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The War
FOR two agoulsing years the
Chinese have suffered wounda and death, hunger and disease, because of the Insatiable ambitions of Japan's militarists. For two years China has fought back with unwavering heroism against over- whelming odds.
Her beaten armles have reform- ed again and again, and her Government is still sovereign over
vast unconquered territory. The Japanese, on their own show- ing, have we at an enormous cost in blood and treasure less than tenth of the total area of China.
The Chinese, in their gallant struggle, are fighting not merely their own battle but the battle of
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Yesterday came reports of border these manoeuvres, British Government 'in- clashes between Rumanlaris and Hun- creased by £50.000.000 the credits avail- Rumania thus becomes centre of able for Rumania, Greece, Turkey. Poland, garians. interest agairi, because of its strategic etcetera.
Already Germany has following rights position in the Balkans.
Bulgaria wants Southern Dobruja from in Rumania: Rumania. Cermany wants control of Rumanjan raw materials,
Rumania, already vitally dependent upon the economic pact signed with Ger- drawn-out many last March. waits on Anglo-Russian talks, sees in Italian in- vasion of Albania the Axis method at
·work, watches carefully Axis political and economic penetration in Yugo-Slavia, shares with Greece and Turkey fears of Axis Balkan manoeuvres.
To counteract
(a) To build factories, workshops, ware- houses, etc., to instal docks and dockyard equipment in Rumanian ports and also free zones in ports. (b) To construct roads and railroads. (c) To build electric power-and-light
stations.
Bessarabia ceded to Rumania in 1920 by Allies, but since cause of friction between Russia and Rumania. But, with German influence (in Czecha, Slowakia) within 90 miles of Soviet border tension easeI
Dobruja. ceded to Rumania from Bulgaria In 1920. Now under discussion between Bulgaria and Germany in Berlin
Bucharest · capital of Rumania governed by royal dictatorship Rumania is most vulnerable of all European nations to Nazi penetration, and with its vast wheatfields (marked //// on map) and its scarcely developed of supplies (well; marked ☺) must remain as most obvious field for Nazi economic drive Rumania's military and air forces are relatively weak and ill. equipped Rumania has commercial agree. ments with Germany and Britain (has received £5,000,000 credits from Britain this year), but is mainly dependent upon Germany for continuance of her economic life. By agreement of last March German technicians are now directing and developing Rumanian industrial potentialities.
Bulgaria: now in consultation with Berlin concerning Bulgarian claim to Dobruja province from Rumania,and direct access to Mediterranean Sea from Greece
instructors), industry
and hygiene.
and
(f) To provide unified modern equip.
and
munitions for the
ment
Rumanian Army, whose armament is at present varied and in some cases obsolete.
Any tightening of this Corman contral means that Rumania becomes virtually a German protectorate, provides: Cerman military strategists with bases for possible action against U.S.S.R.
U.S.S.R., for long antagonistic towards (d) To conduct lumber and mining ex- Rumania over Bessarabian problems, is now friendly, watches this "buffer" State of ploration and development.. (el To give Rumanians instruction in Rumania as carefully as she watches the
agriculture (the supply of tractors other "buffer" State of Poland.
the City
Eyes
Danzig,
Watching
MY
TY Polish friend Stefan Kowlowski asked me to meet him for lunch.
ROFESSOR
of
Sometimes Herr Greiser thumps structed red brick building, they tell Danzig's craftsmen, her gold and the table with his fist and shouts you, "The Herr High Commissioner silversmiths, her metal workers and to his friends: "Ninety-seven per is fishing," or "on a shooting party," wood carvers, bend over their work. Further on, among the high-timbered cent. of us are Germans, so why or "on holiday."
warehouses lining the broad water- can't we go back to the Reich?"
That is how he has earned a re ways, dozens of 1lto distilleries Kari nutation among the Nazis for having brew Danzig's famous liqueurs.
Near by, stout old German inn- BURCKHARDT, League more fact than his Trish predecessor, Mr. Sean Lester, For Mr. Loster Commissioner, dubbed by Hit- tried to run une Free City on League keepers shout "Good health" as they lines, and that disgusted Herr Gre put down glasses of schnapps on the ser and Herr Albert Forster, the local heavy wooden tables before the sal- lors who crowd in during the even- Nazi boss.
ings.
"The railway station at one o'clock" he said, in the mysteri- aus voice that Poles use in the High Free City over the 'phone.
eivilisation against brutal aggres-
At midday it was a struggle sion. Japan's attack on China to find a seat, though the chairs has been repeatedly condemned tare-as-bard and the walls as bleak as in any other station the conscience of the world.
restaurant in Europe.
-by VAUGHAN
JONES
Daily Express Staff Reporter
But it is not only the Poles and -Nazis-who-watch-ench-other-From.....
Outside, squads of brown-shirted the police headquarters the Gestapo stotintroopers their ranks full-of-
bristling-moustached, red-faced old keep an eye on everybody visiting Danzigers-march night after night
grey
the
narrow three-storeyed house where the Jewish headquarters through the
150
streets, patriotically established, a hundred yards rouring their "Hell Hiller" and snap- ping up right arms more briskly thin across the Heumarkt-square.
ir: Berlin.
It was then I learned that In October, 1937, at a great
hundreds of Danzig's Poles have Albert Hall meeting in London,
into turned that restaurant Canterbury their club. In the Nazi city
On the sidewalks young men of the Archbishop of
But the real city lies away spoke for the whole of Britain Poland owns the railways-and
D from the Senate, the Com- the labour corps stroll, just back on from camps ali over the there they feel at home.
ler. "A man of extraordinary tact," missariats, the rallways and the holiday when he denounced Japan. A Near our table, alone in a has just returned to his post near by Jews, towards the water-front Heich
Behind this shovy of swastikas and a from a round of visits to Geneva, There, tall gabled houses, painted month later the Far Eastern Con-corner, eyeing them over
pale browns and greys, yellows and banners lies the power in the hands Bid black-uniformed. Polish newspaper sat a bullet Warsaw and Berlin.
He is usually absent. At his greens, shadow the narrow, cobbled of the police headed, stubbly-haired young
windows guards. man with cold blue eyes, in a Commissariat, another ornately con- streets. Behind the old heavily set square face.
ference at Brussela voiced considered condemnation of Japanese action,
its
the
In the early stages of the war the Japanese assault the civilised world took the form of
on
Said Stefan Kowlowski, as he spread creamy Polish butter on his brond: "That Gestapo man has become quite an old friend. attacks on foreign property, and All we're doing is to watch each
other now."
such incidents as the sinking of the Panay. In recent weeks Japan has come out into the open and at Tientsin has made it plain that she desires nothing less than com- plete Japanese domination of the whole of China, including those parts which have hitherto been
AN Poles and Germans are
sure
ND that is the position.
watching and waiting until Just liter makes something happen.
all are
if 100 that They Poland docs not agree to ils
for Danzig
the and demands highway acruss the Corridor, he will do something. They are won- dering when and how though.
Afterwards, as we walked out past the Polish letter-boxes on the walis and the Polish time-table
Alled
the subject of special foreign with unpronounceable names, Nuzl authority was suddenly thrust on us interests,
uniformed again. A stout green
If the political condition of policeman, holding a typewritten list in one hand, was busily consenting bundles of English and Polish news- papers.
Europe had been different there can be no queatlon that Britain should by now have been giving active nasistance to Government.
A couple of hundred yards away. again, the tests of Nazl and Polish authority clash in contrast Facing the Chinese each other across the Neugarten- street, which roadmakers are learing up, are the two buildings between
At the present moment ther which so many angry protests have
been exchanged during the last few
Japanese advance his been check-weeks.
On the one side, the massive red
ed and its aggression halted by the brick Nazt Senate. On the other.
determined
resistance
Chinese themselves.
the grey-fronted Pollah Commis of the
the Commissariat, the sarial. In No better professional diplomat, M. Marian of Chodack!, puavo representative
wonders us to tho Polish Government, time could be found for
how Hiller's plans to sweep Danzig Relch can be out- throw in dnancial resources in an back into the effort to bring about a victory willed.
Opposite sita Herr Artur Grelser, which would benefit not only burly President of the Senate, who China but the whole civilised once startled the world's diplomatic representatives by thumbing his nose before the League of Nations
world.
ONCE, in far-away Geneva,
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Artur Grelser "complained"
"The wife and I fight every payday—so now I've arranged to got my salary monthly instead of wookly!".
the League of Nations al- lowed Danzig 1,000 police. Then that Danzig's young men clamoured for initary training in Germany.
After diplomats had gathered, it was agreed to ullow Danzig's police a number of "recrults." So to-day 500 recruits are established in addi- tion in the big barracks on the Zop- put rond-once, the headquarters of a regiment of Death's Head Hus-
Bars.
But Danzigers themselves will alle knowingly if you suggest there are only 1,500 of these police alto- gether. They will hint that it is the police And the black-uniformed guards who might have to rise to "liberate" the city from within if Hitler should press the bufion.
Every day squnds of these green- uniformed police, sleel helmets on their hands, march out with rifles and machine-guns to exercise in the felds and pine woods. And the black walformed guards, drilled like soldiers, march through the streets with rifles on their shoulders, open- ly flouting the statute, laid down by the despised League, forbidding them
arms.
Just over the frontier, the silent,. grim-faced Polish guards know that well. they would inco 'n force, us trained as regular troops it ever they should clash.
But for the present the Nazis keep to abusing Poland and the western democracies. Now they are cam- pinining that the presence of so many Polish Customs Inspectors is "Intoler- able."
They say that they havo, been "molesting" their German women- folk. And the Poles reply that their inspectors are necessary to prevent the Nazis smuggling arms in from East Prussia. If once one of the German. young fellows tickled
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