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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1930.

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Warning To Japan

"We shall protect our independence and we hope to retain our neutrality, realising, however, that our riches, ucquired 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 sea 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 sea power of the Russian Fleet.

Russian naval base in the Bal-

I do know, however, that the

tie, 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 official, is allowed to

NORWAY

SWEDEN

KIEL CANAL

Berlin GERMANY

FINLAND.

Helsingfors

Leningrad

Riga

VIA

LITHUANIA

EAST PRUSSIA

POLAND

Warsaw

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

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,

Baltic

SOVIET RUSSIA

Moscow

Miles

.200

400

Unless the German pressure on the Baltic countries forming a buffer between Germany and Look at the map and see how and Russia is increased so much the big guns Germany is at this that breaking-point is reached. moment mounting in Memel are

Germany wants these coun- going to be useful in controlling tries to sell all their produce to a big section of the Baltic. Then her and take German manufac- there is the submurine base as tured goods in exchange, not

cash. The Japanese blockade of the

entente, which consists of Has Germany any other poten-

If these countries surrender, British Concession in Tientsin

Russia fought hard to retain

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. tial interests in Lithuania which unemployment in Great Britain. officially came into operation this Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania,

Nazis in Denmark may influence a final decision?

will increase. These countries. morning, and no one can con- but these new States, helped

are mainly agricultural, export- THERE is a sharp divi- She most undoubtedly hus, but template the eventual outcome with British and French war of this action with anything but material, defeated the Bolshe- Baltic countries and the group not political. Long before the that if exports from the Baltic sion between the four these interests are economic and ing to Great Britain; I know many of my friends will aver alarm. The future of all foreign viks, as we called the Russian of three, and I can find no evid- coming of Hitler the Germans are cut off, British farmers will

Army in those days. Concessions in China may well be

ence whatsoever that all seven were hard at work in the new benefit, but in the melting pot. Japan has pendence of these new

Now the threat to the inde- will group themselves together. Baltic States selling German trade will suffer first.

British exports not attempted to hide her inten-States is believed to have shift- interest is defence of independ- schools.

Although all declare their one banks, and opening German square miles and a population of goods, establishing German Latvia, with an area of 24,435 tions, which include the virtualed from east to west, and Rus- ence and neutrality, the group of

1,000,000, has elimination of the Western sla's Baltic interests compel her,, three looks to Poland for protec- British trade in the new Baltic German penetration, and latter

a tale to tell During the past four years which is similar to Lithuania's; Powers as powerful political and so as to avoid having a common tion, and the group of four-to countries commercial factors in China. frontier with Germany, to help Great Britain, although none Estonia, for instance, imports

has improved; in ly German pressure. The blockade of Tientsin with, Baltic

retain the independence of these will affirm this officially.

Estonia, the next-door neigh- presumably, the final object of them as buffer-States.

countries and to keep

from Great Britain have doubled bcur to Russia, has an area of Oficial spokesmen in Copen- themselves during the period I 26,000 square miles and a popu- acquiring control of the foreign

hagen "play down" the activities have mentioned. British pres- lation of 1,126,000. settlements, may be the signal

In a Vice

of the Danish Nazi Party, which tige in the Baltic is ace high polled 30,000 in

All these three countries, the for the attempted realisation of

recent to-day, as it has been in the buffer States, fear they may be 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 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,

PLEASE Turn To Page 5. than immediate, and any success of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia on a universal suffrage ballot. which the Japanese may gain in began the German encirclement It is agreed here that German this project is likely to

of Poland; the annexation of propaganda is active in Den- more to them psychologically Memelland, a part of Lithuania, mark, and that wherever there than materially. Japan places continued it; if Germany an is a German minority there is greater importance on accuring nexes the remainder of danger; but still, officially at control of the Shanghai Interna-Lithuania, Poland will be held in least, there is no present fear. tional Settlement than in bring a powerful German vice.

I put this question to a Danish ing the British Concession in The Danzig question is a mat- diplomat; "If Hitler demanded 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 gain confidence in attempting is that, having watched

the then ?" the former.

Lord Elibank's gradual infiltration of German

"He would not go," warning in the House of Lords interests back into this former the reply.

mean

the

The Money In The Zoo

By David Murphy

THE builders are in at the London phant House was due for replace- Zoo. The famous old Elephant ment in any case but even the large WAA House is coming down and out of its finances of the Zoological Society ruins w arise a new bullding that would not stand the strain of an

Maharajah of Bhavnagar, Actually, the 100-year-old Ele-, elephants who will later revel in

sand baths and

warm

and the

Sprays will. The last report of the Society shows that 1,816,012 visited the Regent's Park Zoo Inst.

have to thank him for his

on Monday that the Japanese German Baltic Port, I am at a Lithuania was in the news is to cost £25,000. And if you think additional £25,000 in expenditure 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. hai for July 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, come from the a building for housing animals, you That help, the shape of a dona- prompted more by a sense of the that Germany, either by direct the country and became the money in a big Zoo. dramatic than by a knowledge of negotiation with Poland or by a possessor of Memel, probably facts, but his statement acquires coup de force, will fail to reunite to particular significance when it is Eastern Prussia with Germany

considered together with the proper, via the Danzig bridge. take excellent pic-persistent Japanese hints, both tures to

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

plan. On the other hand, Japan this length constline includes the Objections may be raised that cannot expect the affected

islands which abound round the foreign Powers to remain in-coast; it does, but the islands different for an indefinite time. have to be defended, as hus the Britain's attitude throughout the mainland, if defended it can be. China war na been exemplary. But can it? She has endeavoured to meet Japan more than half-way over

been to press more

and more

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

Public

way and Sweden, and latterly and parliamentary opinion in England naturally, is hardening to a dangerous degree, turistic threats to foreign settle- Japan, no matter how legitimate ments cannot produce the desir che considers her East Asia ed results. Japan is merely aspirations, should endeavour to bullding up passionate world. deal with the many problems 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 lilstory.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

I'll be polite and speak to her but I absolutely refusa -

to notice what sho's wearing.”

year, and between them they paid £67,313 in entrance fees. But large though this Agure may seem, it is well below that for the record year, 1028. When there were 2,225,662

the

Entrance fees, however, do not. constitute the Zoological Society's whole income. The 1938 report gave total Income for the London Zoo an £112,057, while the year's expen- diture was £112,488, leaving a bal- ance on the right side of £460. The figures for

Whipsnade are kept separately.

Where, you may ask, does all this money go? The answer is not dim- cult when you consider. some of the Items on the expenso side, quite apart from the large sum of money required to pay the salaries and wages of omcials and jeepers.

One of the largest individual items. is fool. In addition to the occu of the aquarium and the occupants reptile and insect houses there are some 1,030 mammals and 1,850 birds in the Re-. gent's Park Zoo. It coats £10,000 a year to feed them all.

Among other things, the ani

animals Jaat year consumed 91 tons of hay, 150 tons of clover, 124 tons of horse- flesh, tons of monkey nuts, 12 tons: of bread, 4cvt. of honey and 244,649 bananas,

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

In addition to provide such things to the normal items

of diet, lie

sahrimps, vitamin foods, canary seeds, egg yolk, olichke, seaflets, for the fish and tons of fish for the ica llons, to say nothing of the hundred end-one queer foods, that figure, onl

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.