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THE CHINA "MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1940
THE "BATTLE FOR LO •NDON
ENEMY PAYS A HIGH PRICE AND STILL FAIL'S
"THE ENEMY HAS CONCENTRATED HIS AT- TACK MAINLY ON LONDON. WHY HAS HE „DONE THIS?; THE OBVIOUS ANSWER \WOULD... SEEM TO BE: “BECAUSE -HIS-OBJECT-IS THE DEFEAT OF THIS-COUNTRY AND LONDON IS ITS CAPITAL." BUT THE ANSWER IS NOT SO SIMPLE.
It is an elementary principle in strategy that one's object must be the destruction of the enemy's organised armed forces, or, at the least, the reduc- tion of them to such inferiority that a decision is bound to go in one's own favour. The organised armed force of Britain consists in three elements. which are, in the order of their importance, the Navy, the Air Force and the armed land forces. Lon- don is not principally involved in any one of these three. Why then the attack on London?
The reason of the present con- centrated assault by air. upon London is that the enginy proposes to throw the life of the country into confusion before he proceeds to a final attack, whether this final attack takes the form of attempted invasion or of achieving mastery of the air which mastery would, in the long run, give him nearly all the advantages he could ob- tain from invasion and occupation. It is the enemy's conviction that
per cent. and probably nearer sixteen per cent. of the popula tion of the island.
apogee
ITALIANS POORLY
CLOTHED
***Large groups ~~~ of Italian prisoners arriv- ed at Salonika in au-d tobuses. I saw
five busloads of them near the railroad, station, .cables the Associated
Press correspondent.
The captives ap- peared poorly clothed for battling in the frigid mountain area.
Some of the Italian prisoners were quoted as saying that their officers had asserted that "Greece won't fight us. We will just walk in."-Associated Press.
Still more important is the social value of London the weight London carries in the direction of opinion and, what is equally important, in the general mass of opinion. It used to bc 000000000000000000# said that Paris was France. It is much more true that London is Great Britain. Public information
derives from, and is concentrated SPLENDID
if he can achieve the full con-upon, London. There is not in fusion and disarray of London theory the same centralisation of will have achieved the same sults for the whole country.
London's Unique
Position
re-political power in the capital as WORK OF
in
there is in most continental coun- tries, but we all know that, reality, London is the reservoir which receives all influence whe- or of office and Why does he think this-see-ther of wealth ing that London is only the whence all influence flows, capital and not the armed London has for centuries been
DEFIANTS
Splendid work, it is re- strength of the country? His not only the main port, but over-vealed, has been perforin- conviction is based upon the whelmingly the largest port of the ed by squadrons of Boul- peculiar situation of London island: which island lives by com- politically and geographically, and of these two the political situation is far the most im portant,
Geographically London is the clearing-house of many, but not all our communications. The great railways' converga -upon London and diverge from it. The main roads do the same. The crossing of the Thames from that -unknown-prehistoric- date when. it depended on a ford at low tide (where now the Horseferry Road marks the track and to which the Watling Street pointed from the Straits of Dover and Canterbury), has been the main nodal point of
the most important area in Bri tain: the fertile Midlands and South, and the approach from the
Continent.
To-day London is merce.
the ton Paul Defiants, the main port of entry for a form of two-seater fighters, which goods more vital now than any were first reported in ac-
1-
of
other, food.
Even more important than betion last May. ing the main gateway through The Defiant is equipped with
a movable gun turret containing which our custenance passes, it is the main market wherein the four guns, besides four guns firing exchange of that sustenance is forward. Its speed is believed to decided.
be about 330 or 340 m.p.h.
The success of the machine is In other countries, where agri- culture plays a larger part, the referred to in a message sent by urban areas are usually the mas-Lord Beaverbrook, Minister. ters, but here they are every-Aircraft-Production, to Mr. Leo- thing; and there is no urban area nard Lord, Government director amid all our dense mass of town of one of our air factories. This land comparable to London. The says:
"I ask you to give us more !De- in concentrating - upon anemy, London; in attempting to throw fiants. I impose on you the duly London into disarray, is certainly of increasing this output and aiming at the heart.
speeding up the delivery of these fighters. Use every resource, em-
the. ploy all energy to secure
The London area is still in our German Effort Fails own day, enormously extended-
"But to aim is not to attain;-and maximum production. The splen- though it is, the main clearing the effect he has so far achieved did work done by the Defiant house of cur communications. Interrupt the communications of is not comparable to the magni- squadrons in the battle makes the intention. He has manufacture of this aircraft a the London area and you interrupt tude of his most of the main communications destroyed building, but not upon task of paramount importance in of the country. Further, the pro-scale which interrupts the gen- the defence of our country.
"I rely on you now to pass on longed Thames Estuary and the gral life of London. He has not line of the river above it are, even come within any appreciable dis-this urgent message to the sub- under modern conditions, the tance of His ultimate goal, even contracters. On them depends the
of the ¡Deflant chief transverse obstacle to
As to the success all in this limited-fleld. communication south of the Mid-price be has paid for this second gramme."
effort-at-victory-we cannot judge. lands. Sooner or later mere geo- graphical conditions make Lon- that until the present action is dan a necessary target for inva-completed. But it is already an exceedingly high price. His first effort at a final decision was the air.battle which began on August and ended on August 18, with his defeat,
sion.
nucleus of population So
BRITAIN'S LEAGUE PROPOSAL
pro-
VISCOUNTS CRANBOURNE,
* Political Importance But the political considerations are much more important to-day
It is because the results. of that than the geographical. The most important of these is numerical. battle disappointed him that he now turns to another scheme. His London far more than any first plan was to establish mastery other capital, presents a in the air by his superiority in large in proportion to the whole numbers and to do so in one mu state that its influence is decisive. jor charge. That charge was SECRETARY OF THE DOMI- The amount of the total London broken; and meanwhile there has NIONS, IN A SPEECH, SAID population is debatable, for there been armother month for further AFTER THE WAR THE WORLD are no exact boundaries. But if preparation and further increase MUST BE BASED ON A PEACE we call it, all told, with its subur in what must become, short of a SYSTEM HAVING DUITSTOWN ban zone and tentacles, eight mil very proximate decision the POLICE FORCE CONTRIBUTED manifest superiority of Britain BY THE NATIONS "WHO SUB- lions that is,no.cxcessive.estimate.
in Air Power and with that sup 6CRIBE TO THE PRINCIPLES There are certainly eight million criority, a decision at last against INSPIRED BY THE ORGANISA -souls.counting-as the urban popu”.
HITION TO WHICH THEY BE- our enemies. lation of that enormous gathering.
Now if you compare this with The offort against London still LONG.” any other capital of any other proceeds. It is too early as yet Such force, he said, "must have first-class Power in the world, to define at all exactly the limits adequate machinery for the removal of the causes of war." of its fallure. you will. And it to be on a unique scale. Even New York and its *But we note theistoady stream This is the first specific state- appendages are not in the same of the enemyla lossen instrained ment by a member of the gov- proportion to the United States. pliota and orqws and their/vory-ernment-concorning what should Paris not in the same proportion high proportion: to the total bd the shape of things to come, to the population of France. Berlin pocsible trumber of auch exports Viscount Cranbourne added the nt chladleposal. The whole nations in the organisation must may be called anything between
and five pericent(itis.cer- world is noting this a well as agree to some limitation of their we, and that la+why itsujudasovereignty. This is essential for ment of the struggle is chang- the continuation of peace."-As-
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