1939-08-03 — Page 6

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The War

FOR two agonising years the

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

whelming odds.

Her beaten armies have reform- ed again and again, and her Government is stili sovereign over vast unconquered territory. The Japanese, on their own show- ing, have won at an enormous cost

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MEDITERRANEAN

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

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Athens is fearful of 70,000 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 avail- garians. Rumanta 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. 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 Rumania: (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.

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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 miles of Soviet border lension bases)

Dobruja, ceded to Rúmania 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 whealfields (marked ////on map) and its scarcely developed ot supplies (well; 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 5.000.000 credits from Britain this year), but is mainly dependent upon Germany for contaruance of her economic life. By agreement of last March German, technicians are now'directing and developing | Rumanian industrial potentialities.

Bulgaria nowy in consultation with Berlin concerning Bulgarian claim to Dobruja province from Rumania, Jud direct access to Mediterranean Sea from Greece

and instructors), industry and hygiene.

(E) To provide unified modern equip.

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

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 (d) To conduct lumber and mining ex- Rumania over Bessarabian problems, is now

ploration and development.

friendly, watches this "buffer" State of (el To give Rumanians instruction in Rumania as carefully as she watches the

agriculture (the supply of tractors other "buffer" State of Poland.

the

Danzig,

Watching

in blood and treasure less than MY

"The railway station at one o'clock" he said, in the mysteri- ous voice that Poles use in the High Free City over the 'phone.

At midday it was a struggle to find a seat, though the chaira as hard and the walls as are bleak ̄ ̄as"inTMany other stationTM restaurant in Europe.

City Eyes

That is how he has earned a re-

of

Further on, among the high-timbered warehouses lining the broad water- ways, dozens of litle distilleries

ROFESSOR Kari putation among the Nazis for having brew Danzig's famous liqueurs. PURCKHARDT. League more fact than his Irish predecessor, Commissioner, dubbed by Hit- tried to run the Free City on League keepers shout "Good health" as they Mr. Senn Lester. For Mr. Lester Near by, stout old German inn-

-by

VAUGHAN

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 saf Nazl boss.

fors who crowd In during the even- ings.

Y Polish. friend Stefan Sometimes Herr Greiser thumps structed red brick building, they tell Dunzig's craftsmen, her gold and the table with his fist and shouts you. "The Herr High Commissioner silversmiths, her metal workers and Kowlowski asked me to to his friends; a tenth of the total area of China. meet him for lunch.

"Ninely-seven per is fishing," or "on a shooting party,"

* wood carvers, bend over their work. cent. of us ure Germans, so why or "on holiday." The Chinese, in their gallant

can't we go back to the Reich?"

struggle, are fighting not merely their own battle but the battle of civilisation against brutal aggres- China sion. Japan's attack on has been repeatedly condemned by the conscience of the world.

a great In October, 1937, nt Albert Hall meeting in, London,

that restaurant into the Archbishop of Canterbury their club. In the Nazi city spoke for the whole of Britain Poland owns the railways-and

BUT the real city lles away On the sidewalks young men of there they feel at home.

from the Senate, the Com the labour corps atroli, just back on ler, "Anan of extraordinary lact," missariats, the he denounced Japan. A

rallways and the holiday from camps all over the Near our table, alone in

has just returned to his post near by Jews, towards the water-front. Reich, month later the Far Eastern Con-corner, eyeing them

over

a from a round of visits to Geneva, There. tall gabled houses, painted Behind this show of swastikas and ference at Brussels voiced its Polish newspaper sat a bullet- Warsaw and Berlin.

pale browns and greys, yellows and banners iles the power in the hands headed, stubbly-haired young is usttally absent AL his greens. shadow the narrow, cobbled of the police considered condemnation of the man with cold blue eyes in a Commissariat, another ornately, con- streets. Behind the old windows guards. Japanese action.

heavily set square face.

when

·

It was then I learned that hundreds of Danzig's Poles have

turned

Said Stefan Kowlowski, as he spread 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."

A Poles

ND that is the position. and Germans arc

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 watching and waiting until Hitler makes something happen.

all sure cy that Poland does not agree to his she desires nothing less than com-demands for Danzle and the

highway across the Corridor, plete Japanese domination of the will do something. They are won- whole of China, including those dering when and how thought.

Afterwards, as we walked out past parts which have hitherto been the Polish letter-boxes on the walls Polish time-table Alled

at Tientsin has made it plain that They are

he

the subject of special foreign and the

with unpronounceable names, Nazi

interests.

authority was suddenly Dirust on us ngain. A stout green uniformed

If the political condition of policeman, holding a typewritten st in one hand, was busily confiscating bundles of English and Polish news- papers.

Europe had been different there can be no question that Britain should by now have been giving netive assistance to the Chinese Government,

A couple of hundred yards away, again, the seats of Nazi and Pollsh authority clash in contrast. Facing each other Beross the Neugarten- street, which roadmakers are learing up, are the two buildings between At the present moment the which so many angry protests have

been exchanged during the last few

Japanese advance has been check-weeks.

On the one alde, the massive red

ed and Ita aggression halted by the brick Nazi Senate. On the other,

determined realstance

Chinese themselves.

of

the the grey-tronted Polish Commis

the Cornmissariat, the sorjat, in No. better professional diplomat, M. Marisn

Chodacki, suavo representative

time could be found for

18

wonders to the Polish Government,

how Hitler's plans to sweep Danzig throw in financial resources in an

back into the Reich can be out- effort to bring about a victorywitied.

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

world.

JONES

Daily Express Staff Reporter

110

the

But it is not only the Poles and Nazis who watch each other From Outside, squads of brown-shirted. the police headquarters the Gestapo stormtroopers their ranks full of keep an eye on everybody visiting brilling-moustached, red-faced old narrow, three-storeyed grey Danzigersmarch night after night the streets, patriotically house where the Jewish headquarters through are established, hundred yards rearing their "Hell Hitler and snap- across the Heumarkt-square,

ping up right arms more briskly than in Berlin.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

D

and black-uniformed

ONCE, in far-away Geneva,

the League of Nations al- Danzig 1,000 police. Then

By Lichtyre Artur Greizer "complained"

"Pepe:1999 ký Vallat Tennis Syukikita, 300.

"The wife and I fight every payday-so now I've arranged to get my salary monthly instead of weekly!"

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 "recruits." So to-day 500 recruits ore established in addi- tion in the big barracks on the Zop- pat road-once the headquarters of a regiment of Death's Head Hus- sars,

But Dunzigers themselves will sille knowingly if you suggest thera are only 1,500 of these police alto- gether. They will hint that it is the police and the black-uniformed juards who might have to rise to berate" the city from within-f Her should press the button.

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

Dr.

Just over the frontier, the slicnt, grim-foced Polish guards know that they would face In force as well trained as regular troops, if over they should clash.

But for the present the Nazis keep to abusing Poland and the western democracies. Now they are comTM plaining that the presence of so many Polish Customs Inspectors la "Intoler nble."

been

They

say that they have "molesting" their German women- folk. And the Poles reply that their inspectors are necessary to prevent the Nazis amuggling orms in from East Prussia, If once one of the young fellows tickled n German

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