THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939,
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MANY YEARS AGO the late King George V, then Prince of Wales, addressed to his future subjects a message which concluded with the words: "Wake up, England!"
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That peril, that escape,
the emotions which both aroused in our minds and hearts must from now on never be forgotten neglected.
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THE ROYAL SOCIETY of St. George has long endeavoured to preserve and maintain the
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Foul Slavery
of
A MOST perturbing state
affairs is revealed by the
statisties published in the Final
licensing houses,
The most serious revelation is
ancient institutions and tradi- tions, threatened with extinction in an age of rapid change--our task must now become ever more dynamic and positive,
The
leges which aro more than an inheritance and a naturally accepted condition of
hich our fathers won is
living, they demand the service and the devotion of all sorts and
personal sacrifice.
AWAKENING
by
LORD QUEENSBOROUGH
The productivity of our soil, which has declined under the neglect which accompanied in- dustrialisation, calla for urgent measures of stimulation and sup- port.
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OUR COUNTRYSIDE surely
deserves a better fate than to become a reserve for sight. seers. It must be kept alive and its people--the salt of the earth -must be enabled to find on the soil proper, healthy conditions of work and living, with a now sense of their vital importance to the nation.
to
For those young men and wo- men who feel themselves crushed in the struggle and competition for employment in our densely populated island the Empire and the Dominions should become again a fickt for fresti endeavour. They must first be made learn and feel that our OWN Government and the Govern- ments of the Empire are pre- pared not only to encourage their settlement in new homes, but among people of traditions and instincts akin to their own, to whom their advent will be wel- come as an accession of strength and a further guarantee for the future of the Empire.
Moreover while we have, un-· happily, a standing army of un- employed and at the same time a shortage of skilled labour, active steps should be taken to keep alive the craftsmanship of those already trained to a skilled trade and to train the younger
may, without
Chairman of the Council of the Royal employed in ficulty, benty-
Society of St. George.
we
surbed into useful and produc- tive employment.
Above all, let us practise for- bearance and seek to make more
Edition of the "Telegraph" yes-conditions of our countrymen if Model terday, showing the extent of they are to survive in a world It is a truism to say that the We can, first of all, actively easy the task of those who are now called upon to undertake the suddenly confronted with new main sources of the wealth and support the establishment of a work of national revival. the increase in vice and slavery and disturbing forces, threaten- strength of any nation are the National Register of all able-
If we, of our free will, accept. in Hongkong since the Governing to engulf and destroy all soil itself and the character of bodied men and women in order new responsibilities and personal that, should need arise, our ser- sacrifices, how far more resilient ment ended the practice of that instinct and experience the children of that soil.
Those who believe in England vices according to our capabili and powerful a force will our have taught us to cherish and
and England's destiny in world ties, may be promptly and use nation be than the drilled and re- respect.
We cannot hope to preserve affairs and who have kept faith fully employed in the task of gimented masses of those who that departmental and other our freedom and fulfil our des in the face of the spread of ma- national defence. Let us begin have been compelled to turn to officials are hamstrung in their tiny without effort, or without terialism on the one hand and at home and, regardless of any dictatorial methods of Govern
doctrines of class hatred and dis- personal discomfort which it ment in their hours of need. efforts to rescue young girls
sension on the other, now in may involve, decide what
Our weaknesses and deficien- from enforced immorality by lack of suitable accommodation for segregating them once they Quite apart from these unfortunate girls, it is revealed that there is no Remand Home available for girls under the age of sixteen years who are the subject of Magisterial proceedings, and it appears that, unlike boys, the only place to which they can be sent is prison.
. If, by orders and decrees, themselves from a nucleus of individually can do and train cies are the fruits of our own other nations can create a united strength upon which our future ourselves to be ready and fami- missions and not of defeat at and organsed machinery of state security depends. to secure the fulfilment of their
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ambitions, so must we, of our each one of us to consider how It is, therefore, incumbent on own free will, discipline our best we can exert our influence selves and equip our country to for the good of our country. face and survive the threatened tempest.
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the hands of others. They are, therefore, the more difficult to
overcome.
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The only way to overcome them is to train ourselves to ask, "What can I do and how best can I lend a hand to strengthen and Numerous demands already
defend my country?" and not to ranging from an undefined form
say, "The Government should of National Service to actual
have done this or that, or should Conscription have been made,
not have done the other thing." and at the same moment alarm- ing, and ill-advised accounts of
✩ ✰ our unpreparedness have figured in the press.
WHILE Dr. Charles David pital doctors upon treatment in an THIS FIRST MESSAGE issued his wife's life. But by the Royal Society of St. Read, Harley-street gynae later, he was told that the doctors' George is intended to forcus the What is surely necessary cologist, was attending patients efforts were in vain-she had died, first of all is an analysis of the in Chelsea Hospital recently he Mrs. Read fell from the Chalk minds of its readers on the broad sources of our weakness and a was told that his wife had fallen Farm (Edgware line) station plat issues now at stake. It is hoped systematic drive to eliminate in front of an Underground form, and part of the train passed that it may be followed by more them.
train and was gravely injured.
explicit suggestions, re-inforced It is not enough-though NO Dr. Read hurried to Hampstead When her identity had been dis- by information and extracts
other publications urgently necessary-to hasten General Hospital, N.W., where his covered police notified her home al from the production of military and wife. 38-years-old Mrs. Mabyn Read, Hillway, Helly Lodge Estate, High- speeches directed
was lying with severe injuries to her gate, N. The staff there, through Dr.
The statistics published by the "Telegraph" yesterday indicate that, of 25,000 women who have become victims of the vicious system of immorality that has developed so alarmingly in Hongkong, approximately 30 per eent, are children under the age soul of the nation has first to civil defence equipment. The of 18 years. There is something be restored and cleansed to appalling in the fact that, of this meet the grave problems which 30 per cent., approximately 4,000 lie ahead. children are of the tender ages
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of from twelve to sixteen years. FOR TWENTY YEARS # Many of these children, just stream of propaganda-much reaching their teens, have be-well meant, but some designed come prostitutes by compulsion. [to break down the morale of our If, as it is claimed, officials of people-has been poured forth. A reaction against conven- the Secretariat
Chinese tional rules of conduct, against Affairs and private welfare social distinctions, against sim- workers are prevented from ple conceptions of duty and rescuing these children chiefly patriotism, against established because Government has not, or morality and against orthodox will not, provide a suitable home religion has been used by sub- in which they could be segregat-versive political forces as an in- strument for the overthrow of ed, a drastic and immediate the established form of society. revision of policy seems called At the same time the fabric for. We are told that scores of of society itself has been left young children are being added superficially unaltered at a time the thousands when measures of social reform have removed from certain of its already lost: something must be elements the power and the need done to stop this foul slavery to fulfil those duties, which, that is growing so alarmingly in normally, they were accustomed
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These circumstances are ex- tremely dangerous to national Party Repeated 25 Years survival, since the existence of Mansfield, O. privileged classes who have been For 25 years Mr. and Mrs. Retd largely deprived of the means of Painter and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fcarrying out the duties which Shiveley have held a joint birthday party for Mrs. Shivelvy
their privileges, and Mrs. earned them Painter, whose birthdays are on con-creates and fosters discontent secutive days. The year, they cele-and opens the path from within brated the "allver anniversary" of
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If our country is to maintain her position, certain urgently necessary tasks lie before us-
To restore our national faith and unity, remembering that Great Britain is a Christian Kingdom.
To raise the whole of our de- fensive forces to their full strength, without delay.
To develop to the full our agricultural, mineral and indus- trial resources at home and abroad.
To maintain confidence and eradicate alarmism and a "De- fentist" mentality.
To nesert the need for all to undertake the duties and respon- sibilities which the protection of our freedom and security de- mand.
To overcome dissension and disputes among ourselves by a union of all classes in tho ser- vice of the nation to which we belong, and which in turn be- longs to and is the common in- heritance of us all,
From the strength which such achievements will give we may continue to work unceasingly for the promotion of peace and the romoval of the present causes of distrust and hatred among the nations of the world.
Queenborough