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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1939.

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PREMIER SPEAKS FOR THE SEVEN COUNTRIES OF THE BALTIC

"If only

stay

we can

neutral...

HE Prime Minister of one of the Baltic countries- Political considerations compel him to remain

anonymous said to me the other day: "We are

WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING IV. 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.

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"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 sex power,”

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

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

I do know, however, that the

Hongkong Telegraph. Russian naval base in the Bal-

Wyndham St, Hongkong

'Phone 26615 June 14, 1939

Warning To Japan

The Japanese blockade of the British Concession in Tientsin officially came into operation this morning, and no one can con- template the eventual outcome

tic, Kronstadt, is the most secret

by

naval dockyard in the world. HARRY

No civilian is allowed to live

No layman

there unless he has special police GREENWALL

permission, no Russian, unless

he is an oficial, is allowed to

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Berlin a

GERMANY

PRUSSIA

FINLAND

Helsingfors

Riga

POLAND

Warsow

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 there is the submarine base as

visit Kronstadt, and no foreigner Finland has moved into this has ever been there since Stalin orbit and away from the Baltic well. has been in power.

Russia fought hard to retain Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania,

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400

Unless the German pressure. on the Baltic countries forming a buffer between Germany and and Russin 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, hot cash.

If these countries surrender, unemployment in Great Britain

entente, which consists of Has Germany any other poten- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuaniu. tial interests in Lithuanin which

will increase. These countries Nazis in Denmark may influence a final decision?

are mainly agricultural, export- She most undoubtedly has, but ing to Great Britain; I know but these new States, helped THERE is a sharp divi-

sion between the four these interests are economic and many of my friends will aver with British and material, defeated the Bolshe Baltic countries and the group not political. Long before the that if exports from the Baltic of this action with anything butviks, as we called the Russian of three, and I can find no evi- coming of Hitler the Germans are cut off, British farmers will.. alarm. The future of all foreign Army in those days.

ence whatsoever that all seven were hard at work in the new benefit, but British exports Concessions in China may well be Now the threat to the inde- will group themselves together. Baltic States selling German trade will suffer first.

goods, establishing German Latvia, with an area of 24,435 in the melting pot. Japan has pendence 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.

1,000,000, 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 sia'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.

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

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.

hagen "play down" the activities have mentioned. British pres- lation of 1,126,000. Requiring control of the foreign

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

polled 30,000 in the recent to-day, as it has been in the buffer 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.7. 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,

than immediate, and any success

which the Japanese may gain in this project is likely to mean

In a Vice.

The Money

In

The

Zoo

By David Murphy

0

of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia on a universal suffrage ballot.

It is agreed here that German began the German encirclement of Poland; the annexation of propaganda is active in Den- more to them psychologically Memelland, a part of Lithuania, mark, and that wherever there.

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

of danger; but still, officially t greater importance on securing nexes the remainder 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 vice.

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

watched the then?" is that, having

Zoo. The famous old Elephant ment in any case but even the large gain confidence in attempting

"He would not go," Was House is coming down and out of its finances of the Zoological Society. the former. Lord Elibank's gradual infiltration of German

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 £23,000. And if you think additional £25,000 in expenditure on Monday that the Japanese German Baltic Port, I am at a

that is a large amount to spend on without some help. wore planning a coup in Shane loss to understand how anybody some time ago when Germany a building for housing animals, you That help, in the shape of a dono- hai for July 7 may have been can have any reasonable doubt walked in an annexed a slice of

Maharajah of Bhavnagar, and the prompted more by a sense of the that Germany, either by direct the country and became the money in a big Zoo.

Actually, the 100-year-old Ele elephants who will later revel in dramatic than by a knowledge of negotiation with Poland or by a possessor of Memel, probably

sand baths and warm sprays will: facts, but his statement acquires coup de force, will fail to reunite particular significance when it is Eastern Prussia with Germany considered together with the proper, via the Danzig bridge. persistent Japanese hints, both official and inspired.

Denmark to-day consists of 17,144 square miles of territory and a population which is in- ferior to that of London, but, re- mark this, the coastline of Den- mark is equal to the coastline of France!

Denmark preserved her neu-| trality through four years of 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 Powers, and of her now violent dislike of Britain. It is hard to believe Japan is deliberately goading Britain and her friends into armed retaliatory action, particularly as the China Inci- dent has gone anything, but to plan. On the other hand, Japan cannot expect the affected foreign Powers to remain in different for an indefinite time. Britain's attitude throughout the China war as been exemplary She has endeavoured to meet Japan moro than half-way over every issue. Japan's reply has been to press more

and demands, and to add insult to insult.

more

Objections may be raised that this length coastline includes the islands which abound round the coast; it does, but the islands have to be defended, as has the mainland, if defended it can be. But can it?

Denmark has an Army con- sisting of about 100,000 men. So far as foreign polley is con- her northern neighbours, Nor- cerned, Danmark stands in with

way and Sweden, and latterly

Public and parliamentary opinion in England naturally is hardening to a dangerous degree. taristic threats to foreign settic- Japan, no matter how legitimate ments cannot produce the desir sho considers her 'East Asia |ed; results. Japan, is merely aspirations, should endeavour to building up passionate world deal with the many problems opinion against horself, which, which her actions have created if over it his to find expression, in an Intelligent and conciliatory will involve Japan in the greatest

manner.Blockades of, and mill catastropha of her history..

must remember that there is big tion of £10,000, came from the

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

!'I'll be polite and speak to hér--but I'absolutely refuza

to notice what sho's wearing.

3:18

| have to thank him for his generosity'

The last report of the

Society shows that 1,816,012 people. visited the Regent's Park Zoo That year, 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, 1028, when there were 2,226,062

visitors.

Entrance fees, however, do not constitute the Zoological. 'Society's whole income. The 1938 report gave the total income for the London Zoo as £112,057, while the year's expen- diture was 2112,488, Ičaving a bal...... ance on the right side of £400. The figures for Whipsnade are kept separately,

"Where, you may ask, does all this money co? The answer is not dim- cult when you consider some of the items on the expense sido, quito

from the large sum of money. irer

pay and

"the salaries" "äñd. wages of officials

and keepers. One of

of the largest individual items is food. In addition to the occupants

of the aquarium and the reptile and insect houses there are some 1,030 mammals and 1,850 birds in the Re- gent's Park Zoo. It costs £15,000 year to feed them all,

Among

Jast

things, the animals

180 tone med 81 tons of hay..

of

124 tons of horse-

flesh, B tons of monkey nuts, 13 tons of bread, 414ewt of

honey and

244,849 bananas.

Nor did the Zoo enterer's troubles

and

In

by any means,

For to the normal Heme

as

had to provide such things. vitamin foods, canary Foods, egg-yolk, ollcake, scaffear for the Ash and tons of fish for the sen- filluna, to say nothing of the hundred- and one queer foods that: agure on PLEASE Turn To Para 7.

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