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Murmurs In Memel EUROPE is

with boils.

H

like

man No sooner does one fester, burst and disappear than another appears..

This time it is Memel. The situation in that remote corner of Europe is rapidly acquiring a tension which may soon make it another danger spot to Euro-

pean peace.

Memel is an ancient Hanseatic city, founded in the Middle Ages by German traders and knights. Both the city itself and part of the surrounding dis- trict are thoroughly German in character.

Obviously, then, the Nazi victory at this week's elections was predictable.

What is unpredictable is the repercussions will have.

these elections

German eyes have already turned to Memel and German voices are raised in the chorus of "Memel next".

But Memel occupies almost the whole seaboard of Lithu- ania, and it is the only possible economic outlook for Lithuanian

commerce. After the war it was assigned to Lithuania un- der special Statute

it

of Autonomy designed to secure the rights of the local popula- tion.

The Statute in which the autonomy of Memel is laid down is guaranteed by the four prin- cipal allied and associated Powers which concluded the Treaty of Versailles with Ger- many France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan.

Neither Germany nor Lithu- ania have ever been content with the arrangement. Lithu- ania desires complete control, Germany maintains that a ter- ritory which is historically and ethnographically German should never have been detached from Prussia.

Before long something is al- most certainly going to happen in Memel. That something will be docidedly unpleasant for Europe, unless the Powers de- cide now what they are going to do about it.

THE PIPES OF PEACE

SAM GOLDWYN STALIN: “You see? They include me

General

ET us take a look at the man to whom falls the main responsibility for

that reorganisation of the Territorial Army which Mr.

Hore-Belisha announced cently.

re-

Here he is-General Bir Walter Mervyn St, George Kirke, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.8.0., Colonel Com- mandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, A.D.C. to the King, and -more significantly than all the rest Director-General of the Ter- ritorial Army.

Comes of a very military family does the General. His father was an R.E. Colonel. Both his brothera won D.5.0.B in France. He matched theirs with one of his own besides being mentioned in dis- patches six times.

Haileybury, Woolwich, Waalristan campaign, 1002, commanded the Wellaung Punitive Expedition 1905- 08, War Office 1912-that's the way his career reads in books of reference.

Then great war activity and rapid promotion. By 1010 he be- comes Deputy Diregtor of Military

Archer Kills Bear

Moosonee, Ont.

with

Boron- Whitelan

out of it!"

a job to do

Operations. Next various military missions abroad, lots of foreign Orders and 8fars came his way. Finally 1030 seen film in his present job with a seat on the Army Council the first time anyone in his position has sat there.

So at 01 you would expect to find the General a very typical soldier, "Just another Brass Hat you would deduce from such -n career-and you would be quite wrong.

Mind you, he looks extremely military and official. Protly tall. he is spruce and well set up. "A fino figure of a man" in his uniform, and ornamented with all the usual military trimmings→→→ moustache, that nice weathered complexion, keen wrinkles round his very direct eyes and so on,

But his smile gives him away. It lets on that here is a general with imagination, a soldier who can see another side beyond his profes- sloral one. Real humour and un- derstanding lie behind that smile, though, may be, the General tries to suppress them on duty.

Professionally, the General 13 ruthless critic of inefficiency and

Time Turns Backward

Great Falls, Mont.

STR WALTER KIRKE GETS READY FOR ONE OF HIS FLIGHTS.

"muddling.through.” Think of his famous Kirke Report, which ho drew up with half a dozen young generals.

He was instructed by Lord Milne, Lester C. Essig, 14, of Chicago, With the re-opening of school, then Chief of the Imperial General claims an archery championship of Everett J. Lease, 0, son of Thomas Staff, to investigate the lessons of played an 1,800 pound bear he killed gan his school carcer by occupying really applied to modern training. some sort or anölher. Lester dis- Lease, superintendent of parks, Le- the war and how far they were on Twin Island in James Bay with the same seat in the first grade that two arrows fired from 30 and do feet his father occupied on his first y away.

at school 24 years ago.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Atoge, 1s25 by United"Vankara Myndbroto, 324.

"Aren't you carrying this ‘ofice wife' idea a bit too far, Mr. Snodgrass?”

General Kirke produced a de- vastating document. It was never published, because it would have destroyed so many reputations, upset so many "High-ups." A few extracts have been clrculated 'very confidentially" to battalion commanders and those above them.

Unbiased judges who have been allowed to read it will declare "It ought to be digested by every young soldier who may command in war and who has yet to know War."

That shows you what kind of mnn our General is from one side.

From another alde take a look at what he has been up to since he started on the Territorials.

Btraight-away he decided that unless conditions were made much more attractive, he could not hope

All up his

empty battalions. "I

to

la not right that a man should be out of pocket as the result of voluntary-service in his leisure hours," he declared two days after his appointment.

"Conditions of service must be made much more attractive."

began.

And so it was. Territorial condi- tiona were at once drastically im- proved. A great recruiting drive The Director-General roamed Britain making speeches in public and talking most earn- eatly in private,

The recruits started coming in faster, much better in the North than in the Bouth, But much better. even in London.

As he has grown more practiced

the General has developed a fair` for speech-making. And very Hound democratic stuff he talks.

Naturally, he talks about. " our duty to be strong." He would not bo Director-General of the Terri- torials if he did not believe that. But ho goes on much further.

*

"The only law which seems to be obeyed at present," he remarked not long ago, "is the law of the jungle that might is right. In these circumstances, it is only common- sense for peace-loving nations to be ready to defend themselves, particularly rich nations like our- scives, because. obviously, the bigger the loot the bigger the temptation for gangsters,"

"Why are we spending all thils money?" he demanded, in a recruiting speech in August, and why are wo asking the youth of the country to do their share in ensuring It is not wasted?"

"It is because we place a high value on the freedom which is the birthright of every Engilahman-freedom to work out our own destinies in our own way and not according to some foreign-bredt dogma, freedom to nir opinions, how- ever foolish or harmful to the State, and which in other countries would bring imprisonment or death.”

It would be a great exaggeration to claim that the General is not an old Tory. But he certainly seems to belleve in democracy, much more so than many young Tories.

So he goes about his dusincos, en- Joying it all with the greatest gusto. He loves his Territoriala, "First line of defence of the British Empire" ho calls them. Nothing is too good for them. He is up to every wily move eniculated to get the best equipment and arms for them,

Just for fun, early thus summer, he made a lightning àir tour of there Islands. Inside ten days he in- spected Territorial units all over England, Scotland, Wales and North- ern Irelan In fact, he 'pepped things up all 'round."

Very seriously, though, he seems the man for his job. He will not alter ör innovate for the sake of change. Hia exuberance, love of action, is

con- trolled by shrewd sense,

He will build on the sure foundations provided by the inventor of the Torri- iorial Army, that great statesman and patriot, Viscouni fialdane,

As he wrestles with the problems and personal diDculties which such reorganisation must create, the General will fall back on his personal char ng much as on his renowned "drivo” and energy.

That twinkling eye and winning smile, noted above, will come to his rescue again and again. Men will come to him full of grievances and soreness.

After he has talked to them, Amiled at them, and "done his stuff” on them they will go away-half convinced ne is quite right and they must be silly fools,

Ho learned the technique for such interviews at home. The General, you seo, is the father of two nons and four daughters,

T.D.