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A PREMIER SPEAKS FOR THE SEVEN COUNTRIES OF THE BALTIC

"If only

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HE Prime Minister of one of the Baltic countries

political considerations compel him to remain anonymous said to me the other day: "We are

: preparing to defend ourselves; all of us around the Baltic are doing so, but we do not regard the situation quite in the grave manner that other nations have perhaps the right to do.

"We shall protect our independence and we hope to retain our neutrality, realising, however, that our riches, acquired by hard work and not by any other means, may attract an-envious neighbour less happily placed.

The future of the Baltic countries," he added significantly, "depends on British sen power."

That Premier's view I found corroborated many times during the tour I have just made of the Baltic countries.

No laymun

In reviewing the situation. here I would like to write first about the Baltic interests of Russia and Poland. knows the real sea power of the Russian Fleet.

I do know, however, that the

Hongkong Telegraph. Russian naval base in the Bal-

Wyndham St., Hongkong tic, Kronstadt, is the most secret

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June 14, 1939

Warning To Japan

Concession in

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naval dockyard in the world. HARRY

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the finest and most modern.com- mercial port of its size in North- ern Europe.

Look at the map and see how the big guns Germany is at this moment mounting in Memel are going to be useful in controlling a big section of the Baltic. Then

Leningrad

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SOVIET RUSSIA

Moscow

Miles

200

400

Unless the German pressure: on the Baltle countries forming a buffer between Germany and and Russia is increased so much that breaking-point is reached.

Germany wants these coun- tries to sell all their produce to her and take German manufac tured goods in exchange, not cash.

The Money In The Zoo

By David Murphy

he is an official, is allowed to Finland has moved into this there is the submarine base as visit Kronstadt, and no foreigner orbit and away from the Baltic well. has ever been there since Stalin

If these countries surrender, entente, which consists of Has Germany any other poten- unemployment in Great Britain The Japanese blockade of the has been in power.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. tial interests in Lithuania which will increase. These countrica British Concession in Tientsin

Russia fought hard to retain

Nazis in Denmark may influence a final decision?

are mainly agricultural, export- officially came into operation this Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania,

She most undoubtedly has, but ing to Great Britain; I know morning, and no one can con-but these new States, helped THERE is a sharp divi-

French war

sion between the four these interests are economic and many of my friends will aver template the eventual outcome with British and of this action with anything but material, defeated the Fulshe- Baltic countries and the group not political. Long before the that if exports from the Baltic the Germans are cut off, British farmers will alarm. The future of all foreign Army in those days.

viks, as we called the Russian of three, and I can find no evid- coming of Hitler

but British exports ence whatsoever that all seven were hard at work in the new benefit,

Baltic States selling German trade will suffer first. Concessions in China may well be

Now the threat to the inde- will group themselves together.

goods, establishing German Latvia, with an area of 24,485 in the melting pot. Japan haypendence of these new Baltic

Although all declare their one banks, and opening German square miles and a population of not attempted to hide her inten-States is believed to have shift- interest is defence of independ- schools.

1,900,000, has a tale to tell tions, which include the virtualed from east to west, and Rus ence and neutrality, the group of During the past four years which is similar to Lithuania's: elimination of the

Western sin's Baltic interests compel her, three looks to Poland for protec- British, trade in the new Baltic German penetration, and latter- Powers as powerful political and so as to avoid having a common tion, and the group of four-to countries has improved; in ly German pressure.

frontier with Germany, to help Great Britain, although none Estonia, for instance, imports Estonia, the next-door neigh- commercial factors in China.

retain the independence of these will affirm this officially.

from Great Britain have doubled bour to Russia, has an area of The blockade of Tientsin with, Baltic countries and to keep Official spokesmen in Copen- themselves during the period I 26,000 square miles. and a popu- presumably, the final object of them as buffer-States.

hngen "play down" the activities have mentioned. British pres- Intion of 1,126,000. acquiring control of the foreign

of the Danish Nazi Party, which tige in the Baltic is ace high All these three countries, the In a Vice settlements, may be the signal

polled 30,000 in the recent to-day, as it has been in the buffor States, fear they may be for the attempted realisation of Now we come to Po- Danish election, and point out past. The prospects for British future German colonies. They Japan's ultimate aspirations.

land. Look at the that this poll was not important, trade in the future are very have riches of the land, grand

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. The importance of the Tien-map of the Baltic and you will in consideration of the fact that, bright, unless tsin blockade is more futurable see Poland's interests. The fall only half of the population voted, thun immediate, and any success of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia on a universal suffrage ballot.

It is agreed here that German which the Japanese may gain began the German encirclement

of Poland; the annexation of propaganda is active in Den- this project is likely to mean

Memelland, a part of Lithuania, mark, and that wherever there more to them psychologically

continued it; if Germany an is a German minority there is than materially. Japan places

nexes the remainder of danger; but still, officially at greater importance on securing control of the Shanghai Interna-Lithuania, Poland will be held in least, there is no present fear.

I put this question to a Danish tional Settlement than in bring-a powerful German vier.

The Danzig question is a mat- diplomat; "If Hitler demandedl ing the British Tientsin to its knees, but inter of current politics, and all that your Premier Mr. Thorvald achieving the latter she will would say under this heading Stauning, goes to see him, what THE builders are in at the London phant House was due for replace-

the then?" gain confidence in attempting gradual infiltration of German

is that, having watched

Zoo. The famous old Elephant ment in any case but even the large "He would not the former. Lord Elibank's

KO,"

was House is coming down and out of its finances of the Zoological Society ruins will arise a new building that would not stand the strain of an warning in the House of Lords interests back into this former the reply.

Lithuania was in the news is to cost £25,000. And if you think additional £25,000 in expenditure- on Monday that the Japanese German Baltic Fort, I am at a were planning a coup in Shang-loss to understand how anybody some time ago when Germany that is a large amount to spend on without some help.

a building for housing animals, you Werbe duly 7 may have been can have any reasonable doubt walked in an annexed a slice of must remember that there is big tion of €10,000, came from the That help, in the shape of a dona-

Maharajah of Bhavnagar, and the prompted more by a sense of the that Germany, either by direct the country and

elephants who later revel in sand box camera that dramatic than by a knowledge of negotiation with Poland or by a possessor of Memel,. probably

baths and worm sprays will: facts, but his statement acquires coup de force, will fail to reunite Eastern Prussia with Germany enables you

particular significance when it is considered together with the proper, via the Danzig bridge.

Denmark preserved her nou- take excellent pic-persistent Japanese hints, both

official and inspired.

trality through four years of tures to serve

hell and secured for herself the The shorter view is that the province of Schleswig, which was Japanese action in Tientsin is returned to her after the Allies yet another gesture; a stupid, held a plebiscite in the territory arrogant expression of Japan's Germany held. contempt. for the Western Denmark to-day consists of Powers, and of her now violent 17,144 square miles of territory dislike of Britain. It is hard to and a population which is in- believe Japan is deliberately ferior to that of London, but, re- goading Britain and her friends mark this, the coastline of Den- into armed retaliatory action, mark is equal to the coastline of particularly as the China Inel France! dent has gone anything but lo

Objections may be raised that: plan. On the other hand, Japan this length coastline includes the cannot expect the affected islands which abound round the foreign Powers to remain in-coast; it does, but the islanda different for an indefinite time. have to be defended, as has the Britain's attitude throughout the mainland, if defonded it can be. China war as been exemplary. But can it? She has endeavoured to meet

Denmark has an Army con- Japan more than half-way over sisting of about 100,000 every issue. Japan's reply has So far as foreign policy is con- been to press more and more cerned, Denmark stands in with demands, and to add insult to her northern neighbours, Nor- Insult.

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hardening to a dangorous degree. tarlatie threats to foreign settle- Japan, no matter how legitimate ments cannot produce the desir the considers her East Asia ed results. "Japan is morely aspirations, should endeavour to building up passionate world deal with the many probleme opinion against herself, which, which her actions have created if ever it has to find expression, in an intelligent and conciliatory will involve Japan in the greatest- manner. Blockades of, and mill-catastrophe of her history.

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Actually,

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The last report of the Society shows that 1,816,012 people visited the Regent's Park Zoo last you'

and between them they paid 257,313 in entrance fees. But large though this figure may seem, it is well below that for the record year,. 1928, when there were 2,225,602 visitoru.

Entrance fees, however, do not constitute the Zoological Society's whole income. The 1038 report gave. the total income for the London Zoo as £112,067, while the year's expen- diture

was £112,408, leaving a bal-- ance on the right side of £460. The Bgures for Whipsnade are kept

you may ask, docs all this money go? The answer is not dim- cult when you consider como of the items on the expense. side, quite apart from the large sum of money required to pay the salaries and wages of officials und keepers.

One of the largest individual Iterns in food. In addition to the occupants of the aquarium and the reptile and insert houses there are some 1,030* mammals and 1,050 birds in the Re gent's Park Zoo. It costs £18,000 a year to feed them all.

Among other things, the animals Is year consumed 91 tons of hay, 150 tons of clover, 124 tons of horse- flesh, D tons of monkey nuts, 12 tons: of bread, ewt: - of ́ ́ honey 244,049 banonts.

and

Nor did the Zoo caterer's troubles end there, by any means.

In addition to the normal item of diet, he had to provide such things |as: shrimps, vitamin, foods, ** canary: seeds, egg-yolk, oflenke, seafless for: the fish and tons of fish for the sen Hons, to say nothing of the hundred- and onu queer foods that figure om

PLEASE Tum To Pare 5.