THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1940
FOOT BY FOOT
Mary, Deprinte Couf
DEFENCE: RESTRAINED QUEENS THEATRE
SATISFACTION
London, To-day.
RESTRAINED SATISFACTION marks the " Daily Telegraph's" comment on the war situation.
It is calculated in Paris, it says, that the Germans have flung into the struggle between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000, in addition to those of the armoured divisions.
It is an effort on a colossal scale in fleets of tanks and bomb- ers launched against the French defences, in the masses of "cannon fodder" which the Nazi Command is prepar- ed to drive into the furnace, and in the vast extent of the battlefront.
To praise the Indomitable courage with which the French Army has obeyed General Weygand's Order to fight without thought of retreat would be idle. Frenchmen have never won greater glory than in this "Battle of France."
NOEL
COWARD
With all the help our Air Force can IN U.S.-
give and it has not been inactive or in- effective, the French task is stern: Every effort must be made to in- crease the striking power of our air attack and to reinforce the British troops who are fighting on the west of the line.
But that long line, through these critical hours, has to be held by the French Army.
Foot By Foot
Foot by foot defence of the ground was Foch's Order to break the des- perate German offensives, of 1918. Foot by foot in 1940, the French have withdrawn on sections of their long line.
Thus far, despite the tremendous mechanical weight and reckless sacri- fice of men in the German offensive, there has been no grave breach of the integrity and continuity of the French front. There is danger at more than one point, but while the front remains unbroken and is not constrained to sacrifice any important line, we may be well satisfied.
The Germans have been made to pay very dear in men and munitions for the ground they have gained.
The German need of a decision must be very urgent, but the dif- ficulty of maintaining supplies for such am attack under continual bombing must be cumulativė. General Weygand is confident that the end of the effort will come soon. Let us remember 1918, Reuter.
KEEPS
SECRET
Noel Coward arrived in New York in the steamship Washington recently considerably shaken by his experiences during a storm which buffeted the ship.
But he retained sufficient composure blandly to evade all my questions about the exact war role he has been playing in France.
"I've been in the Forces since the first day of the war,” he said. But a sphinx-ilke smile was the only reply when I asked about the duties which kept him in Parls most of the time.
"Paris is all right," said the actor- playwright-composer. "I manage to fly back to London occasionally."
It was the storm that Noel wanted to talk about: "I woke up in the middle of the night with a bridge table and chair on top of me, with grapes, apples, and oranges in my face, and a cigarette stub in my mouth," he said..
"What annoyed me most was that my bottle of Scotch was smashed." He said he was in the United States on business-principally theatrical.
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