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Independence Day

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Symphony No. 86 in D Major (Haydn)..London Symphony Orch. The Hundred Kisses (D'elanger) Ballet Suite

ONE hundred and sixty-three

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Poland would

FIGHT

for freedom

THE Poles are ready to fight if their liberty is menaced,

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or their territory is invaded by the Germans. They will defend the freedom and independence which they have now recovered for twenty-one years, after enduring nearly one hundred and fifty years of oppression, Habsburgs and the Hohen- divided up between the three Empires of the Romanovs, the

zollerns.

Too much blood was shed to regain Polish independ- ence in a long tale of risings and revolutions throughout a century and a half of slavery for the Polish people to give up their precious freedom without fighting to the lust in its defence.

This is an axiom of Eastern European politics. And that determinatlon, moreover, is not confined to nationalists milltarists.

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Polish Labour organised in the "P.PS "the Polish Social- ist Party-was rat in the present crisis to tell the world that they would strike back should their Republic be menaced,

The Polish working people have a long revolutionary tradition. It was the PPA, which in the darkent days of Tsarist rule, when growing

bourgcols prosperity in Russlan

Foland was gradually killing the spirit of Insurrection, added "National independence" to their banner.

The older generation of Polish the Cassacks on the barricades in Labour fought regular battles with

1905-1900.,

The working classes in town and country flocked to join the Plisudski Legion in the Great War. Their sons burn to carry on these traditions.

The Polish worker and the peasant in the same degree--feel responsible for the independence of their country for which so much of their blood was shed,

When the Peasant and Socialist parties, in opposition for the last twelve years, asked for participa- in the Government and for a demo- cratic electoral law they declared, in support at their claim: Poland's national defence cannot be effective and strong without an active co-operation of the majority of the people."

This claim was put forward again in the recent crisis, It can- not be neglected by the regime of the successor of

of Piłsudski.

In 1020 when the Soviet armies thundered up to the gates of War- saw, Peasant leader Witos and Socialist Daszynakl natier national cabinet-and won the war.

formed

The present crisis of 1939 18 in many respects as dangerous and

by JERZY SZAPIRO

German corridor should be cut through the Polish Corridor."

The Polish people supported their cluptatic negative to this Bug- gestion by partial mobilisation.

No chances were taken. The Polish Government realised that one never knows where "converan- tions" with Hitler end.

This mobilisation Was a perfect success. Poland 1.5 militarily one of the strongest countries in Europe. So far as the traling of her troops and of the reserve goen, she still claims, a slight superiority over Germany. where conscription was introduced only ave years ago by the present regime.

The Polish standing army is about 400,000 strong, including the corps of Frontier Guards and various other semi-military bodies. To-day, after the partial mobili- sation, Poland has over half a inillion men standing to arms. Should war break out, she can mobilise up to 5,000,000 men, and place round about 150 divisions in the field.

The Polish Air Force consists of 1,500 first line planes and the re- serves. The capitals of all Central European countries are within two hours' fight from Polish nero- dromes in a fast modern bomber. My countrymen are daring and pugnacjous aviators.

Poland has her own neroplane manufacturing industry, which will now bo extended and de- veloped from the proceeds of the "new" Air Force Loan."Olinelda In the south-east form an adequate source of petrol, and we possess our own oll refining industry.

The question is often asked whether Poland would go to war to hold the "Corridor " and prevent the Nazis seizing

Danzig.

I believe she would, because the Vistula, greatest of Polish rivers, flows into the sea through an estuary which Ls on Danzig

To win independence from the tyranny of King George III cost the lives of some 7,000 American colonists.

territory. Almost 160 years later, the United States expend. ed treasure incalculable and the lives of 30,000 of its young men, in aiding England's defence against a continental aggressor.

Many ties, besides that of the common sacrifice of the flower of their manhood in the struggle against the mailed fist a quarter of a century ago, are serving to-

President Moselcki and Marshal Smigly-Rydz, who inherited Pilsud- akl's power and authority. are expected to form a Cabinet of national concentration in face of the crisis.

Immediately after the Nazis seized Memel and Hitler had made his triumphal entry Into the city Herr von Ribbentrop suggested to M. Lipski, Polish Ambassador in Berlin, that the two countries ought to start

negotiations on Danzig."

It was then proposed that a

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speaking nations close to oneworld were ablaze. This is in- another, and the reception controvertible.. AAAAAAAAAA | afforded Their Majesties the

The last three or four years King and Queen on their recent have been marked as a period of tour of Canada and the United

unprecedented cordiality between States was a gratifying indica-

the two nations-a cordiality tion of that accord and well-

which will be emphasised in being now in existence between

Hongkong to-day when' Ameri- the two great Democracies,

cans and their British guests To-day, on the 163rd anniver-gather at the American Club to sary of the Declaration of

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peoples that complete under-diality is a bulwark against the standing, harmony and unity of forces of disorder which, to-day, action by the English-speaking constitute a far greater menace nations is the only thing that to liberty than any of the ean bring order out of the chaos tyrannies charged against "the Into which the world might Present King of Great Bri- 'plunge, and would assure peace tain" on July 4, 1776.

The Vistula is Poland's life line; And the province of Pomorze-tho corridor leading to the Baltic-is as Polish in population and tradi- tion as Cracow or Warsaw,

Modern Poland, with her 160,000 square miles of territory, thickly populated by 35,000,000 people. must be inseparable from her 88 milles of sea coast. Her place on the shores of the Baltic Is Poland's most cherished possession,

Poland has two ports, Gdynia and Danzig-Both are on the Baltle shore of the Corridor, and between them they carry three-

Marshal Smigly-Rydz,

Polish Army C.-in-C quarters of her entire foreign trado.

Before the War Danzig was one of several German ports on the Baltic.

Its yearly turnover amounted to 2,000,000 tons. Now the annual volume of trade equals 6,000,000 tons thanks to Danzig's connec- tion

with Polish industry. Gdynia, 4

ashing village fifteen

years ago, 14 How a thriving modern city of, 100,000. It has grown to be, perhaps, the largest Baltic port. Last year 8,000,000 tons of goods were shipped across its qunys.

Everything depends on this strip of Baltic seaboard. Once this free access to the sen was denied Poland, she would sink to the con- dition of an economic and politi- cal dependency of the Third Reich.

There is politically hardly a more dangerous spot in the world than the big plain on the crossroads which Europe's Western Slavante tribes, now the Polish nation, chose for settlement long centuries ago.

The German octopus and the Russian giant are Poland's neigh- boura

on frontiers of over 2,500. miles.

Poland is a barrier between the two great empires. now under Nazism and Communism, more bitter enemies than ever.

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In order to resist their pressure Foland's diplomacy must be ex- tremely elastic. Her main task is maneuvring between the without committing herself to the support of either or to any policy of encirclement.

For friendship and for aid Poland must look elsewhere, tar beyond her frontiers. France in her old ally, and now the Poles seck Great Britain's support against aggression.

The news of the promised British assistance. of course, de- lighted Warsaw. But oven with- out that indication of strong sup- port the Poles would fight if their territorial integrity or national honour were menaced.

We will not yield our freedom while we remain alive to fight. We will not contemplate onde again the slavery of allen rule which we endured for so many long and cruel year.

We are united and free. Do wo shall romain.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Lickey

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"I wish you'd find your glasses. Rufus-that's twice to-day you've mistaken me for the maid!""

Tientsin

Now:

What

Next?

By

D. BARKER

THE Japanese blockade the British and French Concessions at Tient- sin, nominally to force the British to hand over four Chinese alleged to have murdered a certain Cheng Shi- kang, but it may be, to begin to thrust the British themselves from China altogether.

If that be so, Tientsin tactics will not do for long. For if the British nre to go at all, they must go from. Shanghat, greatest city of China, among the Arst half-dozen ports of the world. Shanghai is a sea-gate for about £300,000,000 of trado a year, half that of all China. Call It Paris of the East If you are feeling romantic, but Liverpool of the East

a nearer the facta.

It is one thing to blockade the British conveniently grouped in a [Concession in Tientsin, quito another to oppose them in Shanghal where they co-operate, in an International Settlement, not only with Americans and Chinese, but with the Japanese- themselves. For in a Concession the Chinese Government leases the land to the British Government, to be re- leased in lots to its nationals; in a Settlement an area is set aside for the residence of foreigners, each of whom leases his land directly from the Chinese owners. In addition, the Settlement is granted self-govern- ment within its boundaries.

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Nearly a century ago after oplum wara--the centenary of the incident that led to them occurred last month-Britain gained trading rights in several Chinese ports, in- cluding Shanghai, then only a mouro- ful stretch of mud. They obtained permission to buy land at Soochow Creelt to establish trading houses, and soon the French and Americans held simlar arcos,

An ilic prosperity and population of the settlements grew the British and Americans combined to form the International Settlement. The Freach, except for a brief me, held aloof. Other notions joined in later. Gradually most of the trade uf North China began to pour through Shunghat. The muddy river front became the

Bundalang Inmoun which great trading houses bullt their offices, with windows overlook- ing the bustling river traffle of, junk and steamer, sampon and ferryboat, Buses, tramears, cars and bicycles crowded the rickshaws through the streets. In me semi - skyscrapers like Sassoon House or the British- owned Broadway-Mansions gave the.. place a sky-line. A thousand tongues babbled in the streets, exlied White Russions filled the cabarets, factorica and warehouses towered over streets where the population density grew to 200 to the sere feompare London's East End, 150 to the aero).

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Not one, but threo Shanghals grow up-the International Saltlement, the French Concession and the Chinese clty.

The International Settlement, with broad Nanking Road lending to the residential quarters, now covers 3583 acres, has a six-mile water-front, and a population of more than 1,000,000, of whom about 95 per cent, oro Chinese. Of the foreigners the Jap- anese lead in numbers, with about three times as many as the British, who come second. Of the £250,000,- 000 we have invested in China, about

£180,000,000 is in Shanghai.

Further mouth, with ridor the water, lies the French Concession, four square miles into which are crowded 500,000 Chinese and 23,000 foreigners, of whom the smallest group, at the last census. was the Albanian, whose national solitude has now been rectified by European polities.

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South again Is the walled nucleus of the Chinese city from which have ΑΓΟΥΠ the industrial suburbs of Chapel, Nantau and Pootung: across the river, and in parts of which the population density is 500 to the nere. Factories and slums jostle each other where more than 1,500,000 Chinese live, most of them in squalor,

Nono of this development, good or bad, would have been possible with- out the International Settlement and the right, it holds through an agree- ment with the Chinese, called the Land Regulations. This agreement gives the Settlement its self-govern- ment, often critletsed, often the cause of riots, yet on the whole workable. As successive waves of Chinese rêm fugees have proved for nearly century, it has mada Shanghai the anfest place in China, even though the Settlement police are equipped with manchine-guns, wear bullet-proof vests, and have the reputation of being the toughest in the world.

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The Settlement in governed by the Shanghai Municipal Council, origin= ally composed of nine foreign mem- bers, to which Ave Chinese membera The have recently, been added. Council is elected annually, the Chin- ese by their fellow-countrymen, the foreigners by foreign residents own- PLEASE Turn To Pago 3.

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