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MOTHER-DO YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE TO GO TODAY?
YES-DEAR-I HAVÉ A LIST OF ALL THE PLACES IN DAYTON- I'M GLAD WE ARE STARTING EARLY-
SEE-THE FOLKS ARE ALL UP-I'VE GOT TO GET UP AND GET
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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1940
BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT
WHAT WE MUST
DO NOW
France,
In this unusual war no one-not! date heavier than that of even a member of the War Cabinet- the war strain on our population is could give a completely confident definitely less owing to the fact that answer to the question of where our France is fully mobilised and we are energies should be chiefly directed to- not. day, Nevertheless, there are several aspects of our war effort on which we can now form an opinion.
From the point of view of the maxi- mum efficiency of the Allled effort as France has been over- a whole,
If the older Frenchmen In the first place, it is dangerous to mobilised. harbour the pleasant belief that we could be sent back to the factories and can settle down in comfort to a siege fields it would greatly help to swell war on the Western Front disturbed France's industrial and agricultural only by intermittent air raids and output. The women of France work fighting at sea and rely on the block-magnificently; but in the last war her ade to reduce Germany slowly but food production suffered surely to a more reasonable frame of lack of labour.
mind.
badly for
France is also capable of building
The picture is an attractive one, for up an immense aeroplane and muni-
if this were practicable a great amount❘tions
of human suffering would be avoided and we should carry on much of our business as usual. But we cannot rely on this policy to bring about the will to peace on any basis we could accept.
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In the course of the last war Ger- many's home front collapsed under three kinds of pressure:
(a) Nearly two million deaths in battle plus five or six million more or less severely wounded. It would be difficult to overestimate the ef- fect of this constant strain, from which there was no intermission, on the morale of the people at home.
(b) A colossal industrial effort as the result of which the products of coal, iron and steel and chemical in-
dustries were fired from the gun's mouths in a wasteful continuous stream; the state of the German railways and of industrial plant at the end of the war showed how badly Germany's equipment had
deteriorated.
(c) On top of all this came the blockade. It was the last straw that broke the German resistance. If now there are comparatively few casualties and if there is no serious gun-fire on the short 200-mile front, Germany will have man-power available to develop her industrial output, build railways through Fo- land into Russia, manufacture agri- cultural machinery and leave sufficient labour on the land to increase her own harvest.
Sir William Beveridge has recently pointed out that Germany can make herself sufficiently self-supporting in food if she has to make no serious war effort. If, on the other hand, her man-power is strained, for war pur- poses, the war pressure reinforced by the blockade will become effec- tive.
We in Britain believe that the Allies, backed with the economic re- sources of the Empire and the U.S.A., are economically superior to Germany in spite of any help Germany may get from Russla. But that superiority will only be effective as a form of war pressure if we compel Germany to ex- haust her resources,
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output if she has the
-By-
man-
Sir Walter Layton
power; at present her industries are short of labour.
war
The political influence of complete mobilisation is also important. For the strain it involves is likely to lead to a demand for a vindictive peace-on the mistaken ground that the crush- ing of Germany will prevent happening again. If we believe that devise wiser terms it, is possible to of peace, we shall be in a stronger our view effective position to make if our army is comparable in size with, that of France when the war ends.
This relief to France on land should not be unduly delayed. The expansion of the British Army seems likely to be a slow process owing to the fact that the demands of other Services-parti- cularly the Navy and the Air Force have priority. It is also argued that our man-power is not sufficient to pro- vide a large army, in addition to our Air Force, Navy and Anti-Air Raid Precautions, and at the same time to maintain a sufficient export trade to enable us to import necessary food and war materials.
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But this argument cannot be sus- tained. In the last war the British Empire produced 96 divisions; an army of half this size would enable us to
give relief to France and still leave a big margın-for the-Air-Force-----
Further, our population includes three million more men of adult age than in 1914; many of our work-peo- ple are unemployed or under-em- ployed; dilution and the use of female labour in the munition factories have hardly begun; immense improvements have been made in the technique of manufacture of all kinds of weapons of war, in ship-building and in agri- culture, and this economy of labour goes a long way to offset the greater complication of modern instruments of
war.
Moreover,, it should not be neces- sary to hold back British divisions A second point is that Great Britain | until they are equipped to "the last must prepare to shoulder a larger button" with full British standard share of the war on land than she is equipment. Probably no army has now carrying. This is necessary not ever entered the field with the full which its ad- grounds but for standard equipment merely on military economic and political reasons.
ministators thought necessary, and it is Although our military effort at sea, certain that before 12 months are over in the air, and on land is already very the present War Office standards will great and our actual casualty list to
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·BOSS HAS ONE IN HIS STORE-
By George McManus
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WELL-1 DIDN'T THINK YOU'D BE UP-BUT I'M GLAD YOU ARE NOW - YOU CAN GO SHOP -
PING WITH DAUGHTER
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