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difficulty and principles on which we should desire
Our desire, then, when wo have
two score lives, caused by the peace of Europe. I had always courage with which you have carried necessity of providing against attacks establish a new Europe, not new in destruction of tenement fire hoped that it would never fall on your tasks. We do not forget that from the air. Some of them may the sense of tearing up all the old to my lot to have to make that the safety of these islands depends seem now to have been unnecessary, frontier posts and redrawing the map. traps, is not to be' regarded as decision, but when the time came on the untiring watchfulness of our since the air raids have not taken according to the ideas of the victors, But if they had come, as but a Europe with a new spirit in anything more than an affair I did not and could not hesitate the days of Queen Elizabeth.
seamen, as it has done ever since place.
everyone expected, and had found which the nations which inhabit between tenants and landlords. to take it, for I knew that the
us unprepared you would have blam- will approach their difficulties with "Others of my listeners may be ed the Government for its neglect, goodwill and mutual tolerance. To this view we cannot sub-liberties of all free peoples and serving in the Army, some in distant Even now we cannot assume that the "In such a Europe fear of aggres- garrisons overseas, some in France, Germans will not change their tactics sion would have ceased to exist, and scribe. This is just as urgent a our own were ut stake.
some again keeping perpetual vigil and make a sudden attack from the such adjustments of boundaries as matter of public concern as any weeks of war, I am speaking to for you the lime for conflict has not therefore rashiy dispense with our ed out between neighbours sitting on "And to-day, after just twelve over their guns on the home front. air upon this country. We must not would be necessary would be thrash- departmental campaign for you again, happily with health yet arrived, but we know that you safeguards, but we are constantly equal terms round a table, with the saving.lives from cholera-or and strength unimpaired and are cheerfully enduring the monstony revising the existing restrictions, and help of disinterested third parties if small-pox.
and discomforts that inevitably attend we shall certainly relax them when it were so desired. with complete confidence in our the routine of preparation, and that ever we feel that we can do so There might be some excuse ultimate victory. Of one thing when the day of battle comes you without undue risk to the public
An Unfettered Right for apathy if the public could you can be sure. We shall not will be ready to meet it as your safety.
fathers were before you,
"In such a Europe it would be reasonably hope that the Yau-follow the German example of
"I do not thinks I need say more recognized that there can be no lost- mati disaster is unlikely to either concealing our own losses Tribute To The Air Forco about restrictions which are imposed ing peace unless there is a full and occur again; but these gruesome losses which do not exist.
from you or of inventing enemy "And as for you who are serving only in the general interest, and constant flow of trade between the
We in the Air Force, our youngest fight which I am sure will be cheerfully nations concerned, for only by in events have too often happened hold you of the loss of the Ing Service, you too have an import- borne if they help to bring us victory, creased interchange of goods and part to play in the defence of the "I said a little while ago that this services can the standard of living be in the past to permit auch & Couragees and the Royal Oak, homeland as well as in the defeat was a different kind of war from improved. mollifying hope. The plain and to-day you have heard of of the enemy's forces, We have what we expected. Perhaps you may "In such a Europe each country truth is that while buildings of the sinking of the Rawalpindi, watched with pride and admiration sometimes wonder why we ourselves would have the unfettered right to
your gallant exploits in those aerial are not attacking the enemy with choose its own form of internal gov the Shanghai Street type are None of those losses affects our combats in which you have already more vigour. Well, I would remind ernment, so long as that Government permitted to exist-even per- we shall tell you frankly what is that you will be more than equal to bringing the greatest possible force Injurious to its neighbours,
external policy overwhelming naval superiority, and taken part, and we feel confident you that the art of war constata in did not pursue mitted to be constructed anew-hoppening even when the truth to any demands that may be made upon to bear at the right place and the "Lastly, in such a Europe, arma- there will be in Hongkong an unpleasant, and we shall never re- you.
right time. In our case the place and ments would gradually be dropped as frain from publishing news except "I do not forget that I have to-night time will be decided by those who useless expense, except in so far. over-present danger of disaster. when it would be helpful to the a suir wider audience, and that my are responsible for the strategy of the as they were needed for the preserva- If the death toll was 45 last enemy to have it,
voice will travel to all the peoples Allies. But in the meanwhile we are tion of internal law and order. week, it is but one chapter of
"It is obvious that the establish- "Up to the present the war has of the British Empire. I wish that not losing anything by delay, for human sacrifice in a lost list of ferent from what we expected.
ment of this Utopian Europe which been carried on in a way very dif- I could speak to each, and thank time is on our side.
I have briefly sketched out could not such tragedies which have be- We need not attribute the re-
be the work of a few weeks or even. come part and parcel of our
months. It would be a continuous history.
process stretching over many years. Indeed, it would be impossible to get #time-limit upon it, for conditions. never cease to change and corre~. sponding adjustments would be re- quired if friction la to be avoided,
"Consequently, you would need some machinery capable of conduct- ing and guiding the development of "How different is the position of the new Europe in the right direction.
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The conscience-sulving theory that "life is cheap" can be acceptable to no one, whatever stratum of society be affected. Government has openly confess- ed the necessity of a vast im- provement in housing conditions In Hongkong and not even war
luctance of the Germans to begin a great land offensive or to at- tempt a series of mass attacks from the air upon this country to their humanity. We have had plenty of evidence that no con- siderations of humanity deter them from any form of warfare that they think will bring them some advantage.
them for their support so freely and so swiftly given. We entered the war to defend freedom and to catab- Ish peace. Those are the two vital principles of our Empire, and the Empire's unity to-day gives us the moral as well as the material strength to win them.
"And now I want to spealt to those among you who are listening to me from your homes in the towns and villages of Great Britain. Many of
Every week that passes by in- tensifies the pressure upon Ger- many of the Allies' blockade, which is slowly but surely de- priving her of those materials which are essential to the suc- cessful prosecution of a modern war and which she cannot pro- duce within her own borders.
Allies' Unlimited Resources
"They must therefore have come to you are engaged on one form or the Allies, who have at their disposal I do not think it necessary nor, In- the conclusion that at present they another of National Service, often at within the Empire or elsewhere un- dead, is it possible to specify at this. on two continents will encourage gain by such attacks, and they have are serving our country no less use crials. With such advantages they should be established for this pur would lose more than they would great sacrides to yourselves. Others limited resources in men and mat- stage the kind of machinery which us to believe that the problem preferred to use methods which they fully on the land, in mines and tac- are bound to win, in the end; and post. I merely express the opinion has become less important, think can be employed without scri- torles, in hospitals, in offices, in your the only question is how long it will that something of the sort would either with regard to the welfare aus loss to themselves,
own homes and in numberless other take them to achieve their purpose. have to be provided, and I would of the vast majority of Hong-
The Magnetic Mine ways. Whatever your work may be,
"That brings mo to the last point add my hope that a Germany animat- "The latest of these methods, as I know well that in greater or less I want to minke. What is the purpose, ed by a new spirit might be among kong's populace or as it affects you all know, is the sowing of a new degree the war has interrupted and for which we are to-day standing the nations which would take part the good name of the Colony.
kind of mine indiscriminately in our affected your daily life.
side by side with our French and in its operations.. A psuedo-fatalistic attitude to home waters. It matters nothing to "Some of you are already mourning Folish Allies? The question has been "There, then, for the present I destruction of life and property the German Government that what the loss of those who were dearest answered over and over again by In Hongkong may be a comfort doing is contrary to international to you. For such grief as yours no myself, by M. Daladier, Lord leave the peace alms, and once more- I would remind you that before we agreements to which it has subscrib- words of mine could pretend to afford Halifax and by other members of the can begin to translate them into ac-- able method of evading responsi-ed. It matters nothing to that Gov- consolation. I would say only this, Government. One would think that tion we have got first to achieve our bility, but it is a miserable ernment that it is daily blowing up that I know no cause more worthy there could be no doubt about it, but war aim and win the war. In that method of government.
neutral ships as well as British, and of the supreme sacrifice than that for there are still questioners who feel purpose the members of the British The final answer, of course, is thereby drowning or mutilating citi- which those lives have been given that we have not yet sufficiently de- Commonwealth are united as they
zens of countries with which Ger- We must be thankful that so far the fined our aims.
nover have been before in all our wholesale alum elearance and the many is not at war, Germany hopes war has brought no such casualty
my own mind I make a distince him then gird up our loins, erection of proper habitable by these barbarous weapons to cut lists as those which overshadowed tion between war alms and peace tenements with modern fire off our supplies from overseas and the early months of the war of 1014, aims. Our war aim can be stated proof facilities. But there are asion.
so squeeze or starve us into submis- But there must be few to whom it very shortly. It is to deleat our various number of temporary
has not meant anxiety or disturbance enemy and, by that I do not merely of mind, discomfort, material loss or mean the defeat of the enemy's mili- measures which could be effected
even severe hardship,
tary forces. forthwith, and which would at least do something to mitigate against these appalling fire tragedies."
of Enforcement these measures should bo Government's Immediate, con-
com.
You need have no fear that this attempt will succeed. Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine, and we shall soon manter it as we have already mastered the U-boat; and in the meantime, despite Fame JoseraK our convoys are still! moving steadily in and out of our ports, and they will continue to do so, thanks to the courage and skill
fusbands and wives have been "Husbands
separated from one another or from their children. Home, arrangements have been upset by having to billet strangers, or children accustomed to different ways of living. Businesses have been dislocated, hard-earned practices have had to be abandoned, Buildings have been commandeered.
I mean the defent of that aggressive, bullying mentality which seeks continually to dom- Inate other peoples by force, which finds a brutal satisfaction in the persecution and torture of inoffensive citizens and, in the name of the interests of the State, Justifies the repudiation of its
Let
Let us confident in our own tenacity and resolute in our determination.. us keep clear before our eyes the necessity that this reign of terror instituted under the pre sent German Government should come to an end in order that we may build a new and better- Europe. We know that in this. great struggle we are fighting for the right and against the wrong.. Let us then go on forward with God's blessing on our armis," and we shall prevail.”