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Discredited Oracle

THERE Is 173 oft-told. legal anecdote about a man who, after be- ing tried for stealing a pair of trousers, and after having been given the benefit of the doubt, was inform- ed by his counsel that he might leava the dock. "Bu! I can't," was the reply, "I've got the trousers on!" That anecdote would Illustrate any uttempt by Wang Ching-wei or the Japanese to convince that the seerd agreement between (liem, so dramati-' eally exposed by two of Wang's cratwice followers, is anything but what it is meant to be--the betrayal of one-fifth of the world's population into bondage.

D

RIBBENTROP; “It was all very well for Schuschnigg and Benes, but this is beyond a joke!”

Still we use the

DOGS OF WAR..

OGS, hundreds of them, aro *serving" in the Magiriot Line.

They still have a place

In modern armles. New mech. nnical Inventions can no more replace them thap they can re- place foot-soldiers.

Many people early in the last war were shocked to see photos ∙of dogs In Belgium pulling light Brubber wheeled carriages

Indeed. Wang Ching-wel's chief secretary, Chen Chun-po, has realised the difficulty of repudiating the agreement and has admitted that the text published in Hongkong is genuine. He excuses the severity of the terms as "only representing the Japanese demands and not including Wang Ching-wel'a counter demands or the terms which were actually agreed upon."

"The real terms," he continues in almost apologetle explanation, "are not detrimental to China's sovereignty. or, independence."

mounted with machine-guns.

To-day dogs are still used. In the Maginot Line there are hun- drods of.them. They are used for three main purposes.

First of all, there are the "watch-dogs." For this purpose Alsatians, Groenendaels, and Malinois are best. They are used

Admission that the terms are those which Japan seeks to impose, on at observation posts to supple- China after two and half years of ment the warning of approach- warfare in which China is by no ing planes given by the delicate means the most exhausted of the

belligerents, the further admiss- detecting Instruments.

even

ion that Wang Ching-wei was prepared to discuss peace and the formation of a new "government" with these terms as a basis of dis- cussion at once brands the Wang re- gime as an enemy to the Chinese people. If the evidence lendered by Wang's former supporters is so irre- futable that it brings admission from Wung's own camp, are we not then

In 1015 a well-known watch- dog," Lion," was capable of giv Ing the alarm 10 minutes before an enemy plane came in sight.

His behaviour was character-

to belleve that the further allegation tic. He would lift his head, by Kai Tsung-wu and Tao Hai-sheng look up at the sky, constantly that Wang has actually signed the and violently shake his body terms disclosed in the photostat re and give short but repeated productions--the two men claim that

barks.

the treaty was signed in a Japanese

hotel in Shanghal on December 30--| Every man in the company is also Irrefutable? Chen Chun-po know the signs. Not once was claims that Wang's counter-claims, the dog mistaken.

have been adopted by the Japanese;

that they are not detrimental to Chinese independence, “but the time

Watch-dogs can also give the

alarm if an enemy soldier is ground

is not yet ripe for publication," Why? creeping across the

If the terms are to occasion rejoicing ahead. A dog has far more sen- to the Chinese people, would not this aliive powers of hearing than a be the most opportune time to publish human being. Watch him. them, in view of the irreparable dam Every move made by the oge done to Wang's already discredit-

ed cause by exposure of what is ad prowler, unheard by the sentry, mitted to be, at the very least, tho immediately heard by the

basis on which he negotiated with dog,

Japan.

Japan's bull-headedness in the past

in her dealings not only with Chinn

but with third Pawers does not offer

support for Chen Chun-po's claim His head points towards the

that she has, between December 30

and yesterday, weakened to such an

place where the soldier lurks. A

move to the left or to the right

extent that she completely abandoned is registered at once by the.

the demands exposed yesterday and has agreed to substitute claims "aul detrimental to China's sovereignty of Independence,"

There

used as

And thirdly, dogs are "runners" or "carriers."

Attacking parties can use them to send back messages to head- quarters when a soldier could not got through and when the distance is too short for the use of pigeons.

Buch a dog has to cross the. enemy's fire. He must be cunning, avift, and very carefully treined.

and Greyhounds, deerhounda wolfhounds are usually best at this work,

Food and ammunition can be carried by dogs as well as mes- A heavier dog is needed for this Great Dancs, Bt. Bernards. Alaskas.

When incessant artillery fire makes it impossible for the Army Borvice Corps men to reach the forward trenches, they can send these dogs specially Inden through the maze of communication trenches to revictunt cut-off out- posts.

For days on end they may be the Bole source of supply for troops engaged in heavy fighting,

Dogs are indeed precious to the soldier-even to-day.

P. B.

Turkey's Choice

WHAT IT MEANS

by W. N. Ewer

TURKEY declines the Russian proposals.. Her decision is of the first importance to us.

For behind the pact proposals was a more far-reaching idea.. To lure Turkey away from hor and friendship with Britain France: to lure hor into the Russo-German camp,

It is part of a diplomatie offen- sive into territory and waters which are vitally important for the British Empire.

For a hundred and fifty years- ever since General Bonaparte con- celved the idea of attacking the Indian Empire by the invasion of Egypt it has been understood here that the Eastern Mediter- rancan la of nearly as much con- sequence to us as the Channel or the North Sea.

From the moment that Nelson salled for the Nile we have mover for a moment taken our eyes off these parts. Ali through the nine- teenth century the “Eastern Ques- tion" was the main preoccupation of British statesmanship.

So it has been. so it must be. For (more than ever since the Suez.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

PACKED

By Lichty

DRAMA

WOW PULSING

FAITICA THUS

dog slightly moving his head.

Becondly, war-dogs are used by the Army Medical Corps. They go at night with the stretcher-bearers aro damaing facts which Wang and his followers-we predict lato No-Man's Land, searching for

wounded... that Kai Teung-wi and Tal- Hal- pheng will not be the last defections

an searchers the dark human cannot conceal from the outer

often was wounded men, lying un- world, however they are reconcilable conscious, incapabis of attracting 50 the dozs яго to Wang's consciento. There are the attention. trousers the betrayal of a Central specially trained to smell out" Government and a leader whom

the wounded. Wang pledged to negoliations in the port; the secret capital of an enemy whose planes were bombing pled by his countrymen's enemy Chinese women and children; the do- the very adviser who, five years ngo, told China to beware of Japanese mands upon which Wang entered intrigue. Certainly, he wit claim negotiation and,"

according

two, of that he but seeks to put China on s his close followers, actually signed. now basis, and will pretend that the RUSSIAN SERVANTS

is, doubtles, largo allowance Power which has been held up as

There

to

"Well, I do know Gaylord is faithful-he's had the same secrotary for ten years."

Give Employment

pandent to-day that be recently re- placed the entire Chinew staff and also the servants with Bussian men [because many Russians in Tientsin were without employmenttone It is rumoured that the substitu- Tientsin, Jan. 22. tion was made owing to the Chineso Consul-General. M. servants · giving information to the

Informed corres. Japanese-United Preist

to be made for Weng Ching-wal. the arch-enemy of: China is a really Soviet Consul's Action To He is a disappointed and discrocfited kindred spirit with, whom it is minst man, who is actually conscious that natural to be on neighbourly terins. his reputation has lost whatever But, Wong can marely not claim that shreds, it had. He who now faces the "now basis" disclosed yesterday charges of treasons if he ever returns is calculated to "Inspire' either' con- to that part of his country not oc- fidance or respect,

The Soviet Berge Nithin,

Canal was made) this is part of a "life ao" of the Empire-the route to India, to Australia, to New

· Zealand, to East Africa.

Relatively to this area of "vital.

· Interest " to the British Common- wealth, Turkey occupies a position of

supreme strategie importance.. Sho lies athwart the route which either of the East European Powers must take if they are to menace un there. She is the guardian of the Straits, the strongest of the Balkan Powers.

She and we have a deep com- munity of interest. She must, and we must for our very safety, oppose and prevent a drive from the north to the Mediterranean, whether it comes from Berlin or from Moscow. That has been an axiom both of British and of Turkish polley for a century and

more.

Exceptions to the rule have been

rare, and always unfortunate.

The Turkey of Kemal has under- stood Turkish interests better than did Talaat and Djavid and Enver. After the war and its i legacies had been liquidated Turkey has followed two rules,

Bho has kept on the must friendly terms with her great mill-

the tary neighbour to

north. Friendship with Russia, so long na Russla

"had no

Balkan ambi- tions herself and was opposed to them in anybody else, was a fixed and a wise rulo.

Bo was friendship with Great Britain, hor great naval neighbour to the South, whose interests were clearly the same as hers--the keep Heir of the peace in the Balkans and in the Aegean.

For Britain a strong, and- indés, pondent Turkey is a bulwark -against aggression-in-a region of first concern to us. For Turkoy Britain is an invaluable support should her strength and indepen- dence be threatened,

Between the two Turkish poltclés of friendship with Russia, and friendship

thore with Britain should have been no slash, no in- compatibility.

M. Barajoglu has worked hard these three weeks in Moscow to persuade the Russians of this.

He has with the cordial agree- ment of London and Paris-offered M. Molotov every concession and every assurance to make it plain" that .the Anglo-Turkish Franco-Turkish pacts. would in way be directed against the Soviet Union.

But M. Molotov and Indeed

Atalin himself-have

and

no

M

demanded.

too much. They have insisted on terms which would have mado the pacts pointless: on terms which would have placed Turkey almost under Russian tutelage they have declined to give her Fany. German safeguard againat

in the Balkans.` aggression

"They have forced the. Turkish Government to choose, and se kas made the cholon „Turkish interests required)