This map was made to illustrate recent events in Europe. It shows how the German move into Austria has left a good portion of Czechoslovakia a cape in a Germanic sea, and how much nearer Germany has come to the Balkans, her frontiers now touching Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary. It reveals the relative proportions of Spain held by the rebels and by the loyalist forces, and indicates the direction of General Franco’s thrusts towards the sea, which, if successful, would isolate the highly-industrialised Catalonian city of Barcelona from the rest of the territory held by the Valencia Government. It shows the progress of fortifications in the Mediterranean and the manner in which the Italians have been able to place themselves astride the route through the Middle Sea through creation of air and naval bases at .Sardinia, in Sicily, and on Pantellaria, besides their somewhat indefinite status in the Balearic Islands. It also shows the area (indicated by an arrow) concerned in the dispute between Poland and Lithuania which was settled when the Lithuanians accepted the Polish demands, restoring communications, which had been suspended for years, re-establishing diplomatic relations, and agreeing to abandon all discussion over Vilna, which the Poles captured in 1920. An interesting feature of the map is its indication in the areas shaded by dots of the extent of the territory inhabited by Germans and Austrians now under foreign rule. These German minorities are large in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and even in Rumania, while Denmark (in northern Schleswig), Belgium (in Eupen and Malmedy), and Italy (in the South Tyrol) also have German subjects. Inset, to the right, is the old German dream of a Middle Europe which was revived by Herr Alfred Rosenberg, then German Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1933. This German Empire, which has often been stated by German writers to be their country’s “mission,” would stretch from Bcandinavia to the Black Boa, would dominate Europe, enclosing over 100,009,000 people, and would be virtually self-supporting. It would mean the domination of the Scandinavian States, Poland, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine. Inset, to the left, is an approximate indication of the troops permanently under arms and on home service in the various countries. It is only approximate. The total strength of the British Army as voted by Parliament, for instance, is 168,000, of which about 40,000 are abroad, but there are 57,000 more troops stationed in India, and paid by the Indian Government. Mobilisation strength of the Powers is much greater. The map is taken from the Sydney Mail.

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 9

This map was made to illustrate recent events in Europe. It shows how the German move into Austria has left a good portion of Czechoslovakia a cape in a Germanic sea, and how much nearer Germany has come to the Balkans, her frontiers now touching Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary. It reveals the relative proportions of Spain held by the rebels and by the loyalist forces, and indicates the direction of General Franco’s thrusts towards the sea, which, if successful, would isolate the highly-industrialised Catalonian city of Barcelona from the rest of the territory held by the Valencia Government. It shows the progress of fortifications in the Mediterranean and the manner in which the Italians have been able to place themselves astride the route through the Middle Sea through creation of air and naval bases at .Sardinia, in Sicily, and on Pantellaria, besides their somewhat indefinite status in the Balearic Islands. It also

shows the area (indicated by an arrow) concerned in the dispute between Poland and Lithuania which was settled when the Lithuanians accepted the Polish demands, restoring communications, which had been suspended for years, re-establishing diplomatic relations, and agreeing to abandon all discussion over Vilna, which the Poles captured in 1920. An interesting feature of the map is its indication in the areas shaded by dots of the extent of the territory inhabited by Germans and Austrians now under foreign rule. These German minorities are large in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and even in Rumania, while Denmark (in northern Schleswig), Belgium (in Eupen and Malmedy), and Italy (in the South Tyrol) also have German subjects. Inset, to the right, is the old German dream of a Middle Europe which was revived by Herr Alfred Rosenberg, then German Minister of Foreign Affairs in

1933. This German Empire, which has often been stated by German writers to be their country’s “mission,” would stretch from Bcandinavia to the Black Boa, would dominate Europe, enclosing over 100,009,000 people, and would be virtually self-supporting. It would mean the domination of the Scandinavian States, Poland, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine. Inset, to the left, is an approximate indication of the troops permanently under arms and on home service in the various countries. It is only approximate. The total strength of the British Army as voted by Parliament, for instance, is 168,000, of which about 40,000 are abroad, but there are 57,000 more troops stationed in India, and paid by the Indian Government. Mobilisation strength of the Powers is much greater. The map is taken from the Sydney Mail.