1941-03-21 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

LAND OF MISERY

Of all the countries brought under the dom- ination of Nazism by tank and bomb, the conquered land that was Poland is in the saddest plight. After the conquest it was divid- -ed into three sectors. Ger- many kept for herself the industrial west, which was valuable, and annex- ed it to the Reich. Soviet Russia was permitted to take over the eastern pro- vinces. The central ter- ritory became the Polish Gouvernement Generale, a sort of No Man's Land, German dominated, into! which could be herded all the "undesirables" Reich did not want. ultimate destiny was set! forth as the farm and sweatshop of

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An all but impenetrable wall of restrictions sur- rounds the Gouvernement Generale; communication with those within is next! to impossible. But the perfect censorship has yet to be devised.

Moscow riFLUENCE

IN ASIA

STALIN

AGREEMENT

NON-AGGRESSION

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Japan

ELEPHANTS HAVE LONG MEMORIES

Nazis Cannot

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I shall not soon forget the last

year, for I spent day of last good deal of it among the ruins in the City of London. It would be foolish to deny the extent of the damage done by the German in- cendiary bombs.

News does leak out of the area, people do occa- sionally escape from it, and from what is known of the conditions therein it is certain that within its boundaries Nazi op- pression attains its full bloom.

The cities crowded and in deepest row lanes of old London were no- but incre- misery. Barbed wire fen- torlous-picturesque,

dibly unpractical-and I have no ces or concrete walls en-doubt that the speeding up of close the least desirable traffic that will result when the streets are widened and rebuilt sections to form the ghet-will ultimately be of benefit to. tos within which Jews are the nation, permitted to live.

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submarine and the aeroplane add to our difficulties.

one,