THE CHINA-MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1940
HOW THE WAR BEGAN Disclosures In The French Yellow Book
BRITAIN AND GERMANY-A CONTRAST
London, To-day.
A contrast between condi- tions in Britain and Germany
EFFORTS TO DIVIDE BRITAIN AND FRANCE
MOVEMENTS IN GALICIA
[SPECIAL TO "THE CHINA MAIL"] ROME, TO-DAY. THE FASCIST PRESS REPORTS THE MOVEMENT OF SOVIET TROOPS AND WORKMEN IN THE CARPATHIANS, WHILE REPORTS
FROM BELGIUM AGAIN ALLEGE PRESENCE OF GERMAN
GALICIA, IN RUSSIAN OCCUPIED
POLAND.
The "Popolo d'Italia" reports that
THE FRENCH YELLOW-BOOK on the events leading to the war is particularly valuable in that it covers a wider period than the British Blue-book and starts with the THE is afforded by the fact that invasion of Austria instead of with the occupation of TROOPS IN THE OIL-FIELDS OF for several weeks now, on Prague. It is thus possible to reveal the earlier stages of every Sunday, hundreds of the German attempt to divide Britain and France. parents travel by rail into the In October, 1938, M. Francois-Poncet took leave of country to visit their evacuat-Hitler in the mountain eyrie at Berchtesgaden before relin- ed children.
quishing the French Embassy in Berlin. The Fuehrer on this occasion complained bitterly of Great Britain, but pro- fessed his desire for friendly relations with France. Except for tirades against Britain he was calm, moderate, and conciliatory.
This does not cost them a penny. Yesterday, for instance; nearly 3,000 people were carried by the Southern
Rallway to western England and Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. These trips are in addition to the ordinary rall services and show how well able to cope with special circumstances British railways are.
residence.
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But the Yellow-book reproduces the [xiety to drive a wedge into the Anglo- following illuminating comment made French block and to stabilize peace in the West so as to have his hands free by the Ambassador afterwards:--
I have no illusion as to the charac-in the East. The position of the Nazi railways
BRITAIN THE ENEMY is far different. At 7 p.m. on Satur-ter of Adolf Hitler. I know that he
The papers dealing with the nego- is mercurial, a dissimulator, contradic- day, the German radio announced
The same man of tlations leading up to the Franco-Ger- further restrictions on Journeys to tory, uncertain. home and family of Germans work- debonair mien, sensitive to the beau-man declaration of December 6, 1938, also contain much evidence of the Ger- the ing away from their normal place of ties of nature, who set forth at
man attempt, sternly resisted by the tea-table to me reasonable views on the
French, to make friends with France Not only are they limited by last European policy, is capable of
at Great Britain's expense; and they November's order as to the number worst frenzies, of the most savage ex-
show that Germany had decided of journeys they may make, butaltations, of the most delirious ambi-
shortly after Munich that Britain was tions. There are days on which, privileges whereby in certain
Bonnet wrote that extra journeys were granted have standing before a globe of the world, the enemy. M.
he overturns nations, continents, geo-Ribbentrop, when he came to Paris to now been cancelled.-Reuter.
graphy, and history like a man pos- sign the declaration, placed the blame sessed of a mad demoniacal force. At for Anglo-German tension entirely on the shoulders of Great Britain, and other times he dreams of being hero of an eternal peace, in the bosom made the surprising statement that of which he hopes to build grandiose the German Government had been un- monuments. The advances which he able to restrain the German Press is disposed to make to France are dic- campaign against Britai The Netherlands Minister in London tated by a sentiment which he shares the Is inquiring into reports that British at least intermittently-with 'plaries flew over Holland on two suc- majority of Germans-namely, lassi- cessive nights last week, presumably tude at an age-long duel and the de- But one in connection with R.A.F. reconnais-sire to put an end to it. sance flights over North-West Ger- Ican be certain that at the same time
Reuter.
the Fuhrer remains faithful to his an- many.
HOLLAND COMPLAINS
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about 100,000 Soviet workmen, com- manded by Soviet military officers, have arrived on the Polish-Slovakian border apparently to construct forti-
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FOREIGN BROADCAST SENTENCES
Berlin, To-day. Penalues for Germans caught Us- tening to foreign radio broadcasts are becoming more and more severe.
The latest offender, a German living near the Polish-German frontier, has been sentenced to five years' imprison- ment; his wife gets one year in gaol.- Reuter.
deliberately imparted to the French Embassy with a view to discouraging and intimidating the French Govern- ment. On May 22 he made the fol- lowing observations:
the
The hypothesis that Poland will con- form to the views and follow in the wake of Germany, however, unlikely this may seem at the moment, is ap-, parently not yet entirely excluded by Last February the French Ambas- Herr von Ribbentrop. But in the view. sador in Berlin reportéd a long con- of the German Minister for Foreign versation in which Ribbentrop defined Affairs the Polish State cannot funda- German foreign policy in these words: mentally have a durable character, Our objective in foreign policy is Sooner or later it must disappear, par- twofold-to fight Bolshevism by every titioned once more between Germany means, and notably through the ma- and Russia. In Herr von Ribbentrop's chinery of the Anti-Comintern Pact;
of such conception
idea and-to-recover-our-colonies. On-the-a-partition-is--Intimately bound. first point, believe me, the struggle on with that of a rapprochement between which we have engaged la without Berlin and Moscow. So far as the quarter on either side. As regards the head of the Wilhelmstrasse is concern- Bovlets, we shall remain as inflexible | ed, such a rapprochement must in the an bronze. Never shall we come to long run be indispensable and inevit- any agreement with Bolshevist Russla. | able. In accordance with the nature
OVERTURES TO RUSSIA
of things, and with a tradition which On April 30 the French Ambassador is still very much alive in Germany, it in Warsaw reported that he was in-would alone permit a durable settle- formed from a good source that in thement of the German-Polish dispute, preceding September, January, and that is to say, in conformity with the March the German Government had method already applied to Czecho- proposed at Warsaw collaboration | Slovakia, the liquidation of Poland. against the Soviet Union. Colonel But above all, it would allow the lead- Beck had stated that the German pro-ers of the Reich to destroy British posals went much farther than the ac-power. That is the principal objec cession of Poland to the Anti-Comin- |tive which Herr von Ribbentrop is tern Pact.
said to have set himself-the one aim, Yet a few days later the French Am-the realization of which he is said to bassador in Berlin, M. Coulondre, re-pursue untiringly with the obstinacy of ported that, according to a statement fanatic.
made to a member of his staff. by one In an offensively worded letter of of Hitler's intimates, the Fuhrer in- July 13, addressed to M. Bonnet, Rib- tended to reach an agreement with bentrop claimed that the Franco-Ger- Russia,
man declaration gave Germany a free hand in the East, and tried to argua that if war ensued over Poland it
When (declared the informant) it is a question of executing a plan, there are no juridical or ideological condi- would be entirely the responsibility of- tions which can stand in the way. You. France. M. Bonnet, in his reply, dealt particularly should know that a very | effectively with this argument, "and Catholic King did not hesitate long concluded:----
ago to make an alliance with the
France desires pance ardently,- and Turks. Moreover, are the two regimes no one can doubt this. But no one, on really different? Are they not nearly identical in the economic sphere, al- though
for ou
our part we have in a cer- ́tain measure maintained private en- terprise. ** Just anHerr Hitler did not think that he could settle the Aus trian and Czechó÷Slovak questio without the assent of Italy longer thinks A
the other hand, dan,doubt the resolve of the French Government to hold to, théir engagements. I cannot allow it to be said that our country would be responsible
becaurs It had hono
But