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Yo Yo In Church.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932,

WHERE WAR BREEDS

DANZIG'S RUIN CAN

CAUSE CLASH

Spain, like many other countries, MENACE IN THE POLISH “CORRIDOR'

is “yo yo" mad, and it is doubtful

whether London or Paris. have got

the craza worse than Madrid...

The Polish Corridor, a atrip of written on the faces of her popu

German territory, was lation Bitterness is in their

In a church situated in the former fashionable Salamanca district of awarded to Poland under the mouths. Madrid, the parish priest has been. Treaty of Versailles in order to The building of Gdynia and the faced with a problem which was, give her an outlet to the Baltic economic ruin of Danzig were cor- to say the least, out of the 'ordin Sea. It cuts off a vast German tainly a breach of the instructions ary. During the celebration of a population from their country. of the Treaty of Versailles. Mass of Nuptial Benediction, the It is important that the situation To-day they are accomplished officiating priest noticed that not should be fully understood in this facts-grim symbols together with only were the invited people taking country, in view of Britain's com-the Corridor itself of a Treaty no interest in the service, but even mitments under the Locarno agree-[which, unless revised, contains the the bride and bridegroom wore ment which may drag us into war, germs of anothor war. paying little attention. They were warns Mr. Anthony Crossley, M.P. In order to see the frontier of In fact laughing..

I have just returned from Dan-the Corridor, I stayed at Marion- The cause of the trouble was a zig, that German city at the mouth werder, an old fortress town of the small acolyte who was varying the of the Vistula, which la rapidly Teutonic knights that semi- monotony of the Latin service with being brought to economic ruin. religious, semi-military society an exhibition of Yo Yo.

Your Daily Smile.

What-ho, Ski Bumps!

Winter sports casualties.

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Rigour of the Law.

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"No, thanks, tell him I have a {moustache."

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Difference Between Us.

I was taken through its beauti-which in the Middle Ages-civilised, ful, historic streets, full of gar-educated, and protected the people goylea, of figure-heads, and of and drained the land and built the relics of the Teutonic knights, of dykes. the Hansa merchants, of Napo-

The frontier, instead of running leon's occupation, of a thousand down the centre of the Vistula, past glories.

mainly follows the dyke to

Trivial Politics,

the I went all over its harbour in a cast and in one place, in order to a bridgehead for the Wireless sets are now being sup-boat. Everywhere there was room provide plied to many prisons. I'm all in for expansion and construction to Poles, takes in Ave German vil favour of this stiffening up in the accommodate the traffic from the lages. Everywhere military con- penalties of crime.

vast agricultural hinterland of siderations have prevailed, and the Poland and from the coalfields of whole frontier follows a grotesque Silesia.

route, cutting off districts, from But the harbour is idle; Danzig their market towns, towns from itself is dead or at least dying and their railway stations, and villages ¡defenceless. It is being killed by from their school

the preposterous anomaly of the Polish corridor and by the new Visas and passports are demand- port which at enormous, expense ed everywhere. A Polish visa al- Certain natives in Africa, I read, the Poles are constructing at lowing a German to cross the Cor

ridor from one part of Germany to first. Yet the handful of English here we just leave it to the income-

dye their faces a pale grey. Over Gdynia.

"Gangway of Mars.". the other as often as he wishes people who stood on the cliffs of tax demand notes.

What is the Polish Corridor? costs up to 800 zlotys (about £25) STUART-SMITH— D'ARCY-GWYNN. the Channel and cheered when al

Shortly before his death, Marshal a year. Frontier incidents, most On 22nd inst. Kenneth Stuart-Smith to Frenchman made the first aerial}

Foch, pointing on the map to its of them trivial but loading to in- Helen Edith Ann, second daughter of crossing, seemed totally uncon- A new musical work by a German spearpoint narrowing to the sea, tense bitterness, have been Licut-Colonel R. S. D'Arcy-Gwynn, scious of the fact that they were composer was written in a beer declared to a visitor: "There le numerous.

the roots of another war.”. In Recently a peasant was arrested D.S.O. (late 24th Regiment) and Mrs. witnessing the end of Britain's garden.

1926 Lord D'Abernon immunity as an island and the D'Arcy-Gwynn.

called it for leaving his papers in his cont beginning of an intolerable kind

"The Powder Magazine of Europe." pocket on a bank, while in the heat. of warfare. There are historians

Pessimista man who of two More recently it has been luridly of the day he loaded a cart. Papers described by an American journ-must be on your person! This took who think that these things have evils chooses both.

alist as "The Gangway of Mars." place where the frontier cuts gone as they still may go-in

By point thirteen of President German farmer's land in halves. cycles. Miss Cicely Hamilton, in

Facts You Did Not her striking novel, "Theodore

Wilson's famous impossibilia, Po I returned to England by rail, Know.

land was to be reconstituted as a crossing the Corridor from Chiev, Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 23, 1932. Savagę,". draws from their

buffer state between Russia and a railway centre, which being in

MARRIAGE.

The China Mail

"The Terror That Flieth."

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theories the comment that the More than 60 per cent. of the Germany and was to be granted Polish hands, necessitates a visa story of Daedalus and Icarus, and leather exported by the United free access to the sea. A Germany, for travelling from one part of the the legends of fire-breathing States in the first six months this helpless in defeat, offered to lo-Danzig Free State to another. A dragons, were warnings built on year went to Europe.

land the same free harbour rights Polish soldier stood in the passage the dim memories of former

In Danzig and Stettin as the outside my compartment. No win- civilisations destroyed by avia- A match that can be lighted 600 Czechs enjoy to-day without fric-dows were allowed to be opened, As Mr. Baldwin plainly told tion and poison gas. Whether times before its secret composition tion in Hamburg. She was pre- this not for reasons of "fug," but the House of Commons the future that be fanciful or not, she pro-is exhausted has been invented by Pared to internationalise the Visbeing an indignity exacted by of civilisation hangs upon the so-ceeds to depict the reality of an-a Vienna chemist.

tula. But the delegates at Ver- Poland in a Treaty!!!! lution of the air question. His other civilisation destroyed in our

sailles insisted on interpreting. warning created a remarkable own day, with the few survivors Made of rubber treated yarn,

I came away profoundly alarmed President Wilson's words in their by all that I had seen. A new raca impression, and much comment banding themselves

together, new textile for clothing returns to literal sense, and so to the huge is growing up in Germany which has already followed upon it. cursing machines and forbidding its original shape after stretching, areas in Poland with foreign popu- never knew the horrors of the last Will that impression last? To their construction. Something reducing wear to a minimum.

lations, to the White Russian Bast, war. But of the unequal proví, hope so is at times easier than like a hundred and fifty years

to the Ukrainian South-East, to sions of the Peace Treaty these

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News in Brief.

from the Fatherland, not only as a gratuitous political insult, but as an intolerable economic injustice.

to believe, Very shortly after ago, William Cowper, on appear- A diminutive motor driven circu. Silesia and Posen with their Ger- young Germans are acutely sensi- Mr. Baldwin's speech, we learn- ances the least likely of men to lar saw that can be held with a pis- mans in the West, was added a tive, and they look on the present ed of remarkable experiments trouble his head over such mat-tol has been invented by a Callfor- Corridor of Polish land thrust settlement, the isolation of Danzig being carried out in northern ters, and with no portents. to nian for cutting wall-board and through Germany to the sea and and the cutting off of East Prussia France, where special machines alarm him like those which exist other light work."

to the West of Danzig. poured forth a protective fog nowadays, arrived at the conclu-

Made A Free City. while the whole of the local popu-elon, solely by reflection, that if

Danzig, however, was not includ- lation took refuge in bomb-proof he were an absolute despot he

ed in the Corridor, but was made shelters. Such is the answer would make it punishable by

nominally a "Free City," including which ultra-realism supplies, al-death to invent a flying machine, kept him in bed for some days, own Parliament, but her foreign

Owing to indiaposition, which a small hinterland. most as if by deliberate inten- because its possession would give His Excellency the Governor was relations are controlled by Poland. tion, to the saber appeal of ideal-the inventor far too much power unable to accompany Sir Samuel Worse still, she is included in the fam. It can scarcely be called an over the rest of mankind. Was Wilson on the whole of his recent Polish Customs Union, and, as encouraging sign. Must civilisa-not that self-evident at any time, tour in the Colony. Happily, Sir Polish tariffs are mainly prohibi- tion be content, then, to exist on and is it not a living issue to-William is now able to attend his tive, her share of the Polish cus- such ignominious terms hiding day? If the evil passions of men ofee, although still feeling the toms revenue (about 8 per cent.). its head from its own diabolical cannot be restrained, the tale effects of his illness. inventions? Further, if so, is it unfolded in Theodore Savage"

worth preserving? The "Satur may be literally fulfilled. No

She has her HEADMASTER

PLAYS

HOST TO BOYS.

Enjoyable Annual Xmas Party.

has, during the last two years, been The junior pupils of the Central very small Indeed. Her harbour, British School were entertained by

day Review," a realist itself in word should be left unsaid, by announced between Mr. William Ave Danzigers and five Poles master, and Mrs. Nightingale yen- The forthcoming weddings are too, is administered by a board of Mr. G. Franklin Nightingale, Head- the fearless facing of facts, re-speaker or publicist, to drive this Kay, schoolmaster, of the Educa-restrained from devouring each terday afternoon, when the annual cently asked whether the states- lesson home. If nobler sentition Department, residing at 16, other by a Swiss Colonel an ex- fancy dress datice was held in the men of Europe were seriously ments cannot be appealed to, then Conduit Road, and Miss Grace cellent man doubtless chosen for gally bedecked school hall. aware, as they should be, that fear at least should be invoked Kathleen Williams, 2b, Kennedy this office because of the ripe ex During the evening the two plays within a few minutes of a new fear of a white man's world laid Road; and between Mr. William perience both of fils countrymen Thread O' Scarlet, by J. 3. Bell, declaration of war, those who had bare by mutual hatred. Man has Edward Parry, Military Hospital, and of his profession in all mat and The Perfect Holiday," by voted for it (and those who had incurred on himself a curse 80 Bowen Road, and Miss Nellie ters pertaining to the sea. voted against it) might, and pro- that every device of science that Lincoln Lindsay, S. Kimberley His expert knowledge is in any St. Andrew's Church Hall, with L. M. Alcott, were repeated in the bably would, be blotted out of can possibly be distorted to serve Road, Kowloon. existence together with the halls the ends of slaughter and de-ROMAN

case superfluous. The trade of marked success. The party return- in which they had voted. If they vastation is to such purposes ap The St. Andrew's Church choir, ly as possible by the ambitious and games were brought to a happy Danzig is being diverted as rapided to the school hall where dancing truly realised that, one thinks at plied. But none of them con- augmented by many, friends, toured Poles to Gdynin, seven miles away. conclusion wi first, they would surely seek teins such direful possibilities as the parish last night, and collected

with the Sir Roger De peace and disarmament with the aeroplane, to which the only $145 on behalf of St. Dunstan's ago it was a tiny fishing village

I went to Gdynia. A few years Coverley. greater zeal Yet, on the other even semi-effectual answer seems Homes for war-blinded men. The To-day It is a town of 50,000 in (Buy British Goods) and L. Norris Prizes were won by Joan Rapley Hand, comes proof that, in France to be by retaliation in kind, the Christmas carols brought a ready habitants. Its harbour, literally (Pirate), at least, the meaning of this ruin of whole races by mutual response from the many places v-dug out of the land, was a hive of The Headmaster thanked all those menace is accepted as a reason murder. There is but little hope sited. The choir has also arranged activity, with shrieking crates who had helped in making the ar only for desperate counter-mea in agreed limitations, seeing that to render Christmas ca sures. Even if we consent to such civil machines are all potential Peninsula Hotel at 12 o'clock on Since the British coal strike of Grahame, Miss Monroe, Messra. carols at the loading ships with Silesian coal rangements, and especially Miss stark logic, it should not blind us bombers. This inescapable fact Christmas Eve. to the fact that counter-measures drives us back to the familiar

1926 Poland has captured the T, R. Rowell, D. Morgan: Richards, Scandinavian markets, and now, H. H. Baddow, W. Mulcahy and Jack

would probably ere long prove thought that the real problem is trusted. Lord Hugh Cecil re- with a special coal railway running Sultor futile, or to the necessity of a mental and moral one. To cently remarked that he wished direct from Bllesia and built by Cheers were called and heartily discovering better alternatives, that conclusion which is the flying had never been invented, French money on which no interest accorded after which the party dis Actually, no special warning beginning-point of all religions and a high officer in the British has been paid, the Polish conlpersed. should at this time of day be we find ourselves more and more serial force said he was inclined trade, with extremely low wages needed. The facts themselves bound.It is just as well," Mr, to agree with him as many of and subsidised shipping, contitutes should long ago hav red the Baldwin red for the man the rest of us would say, Butra real peril to our own coal exports A black dog, owned by an em world to take cogni

erstand that regret profits nothing now. Man-all over Europe deadly danger the

ployee of the Chung Kee Gardens, protect him from kind has weapons in its hang People Despair. a new weapon whiel

Kimberley Road, was removed to Kamits of node slightest intellige should have seen th

of a in the sh

that that will slay it if hatrods persist So Danzig, like the Emperor Ma Tau Kok for observation yes inter in its heart. To the heart must Charles, prepari

When rem

strance more and more be sequies, must pa can be addressed.

own economic rul

Despair

terday after it had bitten Lillon Knutson, aged 4 years, of 9 Canton