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WHAT OFFICIAL

THERE was a row in Parlia

ment recently-and the term "Official Secrets" played a pretty big part in it.

What exactly is an official secret? Nobody knows precisely-the term can mean practically anything--but ut the Stationery Office you can buy for twopence a copy of the Official Secrets Act, 1911; it s nine pages long.

For another twopence you can buy "An Act to Atend the Oficial Secrets Act, · 1911." This is the Omelal Secrets Act, 1920, and is twelve pages long.

This is the sort of thing you'll read:-

"If any person for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interesla of the State makes my sketch, plan, model or note, which is calculated to be or might be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy: he shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to penal servitude for any term not less than three years, and not exceeding aven

"If any person knowingly heat

any person whom he has reasonable grounds for supposing to be a person who is about to commit or who bas committed an offence under this Act (ie, a spy) and wilfully refuses to disclose to a superintendent of the police any information which it is in his power to give, he should be liable to imprisonment, with or without bard labour, for a term not exceed-

THE

HONGKONG -TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

IS AN

SECRET?

ing one year, or to a fine or to both imprisonment and a fine."

There are all kinds of other re- strictions. You are forbidden, for example, to dress yourself up as a sailor, soldier, airman or policeman. If you wear any uniform so nearly resembling the same as to be cal culated to deceive, or if you falsely

Lepresent yourself to be a person who is,

is, or has

has been, entitled to any such uniform, you are guilty of un offence

under

Act. Similarly the with documents:—

" any person retains for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State any official document when he has no right to retain it...

he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,

"If he has either within or with- nut the United Kingdom visited the address of any foreign agent, or con- sorted or associated with a foreign agent, he shall be deemed to have been in communication with a for-

agent.

If any person knowingly misleads or otherwise Interferes with or in- pedes the chief officer or superin lendent or other officers of the police. tr]' any member of his Majesty's forces, engaged on guard, sentry or patrol or other similar duty in rela- tion to a prohibited place, he shal be guilty of a misdemeanour.

"A Secretary of State may require any person who owns or controls any telegraphic cable or wire or any apparatus for wireless telegraphy

i

used for the sending or receipt of telegrams to or from any place out of the United Kingdom, to produce the originals and transcripts of any telegram t or received, to or from any place out of the United Kingdom. Any

Bercon who refuses shall be guilty of an offence under the Official Secrets Act."

Crities of this Act say that its most objectionable feature is thut it makes it possible for any one to be taken or to the police station and cross- questioned on the authority of my policeman above the rank of Inspec-

tor.

Here is the actual wording of the Act on this point:--

"It shall be the duty of every person to give on demand to a chief officer of

or to a superin- police tendent or other officer of police not below the rank of Inspector appoint- ed by a chief officer for the purpose or to any member of his Majesty's Forces engaged on guard, sentry, patrol or other similar duty any in formation in his power relating to an uffence or suspected offence under this Act and it so required and upon Jender

expenses to attend at such

ble the aud place as may be specified, for the urpose of furnishing such informa- tion, and if any person fails to give ay such information or to attend as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of a mis- demeanour, and liable to inprison- ment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding two years.

of

reasonable

CONSCRIPTION:

AN we escape Conscrip-

CAN

tion here in Britain?

Almost the whole of Europe, and indeed the main part of the world, is now either enlisted for battle or enrolled for making weapons and war material.

The great Totalltarlan Powers, Germany, Italy, Russia, long ago put their populations under near-martial law.

Spain (both sites) hauls her man- hood to the colours, drenched in the blood of brothers, Her grandee landlords and anarchist trade unions, both, must conform to army dictator- ship in the respective territories of Insurgent Fascist and Radical Re- public.

Democratic France (which is the mother of the whole business of forced military service) summons her sons under arms for two years at ha'penny a day. Also France

has another law, which will be en- forced the hour that war breaks out. It places all women cilizens at the disposal of the State, along with all

men.

The Scandinavian countries, Bel- Klum and even little Switzerland insist on universal milliary training.

As for the Balkans and the Border States of the Baltic, they have been armed camps for the past quarter of

No

dare

୧୧

politician

Yes"

by

say

FRANK OWEN

And those who do not Are immediately shot.

a century. Getting over one war Even strangers

and getting ready

their whole life.

China's Millions

for the next is

JAPAN, coming to the end

of one year's hard fighting.

little.

must

Arms-But Where Are The Mon?

"Hittle!"

#

AUGUST 15, 1938.

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FAMILY

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GOOD deal has recently peared in the Press on the subject of the family doctor, and the general effect of It is to suggest thni he has hind his day. Some of the writers are kind enough to regret this, but others suggest that he will | depart, taking bis little black bag with him, "unwept, unhonoured, and unsung." What are we to think about all this?

Well, in the first place, I fancy some of the writers are confusing two different things. They are mix- ing up the family doctor with the general practitioner, affectionately or contemptuously known as the G.P.

present two

different pro-

These blems.

The disappearance of the first is o consequence of social conditions. In a village community the local doc- tor knows the people. He resisted at their entry into the world, tends them in all their all their parents

and knew them. That

Dents,

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ife knows that

that one family tends to "run temperatures" casily, that another Is likely to get chiest trouble, and so on. He possesses a vajunulo fund of knowledge that you cannot learn from books or tench in schools,

and

But young people grow up and go up to the large towns. They move about from place to place, and when they fall if they call in a doctor who never

saw them before knows nothing of their families. He is at a great disadvantage. Het is llable to make too much or too little of their ailments. This cannot be helped. With the best will in the world, I do not see how we can pre- serve the family doctor, with his great advantages, for our city popu- lations.

Sent, to the Specialist

There remains the question of the General practitioner. The case against him is easily formulated. Medical science is advancing at a tremendous pace. New branches of knowledge have to be required which were not thought of a few years ago. No human brain, It is said, can hope to master it all, and so we get specialisation. The busy doctor is more and more tempted tion by 431 votes to 39. He fell, and patient department of the hospital

to send his patient off to the out he stayed down

for six years. A where the appropriate specialist can politician earns much wisdom from see him, and where-which is enorm- the four of the ring.

ously Important they have all the But though few MPS in will resist

future material for making

exact tests. conscription in time of One of the most remarkable fea- war, I cannot hear of one who will

tures of medical development in our stake his fate supporting it in peace. day is the growth of precise methods. The reason is that the constituencies We can all take temperatures and are against it at the present time. blood-pressures, but there ore all But give the M.P.s a tle pressure be made in a laboratory.

kinds of blood tests which have to

from the country, and you will quickly And some conscription party leaders coming forth.

I hope they come soon. For since conscription must come if war comes, where is the sense in waiting for it? You do nich wait

There is no doubt that all this re- presents a a great gain. We can now be sure where formerly we had to speculate. It Is not surprising, therefore, that the general

Practi for lifebont drill Reis more and more into the

tioner until the ship is going down by the tents sending his well-to-do pil- head-unless of course you live on

to specialists and his poorer the principle of our great Minister of

lo the ones he is acting conscientious- hospital. Generally Agriculture. It-Might-Never-Happer. Morrison.

ly,

of

and doing

the best he can for his patients when he does this. He is recognising that modern medicino has become too complicated to be a one-man Job.

So I plump for conscription now. hold it to be proper for every t man a bear arms in defence of his country. Surely it is just and equit-Serious Drawbacks able that we all go into the mud of

Jose

same mistake again. He Slovakia.

we

Do

of

bear him. The House of Commons war together. In that belief 1 stand stand

That is one side of the picture. heard him only with impatience. in the

of the dictators. There is another. There are draw. Messrs.

Stalin, Hitler, Mus- backs to all this. When Simon

olini, Ataturk, besides the democrats The human body is not a mechan!- Went Out

who made the last

peace, Messrs. cal collection Lloyd George, Clemenceau, President organic unity, and it does not help spare parts, but an IR JOHN won't make the Wilson and Dr.

Benes of Czecho- you very much to consider. It apart

from the mind. When

you have HE arms are piling up all will not tell us, as he told the House THE

Since do not Immediately re-

tested the heart

with an electro- and facing perhaps ten years more

over the world. Perhaps of Commons on resigning the Home quire a mass of of it, has now decreed ot ualy we in Britain are at last moving as Secretaryship on January 5, 1918, propose that we begin by calling to der a microscope and with chemical

men, however,

cardiograph, examined the blood un- inilitary but Industrial conscription.

erini fast as anybody else on that job. that we shall be

But having got the arms what shall militarism the compliment of imitat for one year's service, and continue Recently the Tokyo Cabinet issued

paying Prussian the colours now all boys of eighteen reagents, estimated kidney function and so on, it remains ieue that you a. War Order commandeering all we do without the men? True, we ing the most hateful of its institu- the practice thereafter year by year.

have a human being to deal with, material resources, Japanese overseas don't want a great army. Our Navy tions." Nor do I expect to hear No.

Register the rest of us for

and a good doctor can tell you some- investments, and foreign exchange, oes not require great reinforcement. 2 in our great National Government if required. Enroll the women, too. duty

thing about him which cludes all the The shift system in the factories is But we urgently require a vaster Air expounding the belief, as he did on And let us

have a careful record

precise scientific tests. speeded up and made more rigorous, Force. How vast is at the moment opposing the Military Service Bill, made of wealth to call

I have spoken about "n good doe- upon. that by putting all citizens into war that now Mr. Chancellor of the Ex-thing which worries me about the standard of living is not in our own control.

that brings me to some- and harness to resist foreign diétnitors "we chequer, In China, Marshal Chlang Kal the size of our Air Force.

It is Soviet Russia that determines shall be losing one of the great na-

whole business. As we develop ur- shek replies by applying War Power bulld warplanes in relation to Ger- war to defend."

For we tional possessions that we entered on clients are in ducking taxes in the You know how agile some of your

tifcial aids

We tend to lose our to all the vast areas where his own many. And Germany builds to be

natural faculties. I have mel old fame or hatred of the Japanese has on the safe side against Russia.

leisurely day of peace. You'll have countrymen who could tell you the The House of those days gave the something else to created the new National Authority.

k.o. to Simon's plea against conscrip- those gentry in the night of trouble.

time watch

by looking at the Between

The sky. the hammer of The

Unless. we can bring Stalin and

with his watch cannot do Japanese and the anvil of Chiang Hitler into a bargain to limit was-

that. I

am sometimes afraid that Kal-shek a population of 400,000,000 plane output, then Britain must con-

with

our scientific methods,

our la being regimented.

tinue to increase her air strength.

blood counts, and all the rest of it, we may produce a new race of doe tors who lack the instinctive skill, the flair, that their fathers had.

And precise methods sometimes let you down. It is all very well in $10,000,000.

8,500,000.00 dicitis or something else. to "pass a hospital. when you suspect appen-

$2,776,728.7

The national lowered by decree.

Britain, the Duminions, and the The prospects of such a pact are not The P. & O. Banking

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has not arrived.

Ono Raco, One Reich,

One Goose Step

Goering's

Noville's Pledges

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injury.

conscription must follow here as night By this law Hitler Hfts himself to comes after day. the despotic absolutism of a Genghiz Khan. Here Is about the anal laugh Poor Mr. Attice, leader of the from Berlin on the subject. The Socialist Party, will have to oppose But in that event he'll have no author (resident there) prefers not

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1 The athlete wito is past this

gets slower (11).

Fruity exhortation to exist (5).

10 What schoolboys do to clothes is an expense to house-owners

(three words-4, 3, 4). Unobstructed (5).

11

12 To pass the night In this is

refreshing (5).

15 It plays its part in daily part-

ings (5).

17 It is nothing in part of the

forces (3)

18 During this you would be out

of

of your element (4). 19. There's kind of butter in this

performance (5).

21 Stalin will like to know that this revolution is an established fact (5)

the buck" to the pathologist and ask 22 A great admiral becomes cheer- him to do a white blood count. If you are, called to

less (5),

labourer's cottage 23 Let's make a stand by behead-

and have to make a sudden, deel- sion many miles from a hospital or a laboratory, it's no good thinking of things like that.

A Confession

I will make 11 confession.

If I were stranded in the country and had to send for a doctor in an emer-

Ing an animal (5).

26 ile was associated with the be-

ginnings of everything (4).

27 When caught in a lle le censes

to be manly (3).

28 The end of the boom, often

(3),

30 He con enslly come to grips gency, I would not have the your 33 Serpentine peril to 20 across

(51 doctor with the most impressive de grees or diplomas. I would send for the one

who

had the most experi- ence. In

111 nny individual might be

be making a mistake, but I believe I should bd following the best general rule.

case

I

Probably in time we shall "inake the best of both worlds." We shall unite what is most valuable in clini- cal experience to what science has diminished place of the general prac to offer us. Meanwhile, I regret the titioner and the family doctor, for they are capable of doing a work which nobody else can do so well.

35 it can be made from a fut if

in oil (11).

30 Not a bad shot (5).

37 Unteciing, and still beheaded

(11),

DOWN

2 Perfect name for a make of

playing cards (8). .

3 To keep it,, keep cool (5). 4 More, and less, than one (4). 5. Bridge players do him (5).

One of the links? (G), 7.This vessel's catch is liable to

so off,quickly, (11).

120

The festivity of graduate ruler (11).

a

cheerful

12 Barnum knew all about what a sailor may do in Navy Week (11).

13 The slowest in the race Is this

curtalled, though it's ending (11).

never-

14 A family of lions that may be the this of a Zoo perhops (5).

15 Seek 12 across in this (3). 18 A little tot maybe (3).

20 Profound feature of Italy's con-

quest (5),

24 A cricketer may be no this in

15 down (3).

25 Once round (3).

28 There may be a calch in it (5).

29 You certainly would be after

18 across (5).

31 This helps to brighten things

up in the garden (5).

32 Only bad sallors pre put herein

(5).

34 Pleasent place for a broken

idol (4).

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