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"N 1914, a few shots fired in an obscure corner of the Balkans sufficed to
Vauxhall explode the European pow-
If you are going home on leave,
this must interest you,
You can arrange to stop ashore at home and drive away in your own Vauxhall,
der barrel. The ed through Austria, Serbia, Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain. The ancient quarrel between Teuton and Slav in Central and South- Eastern Europe cost. the We assist you in this connection lives of 10,000,000 men. without any trouble or complica- | Rather more than a year ago tion to yourself .delivered
a leading German diplomat told to you at home and subsequently me that a certain speech of M. in Hongkong.
Catalogue & Full Particulars from
Litvinoff's-which did not re- ceive any particular attention-- was really one of the most important events since the war. The Soviet Foreign Minister
Hongkong Hotel had stressed the interest of
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Soviet Russin in the affairs of South-Eastern Europe in words which might equally well have
The "Telegraph" re-publishes this article without comment. It first
Mail"
appeared in the London "Daily on March 11, 1936-just over
three years ago.
By
H. Powys GREENWOOD
author of
"The German Revolution"
strength leads them to prefer isolation. Apart from small nations like Hungary, there are three great "Have-nots"-Ger- many, Italy, and Japan. Two have left the League of Nations and one is in bitter conflict with it,
RED CROSS Of The
AIR
by Kay Carson
PLEVEN YEARS ago in .at
country situated many thou- sands of miles from Hongkong a tiny air company started the first regular air ambulance ser- vice in the world.
The country is Queensland in Australia, and the air service Qantas who, to-day, form one of the most important links in Imporial Airways 30,000 miles of aerial trunk routes which cont
connect England with the far- flung outposts of her Empire.
The true significance of air com- munications in enses of emergency Hving in
The "Have-nots" look on the League as an instrument for the preservation of a political situa-sickness is fully realised by people tion which they mean to alter the centres of
in localities for removed from And it is the real tragedy of the
expert treatment. With a vision befiting a country which
presents unique communication
Phone 27778/9. come from Isvolaky or Sazonoff what is felt to be an intolerable Loague that they are right. The Welles, Qantas realised the tre-
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April 17, 1939
Watch China!
THREE items of news published In Hongkong last week aro pregnant with possibilities.
One is the report of the hurried dash of the British Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Kerr Clark
Kerr; to Chungking.
aro
auccess.
سعيد
position.
was
basis of the League is "collective generation before. Russia
In 1914 Germany was a security" of existing rights. was back in the Balkans,
Diplomacy does not pause even
Her trade That is a static conteption. But prosperous nation. for the passing of kings. :
rapidly expanding; her history is dynamic.. As middle classes were growing It is true that there has been far as practical résults are concerned, the most successful richer, her workers getting a great deal of talk Intely
higher wages.
possible There were no about
modifications statesmen who were recently in oppressed minorities to bother of the status quo, about Article about; one way or another the 19, treaty revision, the "Colonial England was M. Litvinoff.
German race ruled in. Central problem." But once the talk Russia's Influence Europe. Certainly Austria- leaves theoretical idealism and Hungary was a weak spot, and gets down to facts, it becomes HE returned to Moscow with there was a certain amount of clear that nations are ready to trade and credit negotiations resentment and jealousy about give up their possessions of with Britain well advanced, Germany's insufficient "place ip other kinds, only at the point
influence in Little the sun." But the sun wns of the bayonet. Russian Entente councils steadily In- getting warmer and the place creasing King
Face to Face Carol of bigger. Had it not been for Rumania seems to have succum- Serajevo, the Great War might JAPAN goes ahead. in
China bed to intensive Franco-Russian never have come.
But the Poles will not wooing-and above all with the It is scarcely necessary to abandon the "Corridor"; M. firm assurance that the Franco- dilate upon the contrast with Benes will hang on Russian pact was to be ratified. 1986, to point to the minorities, embittered German minority;
France, Russin, the Slav to the stendily increasing Austrian independence will some States of Europe, with Britain economic strain, to the shortage how be bolstered up; we do not rather loosely attached: is it of raw material supplies, to the seem ready to hand over colonies 1914 over again?
lost colonies, to the strenuous or mandates. Is it likely that It is futile to burk facts. The efforts to maintain 1914 alignment was based upon independence of Germany, to to have a real effect will be Austrian concessions sufficiently important fear of the Germans; the 1936 the watchful ring of Slav States. made? And even if they were alignment is based upon fear of Germany is scarcely likely to made, might they not merely the Germans. For nearly 70 support the status que in Europe, result in whetting the appetites years, those 80 odd million She wants something-possibly of the beneficiaries? vigorous people in the heart of a great deal. She is a "Have- Europe have dominated European stage-in victory and
to his
mendous service the air could offer:
people living in isolated parts of Australia, situated many hundreds
of miles from the nearest doctor.
And so the Flying Doctor came into. being.
**
THE Australian Inland Mission sup- craft, Owners of big sheep and cat- tle stations which are the equiva- Jent of American ranches-were en- couraged to clear land suitable for landing grounds.
Bleycle wireless transmitting sels were established in "out-back" homes where 017, 50
plied the doctor, Qaniss the air-
hou
no electricity was laid named because the
owner generated his own power for trans- mission by allting on a bicycle and going through pedalling movements. Thus the first regular air ambulance
service in the world was formed.. That was in May, 1028.
The lead which Qantas set the world eleven years ago in Australi different degree, by other countries has been followed in a somewhat throughout the Empire. Commercial aircraft, which feed the millions of with mail and freight, are frequently called upon to utilise their passenger space for the carriage of invalld
inhabitants of the British Empire
casca.
Streicher cases are a common aight on Imperial Airways glant flying-- bants operating normal passenger 30,000 miles of Empire air routes, services. Linking up, as they do,
they ensure that invalids can reach, in the minimum amount of time. the treatment for the case in question. centre of the highest spcelalised
The second is the great Chinese counter-offensive оп the
war fronts of five provinces, in at least three of which the Chinese troops meeting with conspicuous Finally, the sudden recall of the U.S. Grand Flect--an armada of 120 warships-to the Pacifle.
If this view la correct, if The haste with which the British
"peaceful change" is an illusion, Ambassador
will not the "Have-nots" inevit hurried to China's war-time capital after his
ably line up against tho "Haves"? chiefly, but not only. French A YEAR or so ago, to talk of Certainly they have not yet ONE conversations.in Shanghai with fear of a nation which had would have conveyed little or away; Italy and Germany have able to enter a nursing, the time
"Haves" and "Have-nots" done so. Japan is a long way from myelitle in Karachi,-who-was- the Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir virtually fought the world, was nothing to the average man usual rumours of British media-a post-war policy which could in To-day, thanks to "The Daily ceedingly anxious to keep on Robert Craigle, gave rise to the the mainspring of a treaty and beyond a vague idea of Socialism. quarrelled over Austria; and and the days from the time
Germany has obviously been ex- tion in the Sino-Japanese conflict, the long run lead only to Adolf Mail," the problem is clear to good terms with Great Britain. where she was conveyed Immediately
has
the not" Power.
Dissatisfied Nations
in defeat, even in the humiliation and chaos of 1918, Fear--
Hitler.
Arst time since his arrival in Totalitarian
kong newspapers.
every schoolboy.
.
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NE can call to mind the instance
of a ground engineer, suffering.
he left India.
new from Nairobi and was met by
A woman suffering from cancer
an ambulance at Southampton, from Germany to her destination in Cheshire, a journey insting five days,
But Sir Robert Craigie quite em-
The Nazi State
But Japan and Rightly or wrongly, certain phatically denies that his conver- vations with the Ambassador to AND now Hitler is there, and nations are fundamentally dis have a great bond in their com- conscription is there, and satisfied with their place in the mon hatred of Soviet Russin: China were for the purpose of
the Fuhrer's Anglophil sym- tanks and guns are pouring out endeavouring to change it. They discussing mediation.
of the factories. A few orders, want things belonging to others. Pathies are being sorely tried by What, than? Sir
Archibald and peaceful towns like Dessau
The remaining nations are more M. Litvinoff's activities-as wit- refused to tell us anything about become gigantic factories for or less satisfied. They want to ness last Saturday's events and that meeting when he passed military aeroplanes,
The the increasing agitation for keep what they have. working through Hongkong en route to day and night. From childhood "Have-nots" face the "Haves." colonies; and isolation is driving Tho "Haves" correspond the Duce to make more and more Chungking. He refused, for the onwards, the citizens of the roughly with the nations play. urgent overtures to Germany. China, to be interviewed by Hong- to be disciplined, to march, to except, of course, for the United then two groups face each State are trained ing a leading part at Geneva Once the line-up is complete, endure the Totalitarian War., States, whose overwhelming other exactly as in 1914.
And why not? Are. not Germany's neighbours armed and arming? In 1916 Lord Balfour wrote in a memorandum to the Cabinet that he hoped There is a school of thought which that after the war no attempt believes that there is going to be would be made to Interfere with the Sino-Germany's domestic policy ard Japanese conflet by western Powers. to destroy militarism. Napoleon had tried, but "no attempt was If there is going to be trouble li Europe it would obviously be to the ever less successful. As every- advantage of the opponents of the body knows, Napoleon's policy Totalitarians to buttress Chinese compelled Prussia to contrivo restatance to aggression in the Far the military system which has East. The three great aggressor created modern Germany." nations in the world to-day are co partners, mutually bound to each other by the ties of the so-called and -convenient-Anti-Comintern Pact.
There are observers. who belleve that each of those three signi- ficant happenings reported last week has a direct bearing on events in Europe.
active Intervention
in
Has history repeated itself with Clemenceau, Poincare, and the Totalitarian State?
Parhapa-1812-is-a-better China has proved by her great parallel than 1914 as far as counter-offensive that, far from being [Germany Is concerned. There debilitated by nearly two years of is the same intense surge of continuous warfare, she is to-day nationalism, the reaction against sironger, probably, than at any time since the start of the conflict, a
As Chinese resistance-evén de driven a wedge, deep into tho fensive resistance-continues, Japan Totalitarian bloc. dally becomes weaker and weaker, Japan mayathouses her intenion When as happened last week of supporting Italy and Germany in China takes the offensive, the process any confilet, but she is hardly in a of disintegration which is surely positiori to lend much aid at present, overtaking Japan's financial and except, perhaps, to temporarily do economic structure is obviously hus-minate the northern Pacific, tened.
If Chinese resistance is buttressed
So far, China has fought her great to the extent that her armies are: war alone, with comparatively litle revitalised by getrous support from aid trom the West. If ald on a con- the west, Japan no longer becomes an alderable scale is forthcoming, what Incalculable factor in Us European is goin to happen to Japan?
altustiori, Her hands will be too full China, by her herole resistance to plight of her alling on the other alde
helping horseit is bother about thos Japanese2ggression, has already' of the world."
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
And I talk while under ether, all names 1. might mention
are entirely fictitibus and no reference to any living
person will be intentional?!!
A man who fractured his heel tall- ing from a high building at Port Bell.. Ugands, was three and a half days later comfortably lastalled in bed in England, receiving treatment at one of the most advanced fracture clinics in the Empire.
This year, for the first time in the history, of their country's aviation, America's great combine of airlines is considering the establishing of a 'hospital 'pione which would be
throughout the country on a charter made available to Impo
Important clinics and the medical profession generally,
basis, They do not assume that it would be necessary to tie up one ship for this purpose, but that seats could be removed and cots installed. But it is to the ploneers of the first regular air ambulance service. that we must look for truly colourful coses.
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ONE of the most important features
of Qantas ambulance work in those early days was the treatment of maternity cases. Expectant mothers "out-back" and only those who fully realise the vastness of Australian- bush country can appreciate the ter- rible isolation of some of those “out- back" homes-would watch the skies with anxious eyes for the dreaded yearly rains, which would mean the complete severance of all 'communi-. cations. The doctor could not be in attendance Mactality was ofte high,
To-day, thanks to the dying doctor,. such circumstances need nover arise. A wireless call, if a telephone is not connected, brings a doctor on the scene within a few hours. Possibly the most remarkable feature of this particular air ambulance service In that it is all voluntory. It is left to the patient to pay what he can. The concern is financed by public subs. cription.
A woman has joined Australia's- ranks of dying doctors possibly. U Fonly woman doctor to be doing such work in the world. She is Doctor White of Normantan, Queensland, a middle-aged woman of fine character, carrying out a great job of work.
The advisability of woman dolpe. looked
such work Was wide-spread doubt by
thegen teht public at first, but that Doctor, While has proved herself equal to the tasks was soon acknowledged by both the people of all States and the pilots who fly the planes