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disarmed and wounded soldiers. And even if Japan is so generous as-to conduct her war according to the rules of humanity; if will not make the war itself any more justifiable or any less criminal.

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We have it on the authority of Kipling and common experience that "the cities are full of pride," and common sense would suggest that the Cinque Ports are pro- bably even prouder.. For once it was the special task of Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney, and Hastings, together with the "an- cient towns" of Winchelsea and Rye and various affiliated “limbs”. or "members" such as Margate, Ramsgate, and Folkestone, to be responsible for Channel defences and the safety of the coasts nearest to France. So far back as the days of William the Con- queror they began to be welded into a special and privileged au- thority for that purpose, and though the function and authori- ty, have now largely vanished. the tradition and some of the picturesque formalities survive. Nor are they to be lightly invad- ed. At a "Court of Brotherhood and Guestling," held at New Romney Gillingham and East- bourne sought to become mem- bers of this ancient and honorific The latest League resolution confederation, but both were re- on China followed lines which fused. They could not have been rebuffed more sternly if they had might easily have been predicted. applied in days when the para- There is a certain encouragement mount Cinque Ports had many to League members to do more full-blown rights, from tol and team to pillory and tumbrel or than they have so far done to assist China, directly or indirect- and mundbryce. Eastbourne and blodwit, fledwit, infangentheof, ly. Condemnation of Japan is Gillingham must not try to reiterated. There is a very clear "muscle in" on what remains of warning to that country that un-our Middle Ages.

Hong Kong, Monday, May 16, 1938.

LEAGUE IR-RESOLUTION

less she desires to antagonise

world opinion even more serious-

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ly than she has already accom- Kings In Exile plished, she would do well to

abandon any idea, if she ever "There is not yet, so far as one entertained it, of trying to shift knows, a Society for the Preven- stubborn defenders in Shantung tion of Cruelty to Equestrian Statues, but this is not for lack with poison gases. There is, of feeling. The Barber Institute, however, no guarantee by the of Fine Arts at Birmingham re- League of assistance to China. cently offered to find a home for Dublin's equestrian statue of Any suggestion of joint action is George I, lying on the tennis clearly ruled out by the resolu- court in the back garden of the tion, and freedom of choice (as Mansion House. In exchange already exercised) is unlikely to Dublin was to receive "a sum of have results any more spectacular other work of art more pleasing money" with which to buy an- than those marked since the re-to Irish taste. Birmingham's solutions of last year.

motives in seeking the exchange are not easy to discover, for it is It remains a protest, however, hard to believe that anyone · and Japan would be wise to give would desire a ́statue of George more serious attention to the I for its own sake. Even in his

native Hanover he was · never.... world's protests. The organisa- considered a handsome monarch. tion of voluntary boycotts in Nor has the statue any known Britain and the United States is aesthetic value, and one cannot a remarkable demonstration of that Birmingham only desires consider the malicious suggestion the strength of popular feeling, the £600 worth of bronze it is and in democratic countries said to contain. A genuine sym- popular feeling cannot be dea-pathy with equestrian statues pised. Nor will the JapaneseThere is, after all, a precedent. seems the only explanation. Navy do anything to appease Some years ago Belfast offered to this outcry if it repeats such take Dublin's statue of William atrocities as the massacres re-

III, which had just been blown off its pedestal. Unfortunatel ported to have occurred in Amoy, the Dublin Corporation was not Civilised peoples distinguish be-

tween combatants and noble to find the head at the time

(it had been sawn off and stolen), combatants but not between mas- after all, the English have only

so the offer had to be refused sacre of civilians and massacre of beheaded one King.

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