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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 10, 1939
ALMOST CERTAIN VICTORY FOR ALLIES PREDICTED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS
London, To-day.
FREEDOM STATIONTM
IN AN INTERESTING address to the Royal Philoso- ON BOMB PLOT
phical Society in Glasgow last night, Professor
Shirras, former Director of Statistics with the
Government of India and Professor of Economics
at Bombay University, surveyed the war poten-
tials of Great Britain and Germany mainly from the economic viewpoint. Special interest attaches to Professor Shirras' ad- dress in view of the close contact in which he has been for many years with German economic and financial conditions and first-hand information he has received from Nazi officials concerned.
One of the chief factors which led Professor Shirras to believe in almost certain victory for the Allies, if they managed to hold out for the first three or four months of war, during which time their national economies could smoothly change over from un- controlled to controlled organisation, was that Germany, financially and economically, paid the price of the war strain long before the outbreak of hostilities, while the Allies, in con- trast to the resultant - overstrained and already exploited reserve forces in Germany, possessed enormous re-
serves.
CREDIT POSITION Professor Shirras also referred to the vastly superior credit position of the Allies.
HITLER IS
AFRAID OF
BODYGUARD
Hitler mistrusted his "elite" corps, the black-uniformed bodyguard, and that, is why he has chosen a new guard of 900 men.
HITLER WILL NOT ESCAPE
London, To-day.
MEIN KÄMPF BANNED IN FINLAND
Helsinki, To-day. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and certain Soviet publications have been banned in Finland, while anti-Communist literature disappeared from the booksellers. --Reuter.
AIR
has
ATTACKS ON
The German freedom sta- CIVILIANS tion, referring to the attempt on Hitler's life, declared: "The first bomb against the German dictatorship ex. ploded in Munich. Many will follow.
"Though Hitler has eluded once more the punishment he de- serves he will not escape from his fate. "There is nobody in Germany who will not help the heroes of Munich assist them in hiding so that next to flee and give them shelter and
time they will be able to strike at Hitler himself Germany's arch
enemy."--Reuter.
INJURED MAN CAUTIONED
The American theory that the instrument of war will require no re- bombing of civilians is useless as an
view following the recent trial of
such methods by the Germans in the
Polish campaign,
The complete rejection of attacks on civilian centres was one of a number of conclusions formulated in February last year by strategists of the Ameri- can General Staff and the Army Air Corps.
Their view was based on a dispas- operations sionate examination of the results of In China, Spalo and Abyssinia.
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The conclusion reached was that The new men, of splendid phyical
air forces can be more profitably em- ,tness, were picked by Goering and
Iployed in attempting the destruction Hess, the two deputies of Hitler.
of the enemy's aircraft and air bases. The former bodyguard was the
The General Staff stated there was Himmler, the creation of
Gestapo
no reason to expect air attack from (secret police) chief.
massed aircraft-carriers lying off the Since since the last
the Germany, he said,
announcement in the
American coast. "A man who alighted from a mov- war had been a debtor country and Reichstag on the eve of the war, that
Dive-bombing at land
objectives ing bus last week, had would succeeded of gold, Goering and Hess now possessed a minimum
his head was not considered a sound method fractured and was removed to foreign exchange and foreign invest-Hitler should anything happen to him, cemetery instead of
the because such objectives, if of military the hospital,"
Importance, would be well defended. said Mr. E. Himsworth this morn-Dive-bombing, on warships is, how- Ing to a Shanghai Chinese,
ever, necessitated by the comparative leg in jumping off a bus in Hung- Tsul-ting, who received a fractured smallness of the target.
Precision modern sighting instruments, adopted as the method of attack on military objectives on land.
ments.
of
Hitler has feared
the revenge Her difficulties in trading were Himmler, who hoped to be Hitler's vestly increased by "Britain's com-successor.
mler. Foreign observers have noticed mand of the sea.
Concluding, Professor Shirras said during the last two weeks that Him-
Bri- that with controlled
Goering's agents are watching Him- tain's national income could quitemler has not been seen in Hitler's well rise from some £4,000,000,000 | company. to some £7,000,000,000.
economy
MAXIMUM WAR EFFORT Assuming the same proportion of our expenditure as in the last year of the last war, we would be able to increase our expenditure as we got to maximum war effort to least £300,000,000 per month.
الم
Himmler, it is suggested, now faces the fate of Captain Roehm, who was killed in the Nazi "purge" of June, 1984.
"RED8" FREED
And now Hitler has a new worry
at-and perhaps a new reasons for a completely, trust-worthy bodyguard..
We should at least be able to de-
Ernst Thaelmann, German Com- vote half the total resources of the munist leader who was flung into gaol community on the prosecution of the by the Nazis as soon as Hitler came war as we did in the last war, and with the national income increased and with him thousands of Commun- to power in 1933, is to be released, in real terms by 15 or 20 per cent.ists now in concentration camps. might well pay even a higher per- This was reported by the Berlin
centage.
Germany, on the other hand, Pro fessor Shirras contended, was already war effort. -
at the peak of her British Wireless.
DESTROYER
COLLISION
Lisbon, To-day.
:
correspondent of the Danish news, paper, “National Tidendes.
The newspaper (quoted by Reu ter), says that the release of the Com- munists is a result of the Nazi-Soviet talks in Moscow. The Nazis, it is add- ed, have promised to eradicate all ex- treme forms of anti-Communist pro- paganda.
The release of Communists, at the insistence of Stalin, will strengthen the "underground” opposition to Hitler, but may not receive the ap- proval of those who wish to see a The Portuguese destroyer, Vouga, more moderate leadership of the anti- was slightly damaged yesterday folHitler forces Inside Germany, lowing a collision with the Nor- Thaelmann, a Hamburg docker, was wegian steamer Sysla, which dragged the Communist candidate for the Pre- her anchor and hit the warship's
bows.
a
The presence of mind of the des- troyer's commander prevented more serious accident." Havas.
WANTS DOG NAMED-
HITLER
Wembley greyhound racing qu-
sidency of Germany when the Reich WOS still a democracy. He polled 5,000,000 votes when the late. General Hinderburg was elected. Hitler was another unsuccessful candidate at that time.
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Paris, To-day.
thorities have been requested by an Last night's French war communi-
owner of four un-named-puppies to qu
reserve the names of Hitler, Glouring,
Ribbentrop and Goebbels.
-It is unlikely, however, the
"humorist” will ever see these
on a face card, as it is
the National Greyhound Racing to. discourage" the naming bi
"There was no activity of 康 rtance - during- day."
hounds, after individuals,
the
egent nærival, at the Wembley
kennels was 1. Lucky
Being Hitler backwards.
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