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THE HONGKONG TE LEGKapı, Tuesday, DECEMBER 20, 1988.

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EUROPE

FATHER TIME: "IF I WRITE THIS DOWN UNDER 1938 A.D. THEY WON'T BELIEVE' IT.”

-Strube in the London "Daily Expresa"

HOW DOES it all come about that Memel, this commonplace Baltic seaport, which, in spite of its 700 years of Order, upon which, our Civilisa-history, has dull modern tion is based, is rapidly dis buildings and provincial integrating.

Non-Stop to Madness

The whole fabric of Law and

That criminal result of the shops, should monstrous policy of armaments have such tion upon which the entire

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world has embarked is becoming Power to an inexorable certainty from deepen the.. which, soon, there can be no anxieties of a states-

escape.

drain A

mans.

Catholic State. It is

Sydney Gustard (Organ) .. New Mayfair Orchestra

Cicely Courtnedge & Jack Hulbert

Every nation is wasting its man? substance in preparation for the Viennese Orch. C-2882 Immortal Strauss-Medley Of Waltzes

It is a German town and it is calamity of another World War.

on Lithuanian aoil. It is a C-2682 Selection of Wild Sanderson's Songs

The cost of armaments has Lutheran town, and it is in a reached astronomical propor- Roman tions, representing upon the world's resources that German because it was founded by Germans and settled by Ger- is staggering In its immensity.

It is Lithuanian because We, as individuals, appear powerless to halt this insensate the Lithuanians grabbed it.

The Teutonic Knights founded folly that can have but one end- ing-War and the destruction of it as an outpost of Christendom a civilisation timt has taken in the heathen and Slavonic East. They spread the religion centuries to mould.

of Jesus with the sword. The real tragedy of the

Perhaps missionary zeal was calamity that has overtaken the world is the helplessness of the not the only incentive of these warriors. Memel stands at the masses. As if hypnotised, we can do nothing but stand im-castern end of the Amber Coast. potent, as nation after nation is Under the waters of the Baltic, seized by the maniacal jungle somewhere opposite the town of phobia-the law that only the fit Konigsberg, is a sunken amber can survive and the weak are doomed-and join in the race for survival.

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Opening SATURDAY 24th DECEMBER

Mayer

KING'S

Count the "TELEGRAPHS” everywhere

reef.

The climax, terrible to con- When storms trouble the template, is certain unless a waters amber, broken off this wave of sanity can miraculously reef, is washed on to the sands. rid the world of its insensate between Danzig and fears.

Memel,

The Story

of

It was a raid, and in force. Kövno, capital of Lithuania, re- ported that the Memel popula- tion, crying, "Down with the German Free City," had, by spontaneous nct, formed Supreme Council of Defence and demanded incorporation Lithuania.

MEMEL

Namen New Dortmund, Memelbury, Memel, Klai- peda.

Owners-Knights of the Fen- tonic Order, Hanseatic League, Swedes, Prussians, Lithuanians.

Present Status--Bone of con-

tention between Adolf Hitler's Reich and Antanaя Smetona's Republic Lithuania.

Future-Only certainty which can be predicted is that of a

cause of 4372- barrassment to distracted democracy.

nens

Main Street, Memel.

by Alexander

Alan Whelan

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200 French soldiers announced that they would re- sist the invaders to the last, Ambassadors met in Paris. The British cruiser Caledon was ordered to the Baltic. A French colonel was despatched to com- mand the garrison. An Allled protest went to Lithuania,

Meanwhile, the Lithuanian raiders come nearer. They have exchanged ahots with the French. They demand the with- drawal of the French troops. Another Allied protest is sent to Lithuania..

Then, on January 16, all is over. The green-armleted raid-. 'ers close in on the French garri- son. There is fighting round the prefecture. It is said that the

French fight valiantly, though desperately out-number- ed. It is certain that they do not fight to the last. The news- papers report one Frenchman killed and three wounded before a truce is called.

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The French High Commission-

makes his last and most solemn protest. And that is all. Blemel is in. the hands of

Through long centuries this has 1923. A High Commissioner of Ruhr. Bonur Law had taken the Lithuanians. A month later To the mad rush for arma-gone on, so that amber not only the Allies, a Frenchman, ruled the equally fateful decision that the conference of Ambassadors ments and yet more armaments can be found on the shore, but in the Memel prefecture. A Britain would not march with proposes that the town should be haaled over to Lithuania pro- there must be an ending, for no is also mined under dry land. garrison of 200 French soldiers them. nation can indefinitely bear the Of the quarter-million pounds gave reality to his government derrific Anancial and economic of amber found every year in with their bayonets. strain upon its resources. That the world, 220,000 pounds come ending is-War.

from this region. The Teutonic By the law of the jungle Knights presented themselves which the nations of the world with a monopoly of all the amber have adopted, the weakest must found. Penalty for poaching She had been stung in her nu- "Herr Adolf Hitler," lender of done. They can feel confident be the first to drop from the death by hanging.

race. That will not be the fate

of Democracy, as exemplified by Great Britain and the United States, both of which are able

tions of wealth and resources.

Germany

On January 11 the sky-blue vided it is given a measure of columns of French infantry local autonomy. marched into Essen. About the same time, note two events of the highest significance. The

Lithuania was in arrogant mood. their troops from Germany,

was prostrate. Americans decide to withdraw

The green-armlets filter back A to Lithuania proper, their work

tional pride by the seizure of the National Socialists, the so- that, in the words of the Vilnu, once her capital, by the called Fasciati of Bavaria," ad. Lithuanian Prime Minister, a Poles. The Lithuanians. de- dresses a huge demonstration at solution will be found which manded that Memel be handed. Munich. The crowd swears

"corresponds, with the wishes of Before the war Memei was.. over to them. True, its people vengeance on France.

the population." to beat much greater amputa- depressed German seaport. It were German, but the inhabi- At a conference at Lausanne, And so it proves. In due for security than they have yet was depressed because it was cut tants of the country districts Lord Curzon was patching up a course, the League of Nations bees called upon to suffer it off from its hinterland, the round the town were Lithuanian. peace treaty with the resurgent throws the cloak of legality and will be the fate of the Totali-Lithuanian farmlands and the Besides, It was Lithuania's only Turkey of Kemel Pasha. In the respectability over the land. tarians, whose life-blood has forests of Poland. The Russian possible outlet, to the sca.

United States, Mr. Baldwin was grabbing exploit of the A conference of Ambassadors talking Debt Settlement with the Lithuanians. Meinel becomes an already been drained away by Empire, in which those terri- reckless transfusions that have torics were incorporated, had had met; proposed that Memel Americans.

autonomous unit with the sought to vitalise their senports of its own, Libau,

In a by-election in Newcastle sovereignty of Lithuania. Bri- be given the same status machines.

Vindau, and Riga. They got the business which would naturally Danzig. Lithuania rejected their East the big issue was what the tain, France, and Italy re

excellencies' suggestions, Memel newspapers called "our constant guarantors of her Constitution. have been Memel's, ⠀

must be Lithuanian!

probleni." unemployment.

WAT

The fear that clutches at the heart of man is this: will Totalitarianism, if its reckless- ness hurls it over the brink of the abyss, go over alone? Or of Versailles took it from Ger-

Forgotten by the world waя sleepy Memel until the Treaty

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On the vast and stormy That the day will come when horizon of this world of January the world is once more busy, its 1923, where huge black clouds statesmen distracted, its inter-

will it, in obedience to the law many and set up an inter-Allied The month of January 1923 raced into the sky, one new cloud national machinery in hopeless of the Jungle it has Instituted; Administration. Memel's des was a time of crisis. It was one appeared-Memel. A small disorder-that there, may once turn on its victors and, in one tiny was to remain in suspenso of those crowded moments when cloud; so small that the news more be raiders on the roads last despairing effort,

near Memel, with armlets, but until the statesmen of the Allies, the long agony of post-war papers hardly noticed it.. carry. them and Civilisation, too, into busy about their godlike task of Europe crystallises in conflict On January 10, it was reported not green armlets-swastikas the depths below 7 -

reshaping a world by drawing and decision. Statesmen were that Lithuanian bands were ad- this time, the raiders of Herr now lines on maps in Paris, concerned, with great issues. vancing on the town. They were Hitler this is a conception that should have made up their minds Newspapers were electric. Des in civilian clothes but they wore was far, far away from the what was to be done with tiny moved at a gallop, green armlets. It appeared that thoughts of men in January

The road, nations are follow ing is the road to madness, Pray: God that, before it is too late, they will find sanctuary in sanity,

This was the situation from The French had taken the there were several thousands of 1923.¦ 1919 to the month of January fateful decision to enter the them, perhaps as many as 8,000. Not so far in December, 1908!