The mere threat of invasion has consolidated all ranks into a unity of purpose such as has never been seen in any previous war. All these decrees and intrigues by fussy, impatient ministers for putting us into gyves and shackles if we dare utter a single word which is inconsistent with those which are put in our mouths by our rulers, are entirely unjustifiable. There is nothing which is more likely to effect a permanent injury upon the morale of the nation than the introduction of these totalitarian methods into the government of a country which proudly boasts it is the froest on earth, I have only just returned from a tour of that part of the country with which I am associated. I found there all classes and parties united with the Government in the determination to do all in their power—in fact everything they were asked to do—to assist in repelling any invader in his attempt to land on our shores.
Workmen in their factories labour with energy and zeal to assist in increasing the output of our means of defence, Farmers carry out without grudge or grouse all the exceptional obligations which the Ministry of Agriculture has imposed upon them. to increase the production of food from our own soil They often do what they are told with inadequate Shanghai, June 15. prostrated by its ravages. and the death penalty itself can be Inticted by these courts without the means at their disposal—but thes intervention of a jury. It is thus|@ it
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