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Thongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, 1st. Oct., 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Termene; 20010
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" In used by the Tangkeng Telegraph to Indients news which le sirictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinkner, 1936 Bach news at bears the indication "UTH is received in Flongkong on the date of publication by the United Prats Associations, who re servo all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement
JAPAN'S NEW DILEMMA
There are, apparently, any number of political observera prepared to believe that exten- sion of the European war to the Far East la merely a question of time and not a long time at that. This bellef, however, argues an attitude of intracta binty by all parties concerned both with regard to current and future political issues in the Orient, as well as the ability and willingness of Japan to imple- ment the new alliance she has signed with Germany and Italy.
to
under the new alliance the three signatories promise render each other aid should
stated certain
circumstances arise, but precisely how this is to be accomplished has left even the best informed critics wonder- ing. If the pact is an attempt to give Japan carte blanche in her efforts to establish a New Order in East Asia, it is a characteristically naive gesture on the part of the two European partners; but it is difficult to see how much nearer it brings Japan towards realisation of the quest. As a direct challenge of the United States the pact is un- mistakable, but here again it is one thing to make a challenge, and quite another to put it into effect,
Like Germany, Japan has enjoyed
spectacular successes in the war field dur- ing the past three years, but these have yet to be consolidated in terms of economic and finian- cial gain. It is probable that Japan economically, is as re- other silient as almost any nation in the world; nevertheless oven she is beginning to feel the enormous strain of her "China. Incident" venture. It is hard to believe that she, in her present condition, would welcome a clash of arms with the United States a clash which would also in- ovitably drag in Britain against her.
Bome
This is not to discount the potential threat now offered to British and American interests through the. invasion of Indo- China and the setting up of aerial and naval bases therein. The threat is there, but whereas a year ago Jupani felt reasonably confident that she could afford to go to almost any length and still avoid open conflict with the Occidental democracles, to-day she faces a realistic and out- Ameries, as well as a Britain more and more resolved
Victories of the
Army in White
A
GROUP of French wounded soldiers werd kissing the nurses with Gallic gallantry, shaking hands with their British com- rades, thanking the doctors and saying their fervent "Au 'voirs " to the Medical Superintendent of the war hospital.
Most exuberant among them was a young officer whose life had been despaired of five weeks ago. Now, almost fit, he was going off with the others to completo his convales- cence.
He had been brought to the bos- In the last pital terribly burned. war, the doctors would have cased his pain with drugs, and despite their utmost efforts he would prob- ably have died a few days later.
But in this case-the doctors had not much hope, but they treated him with the modern technique.
IN A CHEMICAL SKIN
His burna were sprayed with a preparation of tannic acid so that he was sheathed in a chemical skiu. There was none of that unspeak able torment of dressing and un- dressing burns.
Instead, cage was placed over him and he lay until under the tan- nic sheath the wounds began to nical and the skin to reform. That was five weeks ago.
Then like a serpent' shedding its slough, the sheath peried off of it own accord. And he emerged re- stored.
Not only had the tannie add helped the healing process but it death-process had arrested the which used to set in a few days after the burning-due to some poison distilled in the burned flesh and absorbed into the body,
Treatment of burns is vitally im-
-BY A
SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT
portant in this petrol-driven war, and is comforting to And how thoroughly the doctors and aur geons have mastered it.
But that was not the only com- fort I found at this war hospital. I had steeled myself to see suffering and sight. I hoped to forget.
The suffering had been tempered by the gentle skill of the nurses and doctors who know now how to master pain.
The sights I saw I shall remember gratefully,
I saw wounded soldiers with damaged arma altting up knitting and embroidering.
To them it was an amusing pas- time. To the doctors it was modern treatment. It has replaced the old system of strapping up a fractured limb rigidly in splints so that white
bono SOL
became muscles the wasted and required long and pain- ful massage and exercise to restore them.
WEED-PICKING CURE Fractured limbs are now placed In plaster casts, which, while hold- ing the fractured bone in place movements of the allows certain
muscles.
In addition to all the various clec-. trical methods of restoring the body to usefulness, there are light reme dial exercises in the gymnasium.
Planing, a piece of wood is part of the doctor's prescription for restoring a damaged arm. Picking weeds (In spite of my own doubts) can ease an injured back. Pushing
HELIGOLAND REMEMBERS
"THE OLD LADY'
Te ironic that Heligoland--a special targot recently' of the persistent RAF. bombers-be longed to Britain only 30 years ago, and was in fact the last stronghold of pre-Hitler Germany to yield to
Naziem
[
* Oberland" or upper part
large lift
a tunnel bored through the rock, and some stone stairs connect the two paria, The "Oberland" is now heavily forti. fled with batteries of heavy artillery, four-inch guns and high angle guns.
The island is hollowed out and con tains vast supplies of petrol, oil, muni- tions and stores, a hospital, bakery and Bleeping quarters.
When I was on this small North Sea island in Whitsun, 1938, the local holl day bond intly refused to play the
Horst Wessel anthem, though all accordance with the Treaty of Ver
The submarine harbour, destroyed in
a lawn-mower can bring life back to an injured leg.
I saw something of the admirable organisation of Emergency War. Hospitals. They are not military hospitals but are under the Ministry of Health, since this time we aTO all in the front line and the casu- allies will be civilians as well as· soldiers.
"BLOOD-BANK” NEARBY
Burgical teams, which during the German advance had done hun- dreds of operations in rooms con- verted into operating theatres, ware on the alert for the next emergency which might come at any moment.
Five minutes away, in a centre of population, is
blood-bank" ready to supply as much blood as is needed for transfusions,
a
Countless lives will be saved by it, and they will have to thank, not only the nameless donors, but the surgeons of Republican Spain, who used blood-transfusions under im- possible conditions and to such good account, in the Civil War.
In addition to the resources of the hospital itself, it has call on mobile surgical units, of which there are more than 400 in the country.
Take, for instance, an air raid casualty. He is rushed to a first-aid post, where he is given morphin and a hot drink (heat is important in reducing effects of shock) before he. is moved to the nearest hospital.
He arrives in a considerable state of shock, which if not treated Im mediately may itself cause death But the shock-room" is ready, Ho ls warmed up and given a blood- transfusion.
As soon as is safe, he is carefully examined and, if need be, X-rayed. His wounds are dressed. If there is dirt in the wound he would be given an anti-tetanus injection. there is risk of gangrene er an in- fection setting in, he would receive sulphanliamide.
And that in itself is n'tragic commeti- tary on war. For we owe sulphantiamide to German chemists, whose work was followed by scientists in Britain, France and Amories until they perfected it as the miracle drug of the Twentieth Cen- tury, possibly of all time.
Perhaps the patient has a fracture. It is immediately placed in a pisster splint.
TORMENTED NERVES
He may have a head injury and a chest injury, Moblie chest and head units are summoned from the nearest
centre:
ANOTHER ISTHMUS CANAL
By Olto Janssen (United Press' Staff 'Correspondent)}
Washington, Oct1 (UP) Construction of a trans-occanle canal across Nicaragus to strengthen the defensive and economic position of the nations of the New World is advocated, !! by Commander Miles P. DuVal, Junior, of the United States Navy In his book "Cadiz to Cathay published by the Stan ford University Press,
Commander DuVal traces the his tory of the long struggle for a water- way across, the American ́¡Isthmus, culminating in the construction of fe Panama Canal during the odministration of President Theodore Roosevelt.
"What could be more appropriate then for the Nicaragua Canat to be commenced as an expression of the Good Neighbour policy enunciate by the Administration of the second. Roosevelt?" he asks.
"Such an undertaking would tend to strengthen a policy which has been universally accepted by Latin America and to make more secure the strategic position possessed by the United States in the control of water- ways across the American Isthmus," the officer asserts. Innsmuch as
the
DuVal holds
∙that United States has assumed responsi- bility for inter-oceanic communien- tions in this hemisphere. through ownership of the Panama Canal, this country should live up to that respon- albility by constructing the second. canal across Nicaragua.
The governing reason for such an undertaking, he says, is of that of national défonce. He explains:
"Such a canal would reduce the danger of isolating the Blects on one side of the Isthmus in the event of the
destruction .at one canal It would increase the rapidity with which the fleets could be transited across the
the Isthmus. And it would truns a gludier curity from danger to interruptions of traffic duo lo at- tack from the air.
"The Isthmus is the strategic contre of the Americas. Tab, power in. possession of it can operate its fleet BO as to control both coasta 2.Jong as there is uninterrupted transit. With the increased security which a Nicaragua Canal would give to trans Isthmian transit there should be less need of two separate fleets for the United States, cach adequate for the defence of its coast
"With security of transit assured, one feet would supply the needs of national defence for both coasts, and render, unnecessary expensive dupli- cation of naval, forces. The initial
of the
Canal cost
Nicaragua ($722,000,000); and its $10,800,000 an-
and operating
maintenance small indeed, 06 charge would be compared with expenditures which the construction and maintenance of an additional feet, would entail.
nual
1. "Of particular interest to Central America will be the local benefits of a Nicaragua Canal. It should increase productivo in- dustry and employment, open up.. new areas to world commerce, and by so doing tend to stabilize political conditions of the area, which for so many years in the past has been the sceno of re- volution, conflicts, interventions, and disorders;.
"With the Great Powers of the Old World again engaged in a struggle which is certain to bring about great and unpredictable changes among the powers, the necessity for taking the steps essential for the security of the Americas, en effectively
and in the decades to
now
come, has?
has been effect phasized.
cm-
The Monroe Doctrine has been
accepted by the nations of the world. largely because of the strength of the United
Navy. States
in effect, however,
has been
what recenti, enlarged in scope
by dhe Panama Conference of 1939 so as to apply, not only to prevent the expansion of European political. systems on the American continents but also to prohibit belligerent acts by any foreign power in the waters surrounding the Americas,
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"The
te enforcement of this new policy will fall chiefly upon the United States, thereby adding greatly to the responsibilities of its naval forces.
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"Steps: have already been initiated by the United States government to
Germany had been playing it for two sailles, and all the other military and their assistants and nurses, arrive with strengthen, its: Navy, but that alone#
years.
So for the summer season it was placed by a fully "Narified" orchestra from the mainland...
The same year, the fire brigado, ro
naval equipment have been restored.
Hellgoland belonged to England unill fused to march round the place behind 1890, when it was given to Germany, in this band on Filtler's birthday. A special ashange, for Zanzibar. The tower of boat hurriedly brought a number of the litle church bears a bronze plaquo Storm Troopers from Wilhelmshaven, recording that it was erected to the and the men and youths on Heligoland memory of Our Glorious Queen Vic were ordered to join them and form a torin by a grateful subject." proccasion. Man ka
Until a year or so ago, the largest and Those who refused wore taken sWAY most expensive boarding house was to a concentration camp to become proudly called the Empress of India "Nazified. pe care Many quaint customs characterised the Although in peace-time there were into; English words were still in use, to dispense with appeasement.only about 2.000 people in on Bed When I was last on Heligoland there Island, the fire brigade, which resigned was an bid fherman with a gold ring These are two factors which
as a result of this incident, is the comin one of his cars who could yard about must make any nation, no
munity's most important organisation. matter what her aspirations, think hard and think twice be fore committing herself to an irrevocable decision which may involve her complete destruction.
The surgeons, the best specialtats, with their essential instrumenta
If the victim's facial bones have been: damaged, a plastic surgery unit will also be munionen CARYNA Another set of specialists, represent- ing a great advance on the last war, are the paychologists and neurologists.
This is a war of nerves, in a different sense from which we used it in the first lav months Noise and horrors were. common in Belgium and France, and are liable to be common here, inte
Italy in that hospital, men who had come through Hell Tired, exhausted through sleeplessness and hunger tar mested by the sight of civilians being machine gunned, by the noise and menace of the dive bombere
But they were simoit normal again. They and been put to bed and mader
For water til scarce. It has to be the leland's history, for hours on end, comfortable,son They had been fod on
He always started his stories: Now, good food. Inlik: and so-and-so many years before for possibly the divo, seen someiling of the great after) the Old Lady's Jubileekyway mod work of the doctors' ing tila brary and
Hesseant, of course, Queen Victoria. - there is comfort in it
brought from the mainland and many of the houses are 190 feet above ses level 80 emcient, fire-fighting is essen
The island is divided into two parta, "the" Unterland " er lower part and the
For the Army in White in the body.
Wallace King, ruani of Humanlly,
is not enough. Steps also must be taken to safeguard the free and un- interrupted, transit of the Isthmus by the ships of the Navy and to reduce the possibility of isolating portions of the United States, Fleet in a time national
accomplished
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