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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, August 21, 1939.

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Overeating Is Treason,

Say Nazis

VEREATING is

high treason according to

27

"

a sort of in Germany;

Dr. Wirz,

a

member of the Nazi Experts'

Committee for National Health.

Butter is rationed in Germany,

and

le are allowed between four and

S

Every German who, through im- moderate cons

Lats, conti

ween

"at

and gap

-n.

Among all my

THIS is becoming a hard friends at the world for the man with present moment, healthy appetite. In I know only two three, who the old days most people or used to like to see a man have the cour-

food, enjoying his

and much, and even second helpings were press- they do so, not ed even on reluctant child- unself-cong- ren at table. Victorian aunts clously

age to cat too

be

like their fathers, tetics, but of politics, when of the jungle by bananas, this would say to their nephews but in a spirit of derring-do, as they sit down to their meals. It would be a reason for giving

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 thing," unless the nephews suspect that when they arrive second helping of suddle of mut- set to and crammed them- home after one of their orgies, ton, the restaurant began to ring

IF the new European seives almost to bursting they hurry to the medicine with cries of "Traitor."

politics reach England, cupboard, quaking in every limb, There was an old gentleman however, we shall, no doubt, soo point.

and absorb large quantities of during the last war who when all those injunctions to cat more Gluttony, it is true, was con- bicarbonate of soda.

meeting a friend would ask: fruit torn down from the hoard- demned by the Church as a sin, There have, of course, always "Ilad you butter at breakfast ings as traitorous, and fruiterers the but you had to eat a lot in order been authorities who condemned this morning?" and if the friend will Japan's Losing Game

prosecuted by THERE is evidence to-day to to be considered a glutton in over-enting, but it was only in replied "Yes," would say "Pig!" Attorney-General as alders and

indicate that Japan is becom-those days. I remember being the present century,I think, that and pass on. But even he did abettors of high treason.

entangled ing thoroughly

in shown a man of stout build who, a Reign of Terror became firmly not suggest that the consumption All those advertisements, in- Britain's web of subtly diplomacy. I was told, could eat two whole established at the dinner-table, of butter was high treason. deed, which teil us to eat more nud that even those elements who ducks at a meal, but even he so that it was common to see a

Yet it is possible that the this and to drink more that will naively thought that by luring was regarded less as a glutton woman looking scared at sight world is now advancing to a state be amended to fit in with the British diplomats to Tokyo in order

of unusual of a dish of potatoes or a man in which, on seeing a man led new politics, the word "more" to discuss a relatively obscure

flinching from a savoury as from off to the police station in hand- being altered to "less" in all Tientsin problem, Japan could capacity. force Britain into an uncompromis-

I do not suggest that every poison.

cuffs, one will ask, "What has be cases. ing acceptance of sweeping de body gormandised in those days, Banquets have become a mere done?" and be told in a hushed This somehow does not seem mands, are now revising their but I am sure a great many matter of picking at tiny por- opinions. They arr recognising that Britain, past-master in the art members of the male sex nte tions of disguised food at which, considerably more than was of solving problems with silky and abstruse words, cannot be so easily good for them. Dieticians had of eating, men do little but talk inveigled into decisions of far- not yet scared them into ab. to each other. reaching importance.

stinence with talk about proteins, calories and carbohydrates. Men could still sit down at a banquet proach of the sixth course. without trembling at the ap- that

Japan is said to have been shocked by Britain's firm refusal Tientsin deliberations, but it is to include currency issues in the

than

as

man

instead of enjoying the pleasures

voice: "He's a butter-enter." to me to be an improvement on

IT la surely a sign of the decivilisation of the

Already the citizens of Vienna the world of Dickens, in which have been severely castigated men were free to eat and drink because of their liking for cream, what they pleased without the and in reply to their demand for intervention of officials of the it they have been told in nn Tory, the Liberal or any other ND the latest news official leaflet: "There are people party. AND

from abroad suggests who think their stomach is a god in Germany the Reign of and that everybody who offends Terror at the table is even worse it is guilty almost of blasphemy." Even their innocent craving than it is in England. Dr. Wirz, of Munich, a Nazi health expert, for bananas brought down the world that, our ability to produce TO-DAY, however, what indeed, has just warned the wrath of the authorities on their more food than at any previous with doctors and Germans that "persistent eat- heads. "There are people," they time in history, the freedom to dieticians, this is all changed. ing to excess not only damages were told, "who seem to have eat 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. Britain to the Japanese demanda, 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 are astonished at 30 brazen read the menu with tender eyes of affairs when human beings I should have thought that, if butter and cream in a famine, display of resistance; possibly too, as though it were a love-nong. have to think, not only of die human beings can be lured out

doubtful whether this reaction ean be attributed to Japan's coal. statesmen, whose knowledge of the game of diplomacy is suflicient to enable then to adopt a more realis-

tie attitude, Doubtless Japan's

rank and file, spoon-fed as they

have been by their inspired press

on the inevitable capitulation of

the militarisis, 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-

the ties. But

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

While the issues can be confined to diplomatic 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 trend warily lest she find herself left alone against determined group of Powers whose patience, once exhausted, would ask for, and give no quarter. The Japanese leaders are turning very carnest attention to the situation in Europe, and well they might. for the very future of the Japanese empire may depend on the solu- tions applied to the European problems. While the militarists are loudly proclaiming the neces aity of effecting a military alliance with the Axis, and of the benefits to be derived therefrom, the less flambuoyant elements are sensing, if not fully discerning the doubtful value of such an alliance, and aro inclined to approach the question with considerable suspicion. For Japan to become a tool of the Axis would spell disaster to her. It is Japan who will need assistance in the event of a showdown, 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

FREE

Gdynia: Foland's only port, built since 1920 and now responsible;| for more Polish trade than Danzig From Gdynia Folish 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

| Nazi "tourists' from

Berlin. Estimated to be between 7000 ₫ 10,000

Hel Perlinsulas fortified

| by Poland, dommates entrance to Danzig

Trzcionki: scene of Thursday's shooting incident when Polish customs official was Killed by Danzig Nazis,

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MIFCIONI

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Chylon

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Neukru

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Gdynia

Langführ

Danzig

Tczew

Skarszewy

Pogutken

Swarolyn

O_LA

Starogard

NEWS

Marienburg

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REEL

PRUSSIA

won during the last 50 years. THE Free City of Danzig (750sq. miles) 5,000,000 tons to Danzig's 7,000,000).

Recognition of this will probably keep Japan to the paths of political diplomacy, where again her pro- gress is not likely to bo sensa- tional, and through which sho can nover obtain that Far East huge- mony which is her obsession.

stays in the news. Its economic livell- Danzig, created in its present form by

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 Sie Edmund Ironside attended

Polish army manœuvres |

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

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 Naxi. Almost woek as the "war of nerves" draws on the two seaports last year Gdynia handled all public officials are Nazis.

Polish opinion hardens.