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TUBERCULOSIS
HOW WILL HITLER
FALL?
Fifth Article
THE PISTOL AT ENGLAND'S HEART
“A PISTOL pointed at Eng- fortifications were taken by sur- 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. The Dutch were cut off by But more thin two centuries their own famous water de. before Napoleon, Philip the fences. Queen Wilhelmina and Second of Spain had already her Government took refuge in pointed the pistol, loaded and England. After a brief but fired it.
heroic resistance, the young
History has few examples of a
It was from antwerp that the Belgian King, Leopold III, sur- Prince of Parma, Alexander rendered with his army. Farnese, was to have embarked his army of foot and horso for the invasion of England in more tortured conscience than 1688-that great venture which that of this royal Hamlet. His the small vessels of the English at the time, and by most of his surrender was bitterly attacked Fleet nipped in the bud.
ministers.
By George Slocombe
The Low Countries have al
It drew from Paul Reynaud, M. Pierlot, Belgian Prime Minis- retreat to the line of the Lys ways been closely linked with the fortunes of Britain.
then Premier of France, one of tor, and M. Spaak, Foreign Min- and the Escaut was due rather both ΠΟΥ in Britain, to the German brank-through of The wars of religion, the the most savage and contemptu istar, sublime struggle of William of qus denunciations I have ever "The little States will have to the French front on the Belgian Orange against Spanish despot- heard broadcast on the air from follow a-policy very different and the French waters of the ism, the ambitions of Louis the one national leader of another. from the past," thinks M. Spaak. Mcuse than to any defeat suf-
fered by itself. Fourteenth and of Napoleon, the It plunged the British and the
"When the King decided to Dutch and British naval rivalry French nation and the many with criticism and bitter hosti- in the reign of Charles II, the millions of Belgian refugees into ity. If he left the army to its lay down his arms on May 28, fate, how could he hope one day the position of the army was Belgian revolution which consternation.
to return as liberator. Winston Churchill, almost
desperate. The front had been separated Flanders from Holland
His, father, in 1914, hnd not pierced at several points. All and broke up the United Nether- among the Allied statesmen,
choice to make. our reserves had been thrown lands, the rise of the Dutch and showed understanding and cle- had the same Belgian colonial empires, the mency. "It is not the moment He had been able to fight a re- into the battle. Munitions were
arguard action to the safety beginning to be scarce. war of 1914-all these tremen- to judge," he said.
"Our army's freedom of move- But the French Government of France, and from that sub- dous events have had a direct effect on British policy.
and its Press seized eagerly stantial base to rebuild an army, ment, was hampered by the And now Hitler has thrown upon the surrender as a justi and take over a sector of the enormous number of civilian re- fugees. The prolongation of Leopold's decision will be the struggle would have led to the Low Countries more pro- fication and explanation of their long Allied front. foundly than ever into our orbit, own army's defeat.
judged by posterity, and the his- sacrifices out of all proportion Our fate is joined to theirs.
torians will discuss it intermin- to the military results which The Dutch have been forced
ably. But in Belgium, I am were still possible." told, his position is understood and respected.
Grave Bilemma
Royal Prisoner
So much for the tragic events of the past. Two invasions in
by Hitler's perfidy out of their Actually, I am told, the post- long and honourable neutrality tion of the King was desperate, in the wars of Europe. The The Belgian Army could not
a single generation, each time Belgians were neutral by dictate have held out for. more than
by Germany, each time in vio- of the Great Powers, who guar- three days. It was practically The young King is now a pri- lation of a neutrality carried
have would anteed their independence in surrounded. It
soner in his own castle, the sometimes to extremes. been forced to lay down its arms Chateau of Laeken, just outside 1831.
What of the future of Belgi- Their neutrality, scrupulous- in 'the field, or be massacred to Brussels. He is allowed few um?.
Can she return to the ly respected by themselves, kept a man. The Belgian monarch visitors.
policy of isolationism and neu- the can
be criticised at peace during
He still wears the uniform of trality? Franco-Russian war of 1870. grounds:-
Belgian commander-in-chief. In 1914 it was violated by Ger. wide-many-a "Scrap of Paper."
TUBERCULOSIS, the most sprend und Insidious of the diseases to scourge the health of the Colony,
continues to take alarming toll of the population, providing a problem which demands the fullest attention both on the part of the administra- tlon and the public.
Latest figures show that so far this year 2,912 T.B. cases have been notified to the health authorities-an average of 194 per week and nearly 20-per-day. This, however, is only
them
Faith Destroyed
ΟΠ
two
I. He did not reveal his des. He has consistently refused to New Policy
profound truth. ;
"It is also cqvident that Individual efforts at self-defence on the part of the western nations have not proved
must now realise that when
a
half the picture; it is safe to say that Rhineland in 1936 destroyed her the armed forcos-and-to-shareThey tell the imprisoned Kinglurn to the ideas of 1918-
to
"This new policy cannot be merely
and policy of the League of Nailons.. It is not the moment to judge the.
perate plight, and intentions, in receive the envoys periodically Henri Spaak says: "No. advance, to the Allied com- sent to him by Hitler. He will The policy of so-called indepen- 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 defeat. tive security promised by the themselves from their own dif
Messages undoubtedly reach him from the outside world. League of Nations, and in ficult situation.
Пl. He acted, not as consti-
They tell him of the silent, in adequate to save them from disaster. the pledges made by France, Germany and Britain in the tutional sovereign, but as com- domitable resistance of his Pact of Locarno.
mander-in-chief of the army. In people to the invader. They tell peace is restored and 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 of view, with a British victory-Bel- glum will have to adopt a new troyed her faith in collective and, if necessary, follow them now united with. French Equa-, foreign policy. security. The unopposed entry to France or to Britain. But he torial Africa in continuing the of German troops into the preferred to act as the chief of war against Hitler.
the fate of his army.
of the sabotage and subterfuges history of the Lengue, but in my at least the same number remain faith in Locarno.
Thereafter Belgium fell back It was a grave and terrible played on the Nazis in occupied view it was too big, and the obliga- unnotlied and therefore escape the
on the old policy of neutrality, dilemma which confronted this Belgium, of the whispering cam- tions imposed upon its members were official records, It is this feature
young sovereign, the son of the paign, the listening campaign, accordingly too loose and vague.
"We must try to attack the pro- which prompts Selentine Research and began to rearm.
We have Всеп the con- noble Albert I, and himself en- the effect of the B.B.C. broad blem from another angle. We must Committee of the Hongkong Anti-j
Cynically breaking dowed with many of his father's casts, and of the newspapers and not aim so high, but aim more ac- Tuberculosis Association, in the dis-sequences.
broadsheets privately printed curately. cerning and constructive report just his latest pledge to the Low qualities.
If he chose one path or the and passed from hand to hand, Economic Ties Issued, to observe: "Owing to the Countries, Hitler invaded Hol- great prejudice against TB., the land and Belgium. The Belgian other, he was certain to meet and sometimes, no doubt, ap- "We must begin building from the pearing mysteriously upon the bottom, begin with a few nations at Medical Department should be ad- vised to Instruct its Health Inspec-
breakfast table of the Nazi a time, nations which are linked tors to be most tactful in dealing
Gauleiter in Brussels, us every together by similar political systems, with notified cases, in order that
morning the newspaper of the similar economic necessitles.
"Begin others will not be encouraged to hide
with Western Europe, Free Belgians appeared during Great Britain, France, Belgium, their disease and secretly spread Infection."
the last war on the table of the Holland, and the Scandinavian coun German Governor-General in tries fulfil these requirements. They have a common background of deno- the occupied capital.
history, of long political ex- Meanwhile, the Low Coun-
Baltic to Black Sea Fortified by Nazis
By DAVID SCOTT
LISBON.
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,
Germany has now almost completed a vast system of for- have not already been effected. For tifications extending along the now German frontier and those example, Investigation of the condi- of associated or dominated States from the Baltic to the Black tion of houses in the poorer arcus and the thorough operation of the 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?
This
Sell
The new Eastern Siegfried Line begins near Memel, where it is formed by the pre-war for- tifications of East Prussia, now greatly re-inforced.
Other recommendations must, of necessity, be carefully investigated
Thereafter it awitches south before decisions are made, as they involve capital outlay and recurring to the Bug River and follows this expenditure;
consideration, though, does not deny their desir, river line which, now forms the German- boundary between open-air schools ability. One is that should be encouraged; another that occupied and Russian-occupied there should be established well- Poland to the Ruthenian border. equipped Chest Clinics in the Colony for the selection of cases to be sent the institutions, these clinics to be provided, not only with X-ray equip ment, but also 拉门
mittee further
Dur-
The section covering Poland, which has been constructed since the German conquest, is built on Independent the Siegfried, not the Maginot, Inborntory of their
aw the
the principle; that is, thousands of chase of radiophotography, pillboxes, small forts, gun post- for mass survey, and that as a tions, etc., covering a depth of minimum, a 180-bed hospital and a many miles rather than ela- 300-bed sanatorium for the treat-borate underground fortresses. ment and care of T.B. patients be provided in non-malarial districts, equipped with
facilities. Banitary
At the same time the Gormans
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tries have again become, for us in this island, the Pistol pointed military alliance between these coun- at England's heart.
only
us try to create a political and
That setens to me to be the means of
the counterbalancing
In Antwerp and Rotterdam and in all the Dutch and Belgian Power of Germany and its ex-
pansionist spirit. canals are being mustered the "But it is clear that a political and flat-bottomed boats for Hiller's military alllance, if it is to be sold
and invasion of Britain.
closer commercial re- Behind these cities lle the economic ties, ust be complated by
lations. aerodromes from which we are "Economic prosperity is a matter being bombed by Hitler's of life or death for the little coun- trics of Western Europe, over-popu- Jated, and dependent upon export trade for their very existence. It is hopeless to try to create a political. When Hitler is defeated, as union with a country which has to the last would-be invader of go elsewhere for its economic sup Britain was defeated, can the port.
bombers.
Peril Ahead
Low Countries return to their League Idea
isolation, their dangerous nou-
*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
ances or understandings, and German aggressor?
these amoll
Can Britain, in her own in- base, arganfentiona 10: servoří
and higher organiza. of local federations
a league of
terests, remain indifferent while on, the Pistol is again pointed at might be attempted, but with less England's heart?
precise obligations and functions than the maller federations. at the base
of the
Listen to M. Henri Spaak. These aro Henri Spaak's concep He is the Belgian Foreign tons of
European problem at this moment. Later, he warned me, he are working hard to improve the tem known as the Carol Line, Minister. He is a Socialist, All of these recommendations ap-west to cast rail and road com-
For years he frequented may have to revise them, as we may
reviso cur ideas. Pena Tuberculosis
to bo but normal requirements munications of this area, osten. reaching the Black Sea near the Geneva, an ardent advocate of all have to
'to be osiy problem
the League of Nations. After But he is sure of this--that in the future the little States of Europe tackled in any sort of sincere and sibly for the purposes of traffic mouth of the Danube.
Thus, by new construction and Locarno, he supported Leopold will have to follow 4 poller very dif businesslike manner. Halt mensures with Russia, but with obvious
adaptation Germany in the last III in advocating a return to the ferent from that of the past, and that nothing of value. The strategic. value. can achieve
the Great Powers will have, to Anancial aspect must not be per- In Ruthenia the German Ilne year has created a great barrier policy of complete neutrality. shoulder heavy responsibilities. milled to 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 tive, which is to free Hongkong, far as possible from the scourge of tom now being built by the Hun- which is calculated to make her me, "Belgium was as united to create a braver and a sweeter, music
invulnerablo.
resist the German attack as she than the atá anak ya
TORTO-MORROW 15 had been in 1914, festive.
"""The``"Belgian "army“ fought.
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Balkansk bravely and honourably, and ta
TA. The matter. In urgent as both "garians." ; official statuties and the report of the Anti-TB. Association, demons trate. Effective action by the au- thorities in required,
This again, after following the line of the Carpathians, joins with the Rumanian defence sys
The last link to be forged in this chain la the southern section covering Rumania,