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"I suppose

I'm

fussy

but I don't see

why, at my age,

I

should put up with

second-best... For

instance, I'm fond of the theatre;

but, believe me, I'd rather stay away than see an indifferent play.

So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently.”.

WHITE HORSE

A

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1

FREE DANZIG ESS

INDEPENDENCE

N inconspicuous item of news Danzig remained under the rule arrangement wa which appeared recently in of the Knights until 1454 and was have been worse. the Polish Press illustrates the resettled by Germans. Since 1308

velopment of harbour.

VERDICT OF VERSAILLES-

By 1454, when a union was con-

and the

firm optimism and self-confidence there has been no doubt about its with which Poland is facing the "German character."

This, in brief, worst threat to her regained inde-

background to th pendence since the Soviet armies

events must be were at the gates of Warsaw 19

light of the fact years ago. The Marine Department

asks for no more of the Ministry of Industry and cluded between Danzig Trade, it was announced, had de- Kingdom of Poland, the city was zig and would eve ance of the preser cided to increase its investment in among the most prosperous ports until recently t the port of Danzig and had ap- of Northern Europe, proved plans for the further de- lasted until the second partition of Herr Hitler is n

This union modifications în Poland in 1793 an inconvenient in the "Danzig pr fact which German propagandists to use the incorpo means to Poland and is in itself an are unable to explain away, al- City in the Reich answer to the German complaint though they insist, quite rightly, on step towards the that Danzig is systematically ne- Danzig's semi-independent position Polish province. glected by Poland in favour of and control over her

own affairs. "Corridor") and Gdynia, the one port on Polish ter- Except for a short period as a Free extension of Gerr ritory. Herr Hitler's cry that City between 1807 and 1814 Danzig the rest of Polan Danzig is a German city and must was from 1793 part of Prussia until return to the Reich is answered by the ratification of the Treaty of Ver- Poland with the retort that "there sailles in January, 1920. is no Danzig problem."

This shows how much Danzig

14th-CENTURY MASSACRE

This assertion i Responsible Nazi have told me that Thus when the Peace Conference zig to the Reich at Paris had to deal with the future ed, or at least im of Danzig in the light of President by the acquisition

Once Poland's ac barred in this w long before she w on the Czech mo

Things are not, of course, quite Wilson's 13th Point, which declared as simple as that on either side. But after listening to both Polish and German arguments and study- ing the situation on the spot I am convinced that there would be more to be said for the Polish standpoint than for the German, even if only Danzig were at stake. And, as all Poles and most English- men and Frenchmen have realised, by this time, much more than Dan-

Whisky zig is at stake.

You can tell it blindfold!

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till recently Chief

Although it is almost impossible Berlin Correspondent

of ""The Daily Tele

to make any statement about Danzig which will not be contradicted either by Poles or Germans, it is worth while, since both sides make great play with historical arguments, briefly to recapitulate the history of the city.

graph"

The events of had the opportun to follow in Ger ther proof that interest in Danzi he only raised t after the sei ure Moravia last Ma "turn the heat" Col. Beck, the Po ter, visited January Herr H Danzig was a which was not w

Negotiations w transformation o ations' supervision

that Poland should be assured When we first hear of Danzig in free and secure access to the sea, Polish-German e the 10th century it was undoubtedly it was able to take into account the though there was inhabited by Slave. It remained a facts that the city's association with able gap to be Slay city until Nov. 14, 1308, when Poland went much farther back than were proceeding those early exponents of "fright- its subjection to Prussia, and that they were sudde fulness," the Teutonic Knights, who for most of its historical existence Herr Hitler last were fighting as the allies of King it had enjoyed a semi-independent Ladislas the Short of Poland against status. The emergence of Danzig

Poland was th

the rulers of Brandenburg, captured after the world war as a Free City, demands for the the city and massacred the inhabi- in which Poland enjoyed certain with the Reich a tants. They had been promised Dan- rights and privileges was certainly of an extra-terri zig by Ladislas as a security for justified on historical grounds. the "Corridor" their expenses and, as a 19th-cen-

Prussia with the tury German historian blandly ex- That this solution was not ideal Herr von Moltke plains, they were forced to adopt was shown by the conflicts between bassador in Ware these drastic methods, as otherwise Poland and Danzig during the post- their forces would not have been war years. The tragedy of the situa- signation, but w strong enough to hold the city. tion lles in the fact that any other must remain in t

EAT AT

Kitchen

INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING,

Bringing Up Father

WHAT MADE HIM START

CRYING ?

HE LIKES TO SEE ME BLOW SMOKE-BUT I'VE GOT TO GO TO THE OFFICE NOW- HERE YOU LIGHT A CIGAR AND ENTERTAIN HIM WHILE

I'M AWAY-

1 HAVE GOT A

DATE AT THE DOCTORS OFFICE

FAM DUB THERE NOW-

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