1940-01-12 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1940

IN POLAND NOW

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MISERY BROUGHT BY QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

HITLER'S AGGRESSION

DEFENCE MEASURES IN GUAM

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Washington, To-day.

Havas understands that no se- parate project for the fortification of Guam will be made during this session of Congress, but credits necessary to Improve its naval and air facilities will be included In the naval budget for "improv- ing the air base."-Havas.

ABOLITION

OF LYNCHING SOUGHT

BY

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") WASHINGTON, TO-DAY. AIMING AT THE DEFINITE ABOLITION OF LYNCHING, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YESTERDAY VOTED A BILL WHICH DIFFERENT STATES WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LYNCHINGS IN THEIR TERRI- TORIES AND WILL PAY INDEM- NITIES ΤΟ THE FAMILIES OF LYNCH VICTIMS.

The Bill is now awaiting the sanc- tion of the Senate.

During heated debates, Congress- men accused the Republican sponsors of manoeuvring to "win

the negro votes."

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It is pointed out that lynchings have steeply declined in recent years 231 lynchings in 1922 against 20 in 1933, eight in 1937 and only two in

1939. Havas.

NO

SHORTAGE OF BRITISH TANKERS

London, To-day.

The Nazi press makes no conceal- ment of the misery that Hitler's ag- gression has brought upon the Polish people. In the "Volkischer Beobachter”, Peter von Erpeldingen writes: "Whe- ther near Cracow or near. Czestochowa, on the roads near the German frontier or in the central Polish region round Warsaw, or in the north-west between Kolo and Posen, or round Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) and Thom (Torun)- everywhere we were met by streams of refugees." He says that half Po- land seems

to be wandering without

definite plan direction. The disorder of these people "with dull, ill-natured, and sullen faces", going about in rags, with their small belongings in farm- carts, is, he admits, partly due to the war, but also, he claims, to their, lack of energy and their habit of letting themselves be driven.

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A similar picture is given by the 'Borsen-Zeitung". "The Polish pea- sants are on the wander, they move like nomads on an endless road."

"It is obvious," writes the 'National Zeitung' in an article glorifying the plunder of Poland, "that this people after the bitter experiences of the re- cent past (these "bitter experiences", it should be noted, are the alleged ex. periences of the Germans, not of the Poles) must be regarded and treated not as a defeated opponent but as a conquered enemy....By. German of ficials and military authorities the Jews are treated in accordance with their deserts, the Poles 'with correct- ness but nothing more',... Bỳ, the Labour offices....the Germans separated from the Poles and given preferential treatment . . . In the refu- gee trains of the first days the few passenger carriages were reserved for them. The newly appointed adminis- |trative authoritiés employed only Gar- mans wherever possible. Jewish

are

businesses and Polish businesses inimi-

cal to Germany were to the greatest possible extent entrusted to the loyal hands of Germans for whom by this means it is possible to establish secure independent existènée.. The German peasantry of the Vistula änd Warta-land is already working, within the framework of the plan for the forcible change of settlers and the making of new settlements in Pozena- nia and West Prussia, not merely to take again its former place, but, side by side

with its kinsmen from Volhynia and

the Baltic, to see to it that the old German soll comes now for ever into German bands."

The last sentence may, offer some

It is officially stated in Lon-explanation for, the number of Polish

don that the number of Bri-

peasant refugees pn the road.

tish tankers in commission is NAZI SHIP

larger than at the outbreak

of war, when the tonnage SUNK BY AN

was 3,279,000.

British losses to January 7 amount- ed to 68,000 tons more than was made good by building and acquisition in

other ways.

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ICEBERG

REYKJAVIK, TO-DAY.

BLANCA

The same

is true of the French BIXTY-TWO MEN OF THE GER. tanker fleet, hence German activities MAN: STEAMER BAHIA have not interfered with normal sup- (8,558 TONS), WHICH STRUCK AN plies of petrol to the United Kingdom. ICEBERG 60 MILES OFF ICELAND, ARE BEING BROUGHT HÈRE BY AN ICELANDIC TRAWLER.

-Reuter.

C.L.G.S. BACK IN

· ENGLAND.

London, To-day, General Sir · Edmund ... ·· Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, returned to England yesterday from the front.. Router

TO-NIGHT'S DINNER

The Bahia Blanca sailed from Rio de Janeiro with a cargo of coffee. and minerals just before Christmas, in an attempt to break the blockade.

She was reported to have been cap- tured by a British cruiser but the re- port was not confirmed in London. Reitter.

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