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Two Years

THE WAR that was to have lasted three months to-day enters its third year.

We might, on this second an- niversary of the outbreak of hostilities at Lukouchiao, para- phrase the famous statement by Lloyd George on the second an- niversary of Britain's declara- tion of war a quarter of a cen- tury ago.

"Victory," said the new Pre- mier, "is coming to the Allies with the grim tread of destiny." Victory, we believe, is as sure- ly coming to China.

Indeed, the situation on the

second anniversary of the Sino-

Japanese war

DANZIG NEWS

1914

RUSSIA

FRANCE

AUSTRIA HUNGARY

RUMANIA

Gdynia: Polish Corridor port.transformed from fishing village since 1926

at vast expense.(put at £20,000,000), now has greater trade than Danzig.

SWEDEN

Danzig: Free City under protection of League of Nations. Since 1930 Palion trade through Danzig has steadily shrunk in: Favour of Polish Gdynia.

SEA

REE

Memel, formerly Germ became after 1923 Lithua part. Now, reoccupial Germans, dominates ecné Gif of Lithuania, an other lesson for Polish diplomāts.

MEMEL

Tilsit

LITHO Kovno

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GERMANY

BERLIN

FRANCE

POLAND

HUNGARY

ITALY

RUMANIA

What will happen to Danzig? question dominates Europe to-day. Germany strike? Will Poland back? Or will it be another Munich? This map shows some of the factors which have contributed to this tension.

ANZIG

●Königsberg

YEAST PRUSSIAN

"Manenburg

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POLAND

Posen

German military experts remember that Berlin is only 125 miles from Polish border, that Warsaw is 225 miles from German porder, that 'Anglo-French planes could bomb German towns, refuel in Poland, return across Germany to frenc

WARSAW

Wilso

In Warsaw. Foreign Minister Beck plays waiting game, accepts. Anglo- french backing, is prepared to accept help of ancient enemy Russia. Also keeps 1,000,000 men mobilised.

That ridor as well as railway line exclusively Poland is still largely dependent upon the Will German. Poles reject this claim.

port of Danzig (even the Gdynia railway strike The Germans claim that, although service operates through Danzig). Also, the protection of the League of Nations, the mouth of the Vistula, a Polish river, Danzig is a free city-since 1919 under says Foreign Minister Beck, Danzig is at whose representative is Professor Burck- and is, therefore, Poland's natural scaport. hardt, the High Commissioner-it remains But, counters Goebbels, in that case Ger What is the Polish Corridor? · It a Gorman port. Danzig is internally many could claim the mouth of the Rhine;

governed by a Senate under the control of and Rotterdam. is a strip of land between Germany and German Nazis.

Hitler has sald again and again that all East Prussia, established by the Treaty of The Poles claim that only the partition Germans must be brought within the Versailles in 1919. It is the ancient Polish of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Third Reich, and thus wants Danzig, whose province of Pomorze, always predomin- Russia in 1772 took Danzig away from population is largely German.

Poland. Although Gdynia, the new port antly Polish in population. Poles say there built by Poland since 1926, now deals City" it is, in fact, an area (754 square Although Danzig is always called "Free are four Poles to each German. Hitler with more tonnage than Danzig 19,000,- miles) as large as Hertfordshire 407,000 (28.4.1939) asks for route through Cor- 000 tons annually to Danzig's 7,000,000), people live in it.

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Quarter World Is

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of the War

is strangely WHEN YOU read of the fare, which ended a year ago the crops refused to know and the chew, and other cities were taken.

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in the

entile and the buffalo dled. So, too, by plece, to mountain fast- did the people, for the springs were nesses in Szechuan. not capable of providing the entire The Chinese arsenals at Hanyang- -countryside with water-

fact

Chenglu and Yintong were removed

Throughout its length and breadth.

paralleled by the situation ob- war in China, which yesterday. taining in Europe at the enters its third year to-day,

·Jack Harris's Orchestra BD-5477 beginning of the third year of you read of a conflict be

One night Sze decided to move his to Yunnan, the Great War,

tween nearly five hundred NO ONE will ever give a

picture of the suffering capital to the springs, so that there Even the raliway lines were torn million people-a quarter of misery through which

would be aufficient water for the city up her

the Chinese retreated-to be Germany had by then invaded the entire population of the people passed in those first defended against the country pea- order to provide China with shells people and that they could be better fed into the new steel furnaces in .Geraldo's Orchestra BD-5472 and conquered large areas

world.

twelve months,

sants, who murmured greatly at the and ammunition. Allied territory.

A million men died on the forbade them the precious water.

that the Emperor's soldiers Italian and French experts aided B-8893

But the big push had ended:

It is necessary also to re- field of battle. But,

In the removal of airplane facturies member that the Chinese greatest trek the world has men, women and children, were

The entire population of the city from the coast to the interior.

For the first time in its history, stalemate was becoming evident have two characteristics known, only three-fifths of fifty conscripted at 4 o'clock one afternoon, Szechuan became an industrial pro- B-8894

on all fronts.

they are the most prolific who evacuated their homes in of Tsinan was removed, brick by factories are scattered, so that China

million men, women and children Then, according to legend, the city vinec. B-8895

The war was resolving itself

race in the world, and their northern and central China to brick, to its new site. into a war of attrition, in which crude death rate is the most flee before the advancing Japan- an endless chain from the old site All Star Band 8-8896 finances and economics were to terrible.

It is said that the people formed can still keep the life-blood of Indus-· try flowing through its severed. ese hordes to the vast wilderness to the new-from the bank of the arteries. play a more important part than "Fats" Waller BD-5476

That is why, even under of Szechuan, Sinklang and Yun- dried-up Yellow River to the springs lion people have been conscripted In this province alone; sixty mil- armaments.

nan survived the journey. thirty-five miles away. Germany, too, was antagonis-teen million Chinese die died in China in those first morning. The new buildings, their work in the factories were appor-

normal conditions, over six- Over thirty-five million people

Legend continues that the work into the industries that have been. was completed before

down next Those who

brought from the Occupied arcos. ing neutral countries- policy each year. The race has awful twelve months of conflict. mortar not yet dry, were erected, and toned to little workshops employing were not mobilised to which proved suicidal when, a been saved from extinction Sixteen million died from the new city was surrounded by the only six or seven people.

through the centuries only natural causes, but the rest walls of the old.

From each workshop were victims of the wur machine. So great were the losses and break output is expected, and from dawnL F definite Japan to-day is in exactly the by the fact that the death They were the victims of mass ages en route, however, that the to dusk the inmates patently toll in

circumsierence same position. She has con- rate, terrible as it is, is air raids, of massacres

of the walls had order

to in, shrunk from 20 to 12 milles.

provide the quota the! quered huge tracts of Chinese exceeded by the birth rate to occupied cities. More so, how

Government demands, the tune of some 1,500,000 ever, were they victims of the by its ancient walls. The springs, in To-day, Tainan is still surrounded territory. But she has met

+ babies annually. with stalemate on all fronts.

tragedy of that great exodus the heart of the city, have never ROM his guerilin forces, Chlung. across the western plains to the west, in the trail of broken bricks, of this sort must be permitted in the failed. And, leading away to the Kal-shek demands that nothing. Her pushes in Shansi, Hunan,

mountain wilderness. Hupeh and Hopei provinces have

monument to the strangest exodur Japanese-occupied areas The old and the infirin, and the in history. not only ended but have 'met

young and helpless were abandoned in the hundreds of thousands by the

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with revaнes, so that to-day the world. Her relations with the wayside. It was the survival of the HINA has taken that leaf from conquered territory under her United States, France, Russia journey. the grim spectre of famine domain is less than it was a year and Britain, are, in fact, much arose to claim more victims. ago.

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As soon as the Japanese attempt

to re-bulid a factory isralded and destroyed by the guerillaa,

continue the war against Japan.

Everywhere the earth is scorched her pages of history in order to by fire and by powder. There are no tiers of the crops to aid the Instead of a city, she has moved Japanese, no craftsmen to man, their The

has

the peoples and the industries of an minchinery. become

area on large as France, Germany The antimony. iron, zinc and war of attrition, in which, by the United States in 1916. TO EXPLAIN the rejuvenation of and Poland combined.

ailver mines they have selted are China during the second year of blockade and by economic men- In the entire world her only war, which

The scorched earth that forced Sze mysteriously flooded, or as my- ended yesterday, it is

up. For every surcs, both sides are desperately potential allies are Germany, necessary to turn back sixteen hun to move his enpital la now appliert steriously blown attempting to strain the

who has enough troubles on her dred years in the forty centuries of moved. This Chinese, fleeing to the work in

to everything that cannot be re- workman forcibly conscripted to the Japanese controlled sources of the other.

own hands to bother just now Cathay's history.

I was just a litte incident, for impregnable wesi, leave nothing but areas, a soldier is needed as guard.. As with Great Britain in the and Italy, whose respect for part of the nation's history.

about the anti-Comintern pact: some strange renson recorded as ruin and desolation for thele con- Great War, the advantage is treaty obligations is somewhat

Jt concerned

Great cities which have lived for O GAIN some iden, of the stagger- Sze Ma-yen, the

про with Chinn. She is an enorm-notorious.

founder, in the third century A.D., centuries have become ashes as the ing immensity of Japan's task, torch has been applied to them by statisties, dry as they muy prove, are oua country with almost illimi- Events in the Far East since | When Szo became Emperor he re- their ownerA. ·

necessary. table

reserves of resources. July 7, 1987, have indeed borne moved his capital from Nanking to But before China applies the torch For instance, the Japanese, in twa! Her finances, precarious as they out the axiom that the conquest the little but ancient Yellow River she removes everything removable. years of warfare,' have occupled Factories and their machinery have 483,204 square miler of Chinese are, are healthier than those of of territory does not win a war. city of Tainan,

Here, five years later, there came been taken pleco-meal a thousand territory, which normally would have! Something else must be con- bankrupt Japan, whose paper quered the spirit of a people.

a great drought and a mililon people miles across country to their new a population of 389,088,000 people, money is discredited everywhere

were forced to rely for survival, sites,

If the war had been in Bürope,. To-day, no one will gainsay when the Yellow River finally dried By river junk, by train, by oxen- the area occupied would be equal to

possessions.

more firm, more consolidated exhaustible spring thirty-Ave miles coolies, everything of value is re- Slovakia, Italy, the United Kingdom,

moved,

Hungary, Yugo-Slavin, Belgium, Japan, like Germany In 1910, than at any time in its centuries

A pitiless sun scorched the earth Great cotton-mills that spun and Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, has antagonised the whole of history.

so that, for hundreds of miles around, weaved in Shanghai, Nanking, Su- PLEASE Turn: Tà, Page. 5.."

of the T'sin dynasty,

In the world excopt In her own but that the spirit of China ispustible subterranean and In- cart, even on the shoulders of thint of Germany; Austria, Czecho--

away.

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