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Air Liner Problem
Most air liners to-day, both in Europe and America, are of multi- engined type.
In America the tendency has! [been to concentrate on twin- engined types. It is claimed that they can operate on either engine. But there are two schools of thought on this point,
The "antis" are pointing to the misadventure of a Curtiss Condor of American Airways, recently.
It developed engine trouble be tween Buffalo and Detroit. Nine passengers and a crew of three were aboard. It came down' and Landed with its re-tractable under- carriage still puled up. It slither- ed on the thin ice on Lake St. Clair, near Windsor, Ontarlo, on its fuselage and nobody was in. jured.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934.
BRITAIN FORGETS
HER ARMY
LACK OF INTEREST IN LAND FORCES
THE PEACE-TIME DEFENDERS
(By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller.)
[Major-General Fuller, who was placed on the retired tist in December, 13 the foremost exponent of me. chanization in the Army. -He had been Chief of Staff of the Tank Corps, was not due to retire for another seven years, and had received no appoint- mant since he was promoted to major-general in 1930.. Fit retirement has been described a deplorabic waste of
talent.]
London.
1 that, extremes are always meeting: Officers have certain duties but no rights, not even a legal right to pay or pension. The hierarchy is a powerful as the Ogpu, it can make and unmake careers at will.
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Discipline aims not at fostiring originality, the secret success war, but at a universal damping down and standardisation, ・ which ends in creating an all-pervading“. mediocrity of spirit, in which genius and talent are the demons to be exercised,
Mr. Clarence Chamberlin, who once flew the Atlantic, blames the
The prevailing idea is not na- twin-engined air liner for the re-
The people of Britain know that might be expected, the inculcation !cent increase in air travel
they have an Army because they of leadership (though this is much cidents in the United States.
see soldiers walking in the parks talked about), but the establish- On One Engine
and streets; they know that this ment of team work; football and The supporters of twin-engined Army is trained for war because cricket, polo and hunting being airplanes, on the other hand, claim they watch Guardsmen forming exalted to a military art. In these that height can be maintained on fours and two deep the other side circumstances is it to be wondered either engine, or that loss of of the railings of Wellington Barat that our Army is never prepared height will be at such a delayed racks. Then there are the Horse for war, which is not a game; that rate that an aerodrome can be Guards and the Tattoo, Certainly a to any, never prepared spiritual.
they have an Army, there is no ly and intellectually, In England a D. H. Dragon. doubt about it; but how it lives and
Its body, healthy and virile as it which is a twin-engined air-liner, what it does are known to but is, is headless; for we have no Com- actually took off deliberately on very few.
mander-in-Chief, no single per- one engine and flew to Bristol and
sonality to whom soldiers can look back to London will one engine outed concerning our national or Im-up to as their leader and friend. In place, the Army in governed by perial defence durable modus vivendi in that
we hear cries for The China Mail
The American view is that cruisers, destroyers and aircraft: render it voiceless and
a Council so constituted · as to territory can be achieved to gines are so reliable to-day that yet who has ever heard a cry for sequence the dumb slave of a Seers round off this feat of pacific nothing is to be gained by fitting
more battalions or Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1934. diplomacy. The French Govern- in their latest
regiments air liners, except or batteries. And be it remem anathematise councils of war, yet |tary of State. In war we rightly ment, and the parties of the Left our when two will give sufficient bered that during peace time the in peace time all three services are which give it its character, reliability. strongly approves a change that
bulk of our defence work falls upon controlled by Councils or Boards, They are following this policy our Army and not upon our Navy or formed not of independent directors means, for it, relief from the in their latest air liners, except Royal Air Force. liability to support Poland in the the "clipper" type boats. These
but of departmental managers of event of a German aggression.
Unobtrusively the Army stands equal status-the worst deciding
of our social order. behind the law; it is the foundation organ imaginable.
It la right I remember once at the War that it is not seen; nevertheless, Office my general, an exceptionally should serious trouble arise inable man, bursting into my these islands, seventy-one battalions room and exclaiming: "Do you
A Welcome Peace Gesture.
a marked
of use.
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It is not possible to foresee Those of the Right bewail the have long stretches of son to cross how much may come of the new virtual defection of an ally. It between North and South America. German-Polish accord, whereby is true that Poland has for a the two Governments "renounce year past shown a desire to be Your Daily Smile. the use of force in adjusting independent of French patron- their mutual relations." What is age. She marks it very unmis- A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK would suddenly appeal, as it were, know what they hare done? Ther evident, however, is that this istakably in this display of con- Old Gentleman: "Didn't I give from nowhere, and would be chher assembled at eleven to discuss
advance towards nfidence in the peaceful protesta-you sixpence just now in the Highed to the echo by
all law-abiding blankets for the Territorials, and pacific solution for a body of in-tions of Nazi Germany. At the Street?"
people.
rose at twelevo forty-five to discover ternational problems which, more same time, the attainment of Tramp: "Yes, sir; I've got a
Also, how often is it realised that they had 'Invented a new hand than any others, have been held the prime condition of peace in branch office there,"
that we have sixty-six battalions grenade!" to threaten an ultimate breach Europe, an understanding be.
tween France and
overseas, and that not a few of of the peace of Europe. It is al
Germany, Making “Sure
Spring Cleaning Needed, them are on semi-active service; question not so much of the loses not a little of its difficulty "Let me see," sald Lane pensive-}
That our valiant and much neg- terms of the joint declaration, the motive of protectingly, "do I owe you any money, old and some in fortified posts and en-
lected little Army wants a thorough. campments in which no woman or but of the circumstances and of Poland can be set aside. The raan?"
spring cleaning is beyond doubt. that impalpable political medium new diplomatic fact may repre- Long raised inquiring eyebrows. child is allowed?
Yet, curious as it may seem, this known as atmosphere. It is true sent no more than a step in the "Not a penny, old chap," he re Why this obscurity and lack of spring cleaning, cannot be initiat that both Germany and Poland right direction; but the promiseplied. "Why, are you going round interest? First, because our Army ed from inside.
It must come have already, in general terms, of it ought not to be minimised. paying off your little debts?" is exceedingly well-behaved; it is from outside, from instructed. renounced the use of force by
"Oh, no!" replied Lane quickly, seldom seen and never heard of un-public opinion which will compel the their adherence to the Kellogg
"I was just going round to see if less it opens new rifle range, Government to fill in the at present. Pact: but that has never exer-
I've overlooked anybody. Lend me when at once the locality is pro-blank file in our military organisa cised the least influence in reliev-i
five bob till Saturday, will you?" claimed to be a beauty spot; or liftion by appointing a Secretary of ing the conditions of strain:
trains on some stretch of common State for War who is a Secretary' between them. It is true also
land and so, by some unexplained of State for War and not merely a that Herr Hitler, since he assum-Sir Kingsley Wood, the Post Office sold you do for you, sir?”
magic, pollutes It for the common politician placed at the War Office ed office, has more than once ex-has become one of the most reform-
people.
(Continued on Page 3) pressed the intention of working ative of all the Government Depart- for an improvement of those ments in Britain. The Postmaster Had Its Difficulties conditions. But the new accord General has announced that the
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Secondly, because it is monastic in character, an army apart" from walled up within a somewhat archale discipline. the nation.
In SQUIRRELS MARCH
is treated in both capitals as a Business Reply Card Service, Intro-his eye, the bulldog approached the
Slowly, with a menacing look political event of prime import-duced eighteen months ago, has ance; and in Paris, where the proved so successful that more than
two street musicians........
a way an aristocratic caste found-
Franco-Polish alliance has
The men looked at him out ofed upon ancient traditions and long been a vital article of for-The same idea is to be extended to slowly edged away,
60 9,000 licences have now been issued the corners of their eyes and then revering them because it itself is
[not revered---only tolerated. eign policy, the same view is telegrams, and Business Reply taken of it. M. Beck, the Polish Telegram Service will be inaugurat- the banjo, suddenly, "bloward on holy horror of publicity; it does not
"I say, Bill,” said the man with Receiving no publicity, it has Foreign Minister, has spoken ofed which should prove no less at your cornet, perhaps it'll frighten belong to this age and to it ad- the new relationship with atractive, Special telegram, fermé 'im away.
Facts You Did Not
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Migration Puzzling: American - Officials.
Hartford, Connecticut. The Chief Game: Warden: bere
far forgets himself as to write squirrels are moving across Con- about it; it in possessed of a high necticut in a general migration sense of ancient honour, and it lives that puzzles game officiela, almost" "exclusively In the past—a The squirrels were travelling In2- past of fox hunting squires, week groups of about 100, following end shooting parties, village cricket "beelines" that carry them folds and the gentlemanly Joys of through lakes, rivers, main high- the now dead agricultural order of ways and centres of townst society. It is a superb phantom The exodus was especially mark embalmed in a reality which does ed in the Rockville, Wethersfeld not concern it.
warmth such as would not have are to be issued, on which a business: “Yes, that's all very well," said vulgar. It looks down on Freas
We do vertisement tapplare extremely CONNECTICUT RIVER CROSSED been conceivable while German arm will be able to print. Its name Bill, with a doubtful grimage, and politicians; it frowns upon in- Polish relations were for either and address, together with the "But if it don't do the trick, tellect and the intellectual; it is party merely a history, of rank- ling grievances and resentments will be available. Any number of away with?"
amount and time for which replies where'll I get the wind to run horribed when one of its members reports that thousands of grey, The causes of enmity remain; but the disposition to treat them these forms can be sent out to proe- as incurable by peaceable adjust-pective customers, who, without ment has been definitely recharge to themselves, can use the nounced. There is room enough reply telegrams on which to den- for thorough-going improvement, patch their orders.... Beyond a small If the will be present, in the registration foo and the cost price treatment of German minorities of the forms the user of the service in Poland, and above all in the will pay telegraph charges only on danger-spot of Upper Silesia. the replies actually received. The Extremely sensitive electrical There need be no more. "frontier plan should, be particularis usef apparatus is "been invented by Incidents" if both sides mean to business saen who seek a quick University of Chloard physician to that they shall cease, Commery sale for some special commo on measure nerve currenta in persons. [cial relations need no longer, bo which they are ready to pay a frac those of bitter "unfriendliness. tion over a shilling for every order To prevent injurious overloads Such matters, will be the first received. Naturally, sha: etmasters in radio tubes and delicate electri. test of the better spirit. Behind General desires to exten his tele- cal instrumente fuses have been in- them lle the vastly more difficult graph busfasku, tritich
that use platinum wires territorial questions that have rent year is being run
thirtieth the dia vitiated the political air of Con- about £828,000,(T) tral Europe for the past fourtecito Bir Kingsley, cri years. The existence of the annual loss w "corridor"" that cuts off East than five yea Prussia from Germany to give vening Poland her outlet on the Baltic navora.
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and as they sought to swim Bafpsld” {lake near Rockville. » Moreu thank and sise: 100 were seen swimming the Con there are scores of permanent necticat River opposite the Wes „pon•thersfield, Yacht Club::=Farmers
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