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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936.

THE NEW REIGN

Edward The Eighth. The Making Of A King

"IF THE MUI TSAI IN HONG KONG

HITLER ON DIE"

Peace Plea On Third Anniversary

once more

J

"Our enemies must be made to

realise that Germany will never relapse into a state of ignominy. The German nation will always

have to fight for its existence, as is had to fight for 15 in the past."

The Fuehrer, whose voice was powerful and showed no sign of throat strain, spoke for a about 25 minutes. In the course of his speech, which was devoted chiefly of internal affairs, he said:

(By J. L. GARVIN.)

Berlin, Jan. 31. Herr Hitler, addressing 40,000 London, Jan 28,

thunder of the guns amidst all We have moved through one the shapes of death and blood-Nazi Guards and Storm Troopers week of history filled like the an- shed and pain

that could not to-day, the third anniversary of daunt nor abate the utmost of hu- his advent to power, clent chronicles and great drama with the sense of death in He and man endeavour and endurance emphasised Germany's love ufe in death. In a moment, as

he looked upon all the dire woes of peace, but added: the famous reign it seems,

of man that were visible and ponder- George the Flith, so terribly test-

ed on those unseen. Whoever for ed and so well prøved, has passed gets, he never can forget. It was KIUNO HOTEL away. The reign of his young and an experience never kuown in any- YU BOTEX

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under the auspicious name of Ed- heir to the British Crown before; UNEEN HOTEL YOKOHAMAward the Eighth. The Last Post and it left an ineffaceable stamp

HOTEL NEW and the Heralds trumpets sound

on his character and 'on the very GRAND alternately in our minds. Fare- ! inwardness of his mind,

well and aspiration, memory and

IIL-LOOKING AND 'SEEING.”

When hope, mingle as when two themes

he the war was over of an orchestral symphony are in-brought new eyes to all the con- terwoven. We are filed with con-

'ditions of the human lot at home. Lending but not confilcting emo-

He has never lost that vision, tions. We have lost suddenly the

Its unmistakable signs are in his familiar and beloved face of the

countenance under his thoughtful good Sovereign and kindly friend brow. and staunch comrade with whom

He has visited every part of the we came through war and peace nation." None of his subjects has together-whose part in all thas seen more of it in all its aspects. has been seemed inseparable from He has insisted on examining the our own existence. To him and seamy side as well as the smooth. to Queen Mary at the Jubilee. In presence of remediable evils he which was so near and seems so feels acutely the force of his far, we rendered as much joyfulį grandfather's good words: homage and thankful devotion 85 preventable,,,why not prevented?" ever was expressed in unison by He has been down the mines; he the people at home and the peo-has been through the alums; he ples oversea. Every cherished tie has visited the distressed areas; that then bound us to our dead

he has stood within the households" | Sovereign', who is gathered to all of the poorest and everywhere he our monarchs before him, now has left behind him some healing binds us in unfaltering "Adelity, to Influence of sympathy, and some the son.

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1. "UNFALTERING FAITH AND hope and to the work of help.

CONFIDENCE."

"Just as we have always preach- ed peace at home, so we desire to be a peace-loving element among the other peoples. We cannot re- peat that often enough. We seek peace because we love it. We must however, protect our honour be- cause, without it, we do not wish to live.

know this,

"The world must Germany will be as pence-loving as any nation can be so long as her honour is not assalled. Any one, however, who thinks he can

treat us as a slave will find that

he has to deal with the most born people in the world.

The Governor's Committee's Report

leet the strong stand that Churchill took on this matter in March, 1973, - when he stated in the House of Commons-

Mr.

London, Jan. 24.

I desire to make it clear that- both the Governor and I are Sir-May I endorse the sugges- determined to effect the abolition cion made by Lieutenant Com- of the system

earthest. at the mander H. L. Haslewood that the Fracticable date, "and I have in- the Governor's Comdicated to the Clovernor that i report of mittee on the Mul Tsal In Hong expect the change to be carried Kong should

out within a year. be republished. In this country as' a

It is possible also that others of White Paper? Ts is only with considerable dit-your readers will recollect the taken by culty that

copies of this report equally strong stand are obtainable from Hong Kong. Lord Passfeld in his dispatch as t

The term Mui Tsai 'stands for Secretary of State for the Colantes slavery, and this is

Governor of Hong Kuna. abundantly to the

In that proved by the committee's report, dated August 22, 1929, Commander Haslewood drews ac dispatch Lord Passfield stated: tention to the fact that buying. It now appears, however, that... and selling of girls in various after six years from the passing

Ordinance May,, I forms continues."

quote of the from the committee's report pub-can be sald is that there is no lished in Hong Kong on Septem-reason to believe that the number ber 6, 19357:---

of Mui Tsai in the colony_has'

While the

committee are or greased. After making all allow- opinion that the sale of girls, for ance for the difficulties in bring- an undesirable ing the sytem to an end which are described at length in your any purpose, is practice, they doubt whether any attempt to stop the practice could. dispatches, it is my duty to in- for the present. be initiated by form you that public opinion in the Hong Kong Government with this country and in the House of any hope of success. Attempts Commons will not accept such a to stop the practice which are result with equanimity, and I feel doomed to failure are to be demyself quite unable to defend a polley of laissez-faire in this precated.

serious matter,

slavery

the most that

Yet in September, 1935, we find comittee appointed by the

the Governor making

extraor-

There is no doubt that slavery has persisted under the British nag for nearly a hundred years in the Crown colony of Hong Kong. If the above statement from the dinary admission to which I have stub-committee's report means anything referred above. Commander Has- at all it surely Intimates that lewood quite rightly draws at- under the British fing, tention to the great disparity be- cannot be suppressed.

Some of tween the statements made in the your readers will doubtless recol- committee's report and the official replies that the public. have re- ceived from the home Govern- I would knows, that behind him stand 10 ment. For this reason

those in the others. This movement will never respectfully urge

place of authority to have the "To-day we can once more pro- die." claim ourselves as Germans before

To-night the historic torchlight committee's report published as a the world with pride. In the last procession which took place on the White Paper in order that British year of our rule the German peo-evening of Jan. 30, 1933, and was

public opinion on the subject of elavery in Hong Kong can be ple has regained its honour. We watched by Herr Hitler, standing

enlightened. The publication of are no longer defenceless helots, for the first time at the window the facts will, I believe, arouse but free and self-confident citizens of the Reich Chancellery, was re-

public opinion on the subject. It' of the world."

enacted.

is no use teaching children that The Fuehrer declared that the

The banned German Socialist: there is no

slavery under the National-Socialist movement would party, the leaders of which have British flag if the buying and sell- not be shattered by the death of their headquarters in Prague, this ing or children in Hong Kong is any one man. "I was the voice that morning distributed an anti-Nazi allowed to persist-Yours, &c., called you," he said. From this pamphlet entitled "For Germany; one voice alone have sprung up against Hitler.” This was found millions. If one of us to-day by many citizens in their letter- should close his eyes in death he boxes.

NECESSARY CONDITION "We hope that a general unders- tanding of the rights of all peoples may gain ground in the world. This is the necessary condition be- fore a true and deep peace can We lack space to dwell here up-sink upon the nations. The hour at which Edward the on the aid he has given other

by Eighth inherits the greatest of wise his appearances and thrones is so momentous that this speeches to countless gatherings thought must be firmly uttered, for giying some further swing to not as a ceremonious sentiment, i prosperity and welfare, and for but as an actuating and domina- promoting the bettering commer- ting truth in the new order of the cial organisation and the sounder State. There is по discori be- social development of the country. tween our mourning and our high Never was a deepening and quick- and proud allegiance. They areening of humane feeling derived one in the process of a mighty tradition. In that word which was passed ceaselessly during the war by those who fell to those who stood we "Carry On." We carry on with the whole strength of our being; with re-knitted and re- dedicated purpose.

from the ordeals of war applied in 'peace with a more eager and un- resting desire to change many con- ditions in the realm he now rules from what they are to what they ought to be.

IV. CROWN AND EMPIRE. IA another way, no former equipment Ior sovereignty before

of Edward the Eighth His father when he succeeded to the Throne had travelled indeed far more widely than any other ruler or Royal personage ever known up to that time. The son has voyaged and journeyed 'by sea, land, and air more widely and variously still, It has been computed that he has travelled altogether more than 250,000 miles.

In what belongs to the life and death of kings there is no inter-coming to it can compare with that mission of duties. Sometimes the moral initiative in the comman purpose lies with the people. It will be His Majesty's part when these days of heavy strain are over to give fresh impulse to the life of the State. With all his fine sensitiveness and sensibilities of nature, he has in him the steel to stand by his people with courage unflinching and helpfulness un- falling through all the chequered

There is not an ocean that he interchange of shine and shade has not traversed and not a con- that in the new epoch now opening tinent that has not seen-He has must come as in every generation visited every Dominion oversea~ of mortal destinies. But that is Canada, Australia, and New Zea- for later. The duty which is im-land, South Africa, India. In all mediate and over-riding is that the of them he has shaken hands with people shall stand by the King. I men who were his comrades in the and strengthen him by their love War and whose differing charac- and confidence."

He needs it as perhaps he may never need it again. As a son he is bowed with grief and care. As A young monarch, amidst the solemnity and strangeness of these things, and when newly under the sense of the immense responsibility he assumes, he has yet to and himelf. Let him not doubt that amidst the great mourning for George the Fifth, the nation and the Empire look with instant faith, trust and hope to Edward the

tenistics derived from very differ- ent regions of the world he had learned to distinguish and ap preciate. He has seen enough of the Crown Colonies to become familiar with the administration and the contrasts of the directly- ruled parts of the Empire

This uprecedented acquaintance with the whole Britannic system, strectched round the globe is an inestimable asset for the "future. The direct inguence of the Mother of Parliaments over the self- governing nations and com- munities overseas has either whol- ly ceased in recent years or has undergone restrictions either formal or virtual. In a far more. exact and critical sense than at

Eighth II~THE BACKGROUND OF THE WAR-A STAMPING ORDEAL For this is no untried successor, no King on probation. The con- adence extended to him he has won. He ascends the Throne in the flower of his age when he is the time of any former succession, only forty-one; but young as he the Crown is in very truth the is, and looking younger than his Keystone of Empire which alone years, his career since he.arst be- holds that vast and marvellous gan to play a public part has been fabric together. When so much. crowded with credentials. More depends upon the persal touch of so than that of any of his pre- the Bovereign it is not possible to decessors in modern centuries at over-estimate the potentially for good that resides in the unrivalled the same point of life.

personal knowledge, sympathetic Insight; and winning manners of a young King who, from the evidence. of his own eyes, is able to hold the whole vision of Empire in his. mind.

We need not recount the details which were recalled in every news paper last week, but let us try to sum dp their concentrated signi- Acance. His service amidst the long trials and terrors of the Great War began when he was little more V. KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER than a gallant boy and made him

NATIONS--THE REAL a man. A fearless, active man; QUESTIONS OF WORLD-PEACE. and an earnest. man for all his · Nor is this all True knowledge quick sympathies, high spirit, and of the British Empire, which con- the sunny affectionate disposition|tains a quarter of the earth's ter- which was his by nature, The ritories, and populations and has more because of these latter traite links, "under the Crown, in every -which he keeps and with which ocean and in every sea that is he charins the from entered his soul during the War. Amidst the (Continued from page 3)

*A. Lancaster Smith. Editor the "Save Market News." Arcot Orchards. Sidmouth,

January 22.

LIPTON'S TEA HINTS

There is nothing easier than to make tea well-except to make

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BUYING TEA. Tea is the cheapest and most economical drink in the world. From one pound of good tea you can brew as many as 200 cups. And it pays in the long run to buy good.tea because it is more economical to use, and the difference between the cost of one cup of poor tea But there is all the and one cup of good ten is so infinitesimally small as not to matter. difference in the flavour and it is the flavour that is really the luxury that everyone can now afford.

STORE TEA IN AN AIR-TIGHT CONTAINER. Tea loses its flavour if it is exposed It ought to be kept in a caddy, or in a to the air for long, especially in a moist climate. glass jar with a scraw top, or in clean tin.

Nothing compares with an ordinary brown This should be carefully cleaned, not just rinsed, When cleaning don't forget the spout; a small

USE THE RIGHT KIND OF TEA-POT earthenware tea-pot for making good tea. to remove all stains and dried after use. brush will come in handy for this.

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MEASURE THE QUANTITY OF TEA CAREFULLY. "Ons teaspoon- ful per person and one for the pot" is a"," sound old-fashioned rule that has never been bester. But if good tea is used there is no need to allow one for the pot," unless very strong tea is wanted, for good tex is more economical than cheap tea,

USE ONLY FRESHLY BOILED WATER. Take care to warm the pot. thoroughly before putting in the tea Then pour on freshly boiled water-not water that has been allowed to simmer. Better tea will be made if the kettle is kept free from the lime or chalk deposits of bard water.

ALLOW FOUR MINUTES FOR INFUSION. Pour freshly boiled water- on to the leaves until the ten-pot is full,

· but don't pour out the tea into cups until you have allowed it to stand for at least four minutes. The lid, of course, should be put back as soon as the water is poured into the pot, and then the whole should be covered with a cosy. Don't forget that' tea should never be allowed, to' "stew,” If it is allowed to stand too long tea loses all ita virtus and its flavour.