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ARMISTICE DAY

WORT A C

The Colony will to-morrow take its part in the Empire-wide ob- servance of Armistice Day, of which it is the 20th anniver- sary, with mixed feelings. Never before, in the interval be- tween November 11, 1918, when the world went tempor arily crazed with joy that the Cease Fire order had been given on the Western Front, and the present day, has the outlook for continuation of the peace then thought to have been secured looked blac-

ker.

Never before has there been

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age is not accompanied by an inward determination that nothing must be left undone that might achieve a perman- ent peace, that will bring the futility and folly of war into the white light of truth.

To-morrow should be an peca- sion for heart-searching, with one of the quests whether the attitude of mesmeric helpless- ness in the face of the threat of another Armegeddon is not one of the chief obstacles to the world's will to peace. For that reason alone, it may be hoped that here in Hong Kong there will be a genuine res- ponse to the appeal of the authorities for an effort to make the Two Minutes Silence at the Armistice Day Service more real.

more reason for a bitter con- viction that 1914-18 taught the world nothing.

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It is true that buccaneering in

Steamer, ferry and launch sirens, and, in the distance, the horns of motor vehicles have done much în previous years to disturb the Silence. Most of these distracting noises are avoidable and the request that an effort be made to still them invites earnest co-operation.

The World's Health

as

This year's Assembly of, the Lea- gue, although overshadowed on the political side by the Czechoslovak crisis, at least was able to demonstrate that an instrument for "the promotion of international co- operation" the League has lost none of its vigour. Thanks to Geneva, nearly all

countries are working harm oniously together to tackle such world-wide problems as are presented by the drug traffic and the white slave traffic.

high politics passed a crisis in the closing days of September, but there are few who believe that Munich provided a com- plete answer. We know in our hearts that we are facing a general challenge to democracy and to our own democracy es- pecially. We know that the

movement aggressive:

in

Europe and the Far East is too concerted to be dismissed as of secondary interest. Such thoughts as these are bound to be in the minds of all who

join to-morrow in the cóm-] memorative services for Empire's War Dead. And they should add to the solemnity of

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One of the most remarkable re- ports was that of Dr. Clunies Ross of Austraha on the Acti- vities of the League's Health Organisation.

The Health Organisation is to- day methodically executing a well-considered plan of work, the essential purpose of which is to help national public health administrations in their efforts to protect health and enable them to reach common decisions by suitable technical preparation. So smoothly and efficiently is this job being done that, according to Dr. Ross "there is now a tendency to take for granted" these admirable activities. It should be remembered, he points out, that "nothing of the kind existed before the League of Nations was created."

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For thirteen years the League's

Singapore Bureau has been us ing the most up-to-date methods to prevent the spread of epidemics such as smallpox, cholera and bubonic plague from the danger area of the Far East. Governments never appeal to Geneva în vain when they need direct help in tackling their public health problems. Thus for the past ten years the best technical assistance has been provided for the Chinese Gov- ernment in its efforts to build up modern public health ŝer-

vices.

the occasion. When we do hom-To-day, of necessity, the chief

age to the men who died for Empire, for what they believ- ed the pire to be and to re-

shall be falde

them and to ourselves, if hom-

problem is the stamping out of the serious epidemica result ing from war conditions over so large a part of China's ter ritory. The Lengua Assembly has just voted 480,000, no that the work of mares tinue for another year

on

least.