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BRITISH YOUTH

IN TWO WARS

IF ONE COMPARES

THE YOUTH OF

BRITAIN during the years

By SIRDAR IKBAL ALI SHAH,

The well-known Muslim author

is being waged in a spirit of such grim and sober strenu ousness.

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

is much more sporadic and incidental than general.

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 crav- some quarters. Indeed, it greatest contrast, perhaps, rags of Victorianism seemed 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 of excitement which pre- winds of festival.

death they had been facing. Franco-Belgian debacle.

After Dunkirk a marked The girls, always keenly studious of male moods, change became apparent in

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present events of the young heightened the feverishness quickly sensed this prevail- the manner and bearing of 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- handed. It was going to be no pienic, but had resolved There was something al mixture of vintages and

But the aftermath was a itself into a life-and-death most vociferous about the spirits was certainly respon-

sible for much of the row- sad one. In spite of whoo- struggle between the Brit- Commonwealth, the manner in which the youth of Britain approached its diness of the war years, as pee and cocktails Britain ish Thongkong Telegraph. ordeals in 1914. Indeed was the American habit of won the war. It left in its natural upholder of human was full of carrying a flask in the hip- train, however, scores of freedom, and a mob of Thousands gangster briganda whose

sole intention was to make · noises", and patriotic senti- pocket. These things made ruined careers.

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.

tinued the headlong follies bondage. and of war-time in the piping Broken Hongkong dan Up is received in nished songs so exuberant- raved but saw that they times of peace.

could make no impression. lives and hearts strewed the

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JUNKET TO TOKYO

THE so-called state visit to Japan of Mr Wang Ching-wei,

and

Parents stormed

country,

and

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

slipped from their The legends of these were were thinking furiously.

They saw and saw steadi- ly credit the cool and col- had lected British people with grasp, and they solaced told in every household.

themselves with the formula

The youth of to-day heard ly, that unless the world such uproarious militancy,

the that

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

slender enough. No. 1 defector from the Govern-were tumultuous, not only gone to the dogs. Elderly or Aunt Ethel, debauched German menace any pros-

"scarlet ences, had never been able ment of China, closes one door with the newly discovered ladies muttered Apocalyptic by their-war-time expert they might have would be

American jazz", but with warnings about

shuddered at the thought of opens another. The that "whoopee" which made women" and "the mark of to get into step again, and Japanese noninec is being re- the fatalistic Oriental feel the Beast," and clergymen these "horrible examples." ceived by the Emperor of that Europe had found a preached on the text: "Let

This may explain to some Japan, this in itself being tacit new affinity with the spirit us eat, let us drink, for to- approval of Dr Honda's recent of Africa. vehement utterances that a set- tlement of the China Incident must be Hought through the medium of the Nanking ad- ministration and not by any other means. Dr Honda, Tokyo representativo in Nanking, pre.VERYBODY'S got light "machine-guns," say's Charlie ceded Wang to Japan "to re- port" only a few weeks ago and the Chancer.

morrow

The abominations perpet- rated in Poland, Holland and Czechoslovakia, entered like iron into men's souls,

we die," and in- extent why the present war and revealed what would

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE: Another Chapter

It's a Lovely

"Maybe we are."

Weapon!

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 "The same goes for us against not quench the natural "Well," says the imperturb 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 ho's people in face of danger. weapons that we use. And are

got, we can beat him all right In any case, it diffused a because our heart's really in the deeper spirit of gravity not it would now seem that Wang Hitch, the Wigan Sergeant, we beating the Wops?"

fight.

only through all classes, but had demanded something abso-looks at him in a deceptively

"Ther's no maybe. We are.

the among "See. you wad-scoffing Twom- particularly lutely final in Japanese recogni- simple, ox-like way and says: See? And what are we beating tion of his status to kill con- "What d'you mean, 'Everybody's them with, do you think? met? So don't talk like a soppy

great Snurge, you silly sausage. young men in the Army and Death-rays?"

The Bren is a lovely weapon, the young women in the stantly recurring rumours of got light machine-guns?'"

"Maybe we are."

"Now put your fags out and allied services. pence overtures to Chungking. "What I say, Sarnt. Ain't

"Well we're not, see? We're

same let me hear you run over these!

For although the young The answer is in the visit to Jerry got 'em?"

beating 'em with the

Why, groups of parts. You, name me

folk of 1914-18 realised to has," "Но

Says Sergeant weapons as they use. Tokyo. Once having presented

the full that in Germany Wavell, out there, he had the four groups,"

"Butt group, body group, him to their Emperor as the Hitch.

nothing at all to start with: he leader of China, the Japanese

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

the Wops? Because we're free

rays," he adds. patronage.

men, ace?

Bren gun."

+

It is evident that the Japan-

"It gives you a high rate of "It's ese would have dearly liked to fire," comes the answer.

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proceeding to this extreme fire it, take it to pieces, and put stage; alternatively they would it together again.

"No, I do not went it to sing

"It's little and don't need any have preferred to have met a 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 and dance to me, Sarnt. But if enabled Wang Ching-wel to de- everybody'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." he had been placed.

When not one reputable Chinese, let alone a foreign

country, followed Japan's lead

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"A lawyer," says Sergeant Hitch, sadly. "That's what you

by giving him "face" Wang are. Liston. In the last war, was strengthened by the know did the Jorries run about naked

with spears?" ledge that his fall would be in- significant compared with the loss in prestige that Japan. would suffer. Accordingly he has the confidence to insist that- Japan commit herself to sustain, his star and the Tokyo "junket" to use an appropriate Ameri- can word is the outcome.

It remains to be seen whether the Nanking leader will find his star in the ascendant thero.

"I couldn't say, Sarnt." "What does this horrible Twidget mean, ho couldn't say ?" "I wasn't there, Sarnt, and no more was you."

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

"They might do," saya Charlie the Chancer. "I novor them."

ocen

MES DEAN - Chings theme, fat.

hension that these poison- lous 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 now ways to show Phil that he means nothing at all to mol”

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 them 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 80- briety, thoughtfulness and calm courage in the face of danger unexampled.