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October 10, 1940.

"DOUBLE TENTH"

By

EMILY HAHN

雙十節

A more suitable foreign writer to speak for China on the occasion of the |Double-Tenth than Miss Emily Hahn could scarcely be found. The fact that she has recently returned from months of sojourn in bomb-stricken Chungking to complete the publication of two books on China, makes this article most propitious, while her. willingness to accede to the request for something special on this special occasion is further evidence of her desire to serve an unfortunate country. "Micky” Hahn ar she is known far and wide, is persona grata with most Chinese who matter. Her books on “The Soong Sisters,” and “Steps of the Sun" will be out shortly and for that reason, the much-travelled authoress will soon be packing her bags for America, fugees of France and Belgium and then-China again!

China, civilisation's first and oldest home, observes hundreds of holidays. In more than thirty cen- turies a nation collects many reasons

Hongkong Telegraph. for national rejoicing or grief, and

Thursday, Oct. 10, 1940.

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THE preix "pecial to the Telegraph"

scarcely a day on the calendar does not mark some incident in Chinese history.

Certain of these are observed in Can-

to 1200 by the diangkon veton and not in Peking; Szechuen makes

Indicate news which is strictly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommun merry on days which are ignored by Hupei.

sations Ordinance, 1116. Such now.

bears the indication U received in

Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forhid republication. either wholly or in part without preview

arrangement.

ANNIVERSARY WITH

A NEW MEANING

There are sectional rivalries and class wars in these holidays; one could compile a treatise of philosophy, religion or psycho- logy from the Chinese calendar. But to- day, the Double Tenth, is different.

Sun Yat-sen's first successful revolu- : tion against the Ch'ing Emperors and what they represented-decay and corruption-- started on October 10, 1911.

every

we

MISS EMILY HAHN

who machine-gunned the re-

as they fled along the roads.

Later the President must surely

have recalled the number of times refugees in China were bombed on foot, in trains, in pathetic little boats along the river, or crowded helplessly and hopelessly in railway stations.

I am not reproaching Presi dent Roosevelt for forgetting the Chinese any more than 1 wish to scold myself and all of us who had to have realisation thrust upon us. Human nature is like that.

In Terms of Humanity

I am suggesting, howover, that out of this universal cala- mity we may conceivably learn something at last the necessity to think in terms of our humanity and not as natiéhals avoided: so did the British or members of one or another But both nations race. It is this ultra-patriotism government. TO-DAY is the Double Tenth,

were caught in the end, and are venture and has given Hitler the which has sent Japan out on her the anniversary of the founda-

battling for their lives. tion of the Chinese Republic. It The results of this revolution is rapidly dividing into the ag-

polson with which he hypotised Js with feelings of pride in the have been such that

gressor and the attacked or con- In France and England was 80

The beginning of the horror his people.. Chinese nation, mingled with Chinese in the world, Norther- quered.

We are never at our best until violent and sudden that for a we are trying to preserve that contrition that circumstances ner or Southerner, aristocrat or have hitherto put the brake on coolie, has reason to remember in France and England was so place and had been occurring kind has ever experienced, we The beginning of the horror long time we could not realise best, and just at this moment, that such things were taking the most dangerous that human- our support for that ill-used it and to celebrate...

We cannot even now, after for a long time in China. people, that we celebrate with Until Sun achieved his dream more than a year of declared

have a chance to solve the pro- our neighbours to-day an event

English magazines and news--blem of brotherhood versus of a united China there had war and five months of active papers in May and June are al- enmity., that may mark a turning point been no real hero for all the combat, force in

ourselves to most incoherent with indigna- both our histories. The Chinese together, nobody but realise the truth which the cen- tion and amazed incredulity, that we pause and think of On this day, then, it is fitting Chinese und British have never

the fairy-atory princes they saw'ser, in part, spares us. We The mechanisation of the Ger- what it means to China. Twen felt that they had so much in

on the theatrical stage.

read three and two years ago of man army, even though the ty-nine years ago, three years common before. The events of

The Chinese had never been a the destruction dealt by Japan had such an effect on the minds grent people began the struggle facts were familiar in theory, before the first World War, a the past few days and weeks have narrowed our aims almost warlike people according

guns and bombs and the of those who first experienced to find themselves and to attain to one focus. Artificial interests westerners, and there was some wreckage of priceless gema of this new method of attack that to justice and democracy, ideals have given way to the bigger thing unreal about those stage cities, the deaths of thousands the Allies were paralyzed. toward which England and issues of security and freedom, generals, whose exploits have of civilians. We read of this

There was no time, then, to America have also struggled for without which, both races feel always fallen into one of two and were moved to pity we even reflect upon other peoples' trou many years. To-day these that life is not worth living.

categories-fust or cruel. protested.

bles, but the thought occurs to ideals are being attacked, and us now that Japanese tanks and the people of China and Eng- We are not entitled in these

Dr. Sun himself was not a

We Gave Only Pity

airplanes with their indiscrim- land are fighting to preserve columns to speak for our other warlike person; he was an ideal-

inate death-dealing must have them. It is no longer a matter Human nature being what it been even more dreadful and in- merely for kindliness, and indig. great ally in democracy-theist. It has often been said that

Madame American people. They

it is this very gentleness of the 18, however, most of us went explicable to the country people nation. As

Chiang speaking for themselves and Chinese which will destroy them no further than the expression of China, who until then had Kal-shek has said,

"China doesn't want charity. their voice will be heard with in the end. Before the actual of our pity and good-will, with lived in a pastoral world several more telling effect as events impact of Japanese aggression, now and then a donation for the hundred years behind anything She wants justice!"

that our farmers know,

Her sister, Madame H. H. militate against their peaceful Europe and America through innocent sufferers from Japanese

President Roosevelt in June Kung added, "The world will and progressive pursuits in the the voices of their wisest men ambition.

declared that the world had never be right until there is one Far East.

gave their opinion that China

Few people have the vision never seen such appalling cruelty code for both west and east of There is an inclination, how-would not be able to resist. which will force them to an at- as that of the German troops Suez." ever, to be swept

tempt to change and improve aį- the on

news

ITC

to use

current of daily and As the World saw it then world where such things can FUNNY SIDE UP views. That is well when the The world's mental vision of happen, so long as these things object is certain and the result China has been represented in are not happening at home. inevitable. In this саве we cartoons of the day; China was Now, however, they are hap- hope that there are still vents pictured as an enormous, slow- pening at home. Now we can through which the wrath of in-moving farmer with all a appreciate what the Chinese jured parties in the Far East farmer's virtues and his help have been enduring for three can be released without resort lessness when faced with years. The great, sleepy far- to violence. Japan is convinc-mechanical warfare: his honest mer has not given in, as the ing herself that she has taken face is bewildered and tormented cleverest spectators prophesied; a path from which she cannot by the stings and quick, flashing after many months, countless turn back, whether she was ori- attacks of the tiny Japanese. hours more than were needed to ginally right or wrong. If this

To-day, with Europe no longer the west, he still stands up to humble much prouder nations of attitude persists, the chances of reconcillation dwindle daily.

a apectator of a stranger's the enemy. The excuse for the Nipponese agonies, the concept of China. In this time of new under- view is that it is "realistic" but has changed. To-day it is not standing and fresh sympathy, the time has come when it must Orient which is plunged into the or recrimination. We are banded only the distant, picturesque there is no occasion for reproach be put to them in unmistakable but polite terms that there is chaos of war. The whole world together now against the forces of ignorant "groed and disci- plined, cold-blooded cruelty. settlement of Far Eastern hos tilities. If Japan made a fine, want this war. China, like Eng- China, like England, did not Japan has hrself brought generous gesture and there land, put off resistance for as about a position in which Bri- are abundant gestures ready to long as possible, knowing that hand she would not lose face resistance would precipitate war," tain and America feel that the She would have shown that she the great calamity which is future of the Chungking is still able to realise the misery Government is bound up with to which her own people would worse than any other thing man the subject of their own in- be sentenced by another war for

has created. terests and, however selfish maya purpose which could be be the actuating motives, they achieved in an almost equally have the fine point of moral practical forma, here of in Justice which has never been fluence, in the Far East which dienle and insult to war, as long Jabandoned In all the talks of n nobody could rightfully deny

also a limit to the dangers and hazards to which third parties can be exposed.

And Now We Know

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