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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Tuesday, July 11, 1939.

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could argue

You for years Danzig

by PAUL BRETHERTON

her walls

about

But with the exception of little. Arthur Karl Greiser, genial; and, things like there the city might be lively Prezident of the Danzig Senate, right in tho, heart of Hanover. in one of them. Everyone knows

Village Becomes A Port him, and has known him since the

days when he had a speedboat on.

THE port brings ships froin the beach at Zoppot, not so long ago, everywhere, and with them and earned his money by taking. come Engilsh sailors and Malay guests on breath-taking "sprints" out stokers, who wander into ancient over the windy sea, wine shops and try their hand at We will be remembered in many one of the vast variety of. Aery parts of the world as the man who "cordials" which are made in many want to Geneva, spoke a few ap- small liquor factories in the city. propriate words to the League of There would be many more ships Nations, thumbed his nose at the better still. Now they have been made THE statesmen oftere, profess andt Swedes fought each other around sallgre, if it were not for the existe othery, and walked out again.

'putting history

The other man is Albert Forster, ence of Gdynin, the great port which sors in the shade, these days, The year 1807 found Danzig con- Poland has built on her own plece the "Gau" loader of Danzig, young Battles of centuries ago are rak- quered by Napoleon; from 1014 until of coastline few miles west of and impatient, who is not a Danziger but an "import" from Southern Ger- ed up to prove to the bewildered the Great War she was the capital Danzig. ・・

many. Hewn out of the sand dunes at a world that territories should of German West Prussia, and to-day

she flies the Swastika Flag while a spot where there was minute It is possible, of course, that the rightly belong to this or that League of Nations Commissioner fishing village only a few years ago, League of Nations "Protector," Dr. pation to-day, and then even "protects" her and Poland holds Gdynia handles an enormous trade Burckhardt, who is a Swiss, and who already, and the Danzig merchants has won praises all round for his older and more ferocious tussles economic and diplomatie sway.

Surely there is enough here to resentfully watch the cargoes pass- tact and patience in holding down a are brought forward to dispute keep the history protestors arguing ing through Polish hunde instead of most thanitiess task-Hitler In bls.

for years: but would we bo any their own.

recent Reichstag speech referred to. Grand old Danzig, now enjoying clearer at the end of it all?

Many of them realise, however, him as “a man of extraordinary laet" her turn as centre-point of the latest Here is a pocket-paradise of 1,300 that if and when Danzig becomes us some inkling of what the map crisis, is a perfect subject for dis- square miles, a little land of lush part of the Itelch there will be no will look like by the end of the year.. The Polish Commission here simply putes like these. Ask there massive green meadows and wooded hills, trade going through to Poland at all old walls and valiant towers what All the way from Danzig to Zoppot's from Danzig, and Germany has far says that nothing is going to happen, nation they belong to... and I think allver-sand beaches and neat, lively bigger and more important ports because nothing must happen. they would shake their turrets and casino, the foxgloves grow as thick than Danzig from which to serve the

Pepper And Salt Riches say, "Don't ask us; work it out for as buttercups in England in the needs of the country.

summer Ume,

Meanwhile, the yourself."

merchants and Way back in 1300 the Kings of Tiny Ashing villages and fat farm- everybody else are hoping that some-

BEY dreaming thing much worse than losing their Bohemia, the Margraves of Branden- steads spread round the Eurg, the Kings of Poland, and the city, where Brownshirts tramp about trade will not befall them and their if they know anything. nobles of Pommerellen were fighting, the arrow streets and the marching beautiful city. They know that they in fine style for Danzig. Finally, songs of Hitler-children echo from are due to be brought back into the great Artus Hall, a mammoth cham the famous Order of German Knights the painted fronts of the rococo Fatherland sooner or later, and at be where the merchants sat at their threw the others cut, and, after houses where the wealthy merchants the same time they are sure that the guild-tables and drank wine from splendid accomplishments, were once lived. And further out still, Poles mean what they say when they seme of the costliest and most in- themselves thrown

tricate goblets in Europe. Or In the out by the round more than a half of the answer "Never!"

They fail to see a solution to this counting houses of the men who grew Danzigers, who apparently had "hud territory, Folla: troops and Polish enough" of them.

guns are hidden in the countryside, problem, which resembles that of rich from selling pepper and salt and waiting.

the irresistible force meeting the naphtha and bricks, and had their Merchants From England We have Polish letter-boxes and Immovable object. Something has to little planos decorated by famous

German letter-boxes on the walls: ive way somewhere, they feel.

painters and their dining tables 1494 Poland became Pro- Polish pastmen and German postmen. Itector of Danzig, and cen- And, of course, Polish school children

Two Who Might Know

carved into masterpieces..

But I am sure that the ghosts and tarica later, when the city had and German school children. And

DERHAPS two men in Danzig the old walls and towers would think become the home of merchants fremn they, manage to avoid each other

have some Idea of what is it over and answer, "No; you must England, Holland, and the Battle with painful politeness.

going to happen.

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THERE HAVE been some strange revelations in London recently about conditions in British Colonies. The London "Dally Express" is mainly responsible,

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His documentary revelations were so startling, so shameful, that they shocked England. So much, in fact, that Parliament promptly passed a Bill granting Newfoundland £3,000,- 000 per annum.

Now Richards is in Africa, Investi- gating conditions in Gambin, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, in each of these three Colonies he will, if the recently published book by Leonard Barnes ("Empire or Democracy?") is any authority, see much that will interest "Daily Express" readers.

It wouldn't be a bad idea the "Daily Express" could spare Richards for a trip to Hongkong, as a con- temporary somewhat jocularly sug- gested the other day. There arc this several things of interest in Colony. ITEM:

One in every hun-

EYOND that, perhaps we might ask the old houses

We could ask the ghosts of the

Russia Watches Japan

RUSSIA

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INNER MONG

CHINA

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BY WILLIAM LEWISOHN

Vladivostok But the most important section, commission between the two

seems

to the the Maritime Province of Russin, countries? The Japanese have Japanese

pistol presented at the heart of

a remains still to be dealt with. repeatedly urged this. The boundary question, however, is not quite so simple as it appeara

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their Empire. MEANWHILE, Eastern Siberia on the surface.

is becoming steadily more. In the first place, the Russians This fear has self-supporting and grows in deny, the need for any further obsessed them military strength from day to demarcation of their frontiers, for a long time, day. Vladivostok, for instance, claiming that these have been and they have which in 1931 could have been definitely and conclusively fixed. EGULARLY every evolved the grandiose scheme taken without much difficulty, by treaty in the old days be

year now, about this of pushing out the frontiers of will now, in the opinion of Soviet tween the former Empires of the Japanese Empire westwards military men, prove very hard Russia and China. Furthermore, time, the--Russo--

on the mainland so as to render nut to crack

to agree to a ̈ boundary commiu dred of Hongkong's normal popula- Japanese war scare flares up the home country safe from all For this reason a large group sion between Manchukuo, and tion is a Civil Servant. (The total afresh. Frontier incidents possible air attacks.

among the younger officers of Siberia would be tantamount to number of Government employees, excluding those on Loan Works, in assume alarming dimensions The frontier that they evis- the Japanese Army, are urgent a de jure recognition of the. 10.792. Between them this year they and each time the situation age for this purpose would for an early settlement with State of Manchukuo." will draw $14.430,240 in salaries. But the salaries won't be proportionate, for grows a little tenser. Yet sweep in a wide curve from the Russia by force of arms, rather In the second place, although 437 of the 10,782 civil servants will these border disputes are to the Gulf of Chibli in the west. prepare.

Sea of Okhotsk in the east than allow her further time to the greater length of frontier runs between Manchukuo' and $5,647,301, (an average of $13,000 per merely the symptoms of the No point on this are would then This atmosphere of fear and Siberia, there remains a con- annum each), leaving only $9,762,888 disease, not the disease it be less than 1,200 miles by air suspicion on both sides is what siderable section on the west

self.

from the industrial centres of makes the frontier incidents, so which adjoins Outer Mongolin. this year will represent 35 per cent. Geographically, Japan is in Japan. With the seizure of very serious,

Now as Manchukuo and Outer It will be asked: Why cannot Mongolia both formed part of ITEM: In addition: 398 Civil Ser- an almost impregnable position Manchuria, Jehol and Chahar, vice Pensioners, 390 Police Pen-against attacks by most of the two-thirds of this desired from the frontiera be clearly delimit- the Chinese Empire there is no sioners and 348 Widows and other Great Powers. There re- tier have already been obtained. ed for once and all by a boundary treaty or document of any kind Orphans a total of 1,138 pensions, or mains, however, one weak spot;

whip off the cream: they will draw

to be distributed among the remain- Ing 10,355. Civil Service salaries,

of the Colony's total revenue,

000

one person every thousand of our normal population-wili draw $3,100,- in pensions. Their pensions range from $12 to $22,100 per annum each several pensioners draw over £1,000 year. Pensions absorb an- other 7.5 per cent of our total

revenue.

ITEM: Transport of the select few

in her armour: the Maritime Province of Soviet Russia on the mainland, just across the Sea of Japan.

* * *

Government servants who proceed ONLY 600 miles, by air from their great industrial cities,

Home on leave every four years will absorb another $829,183. this year. For those who remain in the Colony, Government will donate Rent. Allow of private firms. Typical rates of anees totaling $330,000.

pay for a ten-hour day vary from as | low as ten cents a day, or three

dollars a month.

ITEM: We will spend $3,174,000 on Defence this year-another twenty per cent. of our total revenue. But we will be able to find only $2,318 305 (of which the greater part will go to a few highly paid English tanchers) to educate our children. Almost all the African colonies will devole a greater percentage of their revenues to Education. Even the despised Gold Coast will spend the cquivalent of $4,000,000—or seven per cent. of its total revenue on educat- ing its African children this year. We will spend only 04 per cent, of

our total revenue:

ITEM: Malnutrition And other attributes of poverty will be pri marily responsible for the fact that one quarter of the children born in Hongkong this year will celebrate a birthday. Of all the! British Colonies, only in Kenya and Malta ts infant mortality higher than in Hongkong.

never

ITEM: Hongkong will suffer from Perpetual shortage of accommodation for prisoners because so many people prefer prison life to freedoni. They have discovered that ilving conditions ITEM: The overage monthly in- Income of each of the top 437 Civil prison are infinitely better than Servants in Hongkong Is $1,100. But those prevalling outside, to such an the average monthly

extent. In fact, that recidivism has Income of families receiving assistance from the become an acute problem. Society for the Protection of Children ITEM: Tuberculosis will claim will be $1:57, or five cents a day. In one in every ten people who dio in the Eastern Centre the average In-Hongkong in 1039. Most of them come per month will be only 80 will die because they have had no cents, less than three.cênts » a' day. chance to breathe pure alr in their For seven years the earning power overcrowded tenements. In of people dealt with by this Society parts of Hongkong more humanity is has steadily declined until, even in à said to be crammed in cachi' here than Government Report, it is now In any part of the world. The over- described an "alarming."

crowded conditions under which the ITEM: Government will continue' poorest and most under-nourished to pay its coolles" a "commencing members of the community live will salary of $13 à month. They will be continue to provide ideal soil for the lucky, compared with some employees propagation of this disease,

some

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delimiting the frontier between the two.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

*

"That's the last time you talk me into oating spinach-- all it did was make ma over-confident!”

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ON the other hand, the Rug

sians, following the example. of Japan vis-a-vis Manchukuo, insist that Outer Mongolia is an entirely free and independent. Socialist Republic, bound to the U.S.S.R. therely by bonda of friendship, and that therefore the delimitation of that portion of the frontier la no concern of Russia.

* * * THE question that everybody has been asking: Will Russia assist the Mongols to resist 7 was answered by Stalin, the Soviet leader, when he declared in a momentous interview;; *If Japan vontures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic and seeks to destroy its indepen- denco, we shall have to help that: ¡Republic,"

The seizure of Outer Mongo lia by Japan would dangerously weaken Russia's defence of her possessions in the Farthest Eastle As a glance at the map will show, Outer Mongolia lles along the flank of the Siberian Railway and would, in Japanese hands,. constituto a serious threat to communications between Russia. and Eastern Siberia, ka

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