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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1940.
By Brigadier-General C. F. Aspinall-Oglander, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.,
who served in the Ashanti campaign, the South African War, the Moh- mand Expedition and the European War 1914-18. He was mentioned in despatches 10 times from Gallipoli and is the official his- torian of that glorious yet tragic fallure.
WHAT OF THE WAR ON LAND?
Though Hitler's long-threatened on- |pons could shoot the more dependent slaught has once again been post-they would be on the constant arrival poned, and though the fighting on the of trains of ammunition, "Here, there- Western Front for the last three fore, on the enemy's communications, months has consisted of little more is a field for the cavalry to gain far- than outpost skirmishes, the major reaching success.” operations in Poland and Finland have shown that, despite the introduction of modern weapons, the age-old prin- ciples of war remain unchanged.
In the belief that he could overrun Poland without involving himself in hostilities with England and France, Hitler, as all the world now knows, was guilty of an unbelievable miscal- culation which, before the war is over, will cost his country dear,
But for the moment he has achieved his sinister purpose and, taking the campaign by itself, without any refer- ence to the ultimate consequences of that one colossal blunder, we can see in the brutal overthrow of Poland brilliant though ignoble example of the advantages that accrue from careful planning for, war in time o. peace.
These plans included the methodi- cal calculation and provision of the military force required, the education of the civilian population in a spirit of patriotic self-denial, the amazing pact with Russia, which was intended to ensure that Poland's friends would forsake her, the skilful massing of eighty divisions on the frontier, in the choice of the most favourable day In the year for launching the attack, and the clock-work precision of the advance at zero hour.
And here let it be noticed that the faultless plans for the advance of that
vast army could never have been completed without many
weeks of arduous work by the Staff, and that this fact alone is sufficient to give the
lle to Hitler's that Poland started the war.
thread-bare assertion
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MAGNIFICENT MANNERHEIM The day of the horse in modern warfare is over, as the Poles dis- covered to their cost; but it was to the sweeping successes of the mo- dern equivalent of cavalry that Po- land's rapid defeat was principally
due.
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The fate of the gallant Finns still trembles in the balance, but that al- most incredible campaign has already re-affirmed the truth of the doctrine that "it is the man, not the men, who counts most in war." As a result of Stalin's repeated purges of the high- er ranks of his army, the leaderless Russian troops have found themselves in the position of sheep without a shepherd, and the Finnish Comman- der-in-Chief, despite the grent dis- parity in numbers, has won a chain
of victories.
By his brilliant leadership; indeed, whose Field-Marshal Mannerheim, name, will stand henceforth as a syn- onym for menliness and courage, has done much more than cover his own nation with glory: he has won the last- ing gratitude of Western civilisation. He has brought new hope to the other small nations whose independence is threatened by brutal aggression: he has re-affirmed the truth of the doc- |trine-so apt to be forgotten in times of stress and strain-that the word "impossible" should find no place in the military leader's vocabulary.
That he should be able to continue
weeks have already enshrined his name among the immortals.
his successes in the face of a numeri- cal superiority of more than sixty to one is, perhaps, too much to hope for; but whatever the future may hold for Turning to greater detall, it is in-him, his achievements in the last few teresting to notice that, though aircraft and armoured vehicles have now supplanted cavalry, the action of the German airplanes and armoured cars against the Polish communications was precisely in accordance with the role which the German General Bernhardi proposed for the action of cavalry in his well-known book, "War of To-day," published in 1911. In that book, contrary to the opinion of his contemporaries, Bernhardi insisted оп the value of cavalry raids at the be- ginning of a future war.
BNEERING AT "BRASS HATS" In connection with this question of leadership, It is well to remember that when the long-awaited storm en- velops the Western Front it will be upon the courage and skill of our own supreme generals that the fate of our army and our own future liberty will derend; and if it were not a tradi- tion in this country for uninstructed civillans to level bitter taunts at what
they like to call the "brass hats," Cavalry, he said, must at all costs we could not look forward to the fu- act on the enemy's communit·ations. | ture with all the confidence that we He pointed out that the larger the op- do. posing armies the less they would be able to live on the country; the faster that new artillery and infantry wea-
Fortunately, however, we can dis- regard these taunts, realising that it (Continued on Page 11)
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