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TUBERCULOSIS
TUBERCULOSIS, the most wide- spread and insidious of the diseases to scourge the health of the Colony, continues to take alarming toll of the population, providing a problem
which demonds the fullest attention both on the part of the administra- tion and the public.
Latest figures show that so far this year 2,012 T.B. cases have been
land's heart!" It was prise, or encircled, although one Napoleon, of course, who said fort held out for many days.
It, and he said it at Antwerp, Judgment Later
By George Slocombe
But more than two centuries
The Dutch wore cut off by before Napoleon, Philip the their own famous water de- Second of Spain had alrendy fences. Queen Wilhelmina and pointed the pistol, loaded and her Government took refuge in fired it.
England. After a brief but It was from Antwerp that the heroic resistance, the young Prince of Parma, Alexander Belgian King, Leopold III, sur- Farnese, was to have embarked rendered with his army. his army of foot and horse for History has few examples of a the invasion of England in more tortured conscience than 1588-that great venture which that of this royal Hamlet. His the small vessels of the English surrender was bitterly attacked Fleet nipped in the bud.
at the time, and by most of his The Low Countries have al ministers.
M. Pierlot, Belgian Prime Minis retrent to the line of the Lys ways been closely linked with
It drew from Paul Reynaud, tor, and M. Spaak, Foreign Min- and the Escaut was due rather the fortunes of Britain.
then Premier of France, one of ister, both BOW in Britain. to the German break-through of The wars of religion, the the most anyage and contemptu- "The little States will have to the r'rench front on the Belgian sublime struggle of William of ous denunciations I have ever follow a policy very different and the French waters of the Orange against Spanish despot heard broadcast on the air from from the past," thinks M. Spaak. Meuse than to any defeat suf- ism, the ambitions of Louis the one national leader of another.
fered by itself. Fourteenth and of Napoleon, the It plunged the British and the with criticism and bitter hosti- "When the King decided to Dutch and British naval rivalry French nation and the many lity. If he left the army to its lay down his arms on, May 28, in the reign of Charles II, the millions of Belgian refugees into fate, how could he hope one day the position of the army was Belgian rovolution which consternation.
to return as liberator.
desperate. The front had been separated Flanders from Holland Winston Churchill, almost His father, in 1914, had not pierced at several points. All and broke up the United Nether among the Allied statesmen, had the same choice to make. our reserves had been thrown lands, the rise of the Dutch and showed understanding and cle- he had been able to fight a re- into the battle. Munitions were Belgian colonial empires, the mency. "It is not the moment arguard action to the safety beginning to be scarce. war of 1914-all these tremen- to judge," he said. dous events have had a direct
But the French Government effect on British policy.
and its Press seized eagerly upon the surrender as a justi- fication and explanation of their own army's defeat,
Faith Destroyed
.
Grave Dilemma
And now Hitler has thrown the Low Countries more pro- foundly than ever into our orbit. Our fate is joined to theirs. Actually, I am told, the posi- The Dutch have been forced tion of the King was desperate, by Hitler's perfidy out of their The Belgian Army could not long and honourable neutrality have held out
a man.
of France, and from that sub- "Our army's freedom of move- stantial base to rebuild an army, ment was hampered by the anu take over a sector of the enormous number of civilian re- long Allied front.
fugees. The prolongation of Leopold's decision will be the struggle would have led to judged by posterity, and the his- sacrifices out of all proportion torians will discuss. it intermin- to the military results which ably. But in Belgium, I am were still possible." told, his position is understood and respected.
for more than Royal Prisoner
New Policy
So much for the tragic events
of the past. Two invasions in
profound truth.
in the wars of Europe. The three days. It. was practically The young King is now a pri- a single generation, cach time Belgians were neutral by dictate surrounded. It would have goner in his own castle, the by Germany, each time in vio- of the Great Powers, who guar- been forced to lay down its arms Chateau of Laeken, just outside lation of a neutrality carried anteed their independence in in the field, or be massacred to Brussels. He is allowed few sometimes to extremes. 1831.
The Belgian monarch visitors.
What of the future of Belgi- Their neutrality, scrupulous can be criticised on Είνα He still wears the uniform of um? Can she return to the ly respected by themselves, kept grounds:---
Belgian commander-in-chief. policy of isolationism and neu them at peace during the IHe did not reveal his des He has consistently refused to trality?
Henri Spank says: Franco-Russian war of 1870. perate plight, and intentions, in receive the envoys periodically
"No. In 1914 it was violated by Ger- advance, to the Allled com- sent to him by Hitler. He will The policy of so-called indepen- manya "Scrap of Paper." 'manders, and delay his surren- not lend himself to any attempt dence has not averted invasion, After 1918 Belgium placed der at least for another day, to bring Belgium into docile ac- and we must never forget this her faith jointly in the collec- to allow his Allies to extricate ceptance of her defent.
Messages undoubtedly reach "It is also evident that individual tive security promised by the themselves from their own dif- League of Nations, and in ficult situation.
efforts at self-defence on the part of him from the outside world.
the western nations have not proved the pledges made by France, II. He acted, not as consti- They tell him of the silent, in- adequate to save them from disaster. Germany and Britain in the tutional sovereign, but as com- domitable resistance of his "We must now realize that when
mander-in-chief of the army. In people to the invader. They tell peace is restored-and Pact of Locarno.
peace can The rape of Abyssinia and the former role his duty was to him of the loyalty of the im- only come, from the Belgian point the failure of sanctions des follow the advice of his cabinet, mense Belgian Congo, which is glum will have to adopt a new view, with a British victory-Bel- notified to the health authorities-antroyed her faith in collective, and, if necessary, follow them now united with French Equa- foreign policy. average of 194 per week and nearly security. The unopposed entry to France or to Britain. But he torial Africa in continuing the "This new policy casinot be merely 28 per day. This, however, is only of German troops into the preferred to act as the chief of war against Hitler.
a return to the idens of 1918 and to
poucy of the League of Nations. half the picture; It is safe to say that Rhineland in 1935 destroyed her the armed forces and to share They tell the imprisoned King
It is not the moment to judge the -at-least-the-same-number-remain--faith-in-Locarno,
the-fate-of-his-army.
-of-the-sabotage-and-subterfuges history of the League, but in my unnotified and therefore escape the Thereafter Belgium fell back It was a grave and terrible played on the Nazis in occupied view it was too big, and the obliga- official records. It is this feature on the old policy of neutrality, dilemma which confronted th's Belgium, of the whispering cam tlons imposed upon its members were which prompts Selenlife Research
and began to rearm,
young sovereign, the son of the paign, the listening campaign, accordingly too loose and vague.
"Wo must try to attack the pro- Committee of the Hongkong Anti-
the con- noble Albert I, and himself en- the effect of the B.B.C. broad- blem from another angle. We must We have Tuberculosis Association, in the dis- sequences. Cynically breaking dowed with many of his father's casts, and of the newspapers and not aim so high, but nim more ac-
his latest pledge to the Low qualities.
broadsheets privately printed curately. Countries, Hitler invaded Hol- If he chose one path or the and passed from hand to hand, Economic Ties land and Belgium. The Belgian other, he was certain to meet and sometimes, no doubt, ap- "We must begin building from the
cerning and constructive report just Issued, to observe: "Owing to the great prejudice against TB. the Medical Department should be ad- vised to Instruct its Health Inspec- tors to be most tactful in dealing with notified cases, in order that others will not be encouraged to hide their disease and secretly spread Infection,"
The report contains a number of other highly important suggestions which call for the most sympathetic consideration of the
authorities. Some
provide for almost elementary precautions which, it is surprising,
seen
Baltic to Black Sea
Fortified by
by Nazis
By DAVID SCOTT
LISBON, Germany has now almost completed a vast system of for-
Jave not already been effected. For
ditifications extending along the new German frontier and those
example, Investigation of the condi-
tion of houses in the poorer areas of associated or dominated States from the Baltic to the Black and the thorough operation of the Sea. Government's rules on house ventila- tion. Why should it be necessary for an unofficial body to prompt the authorities in such an elementary and obvious matter?
The now Eastern Siegfried Line begins near Memel, where it is formed by the pre-war for- tifications of East Prussia, now greatly re-inforced.
Thereafter it switches south
cong/de/to the Bug River and follows this
river line which now forms the boundary between German- occupied and Russian-occupied Poland to the Ruthenian border.
Other recommendations must, of necessity, be carefully investigated before decisions are made, as they Involve capital outlay and
this expenditure; though, does not deny their desire ability. One is that open-air schools should be encouraged; another that there should be established well- equipped Chest Clinics in the Colony
The section covering Poland, for the selection of cases to be sent to the institutions, these clinics to be which has been constructed since provided, not only with X-ray equip the Gorman conquest, is built on ment but niso Independent the Siegfried, not the Maginot, Jaboratory of their own; the com- | principle; that is, thousands of
further recommends the pur- mittee chase of a radiophotography outit pillboxes, small forts, gun post- that as a tions, etc., covering a depth of for me.. minimum,
many miles rather than cla- 150-bed hospital and a 300-bed sanatorium for the treat-borate underground fortresses. ment and care of TB. patients be
and that
provided in non-malarial districts, equipped with sanitary facilities.
At the same time the Germans
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GERMANY
CAUCAPS ST
YUGO
SLAVIA
*BULGARIA
are working hard to improve the tem known as the Carol Line,
of
pearing mysteriously upon the bottom, begin with a few. nations at breakfast table of the Nazi a time, nations which are linked Gauleiter in Brussels, as every together by similar political systems, morning the newspaper of the similar economic necessities.
***Begin with Western Europe, Free Belgians appeared during Great Britain, France, Belgium, the last war on the table of the Holland, and the Scandinavian coun- German Governor-General in tries full these requirements. They the occupied capital.
have a common background of femo- Meanwhile, the Low Coun- tic history, of long political ex-
Perience Erics have again become, for us us try to create a political and
In this island, the Pistol pointed military alliance between these coun- at England's heart.
"But it is clear that a political and
tries. That seems to me to be the In Antwerp and Rotterdam great power of Germany and its ex- only means of counterbalancing the and in all the Dutch and Belgian pansionist spirit. canals are being mustered the flat-bottomed boats for Hitler's military alliance, if it is: pe solid invasion of Britain.
and lasting, must be completed by econemic ties, closer commercial re- Behind these cities lie the lations. A aerodromes from which we are "Economic prosperity is a matter
tries of Western Europa, over-popu- lated and dependent upon export trade for their `very: exlsience. It is hopeless to try to create a politicul When Hitler is defeated, as union with a country which has to the last would-be invader of so elsewhere for its economic sup- Britain was defeated, can the port,
being bombed by Hitler's of life or death for the little coun-
bombers.
Peril Ahead
Low Countries return to their League Idea
isolation, their dangerous neu-
"This political and economic al- trality, expressed to the caprice lance of the Western States might and the intrigues of another be completed by other regional aili- German_aggressor?!
ences or understandings, and with
Can Britain, in her own in these mall organisations to serve as a base, a larger and higher organisa- terests, remain indifferent while on a league of loent federations the Pistol is again pointed at might be attempted, but with less precise obligations and functions than England's heart?
Listen to M. Henri Spank, the maller federations at the base," These are Henri Spook's concep- He is the Belgian Foreign, tions of the European problem at this Minister. He is a Socialist. mement. Later, he warned me, he
All of these recommendations ap-west to east rail and road com- reaching the Black Sea near the Genova, an ardent advocate of But he is sure of thin-that i
For years he frequented may have to revise them, as we may
per
pear to be but normal requirements munications of this area, osten mouth of the Danube.
Tuberculosis problem is
is to be
the League of Nations. After fuBut he is sure of this that in the States of Europe tackled in any sort of sincere and sibly for the purposes of traffle businesslike manner. Half measures with Russia, but with obvious Thus, by now construction and Locarno, he supported Leopold will have to follow a policy very dif- can achieve nothing of value. The strategic value.
adaptation Germany in the last III in advocating a return to the ferent from that of the east, and that Powers will Invo to financial aspect must not be
Ruthenin the German lino year has created a great barrier policy of complete neutrality.theder heavy vernonwhites. fitted in thwart the ultimate objec- links up with the defence sys- all along her eastern frontiers “On May 10, 1940,” he told The new Concert. of Europe must Ulve, which be in freo
free Hongkong,
tem now being built by the Hun- which is calculated to make her me, "Belgium was as united to create a braver and a swerter musle far as possible from the scourge of
invulnerable. pha mating de urgent at bain garians.
resist the German attack as she than the nl.
TO-MORROW official statistics and the report of This again, after following the The last link to be forged in had been in 1914.12. the Anti-TB. Awortation demons-line of the Carpathians, joins this chain is the southern section trate Effertum etion by the au- with the Rumanian defence sys- covering Rumania, thorities is required.
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"The Belgian army, fought bravely and honourably, and Its
The Riddle of Tho Balkons