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YOUTH

IN TWO WARS

IF ONE COMPARES

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BY ARRANGEMENT

By SIRDAR İKBAL ALI SHAH,

The well-known Muslim author

is being waged in a spirit of such grim and sober stronu-

ousness,

Of course one remarks quite a deal of reckless gaiety and even a certain incidence of folly, but that, I am sure we will all agree,

is much more sporadic and incidental than general.

✓

THE YOUTH OF BRITAIN during the years of the War of '1914-18 with The English Miss, drop- dicated the writing on the However, the dread of past the young people who are ping her somewhat nun-like wall with dramatic fore- example by no means ex- plains everything. In the FOR KOWLOON DRIVES AND engaged in the struggle of character and vestal bear- fingers.

to-day, certain marked dif- ing, appeared in a new veil- The bare truth was, I early months of the war a ferences become almost at ing of sunset-hued gar- think, that men on leave certain attitude of "Well, if once apparent, particularly ments and made free with from the mud and blood of we must," was apparent in to the Oriental mind. The cosmetics. The last sad the trenches naturally cray- some quarters. Indeed, it greatest contrast, perhaps, rags of Victorianism seem- ed for a relaxation as vio was to be found in places up is to be found in the spirit ed to be thrown to the wild lent as that of the life-in- to the moment of the of excitement which pre- winds of festival.

death they had been facing. Franco-Belgian debacle. vailed almost throughout

The girls, always keenly After Dunkirk a marked studious of male moods, change became apparent in Liquor in abundance present events of the young heightened the feverishness quickly sensed this prevail- the manner and bearing of HONGKONG HOTEL manhood and womanhood of the proceedings. The ing spirit and found them- our youth.

cocktail with its deleterious selves in sympathy with it. fighting this war single- of this island.

handed. It was going to be mixture of vintages and

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no pienie, but had resolved There was something al-

But the aftermath was a itself into a life-and-death most vociferous about the spirits was certainly respon- manner in which the youth sible for much of the row sad one. In spite of whoo- struggle between the Brit-

diness of the war years, as

Commonwealth, the and cocktails Britain ish of Britain approached its

was the American habit of won the war. It left in its natural upholder of human Hongkong Telegraph. ordeals in 1914. Indeed

carrying a flask in the hip- train, however, scores of freedom, and a mob of "The isle was full of noises”, and patriotic senti- pocket. These things made ruined careers. Thousands gangster brigands whose sole intention was to make for a freedom of manner be found themselves unable to the world subservient to ment ran high.

fore unknown to the coun- put the brake on and. con- their will and hale it into The music halls, the tem- try.

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PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE: Another Chapter

It's

a

"VERYBODY'S got light ʼmachine-guns,” says Charlie the Chancer.

Lovely

Weapon!

German menace any pros-.

happen to the people of Britain did the Nazis suc- ceed in getting a footing there. To some extent it. stopped the flow of gaiety at its source, though it did "Well," says the imperturb- "The same goes for us against not quench the natural able Hitch, "they don't. See? Jerry. So long as we've got the buoyancy of the British The Wops fight with the same same sort of equipment as he's people in face of danger. weapons that we uso. And aro

got, we can beat him all right In any case, it diffused a we beating the Wops?"

because our heart's really in the deeper spirit of gravity not "Maybe we are."

fight. "Ther's no maybo. We are.

only through all classes, but See? And what are we beating

"See, you wad-scoffing Twom- particularly among the them, with, do you think? met? So don't talk like a soppy Death-rays?"

"

arrangements or in part without previous foreigner, who could scarce- The ferrule of authority paths of the post-war years, their lives before them,

their The legends of these were were thinking furiously. ly credit the cool and col- had slipped from

They saw and saw steadi- lected British people with grasp, and they solaced told in every household. · such uproarious militancy. themselves with the formula

The youth of to-day heard ly, that unless the world that the country, and THE 80-called state visit to Japan of Mr Wang Ching-wei,

The shrines of the dance humanity along with it, had whispers of how Uncle Bill were made safe from the

or Aunt. Ethel, debauched No. 1 defector from the Govern were tumultuous, not only gone to the dogs.. Elderly

scarlet ences, had never been able they might have would be

slender enough. ment of China, closes one door with the newly, discovered ladies muttered Apocalyptic by their-war-time experi-pect of future happiness

American "jazz", but with warnings about and opens another. The that "whoopee" which made women" and "the mark of to get into step again, and The abominations perpet

shuddered at the thought of Japanese nomince is being re- the fatalistic Oriental feel the Beast," and clergymen these "horrible examples." rated in Poland, Holland ceived by the Emperor of that Europe had found a preached on the text: "Let

and Czechoslovakia, entered This may explain to some like iron into men's souls, Japan, this in itself being tacit new affinity with the spirit us eat, let us drink, for to-

morrow we die," and in- extent why the present war and revealed what would approval of Dr Honda's recent vehement utterances that a set- tlement of the China Incident must be sought through the medium of the Nanking ad- ministration and not by any other means. Dr Honda, Tokyo representative in Nanking, pre ceded Wang to Japan "to re- port" only a few weeks ago and it would now seem that Wang Hitch, the "Wigan Sergeant, had demanded something abso- looks at him in, a deceptively lutely final in Japanese recogni- simple, ox-like way and says: tion of his status to kill con- "What d'you mean, 'Everybody's

great Snufge, you silly sausage. young men in the Army and stantly recurring rumours of got light machine-guns?'"

The Bren is a lovely weapon.. the young women in the "Maybe we are." peace overtures to Chungking. "What I say,. Sarnt. Ain't

"Well we're not, seo? We'ro "Now put your fags cut and allied services. The answer is in the visit to Jerry got 'em?"

beating 'em with the same let me hear you run over these Tokyo. Once having presented

Why, groups of parts. You, name me "He has," says Sergeant weapons as they, usc. him to their Emperor as the Hitch..

At Wavell, out there, he had the four groups."

nothing at all to start with: he "Butt group, body group, the full that in Germany leader of China, the Japanese

"Well, I don't see what the just bluffed 'em at the begin-piston group, and barrel group," they were fighting a vicious and vengeful enemy, they can hardly withdraw their excitement is about this here ning, Well, why are we beating says Charlic.

the Wops? Because we're free "We ought to have death were under the misappre- patronage.

Bren gun."

mer, sco? It is evident that the Japan-

"It gives you a high rate of ese would have dearly liked to fire," comes the answer. see Axis recognition of the dead accurate. It's got no shock GRIN AND BEAR IT Nanking Government before of recoil. A ten-year-old could proceeding to this extreme fire it, take it to pieces, and put stage; alternatively they would it together again. have preferred to have met a "It's little and don't need any little encouragement from the cover worth mentioning. What feelers sent out to Chungking, more do you want? Do you However, the uncompromising want it to go out and take attitude of General Chiang Kai- prisoners, you silly Twillip?". shek, which events have proved had the support of Chungking enabled Wang Ching-wei to de-overybody's got 'em, what's the points? Where do they get us? mand extrication from the

We fire Brens at them: they fire) humiliating position into which Brens at us."

ho had been placed."

+

When not ono. reputable Chinese, let alone a foreign

all

"It's

"No, I do not want it to sing and dance to me, Sarnt. But if

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☆

"A lawyer," says Sergeant

country, followed Japan's lead Hitch, sadly. "That's what you by giving him "face" Wang are. Listen. In the last war, did the Jorries run about naked was strengthened by the know-

with spears?" ledge that his fall would be in-

"I couldn't say, Sarnt." significant compared with the loss in prestige that Japan "What does this horrible would suffer. Accordingly he Twidget mean, he couldn't say?" has the confidence to insist that

"I wasn't there, Sarnt, and no Japan commit herself to sustain his star and the Tokyo "Junket" more was you."

to use an appropriate Ameri- can word-le the outcome.."

It remains to be seen whether

"All right. Do the. Wops fight, with bows and arrera?"

⠀⠀ "They might do," says Charlle

them."

the Nanking lender will find his the Chancor. "I never seen

star in the ascendant there.

rays," he adds.

For although the young folk of 1914-18 realised to

hension that these poison- ous qualities did not reside so much among the German

By Lichty people as among the mili-

**I didn't sleep a wink all night trying to think of new ways to show Phil that he means nothing at all to mo!"

tary and their leaders, par- ticularly the group which surrounded the Kaiser.

This generation, on the contrary, is well aware that the homicidal spirit of Ger- many's leaders is fully en- dorsed by the German peo- ple at large, who are by nature sadistic and blood- thirsty, as well as animated by the ungenerous passions of envy and revenge.

In a word, the thought of the perilous position of humanity as a whole has assuredly reacted upon the youth of Britain, making thom determined and watch- ful. And I think, too. the lessons of the past, have been thoroughly taken to heart and their dangers fully recognised.

Britain will prevail, but it will be because of her so- briety, thoughtfulness and calm courage in the face of danger unexampled.

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