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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1939

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SOVIET-GERMAN COMPACT

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attrition without so much of that actual combat which marked the last great struggle, With regard to the Observers are in constant danger first point both Great Britain and of under-estimating the intelligence France have ample means of Chancellor Hitler and Comrade disposal for counter-offensive, and Stalin. They are apt to forget that similar objectives in Germany are by both the German Fuehrer and the no means unreachable. There is evid Russlan Dictator are fully aware of ence that the submarine menace Is the fact that the "democracies” are being. adequately dealt with. The in no mood to listen to any peace loss of shipping is well below most talk as long as such tall is based on averages during the unrestricted .b- the fait accompli in Poland.

marine warfare of 1914-1918, while Thus it is far more likely that the the reported destruction of U-boats current diplomatic conferences in well up to the average, and proceed- Moscow will be devoted to topics re- ing at a rate which should reduce the lating to the strengthening of the menace to negligible proportions un- stand of Russia and Germany. To less another important political de- achieve this end, Russia and Ger- velopment takes place in Europe, many will undoubtedly bring pres- while the production of a food short- sure to bear on-Turkey and Esthonia. age in Britain itself may in all the There is also the speculation that circumstances not prove so deadly as the present conferences will result in its schemers hope. That the sub- a formal military alliance between marine. blockade of the last war did. Russia and Germany. This eventuality succeed in forcing Britons on. to appears at this moment to be remote, short commons is true, but, despite Both Germany and Russia are deriv- the enormous, effort, made by the Ger- ing all the benefits of an actual millt- mans, it was never sufficient to ary alliance by their collaboration weaken the British. determination without the irksome drawbacks of a prosecute that war to the end.--"North formal agreement. It is likely there- China, Daily News." fore that they will continue this "unofficial" collaboration on the pre- sent basis and delay a formal alliance until the development of the situa~ tion makes a formal agreement im- perative.-"China Press."

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BALKAN RELATIONS Two major obstacles to this con- are. Bulgaria's claims summation against Rumania for Southern Dob- ruja and for an Aegean outlet, but there is also the problem of Yugo- slav suspicion of Turkey, which blos- somed temporarily into suspicion of Britain when the Anglo-Turkish pact was announced this summer.

HITLER COMPLEX

PAX BRITANNICA Britain's "fall from primacy in Europe would mean the end of the Pax Britannica under which the people of the United States had been born It appears that Yugoslavia's fears and reared and which through sev- of Turkey and the Anglo-Turkish eral generations they had come to pact were largely removed when take for granted. British naval pow- er and diplomatic prestige had enabl- ed the United States to support two of the basic principles of her foreign policy the Monroe Doc- trine in the West- ern Hemisphere and the Open Door in the Far East

I cannot suffer even for a 600- ond that anyone in the ranks of our western opponents be antitied to look upon himself as some- thing better than we Germans. i. am not suffering in the least from ~ an Inferiority complex--Adolf“ Hitler to German war veterans.

with a minimum of effort and cost. liarly fitted, seeing Because of Munich-or more accur- tions with both ately because of Hitler-the position Telegraph."

of the, United States in world affairs

Chief. Regent 'Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was in London last month. Now it is announc- ed that Yugosla- via has made a move to try

to bring improved re- lations between Bulgaria and Ru- mania-a task for which it is con- sidered to be pecu- it has cordial rela- countries.-"Daily

now had to be reconsidered, greater. MONGOLS ON TANKS

armaments had to be provided, re-

Civilization (so-called) is always lations with South America countries

taking the romance, out of our most had to be clarified and strengthened, iridescent legends. For generations and the whole attitude of the Ameri- the devotees of all that is glory in can people toward their stake in the Far East and their responsibilities in

that area had to be examined afresh." -"N. Y Times."

THE GERMAN PLAN

literature have devoured the stories

of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen who, mounted on their sturdy, rough-coated, barrel-bodied ponics, swept in the thirteenth cen- tury from northern Asia Jnto China, into Mohammedan southern Asia and westward to the Dnieper.

Recently a dispatch from Tokyo The United Press message from said that Japanese troops on the Berlin to the effect that Herr Hitler's Manchukun border have encountered Government will seek to force a de- some thousands of Mongols mounted cision on the western front in the on tanks who attacked and were re- course of the next twelve months is pulsed with a loss, according to Jap- interesting as alleged to have come anese accounts, of 130 of these mod- from an authoritative quarter. A ern, steel war-charlots, German spokesman is quoted as say- It may be that this warfare-it is ing that it would be ridiculous to certainly more than a skirmish-has assume that Germany would idly wait profound military and political signi- behind her west wall while: England, ficance. The current Far Eastern unhindered, continues to attempt to Survey issued by the Institute of defeat Germany with her food bloc- Pacific Relations carries an interest- kade. The three German activities ing- article in which Mrs. Kathleen foreshadowed were (1) the extensive Barnes surmises that this summer's use of the German air force, against fighting along the outer. Mongolian British ports, the British Navy and border is more than the work of important British and French indus- nomads, but is in fact "part of the trial areas, (2) concentration on sub- turmoil of Soviet-Japanese relations.”

ping in an effort to counteract Brit- one aspect of these reports is that ain's "hunger blockade" of Germany they help to remove the last shreds. and produce a food shortage in Eng of romance from war."" No legend has land itself, (8) refrain from launching come in for such debunking as the any heavy attack against France's war legend since 1918.

when

marine warfare against British ship- Whatever the military implications,

powerful Maginot Line. This most cer- mechanization puts a must wrench

tainly does not look like a Blitzkrieg, in Mongolian hands in place of a for, if this truly represents the Ger- spear, the fairy tale ought to be man plan of campaign, it amounts to nearly "over."---- "Christian Science an air and submarine war, a war of Monitor."