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THE CASE OF COMMANDER HASLEWOOD.

LETTER BY MR. HAROLD BEGRIE,

COMMENTS BY *** TRUTH"

**Scrutator" in Truth writer fellows:

Mr. Harold Begbie has asked me to publish the following letter, which h addressed, to the Tares about a fortnight. ago, but which the editor was unable to avail himsviť of" I am very ploused to comply with the request because the mintter with which the letter deals is ef great interest, to the public and of special concern to officers in His Majesty'y Ser- believe that the same fate befell atter written to the ex on the sume subject by an eminent dignitary of the Church is not

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way in which another exercises his discretion in a matter of this kind, but all recent renders of the Tince will agree that, whatever the reason for the rejec tion of these letters may have been, it was not shortage of space.

Sir-Behind the admirable action of Mr. Winston Churchill in making an end Mr. of child" sinvery in Hongkong is an incident worthy of the public attention,

The wife of Lieutenant-Commander H. L. Hasten god became aware of this slavery, and its immoral consequers, in Novender 201 Her husband had

Just

arrived in Hongkong to take up the appointment. f Superintendent in the Department, Mpa Hastwood's

endeavours lay in app to British authority. Only when nothing come of those efforts did she appeal to British public opinion in Hongkong by aledressing a well-ponsored and perately expressed letter pnewspaperą.

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· For this motion her husband to suffer. He was told by the Comman der-in-Chief that he must wither prevent his wife from writing letters to the press or resign his appointment. The young officer refused to interfere with his wife liberty, and was driven to resign.

He Beds fault with his superior and renmins a faithful Believe?

in the discipline of the Royal Navy. But he feels it a hardship that he should enlled upon to suffer not in the ins rest of the Royal Navy, but to satisfy the feelings of the Chevertor of Hong kong, xl, since that day, has

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Con.

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That Governor, who lifted no finger to abolish the wandal of child slavery under the Brit-h fig. rmning in office? after having driven into pryate life: a brillant and devated nasal officer, whose chivalry to his wife has helped to rid us all of a shaur as hourst person could bear to think alot.

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With the Fats before thení, will not Parliamen, and the public agree that the British

Government Owes a public Iapology to Lirut, fummander Hadwood? But for him and his wife, slavery of little children would stil: be tolerated himself of taking dinesteps in the under the British Bag.

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This is a matter of high importance. the Commander-in-Chief was to deal with As things now standi

has the husband b cause the Governor did not Local Governor power to interfere with the moral liberty want to deal with the wife. I wonder that of a wine whose bushand is serving the the Admiral did not tell the Governor to conatry in the ex entire fores. and. do his own dirty work. On the official cou- apparently, a fiber who is forced to

the Minister at home what hef sheild have been the free to undertake on his own-initiative, san remain in office without a reprimand, whit a humble individust wha brought reform to pass er be deprived of bi, in, and is miss at like a dishonest servant.

Nos on these foundations did our

Believe me to l

Yours faithfully,.

HAROLD BEGRIE"

fession, the whole affair is in nonument of official misloing. The Governor had no business to invoke the aid of the naval power. The Commander-in-Chief hnd no business to oblige him. The Admiralty ought to have recognised this. By not duing to they have

created the preposter. ous situation that one department in Whighall

deal

fastshers build up the structure of theĺkon "Pports the Governor of Hon

against the husband; while another, British Empire which we inherit and in a few doors off, backs the wife against habit, sometimes thinking when wide- the Governor. We have heard s

s good cerute the walls or change the hangings

deal lately of lack of orditation among that we ourselves in the builders.

the different departments of Government, MF. but nothing quite equal to this. Churchill and Lord Les had better get ses if they cannot harmonise together and their respective relations with Lieut- In view of what has been said in Truth Commander and Mrs. Hastwood. Per- da previous occasions it is scarcely nece haps the Lord Chancellor, Leing inter- sary to add that 'quite agree with Mr.sted in the question of a husband's Begbie both about Mei Tai and about control over his wife's actions, might act

triment of Lieut. Commander as an intermediary or referee. Hasirwood. Se will most people. Methat, it is obviously a Cabinet matter. Churl rightly interpreted British feel I understand that Lieut, Commander ing when he put a stop, regardless of the Haslewood is averse to anything in the consvetences, to the toleration

by

nature of publie agitation on his behalf. Brith colonial government cf practices Mr. Brghi arema to indicate this in his utterly repugnant, to British ideas-pot letter. This attitude is entitled to res to say the common principle of humanity.pect, up to a point. But in many enses After he has taken that course, it is where adividuals

that a servant, of the Crown

suffer from abuser of official authority, there is more at stakn should be

punished in way simply than the mere interest of the individua), hesuse he refusal to stop his wife from and the matter cannot be

Eren had merely his private affair. Barded as bringing the evil to light. Mrs. Haslewood done something which ful

„wrong-

13 ສ of official authority is a precedent, the Hope Government disapproved of precedent is certain to he fellowed, the the punishment of stopning her war husband for not next time that course is convenient to be questionable step cficialdom. Conversely. if the wrong 18 in these days. The decline that wife suitably acknowledged and redressed, to when she comes into conflict with the de a similar thing again. becomes dan- law must be presumed to act under the gerous; a useful

precedent is coercion of her husband has lately OD for a dangerous one.

in this the attention of the law courts, and gaged

case the wrong is taken under the sphere of mere Service interest by the The fact that it was committed in support his wife's of an evil which discredited 15 a

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way to be dissipated. In this the rd and corrected by the Govern

the

is a pretty outlook for officers Finally, officialdom is itself discredited

and the Navy if the highest

things it is a

sanctions

#lf-contradiction cf its own atti-,

of the Army of Service discipline are to tude so long as Lieut.Commander Hasle

superiors.

For

be wielded against them because they do all these reasons the injury which had

remains under punishment. nct keep their wives in order to the satis faction of

been "dors to this cfficer ought to be their

If Lord acknowledged and, redressed. But the Admiralty statement of the rase Lee of Fareham would give the matter al now quoted by Mr. Begbie carries it few minutes consideration, as a citizen further than this Naval discipline was and a reasonable man rather than as only invoked in this case for the conveni First Lord of the Admiralty. I have no ence of the Governor of Hongkong. That doubt he would come to the same con- functionary, it seems, applied to the clusion; but a little simulus applied in Commander-in-Chief in order to relieve Parliament might help to put him in the

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