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Discredited Oracle

THERE

an ofl-old tegal uncertote about a man who, after bc- ing tried for stealing a pair of trousers, and after having been given the benellt of the doubt, was inform- ed by his counsel that he might leave the dock. "But I can't," was the reply, "I've got the trousers on!" hat anecdote would illustrate any attempt by Want Ching-wel or the Japanese in convince that the secret streement between them, so dramati- cally exposed by two of Wang's erstwise followers, is anything but what it is incant to be-lhe betrayal of one-fifth of the world's population into bondage.

Indeed, Wang Ching-wei's chief secretary, Chon Chun-po, has realised the dimculty of repudiating W | the agreement and has admitted thal the text published'in Hongkong ja genuine. lie

the severity of the terms as "only representing the Japanese demands and not including Wong Ching-wei's counter demands or the terms which were actually agreed upon."

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"The real terms," be continues In almost apologetic explanation, "are not detrimental to China's sovereignty or independence."

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RIBBENTROP: "It was all very well for Schuschnigg and Eenes, but this is beyond a joke!”

Still we use the

DOGS OF WAR..

OGS. hundreds of them. are

"serving" In the Maginot Line.

They still have a place

in modern armles, New mech- anical inventions can no more replace them than they can re- place foot-soldiers.

Many people early in the last war were shocked to see photos of dogs in Belgium pulling light rubber wheeled carriages mounted with machine-guns.

To-day dogs are still used. In the Maginot Line there are hun- dreds 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 at observation posts-to-supple--- ment the warning of approach- ing planes given by the delicate detecting instruments.

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- 1stic. He would lift his head,

Admission that the terms are those which Japan-sccks to impose on China after two and a half years of warfare in which China is by no means the most exhausted of the belligerents, and the further admiss- ion that Wang Ching-wel was even prepared to discuss peace and the formation of a new "government" with these terms as a basis of dis- eussion at once brands the Wang re- gime as an enemy to the Chinese people. If the evidence tendered by Wang's former supporters is so irre- futable that it brings admission from Wang's own camp, are we not then to believe that the further allegation by Kal Tsung-wu and Tao Hsi-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 11:at

| barks. the treaty was signed in a Japanese hotel in Shanghai on December 30-- Is also Irrefutable? Chen Chun-po knew 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 is not yet ripe for publication," Why? If the terms are to occasion rejoicing to the Chinese people, would not this be the most opportune time to publish them, in view of the Irreparable dam- age done to Wang's already discredit- ed cause by exposure of what is ad- Prowler, unheard by the sentry. raitted to be, at the very least, the is immediately heard by the basis on which he negotialed, with dog. Japan.

Japan's bull-headedness in the past in her dealings not only with China but with third Powers does not offer support for Chen Chun-po's' claim that she has, between December 30 any yesterday, weakened to such an extent that she completely abandoned the demands exposed yesterday and has agreed to substitute claims "not detrimental to China's sovereignty or independence."

There are damning facts which Wang and his followers--we predict that Kal Tsung-wu and Tai Hel- sheng will not be the last defections ~~cannot conceal from the outer world, however they are reconcilable to Wang's conscience. There are the trousers--the betrayal of a Central Government and leader whom Wang pledged to support; the secret negotiations In the

Every man in the company

Watch-dogs can also give the alarm 1 an enemy soldier is

ncross creeping

the ground ahead. A dog has far more sen- sitive powers of hearing than a human being. Watch him. Every

by the move made

His head points towards the place where the soldier lurks. A move to the left or to the right is registered at once by the dog slightly moving his head.

Secondly, war-dogs are used by the Army Medical Corps. They go at night with the stretcher-bearers into No-Man's Land, searching for wounded.

In the dark human searchors often miss wounded men, lying un- 'conscious, incapable of attracting inttention. So the dogs are

apecially trained to "amell out”- the wounded.

capital of an cupled by his countrymen's enemy enemy whole planes were bombing was the very adviser who, five years Chinese women and children; the de- | ago, told China to beware of Japanese mands upon which Wang catered intrigue. Certainly, he will claim negotiation and, according to two of that he but seeks to put Cúlna on á his close followers, actually signed.

And thirdly, dogs are used as "runnera or "carriers."

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

Such a dog has to cross the enemy's fire. He must be cunning,

and very carefully trained. selli

deerhounds and Greyhounds, wolfhounds are usually best at this work.

Food and ammunition can be carried by dogs as well as mes- unges,

A heavier dog is needed for this-Great Danes, St. Bernards. Alaskas.

When Incessant artillery fire makes it Impossible for the Army Service" Corps men-to-reach-the- forward trenches, they can send these dogs specially inden through the maze of communication trenches to revictual cut-off. out- posts.

For days on end they may be the solo 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

URKEY declines the Canal was made) this is part of a 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 her friendship with Britain and France: to lure her into the Russo-German camp.

It is part of diplomatic 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- celyed the idea of attacking the Indian Empire by the invasion of understood Egypt-It has been -hero-that-the-Eastern Mediter....

ranean is of

of nearly as much con- sequence to us as the Channel or the North Sca.

From the moment that Nelson sailed for the Nile we have never for a moment taken our eyes off these parts. All through the nine- teenth century the "Eastern Ques- wna the main preoccupation of British statesmanship.

tion

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So it has been, so it must be. For tmore than ever since the Suez

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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life line" of the Empire-the route to Indin, to Australia, to New Zealand, to East Africa.

interest to the British Common- wealib, Turkey occupies a position of

Relatively to this area of ** vital

aupremo strategic importance. She lies athwart the route which either of the East European Powers must take if they are to menace us · 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 policy for a century and

ΣΠΟΤΟ.

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 il legacies had been liquidated Turkey has followed two rules.

She hus kept on

the most friendly terms with her great mill- tary neighbour to the north. Friendship with Russia, so long as Russia had no Balkan ambl tiona herself and was opposed to them in anybody else, was a fixed and a wise rule.

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

Sa inde- For

bulwark

a

Britain a

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

Between the two Turkish policien of friendship with Russia and friendship with Britain thero -should have been no clash, 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 Faris offered M. Molotov every concession and every assurance to make it plain that

and the Anglo-Turkish Franco-Turkish pacts would in no way be directed against the Soviet But M. Molotov and indeed 1. ve demanded himself-have Stalin

Union.

too much. They have insisted on terms which would have made the pacts pointless: on terms which would have placed Turkey almost

· RUSSIAN SERVANTS new basis, and will pretend that the

pondent to-day that he recently re-

under Russian tutelage: they There is, doubtless, large allowance Power which has been held up.ns

··her · what we pinced the entire Chinese staff and

have declined to give

ABY German to be made for Wang Ching-wel the arch-enemy of China is a really Soviet Consul's Action To niso the servants with Russian men He is a disappointed and discredited kindred spirit with whom. It is most

because many Russians in Tepiin safeguard against

aggression in the Balkans," man, who is actually conscious that natural to be on neighbourly terms.. Give Employment were without employment.

have forced the Turkish his repulation has lost whatever But Wang-can surely not claim that

It is rumoured that the substitu- to choose shreds it had. He who, now faces the new basis", disclosed yesterday

Tientsin, Jan. 22. tion was made owing to the Chinese har vandens the a choice charges of treason it he ever returns is calculated: cb.inspire either con-

Consul-General, M, servants giving information to the Turkish interest required. to that part of his country not oc- Adence or respect,

Informed a corres- Japanese--United Preks.

The Soviet Serro Nitikin,