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THERE'S NO SUCH The "Asama
THING AS A
'BELGIAN'
THERE are two weak spots
In the £60,000,000 Maginot Line-its ends. One end renches Switzerland, at Basle. The other reaches Belgium, nt Malmedy.
If invading armies can force their way round the ends France's elaborate shield will be about as useful as the Great Wall of China.
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The German High Command must have given à lot of con- sideration to the choice be tween these two weak spots. Jagged mountains defend the Swiss end; but what are the prospects at the Belgian end?
The danger-zone is twenty-five-mile broad district Jutting into Germany between Holland and Luxemburg, call- ed Liege. The signposts say: 80 miles to Brussels, 200 miles to Paris. Next to the frontier lle two small patches of land named Eupen and Malmedy Mal- (pronounced Oy-pen, minldy).
Hitler has always wanted them once they were Ger- man. He plotted to get them by incessant propaganda-as he got the Snar. But for ence kls plans fizzled out. At the elections' last spring the Ger- man party failed to win n single sent in either of these districts.
Many Belglans will not want to help defend this gap-be- ron Belgium is really two countries. Racially speaking, there is no such thing as a dved-in-the-wool Belgian. In the north you have the pro- In the German Flem'ave, south are the Walloons, who are pro-French. They hale each other so much that if you ask the way in Antwerp (n Fleming city) the man you nak will sometimes purposely mis
direct you, thinking you are a Walloon. That's how neigh hourly they are.
been King Leopold has working to unite these two factions. A German attack may show if he has succeeded.
About the only ways. Bel-. gium resembles Holland are In size and population. Belgium is Roman Catholic, Holland Is Protestant. Belgium is, with Saxony, the ntost highly indus- trialised country in Europe. Holland depends greatly on her dairy farming.
on,
The Dutch problem is to seli her surplus ogricultural pro duce. The Belgian problem ls to find enough forms for her labourers to work She has one and a half times as many people to the square mile as Britain, twice as many as Germany. Hitler's prattle about "living space" makes the Belgians
cynically. laugh Belgium is the most over- crowded country in Europe.
Belgium pulled herself lo geller gallantly after the war, restoring her finances, improv ing her trade and raising the standard of living of the working classes,
But when Hitler raises the cry "Give us back our colo nies," even the Flemings don't feel so pro-German. Because part of Belgium's huge colony in the Congo, eighty times as large as herself, was taken from Germany after the last war. Belgians poured money into this new district, called it "Astrida" after their dend Queen. No.
Belgiana would not Ilke to see Germany win the
war
Maru" and Belligerent Rights
THE grounds from which been sufficiently informed that the
Japanese Government hitherto have international contro-aloud for the recognised provision- versies can arise are many that the nationals of a belligerent and varied.
Power aboard a neutral ship whose. uurrender the other helligerent. These differences may Power would be able to demand range from questions of should be confined to those included. state rights and duties toj in the military forces."
✡ ✩* those of national interests,! and they may be slight or THE British reply to the protest. was handed in to the Japanese serious according to circum-Government on January 27. It is stances.
understood that the British. note Numerous as Buch pointed out that the stopping of the Asama Maru and the removal of grounds for contention are, German passengers were carried they can, nevertheless, be out in accordance with the right of divided into two groups, a belligerent Power under Inter- viz., legal. differences and national Law. And, that the Ger- political differences. That home by order of their home
being so, the settlement of state disputes may therefore
be approached
mana removed were on their way
Government
by
Dr.
from either a Lin Wo-Chiang
legalístic or
the political'
standpoint.
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the latter's CX- pense; that it was. evident that upon return home they were to be em-- bodied into armed' forces immediate- ly. That, fur- thermore, the British Govern- ment hold that the
clause of the London Declaration"
nationals embodied into armed forces.
Although in practice a providing for the seizure of enemy sharp line cannot be drawn can be extended to apply Gordon Taylor between these grounds of it was iso explained that according
SAUNA
reserves.
re-
serves, and that of all males of
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differences for the purpose to German Inw, there is no difference of determining which stand-between combatants, including point should be taken in a military age. In conclusion, the note given case; yet, whenever suggested a refusal of the proposed. possible, a solution from the release of the Germans taken away. legal point of view is always to be preferred.
IF this is what is said to be sub- stantially the content of the When an incident occurs be-British note, in reply to the Japanese sence, prisoners live confessed FIRST we will explore on to huge boulders polo an the island and then crackling stove. She pokes an-
other bundle of faggots into the tween States, it can usually be protest, then our bellef that the deters a U-boat captain from attack we'll have a bath about 3 fire and turns to reassure her more effectively settled to the British Government has taken its on merchant shipping, German
satisfaction of both parties by stand from the legal point of CHATER ROAD. | frightfutiness may yet devise
some o'clock," my hostess said foreign guest. WAAAAAAAAAA | fresh tactics for her sink-at-sight this morning.
"You cannot breathe?" who principles and usages which instead of "the broad view-point have been more or less com as expected by the Japanese Govern-
ment. confirmed. However, as. ---| warfare, but thus far we have been It sounds an odd pro- asks politely. "This will make monly agreed upon and better the development of the negotiation
more successful in restricting its
you better." And she dips her understood, than by political on this affair indicates in the last effects than we had a right to hope.gramme.
which are fow days Great Britain might do when in Finland, fingers into a bowl of cold water considerations, But.
and presses them gently on to generally rather vague and dif-her utmost to satisfy Japanese deal with any German bombers sent do as the Finns do.
my throbbing eyelids. Grate-ficult to define.
aspiration by taking into account of against us has not yet gone into However, she seems to fully I take the bowl and follow
It appears that in the recent the "political Implications," while nction, but results of our
case recon- have changed her mind for her up to the wooden gallery
of the "Asama Maru" reserving the question of principles naissances over Germany and of co- operation with the French, Air Force We have explored-every-made out of smooth slats set an Great Britain has endeavoured involved. reasons for belief that enemy squa- the garden. A tiny, crim-jolt by flicking me unexpectedly
bunch of wet birch-the latter considerations.
neutral rights and duties or from Technical evidence now in the son-painted hut stands by with
Without the least intention to the angle of belligerent rights and. possession of the Air Ministry dis- the lake. She pushes open leaves. They smell delicious.
"This
will pass on the merits or demerits duties. In any way, the conclusion closes that "our latest fighters are de- its door and
reached would be the samo, since of the attitudes assumed by both these rights and duties are corre- initely better than their German
make you enter
Great Britain and Japan in this lative. Here, for convenience, I counterparts." This is confirmed by
perspire," she case, more than what is the startling records of flights of our
minute cabin
re-propose to start from the former Baya and flicks marked above, this is written angle, beginning with noutrol duties with a bench
away Impar- objectively with a view to find-in times of war, in it and some
tially at herself ing where the real issues rest, The issues of the present case on the pegs wall.
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Here Ell gives me another former, while Japan has chosen involved in the present case, one
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Bomber Command across Germany, testing defences, observing troop concentrations, dropping leaflets und reaching the great majority of the objectives. There have Inevitably been losses, though for less than the Germans have claimed.. But the free-
we
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"Undress
-by- TRUDA PANET
dom of movement of our aircraft, day here, " she says briefly, after day and night after night for This is a shock. across Germany, and the German "Here... is this? . ometal denials of their presence-over bathing-dress,
You mean a Berlin for example-though search-bathe? I babble.
and me.
* *
I FIND myself reciprocating
with ever-decreasing diff No dence and another bundle of are both birch-leaves till we giggling childishly. I believe I Hghts and guns blazed at them, give "You need no costume," she am enjoying myself...
Elli tells me to lie down and us a heartening standard of com- | says and behold she is nude and parison of air strength. Recon- disappearing through another relax. A delicious languor steals naisance is the major purpose, and door.
me. The wooden slatted bench is not really uncomfort- able. There is, something, de cidedly, about these Finnish
the distribution of leaftels
to the
| German people is of secondary im~ portance. But it is well that they should be warned of the
has driven them.
AM alone.
over
I dangers And awful sounds of crack-batha.
WHAT am I in for?
upon which their Fuehrer's madnessing and splashing come through
We have still to wait for the walls feel hot.
that second door and the very
maximum effort of the Air Force, which should certainly be reserved for the time and the place at which it will have the greatest effect. The senle of that effort is growing rapidly,
Elli's voice comes to me through a haze of dreams.
"Time to go now. Twenty minutes is long enough for your
I am scared but dare not run first bath. We go to the lake." Drowsily, contentedly, I pick Jup my sodden coat, forgotten in 4 pool of water by the door. So
алуду.
England expects, etc. Naked, I feel even less brave.
Production of aircraft has now reach-1 clutch my coat as a last link dazed with relaxed warmth I am
to justify her action by the In discussing the legal principles to premise her complaint on may start either from the angle of
or should rest.
I
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scam
to hinge on the kind of answer to be given to those two- questions:
le Firstly,
It por- SHALL first recapitulate the missible for neutral ship to carry- essential facts connected milltary persons or persons "em- with this case, and then proceed bodled in the armed forces". of the on to a discussion of the legal enemy? Secondly, Can the Ger
mans removed by the British naval principles involved and pre-force from the Japanese ship, the cedents applicable.
"Agama Maru," be regarded as From news reports, which have military persons or persons "ern- so far not been denied, the incident bodied in the armed forces" of the happened in this way. At about enemy of Britain? If the first noon, on January 21, and at a point question could be answered in the 36 miles off the Japanese coast, a negative and the second question, in British warship ordered the Asamn the affirmative, then Great Britain Maru, on her way from the United was only exercising such belligerent States to Japan, to stop. party of British officers boarded the Law. Japanese boat, and demanded from the captain the removal from hla The first, being a question in the ship of certain Germans whose abstract, can be readily answered in: names hey presented in a list. the negative.
As a consequence, 21 Germans
A
of military age were taken off the
rights as recognised by International
ed more than twice the large the Japanese Government lodged a ligerents
output; Still further expansion is being arranged. But most important open the other door.
Since neutrality, as Oppenheim vessel, while thirty other Germans, says, "is an attitude of impartiali- mostly merchants, were allowed to ty," it is the duties of neutrals to
refrain from giving such naalstance: continue on their way.
On the night of the second day, and succour to one of the bel- detrimental to leading me, pink and bolled and formal protest with the British the other; and such injuries to demanding the handing over of the Among these duties, which war im- of all developments in the scheme of
A cloud of boiling steam com- still naked, ACROSS THE GAR- Government, reserving the right of the one as benefit the other Germans. It was further pointed posed upon the neutrals, is a kind of assistance known as "unneutral co-operation with
the Dominions. pletely blinds me and my timid DEN.
But the gardeners work on un- out in this note that Japan regarded service," which they should not ren- Canada, Australia and New Zealand feet slide on a wet, stone floor.
the forceful removal of those men der to the enerny. By unneutral. have agreed to train pilots and other Gradually my eyes, pierce the concernedly. personnel and produce aircraft on a fog and I see Elli's pink form! Gradually the cool air revives from a neutral ship near the coast service, as it is understood nowadays, new and far greater scale. Thus the hurling buckets-full of cold water me and as wo run through the of Japan as an unfriendly act, for is meant the carriage of persons and resources and the areas of the Em-
criss-cross shadows of the fir-which she requested an early ex- despatches for the enemy by neutral. planation, "sufficient and solid, ships, in contrast with the carriage pire free from any risk of enemy
as those of Australia and New Zea-trees on the dry sand. I think from the British Government. It of contraband, which forms a dif attack will be utilised to the utmost land, will have their final prepara- miserably.
concluded with the request that the ferent category of itself. The breach tion for service, This schemo for the creation of Air
"I shall die of this Forces to been inspired by for alghted judg cold after extreme heat
British Government "pay profound of the former duties is regarded as more serious matter, as such act defend the whole British
consideration to the matter in, thot Common- ment of the, conditions of the world wealth of Nations. Such a manifold and the potentiality of the British Will kill me .
broad light of the relations between is deemed to be in the direct service
to the enemy; and in extreme Japan and Britain."
Ísuch neutral vessel is liable to be- union of Imperial effort has never
Empire. We may_ngw, look forward
It is significant that in the treated as an enemy marchant ves- Information goes, hardly any re-century of the "Orozembo" and the pect of the matter, beyond remark by Great foronce was made of the legal ns-Friendship, fwb American vessel
Britain for earrings of: ing that "the British authorities had PLEASE Tum To Page 2:
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before been devised. Each Dominion whelming strength. Its officers and"] PUT with the Allco-in-Wondor. Į Japanese Noto, as far as available sel. The condemnation in the Inst will have its own training schools, men wili vindiente freedom and land quality that the whole but advanced courses are to be con- justler in the spirit of that noble afternoon has worn, I find I am centrated In Canada, There many Squadron motto, "I spread my wings, i PLEASE Turn To Pago 3. of our own Air Force recruits, as well and I keep my promise."