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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1939.

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Overeating Is Treason,

Say Nazis

VEREATING is a sort of "in Germany, high treason

according to Dr. Wirz, a member of the Nazi Experts' Committee for National Health.

"Every German who, through im- moderate co

fats contri

have the cour

Butter is rationed in Germany,

peenle are allowed between four and

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Among all my THIS is becoming a bid friends, at the world for the man with present moment, a healthy appetite In I know only two the old days most people or three who used to like to see a man age to ent too enjoying his food, and much, and even second helpings were press- they do so, not ed even on reluctant child- unself-cons-

their fathers, tetics, but of politics, when of the jungle by bananas, this ren at table. Victorian ants clously like

but in a spirit of derring-lo, as they sit down to their meals. It would be a reason for giving would say to their nephews though showing off and deliber- would be a terrible thing if, just people plenty of bananas. at tea, "You're eating no-ately courting danger. I always as one had been served with a

Hongkong Telegraph. thing," unless the nephews suspect that when they arrive second helping of saddle of mut-

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Japan's Losing Game. THERE is evidence to-day

diente that Japan ja be ing thoroughly entangled Britain's webyof subtle diploma and that ever those clementy w naively thought that by during British diplomats to Tokyo in order to discuss a relatively, obec Tientsin problem, Japan Afg,

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Gluttony, it is true, was con- demned by the Church as a sin, but you had to eat a lot in order

你 set to and crammed them home after one of their orgies, ton, the restaurant began to ring

IF the new European politics reach England, selves almost to bursting they hurry to the medicine with cries of "Traitor."

cupboard, quaking in every limb, « point.

There was an old gentleman however, we shall, no doubt, see and absorb large quantities of during the last war who when all those injunctions to eat more

carbonate of soda.

meeting a friend would ask: fruit torn down from the hoard- Thefe have, of course, always "Had you butter at breakfast ings as traitorous, and fruiterera . een, thorities who condemned this morning?" and if the friend will be prosecuted by the to be considered a glutton interating, but it was only in replied," would say "Pig!" Attorney-General as aidera and those days. I remember being ble present century, I think, that and pasBut even he did abettors of high treason. shown a man of stout build who Reign of Terror became firmly not suggest that the consumption I was told, could ent two who stablished at the dinner-table, of butter was high treason. All those advertisements, in- ducks at a meni, but even do that I was common to see a

deed, which tell us to eat more was regarded fless as a glutton woman looking scared at sight world is now ating to a state be amended to fit in with the Yet it is possible that the this and to drink more that wil] than as a man of unusu of a dish of potatoes or a man

jan

flinching from a capacity

force Britain into an untomprøni 21 do not sugest that every poison anyoury as from in which, on scela man led new politics, the word "more"

ing acceptance of sweeping de mands, are now revising their opinions. They are recognising that Britain, past-master in the art of solving problems with silky and abstruse words, cannot be so easily offar

invelgied into decisions reaching importance.

Japan is anid to have been shocked by Britain's firin refusal to Include currency issues in the

Tientsin deliberations, but it is doubtful whether, this reaction can be attributed to Japan's real statesmen, whose knowledge of the game of diplomacy is sufficient to enable them to adopt a more realia- tic attitude. Doubtless Japan's rank and file, spoon-fed as they have been by their inspired press on the inevitable capitulation of Britain to the Japanese demands,

are astonished at so brazen

display of resistance; possibly too, the militarists, whose utter con- tempt of political diplomacy is self-confessed, are wondering whether England is being just foolish, or foolishly courageous in the face of overwhelming difficul- ties. But the

fact very

that Britain, by her latest declaration, has managed to nonplus the nation, is a sign that Japan is far from Invulnerable when it comes settling disputes in the normal, rational way.

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While the issues can be confined to diplomatie conferences, Britain Is at least on equal footing with Japan. The latter's commitments are just as vast, if not vaster in the Orient, as are Britain's in Europe, and for this reason Japan must tread warlly lest' she And herself left alone against determined group of Powers whose patience, once exhausted, would ask for, and give no quarter. The Japanoso leaders are turning very earnest attention to the situation In Europe, and well they might, for the very future of the Japanese empire may depend on the solu- tiona applied to the European problems. While the militarista are loudly proclaiming the neces aity of affecting a military alliance with the Axia, and of the benefits to ho derived therefrom, the less flambuoyant elements äro sensing, if not fully discerning the doubtful valuð of such an alliance, and aro Inclined to approach the question with considerable suspicion. For Japan to become a tool of the Axis I would spell disaster to her. It is Japan who will need assistance in the event of a ahowdown, but whether that would be forthcom- ing if she aligned herself with Germany and Italy, is highly questionable. Japan is more likely to be left carrying the baby, and she would eventually find herself stripped of all the gains she has won during the last 50 years. Recognition of this will probably keep Japan to the paths of political diplomacy, where again her pro- grees is not likely to be sensa- tional, and through which she can never obtain that Før East hege-. mony which is her obsession.

A

"less" in all

off to the police tien in hand- being altered to body gormandied in those days Bets have become a 'mere cuffs, one will ask, "What has he cases,

done?" and be told in hushed but I am sure a great mai matof picking at tiny por- voice: "He's a butter-gifter." This somehow does not seem to me to be an improvement on members of the male sex ne tions of disguised food at which,

Already the citizens of Vienna the world of Dickens, in which considerably more than was instead of enjoying the pleasures good for them. Dieticians of eating.then do little bat talk have been severely castigated men were free to eat and drink because of their liking for cream, what they pleased without the not yet scared them into tofench other.

and in reply to their demand for intervention of officials of the stinence with talk about proteins,

it they have been told in an Tory, the Liberal or any other calories and carbohydrates/Men could still sit down at a innquet without trembling at prouch of the sixth course |

Pent

IT is surely a sign of the

AND the latest news official leaflet: "There are people party. in Germany the Reign of and that everybody who offends from abroad suggests who think their stomach is a god error at the table is even worse it is guilty almost of blasphemy." an/it is in England. Dr. Wirz, Even their innocent craving

decivilisation of the Munich, a Nazi health expert, for bananas brought down the world that, our ability to produce TO-DAY, however, what ideed just warned the wrath of the authorities on their more food than at any previous with doctors and ormány that "persistent eat heads. "There are people," they time in history, the freedom to dieticians, this is all changed. toxcess not only damagce were told, "who seem to have cat should be more restricted In the chief restaurants lean men the constitution but is neces- been lured out of the jungle by than it has ever been during now sit in the chairs which were sarily a kind of high treason." bananas, and are happy only if any period of so-called peace. once occupied by fat men who It is surely an alarming state they can eat them continuously." It is all very well to go without of dffairs when human beings I should have thought that, if butter and cream in a famine, have to think, not only of die- human beings can be lured out

read the menu with tender eyes as though it were a love-song.

FREE

Gdynia: Poland's only port, built, since 1920 and now responsible for more Polish trade than Danzig From Gdynia Polish navy operates. Here. too, is stationed part of Poland's army. Return of Danzig to Germany would mean Gdynia's complete dependence on Danzig..

Langfuhr: Barracks for Názi "tourists' from Berlin, Estimated to be between 7000 £10,000

Hel Peninsula: fortified by Poland, doinmates entrance to Danzig

Trzcionki: scene of, Thursday's shooting incident when Polistr customs official was killed by Danzig Nazis.

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REEL

PRUSSIA

Danzig: Free City unden supervision of League of Nations High Commissioner. Contains 96% German population, and claimed by Berlin as natural German city. Poles Say Danzig must remain Free.

At Westerplatte, et entrance to Danzig Harbour is stationed small Polish garrison.

Massed along these borders,on Polish side, are thousands of well- trained Polish troops."-

Kalthof: scene of recent incident between Poles and Danzig Nazis

In Central Poland Sir Edmund ironside attended Polish army manoeuvres

Daily occurrences foster tension. Hitler wants Danzig. Can he take it

THE Free City of Danzig (750sq. miles) 9,000,000 tons to Danzig's 7,000,000).

stays in the news. Its economic livali- Danzig, created in its present form by hood is dependent upon the Polish interior, the Treaty of Versailles, is under nominal without a war? and until the rise of Gdynia almost all control of Professor Burckhardt, League It is reported that he insists on a solu- Polish sea trade passed through Danzig. High Commissioner, but actually under the tion before the summer ends, but week by Now trade is fairly evenly divided between control of a Senate which is Nazi. Almost week as the "war of nerves"! draws on, the two seaports (last year Gdynia handled all public officials are Nazis.

Polish opinion hardens.