"You're picking winners well today- sec if you can tell this whisky
“It's White Horse; of course—
I could tell it blindfold”
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 26, 1940,
THE GERMANS
LOSING
ARE
THE WAR WORK IN DAMAGED
IT IS A GREAT privilege to live in London in HOSPITAL
these days. Because in London alone one can be am eye-witness of the decisive turning-point of the War
perhaps the decisive turning-point of world- history, writes a London correspondent.
The nose-piece and part of the tail of a large bomb which re-
Let us turn back to those world-shaking Sept-cently struck the roof. ember days of Paris and the Marne 26 years ago. The situation is the same to-day.
Then the Germans, after astounding victories, after an advance at unprecedented speed through Belgium and Northern France, felt on top of the world. They threw all they had against the Marne The rare and subtle character of White Horse
Line and Paris in a supreme bid for décisive victory.
Victory meant that the Blitzkrieg All London certainly suffers sets it apart from any other whisky. You can of 1914 was won. Failure meant discomfort and anxiety. So did a long war of attrition which Paris in September 1914, when it tell it by its exquisite bouquet alone. But it is the Germans could never win. heard the guns thunder by night
But, of course, the Germans and day. the perfect blending of fragrance with well- felt that failure was out of the But that same suffering ot question. The Kaiser was af Paris in 1914 meant decisive vic- owness and smoothness «hich makes White the front. The French were tory. Se does the suffering of already groggy, and just about to Londoners In September 1940. By Horse Whisky the equal of a fine liqueur.
receive the knock-out. ·
'carrying on. without flinching And then came failure. Nothing through Hitler's most furious on-
There was The millions of gallons of finest Scotch whisky-melodramatic.
noslaught, London is beating Hitler shattering defeat, no annihilation Londoners
failure. see his But docs
know 7 matured and maturing ensure that the quality of of the German armies.
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Germans know? Shall three years elapse again before they realise what has happened? We must not allow this. This is the time to tell them!
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Only, there had been the de- cisive failure. Paris stond. The Anglo-French armies stood. Day after day went by and the great news of victory failed to come. Instead there came the trench- war, and the hopeless wor of attrition which Germany could never win.
Nobody Told Them
Winning the German people over will one day be THE great war-winning move. Think of an average German who, Hitler or no Hitler, wants victory for Ger- At the time, in 1914, no Germany and fears defeat. All those man outside the military High Germans are haunted by mem-
ories of the last war. Command knew that Germany had suffered the decisive defeat. For years to come they did not know. Nobody told them. Up to the summer of 1917 even mem- bers of the Reichstag did not know that the German War Plan had been defeated and that the war had been virtually lost three years earlier.
They all remember how there were victories and victories
those and the sum total of all victories a huge defeat!
Another Marne
of a Central London. hospital was shown to the governors of the hospital at their meet ing:
Special mention was made of a splendid band of volunteer stretcher-bearers, and Caresolution passed paid tribute to the work done "during these tragic nights" by a small band of medical officers and -dressers. In this hos- pital: there exists an organisation able to receive at a moment's notice large numbers of the wounded, care- fully examine them, and deal with their injuries promptly and efficiently.
000000000
CAIRO
SACKS
This spring, there was the Flanders campaign. Then the Somme was forced, Pariş feu. It was only late in 1917 that Relief, elation, jubilation, swept this haunting knowledge of foi- the German people. It was no lure began to spread throughout Battle of the Marne this time, no Germany. But with its spread halt, a victorious Blitzkrieg, peace German fighting moral began by August 15. The Germans felt slowly to crumble. The result on top of the world. was November 1918. · ·
And now? · It must be..dawn- Three years were lost before ing on many Germans that there the failure of the Marna was may be another Marne after all brought home to the Germans, The Marne of this war was not three years full of tragedy and the Somme, It is the English slaughter which could have been Channel, and London is playing spared,
the glorious part of Paris in 1914. To-day we witness the same The haunting thought is there. drama again. Again the Ger Hitler and Goebbels try to push girls, whose cabarets are mans have had intoxicating vicit out of mind with their talk.
SHOW GIRLS
Cairo's foreign glamour
tories. Again they are told that Britain must not be silent, Just the main attractions in only a last effort is needed.
as in 1914, the decisive battle is the city's night life, have being won. The Germans must
"Der Tag"
;
Egypt within four days.
not again be allowed to remain all been ordered to leave The British. "cowering in shel-ignorant of it.. ters and cursing the plutocratic The Same Again
Churchill Government,” are about
The order follows discoveries by: the political police who have
to receive the final, shattering Is Britain doing sufficient to been investigating the girl's ac- blow. The stage has been set.enlighten the Germans? - The tivities: Many have been found to Hitler has promised that the. Bri- answer is No. Britain has rather be dabbling in espionage.. tish cities, will be razed to the lost touch with the German peo- One-beautiful showgirl - was ground; Goering has taken per-ple. A year ago, dull and, badly arrested after she struck up on sonal command of air operations; designed leaflets were dropped in acquaintance with a British sol- the German people, raised to Germany. They had no effect: dier and began asking him lead- feverish expectation; are sitting But instead of better leaflets, nowing questions. round the loudspeakers, taking in no leaflets at all are being drop-When her home was searched the special news bulletins, wait ped. This is wrong,
documents were found which
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5th Column
ing for the "great super-specialThere are two fallacies. in the strengthened suspicions. news:, London razed to the ground ideas in this, country about. Ger Fifty-four-Italian, subjects in Britain surrenders.
man mentality; one that the Ger- the, employ of the Alexandra It is now or never, it is. Der mans are weak and always on the Corporation have been dismissed [Tag,PA
verge of moral breakdown, the following a police. The trump card is on the table,other, that they are machine-like into their activities.
Investigation the crack squadrons of the Luft- robots, inaccessible to any human. The Ministry of the Interior waffe, for whose, sake the Gepersuasion..
is, to place all its permanent of- mans went hungry for years, pra In reality, they are ordinary cials who are of Italian nation- hurled in clouds across the Chan human beings, and like all such ality on the retired list,~ -- nel. Already, for the Germans have their vulnerable points. And Temporary employees of the round the loudspeakers, London the most vulnerable of all is this Egyptian Government who are is a shambles, wrapped in fire fear. "The same again!" Itallaris are to be dismissed forth- and smoke." In a few days, at But no pressure is at present with. most a few weeks, all, will be being applied to this psychological over! Victorious Germany rules weak paint.The whole field is the world.
left open to Hitler to tell the And again the bid for victory Germans, that this time" the war People who are "technically is failing,
is being won straight according but unwillingly Italian, such as to plan
the natives of The Germans fear Americat on Dodecanese, are the day of the destroyer-deal, these decisions. We, in London, know it. Aguin.they should have been showered. nothing melodramatic is happen-with, bombs, together with pice ing. No annihilation of the whole tures of those fifty, grey warships, attacking force, nothing, which and nothing but the caption: the German High Command could "These came in one day,N The police have been carrying not disguise to the Germans as a In their hearts the Germans out many midnight swoops on the victory. There has only been respect British toughness. They homes of suspected Italians, '*.* the decisive failure,
should be shown London at work As more and more suspects are The R.A.F. simply holds the under bombardment. They should rounded up, the populations, of the sky. London stands and carries be-informed of every new bateli internment camps are growing, on. A few of London's eight mil- of American aeroplanes arriving. Those suspects held in the Tor lion people ore casualties; more But more than anything else, Internment camp on the Sinal suffer terrible loss. They are their innermost fear must be peninsular are to spend their time front-line soldiers who, have fallen | touched. In their memories of the building a new road between In the decisive battle of the war. lost war, the Battle of the Morne Sinal; und Tor.):
Decisive Failure
Libya und the not affected by
The decisions are the result.
· of, "discoveries by the "police, In their investigations Into Italian fifth column activities.