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ALAN HOUGHTON BRODRICK
discusses some of the political possibilities which lie behind the establishment of a foothold in France's Far Eastern possession by Japan, with particular reference to
THAILAND'S DESIGNS
"YOU see," said the smil-
ing, suave Siamese
that success, but it is more officer, speaking in excellent luxurious. It has been still
further improved in appearance, English, "they understand riding comfort, appointments and when I talk to them in
so on.
consideration.
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INDO-CHINA
If you want real luxury motor-Siamese; they are the same ing and "big car" performance, people as ourselves." "They" at the lowest possible first cost were the sturdy Thos of the
with heavy burdens alung from their protectorate of Cambodia costs, the Vauxhall indrunning your very serious mountain-country near the bamboo shoulder-poles, the joss the two provinces of Battam- Tongking-Chinese frontier. houses, the spirit-screens, the bang and Siem-Reap, in the fur-reaching paddy fields and latter of which is situated The speaker was a mem- sugar-cane plantations and the Angkor, ber of the Siamese military dusty, dry, aromatic smell of
China, Suddenly you look By the changing of the name mission which toured French around you on the wide, mostly of Siam to Thailand the Bangkok Indo-China in the early part uncultivated plains dotted with Government tacitly staked its of last year. As the general bottle-bold sugger heaves claim to the control of all the
country-side no longer commanding
the French with hundreds of thousands of forces said to me after the busy figures. You are among a Thailanders had left, "We few lelsurely, strolling, smiling people, taller, more bronzed, showed them all there was more muscular, more like our to see," and then he added selves. Wedneiday, December 4, 1940. cryptically, "even more than
there was to see."
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One wonders if the subtle Slamese were as gullible as in their politeness they seemed.
States and the Burmese Sham States should be one. With re- gard to the French, however, whose prestige has sunk to its nadir, the Thailanders threaten that if their demands are not. met the non-aggression treaty will not be ratified,
Even in present circumstances they would hardly have, dared to use such language were they not friends. The powerful friends sure of the support of powerful do not, of course, do anything for nothing.
Siam is strategically and eco- nomically a country of the high- cat importance. Although it is wedged in, between French and British territory in the north and bounded by the frontier of lands inhabited by speakers of British Malaya in the extreme the Thai languages. At the south, the Siamese section of time the claim seemed ambitious, the Malay peninsula has outlets but the swift march of events on both seas the China Sea to looks like making at least part of the east and the Gulf of Bengal the Siamese dream into a reality. to the west. The Cambodians seem to have Almost simultaneously with but little to do. They sit, with a the Japanese demanda on the sash tied about their waists, and French-demands for the pag- watch their impish children play. Buddhist monks with shaven heads move slowly by, clad in
canary coloured
They certainly admired the robes. The admirable network of good roads
with which the French have criss-crossed Indo-China, especi- ally as-Siam is an almost road- Question of Retaliation less country; but the Thailand- ers could hardly have spent THE German Luftwaffe has several weeks in French terri- laid the inoffensive city of tory without having formed a Southampton in ruins, killing very shrewd idea of the disaffec- and wounding hundreds of non- tion of the native Annameac combatant civilians and render-population and of the naval and military weakness of the French ing thousands more homeless. in their Far Eastern dominion.
35
"Thailand'
This act serves once again to remind one of the utter bar- barity of modern warfare
Soon after the Siamese mili- practised by the Huns. Coming tary mission had returned home so swiftly, too, upon the "hor-the name of their country was ror" bombings of Coventry, officially changed to "Thailand," Liverpool, Birmingham and and the change was no London, the old argument as to academic one. whether Britain should should not indulge in reprisals of a like nature is immediately re- surrected.
or
mere
"Indo-China"-is-n-word_that_ suggests a mingling of India and
China, but as a matter of fact the French Indo-Chinese Union was a political entity with no geographical, cultural or histori- cal busis. The French posses- sions fell into two sharply con- trasted parts.
If numbers are taken into account the "retaliationists" are fairly certain, to be in the majority; many of them are just
From the bend of the Mekong longing for it. Among their arguments is this; in the last river (where it curves round to border the eastern bulge of war the Germans were guilty of Siamese territory) down to its first using gas, a treacherous delta, the great stream divides and brutal deed. To have alĮ roughly what is "Indian" by lowed our soldiers to be thus culture from what is "Chinese" by civilisation. Northwards the victimised without protection line of cultural division follows would have been intolerable. the crest of the mountains so as Therefore,
the
were to leave within the "Indian" zone forced to use the same weapon, all the Laos.country. and they gave the Huns more
Allics
China Into India
You leave the little Chinese-
ELEGRAPH
NAL EDITION
THAI
AND
Kra Canal Rumours
Although all the rumours about the cutting of the Kra canal to connect the two seas can be, for the moment, diare- garded, some progress has been. made with the construction of a highway across the peninsula from Chumphun on the east to Kraburi on the west, with an extension to the tin centre, Renong.
A beginning has already been achioyed towards the equipment of two small naval bases which might be suitable for subhare ines, and at least one of these, Singora, on-the. Gulf. of Siam, about 150 miles north of the British Malaya frontier, has 'been demanded on lease by the Japanese. We shall no doubt hear more of this after the. "good will" mission has returned from Tokyo.
INDO-CHINA FACE WAR
SERIOUS
SITUATIO
The Japanese in control of the. naval bases at Haiphong in Tongking, Tourane and Camranh in Annam and installed in the Malay peninsula would be mai ters of the coasts of the China Sea and the not too distant neighbours of Singapore.
Economically Slam is under- developed. More than four- fifths of the 15,000,000 inhabit- ants are rice growers, and the Japanese, pressed by the urgent problem of finding a substitute for American cotton, mean to make the Thailanders switch over to cotton cultivation at least in part. French Indo- China alone can meet the Japa- . nese needs for imported rice. sage of troops, Thailand's rubber production can and the "leasing" be immensely increased. There
ITALIANS DEFEATED SANGUINARY B
The Bangkok wants a frontier rectification in the Savannakhet region, the cession of the huge and poten. tially valuable Laos country, and
Japan's Real Aim
of air and naval bases that en- are almost inexhaustible sup- tirely change the status of Indo- plies of hard woods. The north- China and open that country to ern hills are probably rich in houses are brilliantly tiled and Japanese penetration and influ- minerals, and Slam lles right The transition from the one are carved with the figures of ence the Siamese also present- athwart the tin belt of castern
Asia. than they received. The wind zone to the other is most marked the magic world of Indian ed their claims.
Government factor was generally in favour when you go westwards from mythology. The wayside signs of the Allies, and probably the Cochin-China (that is "Little are written in an alphabetic enemy regretted that they had China") into Cambodia. Within
a fow miles you are in a new writing remotely akin to our started this vile breach of inter-world. You have crossed the own.
The country reeks of national Inw. But before the dividing line between the Far wood-smoke and the hot, spicy
the retrocession of the Battam- -Japan's plan for the moment odours of India.
bang and Siem Reap provinces. seems to be economic predomin- You have left the Far East.
Nothing is as yet said about ance until the Chinese situation Cambodia, formerly a tributary has been in some way cleared up. The Staniese by the end of the State of the Siamese.
The long-distance plans of, the 18th century had become the
Japanese undoubtedly comprise. There is little doubt that these political control. dominant people from the moun- demands were made with the
Tokyo would like to see back. looking huts with their good-tains of Annam to the Burmese approval of the Japanese, and
they were probably made at the again the ideal state of things. luck streamers of red paper in- frontier.
instigation of the Tokyo Govern portrayed on the old maps: The old European maps, in ment as part of their schemes "Empire of Annam," under a scribed with Chinese characters, the little Mongolold black-clad · men and women under limpet fact, show all that is now. Slam for a "Now Order in Asia." This puppet emperor like another. hats who tolter unsmilingly and French Indo-China divided year the Siamese Military, Mis- Manchukuo, and "Empire of along the road weighed down between the “Empire of Annam" sion, under the command of the Siam" much an economic,
and the "Empire of Siam."
Vice-Minister for National De- and, consequently, a political, fence, has gone to Japan on a dependency as the Japanese hopa. his present terrorising tactics, After the occupation of Indo "good will errand and arrived to make North China.
It remains to be seen how the demand and receive, the Wrath-China by the French and the in Tokyo on Sept. 20.
A short time ago the Thailand little peoples of the south-east ful vengeance of the British air establishment of our suzerainty force. The thought of Europe's over Burma, the continued exis. Government signed non-aggres- will like the ruthless methods of loveliest cities being laid waste tence of Sium,as an independent sion treaties with their neigh- Nippon. As a shrewd Anna- is repellent, but if Hitler ima-State was due to Anglo-French bours, Great Britain and France, mese once said to me, "We fear The Siamese have no sort of the Japancae böcause, since they gines that by doing this to Eng rivalry in the nineties of the claim to any British controlled are like ourselves, Orientals, we land he can win the war, Britain last century. At the beginning territory, although some of the shall never be able to hide from will be bound to prove to him, by of this century 6.b French wilder men in Bangkok, have them what we think, what wo retaliation, that he la wrong. forced the Stamens to cede, to hinted that the Siamese Shan desire, and what we hope to do."
war was over they had covered East and the Middle East. themselves with infamy in their cold-blooded disregard of all law.
Another argument and one. that opens up a wide field of controversy is that there are no German civilians. According to the Nazi philosophy, all Ger- mans, men, women and children, belong body and soul, to the State machinery alike for war The only civilians In Germany are in the concen- tration camps and prisons.
and peace.
Retaliation for tho sheer sake of it has always been abhorent to the Englishman's nature; he prefers to keep his fighting clean. But just as the Huns in the last war forced the Allies into adopting German methods, and rued the day accordingly, so will Hitler, if he persists in
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