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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 13;· 1940
MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
“QUEER WAR”
Some say that this is a "queer war" because it finds us with nothing to look back on like the stubborn, retreat from Mons, Le Cateau, or the First Battle of Ypres or, for that matter and in spite of the valiant se- manship that rounded up and ended the Graf Spee, not much-that looks like so decisive a stroke at sea as the encounters of the Dogger Bank, Coronel, or the Falklands Islands in the last half of 1914. But all the time a ruthless and determined enemy has been striking not where he would but where he can, and even in this last fortnight has taken to machine-gun- ning from the air the crews of un- armed trawlers and coasting vessels. The men of the Royal Navy and the mercantile marine have sustained and are sustaining a battle more decisive than the Somme, and the fact that Goering's boasted Luftwaffe should be reduced to sniping non-combatants from the air shows which way Ger- many thinks that the tide of battle turns. Other tests lie before us, but the sea affair moves neither to Germany's credit nor to her success.
We may,
GERMANY AND FINLAND
if, as is probable, Germany, In the event of victory in this war, looked forward to a war with Russia to re- cover her lost influence in the Eastern Baltic, Finland would be invaluable to her. For that reason Russia's war with Finland has from the first been unpopular, not only with many ortho- dox Nazis, but with the leaders of military thought in Germany, who still look to the east as the natural field of this expansion. When, in addition, war, in which Stalin expected a vic- tory as easy as Hitler's over Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, has produced a revelation of incompetence in high places which has gone far to destroy the Russian military legend, every disaster must Ber- Russian
weaken the German faith in the political ability of Hitler. To have been capable of so lttle against a Power with only one- fortieth. of her population must bring home to every German the folly of the Russian agreement' which caused Hitler to make the gamble of a war with Britain and France.
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It is, indeed, far too early to speak of the war in Finland as though it had already ended in the defeat of Russia. But already the Russians have suffered defeaf which has damaged the prostige of their Government, and the more men Russia mobilises the greater the risk of a Russian revolution. The Communism which was made by Rus- slan military defeats ́ and by the re- by the map, look more vulnerable,
velation of the incompetence of the old but the prospect is fairer than any regime might conceivably be unmade Herr Hitler can firrd from the by the same causes. How often the Berchtesgaden gazebo
whose
ap-
proaching tunnels, as a French Am- bassador has just reminded us, are de- corated, now and at any time, with machine-gun nests rather than with holly,-"Manchester Guardian.”
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POPE'S FIVE POINTS
German military mind must have re- flected that, but for the agreement, what has happened' in Finland might have given her an excellent oppor- tunity of becoming the real master in a counter-revolutionary policy.--"Sun- day Times."
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SHANGHAI BOOM
It ought to be kept in mind, also, Of the Pope's five points the one that that the local industrial" 'boot' anti: is likely in the future to set the most trade improvements depended; in the urgent and intricate task for the archi- first half of 1939, chiefly upon the tects of reconstruction is the third, in Chinese foreign exchange allotments. which he writes of the need for creat- unearned by Shanghai, and laterʼlargo-- ing or recomtituting international in- ly resulted from the devaluation of the stitutions. Beyond question the ulti- Chinese dollar. Many huge pront and: mate task that awaits the nations, revenue increase amount, to little or neutral and belligerent alike, after the entirely disappear when local immediate injus-
THIS ENGLAND:
Bir-Speaking about the ro> called" "combhles,” E-múst agree with: "23" Years Old"! Wär must wonder where our Empire. and alf that is 'dear to us wouldˇbe, if· such men i Nelson, Walilágtam Allenby,- Kitchener, and Lord Halg: had been “bonatriaslihase "Ipswich Evening Star" and "Daily Herald.”
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rency figures, arę-- converted into for- eign exchange. Many business value increases
concur with volume decreases. Despite the boom on the Shangtial Stock Exchange, there are. very, few shares in welche lorry)-term investment pald better than simple flight into Ameri-. can currency? Also,
tices have been set right, is the build- ing up of a new international system capable of: succeeding where the League of Na-- tions has failed andi of preventing' the acts of injustice] and violence that: give rise to war. In the last War many, perhaps most, fought with some vague: hope and expectation of ulti- the big business, profits did not bene. mately restoring the world they had fit Shanghai as whole. Recent Shan- known before 1914: That hope was not hal manufacturing and export suc- and could not have been fulfilled; cesses decisively depended upon the and to-day we have learnt not to think extremely cheap labour of Shanghai, on those lines. The Europa. of 1939, is
which during the past five months has gone for ever, and few will regret it; . whatever is built out of the ruins, will been further cheapened by the refusal readjust nominal- be a very different and, we must hope, of big business to
a finer structure. In creating an in wages and salaries to the increased. ternational order capable of perpetuat-
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