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THERE Is
oft-told an anerdofe about a man who, after bes ing tried for stealing a pair of trousers, and after having been given the benent of the doubt, was inform- · ed by his counsel that he might leave | the dock. But I' can't." was the reply, "I've got the trousers ons That anecdote would illustrate any attempt by Wang Ching-wei or the Japanese to convince that the secret ngreement between them, so dramati- eally exposed by two of Wang's erstwise followers, is anything but what is meant to be-the betrayul of one-afth of the world's population into bondage.
has
Indeed, Wang Ching-wel's chief secretary, Chen Chun-po, realised the difficulty of repudiating the agreement and has admitted that
the text published in Hongkong is Kenuine. He excuses the severity of the terms as "only representing the Japanese demands and not including Wang Ching-wel's counter demands or the terms which were actually | agreed upon."
"The real terms," he continues in almost apologetic explanation, are not detrimental to China's sovereignty or independence.
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RIBBENTROP: "It was all very well for Schuschnigg and Benes, but this is beyond a joke!””
Still we use the
DOGS OF WAR..
OGS, hundreds of them, Bre "serving in the Maginot Line.
They still have a place
in modern armies. New mech- anical inventions can no more replace them than they can re- place foot-soldiers.
Many people early in the last war were shocked to see photos
carriages of dogs in Belgium pulling light rubber wheeled
mounted with machine-guns.
To-day dogs are still used. In the Maginot Line there are hun
dreds of them. They are used for three main purposes.
First of all, there are the "watch-dogs." For this purpose Alsatians, Greenondaeis, and Malinois are best. They are used at observation posts to supple- ment the warning of approach- ing planes given by the delicate detecting instruments.
Admission that the terms are those which Japan seeks to impose on Chinn after two and a half years of warfare in which China 15 by
exhausted of the, means the most belligerents, and the further admiss- lon that Wong Ching-wei was even
and the prepared to discuss peace formation of a new"government" with these terms as a basis of dis- cussion at once brands the Wang rc- In 1015 a well-known watch- to the Chinese dog, "Lion," was capable of giv- gline as an enemy people. If the evidence tendered by ing the alarm 10 minutes before Wang's former supporters is so irre an enemy plane came in sight. futable that it brings admission from His behaviour was character- Wang's own camp, are we not then
to believe that the further allegation stic. He would lift his head, by Kal Tsung-wu and Tao Hst-shen look up at the sky, constantly that Wang has actually signed the and violently shake his body terms disclosed in the photostate and give short but repeated productions-the two men claim that barks.
the treaty was signed in a Japanese
hotel in Shanghai on December J
Every man in the company
la also irrefutable? Chen Chun-po knew the signs. Not once was
claims that Wang's counter-claims the dog mistaken.
have been adopted by the Japanese; Watch-dogs can also give the
that they are
not
detrimental toalarm it an enemy soldier is Chinese independence, "but the time
Is not yet ripe for publication," Why? creeping
ACTOSS
the ground
If the terms are to occasion rejoicing ahead. A dog has far more ser-
to the Chinese people, would not this sitive powers of hearing than a
be the most opportune time to publish human being,
them, in view of the irreparable dam- Every
age done to Wang's already discredit-
Watch him.
movo made by the
ed cause by exposure of what is nd-prowler, unheard by the sentry, mitted to be, at the very least, the is immediately heard by the bails on which he negotiated with dog.
Japan.
Japan's bull-headedness in the past
His head points towards the place where the soldier lurks. A move to the Left or to the right
in her dealings not only with Chinn but with third Powers does not offer support for Chen Chun-po's claim that she has, between December 30 and yesterday. weakened to such an extent that she completely abandoned registered at once by the the demands exposed yesterday and dog slightly moving his head.
has agreed to substitute claims "not detrimental to China's sovereignty or Independence."
There
Becondly, war-dogs are used by
the Army Medical Corps. They go
are dainning facts which at night with the stretcher-bearers Wang and his followers we predict to No-Man's Land, searching for
wounded... that Kai Tsung-wu and Tal Isi-
In the dark human searchers sheng will not be the last defections -connat conceal from the outer often miss wounded men, lying un- conscious, incapable of attracting world, however they are reconcilable |
attention. Eo the dogs are to Wang's conscience. There are the trousers the betrayal of a Central specially trained to "smell out Government
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And thirdly, dogs are used as 4runners
or "carriers." Attacking parties can use them to send back messages to head- quarters when a soldier could not get through and when the distance, is too short for the use of pigeons.
Such a dog has to cross the enemy's fire. He must be cunning, swift, and very carefully trained.
deerhounds anct Greyhounds, wolfhounds are usually best at this work.
Food and ammunition can be carried by dogs as well as mes- Sages.
A heavler dog is needed for this Great Danes, St. Bernards, Alaskas,
When Incessant artillery fre makes it impossible for the Army Borrice Corps men to reach the forward trenches, they can send these dogs specially Indon through the
communication maze trenches to revictual cut-off out- posts.
For days on and they may be the solo source of supply for troops engaged in heavy fighting.
Dogs are indeed precious to the soldier-even to-day.
P. B.
Turkey's Choice
WHAT IT MEANS
by W. N. Ewer
URKEY declines the Russian proposals. Hér decision is of the Arst Importance to us.
For behind the pact proposals was a more far-reaching idea. Te lure Turkey away from her friendship with Britain and France: to lure her into the Russo-German camp.
It is part of a diplomatic often- waters Biva into territory and which are vitally important for the British Empire.
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For a hundred and fifty years- ever since General Bonaparte con- celved the idea of attacking the Indian Empire by the invasion of Egypt it has been-understood here that the Eastern Mediter- Tanean is of nearly as much con- séquence to us as the Channel or the North Sea.
From the moment that Nelson Balled for the Nile we have never for a moment taken our eyes off these parts. All through the nine- teenth century the "Easterns Ques- tion" was the main preoccupation of British statesmanship.
So it has been, so it must be. For (more than ever since the Bucz
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negotiations in the capital of an cupled by his countrymen's enemy enemy whose planes were bombing was the very advisor who, five yours
“Woll, I do know Gaylord is faithful—ho's had the sama Chinese women and children; the do-go, told China to beware of Japanese
socratory for ton years." mands upon which Wang entered intrigue. Certainly, he will claim negotiation and, according to two of that he but seeks to put China on a
RUSSIAN
SERVANTS pendent to-day that he recently re- his close followers, actually signed. new basis, and will pretend that the
placed the entire Chinese staff and There is, doubtless, large allowance Power which has been held up as to be made for Wang Ching-wel. the arch-enemy of China is a really Soviet Consul's Action Tone the servants with Russian men because many Russians in Tentain Hs is a disappointed and discredited indred spirit with whom it is most
were without employment. Give Employment actually conscious that natural to be on neighbourly terms. man, who his reputation has lost whatever But Wang can surely not claim that ahreds it had. He who now faces the "new basis" disclosed yesterday charges of treason if he ever returns is calculated to inspire, either con- to that part of his country not ocfidence or respect, Padr vnske
It is rumoured that tho' subalita- Tianuln, Jan. 22. tlon was made owing to the Chinese Consul General, M. servants giving information to the
The
Serge
Soviet Nilkin,
informed a corres- Japanese United Press.
Canal was made) this is part of a "life line" of the Empire-the route to India, to Australia, to New Zealand, to East Africa.
Relatively to this area of "vital interest" to the British Common- wealth, Turkey occupies a position of supreme strategic importance.
She les athwart the route which. either of the East European Powers must take if they are to menace us thero. She is the guardian of the Straits, the strongest of the Balkan Peword.
She and we have a deep com- munity of interest. She must, and Wo must, for our very safety, oppose and prevent a drive-from the north to the Mediterranean, whether it comes from Berün or from Moscow. That has been an axiom both of British and of Turkish polley for a century and ΠΟΣΟ.
Exceptions to the rule have been rare, and always unfortunate,
The Turkey of Kemal has under- stood Turkish interests better than did Talaat and Djavid and Enver, After the war and its il legacies had been liquidated Turkey, has followed two rules.
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to tho
She has kept friendly terms with her great mili- north. tary neighbour Friendship with Russia, so long as Ruscia had Bo Balkan ambl- tions herself and was opposed to them
in anybody else, was a Uxed and a wise rulo.
So was friendship with Great Britain, her great naval neighbour to the Bouth, whose interests were clearly the same as hors-the keep- ing of the peace in the Balkans. and in the Aegean,
Britain a strong, and inde- bulwark
a for Blackoy 13
against aggression in a region of
Arst concern to us. For Turkey Britain is an invaluable support should her strength and indepen- dence be threatened.
Between the two Turkish policies of friendship with Russia and there friendship with Britain ahould have been no elash, no ine compatibility.
M. Baralogis has worked hard these three weeks in Moscow to persuade the Russians of this.
He has with the cordial agree ment of London and Paris-offered M. Molotov overy concession and every assurance to make it plain that the Anglo-Turkish
And Franco-Turkish pacts would in no way be directed against the Soviet Union
But M. Molotov-and Indeed M. Stalin himself have demanded too much. They have insisted on terms which would have made the pacts pointless: on terms which would have placed Turkey almost tutelage:".. they under Russian
doclined to give her any German safeguard against aggression in the Balkans,
They have forced the Turkish Government to choose, And I Tas made the choice which Turkish interests required.