1940-11-16 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 16, 1940

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When in the after years the tale is told Of these strange days while Britain stands at bay,

Holding the pass-as, at Thermopylae, Leonidas-then write the names in gold, Along with Dunkirk, Narvik and the rest Of Bermondsey, Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Wapping and Rotherhithe; who stood the

Bow,

test

Of total war, nor flinched beneath the

blow.

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The people of the little streets stood And Britain stands. Remember this, May- fair,

Whitehall and City, when af last the term - Is set to battle; think then of the share So bravely borne, our freedom to defend, By front line folk of Borough and East September, 1940. ·G. M. CHAPLIN. (Written in a London Fire Station Watchroom

during a raid.)

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PEER WHO IS ENEMY ALIEN

THE KING'S ACTION ordering the removal of German and Italian names from the lists of honor- ary members of British Orders of Chivalry and from the rolls of foreign holders of British decorations and |medals, raises the question of what is to happen to the only British peerage now held by a foreigner.

This is the 280-years-old Scottish Earldom of Newburgh, with which go also the subsidiary titles of Viscount Kynnaird and Lord Levingstone of Fla- craig. These titles are, and have been for more than eighty years, held by Italians.

The present holder is Prince | +0000000000 Gusumani Bandini, who is the ninth Earl-and, since Italy's en- uy into the war, an enemy alien. Deprived Of Titles

During the last war, under the Tiles Deprivation Act (passed in 1917, but not implemented until 1919), four alien enemies were Britash syles deprived of their

and titles-the Duke of Cumber- and and Teviotdale (de jure King of Hanover), his son, the reigning Duke of Brunswick- Luneberg, the Duke of Albany (reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha), and Viscount Taaffe,

The first three were deprived of their style of "Prince of Great Britain and Ireland," and the first and third of their British duke- V16- dems and subsidiary titles.

Austrian, count -Taaffe was an head of an old Irish family which nad received the viscounty in 1828 but had long been domiciled in Austria and had become Counts of the Empire. ..

Under the provisions of the Act of 1017 a committee of the Privy Council reported in March, 1919, that these four, had "adhered to His Majesty's, enemies," and the King issued an Order in Coun- cil: depriving them, of their British. styles and titles.

course

Presumably a similar would be adopted if it were de- cided to talte action in regard to the Earl of Newburgh.

Whether the Act of 1917 re- malne in

force ia doubtful.

There are two references in it

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CHINESE AMAHS NOT TO BE ADMITTED

A

communication

has been received by

the Hong Kong Gov- ernment from Aus- tralia to the effect- that the question... of the

admis- sion into Australia

of Chinese amahs who wish to enter the ser- vices of evacuates from. Hong Kong has. been given very care- ful consideration by

the Minister of the

Interior, but that it

has been decided by

the Australian Gov- ernment that servants of Chinese race can- not be admitted to Australia for this pur- pose.

to "the presant. war," which would seem to limit its opbration ❤00000000000000000

18. But to

MISSING ARE TRACED

With the assistance of the Wounded, Missing and. Relatives Department of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross and St. John Society, the War Office has prepared a lea- flet explaining the steps taken by the War Office to trace wounded and miss- ing men.

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Lists of missing are compiled by the War Office, Admiralty and Air Ministry and sent to the Wounded, Missing and Relatives Department of the Red Cross and St. John in Belgrave Square, S.W.

The names are forwarded to the International

Red Cross Com- mittee at Geneva, which has gc- cess to special information. Belligerents' Agreement

Under the International Con- vention of 1826 every belligerent Power is bound to provide infor- mation about prisoners of war. Germany sends her reports to Geneva, where the Committee can make inquiries for names of miss- ing sent out by Britain.

The Red Cross and St. John also have an organisation of selected searchers, accredited to the mili- tary and civil hospitals throughout this country. Inquiries are made from wounded men belonging to the missing "men's

units. When searchers' reports are cousi- dered reliable the information is sent by the Red Cross and St. John to the Service Departments, which at once inform the next of kin,

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Meanwhile, all information ob- tainable from other sources which might throw any light on the fate of missing: Individuals is being collected by the Casualty Branch of the Service concerned.

Every Effort Made Relatives may therefore be as- sured that, without any application on their part, every endeavour is being made both abroad and at home to trace the missing.

If it is learned that a missing man is a prisoner of war the next of kin receives, with the notifl- ication, a leaflet giving full ins- wructions as to how correspondence with him may be conducted.

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It should be borne in mind, adds the leaflet, that the nouncements of the names prisoners of war by German wireless stations are made so as to induce people in this country- to listen to Nazi views. The lists are Incomplete and often in- accurate.

The B.B.C. sends full transcripts of those lists to all three Services, which then inform the relatives of those who can be identified from the particulars given in the broad- cast.

YESSIRS LED BY

HAW HAWS"

-Strong criticism of Brit- ish military leadership is expressed by Mr. H. G. Wells in an article in the Labour Book Service bul- letin.

"For a year we have suffered

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to events occurring during 1914-own right (whose male issue continual military defcat," Mr. redraft and pass failed with the fifth Earl). He Wells says. "British and French it afresh would be, a simple took no steps to advance his generalship has been ridiculous. ..buelnosa.

claim, but his only daughter, Ce- The Germans have beaten us on Defining An “Enemy" cila, who had married the Marland everywhere.

quis Bandint, established her claim in 1858,

"Field Meesha) Sir Edmund Ironalda (formerly: Chief of the Imperial Staff) is a bespangled triumph of incompetence,. He missed the Bus because he still belleves there must be gentle mën officers' and Illiterate rank- ers too stupid to do more than palute and obey. Our army consists of 'Yessirs" led by Haw Hawa, d

It defines- the expression "enemy" as "referring to the enemies of His Majesty in the Once Island Rulers present war, and, for the purposts The Glustinianis were an un- of this Act, a person shall be clent family who he reigned in deemed to have adhered to His the island of Chios. In the four- Majesty's enemies if since the teenth century On the Scottish. commencement of the present warsid the first Earl was Sir James he has voluntarily resided in an Livingstone, second baronet, who entmy country or if he has served was with Charles II during his in the enemy forces or in any way exile and became captain of tho rendered assistance to the enemy." Royal Bodyguard after the Revolution in our army, so long will

These Scottish peeragos devolved, storation,

tout poor boys be led by men, of

"For so long as we delay a re-

on the death of the fifth Earl in His patent of creation provided the conspicuously low intellectual 1814, on the sixth Prince Gius- for the tities to pass to "heirs fevel of Sir Edmund Ironside and tiniani by virtue of his descent whatsoever," which explains: tilefr General Lord Gort (who com- tortuous descent munded the B.E.F. In France), and In the female line from Charlotte | somewhat

heirs to the so long will we be doomed to be Marin, daughter and heiress of the through female.

licked on land." second Earl, and countess in her present holder.