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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1938,

WHAT'S BEHIND AMOY ATTACK?

land, A year ago to-day; In Westminster Abbey, he was crowned King Emperor with all the pomp, majesty and solemn dignity befitting his high calling. To-day the whole world, and in particular Bri- tain and the British Empire, will honour the completion of the first year of his reign. In Hongkong, a royal salute will be fired from His Majesty's ships,

Stern Path Of Kingly Duty

The central figure at the Corona- tion, George VI, King of Great Bri- tain, Ireland and the Dominions be- yond the seas, Emperior of India, u year ago, was a inan well qualified by birth, temperament, and upbring- In for the great part in world affairs he had been called upon to play.

Born 43 years ago in a quiet Eng- lish house by the sea, at Sandring- ham the unofficial country home of British King and Queens, his sur- roundings froin the first have been those of happy domesticily.

The King broadcast to the Empire from Buckingham Palace after his Coronation.

microphones were used as a precaution against á break-down.

Idealism

Two

devotion to duty and in kindliness of all classes together in healthful had arrived at its office. He went outdoor surroundings. He was as there immediately, shook hands with His father, the late George V, was and good sense.

siduous in visiting factories, work- the men, und had a leisured and one of the most popular monarchs the United Kingdom had had since

shops and mines, so as to study at sympathetic talk with them. first hand housing and other social Ou nuother occasion, when a meet- the days of Alfred the Great, 1,000 Long before there was any imme- questions.

ing of the Amalgamated Engineers' yours ago. The King's mother, diate prospect of his ascending the

was in progress, the King Queen Mary, is a woman of high Throne, the man who is now King

"The only real-pence in industry," Union

turned up as a visitor and discussed character and combines regal dignity

individuality

who told a youth's welfare conference at the King said on one of these visits, turn judgment with homely, household strive for.

and good Croydon what, in his view, all should "Is that which is cultivated in the the situation frankly with the men. factory itself." He has endeavoured. He also recognised some of those virtues of every kind. One of four

such relations every present whom he had met on pre- to promote brothers, George VI was the son who

vious occasions in the factories where they worked, and be asked them about particular jobs he remembered as having been seen them engaged upon.

The attack upon Amoy by the

"Service" he said, "must be our where, Japanese navy, allegedly under-most nearly resembled his father in watchword." "A leader, he also sald

taken to eliminate a dangerous centre of anti-Japanese activity and at the same time to protect 30,000 Formosans resident there, has rather greater significance. than the invaders admit. The very fael that they bother making excuses for their action at all indicates that they are aware of the construction which inevitably must be placed upon this new phase of operations in China.

The truth is that Japan musti continue to extend the sphere of hostilities until she has closed

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can obtain war materials from the outside world if she is even to hope for quick victory. Japan realises that the longer the strangulation of China's com merce is delayed, the longer the war will last. Whether or not *** Japan is capable of entirely cut-' ting her enemy's lines of com- munication is not the question. She must try. And the adven- ture will cost her many millions of yen and many hundreds of lives, for the Amoy affair can- not be settled with the capture

Music hath

hath charms

Sunday Classical Concert

at Repulse Bay Hotel

Under leadership of

Geo, Pio-Ulski

Programme for Sunday, May 15, 1938.

1 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME

1. Turandot. Ouverture

2. Secno de Ballet

3.

Un premier bouquet. Waltz

Weber, Luigini. Waldiculel.

4.

Carmen. Selection

Bizet.

5. Danco Slav ...

.Dvorak. .Herbert.

Lake.

2

6. The Willow Plale

7. Allegro Vivaco

To King George the Sixth

Here is the penise of kings: the trumpets' blare, The coloured hunner of royalty, the glore

Of lights, shouts of the multitude,

The shock of cannon, cheers that will not down- These are the trappings of the royal crown, And what kings hear in throned solitude.

There is another sound and, like the scos That lap your realm, it shall call to you. This constant sound by day shall never cease, Nor In the silent night shall I depart. Not from this murmur shall you seek release: It is the beating of an empire's heart. This is the metronome that measures all Your doings: this the call

That you will answer till your reign be done. The ting and people are forever one.

To know no good except his people's good; However tired, however much oppressed, To know no rest until his people rest; Despite soft self-indulgence whispering. This is the heavy duty of a king.

Joy there w!!] be-one who will share with you The high, remote, and solitary throne, And who with you will own

The proud allegiance of half a world. Beautiful, strong and tender, patient, true, She will not fall you through the falling years, Giving her people at their need, her smiles, her tears.

Love you will have, but in return they'll ask Her heart and yours. This shall be your high task, To learn endurance, cat the sacred fore Of self-forgetfulness you both shall share; Show the for peoples who your subjects are, That the bright symbols which your fingers hold- The royal sceptre-can Indeed be gold."

For this so great a people 'neath your sway, An understanding heart-O God, we pray!-- Be yours. O King, be yours, O Queen, to-day!

Does not set to

A. Jacqueline Shaw.

Not a Theorist

An Experimenter

In company with his wife, the King has travelled widely, making extensive tours in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Europe.

Trying out apparatus and arrange- No one regretted more deeply than ments is one of his hobbies, and he George VI the difference of opinion often surprises those he talks to by between King Edward VIII and the the amount he knows about their Cabinet which led to his own cle- affairs. vation to the Turone.

As president of the National Play-

"I have succeeded to the Throne," ing Fields Association over sineo its he sald in his first message to Par- Inauguration In 1925, he has inkert linment. "in circumstances which are an active part in supporting its work. without precedent and at a moment of providing the rising generation of great personal distress, but I am with places of healthful atilvity and resolved to do my duty, and I am amusement. He was, for

example, sustained by the knowledge that I instrumental in 1927 in arranging of am supported by the widespread for King George V to donate two good will and sympathy of all my the royal paddocks in Bushy Park to subjects here and throughout the the association. for the beneßt of world.

the children in the Kingston-on- Thames area,

"It will be constant endeavour, and God's help, aided as I shall be His ready kindliness was shown by

he gave to by my

the the quick assurance dear wife, to uphold honour of the realm and promote the mill-girl who had been nonplussed happiness of my peoples."

by a somewhat tactless question from These simple words reflect the di- one of his entourage as to what hap- went rectness of the character of the man pented when things in the works who spoke them.

Wrong,

The girl did not know what The King is no mere theorist. He to reply but the King at once come tries to put his progranume into prac to her rescue. "They never," he in- tice. Visiting a glue factory in the forposed heartily, "do go wrong."

"Upon the youth of the nation," he north of England, on one of his re-

said, In

some

of the new cent tours, he was advised by the

playing fields, "depends the future management not to go into ono sec- tion because It smelt so unpleasant- of the country, and the building up of a generation, healthy in body and "Why, people work there, don't intion is directing its efforts. It is Is the goal to which the asso-

ly.

they?" he asked, and when told that r

opening

this was the case, he said he must endeng also to provide suitable for those who would of all places see it. "What is good otherwise have no place for recrea- enough for them," he explained lion other than the streets." modestly, "is good enough also for

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George VI la a democrat who is himself one of the ordinary people. As president of the "Industrial He Is hend of the state, but he has Welfare Society," on organization shown himself a man of deep hu- for social service with headquarters man sympathics. It has begun to be”.

Buckingham Palace, he has recognized in many millions of homes long maintained close contact with that he will so conscientiously carry working folk of all classes,

out his heavy duties that the head- "must possess three qualities-per-,,

One day word came to him that a ship of the worldwide British Com- sonality, sympathy, and above all idealism." Personality he regarded party of coal miners from one of the monwealth of Nations is safe in his as something to be taken as a matter most depressed areas in South Wales hands. of course.

Of sympathy he said, "its keynote

from

Was

of the port. As at Shanghai, Japanese navy to be a factor in the Chinese are in a position to this war must attack such carry on the fight from a vast points as it can reach. That hinterland. And then there is powerful weapon Japan cannot is personal contact and understand GRIN AND BEAR IT Canton. Amoy was never the afford to keep in idleness at this ing. If you want to lead, you must

be able to

to understand and share the} great arms receiving port Japan critical juncture of hosilities. joys and troubles of those whom you would pretend; and its closing And right here is the answer to are trying to help. You must look ht things their point of view will not materially effect the the puzzle of the Amoy attack. as well as from your own." flow of arms into China. If the Japan is flinging all her power} His definition of idealism Amoy invasion is to be anything against the opponent whose equally clearcut. "Nobody." he said. "can lead unless he has the gift of but a costly display calculated stubborn strength, she very wisdom and desire to leave things to panic South China into sur-seriously underestimated when better than he found them. He will

strive

for something which may ap- render, and more than likely an the first shots were fired outside pent unattainable, but which he be abortive attempt at that, it will the ancient capital, Peiping. Leves can one day be reached, if not have to be realised in Japan that Even if the attack on Amoy ac- by himself, by his successors.""

Camp for Boys it is only a first step in a cam-complishes very little, relative-)

modest Nothing could be mora paign which will be every bitly, it will necessitate the con- than this programme. Nevertheless, into as arduous and costly as that centration of troops in Fukien its conscientious translation

everyday action which the story of öriginating in Shanghai.

and other southern provinces, the King, his wife and two young But all this has not answered which might very well have been daughters discloses, is one of the ren- used in the northern fighting. sons that people gathered in London from all parts of the world because the "why" of the invasion. It

this particular King was being crown- is certain the elimination of

Unfortunately. for Japan, ed. anti-Japanese and the protection however, the Chinese show no The Throne, no doubt, is greater of Formosans are not the only intention of surrendering Amoy apart from the personality of the then anyone who occupies it. Quite reasons for the attack. More without a struggle. It may be King and his family, it represents probably the Japanese aro, con- that China will out-manoeuvre unity among English-speaking peo ples, however far apart from one an cerned with the long-drawn the invader, and by making a other geographically they may live. hostilities in Shantung, Shansi, major issue of the Amoy in But while the Throne in any case Anhweland elsewhere. The cident force Japan either to re-preservation,

might unite them for reasons of self- it 18 undoubledly Amoy blow is intended to dis-tire with a black eye or make strengthened when the symbol of tract China from the more im-up her mind to pour troops and mutual comradeship is someone they

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