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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1939.

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Rather more than a year ago a leading German diplomat told me that a certain speech of M. Litvinol's-which did not re- celve any particular attention- was really one of the most important events since the war. The Soviet Foreign Minister had stressed the interest of

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By

H. Powys GREENWOOD

author of

"The Gorman Revolution"

strength leads them to prefer Isolation. Apart from small nations like Hungary, there are three great "Have-nots"--Ger- many, Italy, and Japan. Two have left the League of Nations and one is in bitter conflict with it.

RED CROSS Of The AIR

by Kay Carson

ELEVEN YEARS ago in a

country situated many thou- sands of miles from Hongkong. a tiny air company started the first regular air ambulance ser- vice in the world..

The country is Queensland in Australia, and the air service Qantas who, to-day, form one of the most Important Unka in Imperial Airways 30,000 miles of aerial trunk routes. which connect England with the far-.

Empire.

The "Have-nots" look on the flung outposts of her

The true significance of air com- League as an instrument for the munications in cases of emergency preservation of a political situa-sickness is fully realised by people tion which they mean to alter the centres of expert treatment.

living in localities for removed from And it is the real tragedy of the

South-Eastern Europe in words which might equally well have what is felt to be an intolerable League that they are right. The Phone 27778/9. come from Tavolsky or Sazonost

position. a generation before. Russia was back in the Balkans.

DEATH

CHEUNG. AL the Canossa Hospital, at 12 noon, on April 17, 1930, Mrs. W. T. Cheung, wife of Dr. W. T., Cheung. Funeral at 4 p., to-morrow (18th inst.)

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April 17, 1939

Watch China!

THREE items of news published in Hongkong last week are pregnant with possibilities.

One is the report of the hurried dash of the British Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, to Chungking.

The second is the great Chinese counter-offensive fronts of five provinces, in at least three of which the Chinese troops meeting with conspicuous

are

success.

on the war

Finally, the sudden recall of the U.S. Grand Fleet-an armada

Waa

sun Was

With a a vision betting a country which presents unique communication difficulties, Qantas realized the tre mendous servico the ale could offer people lving in isolated parts of Australia, situated many hundreds of miles from the nearest doctor.

And so the Flying Doctor came into being.

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plied the doctor, Qantas the air-

THE Australian Inland Mission sup- craft." Owners of big sleep and cat- the stations--which are the equlyn- lent of American rancher-were en- couraged to clear and suitable for landing grounds.

Bicycle wireless transmitting sets:

established in out-back

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homes where no electricity was laid

on,

so named because the owner generated his own power for trans- mission by sitting on a bicycle and going through

Rumania seems to have succum- Serajevo, the Great War might JAPAN goes ahead in China. Thus the first regular movements.

basis of the League is "collective In 1914 Germany

security" of existing rights. Her trade That is a static conception. But prosperous nation. Diplomacy does not pause even was rapidly expanding; her history is dynamic. for the passing of kings. As

It is true that there has been middle classes were growing far 13 practical results arc concerned, the most successful richer, her workers getting a great deal of talk lately

higher wages.

possible There were no about of all the freign royalties and

modifications statesmen who were recently in oppressed minorities to bother of the status quo, about Article about; one way or another the 19, treaty revision, the "Colonial England was M. Litvinoff."

German race ruled in Centrul problem."

But once the talk Russia's Influence Europe. Certainly Austria- leaves theoretical idealism and Hungary was a weak spot, and gets down to facts, it becomes HE returned to Moscow with there was a certain amount of clear that nations are ready to trado and credit negotiations resentment and jealousy about give up their possessions of with Britain well advanced, Gericany's insufficient "place in other kinds, only at the point Russian influence in Little the sun." But the

of the bayonet. Entente councils steadily in- getting warmer and the place

Face to Face creasing King Carol of bigger. Had it not been for

air ambulance service in the world was formed. bed to intensive Franco-Russian never have come..

But the Poles will not That was in May, 1020. wooing-and above all with the It is scarcely necessary to abandon the "Corridor"; M. The lead which Qantas set the firm assurance that the Franco- dilate upon the contrast with Benes will hang on to his world eleven years ago in Australia has been followed in a somewhat Russian pact was to be ratified. 1936, to point to the minorities, embittered German minority; different degree, by other countries France, Russia, the Slav to the steadily increasing Austrian independence will some- throughout the Empire. Commercial States of Europe, with Britain economic strain, to the shortage how be bolstered up; we do not aircraft, which feed the millions of inhabitants of the British Empire rather loosely attached: is it of raw material supplica, to the seem ready to hand over colonies with mall and freight, are frequently 1914 over again?

lost colonies, to the strenuous or mandates. Is it likely that called upon to utilise their passenger It is futile to, burk facts. The efforts to maintain Austrian concessions sufficiently important space for the carriage of 1914 alignment was based upon independence of Germany, to to have a real effect will be cases. fear of the Germans; the 1936 the watchful ring of Slav States. made? And even if they were alignment is based upon fear of Germany is scarcely likely to made, might they not merely the Germans: For nearly 70 support the status quo in Europe. result in whetting the appetites years, those 80 odd million She wants something possibly of the beneficiaries? vigorous people in the heart of a great deal. She is a “Have- If this view is correct, if Europe have dominated the not" Power. European stage-in victory and

in defeat, even in the humiliation Dissatisfied Nations of 120 warships-to the Pacific. and chaos of 1918. Fear-

China were for the purpose of

discussing mediation.

What, then? Sir Archibald

through Hongkong on route to

and peaceful towns like Dessau

military aeroplanes, working

"Haves" and

Stretcher cases are a comumon sight on Imperial Airways giant flying- boats operating normal passenger 30,000 miles of Empire air routes, services. Linking up, ny they do,

they ensure that invalids can reach, in the minimum amount of time, the centre of the highest specialised treatment for the case in question.

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in the Empire.

"peaceful change" is an illusion, will not the "Have-nots" inevit- ably line up against the "Haves”? The haste with which the British chiefly, but not only. French A YEAR or so ago, to talk of Certainly they have not yet ONE can call to mind the instance of a ground engineer, suffering. Ambassador --- hashurried to fear of a nation which had would have conveyed little or away; Italy and Germany have able to enter a

"Have-nots" done so. Japan is a long way from myelitis in Karachi, who was nursing home In China's war-time capital after his virtually fought the world, was nothing to the average man quarrelled over Austria; and England in three days from the time conversations in Shanghai with the mainspring of a treaty and beyond a vague idea of Socialism. Germany has obviously been ex-

he left India. the Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir a post-war policy which could in To-day, thanks to "The Daily ceedingly anxious to keep on flew from Nairobi and was met by A woman suffering from cancer Robert Craigie, gave rise to the the long run lead only to Adolf Mall," the problem is clear to usua] rumours of British media- ! Hitler.

good terms with Great Britain. an ambulance at Southampton, from every schoolboy.

where she was conveyed immediately The Nazi State

But Japan and Germany to her destination in Cheshire, a tion in the Sino-Japanese conflict.

Rightly or wrongly, certain But Sir Robert Craigie quite em-

A man who fractured his heel fali- phatically denies that his conver- AND now Hitler is there, and nations are fundamentally dis- have a great bond in their com- Journey Insting live days.

satisfied with their place in the mon hatred of Soviet Russia;

Ing from a a high building at Port Bell, sations with the Ambassador to conscription is there, and endeavouring to change it. They the Fuhrer's Anglophil sym- Ugandu, was three and a half days tanks and guns are pouring out want things belonging to others. pathies are being sorely tried by later comfortably installed in bed in of the factories. A few orders, The remaining nations are more M. Litvinoff's activities-as wit- England, receiving treatment at one refused to tell us anything about become gigantic factories for or less satisfied. They want to ness last Saturday's events and of the most advanced fracture clinics keep what they have. The the increasing agitation for This year, for the arst time in the that meeting when ho passed day and night. From childhood "Have-nots" face the "Haves." colonies; and isolation is driving history of their country's aviation, America's great combine of airlines The "Haves" correspond the Duce to make more and more is considering the establishing of a Chungking. He refused, for the onwards, the citizens of the roughly with the nations play- urgent overtures to Germany.hospital 'pione" which would be

Totalitarian State are trained first time since his arrival in to be disciplined, to march, to ing a leading part at Geneva Once the line-up is complete, made available to important clinics

two groups

and the medical profession face each throughout the country on a charter generally, China, to be interviewed by Hong-endure the Totalitarian War. except, of course, for the United then

States, whose And why not?

overwhelming.other-exactly as in 1914. kong newspapers.

basis. They do not assume that it. Are not

one would be necessary to tie up There are observers who believe Germany's neighbours armed,

ship for this purpose, but that seats that each of those three signi- and arming? In 1916 Lord]

could be removed and cots installed. ficant happenings reported last Balfour wrote in a memorandum

But it is to the pioneers of the first regular alr ambulance service- week has a direct bearing on to the Cabinet that he hoped.

that we must look for truly colourful events in Europe,

that after the war no attempt:

cases, There is a school of thought which would be made to interfere with

** belleves that there is going to be Germany's domestic policy ard active intervention in the Sino-to destroy militarism. Napoleon Japanese confllet by western Powers. had tried, but "no attempt was

If there is going to be trouble Ir

ever less successful. As every- Europe it would obviously be to the body knows. Napoleon's policy advantage of the opponents of the compelled Prussia to contrive Totalitariana to buttress Chinese the military system which has resistance to aggression in the Far created modern Germany." East. The three great aggressor Has history repeated, itself nations in the world to-day are co-with Clemenceau, Poincare, and partners, mutually bound to each the Totalitarian State?

other by the iles of the so-called ond convenient Anti-Comintern Pact

China has proved by her great counter-offensive that, far from being debilitated by nearly two years of continuous warfare, she is to-day stronger, probably, than at any time |ŝincë, the start of the conflict.

Perhaps 1812 is a better parallel than 1914, as far as There Germany is concerned. is the same Intense surge of nationalism, the reaction against

driven

મી wedge deep into the Totalitarian bloc.

As Chinese resistance-even de fensive resistance-continues, Jopen Japan may: announce her inteníon daily becomes weaker and wouker.

of supporting Italy and Germany in When-as happened last week- any conflict, but she is hardly in n China taken the offensive, the process position to lend much aid at present, of disintegration which is surely except, perhaps, to temporarily, do- overtelting Japafi's -- financial and minate the northgen Pacific. economic structure is obviously has- If. Chinesa rezistance is buttressed tened.

to the extent that her armica are So far, China has fought her great | revitalised by generous support from war alone, with compare!Ively litte | the west, Japan no longer becomes un nid from the West. If kid on a con-i incalculable factor in the European siderable scale is forthcoming, what situation. Her hands will be too full La going to happen to Japan?

helping herself to bother about the China, by her herole, resistance to plight of her allies on the other side: Japanese aggression, hitelready, of the world,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"And" if I talk while under other, all namen I might, mention are entirely fletitious and no reference to any living

person will be intentionall"

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ONE of the most important features of Qantas ambulance work in those early days was the treatment of maternity cases. Expectant mothers "out-back" and only those who fully realise the vastness of Australian. bush-country can appreciate the ter- rible. Isolation of some of those "out- back" home-would watch the skies. with anxious eyes for the dreaded. yearly rains, which would mean the complete severance of all communi- cations. The doctor could not be in: attendance. Mortality

often high.

To-day, thanks to the lying doctor, such circumstances, need nover

arise. A wireless call, if a telephone, Is not connected, brings a doctor on the scene within a few hours. Possibly the most remarkable feature of this particular air ambulance service in that it is all voluntary. It is left to the patient to pay, what he can. The concern is dnanced by public subs-- cription.

A woman has joined Australia's- ranks of flying doctors, possibly the only woman doctor to be doing ac work in the world. Sho Is Doctor White of Normanton, Queensland, 'a ̧ middle-aged woman of fine character, carrying out a great job of

The advisability of a woman doing

Work Buch work was looked upon with wide-spread doubt by the ag

@general" publle at first, but that Doctor White has proved herself equal to the was soon acknowledged by both the people of all States and the pilots who fly the 'planes...

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