1939-03-16 — Page 10

DEWAR'S

CONSPICUOUS

IN EVERY ROUND

White Label EST SCOTCH WHISH

OF GREAT AGE

Dewar & Sons

DISTILLERS

PERT

From A

White Label

Your FINAL choice

PIANOS

Sole Agents A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE DEPT.

FOR SALE OR HIRE

Tel. 20618

ANDERSON PIANOS

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

ICE HOUSE STREET

Dine at the

TEL: 21822.

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1939.

The China Mail Ninety-Third Year of Publication 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022

London Office:

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2

Notice To Contributors."

All communications intended for publication should be addressed-to the Editor, and be accompanied by the Writer's Name and Address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith.

Parisian Grill

Good Food

Dinner and Dance Music

by

Fine Wines

THE BLUE DANUBE TRIO

Open till 1 am.

THE PERFECT POPULAR PIPE

DE PAT

PERFECT CLEANING COOL & DRY SKOKE

Subscription Rates.

3 Months

6 Months

One Year

*H.K.$ 9.00 H.K.$18.00 H.K.$36.00

Postage Abroad Extra

are a nominally independent nation) than they did under Aus- trian rule before they had achiev- ed national independence.

"Not only is the entire foreign policy of Czecho-Slovakia (in so far as it exists at all) dictated by Berlin, but also her home policy is to a large extent dictated, and where not dictated supervised and controlled, by Berlin.

the "A certain reluctance on part of the Czechs to accept dic- tation is perceptible. For example, the atrocious anti-Semitism which is practised by the Slovaks is disliked by the Czecha, who, al- though they are compelled by Berlin to be anti-Semitic, are so with as much humanity as they can be. Although, the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia are doom- ed, yet that doom is, thanks to the relatively tolerant spirit of the Czechs, made to descend grad- ually, so that the Jews are at least allowed a little time to prepare for what must come.

Hong Kong, Thursday, March 16, 1939;

THE MAILED FIST

"The National Socialist party, to which all members of the Ger- man minority must belong, is a privileged party, and is becoming a kind of governing class iD Czecho-Slovakia. All newspapers and periodicals published by emigres and disapproved of by the Germans have been suppress- ed. The freedom of the purely Czech press is rapidly disappear- ing."

After reciting the further pres- sures of Germany on Czecho Slovakia, many of which seemed intended to push the Czechs to the stage of revolt, the writer goes on:

The most puzzling feature of Hitler's naked employment of the mai'ed fist to complete the mortification of the once-proud Czech people is connected with the uncontested fact that Czecho slovakia has, since Munich, been under Germany's heel, and the difficulty of judging what ad vantage Germany could possibly derive from completing dismem berment and introducing chaos Out of the new into the area. "crisis," Slovakia gets a worthless ""independence," and the Czech zone, Moravia and Bohemia, is de- prived even of the semblance of self-government, Herr Hitler hav- ing obtained the malicious satis faction of compelling Czech con- sent to destruction of what, last year, was one of Europe's most formidable armies.

NO CONTACT BETWEEN TOBACCOS MOISTURE

$3.50 only

at INGENOHL'S STORES “LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE” and other tobacconists.

"Nevertheless Herr Kundt de- clares that all this is not enough. The broad facts of the progressive enslavement of Czecho Slovakia cannot, of course, be concealed from the Czech public. But many of the details-statistics especial- iy-are withheld by the Czecho Slovak Government so that public indignation shall not crystallise in open resistance or even lead to incidents.

"The anti-French; and to some One suggestion is that March 15 having been widely advertised extent anti-British, feeling that for another Axis coup, the Czechs was the immediate consequence were chosen as easy victims be of the Munich Agreement is giv- cause the Axis Powers felt un-ing way to an intense anti-Ger- able to go ahead with what was man feeling amongst the Czech people, and is showing itself in originally intended.

a certain passive resistance. This is no doubt what Herr Kundt characterises as Czech "ruthless- ness," and his words would seem to show that Berlin will stop at no ruthlessness in turning Czecho S.ovakia not merely into a vassal State but into a German colony and the Czechs into a helot popu lution."

It is a plausible solution, which might have commanded a certain acceptance, but for the fact that fuller reports of a speech made by Herr Kundt, the agent of Berlin ia, in the middle in Czechoslovakia, i of February, show that the Hitler coup of the last two or three days was foreseen.

i

The diplomatic correspondent

This plain forecast on February of the "Manchester Guardian” was able to write on February 17: 17 of the events of the last few "The statement made by Herr days gives a new complexion to Kundt, the leader of the German the situation and compels revi-

in Czecho-Slovakia sion of first judgments. minority

New importance is at once im would appear to have a rather sinister significance. It can hardly parted, for instance, to the de have been made without the ap- mand for the surrender to the proval of Berlin. He declared that German Army of the compment the situati of the Germans in of the Czech Army, which tech- Czecho-Slovakia was becoming nically could hardly be surpassed Czecho-Slovakia's ble, and he complained anywhere.

famous arms factories in

**in** full ruthlessness." "Ever since the Munich Agree-working become Germany's. In ment was signed Czecho-Slovakia one blow, Hitler achieves a Ger- rearmament, pro- has been progressively reduced to man military vassalage. The treatment of Ger-gramme", on a scale which may many at Versailles and after by be computed from the fact that which now the victorious Allies was incom Czecho Slovakia had at least 800 parably more humane than the first-line warplanes, treatment of Czecho-Slovakia at become Germany's

The Washington warning that Munich and after.

ent is to be re- Czecho-Slovakia is now a vas-, Czech diamem

a far greater garded as the prelude to and not sal of Germany extent kan farmany was ever a the real crisis should not, there- vassal of the victorious Allied fore, be too lightly dismissed. Powers, and the vassalage of Czecho-Slovakia in progressive, Even now the Czechs enjoy far less independence (although they

Meantime it would be insult ing to offer the Czechs sympathy in the pass to which Munich has brought,

the