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The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong. Telephone 20022. London Office:

Some aspects of A.R.P. such as the protection of communications and the use of transport in emer- gency are a military matter out- side the province of the civilian. There is, however, another pro- blem connected with the rival urgencies of active and passive defence which might easily arise. 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. It would not be wise, for instance, Notice To Contributors. to encourage those members of All communications intended for terest in A.R.P. and make them- the community to take a keen in- publication should be addressed to selves, as it were, a vital cog in the Editor, and be accompanied by the machine, who would, im- the Writer's Name and Address,mediately upon the outbreak or the threat of hostilities, be re- not necessarily for insertion but as quired by first claims to man a a guarantee of good faith.

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machine-gun at a beach redoubt. Some form of hand-picking of men for A.R.P. jobs would pear to be necessary. This pro- blem incidentally reveals the im- portant role that women may have to play in the final co-or- dinated scheme, and the result of the first meeting of the Lad- ies' A.R.P. Union last week must

Hong Kong, Thursday, June 9, 1938. be hailed as exceedingly promis-

ing. The ladies of the Colony have, in many respects, accepted

A.R.P. A CIVIC DUTY the urgency of their duties with far more alacrity than their men- folk, partially explained,

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That Air Raids Precautions.re- present a civic duty, to be taken course, by the fact that the time seriously and intelligently stud-at their disposal is, generally, so ied, could not have been brought this particular phase of progress

much greater. Encouraging home more vividly than by the naked terrorism for which Jap-is, however, it would be more so anese airmen have been respon-Perkins able to announce the en- Wing-Commander Steele- sible this last fortnight in Can-rolment of a large number ton. Massacre of women

of and volunteers of a type who would children has been too often re- best serve the community by peated for acceptance of Japanese assuming A.R.P. work in protestations of innocence of in- tention. Military objectives have to clogging the defence machine emergency. That is as opposed been sought out again and again, by apathy or even by an it is true, but all the evidence justifies all the accusations

enthusiastic impulse to bear of

arms when that task is for frightfulness and of pursuance of a savagely deliberate policy of volunteers and the local author- younger men. Ideally, A.R.P. terrorisation. Bombs do not drop ities should be spurring one an- into the region of institutions other into action. Hong Kong is like the Ling Nam University, far from that ideal, though the schools and relief workers cen- recent Canton outrages may tres without the perpetrators of able a certain moral to be drawn such murderous onslaughts be- and impress certain things upon ing fully aware of what they are the hitherto indifferent. doing. Thousands have died in the recent raids. Not one quar- ter of the victims have resided A Hunter of Poets in areas which could be describ-

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ed as military objectives except What do you suppose is the by stretching the imagination or poet population of England, Scot- truth a la Japonaise. Mass mur-land, Ireland, and Wales? Mr. der, the striking of terror among C. D.. Abbott, Librarian of Buffalo the survivors, is too close to this University, United States, 88- Colony for us to be deceived by sures us that there are 400 poets Japanese pretexts or excuses. at the least who have had a book Thousands of refugees are in the of verse published by a reputable Colony with their own stories to firm. Mr. Abbott has been in tell. The raids have been ob-London searching out the poets served and reported on by the on a mission financed by the most competent foreign author- Carnegie Institute. He intends itics as well as by independent to build up in his university lib- witnesses who have just happen-rary a big collection of autograph ed to be there.

MSS, which show how poems

For Hong Kong it is a lesson change and develop from first to be taken to heart. There is draft to fair copy. From his no reason to suppose that any im- headquarters in Ebury Street he mediate danger threatens this has scented out nearly half of Colony. It is an error, in such the 400. Young and old have times as these, however, not to given him MSS., including T. S. be prepared for any eventuality, Eliot, the Poet Laureate, and and it would be as great an error Stephen Spender.

to imagine that should war Mr. Abbott's researches are threaten this Colony the civilian ruled less by aesthetics than population of Hong Kong would science. He does not distinguish be any more immune from ruth- between good poets and bad, less terrorism from the air than between the young nightingale have been our close and stricken of "New Verse" and the stitches neighbours, the Cantonese. of the fragrant minute, and so Steady progress is now being the poetaster will lie down with made with the development of the genius on the shelves of schemes for the passive defence Buffalo. One or two posts have of Hong Kong against air at-been suggested to Mr. Abbott tacks, under the direction of who might have escaped his Wing Commander Steele-Perkins, drag-Sir Robert Vansittart for and there is no reason to believe one, and Dr. Julian Huxley for that if the community accepts another.

its

own responsibilities in the American poets have already matter, that there will be any co-operated very well. The poets undue delay in co-ordination of of New Zealand, Australia, and the various lines of approach to the Empire have still to be tackl- the completest solution possible. ed.