THE CHINA MAIL JANUARY 15, 1940
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BRITISH STAND ON SAFETY ZONE
London, To-day,
The British Government's reply to the suggestion by the Pan- American Conference that a 300- mile "safety zone" be drawn around the Americas has been sent to the Government of Pa-
nama.
it is understood that the text of the reply will be published to- day-Reuter.
WHAT OF THAT "WAR GENERATION" NOW?
effects
(Continued from Page 10) have shown any deleterious 10 years later,
NEVER-FORGOTTEN FEARS
There is, though, another way in which air raids appear to have af- fected an occasional child in the last war. In relatively rare cases, child- ren who were at the impressionable age of five or less were so terrified by their experience in air raids that the mental effect could be traced 25 years afterwards.
I am indebted to Dr. R. G. Gordon for details of such an instance. A case of this kind is fully convincing only when all the details are given at length, and that is impossible here. Nevertheless, the main facts may be stated.
A married woman of 30 and with two children suffers from intense an- xlety if she goes out alone, She has an obsession, which she knows to be irrational, that something dreadful is going to happen-probably that she will die. Formerly, it was a fear of going insane. Her husband and her sister are the best "protection" against this irrational fear. She also suffers from failure of memory, in- ability to concentrate and dull head-. aches.
The background of this pathologi- cal anxiety finally proved to be a vivid memory of an air raid in which she and her sister were told to stay under a table while the parents went to the door to see what was happen- ing. She, unlike her sister, and per--- haps because she was more intelli- gent, was terrified. The impression on her mind was so deep that it seemed to her afterwards that this raid happened over and over again. Although she is physically healthy, this anxiety state or psychosis ap- pears to have developed from an ex- perience of great fear while still child.
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DANGER STIMULATED THEM
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Such cases are no doubt rare. They serve to emphasise the fact that the great bulk of children who experien- ced air raids in the last war were unaffected by them. The minds of some boys may even have been stimulated by the sense of danger, so long as it was not too closely impend- ing against their own immediate wel- fare.
It is now clear that there is nothing tremulous or hesitant in the gallant generation of young men whose na- tural element is now the air, but who were boys during the last war. Their nervous systems are at least as in- stant in action as those of their an- cestors. They have shown a quality of daring, courage and * Initiative equal to anything in Elizabethean times.
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ANOTHER MURDER
IN
SHANGHAI
Mr. merchant in killed
To-day.
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RETIRING C.G.
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Shanghai, To-day.
A large crowd of British and for- | eign' military officials yesterday bade farewell to Sir Herbert Phillips, O,B,E., F.R.G.S. retiring British Con- sul-General, who boarded the liner President Coolidge which is leaving early this morning.
Sir Herbert has been in China for 42 years. He was Student Inter- preter in 1898 and from 1930 to 1937 was British Consul-General at Canton.
Sir Herbert is 62 years old. Havas,
TSINGTAO CONFERENCE
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Shanghai, To-day.
Wang Ching-wei is going to Tsing- tao, probably this morning, to attend a crucial conference with leaders of the Pelping "Provisional” Govern- ment and the Nanking "Reformed" Government due to be the end of January.
held before
The chief aim of the conference is to make preparations for the estab- lishment of the new Central Political Council as the
the first stage for formation
the and organisation of new Central Government which Wang Ching-wel hopes to inaugurate on or after the Chinese New Year.-lavas.
CAR EXPORTS
London, To-day. While the German radio on Sunday announced the abandonment of Ger- many's export motor car trade, as a result of the Allied blockade, the ex- port of British cars to Australia, India, Burma, Portugal and Uruguay for the first three months of the war reached record figures. 1
The Society of Car Manufacturers states that there were also increases in the number of
the cars shipping to West Indies, Siam, Elre, Malaya, Can- ada, and South Africa.—Reuter.
TRAFFIC OFFENCE
Mrs. J. P. Whitham, of No. 6, Shek-O, was summoned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., at the Central Magistracy this morning for leaving her car in Queen's Road Central near the King's Theatre on December 27, and failing to produce her licence.
Mr. Whitham pleaded guilty on be- half of his wife, and was fined $5 on each summons.
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