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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 1 1940

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Photo shows: Soldiers hard at work clearing away the snow from an engine on the Manchester-Sheffield line. (Copyright, Fox).

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During their tour the other day the King and Queen met men of the Mercantile Marine. Photo shows Their Majesties chatting with Masters. (Copyright, Fox).

WHAT THE NEUTRALS THINK NOW

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observers from Germany within the past few weeks suggests the possibility that this near the time-limit may be reasonably truth, yet all available evidence is nearly conclusive against the result being as fore- cast.

However, what may happen six or eight months from now seems very remote to the Dutch at present. Their whole attention is concentrated on the month of March and the possibility of that month bringing war to the Low Countries.

How the danger is being regarded by one writers of the of the principal ilitary country may be seen from an article called "Looking for a Battlefield." which appears in Saturday's "Haagsche Post," by the mill- tary dorrespondent of that paper.

He points out that now that the war has

It is therefore interesting to note that there has been a marked change in public opinion in Hungary and the Balkans over Britain's war position and policy in the last two months. At first the tragedy of Poland and the imposing victory, as it then seemed been in progress for five months there is no of the Russian Pact filled the small peoples possibility of the Dutch or Belgians being. of this part of Europe with a sense of fore-caught unawares, as the latter were in 1914, boding. In the last two months this feeling has tended to die down and gradually give way to a feeling that in the long run the Allies will inevitably win.

In Hungary it is believed that the war cannot last long.

-Germany-must-soon-try to make a deci- sive move, and if she falls collapse may follow shortly. It is realised that time is on the side of the Allies and every month of waiting means more chances of Allied victory,

but that "we must remember that from one side an attempt can be made at a more direct attack against England, while from the other side an attempt may be made to frustrate such an attack. In this case the danger for our own country might develop. accordingly."

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Belgium

These opinion

FROM LOUIS QUIEVREUX, BRUSSELS.

PLASHING a headline across the whole front page the Antwerp newspaper "De Yugo-Slavia was very scared when war

Tag" sums up Mr. Churchill's speech with broke out. She feared that Italy would join the words: "England now ready." Germany and that she would be caught in

words plainly reflect the Belgian a nut-cracker and crushed. As Italy's neu-

about the war position in Great Britain after trality became more and more certain con- fidence in Yugo-Slavia Increased. Now many five months of war. Belgians say that Great people there are confident of the Allied vic-Britain won one big victory before the war

They, too, do not belleve that the and three since the war began. war will last long: 1940 or at latest 1941

tory.

must see its end.

The Rumanians are sitting on the fence. Though many of them profess to belleve in an Allied victory their Government still seems to prefer to pacify the great German neighbour by at least the appearance of obedience to demands for more and more raw materials.

Themselves impetuous and hasty, the Balkan people have

little appreciation .for Britain's policy of delay. They snoered at the dropping of pamphlets instead of bombs and wondered why no effective help was given to Poland. But they now admit the Improveme at in the British posi- tion, though they know the Germans well to believe that victory will be achieved without tremendous sacrifices.

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Holland

too

FROM DAVID WOODWARD, AMSTERDAM. HE majority of Dutchmen in the street are Impressed by the Allied thesis that the effects of this war are going to tell on the Germans before they do on the Allies, and that therefore the Germans are going to be compolled to make the first move to break the deadlock.

That does not prevent them asking if the Allies' plan to see this state of slege through to the end and do nothing except wait for. the Reich to collapse or whether when Bri tish and French armaments hava, achieved sufficient superiority over Nazi air power -which it is calculated they should do by the spring of next year the Alles will try some blitzkreig of 'their own;

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Charged with demanding $1 with menaces from a 16-year-old waitress, The first was that England actually real-three youths were this morning sen- Ised the poor value of the Russian Army and tenced to three months' hard labour did not blindly accept the Soviet conditions for an anti-Nazi pact. The three others and recommended for banishment by were the treaty with Turkey, the unquestion. Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon. able mastery of the sea, and last but not

Det.-Sgt. J. Johnston, prosecuting, least the almost incredible fact that after

said that accused, who described five months of war no British town has so far been attacked by the German Air Force. themselves as painters, visited a tea- The Belglan. people, while reproaching house on March 7 and asked for $1 England sometimes for having lost

aubscription fee to enter their "So- years in vain disarmament ideology," now Britain has accomplished a remarkable re-next day. admit that since the days of Munich Great ciety." The money had to be paid The girl was given a marked note. Speaking in Brussels, the well-known by the police, who set a watch. Ac- French military expert, General Duval, excused failed to appear at the appoint- with-. pounded a remarkable theory that next ed time and the police were spring the Germans will attack the Maginot drawn. Only a few minutes after the Line. He said the Germans are confident that with their air force and their armoured police withdrawal, accused turned up divisions they could break through the Line to collect the money. They were ar- and rapidly reach the sea. Once this-first rested. aim is achieved, they would attack Belgium "They must have been keeping a and Holland from the west and from the watch on the police," said the prose north-cast.:

covery.

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General Duval does not believe that Switcuting officer. zerland, Holland or Belgium will be attack- ed before the Maginot Line fa conquered, because the Germans have by now already lost the benefit of the surprise on which the Schlieffen plan is based.

The Germans will thus directly attack the French fortification lines.

ASSAULT CHARGE AGAINST NORWEGIAN

Failing to appear before Mr. Ex The Belgian military expert, Colonel Re Himsworth at Kowloon this morning, qüette, emphasises the high Importance of the daily raids of the R.A.F. on Heligoland, Jan Ellison, 25, engineer on board the Borkuma and Sylt, which "create an atmo8.8. Ivaran, of Norway, had bail of aphere of nervousness even noticeable $25 estreated. German communiques, more, The Brussels newspaper "Dermere Heura"

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While the Dutch aro a little sceptical of the Allied claim that they will win the war by blockade alone, they are even

Ellison struck Mr. J. V. Cordeiro, of doubtful of the new German claim that the points out that the Anglo-French position in Jordan Road, on board a Star Ferry war will have been brought to a victorious Syrin may be compared to an efficient retat-early yesterday morning when under conclusion by Hitler within six or eighting fortress protecting the Mediterranean, the Influence of drink. months, For while information, brought by Egypt, Palestine: Arabia, and India.

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TROUSSEAUX RATIONED

BY NAZIS

Special ration cards for trous-' séaux and "bottom drawers" are now being issued in Ger- many, week

Before a bride-to-be is giv- en a card a registrar must con- firm officially that the banns for her marriage have been put

up.

...Brides who make their own trousseau, cân' obtain threads and needles to the value of 9d. In ex- cess of their normal ration.

Austria, where "rationing mora severe than. In most parts of greater, Germany, now.. hasɛ. "black markets" for foodstuffs.

Fantastic prices are being paid for poultry sold without ration cards--£6 for a türe 20080 and £1 5s, for a chicken `ard”typlosi

** Germany is now forming apas cial:reğimants - of the Nati Black, Guards to hunt down

'wanted"". Foles.

--Many-Póles-hiding in÷föresta and-mountains ara wabind ques źrilia warfare on Nazi pollos and

troops.

• Youths of not mers than years and not under BIL. height are being urged: B

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