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Britain and Danzig
The complaint has sometimes been made that Britain does not commit herself definitely to any course of policy in international affairs until a crisis has been reached. That reproach can certainly not be levelled against the British Government in con- nection with Danzig.
Recent occurrences have given rise to fears that Germany in- tends to settle the future status
of the Free City "by unilateral
What The Correspondents Are Cabling
Hongkong DIFFICULT
TIMES ON HAROLD
Carries On
DUNCAN
McEACHRAN,
She
her Far East, conquest. 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
London "Daily Sketch" this vital moment for years. An inspired Press and anti-British been-and still newsman, recently agitators have
are-campaigning among the |passed through Hong-1,500,000 Asiatic population.
Now they are saying openly:! kony. This is what he Britain would not be able to
hold Hongkong. cabled to his paper:
You, in the comparative safe-
that
Is a fight for Britain's Empirety of Britain, imagine yourself
reading that, knowing in the East imminent?
Japanese forces are on the main- If it is, the handful of Britons land within fifty miles of your who guard our interests on this front door, with the nearest island outpost are prepared. assistance at Singapore, 1,500
One shot in Europe, 9,000 miles away. miles from here, would at any moment decide the fate of our Empire in the Orient.
To-day I was able to tour thei
I found defences of the island.
Blockade Warning
CALLENDER
sees Europe
THROUGH AMERICAN
EYES
This is a condenard version uf a cable seat to the "New York. Times" recently by Harold Cai lender, one of the correspondents on its European stay. It tells you what the highest type of American is reading about Enr ope to-day.
and worship, and impose upon the nation, in the interest of armament, some of the privations characteristic of war tine.
But Germans And much com pensation in the fact that rearmamen! accompanied by and public works, ination of credit and currency, have virtually abolished unemployment, purchasing while the Increasing power of the rausses stimulates trade. Germans are enjoying an armament in which crentes activity and a and thin, far sense of prosperity,
mier than military shown and foreign iriumphs, serves to
reconelle both workers and business men to the regime.
Turning Point?
LEADING Nazio
one met in
Danzig, Berlin, and other cities all agreed that neither Danzig or the Corridor was in any sense vital issue for Germany and that
Was their nequisitiun
not at all urgent.
liler 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.
annexation of
What then will a war be waged for if it comes? It will be waged There is a certain amount of
apparently for "living space," an alm dineult to distinguish from conquest; nervousness in Hongkong. Don't
the "encirclement"
jitters.
official eyes, or listening to which seeks to bar the way to con-
quest, or to hasten that it is anothor Gibraltar-a mistake me. I do not mean SURVEYING Europe through or to prevent Gibraltar in the China Sea.
Every Briton here is deter-the nervous gossip in the stock those Baltic areas which, admittedly. The whole place is honey-mined to stay, come what may market, or rending the des-nre not vitally necessary.
Germany's seizure of Prague pro- combed with gun places, ringed although some are preparing to
for was the turning-point with barbed wire.
repatriate women and children patches that pour into a news-
paper office from a dozen centres,bably
Europe.
It was that act which created what This year alone tire island is as a precaution,
I am convinced that no Power one might imagine that Europe spending on defences nearly
establishment bending its enérencirclement" polley of Britain and half a million pounds, which is could take Hongkong by attack. was simply one huge military tier now bitterly denounces as the 20 per cent, of the total revenue. I wouldn't say the same about gies to the single task of self-his
This tactical error on Hitler's part
scen is not
us such in generally the results of a blockade:
destruction.
some Germans Japan in a Hurry
Therein is Hongkong's value.
Yet Europe is really made up of Germany, though
500,000,000 people realise its effects, and one has met For Japan has long coveted No campaign against the Em-something like
of pire could succeed while it holds whose lives are occupied by all sorts prominent Nazie who admitted that this distributing centre
which in most cases have nothing to the German elty of Danzig before elly of Prague. Eastern and Asiatic trade which out, and a blockade would only of work and trouble and pleasures Filter should have tried to reguin
give a warning to the Empire.
do with the State or its armaments seizing the Czech
For in taking Prague he may be dominates wealthy Canton.
You can meet the world's most or diplomacy. And Japanese troops are now
Now, us the Western Powers pre- said to have lost, or at least to love in possession of most
of the colourful personalities in Hong-
long. Today, in the lounge of are to resist attack, they and that impaired, his claim to Danzig and the
Increasingly Corridor
Indeed, he Impaired all those China coast.
upon armaments in all their aspects: How much longer will it be the hotel where I am staying, they must concentrate before they try to set foot on saw "one-arm" General Sution, and modify their economic life ac-German claims based upon "rights.
cordingly. In so doing they must for some Germans admit it is dim- He told me he is now living continually diminish the possibilities cult to establish a Geiman right to
people-a the possession of Prugue. this island, cut off from the rest one-time dollar millionaire. of the Empire?
a back room on 30s, a week. ut normal life for their
process of increasing strain and re-
Fed Up With Tansion Japan must hurry to complete in
volutionary upheaval which cannot go on Indefinitely.
action, organised by surrepti- THE COYOTE'S LAST RUN
tions methods, thus presenting Poland and other Powers with a fail accompli."
Any change in the status of Danzig would certainly affect
In front.
paused in her
(Mr. Callender then proceeds with his survey, country by country.]
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kept.
M
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penguins
The danger zone has suddenly ex-
MANY Germans profess con- Mence mat peace will be
One
answer
Why are they so sure? asics.
The Arst answer, made almost -Oxford-sircet In unanimously, is that Hitler does not BRITAIN.
war. The second the afternoon is as want her snow was about 18 inches deep got a bruise in the arm extrication
from somewhere by
jammed with crowds as ever, many almost es general, is that Britain
want war and. full
holiday and France do not speed over the Alberta prairie, though myself
ct them ordering summer
consequeatly will recoll from it in drifts filled in unsuspected hollows orelegs. Galloping ot
across a nt where the snow was the mare and piled against rare patches
In London restaurants and clubs suelent time.
Thus Hitler will draw back at the brushwood to a depth of eight or ten comparatively shallow feel. One fine day a balmy Chinook stumbled, and in same mysterious
the predominant ride ents-this seems DI
German view. Yet the whole game wind biet through the Rocky Moun-fashion I slid from the saddle side-men and women dine and joke and lain passes from a far away Pacifle ways on to the show, with my left plan for week-ends. On bright days right moment and so will his oppon- can go farthest the independețice and national decan-and-the-hard-frozen snow foot-shod with a clumsy felt boot ons watch
held ke-a-vice--in-the-wooden anta at the Zoo.
TA Midland--factories armies, ofils to see which
One meela intelligent Germans who mad career, and I workers make motor-ears and bicycles without drawing back. | existence of Poland, and should crust began to melt rapidly.
Riding along the crest of a coukee Mexican stirrup. The picbald never
and armourplate, Streets are no more enthusiastic for this As guns
and homes game than those in other countries, Poland take any action to assert or ravine I could feel the sun warm ound myself dragged along, gazing and hundreds of other things is well ing through the back of my sheepskin helplessly at her rear hooves almost
:: parks and shops
whatever though they are powerless to inter- restore her rights and
the ent. Eyes were beginning to smart lighting every Instant on my face. reveal normal activities,
How long this agonising moment ay be the apprehension lurking Infere "If Hitler would now rest on. his laurels and give Europe a few situation, the Nazi Government from the all-pervading snow glure
when the shadowy form of a coyote lasted 1 do not itnow, though all the people's minds.
years of tranquillity 50 per cent. of from a low time I tried desperately to jerk up would then most probably repre- or prairie wolf leapt
popular of scrub sent this to the German people simultaneously the two collie dogs and grasp the stirrup leather. Sud-tended so that the Englishman living the Germans would be delighted," say 90 per cent.?" ambolling by my horse's side began denly, as I was thus endeavouring ag an act of aggression.
to yelp, and we all sped like streaks hopelessly to raise the upper part of a small town in the Midlands.my sald one foreign observer a few days
my body my back struck a monticle be as greatly imperilled us farmers. Did you
Many Germans are as "red up" It is admitted that the present of Aurora Borealis across the waste.nf frozen black sail by a badger's near the Maginot Line. Increasing replied n German, "Ninety-nine per
as military, financial and moral na Nelther Bran nor Shiela had ever hole. This gave the additional im-Preparations for war, civillan is well cent. would be more like it!" position of Danzig, "though
chased a coyote, yet the surface snowpetus, and I clutched the stirrup well as physical, have obliged whole with these gambles with peace neither basically unjust nor did not break under their weight, leather with one hand. The mure populations to imagine their homes are the British. But the
sank re-slowed down, and I clambered into and workshops as first-line trenches. Cannot stop them, while the British It is Britain whose life has been think they can. In both these facts piebald the saddle, again none the woYED. illogical, might be capable of while, the heavier coyote
the peatedly. Jip.
In less than half an hour I arrived most revolutionised by the apprehen-es the danger which Improvement." Poland is pre-mare, foundered along gallantly, but
outdistanced. As at the lone popular tree, alongside sion of war and whose policies have soon pared to discuss methods of im- usual the wolf run in a huge circle, a small bog or muskeg, which I had been most drastically changed.
# Con- For Britain has become provement. Great Britain would and, leaving the dogs in full cry like previously determined as lying in the veteran wulf hounds, I cut across course of the royale. There was
from Germany at ligations such as she never had strongly support any effort to entry in an attempt to head them time to break a limb off the poplar Unental Power with military ob- FRANCE.-
to use as a cudgel before the well before. Her people may be called the Alsatian town of Wissembourg. a frontier that is an whatever differerice ft.
shone in the distance, passing tome to fight to defend Poland, Rumania, you 300 yards to one
not merely by artifelat, barrier cutting through a The dog Greece or Turkey, there may be.
were almost on his heels, but all naval power, but with man power-quiet rural country which obviously were stumbling in the snow and going quite a new situation, which the could have got on far better with- at # comparatively slow pace. British have accepted stoically though out it.
For mlies on either side of that their traditions and their Occasionally I noticed the wolf look-It upsets ed back, and from this concluded herevious conceptions of Britain's role barrier the crops ripening in the sun are the same, the grapes growing on was fairly exhausted.
In Europe,
the wine Thic adherence to "business as hillsides are the same,
the fact drawn from cool cellara is the same, usant Hiustrated by
compose
Herr Hitler declared months ago that he would "welcome" a fresh agreement with Poland, but he has taken no steps to
were we
A Vision of Hooves
a
Time after time Jip stuck dead in drift, and I looks a flying leap over
her withers into the snow.
Once
come to an agreement by dis- Girl Rebuked, Jumps
cussion and negotiation. All we have seen are threats and de- monstrations of armed force.
From Roof
New York.
That was on May 13.
WINDOW SCENE
The Collies Knew
pened.
side.
Europe.
cross
now
(1.3
Germans
faces
--འི་
If you enter France
As I appeared on his horizon he incredible to Germans) that until the oid inns and peasants' houses are and even speak the made a alight turn and lost ground a few weeks ago Government orders alike, the people are of the same Jip. I drew did not take priority over private racial stock, same dialect. to the dogs. Spurring
Yet this ancient community is cut up by the wolf as he turned with orders in Industry.
Gas masks, air raid drills and steel the two dogs. Fearful
hellers (for those who have them) into two sections; one part of it is and heavy gung and To these Mr. Chamberlain has RUTH NORDLING, aged 10, open laws
of Glendale, stood for one of my callies, I raised the bludgeon
possible perils, and the daily news steel koris given Great Britain's definite and a half hours on the roof of a to strike his forehead, which reared have served as periodical reminders German and the other French. Huge Eeside me with flattened ears. But) "We building opposite her home and then the unnecountable thing han bills in every town reflect a restless barbed wire stretch neruss hills and
Europe. Yet if one seans the faces farmlands. and determined reply.
The French peasants accept the threatened to jump.
without have guaranteed to give our
Her father finally persunded her to So far as I knew these two collies of travellers In Underground trains assistance to Poland in the event come down because next day was had never chased anything in their or buses one finds hardly any slim hazards of war philosophically, as
lives in the Isle of Arran, unless it of perturbation, "If war must come, something imposed from
must; we probably han't be pre-gainst their will. Like the peasants or i a rabbit might have been of a clear threat to her indepen her mother's birthday.
cultivate their land beneath the forts seagull. They had been newly impared-but we never are," is a re- on the slopes of Vesuvius,, they dence which she considers it
The British don't believe in worry with an air of fatality, hoping for vital to resist with her national Later a domestic relations court ported Into Alberta, and only that mark heard repeatedly.
brothers morning let loose from their ernten committed Ruth and her
days when Germany was arming crops and making wine as usual.
Where there is universal military Yet, as I was in the net of striking fast. Now they grimly strive to over- forces, and we are firmly re-and sisters to a charity home because to exercise with me for the first time. They worried too little in the the best, but meanwhile harvesting solved to carry out this under- the parents were unable to give them Bran grabbed the wolf by the upper taite her in the air, regreting their service, as in France, the Army part of one hind leg. and Shiela
leaves mobilization precautionary best they can. taking."
Then Ruth, rebuked for splashing sprang at the throat holding it solidly. low start, but making up for it as renches into nearly every home and
gops in shops and offlee.. swiraming bath, climbed Simultaneously both pulled with a
This obligation is itself a part of the Through a window to the roof and mighty effort in opposite directions,
Germany the normal life of France. Industry and told other children, "If anyone comes and the wolf fell down, with stili
lolling tongue, dead as a stone; his GERMANY-In
normal life has and trade make adjustments near me I'll jump."
Then she jumped. Now, with both back broken exactly as it would have
an all-powerful carry on without Interruption. The wolf been modified by well-trained by two
State whose tentaclen embrace even two years of_milltary service form thighs and her right elbow tractured been and suffering from internal injuries, hounds.
T. Kerr Rilclile. the apheres of sport and hidays PLEASE Turn To Pago 12. she is dying.
No avenue to negotiation has been closed; but any attempt by the Nazi Government to seize Danzig by force will be met with force.
proper guardianship.
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