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The "Telegraph" re-publishes this article without comment. It first appeared in the London “Daily Mail" on March 11, 1936-just over three years ago.

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 "Havo-nots"-Gor- many, Italy, and Japan.

Two have left the League of Nations and one is in bitter conflict with it.

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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 tho first regular air ambulanco ver- vice in the world.

of miles from the nearest doctor.

And so the Flying Doctor came into being.

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The country is Queensland lis Australia, and the air service Qantas who, to-day, form one of the most important links in Imperial Airways 30,000 miles of aerial trunk routes which

connect England with the far- fung outposts of her Empire. The "Have-nots" look on the

The true significance of air cam- League as an instrument for the munications in cases of emergency Soviet Russia in the affairs of

preservation of a political situa-sickness is fully realised by people tion which they mean to alter the centres of expert treatment.

living in localilies far removed from South-Eastern Europe in words

And it is the real tragedy of the With a vision befitting which might equally well have what is felt to be an intolerable League that they are right. The which presents unique communication country Phone 27778/9. come from Lavolsky or Sazonoff

position.

basis of the League is "collectivemendous service the air could offer dinculties, Qantas realised the tre- In generation before. Russia

In 1914 Germany was

a security" of existing rights. people living in isolated parts of was back in the Balkans.

prosperous nation. Her trade That is a atatie conception. But Australia, situated many hundreds 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 as practical results are richer, her concerned, the most successful-

workers getting a great deal of talk lately Hongkong Telegraph of all the freign royalties and oppressed minorities to bother of the status quo, about Article Tnised the doctor, Qantas the air-

higher

There were no about possible modifications THE Australian Inland Mission sup- statesmen who were recently in

about; one way or another the 19, treaty revision, the "Colonial craft. Owners of big sheep and cat- England was M. Litvinoff.

German race ruled in Central problem." But once the talk te stations--which are the equiva Russia's Influence Europe. Certainly Austria- leaves theoretical idealism and Ient of American ranches were on- Hungary was a weak spot, and gets down to facts, it becomes couraged to clear land sullable for

landing grounds. HE returned to Moscow with there was a certain amount of clear that nations are ready to trade and credit negotiations resentment and jealousy about give up their possessions of Britain well advanced, Germany's insufficient "place in other kinds, only at the point

influence in Little the aun." But the sun Russian

was of the bayonet. Entente councila steadily in getting warmer and the place creasing - King Carel of bigger. Had it not been for

Face to Face Rumania seems to have succum- Serajevo, the Great War might JAPAN goes ahead in China. bed to intensive Franco-Russian never have come. wooing--and above all with the It is scarcely necessary to abandon the "Corridor"; · M. rm assurance that the Franco- dilate upon the contrast with Benes will hang on to his Russian pact was to be ratified. 1936, to point to the minorities, embittered German minority;

France, Russia, the Slav to the States of Europe, with Britain economic strain, to the, shortage how be bolstered up; we do not

steadily increasing Austrian independence will some rather loosely attached: is it of raw material supplies, to the seem ready to hand over colonies 1914 over again?

lost colonies, to the strenuous or mandates. Is it likely that 1914 alignment was based upon independence of Germany, to to have a real effect will be It is futile to burk facts. The efforts to maintain Austrian concessions sufficiently important

cusés. fear of the Germans; the 1936 the watchful ring of Slav States. made? And even if they were on Imperial Airways giant flying- Stretcher cases are a common sight alignment is based upon fear of Germany is scarcely likely to made, might they not merely boats operating normal passenger the Germans.

For nearly 70 support the status quo in Europe, result in whetting the appetites 30,000 miles of Empiro air routes, services. Linking up, as they do, | 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-

they ensure that Invalids can reach, Europe have dominated the not" Power. European stage-In victory and

'Phone 26615 April 17, 1939

Watch China! THREE items of news published In Hongkong last week are prognant 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 on the war fronts of five provinces; in at least three of which the Chinese troops meeting with conspicuous

are

success.

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

of 120 warships-to the Pacifle.

The haste with which the British Ambassador has hurried to China's war-time capital after his conversations the Ambassador

with

in defeat, even in the humiliation and chaos of 1918. Fear-

Hitler.

Dissatisfied Nations

"Haves"

But the Poles will not

Bleyele wireless transmitting seta were established in "out-back" homes where no electricity was laid оп, 50 named because the owner generated his

own power for trans- mission by sitting on a bicycle and going through

air ambulance. was formed. That was in May, 1028.

The lead which Qontas set the world eleven years ago in Australia

Thus the first regular movements.

has been followed in a somewhat different degree, by other countries nicraft, which feed the millions of throughout the Empire. Commercial

with mail and freight, are frequently inhabitants of the British Empire called upon to utilise their passenger. space for the carriage of invalid

If this view is correct, if in the minimum amount of time, the

"peaceful change" is an illusion, will not the "Have-nots" inovit- ably line up against the "Haves",?

centre of the highest specialised

treatment for the case in question.

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he left India.

chiefly, but not only, French A YEAR or so ago, to talk of Certainly. they have not yet NE can call to mind the instance in Shanghai with fear of a nation which had would have conveyed little or away; Italy and Germany have able to enter a nursing to lime of a ground engineer, suffering and "Have-nots" done so.__Japan is a long way from myelitis in Karachi, who was Robert Craigie, gave rise to the the mainspring of a treaty and beyond a vague idea of Socialism. Germany has obviously been ex-

to Tokyo, Sir virtually fought the world, was nothing to the average man quarrelled over Austria; and England in three days from the time usual rumours of British media- post-war polley which could in To-day, thanks to "The Daily ceedingly anxious to keep on flew from Nairobi and was met ons A woman suffering from cancer tion in the Sino-Japanese conflict. the long run lead only to Adolf Mail" the problem is clear to But Sir Robert Craigie quite em-

every schoolboy.

good terms with Great Britain. an ambulance at Southampton, from where she was conveyed immediately. The Nazi State

Rightly or wrongly, certain

But Japan and Germany to her destination in Cheshire, a phatically denies that his conver- sations with the Ambassador to AND now Hitler is there, and nations are fundamentally dis- have a great bond in their com journey lasting five

his heel fall A man who fractured his China were for the purpose of the Fuhrer's Anglophil sym-

conscription is there, and Batisfied with their place in the mon hatred of Soviet Russia;ing from a high building at Fort Bell,

discussing mediation.

of the factories. A few orders, want things belonging to others. pathies are being sorely tried by later comfortably installed in bed in What, then? Sir Archibald and peaceful towns like Dessau

The remaining nations are more M. Litvinoff's activities-aa wit- England, receiving treatment at one-

In the Empire. 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

The the increasing agitation for keep what they have. that meeting when he passed military aeroplanes,

This year, for the first time in the working through Hongkong en route to day and night. From childhood "Have-nots" face the "Haves." colonies; and isolation is driving history of their country's aviation,

The "Haves" Chungking. He refused, for the onwards, the citizens of the

correspond the Duce to make more and more America's great combine of airlines is considering the establishing of a "hospital plane which would be. first time since his arrival in Totalitarian State are trained roughly with the nations play. urgent overtures to Chins, to be interviewed by Hong-to be disciplined, to march, to ing a leading part at Geneva Once the line-up is complete, made available to important clinles

profession two groups face each and the medical

generally, endure the Totalitarian War. except, of course, for the United then

throughout the country on a kong newspapers.

charter States, whose

bosis. They overwhelming other exactly as in 1914.

do not Assume that It Are And why not?

not.

would be necessary 10 Lie up

one Germany's neighbours armed.

ship for this purpose, but that seats could be removed and cots fastalled. and arming? In 1916 Lord Balfour wrote in a memorandum

But it is to the ploneers of the first regular air ambulance service to the Cabinet that he hoped

that we must look for truly colourful that after the war no attempt would be made to interfere with Germany's domestic policy and to destroy militariam. Napoleon had tried, but "no attempt was ever less successful. As every- body knows, Napoleon's policy compelled Prussia to contrive the military system which has crented modern Germany."

There are observers who believe that each of those three signi- ficant happenings reported last week has direct bearing

A events in Europe.

on

There is a school of thought which believes that there is going to be active intervention in the Sino- Japanese conflict by western. Powers.

If there is going to be trouble b Europe it would obviously be to the advantage of the opponents of the Totalitariana to buttress Chinese resistance to aggression in the Far East. The three great aggressor nations in the world to-day are co-

Has history repeated itself partners, mutually bound to each with Clemenceau, Poincare, and other by the tics of the so-called and the Totalitarian State? convenient Anti-Comintern-Pact-Perhaps-1812-le-a-better- China has proved by her great parallel than 1914 as far as counter-offensive that, får from being Germany is concerned. There debilitated by nearly two years of is the same intense surge of continuous warfare, she is to-day nationalism, the reaction against stronger, probably, than at any time

since the start of the conflict, --

the

wedge deep into Totalitarian bloc, ...

Jupani may announce her intoulon

As Chinese resistance-even dlo- drivon fensive resistance-continues, Japan dally becomes weaker and weaker,

When as happened last week of supporting Italy and Germany in China takes the offensive, the process of disintegration which is surely overtaking Japan's flogicial and economic structure is obviously has tened,!

So far, China has fought her great war alone, with comparatively little ald from the West. If nid on a con-

any conflict, but she is hardly in a position to lend much old at present, except, perhaps, to temporarily do- minate the northern Poelfe.

If Chinese resistance is buitremed to the extent think her armies vare revitalised by generous support from to west, Japan no longer becomes an siderable scale is forthcoming, what situation. Her hands will be too full incalculable 'factor in the European

is goin to happen to Japan?...

helping herself to bother about the China, by her herole resistono toplight of her allies on the other side Japanese · aggression, hur already" of the world.

Germany.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

-And if I talk while under ether, all names I might mention are entirely fictitious and ng reference to any Uving.

: person will be intentional!”

cases.

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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 cari appreciate theter- rible isolation of some of those "out- back" homes 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 was often high. .:

To-day, thanks to the flying doctor, such circumstances need never 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 is that it is all voluntary. It is left to the patient lợi poy. what he can. The concern is Ananced by public subs-

cription.

only

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A woman has joined Australia's ranks of flying doctors, possibly the woman doctor to be doing, such work in the world. She is Doctor- White of Normanton, Queensland, a middle-aged woman of fine character. carrying

out

great

job of work. The advisablilly of woman doing such work was looked upon with wide-spread doubt by the general public at first, but that Doctor White has proved herself equal to the task. was Boor acknowledred by both the prople of all States and the pilota who fly the 'planer