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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 un- niversary of the outbreak of hostilities at Lukouchino, para-! phrase the famous statement by Lloyd George on the second 'an- niversary of Britain's declara- tion of war a quarter of a con- tury ago.

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

ly coming to China,

Lideed, the situation on the

second anniversary of the Sino-

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What is the Polish Corridor?

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 fruna.

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.

What will happen to Danzig? That ridor as well as railway line exclusively Poland is still largely dependent upon the question dominates Europe to-day. Will German. Poles reject this claim.

port of Danzig (even the Gdynia railway The Germans

Also.. claim that, although service operates through Danzig). Germany strike?

strike Will Poland back? Or will it be another Munich? Danzig is a free city since 1919 under says Foreign Minister Beck, Danzig is at the protection of the League of Nations, the mouth of the Vistula, a Polish river, This map shows some of the factors which whose representative is Professor Burck- and is, therefore, Poland's natural scaport. have contributed to this tension.

hardt, the High Commissioner-it remains But, counters Goebbels, in that case Gor- Ja German 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 said 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 fargely Gorman.

Poland. Although Gdynia, the new port Although Danzig is always called "Free antly Polish in population. Poles say there built by Poland since 1926, now deals City" it is, in fact, an area (754 square are four Poles to each German.

Hitler with more tonnage than Danzig (9,000,- 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

At

of the War

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

paralleled by the situation ob-

the Great War.

war in China, which yesterday.

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cattle and the buffalo died. So, too, piece by piece, to mountain fast- did the people, for the springs were nesses in Szechuan.

countryside with water.

not capable of providing the entire The Chinese arsenals at Hanyang, taining in Europe at the enters its third year to-day,

Chengtu and Yintang were removed. One night Sze decided to move his to Yunnan, beginning of the third year of you read of a conflict be

tween nearly five-hundred-NO ONE will ever give a true

"picture" of the suffering and capital-to-the-springs,-ao-that-there-Even tho railway lines-were-torn-

would be sufficient water for the city up as the Chinese retreated-to be through million people-a quarter of misery

which her

people and that they could be better fed into the new steel furnacea in Germany had by then invaded the entire population of the people passed in those first defended against the country pen- order to provide China with shells There's a ranch in the Rockies-F.T.

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year later, the United States through the centuries only natural causes, but the rest walls of the old.

were victims of the war machine. So great were the losses and break output is expected, and from dawn 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 dusic the inmates patiently toll in circumsierence of the walls had order to provide the quota the same position. She has con-rate, terrible as it is, is air raids, of

in shrunk from 20 to 12 miles,

Government demands. exceeded by the birth rate to occupied cities. More so, how- To-day, Tsinan is still surrounded quered huge tracts of Chinese the tune of some 1,500,000 ever, were they victims of the by its ancient walls. The springs, in territory. But she has met babies annually.

tragedy of that great exodus the heart of the city, have never PROM his guerilla forces, Chlang with stalemate on all fronte.

Kai-shek demands that nothing. failed. And, lending away to the You have, in this fact, one of across the western plains to the west, is the trail of breken bricks, of this sort must be permitted in the Her pushes in Shanel, Hunan,the reasons why China survived mountain wilderness.

monument to the strongest exodus Japanese-occupied nřeas. Hupeh and Hopei provinces have the first dianstrous year of war-

history. not only ended but have met

The old and the infirm, and the young and helpless were abandoned in the hundreas of thousands by the wayside. It was the survival of the

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[with reverвca, so that to-day the world. Her relations with the nuest, for even at the end of the HINA has taken that leaf from conquered territory under her United States, France, Russia Journey the grim spectre of famine continue the war agalist Japan. domain is less than it was a year and Britain, are, in fact, much farose to claim, more victims,

aga.

The

cannot

As soon as the Japanese attempt to re-build a factory it is raided and destroyed by the guerillas.

Everywhere the earth is scorched.

JA,

centuries have become ashca as the Το ing immensity of Japan's task,

her pages of history in order to by fire and by powder. There are. nollers of the crops to ald the Instead of a city, she has moved Japanese, no craftsmen to man their more precarious than were the

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the peoples and the industries of an machinery,

The antimony, fron, zinc and wor has become a relations between Germany and

area as large na France, Germany TO EXPLAIN the rejuvenation of and Poland combined.

silver mines they have seized are: war of attrition, in which, by the United States in 1916.

China during the second year of

The scorched earth that forced Sze mysteriously flooded, or as my In the entire world her only war, which blockade and by economic mea-

ended yesterday, it is to move his capital is now appiled steriously blown

up. For overy sures, both sides are desperately potential allies are Germany, necessary to turn back sixteen hun to everything Usat

be re- workman forcibly conscripted to attempting to strain the re-who has enough troubles on her dred years in the forty centuries of moved. The Chinese, fleeing to the work in the Japanese controlled

own hands to bother just now Cathay's history.

for sources of the other.

It was just a little incident, for impregnable west, leave nothing but areas, a soldier is needed as guard.. about the anti-Comintern pact: some strange reason recorded as querors.

ruin and desolation

their con- As with Great Britain in the and Italy, whose respect for part of the nation's history.

Great cities which have ved for no GAIN some idea of the stagger- Great War, the advantage trenty obligations. Is somewhat It concerned Sze Ma-yên,

founder, in the third century AD torch has been applied to them by statistics, dry as they may prove, are of the T'sin dynasty. ́

necessary. ous country with almost illimi- Events in the Far East since

When Sze became Emperor le re-

But before China applies the torch For instance, the Japanese, in two table reserves, of resources.July 7, 1937, have indeed borne moved his capital from Nanking to

years of warfare, have occupied Her finances, precarious as they out the axiom that the conquest the little but unclent Yellow River she removen everything removable.

Factories and their machinery have 103,204 square miles of are, are healthier than those of of territory does not win a war. city of Tsinan.

flere. Ave years later, there came been taken plece incal 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 million people miles across country to thele now a population of 189,600,000 people.

if the war had been in Europe, were forced to rely for survival, sites. money is discredited everywhere

By river junk, by train, by oxen- the area occupied would be equal to To-day, no one will gainshy when the Yellow River finally, dried

on the shoulders of that of Germany, Austria, Czechow in the world except in her own but that the spirit of Chinn is up on a subterranean and in- cart, even possessions..

Belgium, more firm, more consolidated exhaustible spring thirty-five milles coolies, everything of value is re Slovakia, Italy, the United Kingdom,

Yugo-Slavia, Hungary, Japan, like Germany in 1916, than at any time in its centuries

A pilless aun scorched the earth. Great cotton-mills that spun and Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, i

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. has antagonised the whole fof history.

so that, for hundreds of miles around, weaved in Shanghai, Nanking, Su-

with China. She is an enorm- notorious.

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their owners.

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Chinese

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