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Recent occurrences have given rise to fehrs that Germany in-
tends to settle the future status! of the Free City "hy unilateral
What The Correspondents Are Cabling
Hongkong Carries On
DUNCAN
McEACHRAN,
London "Daily Sketch"
newsman, recently passed through
her Far East conquest. She cannot go
on much longer Economic, financial and psycho" logical strain of more than two years of warfare is reaching. breaking point.
Tokyo has been preparing for this vital moment for years. An inspired Press and anti-British agitators have been--and still Hong-are-campaigning among the
1,500,000 Asiatic population, kong. This is what he "Britain would not be able to Now they are saying openly:
cabled to his paper:
Is a fight for Britain's Empire in the East imminent?
If it is, the handful of Britons who guard our interests on this island outpost are prepared.
One shot in Europe. 9,000 miles from here, would at any moment decide the fate of our Empire in the Orient.
hold Hongkong.
You, in the comparative safe- ty of Britain, imagine yourself]
knowing rending that,
that Japanese forces are on the main-t land within fifty miles of your front door, with the nearest assistance at Singapore, 1,500 miles away.
Blockade Warning
There is a certain amount of
To-day I was able to tour the defences of the island. I found nervousness in Hongkong. Don't that it is another Gibraltar-mistake me. I do not mean
jitters. Gibraltar in the China Sea,
The whole place is honey- combed with gun places, ringed
with barbed wire.
This year alone the island is spending on defences nearly half a million pounds, which is 20 per cent, of the total revenue.
Every Briton here. is deter mined to stay, cute what may although some are preparing to repatriate' women and children as a precaution.
DIFFICULT TIMES
HAROLD CALLENDER
sees Europe THROUGH
AMERICAN
EYES
This is a condensed version of a cable sent to the "New York Times" recently by Harold Cal- lender, one of the correspondents on its European stuf. It tells you what the highest type of American is reading about Eur- upc tu-day.
|and worship, and impose upon the
nation, in the interest of armament,. some of the privations characteristic of war time.
com-
But. Germans. And much pensation In the fact that rearmament and public works, accompanied by inflation of credit and currency, have virtually abolished unemploymeni, while the increasing purchasing power of the musues stimulates trade. armament Germans are enjoying
om which creates activity and a sense of prosperity, and this, for more than military shows and foreign triumphs, serves, to reconcile both workers and busines regime.
men to the Turning Point?
EADING Nazis one met In Donzig, Berlin, and other cities all agreed that neither Danzig nor the Corri for was in any sense a vital issue. for Germany and that their acquisition was not at all urgent.
Itler has said that colonies were not worth a war.
Nazi circles often talk of the even- tual partition of Poland and control of the Ukraine. But these remoter aims, though discussed in the party school camps, are not even officially acknowledged, much less rated as
vital.
What then will a war be waged for if it comes? It will be waged apparently for "living space," an alm difficult to distinguish from conquest; "encirclement" QURVEYING Europe through or to prevent the
official eyes, or listening to which seeks to bar the way to con- annexation of quest, or to baaten the nervous gossip in the stock those Baltic areas which, admittedly, market, or reading the des- are not vitally necessary. patches that pour into a news- paper office from a dozen centres,bably
Germany's seizure of Prague pro- was the turning-point for
was that act which created what
Europe.
I am convinced that no Power one might imagine that Europe could take Hongkong by attack, was simply one huge military Hitler now bitterly denounces as the I wouldn't any the same about establishment, bending its ener-encirclement" policy of Britain and
gies to the single task of self- France. the results of a blockade.
This tactical error on Hitler's part is not generally Therein is Hongkong's value, destruction.
Yet Europe is really made up of Germany, though some Germans No campaign against the Em-something like 500,000,000 people reative its effects, and one has met of Inire could succeed while it holds whose lives are occupied by all sorts prominent Nazis who admitted that of work and trouble and pleasures Hitler should have tried to regain
Japan in a Hurry For Japan has long coveted this distributing centre Eastern and Asiatic trade which dominates wealthy Canton,
And Japanese troops are now in possession of most of the China coast. -
out, and a blockade would only give a warning, to the Empire.
You can meet the world's most colourful personalities in Hong- kong. Today, in the lounge of,
saw "one-arm" General Sutton, one-time dollar millionaire.
How much longer will it be before they try to set foot on this island, cut off from the rest of the Empire?.
Japan must hurry to complete jin
seen
as such in
which in most cases have nothing to the German elty of Danzig before Czech city of Prague, do with the State or its armaments seizing the or diplomacy.
For in taking Prague he may be Now, as the Western Powera pre-said to have lost, or at least to have pare to resial attack, they had that impaired, his claim to Danzig and the
increasingly Corridor
the hotel where I am staying, I they must concentrate
upon armaments in all their aspects Indeed, he impaired all those and modify their economic life ac- German clalms.based upon "rights," cordingly. In so doing they must for some Germans admit it is BIM- continually diminish the possibilities cult to establish a German right to of normal life for their
people-a the possession of Prague. process of increasing strain and re-
He told me he is now living a back room on 309. a week.
action, organised by surrepti- THE COYOTE'S LAST RUN.
the
It is admitted that the present
were
her
"`ud.
volutionary upheaval which cannot go on indefinitely.
Mr. Callender then proceeds with his survey, country by country.]
Fed Up With Tension Mndence that peace will be MANY Germans proteas con-
kept. Why are they so sure? One hsks.
can
are as "fed, up"
But the Germans
now faces
The feat answer, runde almost- tious methods, thus presenting
inunanimously, is that Hitler does not the afternoon is as want war. The second answer, Poland and other Powers with THE
THE now was about 18 inches deep got a bruise in the arm extricating BRITAIN.-Oxford-street
is that Britain over the Alberta prairie, though myself from somewhere by
jammed with crowds as ever, many almost as general, -sperd fait accompli
want war and holiday and France do not drifts filled in unsuspected hollows forelegs. Galloping at full
was of them ordering summer
consequently will recoil from 1 in and piled against rare patches of across a fat where the snow
outfits. Any change in the status of brushwood to a depth of eight or ten comparatively-shallow the mare In London-restaurants-and-clubs sufficient. Ume...
Thus Hler, will draw back at the feel. One fine day balmy Chinook stumbled, and in some mysterious Danzig would certainly affect wind blew through the Rocky Moun- fashion I sild from the saddle side- men and women dine and joke and
penguins or ride ents-this seems the predominant tain passes from a far away Pacific ways on to the snow, with my left plan for week-ends. On bright days right moment and so will his oppon- German view. Yet the whole game the independence and national Ocean, and the hard frozen snow foot-shod with a clumsy felt boot throngs watch
-held like a vice in the wooden elephants at the Zou,
In Midland factories armies of ls to see which
go farthest existence of Poland, and should crust began to melt rapidly.
The piebald never Mexican stirrup Riding along the crest of a coulee paused in her mad career, and I workers make moter-cars and bleycles without drawing back.
One meets intelligent Germans who Poland take any action to assert or ravine I could feel the sul warm-found myself dragged along, gazing and hundreds of other things as well
more enthusiastic for this and armourplate. Streets are ing through the back of my sheepskun
shops td parks and her rights and restore
and homes game than those in other countries, cont. Eyes were beginning to smart helplessly at her rear hooves almost as guns
whatever though they are powerless to inter- situation, the Nazi Government from the all-pervading snow glore alighting every instant on my face.
How long this agonising moment reveal normal activities, when the shadowy form of a coyote lasted i do not know, though all they be the apprehension lurking in fere "If Hitler would now rest on his laurels and give Europe a lew would then most probably repre- or prairie. wolf leapt from a low!
people's minds. time I tried desperately to Jerk up grove of scrub popular in front.
The danger zone has suddenly ex-years of tranquility 90 per cent. of sent this to the German people simultaneously the two collle dors and grasp the stirrup leather. as an act of aggression.
say 00 per cent.7" gambolling by my horse's side began denly, as I was thus endeavouring tended so that the Englishman living the Germans would be delighted," of Aurora Borealls across the waste of frozen black soil by a badger's preparations for wat, civilian as well cent, would be more like to yelp, and we all sped like streaks hopelessly to raise the upper part of in a small town in the Midlands may said one foreign observer a few days
my body my back struck a montiele be as greatly imperilled as farmers ago. "Did you
near the Maginot Line, Increasing replied a German. "Ninety-nine per
Many Germans Neither Bran nor Shiela had ever hole. This gave the additional im-as military, financial and moral as position of Danzig, "though
chased a coyote, yet the surface snow petus, and i clutched the stirrup neither basically unjust nor
did not break under their weight, leather with one hand. The more well as physical, have obliged whole with these gambles with peace as
populations to imagute their homes are the British. illogicul, might be capable of while the heavier coyote, sank re- slowed down, and I clambered into and workshops as first-line trenches, cannot stop them, while the Brilish peatedly. Jip. the little piebald the saddle, again none worse. It is Britain whose life has been think they can. In both these facts improvement." Poland is pre-mare, floundered along gallantly, but In less than half an hour I arrived most revolutionised by the apprehen-Hes the danger which
Europe. outdistanced. As at the tone popular tree, alongside sion of war and whose policies have soon pared to discuss methods of im-wust the wolf ran in a huge circle, a small bog or muskeg, which I had been most drastically changed. provement. Great Britain would and, leaving the dogs in full cry like previously determined as lying in the For Britain has become a Con-
veteran woll hounds, I cut across course of the coyote. There wastinental Power
with military ob- FRANCE.-Kf you enter France strongly support any effort to country in an attempt to head them time to break a limb off the popter ligations such 09 she never had
from Germany at compose whatever difference off.
to use as a cudget before the wolf before. Her people may be called the Alsatian town of Wissembourg shone in the distance, passing some to Bght defend Poland, Rumania,(you cross a frontier that is un there may be.
300 yards to one side. The dogs Greece or Turicey, not merely by artificial barrier cuting through a were almost on his heels, but all naval power, but with man power-quiet rural country which obviously were stumbling in the mow and going quite a new situation, which thecould have got on far better with- nt a comparatively slow
pace. British have accepted stoically thoughout It. Occasionally I noticed the wolf look it upsets their traditions and their For mlles on either side of that ed back, and from this concluded he previous conceptions of Britain's role barrier the crops ripening in the sun. was fairly exhausted.
in Europe.
are the same, the grapes growing on The
the wine same, adherence to "business as hillsides are the usual" is illustrated by the fact drawn from cool cellars is the same, As I appeared on his horizon he incredible to Germans) that until the old inns and peasants' houses are ago Government orders alike, the people are of the same made a slight turn and lost ground a few weeks to the dogs. Spurring on Jip, I drew did not take priority over private racial stock, and even speak the
same dialect. up by the wolt as he turned with orders in industry.
Gus masks, air cold drills and steel Yet this ancient community is cut To these Mr. Chamberlain hins RUTH NORDLING, aged 10, open Jaws on the two dogs. Fearful shelters (for those who have them) into two sections; one part of it is
of Glendale, stood for one of my collles, I raised the bludgeon given Great Britain's definite and a half hours on the roof of a beside me with flattened curs. But bills in every town reflect a restless barbed wire stretch across hills and to strike his forehead, which reared have served as periodical reminders German and the other French. Huge of possible perils, and the dally news steel foris and heavy guns and and determined reply. "We building opposite her home and then the unaccountable thing hap-Europe. Yet if one seans the faces farmlands, have guaranteed to give our threatened to jump. assistance to Poland in the event of a clear threat to lier indepen- dence which she considers it vital to resist with her national forces, and we are firmly re-
Herr Hitler declared months
A Vision of Hooves
Time after time Jip stuck dead in a drift, and I look flying leap over ago that he would "welcome" aler withers into the snow. Once fresh agreement with Poland, but he has taken no steps to
come to an agreement by dis- Girl Rebuked, Jumps The Colltes Knew
cussion and negotiation. All we have seen are threats and de- monstrations of armed force.
taking."
From Roof
New York.
pened.
The French peasants accept the Her father Anally persuaded her to So far as I knew these two collies of travellers in Underground trains come, down because next day was had never chased anything in their or buses one finds hardly any sign hazards of war philosophically, as from without her mother's birthday.
Ives in the Isle of Arran, unless it of perturbation. "If war must come, something imposed
it must; we probably shan't be pre-against their will. Like the peasants That was on May 13.
might have been a rabbit or n WINDOW SCENE
seagull. They had been newly im- pared-but we never are," is a re-en the slopes of Vesuvius, they cultivate their land, beneath the forta The British don't believe in warry-with on air of fatality, hoping for Later a domestic relations court ported into Alberts, and only that mark heard repeatedly. committed Ruth and her brothers morning let loose from their crates and sisters to a charity home because to exercise with me for the first time. They worried too little in the be best, but meanwhile harvesting
Yet, as I was in the set of striking days when Germany was arming crous and making wine as usual. solved to carry out this under-the parents were unable to give them Bran grabbed the wolf by the upper take her in the air, regretting their service, as
fast. Now they grily strive to over- Where there is universal military in France, the Army proper guardianship.
part of one hind leg, and Shiels Then Ruth, rebuked for splashing sprang at the throat holding it solidly. low start, but making up for it a reaches into nearly every home and
best they can,
precautionary mobilisation Icavea climbed Simultaneously both pulled with a swimming bath, No avenue to negotiation has in the
gaps in shopa and offices. through a window to the roof and mighty effort in opposite directions,
This obligation is itself a part of been closed; but any attempt by told other children, "If anyone comes and the wolf fell down, with stili
loliing tongue, dead ns a stone; his GERMANY-end and trade make adjustmenta
Germany the normal tifo of France, Industry and the Nazi Government to seize near me 191 jump."
Then she jumped. Now, with boil back broken exactly as it would have
without interruption. The two well-trained wolf been modified by an all-powerful carry Danzig by force will be met with thighs and her right elbow fractured been
and suffering from internal injuries, hounds.
State whose tentacles embrace oven two years of military, service form force.
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