1939-11-30 — Page 8

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In the Tass Agency yarn about "Fin- de in the latter region. Only a small

is connected. nish reactionaries" who are "dream- portion of this traffic

with Kwangsi's economy. The im- ing, of spreading Finland's borders to the Urals" the operative word, as you ports of war materials via Lungchow Kwangs! might say, is "dreaming". But pre- were divided between the cisely who is doing the dreaming, and and the Central Government armies, whether the vision

but almost all of the Lungchow im- belongs to the Finns or the Tass Agency, is a point portations of other goods went via Luichow, Kweilin and Kwelyang to that may safely be left to the judg-

Szechwan Province. Kwangsl is essen- ment of the enlightened reader. It

with tially a poor province, will be noticed, however, that it is the British who are once more at the limited economic resources and pos-

sibilities. Agriculture and back of the whole thing, even as they were in the case of the Munich bomb husbandry, although dominating, are explosion. They it is who are egg- of a poor type and carried on by and methods. ing on the otherwise tranquil and obe- very primitive means dient Finns (population a little over

There is a little unimportant agricul- three and a half millions) to invade tural and manufacturing industry in and overwhelm. RussÍR

Wuchow, on the West River, and (population one hundred and forty millions) Nanning, as well as a little mining of trade and ore. Kwangsi is remarkable what a lot of time the British seem banking both are old-style and high- to have on their hands-one

What little private in- ly inefficient. fairly

ítiative toward economic westernisa- large-sized war against Germany is nothing enough to occupy their atten- tion and modernisation there was of tion. Perhaps the next vision

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| the Tass Agency will be of a vast British expeditionary force in Finland semi-totalitarianism of the Kwangsi to assist the Finns in their promised

dictators, Generals Li Tsung-jen and

route-march to the Urals.

the whose eyes Pai Chung-hsi, in We may not have much money, but we

function of economy appears to be do seem to spread ourselves about a bit. primarily the support of a large milit- -"Manchester Guardian."

ary machine. This regime prevented the accumulation on any appreciable scale of finance capital in Kwangsi Province, and while Kwangsi money was always made available plentifully for military purposes, there were al-

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CHIEF RELIANCE Diplomatic moves, like the Berlin Moscow pact, and attacks on shipping, are primarily efforts to break the most no funds for new business in- blockade. And on the other side it vestments of any sort.-"China Week- becomes increasingly evident that ly Review." France and Britain are making block- ade their chief reliance in the effort to end Hitlerism. Mr. Chamberlain has said there will be no "adventures,"

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DISCREDITED MAN

very

There is, doubtless, large allowance and military experts agree that the to be made for Herr von Ribbentrop. Allies' most effective course is to rest He is a disappointed and discredited on the defensive while tightening the man, who is acutely conscious that his economic clamps on Germany.

reputation for political sagacity has Only those willing to guess can been exploded. He, who now charges say how effective the blockade of the the British Government with war- Reich will be. Reports that Russia is mongering for

years, was the promising 1,000,000 tons of food are adviser who confidently assured his countered by others that Berlin has Fuehrer that this country would never ordered ration cards even for cows and fight. It was his advice which imposed pigs.

Germany is drawing supplies on his country the necessity of ab- not only from Russia, but from Po- ject capitualation to Soviet Russia, and land, which may make up her coal of pretending suddenly to discover deficit, from Southeastern Europe and that the Power which had been held from Italy, through which vital oil up as the arch enemy of civilisation supplies are going.

was a really kindred spirit, with whom But manifestly Britain and France it was natural to be on the most neigh- are resolved to give the war of bourly terms. Certainly Herr von Rib- blockade a thorough test. And what bentrop

can truly claim that the is this blockade but a form of our old Russo-German pact has "put German friend "sanctions"? Britain and policy on a new basis," but even he France declare they are fight can hardly believe that the new basis ing to stop aggression and end is calculated to inspire either confi- international anarchy.

ish-French collective employing the very instrument the Geneva brand of collective security relied on tions.

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Can we remem- ber when people said... that enforce- ment of sanctions amounted to war? The argument was that cutting off supplies from any nation would cause it to go to war - even against fifty nations which had condemried aggres- sion and were only applying a rule long announced. But to-day two nations

at- are

And

Brit- dence or respect. It exhibits too much security is an opportunism, and implies too clear-

U.S. ISOLATION

What is the menace to-day that Ponile usagain to join in European war? We are told we must join In:a""holy war" against ideologies "that "threaten the world.

But our citizens who advocate an American Don Quixote rola of tilting at the windmills of law- loss

and obnoxious ideologies have certain elements of Incon- sistency. Their emotions have been concentrated on the ideolo. gles of Nazilem and Its softer manifestations of Freolem. They studiously overlooked Commun- ism until the Hitler-Stalin pact. —Ex-President Herbert Hoover.

ly an insincerity, to which nothing nefartious would be forbidden. In the light of it the efforts of this coun- try to put itself in the best possible position of defence need no other justi- fication; and as to "the

bottomless stupidity" which the German For- eign Minister char- ges against this country's statesmen, it comes well from the German diplo- matlet in London who convinced himself that this country would

the

tempting to bring another to make never fight. That is the sapient coun-

How announces that peace by the same means and without sellor who the official approval of an interna German people will never lay down tional body. Most of the neutrals un- their arms "until the security of Ger- officially approve their purpose. And many In Europe is safe-guarded." If carried out with the determination the preposterous pretention could be they manifestly feel, it may succeed. accepted that what is at stake is the

"Christian Science Monitor."

security of Germany and not that of ̈her neighbours-that the wolf is on her defence against the lambs--one --PAKHỎI ADVENTURE

thing would still remain true that the From the point of view of Free best defence of that security would be China's economy as a whole, the Pak- the repudiation of the leadership and hol-Yamchow and

the Lungchow- vaulting ambition which have brought Nanning regions are of little con- it into peril.-"Dally Telegraph:"

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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1939