And Aged from Cities; "Machine's" Displeasure By O. M. Green (Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Jan. 11. IHE Minister of Health's announcement that a census is to be American authorities were reported to have admitted that the Japanese action was justified; no such admission has ever been made by any American. Japanese forces captured Sutsien on November 22, and have Occupied it since that time. Three Japanese officers called on the American missionaries, at different times, to investigate the machinegun incident of November 5. These gentlemen were quite courteous in their attitude and conversation. Not One of them mentioned or suggested the presence of Chinese soldiers in the compound. That feature was added later, doubtless by some other person with a vivid imagination. The officers assured the Americans that the shooting was accidental, and one of them in particular expressed regret for the unfortunate affair. held of all rural houses and how many children evacuated Hospital Statement from danger towns they can take, has raised a storm in some quarters. The "Evening Standard," for example quotes statistics to show that hardly more than 1,000,000 of the 3,000,000 who would have to go could thus be accommodated, without counting another 3,000,000 elderly people and hospital cases.
An alternative plan was prepared last summer to build large camps, which would serve in peace time for holiday and summer school camps. This scheme, though strongly backed by several experts, has been rejected by the Ministry of Health on the ground that it would be unhealthy to herd so many children together. Which seems to be merely a question of building and draining.
A joyous sidelight on the whole problem of evacuation was supplied at an educational conference at Plymouth this week by a speaker who said that, if a test evacuation of children from danger areas in London were carried out in time of peace, with every policeman stationed along the streets, with all the. teachers working. with no Aeroplanes overhead, and no danger of any kind, he was informed on good authority that at least 2000 casualties Would be expected? He did not mean that there would be 3,000 deaths—but children would be run over. others Would get wet through and die from pneumonia. Casualties would range from, sprained ankles and such minor things up to children being killed, and that without any enemy action at all.
Which seems very probable.
Cold weather or not, public dissatisfaction over the Government Air Raid Precautions goes deep. Are we to try to protect ourselves most from gas, from incendiary bombs, or from the splinters of shells fired at invaders by our own anti-aircraft guns? Are we to build steel shelters or burrow underground? And what is to become of those melancholy ditches hastily scooped up in the parks last September and now half full of frozen slush. "How fares my good Lord Hamlet?" "Excellent faith, of the chameleons dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed." And in this state of the public mind it does not create a good impression that Sir John Anderson, specially appointed in October as the live wire who was to make us all happy about ARP. is away on a skating holiday in Switzerland.
Jew, yet you shall ogle her all the day and sit up half the night writing sonnets to her beauty."
I could not pretend to say a word about the rights and wrongs of the farmers. Volumes might be written on it. But the right of electors to choose their own candidate, and the un-right of the party caucus to force a carpet-bagger upon them is a fundamental principle of democracy, without which popular Government becomes a mockery. The evil power of the Whips and the party machine is already too apparent at Westminster, reducing important debates in which a sharp shock to the Government might be much benefit for the notion, to a mere formula of sound and fury. If a split vote lets in Mr. Tillett, the Socialists, the party machine will be entirely to blame. But one hopes that East Norfolk will teach the autocrats a lesson.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.