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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 25, 1941.

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GOD AND THE WAR-

This is a

A QUESTION THAT IS AGITATING THE MINDS OF ALL THINKING MEN AND WOMEN

Struggle

Between

GOD AND THE

IT is plain enough that the

war is a struggle between- Nations and Empires. The British and the Greeks åre in mortal combat with the Germans and the Italians, They are fighting, according to their leaders on both sides, for victory at all costs.

It is plain also, as both

DEVIL

By Dr. G. K. A. BELL Justice and freedom cuts across

Bishop of Chichester

national frontiers. "Onco & German, always a Gorman, They are all tarred with tho samo brush." When men talk about

forgetfulness of God, we tween God and the Devil is a better international order, he should surely be slow to pre- at its height here. If the will reply, "All these are Utopian sent ourselves as His special war is in fact to be more dreanis. You have to think of champions.

than a war for physical sur- your own interests. Preservo British wealth and British pos- At the same time, if, as vival, the British Govern-

sessions exclusively for British I believe, there is a Pro-ment and people have yet to people." vidence in history, those show themselves in earnest

And if the Devil has his way,

sides declare, that the war is genuinely stand up for the about justice and freedom and selfishness and sloth prove a struggle between opposed

cause of justice and free- in relation to their own too much for justice and free- conceptions of political life, dom, and do their utmost, at folk, in securing educational dom, in that essential war which between Democracy and Dic- all costs to life and fortune, equality in sceing that all is the struggle between God and tatorship; and the whole to make that cause prevail, have an adequate share in the Devil, Great Britain will future civilisation of Europe

are standing up for the the abundance of the earth depends on the issue of the

health, things of God, and are on adequate housing, conflict.

the side of God in the titanic work and leisure. struggle in which He is at

CAN we go further and all times engaged against

claim that the war is a the forces of darkness and AGAIN, if the war is in Hongkong Telegraph. struggle between God and the Devil.

Tuesday, March 25, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

the Devil? There is no short answer, which we can

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fact a war for justice and freedom for all peoples, we ought to recognise that

give in terms of the war So, in resisting violence we have among the Ger

and tyranny, and cham-mans, Austrians and Italians. alone. God is. Spirit. The pioning justice and freedom (some here, longing to be under a rovisions of the Telecommuul Devil is a spiritual force. at this historic hour, Britain used, some in their own

THE Pronx "Special to the Fcp

is used by the tongkang Telegraph to the Teircommuni- rations Ordinance, 1016. Such new na

bear the Intentions or is received in And the struggle between is championing the things of countries, powerless at pre- the United Press Atrociations, who re them must be fought at its

on the of publication by

serve all rights and forbid republications,

arrangement,

either wholly or in part without previous

THE SOCIAL EVIL

THE suggestion made by the

have lost.

THERE is, however, a deeper sense in which the war re- presents a struggle between God

пози

and the Devil. In and after the last war the plans for a world crashed because, although there seemed to be plenty of good will, they had no better foundation than expediency.

There was no recognition of an authority above the nation,

or of a Divine law which claims man's obedience as of right, or

of a Divine Father who loves, and asks love from the human family. The glory of man and not the glory of God was the general goal.

It was assumed that man was

sent) Allies of unknown God. most decisive point with

number, who care for justice Will it maintain that and freedom equally with spiritual weapons. It also

championship without bit- ourselves. seems to me impossible to Police Commissioner in his annual Say without any reservation terness and hatred? Will it

continue that championship The British Government report that the time was ripe for that the cause of Britain (as

after the war unsullied? and people have also still to naturally good and reasonable; experimenting with the creation of a such) is the cause of God, or

show what price they are that the enlightened labours of Chinese women's police force for the the cause of Germany (as In this war both sides are prepared to pay for an inter- mankind would one day produce purpose of stamping out soliciting by such) the cause of the Devil. fighting for victory at all national order, in which there was no sense in consider- a perfect society here; and that Colony, behalf of pratat once again I believe wholeheartedly in costs. But it would be a justice is done to the econo- ing any factors outside this before the publle eye the gravity of the justice of our cause, but pitiful reward for a victory mic needs of all nations, and world. And now we see the human affairs are never by Great Britain if that where the rule of law is up quite so simple, so white or victory meant the resump-held both nationally and

tion of the old out-look, and internationally. is, in itself, feasible, but the effects 50 black as that. ottheir labour._no_matter how

the old policies, at the same The war-is-the-climax-of- thorough, can do no more than

level as before. scratch at the surface of this complex a process of hatred and

and prostitutes in this

this social problem.

The idea of using Chinese women

police officers in combating the evil

defined, and has largely been prompt-

result.

There-will-be-many-adver the present situation is a struggle between God and saries to such a continuous the Devil in the costliest way of riddle. Local Government attitude to selfishness, egotism and lust "Shall we go on fighting championship. The Devil will all. Are we ready to put the the issue has never been clearly for power, for which we for freedom and justice tell our rulers that "the misery doing of God's will everywhere which disfigures the life of great first, under all conditions? Are ed by the dictutes of well meaning, must all bear our share of when the war is over?" was secieties is beyond the reach of we going to give Him the but possibly misguided people fur guilt. And in an age when the pathetic nestion put by human remedy." icmoved from the secne. Lady Astor the principal cause of the a young soldier to an Army The Devil will say, in answer was one of the principal propanents human confusion is man's Chaplain. The struggle be- to the plea that the fight for for the abolition of the Bcensed houses in Hongkong, while an even more important influence recommendations by the League of Nations for the suppression of whyte alave traffic and the mui ismi systemi in the Far East generally, and Hong- kong in parilcular.

Was

the

CUT OUT THE INITIALS

Hongkong's prostitution problem is WHEN we have won this war knew were shockingly few. Only ten-in any evening and you will a yellow slave traile, created not so I hope someone will im- one could give the famous rail- car them talk grandly of the proper Columbia Broadcasting Corpora- mediately start a revolution way companies their against this awful plague of name, and nobody at all knew tion, the House of Representa-

what certain University degree tives, and so on. letters stood for.

supreme place, both in our own souls and in the whole range of our national life?

Are we going to accept the moral standard given by the Christian revelation as that by which to direct and test all our actions, social, economic and international, as well as per- sonal? "Religion," said Burko hundred and fifty years ago, far, in my opinion, from being referring to Christianity," is so much by [1 organisation living richly off the earnings of duptd

out of the province or duty of a girls, but caused by economie elr initials.

Christian Magistrate, that it is cumstances and the intractable low of supply and demand. The former Really, the thing is getting

Americans may have been and ought to be not only his care Then I began to wonder how

but the principal thing in his factor has never been properly appre- beyond a joke. The A.R.P.s

would responsible originally for the clated by those who seek to abolish and A.F.S.s are quite mild com- the fully-educated. adult the social evil, and the

great bonds of human society." the fatterpared with

fantastic fare. Do you, for instance, initial plague. Didn't they start care, because it is one of the influence remains unacceptable to the epidemic of initials that has know the complete English for the awful fashion of being Silas

On that religion all our laws majority who go even as far as to broken out in the Army. From P. & O., A.R.I.B.A., I.H.S., P. Hicks and Mary L. D. Brown? ponder the subject. Nevertheless, innocent-looking M.O. and K.C.V.O., M.C.C. MSS., O.S., But now they seem to like the ad institutions stand as upon And this great these are the basic factors and they G.H.Q. (which we did learn in QMG., R.N.R., E.N.S.A., and long word when we prefer the their base. must be taken into full account by the last war) the entire vocabin well, any others you like? Lately shart. They have apartments thinker prophesied in another and we have. flats, they make place, "Without religion the' eliminate the lary of a soldier has been so

reservations and have assign- commonwealth itself would in a scourge which has become such sprinkled with initals instead of frightful feature of the Colony's names that you would almost

ments when we book seats and few generations crumble away, tlo jobs. Somehow I cannot be disconnected into the dust think he was talking in short.

imagine them living in a world and powder of individuality, and hand.

of crazy initials, in which mean- at length dispersed to all the ingless letters take the place of winds of Heaven." words, and even people are

those wishing

life.

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There is ample evidence that the closing down of the Red Light dis- tricts neither helped to abolish prosti tution nor decreased the incidence of venereal

disease. Since

then, to aggravate an already acute situation, there has been a vast influx of men dicant refugees into the Colony, the female stetion of which have

I have long ago given up any hope of following the conversa-

By Anne Blythe

Wo

tion of my brothers. The only we have begun to make new known by a bunch of soulless relief I have had since the be- words from them. Witness Ensa capitals whose real significance ginning of the war was that and Naafi and the Wrens. But they have forgotten long ago. FIVE generations have passed

since Burke uttered this. in their hundreds to the practising change from L.D.V. to Home where does that lead us? Simply

Instead of having Yes, I want a revolution. I of sly prostitution in order to make Guard. I hoped for the revolu- nowhere.

sweeping prediction, and It a living. The futility of condemning tion then, but it didn't come, not long names that we make into want A.R.P. personnel to be

threatens to come true. initials and then from Initials called wardens and A.F.S. sim- have been warned. We are be the sucial evil out of hand as being even in the purist B.B.C.. Immoral, and feasi

it at that, has been amply died In Hong-

into fantastic words, we should ply fremen, and all the hectic ing warned again. kong. A realistic conception of the Not long ago there was a begin with simple names.. The confusion of Army initials to problem by the authorities is urgently children's intelligence test given Home Guard move was a perfect even itself out into simple, un- nected Diztressing as it may seem, by the British Broadcasting Cor one. What a pity the hand that derstandable names. I would everything points to the necessity of poration, in which the com- made that revolution couldn't even make it a social sin to clut prostitution being accepted as part and parcel of & community's life, petitors were asked to solve the stir up some others. especially hero where the popu- riddle of 'aeveral well-known lation is so heterogeneous and the initals of the household word What to my mind is the most of degree letters that school principle, that they, either as a respectable" labour market sa over variety." The children who amazing thing about this modern teachers and musle mistresses nation or as individuals, can be crowded,

passion for initials is that it seem to live. Life will have to saved.

This being do, Government's duty

It is only if British people. change their way of life, ac knowledge their dependence on ter your name up with initials, the Divine, and consciously mako and put an end to those bunches the Christian Faith their ruling.

And what is true of the people

is to see that prostitution is controll-system, but this at least, guarantees seems to apply, to this side of the be simpler and more under- ed so that its appalling effects as a some sort of intdical control. While Atlantic only. Our American standablo after the war Why medium of disease are kept within prostitution remains underground, but cousins love time and labour, not begin with initials? They of Britain is true also of the may involve, among other things social sore and a threat to the entire to it in words and names. Lis- well do without. the narrowest bounds possible. It unbridled, it will be an ever-growing saving, but they will not stoop are an untidy garnish we could people of Germany, and all the

nations of Europe.

return to the “Red Light District"; social structure of the Colony,