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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939.

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Debunking War WAR HYSTERIA is even grip-

ping the people "who know." America's envoys to London and Paris make no attempt to hide their fears that Europe this will be involved in war spring.

Amidst all this talk of war, it is almost heartening to turn to a forecast of what will hap- pen if it does eventuate.

And we find, paradoxically enough, that the more deadly the war the less chance you have of being killed.

The average death rate in the Great War was one per day of every 1,000 soldiers engaged. If you turn back the pages of history, an interesting thing is discovered. It is this: the more primitive the method of warfare the greater the casualty list. In the American Civil War the mortality was one in 87.

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In 210 B.C. seventy thousand Romans out of an army of 76,- 000 lay dead on the field after the

of Cannae; battle seventh of all Romans of light- ing age had been slain in a single day. The old warfare where men clashed in hand-to- hand combat resulted in the death of one or the other; the defeated escaped only by the speed of their legs and strength of their lungs.

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As guns have improved, they have, like warfare, become less deadly. This seeming paradox is due to the fact that soldiers hide from weapons they cannot face without dying. The hero who cautioned his men not to Ace the fire until "you can whites of their eyes" killed more men with ten bullets than the Japanese have killed with 20,000.

During the Great War, 20,000 rifle and machine-gun bullets were fired for each soldier killed. In the Franco-German War of 1870, eighty rounds of artillery were required to kill a soldier. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 the number of shells fired for cach death from artillery has increased to 150. In the Great War, the estimate is that this number had increased to 860.

The civil population has fared even better than the soldiers. "When the Mongols marched away from the remnants of the capital," exclaims the historian, "there was not a groan or a cry to be heard from the people, for all who were in that city were lying

The dead.

Mongol, greatest Jenghiz Khan, the conqueror that ever lived, 700 years ago slaughtered 18,500,- 000 Chinese in 12 years of the Sino- sporadic war. In Japanese War, the total Chinese civilian casunities from bombs, shells and other violent forms of deaths are probably 1,500,- 000, excluding those who have starved to death,

PEACE

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So they

O THEY tried to kill King Carol?

Iron

I have met these Guards in Rumania. I be- lieve I was the last Englishman to see Codreanu before he was killed.

I had been warned not to pro- ceed with my foolhardy plan to seck an Interview with "Le Zeica Cornellu Capitaine," Codreanu, paramount chief of terrorist, anti-Semitle, the openly Fascist Iron Guard of Rumania.

One

a noted of my friends, Bucarest Journalist, whom I had told of the arrangements for the mc interview had telephoned ten minutes before, and with dend carnestness said, "Easterman, you are mad. I beg you not to go. You will never come back alive. These men are murderers.

"Codreanu has shot men with his own hand. Their sples must have found out all about you. They must know you are a Jew. You are playing with fire."

I professed to pooh-pooh the warning.

"Well, all right," he said, "it's your own funeral, but I'll give you three hours. If I don't hear from you by then I still inform the police and the British Legation."

The most sinister gangster films came painfully to my mind un I was being driven through the dark. quiet streets of Bucarest.

In the motor-car on either side of me sat a hatless Iron Guardial in uniform, green tunic, with Gam Browne belt and dark trousers.

Anglo-German

Naval Conversations

Berlin, Jan. 11. Publication of an official com- munique concerning the result of the Anglo-German naval conversations which had been expected at beginning of this week, has been post- poned until next week.

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It is added that the communique to the will contain information as extent to which Germany Intenda taking advantage of the right con- ceded to her by the Anglo-German naval agreciments of 1935 and 1937, to build submarines in excess of 45 per cent, of the total tonnage of the British submarine fleet, oв well as a fourth and fifth heavy cruiser of 10,000 tona displacement.-Trans-| Occan.

Trinidad To Ban Refugee Influx

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Jan. 11. Owing to the growing influx of Jewish refugees Into Trinidad, the immigration of refugees from Central Europe in banned after January 15, by a special preclamation of the Governor and the Executive Council,

The order applies to all countries; south of Belgium and cast of France. The bon is issued on "economic reasons."

The 500 Jews who have entered Trinidad in the past three months presumably will be allowed to stay.

Router

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BARRIER

tried to

kill a King?

by A. L. EASTERMAN

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an Iron the biting cold air, Codreanu made WILS The chauffeur

and strikingly magnificent Guardist, in uniform.

dramatic personality, We drove what seemed to me an

eyes His

-suddenly piercing for an distance interminable

lighted on me. wheels The eternity of time.

in

French. Speaking

fair crunched heavily in the thick mow.

Codreanu inquired my wishes. I asked it I could talk to him alone, if he would answer a few questions. He turned quickly, uttering a few sentences to the man at his side, who gave a sharp command.

At long last we stopped before a large, briliantly-lit house on the outskirts of the city, the head- quarters, I was informed, of the Iron Guard. In a few moments 1 found myself in a large room inside a square of green uniformed men, with outstretched arms in the Fascist greeting, to which I re- sponded with a vague gesture of head and hand. Furtively I took in my surroundings. Walls hung with swasukas, daggers, flags, large photographa draped in black and crossed with knives (relics of Iron I learned). martyrs." Guard pictures of Mussolint and Hitler, and above a table a huge photo- graph of Codreanu himself.

In a second, the room was empty. I was alone with the terrorist Fascist leader of (as ha claimed).. 1,500,000 men.

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Here beside me was the arch- enemy of King Carol, the sworn for of Magda Lupescu, the King's friend, the inexorable enemy of the Jews,

an assassin with a fanatical

religioua mission political

"Rumania, as his admitted purge masters, Hitler and Mussolini, nad At this done in their countries. moment he was at the height of his power. At the recent general elections bls militant, semi-mill- party, had scored an unex- pected success.

A moment later, something like a torrent rushed into the room.

A towering figure of flaming,tary vigorous youth stood framed in the doorway.

In ski-ing costume, n rough slicepskin cape over his shoulders, from which he shook the snow, his curly. fair hair tousled In boyith disarray, bright blue eyes freely flashing above high check Lones in a pallid face blanched by

Carol should have called him to office, but realising the menace of Codreanu's growing "army," an- anced and encouraged by the Fascist States, he had passed him by.

Carol had done

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learned from the King him elf, the next day he had resolved to. banish from power the man who milit be his rival-and a danger- ous one-for rule over Rumania.

For more than two hours the Captain sat facing me across his table, triking Incessantly.

At first he had glored at me for Several minutes on end without uttering a word. His gaze had the queer. mystical, almost hypnotic quality of the fanatle with a mission."

When he began to speak it was in a loud, resonant voice. He was not talking to me, but to a vision- ary audience of thousands.

He spoke of the King with re- strained deflance.

He has no right to be ngainst our ideas. He is not absolute-he- should be an arbitrator."

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talked with grim ferocity of the Jewa: "I am for their ullmina- tion, 100 per cent. We must and shall destroy them."

He emphasised his Fascist inten- tion: When I come to power L thall make an alliance within 48. ours with Germany and Italy."

When I rose to go, he took my hand, fixed me with a plereing look, smiled and sald: "You know, Ie you, Come to the country with me for a few days as my guest

, taking a photograph from histle, he borrowed my fountain, pen to write across it, "A memento from Cornellu Z. Codreanu," and: handed it to me.

I was not able to accept his invita tion, but three days later, at his request. I visited him at the "Green Itouse," the Iron Guard equivalent of Hitler's Brown House in Munich.

The printed account of my interview with him had contained these words: "The captain is a strikingly handsome young tann of 38, who would make a fortune in Hollywood." The headline read "Rumania's 'Film Star Iller." Codreanu greeted me warmly. A copy of the "Dally Herald" was in his. hand.

When I asked him if he liked the in- terview he frowned and pointed to the "Hollywood" sentence.and the lead- line.

Isn't that somewhat ironical?" he aald, the steely blue eyes fixed on me.

"On the contrary, Captain." I told him. "In England, when a man 1 called a Alm star, it means he has achieved fame greater than if he were Prime Minister."

Codreanu smiled with obvious sutls- faction. "Now I understand. It's a splendid interview," he said.

Then, picking up a book, he handed It to me, saying "I have written some- thing in it for you." One of his officers- translated his autographed words: "To A. L Ensterman, an honest and correct journnilst.“

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To this day I am unable to explain this mystery. Codreanu imself told me, "I and every member of the Iron Guard have sworn an oath on the Holy Bible and by the Archangel Michael never, Jong as we live, to talk to or shake hands with a Jow, I can instinctively tell a Jew na zoon as he enters a room." I have never concealed my drigin or my faith and the Iron Quard apies were the most efficient in all Rumania.

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