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INDO-CHINA

States and the Burmose Shar States should be one. With re- gard to the French, however, whose prestige has sunk to Ita nadir, the Thailanders threaten that if their demands are not met the non-aggression treaty will not be ratified.

Even in present circumstances they would hardly have dared to use such language were they not sure of the support of powerful friends. The powerful friends do not, of course, do anything

were the sturdy Thos of the with heavy burdens slung from their protectorate of Cambodia mountain-country near the bamboo shoulder-poles, the joss the two provinces of Battam- Tongking-Chinese frontier. houses, the spirit-screens, the bang and Siem Reap, in the

and latter of which is situated for nothing.

far-reaching paddy fields

Almost simultaneously with the Japanese demands on the French-demands for the pas

Kra Canal Rumours

The speaker was a mem- sugar-cane plantations and the Angkor.

Siam is strategically and eco- ber of the Siamese military dusty, dry, aromatic smell of

China. Suddenly you look By the changing of the name nomically a country of the high- mission which toured French

around you on the wide, mostly of Siam to Thailand the Bangkok est importance. Although it is Indo-China in the early part uncultivated plains dotted with Government tacitly staked its wedged in between French and British territory in the north of last year. As the general bottle-boled sugar-palms. The claim to the control of all the and bounded by the frontier of

country-side no longer heaves commanding the French with hundreds of thousands of lands inhabited by speakers of British Malaya in the extreme the Thai languages. At the south, the Siamese section of forces said to me after the busy figures. You are among u Thailanders had left, "We few leisurely, strolling, smiling time the claim seemed ambitious, the Malay peninsula has outlets people, taller. more bronzed, but the swift march of events on both scas-the China Sea to showed them all there was more muscular, more like our looks like making at least part of the cast and the Gulf of Bengal

the Siamese dream into a reality. to the west. to see," and then he added selves.

The Cambodians seem to have but little to do. They sit, with a Wednesday, December 4, 1940. cryptically, "even more than

there was to see."

sash tied about their waists, and One wonders if the subtle watch their impish children play. Siamese were as gullible as in Buddhist monks with shaven their politeness they seemed. heads move slowly by, clad in They certainly admired the Canary-coloured admirable network of good roads with which the French have criss-crossed Indo-China, especi ally as Siam is an almost road- Question of Retaliation less country; but the Thailand- ers could hardly have spent THE German Luftwaffe has several weeks in French terri- laid the inoffensive city of tory without having formed a Southampton in ruins, killing very shrewd idea of the disaffec- and wounding hundreds of non- tion of the native Annamese combatant civilians and render-population and of the naval and military weakness of the French ing thousands more homeless. in their Fur Eastern dominion. This act serves once again to remind one of the utter bar- barity of modern warfare as

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" indicate news which it siricus copyright bears the inf. 1918, Such news Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Prosa Associatiour, who re- serva all rights and forbid republications, elther wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

indication "tğu in received in

"Thailand"

Soon after the Siamese mili-

practised by the Huns. Coming tary mission had returned home

30 swiftly, too, upon the "hor- the name of their country was

and

and the change was no merc academic one.

ror" bombings of Coventry, officially changed to "Thailand," Liverpool, Birmingham London, the old argument as to whether Britain should or

should not indulge in reprisals of a like nature is immediately re- surrected.

"Indo-China" is a word that

suggests a mingling of India and China, but as a matter of fact the French Indo-Chinese Union was a political entity with no geographical, cultural or histori- cal basis. The French posses- sions fell into two sharply con- trasted parts.

robes. The

ELEGRAPH

NAL EDITION

THAI

AND

Although all the rumours. about the cutting of the Kra canal to connect the two seas can be, for the moment, disre garded, some progress has been made with the construction of a highway across the peninsula from Chumphun on the cast to Kraburi on the west, with an extension to the tin centre, Renong.

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A beginning has already been achieved towards the equipment of two small naval basea which might be suitable for submar- ines, and at least one of these, Singora, on the Gulf of Siam, about 150 miles north of the British Malaya frontier, has been demanded on lease by the Japanese. We shall no doubt. hear more of this after, the ""good will" mission has returned

from Tokyo.

INDO-CHINA FACE WAR

SERIOUS

SITUATIO

The Japanese in control of the naval bases at Haiphong in Tongking, Tourane and Camranh in Annam and installed in the Malay peninsula would be mas- ters of the coasts of the China Sea and the not too distant neighbours of Singapore,

Economically Siam is under- developed. More than four- fifths of the 15,000,000 inhabit- ants are rico growers, and the Japanese, pressed by the urgent problem of finding a substitute for American cotton, mean to make the Thailanders switch over to cotton cultivation at least in part. French Indo- China alone can meet the Japa- nese needs for imported `rice. sage of troops, Thailand's rubber production can and the "leasing" be immensely increased. There

ITALIANS DEFEATED SANGUINARY BAT

If numbers are taken into account the "retaliationists" are fairly certain to be in the majority; many of them are just

From the bend of the Mekong longing for it. Among their arguments is this; in the last river (where it curves round to border the eastern bulge of war the Germans were guilty of Siamese territory) down to ita first using gas, a treacherous delta, the great stream divides and brutal deed. To have al- roughly what is "Indian" by culture from what is "Chinese" lowed our soldiers to be thus by civiliantion. Northwards the victimised without protection line of cultural division follows would have been intolerable. the crest of the mountains so as Therefore, the Allies were to leave within the "Indian" zone

houses are brilliantly tiled and forced to use the same weapon, all the Laos country. and they gave the Huns more The transition from the one are carved with the figures of than they received. The wind zone to the other is most marked the magic world of Indian factor was generally in favour when you go westwards from mythology. The wayside signs of the Allies, and probably the Cochin-China (that is "Little are written in an alphabetic enemy regretted that they had China") into Cambodia. Within writing remotely akin to our reeks of a few miles you are in a new started this vile breach of inter-world. You have crossed; the own. The country national law. But before the dividing line between the Far wood-smoke and the hot, spicy war was over they had covered East and the Middle East. themselves with infamy in their cold-blooded disregard of all law. Another argument-and one that opens up a wide field of controversy is that there are no German civilians. According to the Nazi philosophy, all Ger- mana, men, women and children, belong body and soul, to the State machinery alike for war. and peace. The only civilians in Germany are in the concen- tration camps and prisons.. his present terrorising tactics,

Retaliation for the sheer sake of it has always been abhorent. to the Englishman's nature; he prefers to keep his fighting clean. But just as the Huns in the last war forced the Allies into adopting German methods, and rued. the day accordingly, so, will Hitlor, if he parsists in

China Into India

You leave the little Chinese-

odours of India.

You have left the Far East. The Siamese by the end of the 18th century had become the dominant people from the moun- tains of Annum to the Burmese

of air and naval bases that en- are almost inexhaustible sup- tirely change the status of Indo- plies of hard woods. The north- China and open that country to orn hills are probably rich in Japanese penetration and influ- minerals, and Siam lies right ence--the Siamese also present- athwart the tin belt of eastern ed their claims,

Asia..

The Bangkok Government Japan's Real

wants a frontier rectification in.. the Savannakhet region, the cession of the huge and poten- tially valuable Laos country, and the retrocession of the Battam

Aim

Japan's plan for the moment

bang and Siem Reap provinces, seems to be economic predomin- Nothing is as yet said about ance until the Chinese situation Cambodia, formerly a tributary has been in some way cleared up. The long-distance plans of the State of the Siamese.

Japanese undoubtedly comprise There is little doubt that these political control. demands were made with the

Tokyo would like to, soo back looking huts with their good.

approval of the Japanese, and they were probably made at the again the ideal state of things instigation of the Tokyo Govern- portrayed on the old maps: luck streamers of red paper in- frontier.

The old European maps, in ment as part of their schemes Empire of Annam," under a scribed with Chinese characters, the little Mongoloid black-clnd men and women under limpet fact, show,all that is now Siam for a "New Order in Asia." This puppet emperor like another hats who totter unsmilingly and French Indo-China divided year, the Siamese Military Mig. Manchukuo, and Empire of Vice-Minister for National De- and, consequently, a political, along the road weighed down between the "Empire of Annam" sion, under the command of the Slam" as much an economic,

and the "Empire of Siam,"

fence, has gone to Japan on a dependency as the Japanese hope. After the occupation of Indo "good will errand and arrived to make North China,

It remains to be seen how the demand and reecive, the Wrath- China by the French and the in Tokyo on Sept. 20, –

A short time ago the Thailand little peoples of the south-east ful vengeance of the British air establishment of our suzerainty force. The thought of Europe's over Burma, the continued exia Government signed non-aggres- will like the ruthless methods of loveliest cities being laid wasto tence of Siam as an independent sion treaties with their neigh Nippon. As a shrewd Annis

The Siamese have no sort of the Japanese because, since they is repellant, but if Hitler Ima- State was due to Anglo-French bours, Great Britain and France. mese, ones said to me, "We fear ginos that by doing this to Eng- rivalry in the nineties of the claim to any British controlled are like ourselves, Orientals, we land he can win the war, Britain last century. At the beginning territory, although some of the shall revor be able to hide from will be bound to prove to him, by of this century the French wilder men in Bangkok have them what wo think what we retaliation, that he is wrong forced the Siamese to cede to hinted that the Siamese Shan desire, and what we hope to

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