THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 10, 1939.
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
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MEMORIES OF 1914 – 1918.
THEY LIVE FOR ALL TIME
DX 112--WAR MARCHING SONGS. Long trail
burning Pack up your troubles, never die, etc.
DX 292-OVERTURE of 1914. La Madelon.
Meuse. Land of Hope and Glory. with me etc.
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Keep the home fires Tipperary. Old soldiers
Light of foot. Sombre et Sons of the brave. Abide
DX 225-OLD CONTEMPTIBLES. What did we join the Army for. Rolling home. Form platoon. Because we're here. Yonder in the corr.delds etc.
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There is a general impression that the China Affair is now in its conclud- ing phase. None dares to speak of it openly, but none the less the idea is prevalent.
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Germany's two 27-knot superliners were built to mount guns fore and aft in the event of war, and with their large carrying capacity they could stow enough fuel and stores to operate # long time and a long distance from any friendly port. Each is equipped with catapults for launching airplanes Turning: commerce raiders loose to
The people are told that they should xpect that the China campaign will last for an indefinite length of time, but they know that the fight cannot prey upon the enemy's trade routes,
encounters, and go on forever. They survey the general single-ship
quick, detached situation and tell themselves that it inassed sorties against a is going to end before long.
enemy force are likely stratagems for This attitude may be wrong, but not a nation which admittedly lacks a de- unnatural because they have no idea cisive preponderance of power at sea. of the goal their country is aiming at. There is no alternative for such a na-.. They are left in the dark because there tion but to see its smaller force gather Its coastal de- seems no national policy to guide their rust, unused, within thought. The whole China Affair was fences. This fact stresses the value a called an incident, but it would have navy committed to hit-and-run war- been truer to say it began as an ac- fare naturally attaches to its top-speed cident. If there is any national policy merchant liners. It is logical to pre- about the proposed peaceful construc- sume, therefore, that Federal authori- tion in China, the people have seen ties were also mindful of it. nothing of it. At least there has been
By holding up the Bremen as long no achievement to bear testimony to as it was legally possible, they exploit- ed the opportunity offered thereby to such policy. And yet the people are add an extra ounce to the pressures
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supposed to stand behind what their Government is doing in China. It may in the present crisis to bolster their which the democracies are piling up be shown that Chinese are better.:able to take care of their own affairs than diplomatic front.-"Christian the Japanese. It should be hardly sur- prising if Wang Ching-wel found him- self one of these days the leader of Japan's own, independent diplomacy. -“Japan Times."
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PEACE OFFER Mr. Chamberlain has to say that a peace offer will be considered. If he said anything else he would be open to world criticism, the criticism that he The other instance of muddling that refused to be open-minded and fair, - has been dragged into the light of that he permitted himself to be so publicity is the recklessly extravagant blinded with the will to fight and the scale of pay and allowances fixed for desire for revenge that he could not mobilised members of the Defence even consider peace when it was offer- Force. These rates were decided on ed. He has to indicate the willing- four years ago, and the authorities' ness to consider terms, but at the same never thought of revisnig them until time he has to recognise that fact that reports began to be spread that fan- lie and his people and allies are forced tastic sums were being carned by men to reject any terms which mean sacri- who were supposed to be making a fice of the principles in defence of sacrifice in their anxiety to serve their which they entered the war. King and country
in wartime. Many of these reports were only too true, and it is not sur- prising that public opinion Was strongly voiced against this scan- dalous extrava- gance, Nobody denies that many of the men mo-. bilised at pre-
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Two workmen outalde the Law Courts were reading the news of the latest pamphlet rald over Germany. One of them said: "Blimey! 'Ere we are at war, an' what do we do? Perfec' lttle gents, we go and drop confetti on 'em. Lor!"
A dishonourable peace at this stage would be Mot merely a betrayal of the Polish and the Czechoslova- kian peoples, but it would be the doom of demo- cracy. That is a fact which we can- not bluff through or dodge around. It is a fact that is not altered by hesita-
sent have 'ar- duous and important duties to tion on the part of Italy, threats from perform, But what cannot be too deep- Russia nor all the propaganda that ly deplored is the inescapable con- can be handed out about either or clusion that not a few of them were both of them.
being encouraged to make an excel- We can conceive of "no immediate lent business of their volunteering and material blessing greater than that from a financial point of view. Here which would be found in any sub- again the suspicion persists that there stantial promise of an offer containing has been strange and questionable pro- the substance of true peace based on Tedure under a veil of unjustifiablo fundamental right. We would that we secrecy. It is often difficult to under- might see a prospect for such an offer stand why the authorities should be at this time. That which has been done so averse to giving the public all the since this war started and that which relevant facts when nothing is lost and was done in leading up to the war and much can be gained by a policy that starting it are lacking in the material inspires greater confidence and creates a larger measure of goodwill-Cey- Jon Observer.”
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out of which lasting peace is made. The events forming the background for Hitler's offer are foreign to the kind of peace which the democracies could consider acceptable.
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AERIAL WARFARE: ITALIAN CODE
Modern warfare cannot be consider-
THE BREMEN INCIDENT
Some of the reasons for the over- elaborate part:inspection that prevent- ed the German liner Bremen from leaving New York for Bremerhaven under emergency orders may be listed under "Nuisance Value in Uncle Sam's ¡crisis file. Yet it is not unlikely that the Bremen and her sister ship, the Europa, figure prominently in what- ed only as the explosive collision of ever plans Germany has mapped out military forces but also and specially for wartime operations at sea, and that of moral forces. Breakup of the Washington realises this.
enemy's moral-resistance must be one of aviation's first objectives. The pro- cedure will then be to carry on the offensive in all directions and bombard passible. objectives, even if these do not hear a net military character.
Those who remall how badly the German commerce falder Emden' dis- rupted shipping on the Aden-Colombo trade route in 1914, zinking 26 ships, fdfualing from captured colliers, cut- ting caliles; and wrecking wireless sta- With this result obtained, it will be tions before the "cruiser Sydney put easier to give a free hand to aerial her out of business, would not be sur- warfare, properly spealting, whose prised if they should learn that the essentialy character will consist in same tactics figure in present naval surprise operations.-"Rassegna Ita- calculations.
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