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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 16, 1940,

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MAGAZINE

GERMANY'S BACK

ERMANY'S front door has

been shut and locked by our blockade of the North Sea. Her back door to the Balkan States stands wide open. The Block Sen and Danube now free from tee, Germany has plans for transport- Ing Balkan goods by water, Ger- many has commissioned anything and everything that can be used on the river. But the. Danube route -Is-very-slow","All perlslibble goods

rench Germany by tall,

Rumanin has two inain Hines, one going north vin Cermuti, the other going west vin Arnd, to take goods Into Germany. Three hundred truckloads of various goods passed over the Cernauti line each

day at the beginning of this year. Rumania supplies wheat, nize, futs and pork apart from her petrol and heavy oll quota. Rumanian exports to Germany jumped from 480 milion let for the whole of 1039 to 750 million Iri for the first

quarter of 1940. Rumanian exporta in Great Bri- to 484 millon le for

tuin

The

tobacco, eggs, grapes and pork. The goods travel either via the Danube or everland through Yugo- Siavia. BRain's share of Bul- garian export trade in 1930 was 1.1 per cent of the total, compared with 13.8 per cent, of the total for 1037.

Yugo-Slavia offers foodstuffs, minerals nud veslock and takes payment in machinery, chemienis and dyestuffs. Her trade..with. Germany ima trebled in the

past two years. Much of the Yugo- Slav material passes Up the Adriatic coast and reaches Ger- many via Italy. The deposits of copper and bauxite now being ex- ploited in Yugo-Slavia make her an object of particular attention in the German irade drive.

Greece has a surplus of olive oil, tobacco. currants and raisins.

These products can reach Germany either via the sea routes of the Adriatic und thence

overland

through Yugo-Slavia, Greek

1939 Ounto-million-let for the (Copthi of

first

arter of 1940, Germany is quarter using every means to frighten the Rumanians into increasing their export figure.

Bulgaria's position is for more acutely affected by German dhe monde. Of the total Bulgarian exports for 1939 over two-thirds went to Germany. In return for heavy machinery

and

sends to the Nazis all her surplus

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ports to Germany in 1939 amount- ed to £4,000,000. To Great Bri- she supplied about £2,000,000

Somehow

this backdoor supply will have to be checked if the blockade is going to be of any reat effectiveness.

We must buy first, before the Germans get a chance. Mean- while,

the blockade will have to

be extended to the Black Sea. Egean and Mediterranean ports if the Germans are to be made to feel that they are going to lose the struggle,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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UROPE MUST UNITE.—

Thus writes Count Cou- denhove-Kalergi, and his book cannot be too strongly re- commended.

It is a challenge to all who realise that this war will mark the breakdown or the resurrection of Europe. The author's argument is that the unification of Europe is the only way to ensure lasting peace.

He is prepared for criticism of every kind and his answera cer- tainly seem adequate, Switzerland. is its main example of how peoples of different tongue and origin can live side by side in peace and prosperity if only the good will is there as a beginning.

He ends this very impressive argument for a Federation of Euro- pean States with the plea "Euro- peans, save Europe. (Martin Becker and Warburg, 65, GA)

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It should be particularly useful to students of foreign languages. (The Epworth Press, 18, dd,)"',

THERE is a welcome freshness about two newly published books. Guy Pollock has again achieved success in THEN THEY PULLED DOWN - THE BLINDS (Dent, · 89.......

38.). The method here employed of writing "backwards" can be very irritating, but in this instance it is a complete success.

We first meet Caley Thatcher as ag old man awulting death. Then we get brief but telling scenes clown the years until his portrait is complete.

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THE SEA-WIFE'S SON (Heinemann, fax. 3d.), a masterly tale of the sea-of comn-ships and the trials of Insurance brokers.

For that rapscallion-Pedro Ven- tura alone we should feel supreme- ly grateful-but all the characters "live" In quite a remarkable way,

Glag Kaw has taken jealously and what it brings in its train for the subject of her novel DEVIL IN GREEN (Nicholson and Watson, B. 6.). The influence wielded by n middle-aged woman over a young and weak character is not a pretty thing to ace. But there are light moments.

In ARARAT, by Elgin Gooseclose (Harrap, Da, G), we read of the persecutions of the Armentans and the founding of a small community of homeless refugees beneath the shadow of that mountain. It ta on courage and amazing tale of endurance, somewhat leisurely told but always interesting.

AUNTIE BEARDIE. Joseph Shearing his bosed this "should- bo" exciting story on a legend of French Revolution days, but after an Interesting start the book loses its hold, for towards the end no- body seems quito rent. (Hutchin- mor, Dn.)

BETWEEN

IN Rumania I had talks with

M. Gafencu, King Carol's energetic, English-speaking Foreign Minister; Sir Re- ginald Hoare, the Britishi Minister; the Rumanian Pro- paganda Minister and other influential people.

The Runanlans are by nuture rather easy-going and optimistic. During centuries of Turkish op- pression they managed to secure for themselves privileges which were denied other Balkan States under Turkish rule and to retain certain measure of indepen- dence.

Compromise is, the leitmotiv of Rumanian diplomacy, and the Rumanians consider themselves clever enough to be able to steer a middle' course between conflicting Nazi and Allied interests.

The people are, of course, over- whelmingly pro- Allied, as in Yugo- Slavia, Greece and Turkey, They want us to win the war and think we shall win. In the mean- 1me Bukarest re-

DEVIL

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tains its reputation as the "Parks of South-Eastern Europe."

--The half-bearied-block-out-at- tempts made last autumn when Russlu pushed the Ped Army to the Rumaniau frontier with "for- mer Poland have been abandoned.

Bukarest is a blaze of lights. Fashion and food shops are well stocked. Taxis, with ridiculously low tariffs, circulate with restricted frequency.

un-

First of all, Germany has no com- mon frontier with Rumania. -German troops could

dcnter Rumania only through Hungerlun or Russian-controlled territory.

Hungary is los tied up with Raly to permit the Germans to use her territory for attacking Rumania.

Ituty has large Interests In Rumanian ci), and there is

pro- fitable trade between Italy and Why should she lose all Rumania. this by permitting her ally. Kun- gary, to give passage to German troops against Rumania?

Secondly, Itumanians do not be. lieve that Rutsala et all anxious tu

Germany have

along her southern fron- tlers. Did Stalin grab the Polish oil wells and the Polish Ruman len frontler to have the Nazis. in the Rumanian oil felds and

By

KING CAROL has reduced the centre of the capital to architec- tural choos while extensions are made to his palace, and all Bukarest-pretty women, officials In gay-coloured uniforms, artists, Jes [[[[]]« dents-lock be- tween the walls of boards which conconi the secrets of the new administra- tive buildings now going up

One should

say, perhaps, nearly all Bukarest, for in the Ministries

HARRY

GREGSON

Who recently returned from a tour of S.E. Europe's

spots.

lights burn until late in the hight, while some 1,250,000 men-pea-

som

from their fields and san's dragged professional men from their desks have been mobilized for the past nine months to help in the con- struction of King Carol's moats at the frontiers.

WHAT does Bukarest talk. about? The people smile when they hear that the first preserupa. tion of the Nazi trade emissaries when they arrive in Bukarest is to stroll round the food shops and send parcels of food to their folk In the Fatherland,

They wonder whether Rumania will see ration cards, because Dr. Clodius is alleged to have said that If Rumanians were to eat less there would be more food for ex- port to Germany, Cost of living 18 1 constant preoccupation, for prices are soaring. There are some continued grumbles about the mobilisation, and Rumanians nak "Is it necessary?".

Rumanians do not think Ger- mnny_will_Invade, their..country.

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In

the

the

exchange between the Relchsmark and the lei. Rumanian vil is cost- ing the Nazis dear,

Rumanians tre 80 confident there will be no German aggres- elon that they have not even made arrangements to destroy the oil wells. Sixty square miles of oli flelds will need a lot of explosives in an emergency. One hopes Rumantan optimism is justified,

If the Nazis took over Humaulan transport they might get all the oll they need for the war as it is being fought at present. But the chaos resulting from Nazi aggtes- slon

would take months to eliminate. Germany cannot net In Rumania without Moscow's con- sent. Hitler, at the moment, must dance to the tune that Stalin pipes.

SINCE Finland's herole stand third the Rumanians are not afraid at Russia. They think that the Dniester and Carol's moat along. the Dniester would keep the Rua- slans busy for a long time. For- elgn military experts are not so confident. One of them told me that the moat was an expensive luxury..

place, the Ger- mans pre. get- ting, on paper. all they want from Rumania without inva slon, Rumanian. pes

asante ara

are: planting huge areas of sɔya beans and sunflower seeds, capital for which is provided by Nazi cor-

porations.

The Nazis can have as much oll as they can transport, which may mean 2,000,000 tons this year. But the Rumanfans learned the art of guile under the Turks, and there's many a slip between the Rumanian oll wells and Goering's storage. tanks.

Then there is the Allied guaron- tee. Rumanians smile where: the Briton talics to them of the guaran tec. Nazi propagandists point out that the British troops in Palestine and Egypt are much farther away than the Russian troops on the left -bank of the Entester,, or German troops just beyond the Polish, otle fields.

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M. Gafencu · fold Rumania valued the guarantee, as an expression of British Interest and friendship.

ALLED. Interests have leased I would rather have heard him.

that and laid-up 'hundreds et Danube say

Rumania valued the lighters. For the few which re-' . guarantee for its promise of main the Nazis are paying-fanias- speedy and effective support. tie prices. King Carol bulids his -fortifications and taxes the oil companies to pay for them. This sends up the price of oll.

France, Britain and Italy are inaking large, purchases. The price soara again, uatii to-day Rumanian oll fetches twice the world-market price...

No wonder Dr. Clodius is press- lag for a more favourable rate of

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