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August 3, 1939

The War

FOR two agonising years the

Chinese have suffered wounds and death, hunger and disease, because of the insatiable ambitions. of Japan's militarists. For two years China has fought back with unwavering heroism agninat over- whelming odds.

Her beaten armies have reform- ed again and again, and her. Government is still sovereign over vnst unconquered territory. The Japanese, on their own show- ing, have won at an enormous cost. in blood and treasure less than a tenth of the total area of Chinn. The Chinese, in their gallant struggle, are fighting not merely

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MEDITERRANEAN SEA

With the invasion of Albania and control of Strait of Otranto.Italy seals the Adriatic and protects her eastern seaboard from attack

U. S. S. R.

Istan

URKEY

Athens is fearful of 70000 Italian troops in Albania and military concentrations along Greek-Albanian border, keeps own army mobilised.

Yesterday came reports of border these manoeuvres, British Government in- clashes between Rumanians and Hun- creased by £50,000,000 the credits avall- garians. Rumania thus becomes centre of able for Rumania, Greece, Turkey, Poland, interest again. because of its strategic etcetera. position in the Balkans.

Bulgaria wants Southern Dobruja from in Rumania: Rumania. Germany wants control of Rumanian raw materials.

Rumania, already vitally dependent upon the economic pact signed with Ger- many last March, waits on drawn-out Anglo-Russian talks. sees in Italian In- vasion of Albania the Axis method at work, watches carefully Axis political and economic penetration in Yugo-Slavia, shares with Greece and Turkey fears of Axis Balkan manoeuvres. To counteract

Already Germany has following rights

(a) To build factories, workshops, ware- houses, etc., to instal docks and dockyard equipment in Rumanian ports and also free zones in ports. (b) To construct roads and railroads. (c) To build electric power-and-light

stations.

(d) To conduct lumber and mining ex-

ploration and development, fo) To give Rumanians instruction in agriculture (the supply of tractors

Danzig, the Watching

MY

Bessarabia ceded to Rumania in 1920 by Allies, but since cause of friction between Russia and Rumania. But, with German influence (in Czecho Slovakia) within.90 mɗes of Soviet border tension eases

Dobruja: ceded to Rumania from Bulgaria in 1920. Now under discussion` between Bulgaria and Germany in Berlin

Bucharest capital of Rumania governed by

royal dictatorship Rumania is most vulnerable of all European nations to Nazi penetration, and with its vast wheatfields (marked ////on map) and its scarcely developed oil supplies (wells marked ✪) must remain as most obvious field for Nazi economic drive Rumania's military and air forces are relatively weak and ill- equipped. Rumania has commercial agree. ments with Germany and Britain (has received £3.000.000 credits from Britain this year), but is mainly dependent upon Germany for continuance of her economic life. By agreement of last March German technicians are now directing and developing Rumanian industrial potentialitie;

Bulgaria: now in consultation With Berlin concerning Bulgarian claim to Dobruja province from Rumania,did direct access to Mediterranean Sea from Greece

and instructors), Industry and hygiene.

(f) To provide unified modern equip-

ment and munitions for the Rumanian Army, whoso armament is at present varied and in some cases obsoleta.

Any tightening of this German control means that Rumania becomes virtually a German protectorate, provides German military strategists with bases for possible action against U.S.S.R.

U.S.S.R.. for long antagonistic towards Rumania over Bessarabian problems, is now friendly, watches this "buffer" State of Rumania as carefully as she watches the other "buffer" State of Poland.

City of Eyes

Sometimes Y Polish friend Stefan

the table with his Ast and shouts you, "The Herr High Comunissioner silversmiths, her metal workers and Kowlowski asked me to to his friends: "Ninety-seven per is Rshing," or "on a shooting party," wood carvers, bend over their work. meet him for lunch.

'cent. of us are Germans, so why or "on holiday."

Further on, among the high-timbered can't we go back to the Reich?” That is how he has earned a re- ways, dozens of Hitle distilleries warehouses lining the broad water-

Herr Greiser thumps structed red brick building, they tell Danzig's croftsmen, her gold and

"The railway station at one o'clock" he said, in the mysteri-

PROFESSOR Kari putation among the Nazla for having brew Danzig's famous liqueura.

BURCKHARDT, League more taci than his Irish predecessor, Sean Lester. For Mr. Lester

Mr.

their own battle but the battle of ous voice that Poles use in the High Commissioner, dubbed by Hit tried to run the Free City on Leagle keepers shout "Good health" as they

civilisation against brutal aggres- sion. Japan's attack on China has been repeatedly condemned by the conscience of the world.

In October, 1937, at a great

Free City over the 'phone.

At midday it was a struggle to find a seat, though the chairs are as hard-and-the-walls-as-- bleak as in any other station restaurant in Europe.

It was then I learned that hundreds of Danzig's Poles have turned that restaurant into their club. In the Nazi city Poland owns the railways--and there they feel at home,

-by VAUGHAN JONES

Daily Express Staff Reporter

Near by, stout old German İnt-

lines, and that disgusted Herr Grel- put down glasses of schnapps on the ser and Herr Albert Forster, the local heavy wooden tables before the sal Nazi boss.

Jors who crowd in during the even- Ings.

the

-But-it-is-not only the Poles-and-

Outside, squads of brown-shirted Nazis who watch each other. From

full of the police headquarters the Gestapo brisling-moustached, red-faced old

stormtroopers their ranks keep an eye on everybody visiting Danzigers--march night after night

narrow, three-storeyed grey

through

streets, patriolically house where the Jewish headquarters roaring their "Hell Hitler" and snap- orc established, 2 hundred yards

ping up right arms more briskdy than across the Heumarkt-squaro, ·

In Berlin,

the

On the sidewalka young men of

BUT the real city lles away

from the Senate, the Com- the labour corps strali, just back ou

Albert Hall meeting in London, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke for the whole of Britain when he denounced Japan. A. Near

ler, "A man of extraordinary tact," missariats, the railways and our table, alone in

& has just returned to his post near by Jews, towards the month later the Far Eastern Con-corner, eyeing them over B from a round of visits to Geneva, There, ference at Brussels voiced its Polish newspaper sat a bullet Warsaw and Berlin.

headed, stubbly-haired young considered condemnation of the man with cold blue eyes in a Japanese action.

heavily set square face.

Said Stefan Kowlowski, as he aprond creamy Polish butter on his bread: "That Gestapo man has become quite an old friend. All we're doing is to watch each other now.".

In the early stages of the war the Japanese assault on the civilised world took the form of attacks on foreign property, and such incidents as the sinking of The Panay. In recent weeks Japan has come out into the open and just at Tientsin has made it plain that They are

11itler

AND that is the position. A Poles and Germans are watching and waiting until makes something happen.

all

that 100

F Poland docs not agree to bis for Danzig and the

the highway across

she desires nothing less than com-demands

sure

plete Japanese domination of the will do something. Corridor, he

They are won

whole of China, including those dering when and how though. parts which have hitherto been the subject of special foreign Interosis.

Afterwards, as we walked out past the Polish letter-boxes on the walls and the

Alled Polish time-table

with unpronounceable names, Nazi authority was suddenly thrust on us again. A stout green uniformed

If the political condition of polleeman, holding a typewritten lat

in one hand, was busily confiscating bundles of English and Polish news- papers.

Europe had been different thero can be no question that Britain should by now have been giving active assistance to the Chinese euch other across the Neugarten“. Government.

A couple of hundred yards away, again, the seats of Nazi and Polish authority clash in contrast. Facing

street, which rondmakers are tearing up, are the two buildings between At the presont moment the which so many angry protests have been exchanged during the last fow Japanese advance has been chick weeks.

On the one alde, the massive red ed and Its aggression halted by the brick Nazi Senate. On the other, the grey-fronted Polish Commis- of determined resistance the

sariat. In the Commissariat, the Morlan diplomat, M. No better professional Chinese themselves.

Chodack!, suave representaive of time could be found for to the Polish Government, wonders throw in financial resources in an how Hitler's plans to sweep Danzig

Reich can back into the

be out- effort to bring about a victory wiited.

Opposite sits Herr Artur Greiser, which would benefit not only burly President of the Senate, who China but the whole civilised once started the world's diplomaile representatives by thumbing his nose before the League of Nations.

world.

Us

the holiday from camps all over the water-front. Reich.

tall gabled houses, palated Behind this shovy of swastikas and pale browns and greys, yellows and banners lies the power in the hands He is usually absent. At his greens, shadow the narrow, cobbled of the police and black-uniformed Commissariat, another ornately con- stracts. Behind the old windows guards.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Cope, 1979 by Ballet Proincé kysčiais, žne

"The wife and I fight ovory payday-io now I've arranged to got my salary, monthly Instead of weekly!”.

ONCE, in far-away Geneva,

League of Nations al- lowed Danzig 1,000 police. Then Herr Artur Greiser "complained" that Danzig's young men clamoured for military training in Germany.

After diplomats had gathered, it was agreed to allow Danzig's police a number of "recrulis." So to-day 500 recruits are established in addi- flon in the big barracks on the Zop- pot road-once the headquarters of á regiment of Death's Head Hus-

sors,

But Danzigers themselves will smile knowingly if you suggest there are only 1,600 of these police alto- gether. They will hint that it is the police and the black-uniformed guards who might have to rise to berate" the elty from within if Hitler should press the button.

Every day squads of these green- uniformed police, steel helmets - on their heads, march out with rifles and machine-guns to exerciso in the flelds and pine woods, And the black uniformed guards, drilled like- soldiers, march through the streets with rifles on their shoulders, open- ly flouting the statute, laid down by the despised League, forbidding them

arms.

Just over the frontier, the silent, grim-faced Polish guards know thai they would faco a force as well trained na regular troops if ever they should clash.

But for the present the Nazis keep to abusing Poland and the western democracies. Now they are com- pluining that the presence of so many Polish Customs inspectors ir "intoler.... able,"

They say that they have been "molesting" their German women- folk, And the Poles reply that their Inspectors are necessary to prevent the Nazis "smuggling arms in from Enst Prussia. If once one of the young fellows tickled A German

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