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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 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 cen- tury ago,

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"Victory," said the new Pre- mier, "is coming to the Allies with the grim tread of destiny.'

Victory, we believe, is as suro- ly coming to Chiria.

Indeed, the situation on the

second anniversary of the Sino-

Japanese war

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German military experts remember that Berlin is only 125 miles from folish border, that

· Warsaw is 225 miles from German porder, that Anglo-French planies could bomb German towns, refuel in Poland, return across Ģermany to France)

in Warsave 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 leven the Gdynia railway The Germans claim Germany strike? Will Poland strike

that, although service operates through Danzig). Also,

back?

What İs the Polish Corridor?

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 seaport,

•have contributed to this tension.

hardt, the High Commissioner-it remains But, counters Coebbels, in that case Ger- It a 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 Cerman.

Paland. Although Gdynia, the new port antly Polish in population.

Although Danzig is always called "Free 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 407,000 128.4.19391 asks for route through Cor- 000 tons annually to Danzig's 7,000,000), people live in it.

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beginning of the third year the Great War.

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Allied territory,

But the big push had ended: stalemate was becoming evident on all fronts.

to mountain fast- did the people, for the springs were nesses in Szechuan,

not rapable of providing the entire. The Chinese arsenala.at Hanyang. Chengtu and Yintong were removed

true

countryside with water.

which

and her

One night Sze decided to move his to Yunnan.

Even the rallway lines were torn capital to the springs, so that there would be sufficient water for the city Up as the Chinese retreated-to be people and that they could be better fed into the new steci furnaces in first defended against the country pea- order to provide China with shells

sants, who murmured greatly at the and ammunition.

Italian and French experts sided fact that the Emperor's soldiers

In the removal forbude them the precious water.

airplane faclortes The entire population of the city from the coast to the interior. men, women and children, were

For the frat me in its history.. conscripted at 4 o'clock one afternoon. Szechuan became an industrial pro-

Then, according to legend, the city vince.

of you read of a conflict be

tween nearly five hundred NO ONE will ever give a picture of the suffering million people-a quarter of misery through the entire population of the people passed in those world.

twelve months.

A million men died on the It is necessary also to re- field of battle. But, in the B-8893

member that the Chinese greatest trek the world has have two characteristics known, only three-fifths of fifty B-8894

million men, women and children

Throughout its length and breadth B-8895

The war was resolving itself they are the most prone who evacuated their homes in of Tsinan was removed, brick by

factories are scattered, so that China 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

It is said that the people formed can still keep the life-blood of indus

try flowing through its severed. All Star Band B-8896 finances and economics were to

terrible.

ese hordes to the vast wilderness to the new-from the bunk of the

arteries

In this province alone, sixty mil- play a more important part than

That is why, even under of Szechuan, Sinkiang and Yun- dried-up Yellow River to the springs on people have been conscripted "Fats" Waller BD-5476

nan survived the journey. thirty-five miles away. armaments,

Into the industries that have been. normal conditions, over six-

Legend continues that, the work brought from the Over thirty-five million people 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-

was completed before dawn next Those who were

occupied areas. not mobilised to 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 which proved suicidal when, been saved from extinction Sixteen million died from the new city was surrounded by the only six or seven people. year later, the United States through the centuries only were victims of the war machine.

natural causes, but the rest walls of the old.

From each workshop a definite So great were the losses and break- output is expected, and from dawn.

en roule, however, that the to dusk the inmates patiently toll in Japan to-day is in exactly the by the fact that the death They were the victims of mass unsïerence 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 demande.. quered huge tracts of Chinese exceeded by the birth rate to occupied cities.. More so, how-

To-day, Tsinan is still surrounded 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 beart of the elty, have never FROM his guerilla forces, Chiang with stalemate on all fronts. You have, in this fact, one-of across the western plains to the west, is the trail of brakon bricks, of this sort must be permitted in the failed. And, leading away to the Kai-shek demands that nothing. Her pushes in Shansi, Hunan, the reasons why China survived mountain wilderness.

monument to the strongest exodus Japonese-occupied areas, Hupeh and Hopei provinces have the first disastrous year of war-

The old and the infrm, and the in history.

As soon as the Japanese attempt young and helpless were abandoned

to re-bulld a factory it la raided and" not only ended but have met

in the hundreds of thousands by the

destroyed by the guerillas, with reverses, so that to-day the

wayside. It was the survival of the conquered territory under her

journey the grim spectro of famine test, for even at the end of the domain is less than it was a year

arose to claim more victims.

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HINA has taken that lent from continue the war against Japan.

her pages of history in order to

Instead of a city, she has moved the peoples and the industries of an area as large us France, Germany

relations between Germany and TO EXPLAIN the rejuvenation of and Poland combined..

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ruin and desolation for their con 'querors.

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Everywhere the earth is scorched

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by Are, and by powder. There are no tlilers of the crops to aid the Japanese, ne craftsmen to man their ago.

machinery, hine

The The

becomu

zine and palimony, Iron, silver mines they have seized are war of attrition, in which, by

China during the second year of blockade and by economic mea In the entire world her only, war, which

The scorched earth that forced Sze mysteriously fooded, or as ended yesterday, i is to move his capital is now applied steriously blown up. For every sures, both sides are desperately potential allies are Germany, necessary to turn back sixteen hun- to everything that cannot be re- workman forcibly conscripted attempting to atrain 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

Cathay's history. own harda to bother just now

11 was just a little incident, for Impregnoble west, leave nothing but areas, a soldier is needed sa guard.. about the anti-Comintern pact; some strange renson recorded as As with Great Britain in the and Italy, whose respect for part of the nation's history.

elties which have lived" for O GAIN some idea of the stagger- IL concerned Great War, the advantage is treaty obligations is somewhat

Sze Mn-yen, the centuries have become ashes as the ing immensity of Japan's task, with China. She is an enorm-I notorious.

founder, in the third century. A.D. torch has been applied to them by statistics, dry as they inay prove, are! of the Tsin dynasty. Events in the Far East since

their owners. ous country with almost illimi-

When Sze became Emperor lie re-

But before China applies the torch For instance, the Japancae, in two table reserves, of resources. July 7, 1936, have indéed borne moved his capital from Nanking to

years of warfore, have occupied ·

Chinese Her finances, precarious as they out the axiom that the conquest the little but ancient Yellow River she removes everything removable.

Factories and their machinery have 483,204 square miles of are, are healthier than those of of territory does not win a war. city of Telnas.

itere, five years later, there come been taken pleee-meal a thousand territory, which normally would have bankrupt Japan, whose paper quered the spirit of a people.

·Something else must be con-a great drought and a million people miles across country to their new n population of 189,898,000 people.

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

By river junk, by tralu, by oxen- the area occupied would be equal to To-day, no one will gainsay when the Yellow River finally dried In the work except in her own but that the spirit of China

on the shoulders of that of. Germany; Austria; . Czechow. [up

subterranean and in cart, on n posscasions.

moved. more firm, more consolidated exhaustible spring thirty-five miles coolies, everything of value is re- Slovakia, Italy, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Yugo-Sinvia; Belgium, Japan, like Germany in 1916, than at any time in Ita centuries

A pitiless aun scorched 'the earth Great cotton-mills that spun and Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, har antagonised

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