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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1940 :

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

JAPAN AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

There is some parallel between Japan's south- ward scheme of expan- sion and Italy's dream of an Empire in Africa.

war

Poland: A Nazi

Blueprint Of France?

registration of all Poles between;

them.

and

That Poland was just a Nazi re- in prison outside Warsaw for six,length on the German persecu-{ An official wall poster reads: Northhearsal for France - at least in weeks. Some 1,700 political pri-tion of the Polish intelligentsia. "Any person seen smiling sarcas: the conquest phase is clear soners, men and women, were Their fate is perhaps the worst tically, looking with contempt, enough nowo. Indeed, German held at the time in accommoda-of all. The Germans have open-failing to salute military or other Just as Italy has been spokesmen said as much during tions intended for 400. She toldly declared they need the Polish functionaries wearing the party the three weeks of the lightning me of instances of her friends labouring class, but there is no band, is subject to immediate ar- excluded from the Bal-

war that centred upon Warsaw.being taken on the street to give reason why the upper class should rest." kans by Russia, and from Will future events follow the blood transfusions, detained for anot perish. The prisons are daily A circular issued to the Ger- same pattern? Ann Cardwell, a week and returned home exhaust-receiving new contingents 01 Yugoslavia by Germany, relief worker who recently left ed.

man press by the propaganda de- so Japan has been driven Poland for Southern France, des- The Germans are afraid of up- Robberies done in the name of Partment orders editors to write south by the superior the Poles by the invaders.

cribes the desolation wrought upon risings in Poland, particularly on currency revision and the alleg- as little as possible about Poland

arid adds: national holidays. To prevented need of arms, food, clothing, force and pressure of The terrible menace of seizure these, they arrested thou-continue to take place day

"The attention of the press is of and imprisonment or deportation sands

Poles Russia.

before night. The peasants have suffor-drawn to the fact that articles on hangs over the entire population November 11. the Polish Indeed greatly from the withdrawal Poland should play up the in- Japan has, however, an Poland.

Day. On The situation, always pendence

April 29 of the Polish zloty and the instinctive repulsion of the German unfinished

the

troduction of the new banknotes people toward her pad, grew decidedly worse on

anything Polish. first week of May. The lemon-

put out by the Bank of Issue. Readers must be given to under- hands in China, and she yellow proclamations of Dr. Frank

They would not believe that the stand that Bohemians, Jews and zloty would not retain its value, Poles are all to be regarded as must either complete the had been posted calling for the

and they had no faith in the new being on the same level, This is conquest of that vast the ages of 15 and 26 years for

money. They did not, therefore important since we shall be oblig- turn in in Germany "since country at even greater farm labour

their carefully saved led to use Poles as agricultural la- zlotys which are now not recog-bourers in Germany for a long expense than she has al- the Reich is feeding Poland."

Despite the fact that Poles in

nised, and the peasants are left time to come. It is therefore de- ready incurred, or she his category were registering as

with no cash.

sirable to build up a defence must

Poland has been stripped of all front within the German nation." offer terms that cquired, forcible seizures at once

food stores that people have not China will be willing to the homes. All at once Gestapo they arrested some 7,000 persons been able to conceal: Neither The Polish people are bearing

are up magnificently. The City accept. In taking thears appeared on the main streets in Warsaw-a measure of protec- peasants nor estate owners

and in some of the suburbs of tion before May 3, Constitution permitted to sell or to kill off for Warsaw was given the 'Cross of latter course she confesses warsaw, taking young people and Day, one of the most significant their own use their cattle or hogs. Virtui Militari for its defence in

they found of all Polish holidays.

On the first of May an order went the autumn. the failure of her effort to children wherever

It merits another Recently many German troops out that no more milk would be for the splendid preservation conquer China, and if

A lengthy report on the situa-have been withdrawn, possibly to sold in Warsaw; and no milk was its morale. The population is so she should choose the for-tion has just reached me, It was bolster the forces fighting in the jobtainable. It is all shipped to organised and under control that

written by a mer she commits herselfpeaking neutral, who had

friend, a

Polisti-West, and more are being with-Germany as decreed. Bread is it endures its tortures with no been drawn. These are replaced by the only article of food that ap-thought of wavering. 'Poland's to a task that has already permitted by the Germans to Gestapo men. Officers and men pears in sufficient quantity. No spirit remains unbroken. In un- drained her treasury and spend ten days in Poland attend-of the Gestapo, I am told, behave outside help has been carrying or numbered ways the fight goes on

ing to his firm's affairs. He is anhumanly toward helpless Poles.in Warsaw except the Red Cross against the made heavy inroads on highly educated man with a wide Like all others arriving from in co-operation with the German gates. Poland is neither dead nor

acquaintance in Poland. The Poland, my informants speak at Red Cross.

Idying. her manpower.

naines he mentioned in his report

took place on the streets and in

them.

She has secured the are of people whom I know per-

closure of the Burma Road to

sonally or by reputation.

When the Gestapo cars first war munitions, swooped down on Warsaw- and petrol and trucks and the suburbs, my friend happened aeroplanes and she

The

Lo be riding in a street car. 110w car was stopped. Gestapo mea on. Three little fellows among the passengers clung des-

The first

BY ANN CARDWELL

enemy within

Mediterranean Line-Up

Now Comes The Real Test Of Ships Versus Planes---and Ships Should Win

all

German soldiers wounded in bat-

thus

for reserves

tain.

built up.

Some of the Government's tech-

of

of

the

great

hopes to secure ame bases in Indo-China perately to this stranger from an- from which to ad-other country. They were spar- od. Others were dragged out of vance in Yunnan, or at the street car and thrust into a least control the railway. waiting truck.

Italy's intervention in the war leads a disunited and uneasy peo-lians have behaved with The following days brought fur- This attempt to conquer ther fear to Warsaw.

was anticipated. There is no ele-ple.

brutality since the conquest of the country, the tribes are not sub- China by this route will bad news was that of the arrest ment of surprise here, and

How The Navies

dued and they will now..get the.. prove a formidable and of Polish police; up to this time plans have been drawn up to meet

help from us Compare

they should have been used along with this event. they had

had when the kingdom of Abys- costly operation since it German police. The second was The Duce believes, with Hitler,

Italy was not ready for war last sinia was a fellow-member of the involves the transporting to the effect that children from

September. There had been con- League of Nations and attacked the elementary schools the only that air power can beat sea power. siderable wastage of material in by the Fascists. of armies and supplies ones allowed- were being tak-We have to prove him wrong. His both the Abyssinian and Spanish In any case, the Italian com- over a single track railway en to give blood transfusions for ultimate defeat will then be cer-campaigns, and it was necessary munications through the Red Sea that climbs up to 6,400 tle.

of all kinds to be with Abyssinia and the Colonies feet and is vulnerable at What becomes of people

of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, The Italian Fleet was weak, the the three forming the much hundreds of points. A re-taken is not then known, some-nical advisers were in favour of battle line consisting only of four vaunted new Empire, are hope-

times never known. Anyone who an ultimatum being presented to obsolete pre-war dreadnoughts: lessly compromised. solute army in Yunnan endeavours to trace a person are Mussolini last September request by 1937 and the reconstruction of Two of these were reconstructed would make the task im-rested or not returning to his.

In Egypt and Syria is a large, home is himself liable to be ing him and his. Government to the other two has only just been well-equipped army of British, possible. In any case the rested and disappear. Some are state their attitude one way or completed.

Australian and New Zealand work of the Japanese deported for labour. Some are other.

More important still, two new troops. This army of the Middle imprisoned in Poland. A Polish There army must be completed woman belonging to one of

were political reasons battleships of 35,000 tons, mount-East can move in any direction as the against this step, but on the other ing nine 15-inch guns cach and required.

The Italian forces in Abyssinia either by the elimination most highly respected families, hand, the state of half-war with comparable, on paper, to our own

lasted for nine Nelson and Rodney, have only might overrun Jibuti, but the port of the Chiang Kai-shek whose father was Internationally Italy, which

known for his scholarship,

will be no use to them without was months has been of direct ad just been finished. government and the spirit arrested by the Gestapo and kept vantage to the Nazis.

In addition, Italy has seven the use of the Red Sea. which supports it, or else

We and the French have had to heavy cruisers, 14 light cruisers, keep a large army concentrated in about 60 destroyers, a hundred The Truth About Malta there must be complete obligation to help in the the Eastern Mediterranean to-submarines large and small, withdrawal. The former defence

naval of Indo-China gether with considerable

forces for this very contingency.f

In addition, our French allies

the Italian border.

ar-

.

· Why Mussolini Hesitated

BY LORD STRABOLGI

and

This island. has not be- longed to Rome since the days of the Roman Empire. Its inhabitants are of Phoenician descent, speak their own language, are loyal sub- jects of the British Empire and defest the Italian Fascists.

A few Italian speaking intellec tuals form the only basis for the claim that Malta, should rightly belong to Italy.

were

seems to be the only since that territory is now course open to Japan. under the Petain Govern-had to maintain a large army on

The great drawback to ment. It is, therefore, it is, that it will take a possible to secure conces- very long time to accom-sions there without Bri- plish even under the most tain or the United States favourable conditions and being involved. When she During all this time Italy acted apps buil

as a conduit pipe through which an unknown number of fast motor If it pleases. Mussolini to bomb even if all the armies of advances further south, the Nazis. drew badly needed torpedo-boats,

this longed-for prize, he can do China were destroyed the however, the position is ade and we were anxious not to other oceans and the necessity of would be a dificult matter.

supplies, in the teeth of our block-1 Despite our responsibilities in it, but the capture of the island military control of China rather different, for the drive matters too far with the keeping sumcient naval forces to British warships would not be would absorb enormous United States draws es-

Italians up till the very last.

counter the depleted Nazi forces idle if such an attempt That leakage is now

closed. in the North Sca, we have over-made. We can bomb the Italian numbers of Japanese sential supplies from the The reasons for Mussolini's hcsi-whelming naval strength in the cities If Mussolint orders fright- fullness against our towns and troops.

Netherlands East Indiestation are not difficult to guess. new conflict area.

The Italians. Large and important sections of That obstacle to Japan's and has stated that she Italians are, or

can strike cast-possessions. were strongly wards from Tripoli towards the policy of expansion still wishes the status quo to opposed to war in alliance with Nile and the Suez Canal, either Franco The Big Problem stands and the frequent be' maintained. Then Hol- strongest emotion of the renin- or trying to make their way across the hated Germans. Possibly the following the route along the coast

The course of a Mediterranean reference to it by the Ja-land is officially fighting der was a

desire to re-establish the Libyan Desert. If the coast campaign must depend to a cer- panese themselves shows on the side of Great Bri-Italy's reputation as a nation of route is chosen, the Navy will take tain extent on the attitude of a hand in the game.. The desert Spain. If the Franco Government how great and formidable tain and presumably Our initial propaganda, remind-route is almost waterless, and remains neutral, Italy can do little

to in the Western Mediterranean bo-... would expect assistance in Italians of Caporetto and jeer-mechanised forces attempting

ing at their military failures in use it will be a perfect target for cause of lack of bogos,

The final outcome in the Medl-- Indo-China is a tempt-in the defence of her most the past, was a blunder. Such plr attack.

and decided by sen power." Falling a: ler is offering it in return she is clearly determined Italy than anything clsc.

might try a "simultaneous move-Inaval miracle--and miracles are for Japanese assistance to resist any attempt to It is rash, in any chise, to un-ment against the Egyptian Sudan rare in war-Italy loses, and losos {der-rate one's opponents. It is Fortunately, for us, Abyssinin is heavily, if the campaign goes be Britain is now under no take it by force.

Inevertheless, true that Mussolini by no means pacified. The Ita-yond this year."-

it is.

warriors.

ing bait and possibly Hit- valuable possession, for inflame the hitherto lukewarm in cpn attack Kenya Colony,

foolishness. Is more calculated to The Italian forces in Abyssinin terranean and elsewhere will be