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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1940.

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

CONVOY SYSTEM

Our enormous convoys are useful,

MIGRATIONS ENFORCED

Heartrending reports of conditions

not because Great Britain is not self-in the German-occupied territories supporting in the necessaries of life, continue to reach this country. Al- though nothing more has been heard but because they can ensure the sup- of the transfer of Czech citizens to the plies to expand," and the oil to drive UIS.S.R., a general scheme for the the war-machine. These supplies have mobilisation of Czech labour is in existence whereby the workmen are nothing to do with what the ordinary transported to the Reich and there man considers necessaries, such as employed on public works under con- ditions which are indistinguishable goods and clothing. They are the from those of slavery. Within a few most expensive luxuries in the world. weeks the "Protectorate" of Bohemia- To buy them, money must be raised Moravia is to be included in the Ger- in this country and, when located mah Customs frontier, with the de- liberate intention of intensifying its abroad as foreign exchange, must be exploitation. In Poland the policy of diverted if possible, to the purchase transfer of population has gone much further. Here it is not a question of of oil, machinery and the like. Every-

moving, an industrial proletariat from thing must be sacrificed to this end. one set of occupations to another. The Money which would have been spent attack on Poland is launched against on food and clothing must be used the mainstay of independent Polish Instead to buy guns, bullets and aero- life, the Polish peasant. The peasants' plane parts. That we shall willingly resistance is rooted in the soil. To and patriotically face this situation break it the Germans-are transferring there is no doubt. The British people thousands upon thousands of Polish have never been found lacking in a countrypeople from their ancestral We lands in the provinces. "beyond the test of stamina and endurance. have allowed the enemy to choose his Vistula" to the overcrowded districts own weapons but have sworn to make of Central Poland, while in the East ourselves more expert than he is in another vast transfer is to empty' their use. Where complaint must German-occupied Poland of its White be made is in the quality of home Russians and propaganda which puts the whole situation in a misleading light. Fully three-quarters of the population must still believe that rationing is due, not to the need for diverting the money spent on food and other necessaries to armaments, but to the scarcity of available supplies. "Truth."

Ruthenians. About 600,000 are to be sent to Volhynia. German emigrants are moving into the land vacated by its Polish owners. Balts, Sudetens, Austrians and Ger- mans from the Old Reich "are being established along an artificial frontier, fixed within 50 miles of Warsaw, thus in ur-polnisch territory. So far there are not enough Germans to fill the whole area which is to be emptied of Poles. It is, therefore, all the more Important to create a frontier behind which the Nazis hope, în time to es- `tablish a peasantry of purely German stock. In the meantime, the fate of The agreement which the Govern- the Poles in Central Poland beggars ment has made with the railway com- description. The Germans point to panies assuredly

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A BAD DEAL

needs much

more

convincing 0x - planation than it received in the

course of the de- bate in the House. Under the

agree- ment, the main- line railways have been allowed to ignore the relative- ly bad year. 1938 in computing their basic profits, and have thus been allowed more than £7 millions: above- their 1998 :revenue as a guaranteed profit under

war

to

conditions. If pro- ats actually exceed this basic sum, the companies are retain the... next £3,500,000 earned,. and are thereafter to get 50 per cent. of any further pro- fits up to a total of £88,500,000. Only above this very high level

railways

:

SACRIFICES FOR

FREEDOM

our

Those of us who are -making plans for this great expansion of industry know that the sacrificen : we are asking for are for the pur-

of saving pose

our lives, freedom, and the freedom of the world. We cannot afford to dis- cuss these matters as if we were < în''peace conditions. Soon we may . realize that much more clearly. We are opposed to a bitter and ruthless. enemy who has forced his people over many years into We the preparations. for war. can save ourselves only by meet- ing physical and material force with greater-force and facing the › rulers of spiritual wickedness: In- high places with the triumphant moral and spiritual forces, which free-men, and nations can always command. It is the men and wo- men of this country, giving thei willing services, who can help us to provide the means by which our gallant fellow-countrymen in the Forces can go forward@con-.. fidently 'to victory with our Al- libs.—Mr. Ernest Brown.

on,

excess. looks

the manufacture for

does the State take the As the war period practically relieved from on a

are.

the fact that the pressure of popula- tion in the Polish "Reserve" (it is little more).-is. only some: 330 to the

30 to the

and square mile that this

figure is no more than the pressure of popula- tion in the Reich itself. But 75 per cent, of the Polish people. Live.. on the soll,. whereas а great part of Ger- many's population. is concentrated in large industrial towns. Any comparison is therefore invalid and deliberately designed to create a false impression of the conditions prevailing in the starved, disease- ridden, ruined pro- vinces which are to "be left to the Polish #slave members" of the new German Britain Empire.

at... this powerless,

misery.

of mass

scale unsurpassed... since

road competition and indeed assured the day of Tamberlane. Nevertheless,

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. curtallment of road services. Hitler, by the very brutality of his

SOLID SILVER

TEA SPOONS

In Sixes and Twelves, with and without Tongs.

GEORGE FALCONER & CO., LTD.

PEODER STREET.

there appears to be every prospect of methods, is creating precedents which, a handsome war bonus accruing to the used with discretion, may solve a host shareholders. The appreciation of of European problems once an Allied railway stocks. is sufficient evidence victory - has been secured. Not all that this is the view taken in the exchanges of population are harmful. City; and one of the things left un- The present, harmony between Greece explained is, how the views of the and Turkey is largely, due to the Nansen Office coming agreement were allowed to transfer an acted leak out in advance, so as to present between 1922 and 1980. At present

speculators with

profits based on

of the coming

the first case in

imate only th nation

Has

stand to, gain

P

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1940.