1939-05-16 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, Tuesday, May 16, 1930,

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THE 10 and 12 H.P.

DEATH

At Manly, N.S.W. on May 13, 1939, Nellie, beloved wife of 5. A. Seth. (Shanghal papers

please copy),.

The

are

This is the country we pledged to

P

OLAND is Europe's sixth largest

The

Russia. country, barring 32,000,000 citizens of the Polish Republic are not all Poles.

The Poles form 70 per cent. of the population. Nineteen per .cent. are Ukrainians, 8 per cent. Jews, 3 per cent. Germans, and there are oddments-Rus- sians, Czechs, Slovaks.

The Polish-Ukrainians are jealous of the Poles' dominating position, just as the Slovaks envied the Czechs. They speak a Slav Janguage, similar to Polish, but with many differences. They are Orthodox Churchmen, The Poles are Roman Catholics.

Many accuse the Poles of having deliberately tried to destroy Ukrainian culture. When Ukrainian M.P.s propose local autonomy in the Polish Parlia- ment they are called traitors..

The Ukrainian ngitation was stimulated after Munich by the emergence of a quasi-indepen- dent State of Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly known as Ruthenia) at the tail end of the late Czecho-

"Poland, to live, has to balance between Germany and Russia."

•

fight

LITHUANIA

~~POLISH CORNIDOR

ÞWARSAW

PORANA

JEBCHEN

BUNDAŻY

GARBATHIC

RPMANIA

for

for Polish independence during the war.

They are called "The Colonels" Club." Colonel Beck is one, al- though he was a sorgeant in the legion. Marshal Smigly-Rydz,-- Commander-in-Chief of the army, and vütual, dictator of Poland, is another.

BECK'S policy has favoured Germany since Hitler's shadow fell on Europe. His principle was that the best way to handle your enemy is to make a friend of him. But even Colonel Beck and certainly the marshal have abandoned this now.

Most Poles hate the Germans. Some violently, like the Polish land, tried to acize the Russian Western Leaguers, who want to Ukraine without success. He out-Hitler Hitler, and annex the grabbed Vilna from the Lithua- half-million-odd Poles living in nians and took Upper Silesia Germany. from the Germans by plebiscite. The army officers trained by the French tend to be pro- The Polish cagle became a vul-

French. ture again at the break-up of and peasants. But, above all, Also the intellectuals When Hitler made a ten-year Czecho-Slovakia. It retook Tes- the Czechs stole

every Pole is wildly pro-Polish. This fragment was a rallying non-aggression pact with Colonel chen which

France and Poland signed a minded Beck in 1934 he put the Corridor from them after the war.

treaty in 1921. It aimed at fit- point for nationally Ukrainians in Poland and Rus- problem in cold storage till 1944. The Poles are a proud, brave, ting Poland into France's ring sia.. German propaganda en. But he abrogated that pact. tenacious race. Compared with round Germany, but Colonel Perhaps he did not think he Western Europe they are socially Beck's policy hamstrung the would settle with Austria and backward. Outside the big cities treaty.

Hongkong Telegraph. Slovakia

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'Phone 26615 May 16, 1939

Ideology

WHAT is the meaning of "Ideology"--that ugly but powerful word?

Strictly speaking, it is the "science of ideas", but nowadays it is used to describe the various fierce political creeds which have

couraged them to hope for a Ukrainian State.

Czecho Slovakia. 80 quickly. peasant and landlord live in an As for the Russians, the Poles IN the confusion after Anyway, the present German almost feudal relationship. distrust them as much as they

the great war, a denunciations of the "brutal- Aristocratic magnates own 60 do Germans. They do not for- Ukrainian State actually had ities" suffered by the German per cent. of the land. The pea- get that Bolsheviks once knock- existed, briefly. Ukrainians in minority have an unpleasantly sunt, while gathering the wealth ed at the doors of Warsaw after Poland and Russia declared their reminiscent ring.

from his master's soll, is lucky the war. independence, only to be crushed

It has been suggested

Poland, to live, has to balance that to eat meat a few times a year. by the Poles and Bolsheviks res- Hitler will do a deal with the The peasants are three-quarters between Germany and Russia. pectively.

Poles. return-for the Corri- of Poland. They are largely If Germany and Russia fight

followers of Witos.

each other, Poland is the battle- The hope was dimmed again dor he would drive an alterna-

pcasant

field. the Carpatho-Ukraine recently. through Lithuania. But that is was a leading figure in Polish po friends, they might decide to when Hungary helped herself to tive Polish outlet to the aca leader who, before he was exiled,

If Russia and Germany make But it still burns fiercely in rumour.

litica,

divide Poland between them, as many Ukrainian hearts and

Witos returned to Poland-they did once makes un embarrassing problem

before in the POLAND herself has not sign that the Foles want to for- eighteenth century. for Polish statesmen.

a blemish-free record get domestic quarrels now.

A Polish Foreign Minister's

swept great nations and govern all their actions,

Let us be quite clear upon one vital point. Britain, in trying to create an anti-aggression front, is not actuated either by Poland's greatest problem as regards land grabbing. Un- Witos was exiled when he life is a nightmare any way you affection for or antagonism to now, however, is the German satisfied with the territories came up against the real rulers look at it. forms of government different minority. It is small, just be granted at Versailles, Pilsudski, of Poland. They are a set of No wonder Colonel. Beck is

low a million, but fairly com- tough old maker of modern Po- courageous patriots who fought rarely known to smile. The vast majority of British pactly situated along the Ger people are indifferent to alien man frontier and in the Corri- ideologies. The systems favour-dor. It is largely Nazi.

from our own. -

ed by other peoples have never-The-Corridor was sliced out. counted in the direction of of the German cake and given British foreign policy - until to Poland by President Wilson they have threatened the gener- and Clemenceau at Veranilles as al liberty,

an outlet to the sea.. Without

A hundred years ago Peel it Poland is a land-locked State, donounced the conception of a her overseas commerce at the "war of principles." Canning mercy of her neighbours. scouted the idea that it was In the Corridor Hes Danzig. "policy to hold no communion It is a "Free Port" under League except with States which supervision. Its population is possess free Constitutions."

"Live and let live" is still the British policy.

No British blood or treasure will be spent in supporting or opposing any foreign "ism", but, as Sir John Simon recently said, "Britain will filing all into the scales against the overweening demands of

any ambitious tyranny." Democracy's Pleas

IT IS interesting. In view of Pre-

predominantly German. A Nazi local Government runs it now --under orders from Berlin, not Geneva,

There

ROTTERDAM

Are The Dutch

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Defences

Plans for the military defence of Holland aro

CERMI

LAND

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being tightened up. This article explains how Dutch military strategy is de- signed to frustrate surprise attack from Cer- many by mechanised columns in an attempt to over-run the Netherlands

in a matter of twenty-four hours.

which stretch 600 miles from Alps to the Dutch border.

They are garrisoned in new barracks nt Grave. Hedel, Heusden, Doesburg, Zutphen, Zwolle, Ravenstein, Box- incer and other towns.

Within a few hours of an alarm a front line force of 70,000 would be at the frontier.

to.

The annual number of

conscripts. has been increased from 10,500 32,000 and their period of training. has been lengthened from 54 months lo 11 months, and it is estimated that out of a total population of only 8,000,000 Holland could on

general mobilisation throw an atmy of over 1,000,000 men into the fold.

In southern Holland the River Maas forms a natural defensive ne

the along the border. But there is no such inatural frontier in the north It adds a further 200 miles to the provinces would be quickly over- so it is probable that the northern Napo-existing line of fortifeniions and run by an invader.

Was

ogainst Germany.

If this happened the Dutch forces and concrete would in all likeliood fall back democracies forces along the River Mass

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the

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The Poles neem to have reckoned with losing Danzig for some time. They developed the near-by Polish port, Gdynin, with French money. It now handles more trade than Danzig. Poland has just refused to dis- cuss Danzig with Hitler. before long Danzig will follow

But few people doubt that WHEN Great Britain sident Roosevelt's recent plea to

threatened by leonic invasion Hitler (so violently rejected by the Memel into Hitler's Reich.

¿ chain of completes the Great Wall of Europe Reich Fuchrer) to note what Pre-

If you take German figures Martello towers was built along bristling with guns to give land pro- the River Yssel to form with

-wall of steel sidents of the United States have the population of the notorious our eastern and southern coast. tection to the Western said before at vital points in his- Corridor is mostly German. The tory.

Polen place the German popula- similar line of small pill-box forts The Dutch are to-day completing a

straight defensive line from the Outstanding occasions of inter- tion as low as 10 per cent.

The Arst move to remove

south of Holland to Zuyder Zee. facing Germany along their eastern temptation that Hitler might have to atiy vention in world politics for peace,

Dutch troops who might be lao which we quote from a recent issue True figures are difficult to frontier.

attack through Holland came from far north to join this Hne would cs- of the London "News Chronicle", establish on any Central Euro- Some 40 of them have been built, Dutch citizens of the eastern pro-cape across the northern eauseway

poan frontier because the fron-Equipped with artillery, anti-tank Vices who looked across their fron-of the Zuyder Zen. 1905. Theodore Roosevelt during tier fringe is bilingual. Its lan- guns and machine guns they com-er and saw the Germans building

barracks

In the event of, the pill-box line and new ronda. Burgo-breaking the Dutch would mand the main roads leading from)

retreal the Russo-Japanese War sent a note guage changes with its masters, the German frontier and the bridges masters of frontier towns petitioned on Amsterdam and call on their to the two Powers concerned. At Many Poles who swear they across the rivers Maos and Yssel the Duel Government to give them oldest and most trusted his suggestion they met at Portacannot speak German would be- which flow parallel to the frontier. protection. mouth, Now Hampshire, and dis- cussed terms.

come fluent German speakers if 1906.-Conference called by Pre-Hitler took them. The contrary sident Theodore Roosevelt. German is true as well. and French Governments discussed at Algeciras

were:

600.

ally-the

The Dutch opened the dykes to the sea against the troops of Spain in Silent,

These strong points, with their armament programme-a Lilliputian,

Sp Holland embarked on carefully worked out fields of fire affair compared with the arms pro- and their underground ammunition grammes of the Great Powers. dumps, are garrisoned day and night by a

The Dutch Government decided the time of William the skeleton force of 8,000 grey- the question of

THE Poles have a good green Netherland troops who live in thint the best they could do was to against the French when William of Morocco. Pence, which had been in

historical claim to the newly-built barracks in the frontier prepare against the dreaded surprise Orange ruled, and to-day the Dutch the balance, was preserved.

attack, and provide fust enough tire people are prepared if necessary to 1914-At the outset of the war, vince for hundreds of years be-

Corridor. It was a Polish pro- towns.

rome foruncations to hold up) an open them against the Germans, President Wilson tendered his ser fore the Germanis tock it more

invader until outside help came from There are plans in existence which vices for mediation at once or at any

Belgium, France or Britain-for the can be put into effect in three hours future time to all European Powera than 150 years ago.

The river bridges are alread, Dutch cannot believe that Britain to blow up dykes and sea walls to Involved.

But Hitler could stir up trou-charged with dynamite and can be would allow Amsterdam and Rotier-food a wide belt of country from the 1938-On September 20, Preal-ble for the Polesand, now, forown up at a few minutes nolice.

Zuyder Zee to the Belgian frontier. In this way Holland not only 7 dont Roosevelt appealed to Berlin us among his brother Germans guards herself but keeps her alara

Behind this flood the Dutch forces and Prague and also the Govern in the Corridor at any moment. of the Watch on the Rhine. For the

would stand in defence of Amster- Hence the line of pill-boxes..

dam. Arid of a ments of Britain, France, Poland We are familiar with his tactica chain of Fill-boxes is more than a

great deal more and Hungary, not to break off from Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, logical conclusion of the Moginot talions of 350 men have been formed

purely national defence. It is the

than that. Twenty-five so-called Second Bal- negotiations in the Czecho-Slovak

hind Memel.

Hine and the Belgian fortifications to man the defence line permanently.

crisis.

dom to fall into German Hands.

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Stuart Emany