1939-03-24 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1999.

THE

BIGH

JUICE SELECTED

RIBE WEST INDIAN

N LIMES

WATSON'S

LIME RUICE CORRIAL

$1.20 per bot,

Manufactured by

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD:

SPECIALISTS IN HIGH CLASS AERÄTED WATERS & CORDIALS

Moutrie

Pianos

ARE MADE WITH THE FINEST MATERIALS UNDER

EXPERT BRITISH SUPERVISION

Do you want high class cconomi- "cal transportation? If so WAIT for the STUDEBAKER CHAM- PION due in Hongkong about middle April

THIRTY MILES

to the

GALLON

of

GASOLINE

85 Miles per hour-110 inch wheelbase, easy to park

The Studebaker Champion is the ideal car for Hongkong

Sole Distributors: HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

Stubbs Rd,·· Phones: 27778/9

MEMEL,

Europe's

nagging tooth

by'

EMRYS

JONES

T

coast

East

is

ÚRN your eyes to that strip of terri- tory called Memel- land that adjoins Prussia, whose washed by the Baltic Sea, whose people were, until this week, in Lithuania, and whose heart is in Germany. Note the clean, red-brick cobble-stoned town of Memel it- and see what a fine jump- jany nation whose ambition it in Wyndham St., Hongkong to make a dive up the Baltic.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.ing-off ground it is as a base for

'Phone 26615 March 24, 1939

The New "REGENT" Model Baltic Pawn

(FULL SIZED UPRIGHT)

IN MODERNISTIC DESIGN

$42500

ON DEPOSIT

IN

YOUR A

HOME

SMALL

INSTALLED PAYMENT OF

MOUTRIE'S

at

YORK BUILDING CHATER RD.

REPULSE BAY Hotel

Geo. Pio-Ulski's String Quintette

every SUNDAY for Tiffin 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Fred Carpio's Dance Orchestra

every WEDNESDAY for Dinner

9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

A la Carte & Table d'Hote

THE

are much wider than they appear

on the surface. The Memel district,

n strip of 853 square miles without which Lithuania scarcely can live is, although so small that it is virtually valueless to Germany economically, bighly valuable as pawn in the larger Kame Germany is now playing in

cause

Turn your eyes to Memel, bc- it's like a troublesome tooth-you never know when it's going to start aching.

Hitler and Chamberlain had some words about it when the

MEMELLAND

TOʻRIDA

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

EAST PRUSSIA (Germany)

Kaunas

POLAND

TD

BERLIN

WARSAW

Flaniced by Nazi Germany's East

the Prussia in

West. Memel, German in spirit, makes a jumping of ground for a drive tip the Baltic Sea.

Was

50.

Miles

NA

To

AMS.COM

Antanas

100

I Asked Hitler Questions

Fifth Day In The Scries of Questions and Answers from an unexpurgated Edi- tion of "Main KompP'.

Why did you choose the

!

swastika?

A. "The new dag had to be just

our

SU

much C symbol of

own struggle дя of great. advertising effectiveness. Anybody who has much to do with the mananes sees great importance in these ap- parent trivialities. An effective badge can in hundreds of thousands of 'cuses awake the first interest in- movement." (p. 555.)

As National-Socialists

We 200

our programme in our dog. In the red we ree the social idea of the nationalistic: in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the (p. 567.) victory of the Aryan man."

Q.

What is your view of Free-

masonry?

"To strengthen his political

A. position the Jew tries to teor

down racial and political barriers which at first stiil hamper bis steps, For this purpose he lights for religious tolerance with all the toughness peculiar to him, and has found on excellent instrument for the cham- plonship of his cause in Freemasonry,

Then the world saw, for the first which has completely fallen prey to time that other nations must take him. care how they treat people of the "Governing circles and the higher German race, Hitler protested v-grades of the political and business gorously against the death sentences bourgeoisie fall into his snare through and it looked like the aching tooth masonic strings, without their realis- was about to be drawn.

Ing it. (p. 345.)

Freemasonry The The Lithuanians, however, climbed

work which

in so-called intellectual One of the men they sentenced circles to further the paellstic HE IMPLICATIONS belust the British Prime Minister met the Memel Statute, which gave or down, commuted the death sentences, begins German occupation of Memelland Fuchrer in Germany during the promised to give Memelland Neumann, now known in laming of the drive for national

some sort of autonomy.

Lithuania as the Henlein of Memel- self-preservation is passed on to the crisis last year.

Before we investigate that, Great Britain, France, Italy, land. They sent him to prison for broad masses by the activity of the consider the story of Memel and Japan guaranteed the in- twelve years at Siauten, but after great Press to-day always Jewish."

and released. consider it, because Memel was togrity of Lithuania and auto- doing four years he was pardoned (p. 351.)

Last week, you could have seen the result of a smash-and-grab nomy for Memelland.

another by

Really this decision was to the ex-veterinary surgeon Ernst

What is the fundamental raid, following smashing and grabbing that salve the consciences of the Neumann on the stump in Memelland, brought it back to Germany yes- Allies, who had permitted the wearing a dark blue suit, top boots, diference between Nudism and

Poles under Pilsudski to grab with the elk-antier badge of his party Communism?

in his button-hole. in terday. Eastern Europe.

Ranged on the other side against

"By its categorical rejection of A Memelland was German until the Lithuanian capital of Viina. Just as the German occupation of

Neumann was the thin, high-check-

personality and thus of the Czecho-Slovakia and all it implies it was taken away from them by

boned, bushy moustaclicd President nation and its racial content Marxism makes Poland's southern Bank highly the peacemakers in Paris, and it Name Changed

of Lithuania,

Smetona. destroys the elementary basis of all vulnerable, so does Lithuania, with was some time before the Allien

THE Lithuanians begun by Like Poland's Pilsudski and Czech human culture which is dependent was Д just on these factors. Thui is the whom Poland established diplomatic decided what to do with it.

assaulting the feelings of Slovakia's Benes, Smetono

his country was real inner kernel of Marxist philo- relations only last year through an

With the destruction of the Memellanders, who were German, Nationals when ultimatum presented at the point of Too Late

by changing the name of the German under foreign rule, in his case Rus-sophy

personality and race falls the im- town from Memel to Kialpedu on Use sian rule. the gun, le heavily on her northern

station's and destroying He was expelled from his school pertant obstacle to the domination flank. And although Lithuania is

IN 1923 it was decided railway

for them. In the be- monuments that reminded the Memel- for saying prayers in Lithuanian in- of the inferior type--and this is the small, her strategic value is tremen-

"So arises a pure workers' move- especially since dous, western front is exposed at Danzig. Lithuanians (who until the end then to return to the arms of Ger- Independence while he was a student ment under Jewish leadership, pre- Thus you see in German re-occu-of the war had been Russia) be- many, for that was back in 1923, in the University of St. Petersburg. tending to better the condition of the enslavement and destruction of all pation of Memel a lever with which gan to be heard, began to give when a minor #gilator called Adolf Who wasn't a conspirator In Czurist worker, but in reality alming at the

in far-away Munich,

Smetona has no chance in Memel-non-Jewish peoples." (p. 351.) Lithuanin can be jousted into almost the 200 French soldiers there, st was just beginning to raise the Russia?

"The... (Nazi} movement any position. The first fruits have who were keeping order on be- Soon after the agitator-had-be--land, for in the local Dict the German already become manifest in the half of the Allies, a lot of trou- come master of Germany in 1933. party held 24 out of the 29 seats, promote respect of the person with the German Memellender turned party followers give the Nazi salute, all means. It must never forgel that Lithuanian-German Non-Aggresalon

ble.

their eyes to the Third Reich, Pro- use the word "Heil," and organise in individual worth iles the worth of Pact, signed yesterday.

To the Allies came urgent re- paganda and racial feeling started storm troopers.

to now has Lithuania's only seaport and

a result of the quests for help from the French the tooth aching, and from time Lithuania may, as

Commissioner, Το Lithuania me the twinges were felt all over Many Clashes

Europe. dependence she must now place on Germany, And that her freedom is went a protest, and the British not much more than that enjoyed by cruiser Caledon sailed for the in the Third Reich began to gather the Bohemians, the Moravians or the Baltic.

Του late. Thousands Slovaks.

attacked You will probably see, us a result Lithuanians

Poland's ginning of that year armed lunders of their German background, stead of Russion, then became a con- Jew..

no big cry spirator in the cause of Lithuanian However, there was

Germany

Hitler

The movement for incorporation

THE troublesome tooth

of

must

everything human, that every idea and every achievement is the result of the creative power of a mon," (p. 387.)

THE

Memelland was kept ner does not only envisage the different

him the

"The nationalist point of view...

momentum, tl in 1934 Lithuanian

between worth of races, but also the different vous by frequent clashes into Memelland, Germans

und Lithuanians. Last worth of Individual men." (p. 421.) of troops swarmed

arrested leaders and a hundred other June Nazis and Lithuanians fought

"The fundamental difference be- philosophy and nationalist the prominent German citizens.

for two hours in the streets because tween So gave way.

The Lithuanions held a trial in of this Memel re-occupation, another French, who

Was annexed by Kaunes, accused them of plotting to the Germans had welcomed a Nazi Marxism is that nationalist philosophy spate of diplomatic activity in central Memel

race but also the importance of the Europe, with Warsaw as the axis. Lithuania, and in the following restore Memelland to the realm of ship in the port with the Hitler salute does not recognise only the value of

Adolf Hitler. They sentenced four and cries of "Hell"

The casualties were the death of individual. and makes Poland, almost surrounded now by year the grab was recognised men to death, sent nearly a hundred

10-years-old son at a German foundation of its whole structure." Lithuania signed the to long terms of imprisonment. Germany, must either resign herself when

policeman and 50 injured. Once (p. 501.) that the Pan-

more I looked as if Europe was in to the knowledge

for a first-class crisis. Ukrainian movement Herr Hitter is espousing involves dismemberment of Poland as well as Soviet Russia, or for new and must cast around powerful allies,

In return for facilities in Memel, and especially access to Memel Har- bour, Lithuania will almost certainly be forced, in the very near future it

vassal of not now, to become a Greater Germany,

Evcats on the Baltic const must have a salutary effect on the other ittle Baltic states, whom Germany

THE HONG KONG & SHANGHALHOTELS, LTD. would also like to bring within her

CANTON AGENTS

for the

orbit. They will watch post-Memel ROM SPOTIN developments in Lithuanie with the greatest of anxiety as a token of what might be in store for them.

Meme is typical of German colo- nisation territory. Even after 700 years of German rule it contained, according to the German 1010 consus, 71,781 Inhabitants of German mother tongue, and 87,124 of Lithuanian mother tongue, while in the Lithu anlan census of 1025 43.51 per cent of Memel's inhabitants characterised themselves as of German nationality, 27.59 per cent of Lithuanian na- tionality and 25.10 per cent us Memellanders.

Thus Memel becomes second German territorial for precedent claims no longer based on the Na- tionni Socialist principle alone, but rather on political preference, how- ever obtained. And since all the Baltic States contain large German minorities, an example of what o determined German. minority with the backing of Grent Germany can do provides them food for thought.

Hongkong Telegraph

WM. FARMER & CO.

Victoria Hotel Building. Shameen, Canton.

Tel. 13501.

#

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Dept, 1131 by uttam Beglary Berh

"Your neck is too long for the new coiffure, but I think our Mr.

Emile can fix that

The sturin passed-on the surface.

Memelland disappeared from the crisis scene unul a British M.P, asked

ате Lou hanh suy gambler's risks

in Europe.

taking

in the House of Commons what was Do you believe in taking, risks? going to happen there. That was

after Mr. Chamberlain's visit to Ger- A. "Lack of will... hinders every many In September.

decision connected with risk.

In reply, It was said that Hitler as if the magnitude of a deed did not had told Chamberinin Umt he'd be consist in its riskiness...

"He who first demands from fate gind to leave Memelland as it was, us long as the Menel Statute was ob- the guarantee of success, thereby served by the Lithuanian Govern- renounces the very importance of au harole deed. For an heroic deed lies ment.

Please note: "As long as the in the fact that although convinced situation, you take of the danger of Memel Statute was observed by the the step which will perhaps lead to Lithuanian Government."

success. A man sick with enneer ... does not want to reckon on fifty- one per cent, certainty before risking

It would not be difficult to find an excuse for saying that the Statute was not being observed, and, anyon operation." (p. 403.) way, the Memellanders were reciron-

ed among the dissatisfied minorities

that afflict the European scene.

"A Scandal"

bo you think it would be a Q. Detter world if Germany ran

ALL this happened when it entirely?

Her gave it out that ha

had no more territorial ambitions. but in Berlin n few days later I was

the frontiers of

"If the

derman

people throughout its historical deve- semi-officially stated (and that's apment had possessed the bord-like pretty official in Germany) that this unity which helped other peoples, the did not mean the Fuchrer was not German Reich to-day would be mis- deeply interested in his fellow-tress of the world. Germans beyond

World history would! then have Nazi Germany.

taken another course, and no man In the same October that was fol- is in a position to decide whether lowed up in Berlin by the comment the very thing that so many dazzled that suppression in Lithuanin "has pacifists are to-day hoping to beg by peace, become in untenable scandal.” whining and whimpering,

More to the point was the formal would not have come about in this declaration made to newspapermen way.

lu Manel by Herr Bertuleli, deputy» A peace supported not

leader of Memel's Nazis.

on the. hand-wringing of tearful pacifistic Sald, he: "Memel was separated walling women, but by the victorious against Its will from the

German sword of a master people which Lakes fatherland. Now it. desires reunion the world into the service of a higher

(Continued on Page 5.)

culture." (p, $30)

iku