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1OTOR TORPEDO BOATS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.-A new type of motor torpedo boat, e patrol of the Defence Department of the Philippines, was demonstrated on the Thames ther day. It is 65 ft. long, carries two torpedoes, depth charges and light_anti-aircraft speed of about forty knots. Photo shows. The new motor boat passing a Thames barge.

nitiative was keen over remarkable.

veloped the offen- defensive powers

GREAT INDUSTRY CREATED would no longer be crippled. She could With a large, well-trained and well- carry on under her own resources until equipped army, Poland's only potential outside help could come by roundabout difficulty is that of supplies in wartime, routes, or direct from Russia. I saw one re- Her Baltic coastline might easily be It would be a fatal mistake on the machine-gunners overrun in the first few days, and the part of a potential enemy to under- pport of infantry, alternative route via the Rumanian estimate the strength of Poland. Its hile one line kept Black Sea ports is lengthy and pre- people have a natural courage, like all f bullets, as cond carious. Yet Poland can be self-sup- the Slav races; unlike some, they have This is in turn porting to a considerable extent. Her an adequate self-confidence, not even fire, and the pro-

difficulties are based on the fact that dimmed by..their geography--with no her native supplies of metals and coal strong frontiers and sandwiched be are largely drawn from Upper Silesia, tween two powerful nations. Their good as any in which is adjacent to the German fron- patriotism is intense, and can only be native invention, tier.

compared with that of the Irish. nd under licence.

UNITING THE MINORITIES manufac- The problem has been tackled with s from our Fury foresight and energy. The French loan ties-one-third of the

Poland's weakness lies in her minori- population is of £25,000,000 two years ago. At the re-

has non-Polish. There are nearly 900,000 n in Paris, Polish achieved remarkable results. While Germans in Poland (and a larger num- e attention. From other countries talk of five-year plans, ber of Poles in Germany), but apart w it is interesting the Polish Press and Polish conversa- from these the 3,250,000 Jews, 5,000,000 k-firing gun now tion re-echo with the continual mention Ukrainians and 2,000,000 Russians are ny British 'planes of "C.O.P."

likely to rally against any threat from The initials stand for "Centralny Germany-a remarkable unifier. It is Okręg Przemysłowy,' aircraft

or the Central significant that the Ukrainians shows number Industrial Area. In a triangle within not the slightest enthusiasm for the number in reserve, the confluence of the rivers Vistula and Greater Ukraine envisaged by Hitler- oportion of bomb- San, about the town of Sandomierz, has as a puppet State to Germany. untries offer far been created a new industrial develop- Of the temper of Poland there can be loes Poland. The ment. Existing towns and villages no doubt. If her territory is invaded,

a range of 1,200 have increased their population

There by she fights.

outstanding

now

ypes.

+7

are

a little under thousands per cent. One new town of questions which could be settled along of 260 miles an 30,000 inhabitants sprang up within a lines of reason, but not by ultimatum, (Wolf) all-metal year! Already dozens of giant fac. Even the problem of Danzig is by no machine-guns and tories are, in production. Considerable means insoluble. e-of nearly 800 reserve stocks of essential commodities 1290 miles

The question of the Polish Corridor per-have been accumulated. The mountain comes under a different category. The streams of the Carpathians to the scuth Corridor is far from being the popular berhaps, is the yield abundant power. There is even conception of an artificial creation servation plane, a direct supply of "earth gas" from merely designed to give Poland an out- ysander type, but the Polish oilfields,

Iet to the sea: it is an historic Polish

slly manoeuvred. Thus the overwhelming bogey of the province, seized by Russia by force in produced com- Polish high command has been laid. 1772, but always inhabited largely by are exported in Even if the factories and mines of Poles. To-day it is actually the most to the countries Upper Silesia were overrun or destroy- Polish district in Poland.

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Poland the port of Gdynia, the first achieve-

ment of the resurrected Poland,

source of great pride; and it would be defended at all costs by the Poles.

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Signal Station

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