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JAPAN'S NEW DILEMMA

There are, apparently, any number of political observers prepared to believe that exten- sion of the European war to the Far East is merely a question of time and not a long time at that. This belief, however, argues an attitude of intracta- bility by all parties concerned both with regard to current and future political issues in the Orient, as well as the ability and willingness of Japan to imple. ment the new alliance she has signed with Germany and Italy.

Under the new alliance the to three signatories promise render cach other aid should certain stated eircumstances arise, but precisely how this is to be accomplished has left even the best informed critics wonder. ing. If the pact is an attempt to give Japan carte blanche in her efforts to establish a New Order in East Asia, it is a characteristically 'naive gesture on the part of the two European partners; but it is difficult to see how much nearer it brings Japah towards realisation of the quest. As a direct challenge of the United States the pact is un- mistakable, but here again it is one thing to make a challenge, and quite another to put it into effect.

Like Germany, Japan has enjoyed some spectacular Buccesses in the war field dur- ing the past three years, but these have yet to be consolidated In terms of economic and finan- cial gain. It is probable that Japan economically, is as re- sillent as almost any other nation in the world; nevertheless even she is beginning to feel the enormous strain of her "China Incident" venture. It is hard to believe that she, in her present condition, would welcome a clash of arms with the United States a clash which would also in- evitably drag in Britain against her.

This is not to discount the potential threat now offered to British and American interests through the invasion of Indo- China and the setting up of aerial and naval bases therein. The threat is there, but whereas a year ago Japan felt reasonably confident that sho could afford to go to almost any length and still avoid open conflict with the Occidental, democracies, to-day she faces a realistic and out- raged America, as well as a Britain more and more resolved to dispense with appeasement These are two factors which must make any nation, no matter what her aspirations, think hard and think twice be fore committing herself to an irrevocable decision which may involve her completo destruction.

Victories of the

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GROUP of French wounded soldiers were kissing the nurses with Gallie gallantry, shaking hands with their British com- rades, thanking the doctors and saying their fervent "Au "voira" to the Medical Superintendent of the war hospital.

Most exuberant among them was a young officer whose life had been despaired of five weeks ago. Now, almost fl, he was going off with the others to completo his convales-

cence.

He had been brought to the hos pital terribly burned. In the last war, the doctors would have eased his pain with drugs, and despite their utmost efforts he would prob- ably have died a few days later.

But in this case-the doctors had

not much hope, but they treated him with the modern technique.

IN A CHEMICAL SKIN

His burns were sprayed with a preparation of tannic acid so that he was sheathed in a chemical skin. There was none of that unspeak- able torment of dressing and un- dressing burnis.

Instead, a cage was placed over him and he lay until under the tan- nic sheath the wounds began to heal and the skin to reform, Thani was five weeks ago.

Then, like a serpent shedding ita slough, the sheath pected off of it own accord. And he emerged re- Ktorca.

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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

partant in this petrol-driven war, and it la comforting to and how thoroughly the doctors and sur- geons have mastered it.

But that was not the only com- fort I found at this war hospital. I had steeled myself to see auffering and alghts I hoped to forget.

The suffering had been tempered by the gentle skill of the nurses and now how to doctors who know

The sights I saw I master pain. shall remember gratefully.

BOW wounded soldiers with damaged arms sitting up knitting and embroidering.

To them it was an amusing pas- time. To the doctors it was modern treatment. It has replaced the old system of strapping up a fractured limb rigidly in splints so that while the bone act muscles became wasted and required long and pain- ful massage and exercise to restore them.

WEED-PICKING CURE

Fractured limbs are now placed in plaster casts, which, while hold- ing the fractured bone in place allows certain movements of the muscles.

In addition to all the various elve- Not only had the tannic acid trical methods of restoring the body helped the healing process but it to usefulness, there are light reme

in the exercises: arrested the

gymnasium. had

death-process dia! which used to set in a few days Planing a piece of wood is part the doctor's prescription for after the burning-due to some of poison distilled in the buried flesh restoring a damaged arm. Picking weeds (in spite of my own doubtsl and absorbed into the body.

Treatment of burns is vitally im- can ease an injured back. Pushing

HELIGOLAND REMEMBERS

"THE OLD LADY'

"Oberland" or upper part. A large 11ft TS ironic that Heligoland—a special target recently of the a tunnel borod through the rock, and persistent RAF bombers--be- some stone stairs connect the two parts. The "Oberland" is now heavily forit. longed to Britain only 50 years ago, and was in fact the last stronghold flod with batteries of heavy artillery, of pre-Hiller Germany to yield to four-inch guns and high angle guns ( The island hollowed out and con- Naziam.

tains vast supplies of petrol, ell, muni- tions and stores, a hospital, bakery and sleeping quarters.

When I was on this small North Sea island in Whitsun, 1935, the local holl- day band fatly refused to play the *Horst Wessel" anthem, though all Germany had been playing it for two

years.

So for the summer, season it was TO- placed by a fully “Nazified" orchestra from the mainland..

The submarine harbour, destroyed in accordance with the Treaty of Ver galiles, and all the other military and naval equipment have been restored.

a lawn-mower can bring life back

to an injured leg.

I saw something of the admirable organisation of Emergency · War Hospitals. They are not military, hospitals but are under the Ministry of Health, since this time we are all in the front line and the casuI- nities will be civilians as well s8 soldiers.

"BLOOD-BANK" NEARBY

Surgical teams, which during the German 'advance had done hun- dreds of operations in rooms con- verted into operating theatres, were on the alert for the next emergency which might come at any moment.

Five minutes away, in a centre of population, is "blood-bank ready to supply as much blood as is needed for transfusions.

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Countless lives will be saved by it, and they will have to thank, rot only the nameless donors, but the surgeons of Republican Spain, who used blood-transfusions under im- possible conditions and to such good account, in the Civil War.

In addition the resources of the hospital itself, it has call on mobile surgical units, of which there are more than 400 in the country.

Take, for instance, an air raid casualty. He is rushed to a first-aid past, where he is given morphia and a hot drink theat la important in reducing effects of shock) before he Is moved to the nearest hospital.

He arrives in a considerable state of shock, which not treated im- mediately may itself cause death, But the "shock-room" ready. He is warmed up and given a blood- transfusion.

As soon as is safe, he is carefully examined and, if need be, X-rayed. His wounds are dressed. If there is dirt in the wound he would be given

an anti-tetanus injection. I there is risk of gangrens or an in- fection setting in, he would receive sulphanliamide.

And that in itself is a tragic commen- Lary on war. For we owe sulphanilamide to German chemists, whose work was followed by scientists in Britain, France and Americn until they perfected it as the miracle drug of the Twentieth Cen- tury, possibly of all time

Perhaps the patient has a fracture. It is immediately placed in a plaster- splint.

TORMENTED NERVES

He may have a head injury and a chest injury. Mobile chest and head units are summoned from the nearest centre.

The surgeons, the best specialists, with their assistants and nurses, arrive with their essential kistrumenta

If the victim's facial bones have been damaged, a plastic surgery unit wit also bo summoned.

Another set of specialists, represente ing a great advance on the last war, are the psychologists and neurologists.

This is a war of nerves, in a different'.

ANOTHER ISTHMUS CANAL

By Otto Janssen_ (United, Press. Staff, Correspondent)

Washington, Oct. 1 (UP).- Construction of a trans-oceanic canal across Nicaragua to atrengthen the defensive and, economic position of the nations of the New World is advocated by Commander, Miles P. DuVal. Junior, of the United States. Navy in his book "Cadiz to Cathay," published by the Stan- ford University Press.

Commander DuVal traces the his tory of the long strużgle for a water- way across the American Isthmus," culminating in the construction of the Panama Canal during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt,

"What could be more appropriate than for the Nicaragua Canal to be commenced as an expression of the 'Good Neighbour' policy enunciated by the Administration of the second Roosevell?" he asks.

"Such an undertaking would fend to strengthen a palley which has been so universally accepted by Latin America and to make more secure the strategie

gle posillon possessed by the United States in the control of water- ways scross the American Isthmus," the officer asserts.

DuVal holds that inasmuch as thu. United States has assumed responsi- bility for inter-oceanle communica- tions in this hemisphere through ownership of the Panama Canal, this country should live up to that respon- sibility by constructing the second canal across Nicaragua,

The governing reason for such an undertaking, he says, is of that of national defence. Не explains:

"Such a canal would reduce the danger of isolating the frets on one side of the Isthmus in the event of the destruction of one canal. It would increase the rapidity with which the fleets could be transited ACROSS

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the Isthmus. And it would greater security from danger to Interruptions of traffic due to at tack from the air.

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"The Isthmus is the strategic centre the Americas. The power in possession of It can operate its fleet to control both coasts as long there is uninterrupted transit. With the increased security which Nicaragua Canal would give to trans- Isthmian transit there should be less need of two separate "fleets for the United States, cach adequate for the defence of its coast.

With security of transit assured, one fleet would supply the needs of national defence for both counts, and render unnecessary expensive dupli- cation of naval forces. The initial. cost

of the Nicaragua

Canal ($722,000,000) and its $10,800,000 an-

· operating and maintenance

charge would be small indeed, as compared with expenditures which the construction and maintenance of an additional fleet would entail,

"Of particular interest to Central America will be the local benefits of a Nicaragua Canal- It should increase productive in- dustry and employment, open up new areas to world commerce, and by so doing tend to stabilize political conditions of the area, which for so many years in the past has been the scene of re volution, conflicts, interventions, and disorders.

"With the Great Powers of the Old World nguin engaged in a struggle which is certain to bring about great and unpredictable changes among the powers, the necessity for taking the steps essential for the security of the Americus, now and in the decades to come, has been effectively phasized.

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"The Monroe Doctrine has been accepted by the nations of the world. largely because of the strength of the United States Navy..

"That doctrine, In effect, however. has been recently enlarged in scope by the Panama Conference of so as to apply, not only to prevent the expansion of European political systems on the American continents. but also to prohibit, belligerent acts by any foreign power in the waters surrounding the Americas,

The enforcement of this new policy: will fall chiefly upon the United States, thereby adding greatly to the responsibilities. of its naval forces.

"Steps have already been initiated by the United States government to strengthen its Navy, but that alone. is not enough. Steps also must be fuken to

to safeguard the free and un- interrupted transit of the Isthmus by the ships of the Navy and to reduce the possibility of isolating portions of the United States Fleet in a time or national emergency. This can be t by the digging of a accomplished best

"When the Nicaragua opened

to world traffic the story of“ transisthmian water communication will be near

Its end

That canal

will be they realization of all the dreams of the early United States explorers. engineord;! business men, and-states- men who had the vision but not the means to accomplish their aims.« will give the names of Morgan, Hepburn PearyChilds, Lull, and

Tho saruo year the fire brigade re Heligoland belonged to England until fused to march round the place behind 1820, when it was given to Germany in this band on Hitler's birthday. A special exchange for Zanzibar. The tower of boat hurriedly brought a number of

the little church bears a bronze plaqu Storm Troopers from Wilhelmshaven, were ordered to join them and form a memory of Our Glorious Queen Vio.

toria by a grateful subject" procession.

Unill year or so ago, the largest and Those who refused were taken away, most expensive - boarding house wal to a concentration camp to become proudly called the "Empress of India."

Nattiled."..

Many quaint customs aliaracterised the Although in peace-time there were sie; English words were still in usa only about 2,000 people living on the? When I was that on Heligoland there, menace of the dive-bombers, ge island, the fire brigade, which resigned was an old sharman with a gold ring "But they were almost normal again. as a result of this incident, is the come in one of his ears who could yarn about They had been put to bed and made munity's most important organisation.

and the men and youths on, Hellgoland Fooding that. It was "crected to the sense from which we used it in the first” second isthmianyconalENTARE E

common la Belgium and, France, and nine months. Noise and horns were are able to be common here.

I saw in that hospital men who had Tired, exhausted come through Heli. through sleeplessness and hunger, tor- mented by the sight of civilians being. machine-gunned, by the noise and

For water is scarce, IL has to bo, id faland's history for hours on end. comfortable. They had been fed on brought from the mainland and many He always started his stories: Now good food, milk and glucose

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