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Of the Army, France's Gen- eral Niessel said that it was one

Captain NORMAN of the best trained small armics

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MACMILLAN,

M.C., A.F.C.

on the Continent. It comprises 14 regular divisions, and has a normal strength of some 103,000 men. But about 700,000 men can be mobilised immediately.

And the Czecho-Slovakian Army's ratio of Bren machine- AVE for those imbued guns is claimed to be the highest

with a love of maps or in Europe.

a. bent for interna- The Air Force musters some tional affairs, Czecho- 500 warplanes. Aeroplanes are Slovakia is one of those built by four factories and/nero countries about which the engines by five others. UNIVERSAL JOINT LUBRICANT average Briton is apt to be configuration of the country, all But, owing to the geographical

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a little hazy.

these factories necessarily lie Partly this is due to the fact within bombing range of Czecho- that the name of Czecho-Slovakia Slovakia's neighbours. Thus never entered into the school Czecho-Slovakia is a country that curriculum of those who fought can be more readily attacked in the Great War. For 20 years than defended from the air. ago Czecho-Slovakia didn't exist. Much of her frontier is moun- In the intervening years pro- tainous. Flying from Berlin to bably relatively few Britons Munich I have looked down on have visited Czecho-Slovakia. the Bohemian mountain tops Thus many people find that part sticking up above of Europe rather difficult to filled valleys. visualise accurately.

the

cloud-

I have flown over the frontier

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By Lichty

Cow, then by United Feature Mesalivate; Ind

"His Majesty's recommendations for the national defence are: 10,000 cannon, 100,000 soldlers, 1,000 battleships, and 5,000 planes-and if we can't get it in chocolate, he wants it in vanil»

AN OLD-TIMER SPEAKS OF YOUTH

Yet to-day it is the focal point between Nuremberg and Prague of world affairs. For the mo- and seen tho hills through gaps ment Spain and China are over- in the clouds over which I had shadowed in the headlines by to fly to clear the mountains. the claim of Czucho-Slovakia. The whole of her northern, IT is fashionable at the moment | Mrs. Grundy

to speak in glowing terms of This long, narrow country lies, Western, and eastern frontiers

Moreover, a childish mind al- roughly, east and west.

are mountainous and naturally youth as a beneficently hopeful Its

ways tends to confuse vigour reception to be held in The head-in more senses than one easily defensible against ground and redeeming force. There is

attack.

much talk of the Promise of and activity with pushing and lies in the west, in line with Copenhagen and

admiration for bumping. Action of this nature, Along the border it is reported Youth, much Venice. Ita

that there are tail, some 570 miles to the east, boxes with machine-guns and worn errors.

concrete pill-Youth's impatience with out-being obvious, can be understood But ill-judged and without mental effort, and if a anti-tank guns,

pompous as have been some of political creed can make such the admonitions Maturity has action appear noble and glorious, many inescapable facts in evi- reception from the youthful part addressed to Youth, there are it is certain of an enthusiastic dence all around that might, on

of the country. consideration, rather modify this exuberant belief in Youth.

For example, an elderly man

ENGAGEMENT

WEEDON--HAYLEY-BELL The en- gagement is announced between Martin Pryce Weedon,

ia level with Helsinki and Crete. In its widest parts it is about

Czecho-Slovakia is both

in-

Middlesex Regiment (Duke of width is nearer 80 to 100 miles. ber is a considerable actor in The 180 miles across, but its average dustrial and agricultural. Tim- Czecho-Slovakia and Russia do her economics; about a third of not adjoin. The extreme tail of her total area is forest land, the eastern province of Ruthenia Clay and sand

are converted

Cambridge's Own) and Elizabeth, third daughter of Lieut. Colunci F. Hayley-Bell, D.5.0., and Mrs. Hayley-Bell of Singapore.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1998.

amount to those who have

radium.

not

Then the old-timer will ex- plain that it fills him with grim lies some 100 miles from the into china and glass. Who does

amusement to observe the nearest point of the Soviet not know the Czecho-Slovakian who remembers the reverberat-younger generation falling so frontier. Between Czecho- glassware? She is rich in othering days of Gladstone is

completely under the spell of Slovakia and the Soviet lie the minerals, producing iron, gra- necessarily

that Mrs. Grundyiam with П complete "back territories of Poland and

which they announce they have Ru- phite, lead, coal, silver, gold, and number." He has possibly re- mania.

flected more than a little in the whole cult of Mrs. Grundyism no sympathy or patience. The It was the incorporation of Small wonder, then, that the course of his life, and he has depends for perpetuation on the Austria into the Greater Reich Skoda works rank among the listened to the lunch-hour con- that brought the problem of largest

versations of several generations superiority it can give to its

stimulating

of moral manufacturing Czecho-Slovakia to the forefront organisations' in Europe.

of workmates. He has of world affairs, because Ger-

much and heard much, and may of inflicting suffering appear as Been votarica by making a mean love many's claim to safeguard the

be able to put forward obser- a glowing and righteous thing. interests of the Sudeten Ger-

vations that Youth would find mans was strengthened by the

hard to answer and harder still primarily to the purpose of in- to endure. Anschluss with Austria,

Lunch hour

7

Army

arms

sensc

Fascist propaganda is directed

culcating an attitude of resent- conversation ful superiority. How wonder-

every

romances

REFUGEE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED The refugee emergency has

Fortified not yet passed in Hongkong, and although the Government's

BUT Pilsen, where it was situated, lies only figures issued regarding the

40 miles from the German fron- probable increases in population | The western end of Czecho- tier, and so in recent up to early June are reassuring, Slovakia-composed entirely of decentralisation of the Skoda among workmen, he will tell ful we are! What a marvellous

times the problem is by no solved. Government will have of Bohemia and Moravia-cuts provide for greater security sounds, he is ready enough to catches at this creed cagerly and means the previous Austrian provinces plant has been carried out to you, is not what it was, and race is ours! Of what things we

banal though this it that the

opening actual increase of

are capable! Perfervid youth population has not been any of Greater Germany.

a great wedge into the territory from air attacks. thing like commensurate with

The importance of these support his contention. He will dreams that it has discovered a the estimated total of arriving cast of Berlin.

Prague is but 180 miles south- works can be gauged from the literature workmen read in the

suggest that one compare the new path to freedom. refugees.

About 176 miles fact that locomotive manufac-last century-and he might even "It Isn't Politics" Apparently thousands of these people have The situation

many to the south-east lies Vienna. turers all over the world are be display some gone elsewhere,

of the city of coming increasingly concerned literature, solid, rather stifling examples of this many thousands have remained, between pincers.

Exactly how Prague is now like that of a nut at the way in which the cream reading matter with

Then disturbing facts are en- however, it is impossible to say.

countered. The enticing path of of the orders in this trade hus square inch of space catering for emotional stimulation leads to Probably a good many. The authorities

Within Range

lately been taken by the Skoda what must have been a most malodorous swamps and tangled are alive to the

works. dangers attaching to such an THE men who worked It has been stated that Czecho- tion-with the "crime thriller" be procured. Of course, some

strenuous demand for informa-thickets. An explanation must influx, there is no doubt.

most for the creation Slovakia has spent £80,000,000 and the Wild Weat There are two methods of deal of Czecho-Slovakia the late Presi- on fortifying her frontier with that are devoured so eagerly to- of the villain of the piece. To one must be found to fill the role ing with this surplus population dent, Dr. Masaryk, and his suc- Germany, and each of the moun- day.

and the additional surplus cesser, Dr. Benes, were doubt- tain passes is heavily defended.

give the whole intoxicating con- which will come

ception of superior, all-conquer- As BOON a less aware of Czecho-Slovakia's Close behind the frontier new Sport Monopoly Japanese activities are extended fundamental geographical weak- airports have been built.

ing Youth a semblance of logi- in South China, as so frequently ness, and for that reason they

cal coherence, some myth of an But the southern part of the threatened. One scheme is to built up an

Politics, religion, and some evil, malicious power, bringing house and feed and clothe the Force, .

and Air country does not posiCSS a solid aspects of Trade Unionism, frustration and disaster on the natural frontier us in the west, he will explain, were common efforts of the virtuous, must be destitute, and to charge a trivial

north, and east.

topics once, whereas to-day brought into being. Between Prague and the Aus- nothing stands funds. It was considered by homes unless they are forced to trian frontier in the direction of with the interminable talk on made Fascists the inveterate foes- much chance It is no mere chance that has social workers at one stage that by circumstances. There are Vienna the big camps should be established already restrictions to keep out gradually up and

country slopesracing.and football coupons. of the Jews. Some focus point in the New Territories for these of the Colony the wholly im-Farther east the frontier follows warming to his theme, will pour sentment, this hatred which can then, down... Then the elderly gentleman, for the necessary element of re- people. That suggestion ori- pecunious. Therefore it does the Danube. Away to the south-scorn on the shallowness of poli-be a solvent for any possible ginated with this newspaper. not seem that refugee camps- And it is still a sound one, ni- which incidentally might ac-Hungarian Plain, until it reaches tell of the deep interest in Glad- of Youth, must be found. Never east it runs over part of thetical knowledge to-day, and will doubts of the might and wonder though those who have subse-commodate some of the litter of the folds and ridges of the Car-stone's time that led men quently sponsored it have not hawkern-would bring any more pathian Mountains, where the stand in queue to pay to hear the lessons of history. Never mind to mind the clear and reiterated adopted it in its entirety. The people here than would ordinari-province of Ruthenia ends. alternative is to bring all re- ly seek British aoil. for!

foremost political figures of the the unmistakable facts of poli- fugees into our very midst. It sanctuary in emergency. If it Czecho-Slovakia. Her head lies

Here, then, is the problem of time,

tical wisdom. Never mind the is not advocated that there were found that the influx was between the jaws of Germany subject of Fascism that he beare a set of people easily dis- But it is when he gets to the dictates of commonsense! Here should be free camps, although unmanageable, it could always and Austria. it is not proposed to make a be checked.

Within the ter comes really interesting. Fastinguished by features and com- chargo upon destitutes, cither.

ritory enclosed by those jaws cism he will diagnose as essen-plexion; here is the voice of au- It can be argued that Rather it is suggested that such fugees are going to come into Sudeten Germans.

relive the three and a half million tially a malady of juvenile minds, thority decrying them as degrad- people as enter the camps Hongkong in any event. At

In his younger days, when there ed wretches whose machinations should earn their own living, as some point the last inch of of Rumania and Czecho-Slovakin youth, men would have laughed Yes, the lle we suffer from are. For about 80 miles the borders was less talk of the merits of cause all the ills of the world. far as possible; and the able- tenement space is going to be join. Elsewhere the country is uproariously at the very iden of considerable, but how great must bodic might even be put to filled. It does seem that before. work upon such local improve that unhappy time arrives some cut off by the frontiers of Ger- donning shirts of a ments as are thought useful by preparation might be made in many, Austria, Hungary, and colour to give expression to

certain be the guilt of those who plan

it all. the authorities. It is not the the way of temporary shelters Poland. Two hundred miles their political opinions.

And with the charm of this magnif idea to create a haven of refuge at a distance from the urban of German, territory separato and case to which thousands of areas, where refugees could be France and Czecho-Slovakia at demonstrate that the whole doc superiority receives a new impetus: Perhaps also he will go on to cent piece of logie the mind of Youth burns ecstatically, Youth's sense of people would flock from China. received and controlled, and re-the nearest point. Russia and trine springs from a subsoil of clearly it now has an exalted duty to It appears to be the fear of leased if they had friends or Czecho-Slovakia are parted by callow mentality. He will illus-perform in working off Its coitish authority that the establish- funds which allowed of in- 100 miles, which include thetrate the significance of the pre- these wretches, the Jews.

chergy in abusing and calumniating ment of such camps would have dependence. In advocating auch Carpathian Mountains.

valling anti-Semitism of Fascists that effect: that the attraction stops it is not preant to plead Czecho-Slovak, born of the by remarking that everyone sul but, belleve me, is 't "No," pays the old-timer, "It is would be sufficient to bring in the case of the refugee particu- Peace Treaties, before even it knows how delighted a malicious

it countless refugees, even from larly, but rather for considera-has come of age, has, perhaps child will become if he can for- communities which were not tion for those who, make their more than any other interna- get his own restrictions

Indeed, though Youth may be directly threatened by the hog permanent home here and whose tional factor, brought Europe miseries in the chance of abus- the stage. Maturity, sliting back be- and clamouring just now at the centre of tilities. Chinese, however, do health it in the duty of back to the old diplomacy of ing some other hapless young- dazzled nor decolved..

yond the fool-lights, is neither not generally abandon thoir authority to safeguard.

I power.

ster.

politics!"

N. W

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