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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 26, 1940

ATROCITIES IN POLAND Polish Guerillas Active Through Country

GERMAN VERSION

OF SITUATION

London, To-day.

CONFIRMATION OF PART of the Vatican City broadcasts of German atrocities in Poland is con- tained in an account given to a neutral journal- ist in Berlin by one of two non-military people allowed to travel through the area since the war began.

He spoke of the wide-spread devastation and said

ITALY'S THANKS

TO FRANCE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Paris, To-day.

The Italian Ambastidor, Big- nor Guarigllo, yesterday visited the Under-Becretary for Foreign Affairs, M. Auguste Champetler de Ribes, and thanked him for the help the French Navy extend. ed in saving the crew and pas- sengers of the Italian liner Öra- zło.Havas.

that most of the crops were left untouched. PAWNED Farms were abandoned, "because their owners have disappeared."

In the hope of improving matters, the Nazis are enforcing compulsory labour on Poles and Jews.

The attitude of the Poles is in- dicated in an article appearing in the official Nazi organ, "Voelkische Beobachter," which, in reporting that 53 bridges have been repaired by German troops, says that the workers were molested by Polish guerillas,

who were shot.

WISE WORDS-FORGOTTEN Those were wise words which al-

PROPERTY

though they have been forgotten by OF CLIENTS

Herr Hitler have not been forgotten elsewhere.

Other speeches of Hitler's are also recalled, in which he gave pledges to German-Polish friendship.

In January 1937, in the Reichstag, he declared: "True statesmanship will not disregard realities but give them Workers repairing communications, | attention. The Pollsh people and the continues the paper, must also flg.it Polish State have become a reality." the element of sabotage. Many vil- lages "had to be burnt down" be- cause Polish snipers fired from them on German troops.

And as late as September, 1938, in the Sportpalast: "We realise that here are two peoples which must live side by side. A State with a population Warsaw, which was three-quarters | of 33,000,000 will always seek access damaged in the siege, is not expected to be re-built. Reuter.

Children Shot By The Germans

to the sea. The way to understanding had, therefore, to be found. It has been found and it will be continuous- ly further developed."

WAS BEFORE MR. T. J. HOUSTON

CHO KWONG WO, 25, TAILOR

THIS MORNING, CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL PAWNING OF A FUR- COAT AND 12 PIECES OF CLOTH.

which defendant pawned belonged to Det, Sergt. Brooks said the property

six different persons.

ELEVEN

'RIOTERS' DISCHARGED

ELEVEN OF THE 37, INTERNEES CHARGED WITH BEHAVING RIOTOUSLY IN THE ARGYLE STREET CAMP ON JANUARY 13, WERE DISCHARGED THIS MORN- ING BY MR. E, HIMSWORTH AT THE REQUEST OF THE PROSECU- TION, WHO SAID THAT NO DIRECT EVIDENCE COULD BE PRODUCED AGAINST THEM.

The remainder were further charg- ed with resisting the police, and were remanded until next Monday when the case will be opened for hearing.

It is stated that some 50 police officers, will give evidence.

All accused pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

It is understood that others, at present in the Kowloon Hospital or the Camp hospital, will be charged in future, separately.

and fur coat were pawned for $93.78, which defendant spent on his rent and the wages of his fokis.

A sum of $38.40 found in defen- divided among complainants, and he dant's possessions was ordered to be

was ordered to pay another $52 com- Defendant was master of a small pensation or serve two months' hard shop in Bonham Road. The cloth labour.

GERMAN TROOPS IN GALICIAN AREA OF POLAND

PREMIER'S STATEMENT But the way of understanding London, To-day.

which he so often and so frequently The stories to which British news-

proclaimed was abandoned by Hitler. He chose another way. It is a suffi- papers have given considerable pro-

ficient commentary on that other way minence in the last few days of the ruthless methods of Nazi representa-

that on the eve of the fifth anniver- | The

the German-Polish agree- tives with German Forces occupying sary of Poland throw a somewhat lurid light ment, the Prime Minister had to reply the Commons when affirmatively in the of upon to-day's anniversary signature of the German Polish Agree-asked if his attention had been called ment, in 1934..

These storles, most of which en- amate from Vatican sources, would appear to have created as great an im- pression in the United States anc other countries as in Britain.

An editorial in the "New York Times" says: "It seems clear by now that Germany is trying ex- terminate the whole people of Po- land which is apparently to be Germany's lebensraum. Its inhabi- tants are to be liquidated to make room for Nazi colonists."

HITLER SPEECHES

to the shooting of children in Poland by Germans:

Mr. Chamberlain said: "The report of the execution of 138 students, some of whom are said to have been

"He

London, To-day.

Eastern Galicia discussed in a Volgt, the well-

position of the German troops in (in Soviet-occupied Poland) was broadcast last night by Mr. F. A. known journalist and author.

doubted if there were more than half a division of Ger- man troops in the area-but it was interesting that they should be there at all!

as young as 12 or 13 years old, was They must have arrived with the consent of the Soviet

Polish

contained in a Memorandum on the conditions in German-occupied Po~ land communicated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to His Majesty's Ambassador at Angers, British Wireless.

RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH

On two

London, To-day. occasions on Wednesday,

Government and would certainly work with the co- operation of the local Boviet authorities.

They were actually near the Ru- manian border, although it is sug- gested that they are there to guard the railway which runs through Galicia. from Rumania to Germany.

The Germans need the railway for the transport of certain supplies oil, food, timber, etc, Normally, This verdict by a great neutral news-

these supplies come by two routes paper recalls by violence of contrast,

the Hungarian railways and the the words used by Herr Hitler in the

Danube. The latter ir important, for Reichstag in May, 1933: "Our bound- less love for and loyalty to our na- British government officials emphasizoll can be shipped in bulk by means tional traditions makes us understand ed that the right of free speech would of tankers direct to 'Germany

|' 'But part of the Danube tanker fleet the national rights of others and be maintained in Britain, હિ

has been bought by the Alifes, and desire from the bottom of our hearts

Replying to a motion in the House the Danube itself is frozen over. to live with them in peace and friend- of Lords, the Marquess of Dufferin

Although the Hungarian railways ship. We, therefore, have no use for and Aya made it plain that newsreels

are exposed to Nazi pressure, the the idea of Germanisation. The men-in cinemas are entitled to express Nazis could not run them

as their tality of the past century which made opinions just as newspapers were and own, and, therefore, it is possible our rulers believe they could make will not be subjected to compulsory Germany wants to run the Polish Germans out of Poles and Frenchmen | censorship during war-time.

railway as an additional line for her is completely foreign to us.”

The other statement was by Sir Wal-

own use, A year later, in June, 1834, again ter Monckton, who, speaking on the in the Reichstag, the German Chan- | principles guiding his work, said that cellor said: "Germans and Poles will one of his department's main efforts have to learn to accept the fact of was to preserve the freedom of indi- each other's existence. Hence it is vidual men and women to speak the more sensible to regulate this state truth, as they see it.—Reuter. of affairs which the last one thousand ..

years has not been able to remove and the next one thousand yaaurs will not remove either, in such a way that the highest possible profit will accrue from it for both nations. Whatever difference between the two countries in future may be, the catastrophic sion of the Football affects of an attempt to remove them ing their victor, over through warlike actions would far terday.

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been suggested that the Germans were in- Eastern Galicia to guard the oil-fields, so that Germany could get the whole output. Mr. Volst felt that this was possible, but he pointed out that the yield was a poor one.

He had also heard it sug ted

and the olf

FRENCH

CONTRABAND SEIZURES

Paris, To-day. French naval units on blockade duty intercepted nine vessels and seized 15,000 tona:of merchandise In the week ended;Jan. 20.

This makes the total ships In- tercepted by the Fronch Navy since the start of the war 254, and the amount of merchandise 'seized 480,500 tons-Router.

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