1939-03-24 — Page 10

Life Begins at 8:01

JONDON DRY GIN

DISTILI,MAND HOTTON TAT

Mume

Imported by a

A. S. WATSON à Co. Lai,

pair &gears For Hang Mang nad South Chir

*1

BURNETT'S

CELEBRATED

LONDON

DRY GIN

Puts you in the right spirit"

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

RAINBOW

FULLCREAM Evaporated Milk

CONTAINS NO PRESERVATIVES. From the finest herds in Holland.

Obtainable at all Stores.

THE

Distributed by-

FRIESLAND TRADING CO., LTD. Wang Hing Building. Hongkong,

See Rolny and Children's

Stock of Raincoats

'Ladies',

All Sizes $4, $6 and up.

Robus

THE WHITE HOUSE, 12, DES VOEUX RD., C.

TEL. 2104

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 24, 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 de

a guarantee of good faitḥ.

Subscription Rates.

3 Months

6 Months

One Year

ז.

9.00 IR

B.K.$

H.K.$18.00

H.K.$36.00

Postage Abroad Extra.

Hong Kong, Friday, March 24, 1939.

THE JIGSAW OF EUROPE

[ment stressed the "internal” character of this move, contrast- ing that with the external rela tionship which had been under- scored by the signing of the anti Comintern pact. Yet it should. not be assumed that for ⠀ *Hun. gary there is no relationship be tween the two developments. Both arise from the fact that Hungary is feeling German pressure with in and without. Hungary for the present must go as far as possible with Germany, in foreign policy to prevent the rise of pre- texts for foreign intervention in Hungary's internal affairs.

The more positive attitude to- ward questions in Eastern Europe on the part of France and Great Britain, may be welcome in Hun- gary. Without it, Budapest's diplomacy must keep on bowing terms with powerful Hitler and yet avoid such intimate friend- ship as might be taken as a tacit invitation to enter Hungary's house at his pleasure.

The civil manner in which Ber- lin received the news of an anti- Nazi measure in Hungary can be accounted for by the probability that Germany did not wish to mar the day on which the anti- |Comintern pact was signed by a new member, Berlin no doubt was aware, however, that Hungary was attempting a control of Germanism within the country which it was unable to control without. The facts cannot have been lost on Berlin. Hence the underlying importance of the Quiet acceptance everywhere sudden volte face in Buchar of the pressures exerted on Lith-rest which, on the face of it, uania to compel,' restoration of ended the "tensioh" between Hun Memel to Germany is significant gary and Rumania. It is not for several reasons. In the first entirely off the cards that a pri- place, the circumstances cannot vate understanding between Hun- be compared, for a second, with gary and Rumania, to rob Ger- the rape of Czechoslovakia. many of excuse for demanding Memel is predominantly German, passage for her troops contribut has long clamoured with more ed to the final settlement. sincerity than many of the Sudé-

.:

Word of the proposed widening

tenlanders for return to the Kiel, Then and Now Reich, and although Herr Hitler promised to do nothing about changing Memel's status,at of Kiel Canal recalls the comple- least the principle of self-deter- tion of a similar undertaking just mination is not infringed. It twenty-five years ago when all should show Germany, too, that Germany, jubilant in the pride of resistance to German aspirations empire, proclaimed a national is not automatic. Where there holiday to celebrate the event. It is a case for German claims a was June, 1914. The quays were reasoned study is given to it. It bright with bunting. In the road- is when the liberties and rights stead the grim armadas of the of others are brutally overridden world's two.mightiest sex powers roughshod that challenge rears rode serenely at their moorings. its' head.

Launches shuttled back and forth Memel, in fact, contributes between the gangways of German nothing towards elucidation of and British dreadnoughts in a the problem which is Europe to-friendly interchange of formal day. No, more than do develop-visits, while farther out in the ments in Rumania and Hungary, bay, the American millionaire The exact position adopted by Morton F. Plant's schooner yacht Rumania may be clarified in a Ingomar-with an Englishman day or two; but Hungary's is at the helm-fought for the wea- likely to be illusive for some ther gauge in a series of specta- considerable time.

cular sailing duels with Kaiser Hungary's position оп the Wilhelm's giant schooner Meteor. changing political map of Europe Outwardly all was peaceful. has seldom been better illustrat-But beneath the imperial pomp ed than by the paradoxical events and gay pageantry of this Prus- reported from Budapest three sian holiday ran an undercurrent weeks ago. While Count Czaky of strange forehoding. -Time was signing the anti-Comintern and events were soon to trace pact

associating his country across the pages of history the with Germany, Italy and Japan tragic meaning of the shots at in the anti-Communist front Sarajevo on the last day of Kiel which also loots so much like an Week. No such significance need anti-democrat - front other be attached to the intention of

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) Hungarian, authorities were en- the Third Reich-to enlarge this

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS,

DIAMOND MERCHANTS.

UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents Jor. ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS BINOCULARS and TEL

KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INS

ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct

“High Chua En lish Jew

nar-

gaged in ralding and dissolving vital North Sea-Baltic link. To the leading National Socialist or- day, there is no such threat to ganisation in Hungary. Govern- Britain's, dominion of the ment spokesmen declared there row seas as that which roared was clear proof of subversive its cataclysmic challenge activity by the Hungarists Jutland less than a year after though no proof that they were the final dress parade of the Kai-

by the Third Reich.

High Seas Fleet at Kiel.

turers,

BUC

Hung

in Berlin indicated Yet since the event is related to

new Premier German national defence in a

ook a momentarily

in dealing withi

German com.

International tension,

not without diplomatic |_ signi-