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them.
You could
for
years Danzig
by PAUL BRETHERTON
her walls.
argue
about
But with the exception of little right in the heart of Kunaver.
Arthur Karl Greiser, genini ond
things to these the city might be lively President of the Danzig Senate,
Village Becomes A Port
is one of them. Everyonö, knowin
him, and has known him since the
days when he had a speedboot on THE port brings ships from the beach at Zoppot, not so long ago; overywhere, and with them and earned his money by taking come English sailors and Malay cats on breath-taking "sprints" out alokers, who wander into ancient over the windy sca. wine shops and try their hand at We will be remembered in many опе of the vast variety of dery parts of the world as the man who "cordinta" which are made in many went to Geneva, spoke a few ap cmall, quor factories in the elly, propriate words to the League of There would be many more ships Nallons, thumbed his nose at the
sailors, if it were not for the existe Press gallery, and walked out again.
The other man is Albert Forster,
THE statesmen of Europe are and Swedes fought cach plier around
putting the history profes and other
ence of Gdynin, the great port which sors in the shade these days.. The year 1807 found Donziz con- Poland has built on her own piece the Gau" leader of Danzig, young D few miles west of and impatient, who is not a Danziger but an "import" from Southern Ger- Battles of centuries ago are rak- quered by Napoleon; from 1814 until of coastline
many. ed up to prove to the bewildered the Great War she was the capital Danzig.
Hewn out of the sand dunes at a of German West Prussia, and to-day
It is possible, of course, that the world that territories should she Bles the Swastika Flag while a spot where there was a minute rightly belong to this or that League of Nations Commissioner Ashing village only a few years ago, League of Nations "Prolector," Dr. nation to-day, and then even "prutecla" her and Foland holds Gdynia handles an enormous trade Burckhardt, who is a Swiss, and who already, and the Danzig merchants has won praises all round for his older and more ferocious tussles economic and diplomalle way.
Surely there is enough here to resentfully watch the cargoes pass tact and patience in holding down a' ara brought forward to dispute keep the history professors arguing ing through Polish hands instead of most thankless task-Hitler in his recent Relchsiog speech referred to for years: but would we be any their own.
Many of them realize, however, him as "a man of extraordinary tact" Grand old Danzig, now enjoying clearer at the end of it all?
Here is a pocket-paradise of 1,300 that if and when Danzig becomes has some inkling of what the map her turn as centre-point of the latest
The Polish Commission hero simply crisis, is a perfect subject for dis square miles, a little land of lust part of the Reich there will be no will look like by the end of the year. pules like these. Ask these massive green meadows and wooded, hills, trade going through to Poland at all old walls and vallant towers what All the way from Danzig to Zoppot's from Danzig, and Germany has for says that nothing is going to happen, nation they belong to... and I think silver-sand beaches and neat, lively bigger and more important ports because nothing must huppen, they would shake their turrels and casino, the foxgloves grow as thick tlun Danzig from which to serve the
Pepper And Salt Riches. say, "Don't ask us; work it out for us buttercups In England in the needs of the country.
Meanwhile, the merchants and yourself."
Tiny fishing villages and fat farm- everybody else are hoping that some Way back in 1300 the Kings of Bohemia, the Margraves of Branden steads spread round the dreaming thing much worse than tosing their urg, the Kings of Poland, and the elly, where Brownshirts tramp about trade will not befall them and their If they know anything. nobles of Pommerellen were fighting the narrow streets and the marching beautiful elty. They know that they
Finally songs of Hitler-children echo from are due to be brought back into the great Arlus Hall, a mammoth chiam- in fine style for Danzig. the famous Order of German Knights the painted fronts of the rococo Fatherland sooner or later, and at her where the merchants sat at their threw the others out, and, after houses where the wealthy merchants the same time they are sure that the guild-tables and drank wine from once liveti. And farther out adil, Poles mean what they say when they some of the costliest and most in- splendid accomplishments, were
triente goblets in Europe. Or in the than a half of the themselves thrown out by the
They fall to see a solution to this counting houses of the men who grew Danzigers, who apparently had had territory, Polish troops and Polish
guns are hidden in the countryside, problem, which resembles that of rich from selling pepper and salt and enough" of them.
the Irresistible force meeting the naphtha and bricks, and had their waling. Merchants From England We have Polish letter-boxes and immovable object. Something has to little planos decorated by famous painters and their dining - tables German letter-boxes on the walls: tive way somewhere, they feel.
Two Who Might Know carved into masterpieces. IN 1454 Poland became Pro- Polisi pesten und German postin
tector of Danzig, and cen- And, of course, Pollsh school children
But I am sure that the ghosts and clty had and German school chikirên. And PERHAPS two men in Danzig the old walls and towers would think THERE HAVE been some strange turies later, when the
have some idea of what is it over and answer, "No; you must revelations In London recently become the home of merchants from they manage to avoid each other
going to happen.
work it out for yourself." about conditions in British Colonies, England, Holland, and the Ballic with painful politeness,
The London "Daily Express" 15 mainly responsible,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26616 July 11, 1939
Items
It sent A Staf Representative, Morley Richards, to Newfoundland to find out what was really wrong with that unhappy country.
His documentary revelations were so startling, so shameful, that they shocked England. So much, in fact, that Parliament promptly passed a Biti granting Newfoundland £3,000,- 000 per annum.
Now Richards is in Africa, invest!- gating conditions in Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast. In each of these three Colonies he will, if the recently published book by Leonard Barnea ("Empire or Democracy?") is any authority, see much that will interest "Dally Express" readers.
It wouldn't be a bad idea if the "Daily Express" could spare Richards for a trip to Hongkong as n con- temporary somewhat jocularly sug- gested the other day, There are several things of Colony:
ITEM: One person in every hun-
interest in this
summer me.
around more
1
answer "Never!"
BEYOND that, perhaps we
might ask the old houses
We could ask the ghosta of the
Russia Watches Japan
RUSSIA
SEA » UKHDISK
Int
ONTSER MONGOLFA
ANNER MORKOLÍ
CHINA
seems
BY WILLIAM LEWISOHN
1
Vladivostok But the most important section, commission between the two to the the Maritime Province of Russia, countries? The Japanese have repeatedly urged this. The Japanese a remains still to be dealt with.
boundary question, however, is pistol presented at the heart of
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their Empire. MEANWHILE, Eastern Siberia
not quite so simple as it appears on the surface.
is becoming steadily more In the first place, the Russians This fear has self-supporting and grows in deny the need for any further obsessed them military strength from day to demarcation of their frontiers, for a long time, day, Vladivostok, for instance, claiming that these have been and they have which in 1931 could have been definitely and conclusively fixed. EGULARLY every evolved the grandiose scheme taken. without much difficulty, by treaty in the old days be year now, about this of pushing out the frontiers of will now, in the opinion of Soviet tween the former Empires of the Japanese Empire westwards militury men, prove very hard Russia and China. Furthermore, _time,_the_ Russo-
to agree to a boundary commis- on-the-mainland so as to render nut to crack.
For this reason n large group sion between-Manchukuo-and- dred of Hongkong's normal popula- Japanese war scare flares up the home country safe from all
among the younger officers of Siberia would be tantamount to tion is a Civil Servant. (The total afresh. Frontier incidents possible air attacks. number of Government employees,
The frontier that they evis- the Japanese Army are urgent a de jure recognition of the excluding those on Loan Works. I assume alarming dimensions 10,792. Between them this year they and each time the situation age for this purpose would for an early settlement with State of Manchukuo.
In the second place, although Yet sweep in a wide curve from the Russia by force of arms, rather the salaries won't be proportionate, for grows a little tenser.
runs between Manchukuo and. 437 of the 10,792 civil servants will these border disputes are Sea of Okhotsk in the cast than allow her further time to the greater length of frontier
to the Gulf of Chihli in the west. prepare. whip off the cream: they will draw
This atmosphere of fear and Siberia, there remains a con- $5,047,381, (un average of $13,000 per merely the symptoms of the No point on this are would then annum each), leaving only $8,782.880 disease, not the disease it be less than 1,200 miles by air suspicion on both sides is what siderable section on the west from the industrial centres of makes the frontier incidents, so which adjoins Outer Mongolia.. Now, as, Manchukuo and Outer ing 10,355. Civil Service salaries, self.
Geographically, Japan is in Japan. With the seizure of very serious,
It will be asked: Why cannot Mongolia both formed part of ITEM: In addition: 308 Civil Ser-an almost impregnable position Manchuria, Jehol and Chahar, vice Pensioners, 390 Police Pen-against attacks by most of the two-thirds of this desired fron- the frontiers be clearly delimit- the Chinese Empire there is no and other Great Powers. There re- tier have already been obtained. ed for once and all by a boundary treaty or document of any kind. Orplinns a total of 1,130 pensions, or mains, however, one weak spot
wlit draw $14,430,240 in salaries. But
to be distributed among the remain-
this year will represent 35 per cent.
of the Colony's total revenue,
sioners
348 and
Widows
one person every thousand of our normal population-will draw $3,100,- in her armour: the Maritime 000 in pensions. Their pensions Province of Soviet Russia on the range from $12 to $22,400 per annum mainland, just across the Sea of each several pensioners draw over Japan. £1,000 a year. Pensions absorb an- other 7.5 per cent. of our
revenue.
total
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ITEM: Transport of the select few ONLY 600 miles by air from
their great industrial cities,
Government servants who proceed Home on leave every four years will absorb another $020,183 this year. For those who remain in the Colony,
Government will donate Rent Allow of private firms. Typical raics of ances totaling $330,000,,
pay for a ten-hour day vary from os low as ten centa a day, or three dollars a month.
ITEM: We will spend $8,174,000 on Defence this year-another twenty per cent. of 'our total revenue. But
ITEM: Malnutrilion and other we will be able to find only $2,318,- attributes of poverty will be pri- 800 (of which the greater part will marily responsible for the fact that go to a few highly paid English one quarter of the children born in
our children. Hongkong teachers) to educate
this year will never Almost all the African colonies will celebrate a birthday. Of all thel devote a greater percentage of their | British Colonies, only in Kenya and revenues to Education. Even the Malta is infant mortality higher than despised Gold Coast will spend the in Hongkong. equivalent of $4,000,000—or seven per cent. of its lolal revenue... an educat- ing its African children this year, We will spend only 84 per cent, of our total revenue.
ITEM: Hongkong will suffer from perpetual shortage of accommodation for prisoners, because so many people prefer prison life to freedom. They have discovered that living condlilons in prison are infinitely better than those prevalling outside, to such an extent, in fact, that rechiivism, has become an acute problem,
ITEM! The average monthly in income of each of the top 437 Civ Servants in Hongkong is $1,100. But the average monthly Income of familles recelying assistance from the
ITEM: Tuberculosis will claim Society for the Protection of Children will be $1.57, or Ove cents a day. In one in every ten people who die in 1030. Most of them the Eastern Centre the average in- Hongkong come per month will be only 00 will die because they have had cents, less than three conia day, chance to breathe pure air in their For seven years the earning power overcrowded tenements. In
A
เ
no
some
of people dealt with by this Society parts of Hongkong more humanity is has steadily declined until, even in a sald to be crammed in each oere than Government Report, it is. now in any part of the world. The over- described as "alarming."
crowded conditions 'under which the ITEM: Government will continue' poorest and most under-hourlahed to pay Its coolics a commencing members of the communtly live will salary of $13 a mouth, They will be continue to provide. Ideal soll for the lucky compared with some employees propagation of this disease.
delimiting the frontier between. the two.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
'That's the last time you talk mo into eating spinach
all it did was miska mo over-confident!!!
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ON the other hand, the Rus-
Blans, following the example- of Japan vis-a-vis Manchukuo,. insist that Outer Mongolia is an entirely free and independent. Socialist Republic, bound to the U.S.S.R. merely by bonds. of friendship, and that therefore the delimitation of that portion of the frontier is no concern of Russia.
* * 38 THE question that everybody has been asking: Will Russia assist the Mongols to resist ? was answered by Stalin, the Soviet leader, when he declared in a momentous interview: "It Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic and seeks to destroy, its indepen- Idence, we shall have to help that
Republic."
The scizure of Outer Mongo- lia by Japan would dangerously weaken Russia's defence of her $ possessions in the Farthest East.. As a glance at the map wil show; Outer Mongolia lica along the flank of the Siberian Railway and would, in Japanese hands, constitute a serious threat to communications between Russia: and Eastern Siberia. *
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