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Large concentrations of Nazi troops near the frontiers of Belgium and the Netherlands suggest that one of those two countries may provide a channel through which the German military leaders will attempt to flank the impregn- able Maginot Line. Below, "Telegraph" writers review the defences-and the weaknesses of the two northern States.

Belgium Her

Has

୧୧

Sudeten"

many tiny swastikas.

IT IS a pity that most button-holes of the young will reveal

people who visit Bel- gium do not venture

ment and of the man in the

HOLLAND'S DEFENCES

are STRONG

a

NEUTRALITY is In many cases the precau-

wonderful thing, if sions go further still: there you will find, standing upright you can defend it.

in the pavement, a bundle of The fate of small what could have been sewer- |countries wishing to be pipes, solidly joined to each other. These pipes are to be neutral but unable to filled with cement, which in a

the obstacle into one solid block

Tol. 27778-91 beyond the coast and attitude of the Belgian Govern-help themselves in an couple of seconds transforma

the capital, parent very soon.

street on the question Brussels,

becomes op emergency shows that of concrete, which no vehicle, the finest proclamation no tank or armoured car can and do not penetrate in- to the beautiful forested concentration of German propagandist of neutrality is worth possibly pass and which cannot be demolished except by blow- Ardennes country.

and other territories finally annexed nothing if such coun- ing it up. And even that is by the Reich, previous to their oc- tries have to depend on made dificult by barbed wire entanglements of the latest de- cupation by Germann troops,

But the majority Belgians will the courtesy of others to sign.. tell you that should Eupen and

Hongkong Telegraphı. Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 September 25, 1939

U.S. Neutrality

THE proposals, which the Amuri- can Congress will debate when

It re-assembles in Washington to- day are of a momentous nature.

President Roosevelt has request

ed, in effect, that the United States abandons the incongruous Neut- rality Act, which has controlled much of the foreign policy of the country since 1937, and reverta to International Law.

So far, there, has been none of the

forces which was scen in Danzig,

Malmedy

ever become a problem respect it.

-by-

The Dutch know that, and

are taking the necessary precautions. Any- one who feels inclined to Isneer at these measures,

The delay thus caused is ex-

by

Part of the Ardennes is inhabited by former Ger- mans; the people of the so- called "redeemed provinces" of Eupen and Malmedy, where a silent, but none the less important battle is at present going on between those of the inhabitants who territories would be transferred with made by so small a country, actly what the Dutch deforce are satisfled with the extra-little argument and less regret. They should have been cured by system is aiming at. ordinarily liberal administration have little economic value, and are the recent sharp fall of the

J. MICHAEL

lend to armed conflet, the

of the Belgian Government, and but a thorn in the side of the tran-

lories over.

Albert de Hes.

Staff had

of the any in

to think of defence

those who wish for an Anchluss quality-loving people of Bellum, guilder, and attributed by smalt "size"

the other hand, the attitude, of

TH with the National-Socialist the Government has changed in re-experts to the burden of proportion to the comparative Reich.

cent years. In spite of the fact that strengthening the country's extensiveness of the frontiers, as well us the character of these fundamentally, the opinion of the

frontiers, would make a Dutch electorate, is on the whole shured by defences. THE latter are organised in the administration, the latter would

If this loss at the stock therefore useless.

"Maginoi line" indefensible and the "Heimattreug front" or not be as ready to hand the terri-exchange did not convince Consequently, the Dutch General True To the Homeland Front,

So far, the Belgian Government has the doubter he should make a methods of their own and, as a visit which gets both its extensive been leading an "Independent" for trip to Holland and look for now to any part of Holland clearly financial resources and its eign policy, which lend them last himself.

shows, they have succeeded magni- spiritual inspiration from the year to hold milltary manoeuvres on He will still find a country of ficently. Bund Der Deutscher Im. Aus- the French Frontier, "so as not to

seaside resorts, rich pastures, land, the Deutschex Fichte Bund annoy the German Government." and other organisations in Ger many which aim at including the National - Socialist philosophy

Under International Law it would be permissible for Ameri- cans to sell war implements to belligerents, providing the belli gerenta make available the cash to pay for them and the ships to carry them across the Atlantic,

which the President has protested, in any way be deemed of Ger- Under the existing legislation, among all peoples which might the Democracles would it is perfectly permissible for manic origin. Americans to acll wheat, collon, copper, steel and other raw mate-

rials to belligerents and to ship these supplies to them in Anter

to admire the ingenious work done

One need not be a military expert

ret

But in official circles, it is realised gardens, cows, and windmills, in a short time with a modest hud- that if Belgium should have to make but if he uses his eyes, he will

"Defence

物 against

surprise choice between the Democracies see a lot more than that. and the Nazis, there is no doubt that

attack!" was the watchword: na a Dutch officer explained it to me: their side.

find her ati

•

•

THE unusual number of war- "We are unable to defend ourselves ships in and around the single handed and for a long time IN such an eventuality, the areas of

against nummies ten times the size of Eupen, Malmedy and St. Vith port on his arrival may not im- our own, but we certainly are able Included in the activities of would assume a particular importance, press him very much, but he to force a delay in the advance of

As Monsieur Jules M. Mathieu, the will become thoughtful when,. such an nemy. the Heimattreuefront are the usual sub-sections: Hitler Youth, Bellum's main line of defence les bridge across a canal, the train where and so would rob the whole Even a delay of a few days would Governor of Liege, explained to me. shortly before-passing-the-first besleient-to-gel-help-from-else---- League of German Maidens, and behind the Redeemed Provinces."

a

frontier.

"For some 40 kilometres," he said,

of

can ships, sending American vessels into the war zone. Yet the Winter Help, in some cases are for the powerful line of steel and carriage windows-in spite of for a foreign power to undertake it so on. Money is collected for which are thus an invaluable fleld of guards will start closing all attack of its surprise value, which otherwise could be the only reason it is not permissible to ship guns, in sizeable sums, if one takes the concrete, which guards the eastern heat and closeness, rigorous at all."" ammunition or other implements smallness of the territory into

ly prohibiting the passengers to On that idea of "delay" the whole of war to countries engaged in the account. So-called "gymnastics Invading army would ut present throw cigarette end or anything of the ten defence system ta bin conflict. One of the first effects clubs,"

Hundreds

leading and "gliding clubs" be subjected to the punishment of else out of the train or to open across the frontiers, are decorated of this law was to prevent the de- which exist In Eupen and Mal-our forts.

the windows again.

In a most unusual way: coch tree livery to France of 600 airplane medy are but cloak

"If those territories are handed for

For the bridge, like every of tratyl round its trunk. Alf trees weare a belt of little brownish blocks political motora which were being made in irredentist

back to Germany, the Releh's fron- activity her would be brought to within other important bridge through-along a read are linked up by means | the United States for the French among young people, who are few thousand yards of the forts, out Holland, is provided with a or an electric fuse, and one Ignition Government when war broke out. the backbone of the Nazi move whose effectiveness would thus be blasting-charge and is ready to is sufficient to cause the explosion of

During the Great War the trade ment.

Impaired to an enormous extent." be blown up at any moment. bry belt along a four mille roar of the United States in raw mate-

tlon which the more far-sighted of This is the case even with one terrife. The trees break like laths riala sold to Great Britain, ON the other side stands the Belgian politicians have in inlid, and of the finest and newest bridges and ns their tops are interconnected that is the problem of Flanders, in the country: the one near In It into an impenetrable tangle of they fall across the road transform- France and their allies was three powerful influence of the times as great as its trade in Catholic Church, and the smaller whose people constituto the majority | Dordrecht, a marvel of bridge-branches and trunks

of Belgium's population.

and leaves, but still important voice of Ger- It has not been unnoticed that building, which has been under which would take a considerable

time to get through. man Socialists, who like the every time a territory is handed back construction for several years.

to the Reich, the Government which Now, nt last, the work, i will be strongly guarded by machine Needless to say, these obstacles Catholics have before them the example of events in the Reich as tree from foreign influences as been opened to traffic.... but trenches and pill boxes al

agrees to the concession is no longer finished and the bridge has just guns and hold guns, placed in

in the Heimattreuefront. to dissuade them from joining formerly; the most extreme example

of this is Czecho-Slovakia.

actual war munitions sent to those countries. Thus if it is assumed that America was drawn into that war by having built up an econo- mie atake on the side of the Allies, the raw materials were three times as much a factor in building

There is another side to Die ques-

within one second!. The effect is

with a blasting-charge in its them. ltivers, railroads, and high- This is a very important factor for inner parts! It is one of the ways in the interior are protectext in

the same way. Belgium, because Nazi penetration is wonders of our civilisation that, When travelling through. Holland up that stake as were the muni. "Sudetenlanders" are thus the not confined to the "Redeemed Pro-whereas the construction took one might see in a cornfield some- vinces", but is becoming increasingly netive among the Flammands.

tlong sold.

Nazi Germany is anathema.

they were subjected to constant

.

The loyal section of Belgium's

older generation, whose cohesion

such a long time, the destruc- thing that from some distance looks Hko a scarecrow find a minule later In the "Democratic Front" is cement-i List April, for example, a group of tion can be carried out within proves to be a machine-gun which A rejection of President Roose-ed by people like the ex-servicemen, students from the University of Ghent two seconds....

has got its place but not yet its steel velt's proposals for amendment of to whom the bellicose philosophy of were invited to visit Cologne. There

The defence of bridges or concrete cover. the existing Neutrality Act will

Wherever one looksor is forbid. In the last communal elections, stream of propaganda. They were which in the Spanish Civil War den to look these machine-guns be no guarantee of American even In Eupen, where the Heimut- iold in a lecture by Professor Martin have proved to be of the same and quick-firing • guna, protect abstention from. war. Indeed,

treuefront is strongest, the anti-Nazi Spahn that the National-Socialist strategical significance in mo- Holland's ronds and canals, and parties won a majority of voles. there are grounds for belloving

Relch takes a particular interest in dern warfare as in the past is where they seent to be wanting, the This majority, however, was. In the Flammands, whom It considers to

peasants will betray to you that that the Congresalonal rejection most cases very narrow indeed, and be a pure racial group of Germanic by no means restricted to their everal of thent are hidden behind. of previous efforts by President in point of fact, the casual visitor to origin, and that the time for them to blowing up; on the contrary, dykes and hedges, between bills and Roosevelt to amend the law was given the impression that the elec- has arrived,

the "Redeemed Provinces," is rather return to their natural German, orbit this is only the last straw, as bushes.

one can see when passing the side is one big but unobtrusive The whole of Holland's country- In fact, an encouragement to Ger- tians should have gone the other w there exist groups of the League of bridges by car,

In all the main towns of Belgium,

Maginot Line", albeit of a some- many to invade Poland, since there round.

At both ends of a bridge of what unusual kind. | is no doubt that, so far, American

German style peaked caps, the dis- Germans Abroad, the whole "coun tinctive mark of the adherent to the y-group" of Belgium being or some importance in any area sources of supply have been closed to the nations in the defen- tireuefront, are everywhere in a certain Herr Schultze, near the frontier (and which Titis must be added,, of course, the historic Dutch defence evidence, while a careful look at the lying in Brussels,

The Belgian Nazis publish a dally area of that small country is system of the "Waterline", by means aive alliance. **

If Congress adopts President

paper, which is circulated among all near the frontier ?) vast num-of, which the valley between the Germans living in Belgium, and at bors of iron polen are placed in Eastern and Western parts of the Roosevelt's appeal that arms and to stand by as a spectator if there the same time, take an active part in deep holes in the pavement, country can be flooded completely. ammunition be placed in the same is any possibility that Great Bri-Flemish Nationallat polities.

a moment afraid that this system should prove out of date. As ter- category with all other commodi tala and France will be defeated In this respect, they were instru-rising three or four feet above Dutch strategical experts are not for ties and applies the "cash-and-by Germany. Henco, it fa to herimentat in, founding at Antwerp the the street level. L carry" principle to them, It should advantage that the democracies be Arbeiderpart the National Go-humour is typical of the Army's conquered by bombing, love deel. The Dutch soldier, whose ritories cun bo destroyed, but hot provide the maximuni of possible strengthened, and not weakened,cialist Flemish Workers Party spirit, has already nicknamed sive results and, once the Water-

has still to march in to achieve accurity from war for the United In their fight against the aggres- whose official organ "Fatherland and them "asparagus". These aa-ling" I put into operation, this may States, anil at the same time ald sors. The existing Neutrality Work" is headed by two large thoso nations who are fighting legislation weakens our resis-wastikas, and whose avowed aim is paragus sticks leave only give him a hell of a headache.

Several years before the Great aggression.REA

tance; the amendments. proposed to achieve "the spiritual_unity of the small part of the bridge's width war, when the derman echporar

people's community in Low-dorman Ah Mr. Roger Babson, the well- by President Roosevelt are the Flanders with other ethnographic pen to traffic and that remain-paid a State visit to the young Queen known US, statistician now visit- best reinforcements his country German communities. The writtening part, if an emergency arises, Wilhelming, the Kaiser boasted of ing Hongkong, and in an address can offer us--short of going to matter makes it clear that this can be blocked in the same way, his wonderful army, some companies

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