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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939.

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Foul Slavery

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ancient institutions and tradi- tions, threatened with extinction in an age of rapid change-our Lask must now become ever more dynamic and positive.

The freedom and the privi

leges which our fathers won are more than an inheritance and a

suddenly confronted

respect.

by

LORD QUEENSBOROUGH

Chairman of the Council of the Royal

Society of St. George.

The productivity of our soil, which has declined under the neglect which accompanied in-· dustrialisation, calls for urgent measures of stimulation and sup- port.

OUR COUNTRYSIDE surely

deserves a better fate than to become a reserve for sight- seers. It must be kept alive and its people-the salt of the earth -must be enabled to find.on the soil proper, healthy conditions of a now work and living, with sense of their vital importance to the nation.

. For those young men and wo men who feel themselves crushed in the struggle and competition for employment in our densely populated island the Empire and the Dominions should become again a field for fresh endeavour. to They must first be made

Own learn and feel that our Government and the Govern- ments of the Empire are pre- pared not only to encourage their settlement in new homes, but among people of traditions and instincts akin to their own, to whom their advent will be wel- come as an accession of strength and a further guarantee for the future of the Empire.

Moreover while we have, un- happily, a standing army of un- employed and at the same time a shortage of skilled Inbour, active steps should be taken to keep alive the craftsmanship of those already trained to a skilled trade and to train the younger unemployed in order that they may, without difficulty, bo ab- sorbed into useful and produc- tive employment.

Above all, let us practise for- bearance and seek to make more easy the task of those who are now called upon to undertake the work of national revival.

A MOST perturbing state

affairs is revealed by the naturally accepted condition of statistics published in the Final living, they demand the service and the devotion of all sorts and Edition of the "Telegraph" yes-conditions of our countrymen if

We can, first of all, actively It is a truism to say that the Modelterday, showing the extent of they are to survive in a world

with new main sources of the wealth and support the establishment of a

If we, of our free will, accept the increase in vice and slavery and disturbing forces, threaten- strength of any nation are the National Register of all able-

that, should need arise, our ser- sucrifices, how far more resilient in Hongkong since the Governing to engulf and destroy all soil itself and the character of bodied men and women in order new responsibilities and personal ment ended the practice of that instinct and experience the children of that soil.

have taught us to cherish and Those who believe in England vices according to our capabili- and powerful a force will our licensing houses.

and England's destiny in world tics, may be promptly and use nation be than the drilled and re- The most serious revelation is

We cannot hope to preserve affairs and who have kept faith fully employed in the task of gimented masses of those who that departmental and other our freedom and fulfil our des in the face of the spread of ma- national defence. Let us begin have been compelled to turn to officials are hamstrung in their tiny without effort, or without terialism on the one hand and at home and, regardless of any dictatorial methods of Govern-

doctrines of class hatred and dis- personal discomfort which it ment in their hours of need.

Our weaknesses and deficien- sension on the other, now in may involve, decide what

can do and train cies are the fruits of our own efforts to rescue young girls personal sacrifice,

If, by orders and decrees, from enforced immorality by other nations can create a united themselves from a nucleus of individually

liar with our duties.

the hands of others. They are, lack of suitable accommodation and organsed machinery of state strength upon which our future ourselves to be ready and fami- missions and not of defeat at

security depends.

From this movement of per- therefore, the more difficult to It is, therefore, incumbent on for segregating them once they to secure the fulfilment of their

ambitions, so must we, of our cach one of us to consider how sonal service would grow a most overcome. are taken off the street. Quite own free will, discipline our best we can exert our influence powerful sense of union and con-

radeship among all classes. apart from these unfortunate selves and equip our country to |girls, it is revealed that there is 1 Remand Home available for

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girls under the age of sixteen ranging from an undefined form SERIOUS TRAIN WRECK

years who are the subject of of National Service to actual Magisterial proceedings, and it Conscription have been made, appears that, unlike boys, the and at the same moment alarm. ing and ill-advised accounts of only place to which they can be our unpreparedness have figured sent is prison.

The statistics published by the "Telegraph" yesterday indicate that, of 25,000 women who have become victims of the vicious system of immorality that has developed so alarmingly in Hongkong, approximately 30 per cent, are children under the age of 18 years.. There is something appalling in the fact that, of this

in the press.

We

Reported Smash on Hanoi Line

The only way to overcome them is to train ourselves to ask, "What can I do and how best can I lend a hand to strengthen and

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Government should have done this or that, or should

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have done the other thing.""

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HANOI, Jan. 20.

THIS FIRST MESSAGE issued LOCAL FRENCH NEWSPAPERS report that a serious by the Royal Society of St. What is surely necessary train accident occurred on the Yunnan Railway between Kun- George is intended to forcus the first of all is an analysis of the ming and Ami, causing great damage to the locomotive and sources of our weakness and a freight cars and a number of casualties.

Details of the accident including the date, cause, and other systematic drive to eliminate

them.

The authorities of Hanoi Station denied that they have re- ceived any official information about it.

so circumstances surrounding the reported accident are not avail- It is not enough-though urgently necessary to hasten able as yet. the production of military and The civil defence equipment. soul of the nation has first to be restored and cleansed meet the grave problems which 30 per cent., approximately 4,000 lie ahead." children are of the tender ages

of from twelve to sixteen years.

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By Lichty

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Many of these children, just FOR TWENTY YEARS.

stream of propaganda-much reaching their teens, have be-well meant, but some designed

Affairs and workers

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come prostitutes by compulsion. to break down the morale of our If, as it is claimed, officials of people-has been poured forth.

A reaction against the Sceretariat

Chinese for

tional rules of conduct, against private welfare

social distinctions, against sim- prevented from

ple conceptions of duty and rescuing these children chiedy patriotism, against established because Government has not, or morality and against orthodox will not, provide a suitable home religion has been used by sub- in which they could be segregat- versive political forces as an in- ed, a drastic and immediate strument for the overthrow of the established form of society. revision of policy seems called At the same time the fabrici for. We are told that scores of of society itself has been left young children are being added superficially unaltered at a time each month to the thousands when measures of social reform

Every Wod. & Fri.

from Chungking to Changtu and return already lost: something must be have removed from certain of its Every Mon., Wad. & Fri. from Chungking to Kunming Every Wod, & Fri. from Kunming to Hanoi

Kunming-Chongtu-Sian-Lanchow Line Every Thu. & Sat. from Kunming to Lanchow via Changtu & Slan Every Sun. & Fri, from Lanchow to Kunming via Sion & Chongtu Lanchow-Ninshia Line

done to stop this foul slavery elements the power and the need that is groving so alarmingly into fulfil those duties, which, normally, they were accustomed | to undertake. our community.

Every Fri, from Lanchow to Ninahla and return Chungking-Kwoilin-Kunming Line

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tion.

ties.

"She's asleep now, but if you could see her you'd say she's much prettier off-screen."',

issues now at stake. It is hoped minds of its readers on the broad that it may be followed by more explicit suggestions, re-inforced by information and extracts from other publications

sume end. speeches directed towards the

or

If our country is to maintain her position, certain urgently necessary tasks lie before us

To restore our national faith and unity, remembering that Great Britain is a Christian Kingdom.

To raise the whole of our de- their full fensive forees to

strength, without delay.

To develop, to the full our agricultural, mineral and indus- at home and trial resources jabroad.

To maintain confidence and. eradicate alarmism and a "De fentist" mentality.

To assert. the need for all to undertake the duties and respon sibilities which the protection of our freedom and security de- mand.

To overcome dissension and. disputes among ourselves by a union of all classes in the ser- vice of the nation to which we belong, and which in turn be- longs to and is the common in-- heritance of us all.

From the strength which such achievements will give we may continue to work uncensingly for the promotion of peace and the removal of the present causes of distrust and hatred among the nations of the world.

Queenborough

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