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Recent occurrences have given rise to fears that Germany in- tends to settle the future status

of the Free City "by unilateral

What The Correspondents Are

Cabling

Hongkong DIFFICULT

TIMES

Carries On HAROLD

DUNCAN

McEACHRAN,

London: "Daily Sketch"

her Far East conquest. She cannot go on much longer: Economic, financial and psycho- logical strain of more than two years of warfare is reaching. breaking point,

Tokyo has been preparing for this vital moment for years. An inspired Press and antl-British newsman, recently agitators have been-and still are-campaigning among the passed through Hong-1,600,000 Asiatic population.

Now they are saying openly: kong. This is what he "Britain would not be able to

höld Hongkong. cabled to his paper:

You, in the comparative safe-

Is a fight for Britain's Empirety of Britain, imagine yourself reading that, knowing that in the East imminent?

Japanese forces are on the main- If it is, the handful of Britons land within fifty miles of your] who guard our interests on this front door, with the nearest island outpost are prepared.

assistance at Singapore, 1,500) Europe, 9,000 miles away. One shot in miles from hore, would at any moment decide the fate of our Empire in the Orient.

Blockade Warning There is a certain amount of To-day I was able to tour-the

I do not mean defences of the island. I found nervousness in Hongkong. Don't

jitters. that it is another Gibraltar-amistake me. Gibraltar in the China Sea.

Every Briton here is deter- The whole place is honey-mined to stay, come what may combed with gun places, ringed although some are preparing to with barbed wire.

CALLENDER

sees Europe

THROUGH AMERICAN

EYES

This is a condensed version of a cable sent to the "New York Times" recently by laroid Cal- lender, one of the correspondents on its European stall. It tells you what the highest type of American is reading about Eur- ope to-day.

am worship, and impose upon the nation, in the Interest of armament, some of the privations characteristic of war time.

But Germans find much com- pensation in the fact that rearmament and public works, accompanied by indation of credit and currency, have virtually abolished unemployment, Increasing purchasing while The power of the masses stimulates, trade. Germans are enjoying an-armuueni om which creates activity and a sense of prosperity, and this, for more than military shows and foreign triumphs, serves to reconclle both workers and business. men to the regime.

Turning Point?

LEADING 'Nazis one

met in

Danzig. Berlin, and other cities ull, agreed that neither Danzig nor the Corridor was in any senge n vital issue for Germany and that their acquisition, was urgent.

not at all

Illiter has said that colonies were not worth a war,

Nazi circies often talk of the oven- tual partition of Poland and control of the Ukraine. But these remoter ains, though discussed in the party school camps, are not even officially acknowledged,

vital,

much less rated as

What then will a war be waged for if it comes? It will be woged apparently for "living space," an aim dificult to distinguish from conquest; "encirclement" SURVEYING Europe through or to prevent the

official eyes, or listening to which seeks to bar the way to con

quest, or lasten annexation of the nervous gossip in the stock those Baltic areas which, admittedly, market, or reading the des- are not vitally necessary.

Germany's seizure of Prague pro- for whs the turning-point Europe.

It was that act which created what

repatriate women and children patches that pour into a news-

paper office from a dozen centres,bably This year alone the island is as a precaution. spending on defences nearly I am convinced that no Power one might imagine that Europe half a million pounds, which is could take Hongkong by attack. was simply one huge military Hitler now bitterly denounces as the This tactical error on Hitler's part gics to the single task of self-France. 20 per cent, of the total revenue. I wouldn't say the same about establishment bending its ener- encircictment" policy of Britain and generally scon as such in 15 not the results of a blockade.

destruction.

Germans some Japan in a Hurry

Therein is Hongkong's value. Yet Europe is really made up of Germany, though

500,000,000 people realise its effects, and one has met For Japan has long coveted No campaign against the Em-something like

have tried to regain of pire could succeed while it holds whose lives are occupied by all sorts prominent Nazis who admitted that this distributing centre

which in most cases have nothing to the German city of Danzig before city of Prague. Eastern and Asiatic trade which out, and a blockade would only of work and trouble and pleasures Hitler should

give a warning to the Empire.

do with the State or its armaments seizing the Czech

For in taking Prague be may be dominates wealthy Canton,

You can meet the world's most or diplomacy. And Japanese troops are now

Now, as the Western Powers pre- said to have lost, or at least to have in possession of most of the colourful personalities in Hong-

kong. To-day, in the lounge of pare to resist attack, they and that impaired, his claim to Danzig and the Indeed, he impaired all those China coast.

upon armaments in all their aspects How much longer will it be the hotel where I am staying, I they must concentrate increasingly Corridor before they try to set foot on saw "one-arm" General Sutton, and modify their economic life ac- German claims based upon "rights." cordingly. In so doing they must for some Germans admit it is dim- He told me he is now living continually diminish the possibilities cull to establish a German right to

of normal life for their people-a the possession of Prague. this island, cut off from the rest one-time dollar millionaire. of the Empire?

Japan must hurry to complete fin a back room on 30s, a week; process of increasing strain and re-

action, organised by surrepti- THE COYOTE'S LAST RUN

tious methods, thus presenting Poland and other Powers with a fait accompli."

nor

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A Vision of Hooves

by

mad career, and

volutionary upheaval which cannol go on indefinitely.

[Mr. Callender then proceeds with his surety, country by country.)

In Midland

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Fed Up With Tension MANY Germans profess con

answer,

fidence that peace will be One kept. Why are they so sure?

The Arst answer, made almost in unanimously, is that Hitler does not war. The second the afternoon is as want-

general, in that Britain her jammed with crowds as over, many almost THE snow was about 18 inches deep got a bruise in the orm extricating BRITAIN.-Oxford-street

full specs of them ordering summer

holiday and France do not want war and over the Alberta prairie, though myself from somewhere

consequently will recoll from it la drifts filled in unsuspected hollows forelegs. Galloping at

mare shallow the and piled against rare patches off across a flat where the snow. was cutats.

In London restaurants and clubs sufficient time.

Thus Hiller will draw back at the Any change in the status of brushwoad to a depth of eight or ten comparatively

feet. One fine day a balmy Chinook stumbled, and in some mysterious

German view. Yet the whole game Danzig would certainly affect wind blew throught the Rocky Moun-fashion. Lolld from the saddle side- men and women dine and joke and

which con go furthest factories armies of is to see the independence and national in passes from a far away Pacific ways on to the snow, with my left plan for week-ends. On bright days right moment and so will his oppon- Ocean, and the hard frozen snow fool shod with a clumsy felt boot throngs watch penguins-or-ride ents-this seems the predominant

held like a vice in the wooden elephants at the Zov.

One meets intelligent Germans who Riding along the crest of a coules/Mexican stirrup. The plebuld never workers make motor-curs und blcycles without drawing back.

for this existence of Poland, and should crust began to melt rapidly.

paused in her

and armourplate. Streets are no more, enthusiastic Poland take any action to assert

or ravine I could feel the sun warm found myself dragged along, gazing and hundreds of other things as well

and homes game than those in other countries, ad parks and shops ing through the back of any sheepskin helplessly at her rear hooves almost as uns

whatever though they are powerless to inter- reveal normal activities, her rights and restore the egal. Eyes were beginning to smart alighting every instant on my face. How long this agonising moment:

his laurels and give Europe a few situation, the Nazi Government from the all-pervading snow glare when the chadawy form of a coyote

people's minds. in front. time I tried desperately to jerk up

The danger zone. has suddenly ex-years of tranquillity 90 per cent, of would then most probably repre- or prairie wolf leapt from a low lasted I do not know, though all the may be the apprehension, lurking intere "If Hitler would now rest on

#rove of scrub popular sent this to the German people simultaneously the two coilie dogs and grasp the stirrup leather. Sud-tended so that the Englishman living the Germans would be delighted," denly, as I was thus endeavouring gambolling by my horse's side begun hopelessly to raise the upper part of in a small town in the Midlands may said one foreign observer a few days Line. Increasing replied a German. "Ninety-nine per as an act of aggression.

to yelp, and we all sped like streaks

of frozen black soll by a badger's near the Maginot

Many Germans are as "fed up" It is admitted that the present of Aurora Borealis across the waste my body my back strucic a monticle be as greatly imperilled as farmers 50, "Did you say 90 per cent.7"

as milltary, financial and moral as

Germans position of Danzig, "though

Nether Bran nor Shiela had ever hole. This gave the additional im- preparations for war, civilian as well cent. would be more like "

the stirrup well as physicol, have obliged whole with these gambles with, pence as chased a coyote, yet the surface snow petus, and I chitched

imagine their homes are the British. But the populations neither basically unjust

did not break under their weight. ieather with one hand. The mare

sank re- slowed down, and I clambered into and workshopa as first-line trenches. cannot stop them, while the British now faces It is Britain whose life has been think they can. in both these facts illogical, might be capable of while the heavier coyote

plcbald the saddle, again none the worse. peatedly. Jip. the little

In less than half an hour I arrived most revolutionised by the apprehen-es the danger which improvement." Poland is pre-mare, floundered along gallantly, but

were soon outdistanced. As at the lone popular tree, alongside sion of war and whose policies have Europe. pared to discuss methods of im- usual the wolf ran in a huge circic. u sinali bog or muskeg, which I had been most drastically changed.

a Con- For Britain has become provement. Great Britain would and, leaving the dogs in full cry like previously determined as lying in the

coydte. There was tinental Power with military oFRANCE-If you enter France from Germany at veteran wolf hounds. I eut across course of the

ns she never hud strongly support any effort to country in an attempt to head them time to break a limb of the poplarigations such

to use as a cudgel before the wolf before. Her people may be called the Alsatian town of Wissembourg that is an shone in the distance, passing some to fight to defend Poland, Rumania, you compose whatever difference of

300 yards to one alde. The dog Grecce or Turkey, not merely by urtifcial barrier cutting through a there may be.

were almost on his heels, but all

which the could have got on far better with- quite a new situation, were stumbling in the snow and going val power, but with man power-quiet rural country which obviously ni a comparatively

pace. British have accepted stofcally though out it.

For miles on either side of that Occasionally I noticed the wolf look upsets their traditions and their ed back, and from this concluded he previous conceptions of Britain's role barrier the crops ripening in the un are the same, the grapes growing on was fairly exhausted.

in Europe.

The adherence to "business as hillsides are, the same, the wine usual" is illustrated by the fact drawn from cool cellars is the same, As I appeared on his horizon he (incredible to Germans) that until the old inns and peasants' houses are and even speak the made a slight turn and fost ground a few weeks ago Government orders alike, the people are of the same

Barno dialect. to the dogs. Spurring on Jip, I drew did not take priority over private racial stock,

Yet this ancient community is cut. up by the wolf as he turned with orders in Industry,

Gas masks, air raid drills and steel To these Mr. Chamberlain has RUTH. NORDLING, aged 10, open laws on the two dogs shelters (for those who have them) into two sections; one part of it is of Glendale, stood for one of my collies, I raised the bludgeon have served as periodical reminders German and the other French. Huge and heavy guns and if possible perils, and the daily news steel forts given Great Britain's definite and a half hours on the roof of beside rue with flattened cars. But in every town reflect a restless barbed wire stretch across hills and

"We building opposite her home and then the unaccountable thing hap-Europe. Yet if one scans the faces farmlands. determined reply.

The French peasants accept the threatened to jump.

war philosophically, as without have guaranteed to give our

So far as I knew these two collies of travellers in Underground trains Her father finally persuaded her to assistance to Poland in the event come down because next day was hnd never chased anything in their or buses one finda hardly any algazards of

lives in the Isle of Arran, unless it of perturbation. "If war must come, something imposed from

It must; we probably shan't be pre against their will. Like the peasants might have been a robbit of a clear threat to her indepen- her mother's birthday. That was on May 13.

cultivate their land beneath the forts. seagull. They had been newly impared-but we never are," is a re- on the slopes of Vesuvius, they

mark heard repeatedly. WINDOW SCENE dence which she considers it

The British don't believe in worry-will an air of fatality, hoping for Later a domestic relations court ported into Alberta, and only that vital to resist with her national

brothers morning let loose from their crates committed Ruth and her

days when Germany was arraing crops and making wine as usual, Yet, as I was in the net of striking fast. Now they grimly strive to over-

Where there is universal military in France, the Army forces, and we are firmly re-and sisters to a charity home because to exercise with me for the first time. ing. They worried too little in the the best, but meanwhile barvesting solved to carry out this under-the parents were unable to give them Bran grabbed the wolf by the upper take her in the air, regretting their servies, ns

proper guardianship.

part of one hind leg, and Shielp low, start, but making up for it an reaches into nearly every home and {precautionary mobilisation leaves Then Ruth, rebuked for splashing surang at the throat holding it solidly. best they can.

Raps In shops and offices. · · ` climbed Simultaneously both pulled with a

The obligation is itself a part of in the swimming bath, through a window to the roof and mighty effort in opposite directions,

Germany the normal life of France. Industry told other children, "If anyone comes and the wolf fell down, with still

telling tongue, dead as a stone his GERMANY-In

normal life has and trade, make adjustments on all-powerful carry on without Interruption. Tie near me I'll jump."

Then she jumped. Now, with both back broken exactly as it would have

by two well-trained wolf been modified by

State whose tentacles embrace even two years of military service_form thighs and her right elbow fractured been and suffering from internal injuries, hounds.

T. Kerr Ritchie. the spheres of sport and holidays PLEASE Turn To Pago 12. she is dying.

Herr Hitler declared months

Time after time Jip stuck dead in a drift, and I took n flying leap over ago that he would "welcome" & her withers into the snow. Once fresh agreement with Poland, but he has taken no steps to

come to an agreement by dis-Girl Rebuked, Jumps The Collies Knew

cussion and negotiation. All we have seen are threats and de- monstrations of armed force.

and

taking."

No avenue to negotiation has been closed; but any attempt by the Nazi Government to Beize Danzig by force will be met with forco.

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