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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 8, 1940.

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"WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE

YOUR FATHER?”

A suspected anti-Hitler plot by the ex-Crown Prince and other relatives of the exiled Kaiser is being

investigated by the Nazis, say reports from Germany.

CONSCIENCE

on the CARPET

ONSCIENCE," sald

Hamlet,

"doth make

cowards of us all." But in war-time con- sclence makes brave men of a lot of young people.

Think of the nervousness, the desperate unhappiness which most of us feel if we are called upon to make the shortest speech at a wedding or a dinner or to say thank you publicly for a set of pre- sentation Ash-knives.

Tribute THOUGH the war on land has reached a quint of deadlock and the war in the air still hangs fire, at sea, the struggle for mastery is being waged relentless ly and on an ever-increasing scale. For weeks we have all been ying: "This is a queer war- nothing seems to happer," but that was because we were safely o dry land. Plenty has been happening at sea. Hundreds of Paramount Theatre Orch. men and women have suffered and

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EVENINGS

What a torturing procession ensues of ums and abs, threat- clearings and nervous clutchings of the nearest solid support! The Englishman's home is his soap- box: outside it as a rule he is as dumb as an ox and not nearly as

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Hungarian Gipsy Band. been sunk.

Yet to many parts of Britain at Look at the list. The Athenia, present young men of 20 and 21 with no experience of public speak- ...Organ Reginald Foort,

the Courageous, the Royal Oak.ing arestanding up in publle courts

to proclaim views which in Levy's Orch. A,submarine, a destroyer, a mine-

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cargo boats, carrying on with their hold-helfkxt ones. .Kentuckey Minstrels. all-important task of bringing .Kentucky Minstrels. supplies to Britain. A dozen or Jacic Hyltos's Orcit. two of neutral ships. And now Mayfair Plano Accordeon Band,

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Let us pay tribute to the crews

neutral alike, who have known full well the dangers they were facing and have still done their duty. Let is pay tribute to the passengers who have been the victims of the war at sea, and to the men who tave risked their own lives in the work of rescue. Let us salute the devotion of all these men, and their stendfast courage.

LET us determine, also, to face

and overcome.

tio

now pro-

blems created by the Nazi mines

which prey indiscriminately on the shipping of the world. The inten-

Execut for the professional martyr, it is never wholly pleasant. and certainly always dificult, to swim against the main current of public opinion.

The War Aim

Possibly

conscientious young objectors are fortified in their ap- peal for tolerance by the state- ment that this particular war is being fought for democracy and liberty and the freedom of indi- vidual opinion.

Come with me, then, to one par- ticular Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, which in the course of little more than n month has gained for self some notoriety, to these high-minded see how far principles are belzig given expres-

by Stuart Fletcher

slon by the professional examiners of conscience)

These elderly examiners a county court judge, a professor of philosophy, an ex-educationist, and a retired trade union feader- sit in the Council Chamber of Ful- ham Town Hall, They constitute the London Conscientious Objec-

tors' Tribunal,

Stage is Set

A half-circle of oak pews faces them. Overlooking them is a pub- He gallery whence from time to time come duly reproved titters. murmurs of disapprobation, and whispered controversies.

Around the chamber are stained glass windows of past kings and queens of England.

A life-size, oll

of painting George

the the Fifth behind Judge's chair Islanked by stiff and lifeless portraits

numerous mayors of Fulham, all of whom the artists bare contrived with considerable ingenuity to minke louk like mayors rather than human beings.

An usher-ik The stage is set. one-armed man who is probably n wounded veteran of the last war- calls out name, and a young man, his adam's apple bobbing up and down in as extremity of ner- vousness, walks hurriedly into the well of the court and faces the Tribunal.

Having verified the applicant's name, the judge reads out his statement elaiming exemption. This is a testament of faith, some-

times eloquently, more often tedi- ously written, but none the less a testament,

The judge reads it out in a flat, dry, hurrying volce as if it is an, inventory of rather unsavoury groceries.

And

Then come questions. these, as I have pointed out in this newspaper already, give the fm- pression of being designed less to reasure the depth of an appli- cant's conscience than to muddle amind already confused by the necessity of making a desperate decision.

The amount of barren theclogi- cal disputation and smart-aleck bandying of Bible texts which goes on in this court would have tried the patience even of a conference of medieval schoolmen.

"Where in the New Tesla- ment," asks the judge. "does Christ specifically say that war da incompatible with His teaching?

Who is Wrong?

"Love your neighbour as your- self by all means," allows the philosopher member of the Tri- bunal, speaking in a crisp and quite delightful Scottish accent. but don't attempt to tell me that you can extend that love to a whole country. That is unten- able."

(Yet was it not Mr. Chamber- lain's own brother who vowed on a famous occasion: "I love France as one loves a woman! ")

The Judge dealing with another young man has an ingenious idea.

Everyone Ought To

tlon is clear to ring our coasts WITHOUT with an impassable barrier and starve us out.

bet

wanting to unduly gloomy, we must admit that in these days of What is the answer? First, the possible black-outs life is even

Make

a

Will

one that has been given-economic more precarious than usual. A Solicitor Tells You How

reasonablu orðar,

Therefore if it was wise for every? reprisal. Second, the sweeping of man and woman to make a Will in the mines. If, as in supposed, they peace time, it is even more a duly are mines of a new type, the task of now to see that your affairs are in sweeping them may present. Lew difficulties. Wo must overentno thead dimculties, and we bellove! that they will be overcome,

or

making

King repugnant to God? he naks. Bul God so loved the work that He sent His only Son to the earth to be killed for humanity's sake. Morcover, in the last resort, by means of death He kills us all.

On and on the argumenta go. seltling nothing except that a number of young men who have expressed thoir conselentious ob- jection to participating in the activities of the war machine are clutched into its mechanism.

Nearly always their bewildered incoherence is no match for the dialectical skill and frivolous In- genuity of the Tribunal.

Elbowed Out

An applicant gives a politica! basis for his objection. But, says the Tribunal, politics have nothing to do with conscience..

Are we, then, to believe that our rulers and representatives, elected under the democracy for which we nre fighting, are professional cynles devoid of conscience and nble like lawyers to adapt their political faiths to the most remun- erative brief?

Ocensionally Mr. A. B. Bwales the trade union member, rosy- and faced...white-moustached. rather reassuring. enters the debate with more good intent than stecess--his method of patient in- quiry seems to be elbowed out by the debating society experts.

And what, in terms of Agures, does this Tribunal achieve? In Just over a month since its first sitting on October 3, 465 cases were heard by it.

or the applicants 189 were ordered to do non-combatant ser- vice; 185 were exempted from fighting on condition that they did, civitan work of national im-. portance (many of them were- Fal doing so): seven wero`tin-

Tonally exempted; and 101 had their applications totally rejected.

To the applicants, at all events. that must be an unsatisfactory

state of affairs. The State Itsell vill suffer, too, in further waste of Ime when the Appeals Tribunal ms to hear many of these cases nii over again.

Rough and Ready

Meanwhile, although the prob. lem is one to try the wisdom and At the moment policitors' offices tattooed on his back, but such odd patience of angels, far more satis- are full of people who want Wills ideas merely cast doubt upon the actory results are being obtained

in other courts. drafted, but not everyone has guineos sanity of the testator.

You can begin by saying "I, John

I attended a sitting of the Bouth- to spare just now. But there is no great difcully about

Smill, of

....hereby revoke East of England Tribunal. Here Pradiently everybody has some simple Will art it your affairs are all former Wills made by me and the applicant's initial objection thing to leave if it's only some not complicated you can do it per-declare this to be my last Will."

Then go on to say as simply as Tribunal probed its depth by find. seemed to be accepted, and the Third, and not least important, furniture an Insurance policy, feetly well yournell

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make want to

For most of us, all we want to din possible what you want to do with ing out what kind of job the men, We must strain every effort not and

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pro is to say who is to have our bits of legal terms you may not fully under-

your morely to replace the ships we are per person. If

property. Avoid using any

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stand-they may have some technical

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A Will must be in writing, but it of Infestecy, but that may mean for all our war-time needs, with a something very different from what may be in ink or pencil, typewritten integ

от printed. I may be

If you are leaving all your goods best rough-and-ready method. оп any

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material, but most of us would use to your wife, you will say "I give all task, but it can be done.

And that is especially true if you paper. There have been plenty of my real and personal estate to my freedom, le obvious that toler Hongkong, with its splendid ship-are a single man or woman-distant freak Wills mide on such thing as wife, Jane Smith," But if you are ance should err on the side bi error relatives whom you may not in the egg-shells, shirt-fronts, and photo-lving any special gifts to friends or rather than dragooning unwilling yards, can be expected to play an feast care for roll up from the ends graphs and it even suid that some relations they should be set out first people into an activity which they,

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properly and who is to look after