadcast to the Empire from Buckingham Palace after his Coronation.
microphones were used as a precaution against á break-doen.
Tun
devotion to duty and in kindliness at all classes together in healthful had arrived at its office. He went outdoor surroundings. He was as there médiately, shook handa with
leisured and good sense.
siduous in visiting factories, ~ work- the men, und had a
and shops and mines, so as to study al sympathetic talk with them. first hand housing and other social On another occasion, when a meet- questions,
ing of the Amalgamated Engineers
the King
His father, the Inte George V, was one of the most popular monarchs the United Kingdom had had since
Idealiam the days of Alfred the Great,
Long before there was any imme- years Dgo. The King's
diate prospect of his ascending the Queen Mary, is a woman of high Throne, the man who is now King character Rad individuality who told a youth's welfare conference at combines
regal dignity and good Croydon whnt, in his view, nil should judgment with homely, household strive for. virtues of every kind. One of four brothers, George VI was the son who
such relations
Not a Theorist
every-
Union was in progress, "The only real peace in industry," the King said on one of these visits, turned up as a vicitor and discussed "Is that which is cultivated in the the situation frankly with the men. some of those He also recognised factory itself."
He has endeavoured present whom he had met on pre- to promote
vious occasions in the factories where Service," he said, "must be our where,
they worked, and he asked them most nearly resembled his father in watchword." A leader, he also said
about particular jobs he remembered as having been seen them engaged In company with his wife, the upon. King has travelled widely, making extensive tours in Australia, New Zealand,
and Europe.
Trying out apparatus and arrange~ No one rerotien more deeply than menta is one of his hobbler, and he George VI the difference of opinion bften surprises those he talks to by between King Edward VIII and the the amount he knows about their Cabinet which led to his own ele- affairs. vation to the Throne,
To King George the Sixth
.
Here is the praise of kings: the trumpets' blare, The coloured banner of royalty, the glare
Of lights, shouts of the multitude,
The shock of cannon, dicers that will not down-“ These are the trappings of the royal crown, And what kings hear in throned solitude.
There is another sound and, like the sens That lap your realm, it shall call to you. This conciant sound by day shall never cense, Nor in the silent night shall it depart. Not from this murmur shall you seek release: It is the beating of an empire's heart. This is the metronome that measures ull Your doings: this the call
That you will answer till your reign be done. The king and people, are forever one.
To know no good except his people's good; However tired, however much oppressed, To know no rest until his people rest; Despite soft self-indulgence whispering, This is the heavy duty a king.
Joy there will be--one who will share with you The high, remote, und solitary throne, And who with you will own
The proud allegiance of half a world. Beautifu), strong and tender, patient, true, She will not fail you through the falling years, Giving her people at their need, her smiles, her tears. Love you will have, but in return they'll ask Her heart and yours. This shall be your high task. To learn endurance, eat the sacred fare Of self-forgetfulness you both shall share; Show the far peoples who your subjects are, That the bright symbols which your fingers hold- The royal sceptre can indeed be gold.
For this so great a people 'neath your sway, An understanding heart-O God, we pray!- Be yours, O King, be yours, O Queen, to-day!
A. Jacqueline Shaw.
An Experimenter
As president of the National Play-
"I have succeeded to the Throne," Ing Fields Association ever since its he said in his fral message to Par- Inauguration in 1925, he has inken llament, "in circumstances which are an selve part in supporting its work without & providing
of healthful activity and of great personal distress, but I am with resolved to do my duty, and I am amusement. He was, for
example, sustained by the knowledge that I instrumental in 1227 in arranging am supported by the widespread for King George V to donate two of good will and sympathy of all my the royal paddocks in Bushy Parit to subjects here and throughout the the association, for the benefit of the children in the Kingston-on-
world.
to
he in-
"It will be constant endeavour, Thames arca,
106 rendy kindliness was shown by and God's help, aided as I shall be
he gave to t dear wife, to uphold the the quiet assurance by my honour of the realm and promote the mill-girl who had been nonplussed. happiness of my peoples.
by a somewhat tactless question from These simple words reflect the di- one of his entourage as to what hep- rectness of the character of the man pened when things in the worles went
ΑΥΤΟΠΕ
The
girl did not know what who spoke them.
The King is no mere theorist. He to reply but the King at once came
her rescue, "They never," tries to put his programme into prac-
terposed
hearilly, "do go wrong." tice. Visiting a glue factory in the Upon the north of England, on one of his re-
the youth of the nation," he cent tours, he was advised by the sald, in opening some of the new management not to go into one sec- playing fields, "depends the future tion because it smelt so unpleasant- of the country, and the building up of a generation, healthy in body and "Why, people work there, don't mind is the goal to which the aB.SC- they?" he asked, and when told that clation is directing its efforts. It is
for those
who would of all places see It. "What is good otherwise have no place for recrea-
explained tion other than the strecta" enough for them," modestly, "is good enough also for
this was the case, he said he must end also to provide suitable
me."
George VI is a democrat who is himself one of the ordinary people. As president of the "Industrial He is head of the slate, but he has Welfare Society," an organization shown himself a man of deep hu- for social service with headquartere man sympathies. It has begun to be near Buckingham Palace, he has recognized in many millions of homes long maintained close contact with that he will so conscientiously carry working folk of all classes.
out his heavy duties that the head- One day word came to him that a ship of the worldwide British Com-
"must possess three qualities-per- Bonality, sympathy, and above all of the port. As at Shanghai, Japanese navy to be a factor in idealism." Personality he regarded Party of coal miners from one of the monwealth of Nations is safe in his the Chinese are in a position to this war must attack such as something to be taken as a matter most depressed areas in South Wales hands.
hinterland.
of course.
"can lead unless he has the gift of
carry on the fight from a vast points as it can reach. That Of sympathy he said, "its keynote
And then there is powerful weapon Japan cannot la personal contact and understand GRIN AND BEAR IT Canton. Amoy was never the afford to keep in idleness at this ing. If you want to lead, you must
be able to understand and share the! great arms receiving port Japaneritical juncture of hosilitics. Joya and troubles of those whom you would pretend; and its closing And right here is the answer to are trying to help. You must look at things from their point of view will not materially effect the the puzzle of the Amoy attack.us well as from your own." flow of arms into China. If the Japan is-flinging all her power His definition of idealism was Amoy invasion is to be anything against the opponent whose equally clearcut. "Nobody," he said. but a costly display enleulated stubborn strength she very wisdom and desire to leave things to panic South China into sur-seriously underestimated when better than he found them. He wil! render, and more than likely an the first shots were fired outside pear unattainable, but which he be- abortive attempt at that, it will the ancient capital, Peiping.lieves can one day be reached, if not
by himself, by his successors." have to be realised in Japan that Even if the attack on Amoy ac-
Camp for Boys it is only a first step in a cam-complishes very little, relative- Nothing could be more modest paign which will be every bitly, it will necessitate the con- than this programme. Nevertheless, conscientious translation Into us arduous and costly as that centration of troops in Fukien its
everyday action which the story of originating in Shanghai.
and other southern provinces, the King, his wife and two young which might very well have been daughters discloses, is one of the rea- used in the northern fighting.
strive for something which may up-
sons that people gathered in London from all parts of the world because this particuler King was being crown-
But all this has not answered the "why" of the invasion. It is certain the elimination of
Unfortunately for Japan, ed.
The Throne, no doubt, is greater anti-Japanese and the protection however, the Chinese show no of Formosans are not the only intention of surrendering Amoy than anyone who occupies it. Quite apart from the personality of the reasons for the attack. More without a struggle. It may be King and his family, it represents probably the Japanese are con- that China will out-manoeuvre unity among English-speaking peo- ples, however far apart from one an-i corned with the long-drawn the invader, and by making a other geographically they may live. hostilities in Shantung, Shansi, major issue of the Amoy in-But while the Throne In any case unite them for reasons of self- Anhwei and elsewhere. The cldent force Japan either to re-preservation, It is undoubtedly Amoy blow is intended to dis-tire with a black eye, or make strengthened when the symbol of mutual comradeship is someone they tract Chinn from the more Im-up her mind to pour troops and all can respect and like.
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