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PARACHUTE TROOPS played a notable part
in the surprise tactics characterising a four-day
mock battle which has just recently ended, and in SAT. EVE. POST TO
which 40,000 of Britain's finest troops, operating over hundreds of miles of Southern England, demon- strated the Army's fitness to undertake any task.
After this great military exercise had been re- viewed, it was discovered that, as so often happens in war, a minor incident in the first hour of battle gave one side a big advantage. This was the cap- ture of a motor-cycle despatch rider.
Driving through darkness and rain the rider missed a turning and
fell into "enemy" hands. When interrogated, he was noticed to be fumbling in his pockets,
BRITISH
from which scores of pieces of 'SURPRISE'
torn and crumpled paper were taken.
For seven hours through the night Intelligence officers work. ed on the Jigsaw puzzle of those scraps until the gecret was laid bare.
FOR NAZI FLIERS
Ronald Tree, Parlia-
Pieced together, the Jigsaw mentary Secretary for the proved to be the complete details, with map, of the
British Ministry of In- defending forces' plans and tactics.
formation, said on his re- There was one moment of turn from the United reulity in this miraic warfare, A
sur-
bullets tore the earth.
plane appeared through a Cloud States, "We have a gap and a stream of machine-gun prise for the Germans which will further their A German, cloud-hopping, had already increasing dif-| strayed into the area, and for a ficulties in flying over couple of seconds real bullets flew until the enemy scurried for
home.
Soldiers Tough
Afterwards the corps comman-
England."
"Before long," Mr. Tree con- tinued, "most of their bombers which dare to fly over England will not be able to return home".
He declined to specify what the
der summed up the lessons of the "surprise" is.
battle:
Mr. Tree, who spent six weeks in the United States, said there would be 4,000,000 tons of Amer-
"To beat Germany we must have hardened soldiers, able to ican shipping available for Brit- fight whatever the weather or conditions. My men have been going for nearly a week and have done well; they are tough.
"The element of surprise is of the utmost importance. Individual initiative has been good."
To distinguish between the two armies one side wore steel hel- mets and the other cloth caps.
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ish use by 1942 and "swarms of American 'planes would be in action before next spring."
REPARATION DEMAND
DROP ITS ISOLATIONIST POLICY
Walter D. Fuller, president of the National Association of Manufacturers and of the Curtis Publish- ing Company, said in an interview:
"I have been consis- tently an isolationist. · So has the Saturday Evening Post although that policy will change next week.
"But we are in war now. We are like a man who has jumped off a springboard and has not yet touched the water. He isn't wet, but he hasn't a chance of getting back on the spring- board again."
NEW G.O.C. FOR
HONG KONG
It is announced from Com- mand H.Q., that for some time past Major-General A. E. Grasett, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., has been re- quired for an appointment in the United Kingdom and arrange- ments have just been completed for his relief by Major-General "C. M. Maltby; M. C.
Major-General Maltby has had
The Parachutists were used by the "tin hats." At a critical The United States are demand-tong experience both in Command moment twin-engined planes ap-ing one milliqn dollars, repara- and on the Staff in India and peared and in a few seconds the tion for the recent sinking of the elsewhere and is at present com- "paratroops" were on the ground. American ship Robin Moor by a manding an important division They cast off their parachutes German submarine, according to India. and vanished into the country-a Washington. telegram to the Major General Maltby will be
"Journal-American.”
Senator Walsh is asking Sena- near future.
arriving in Hong Kong in the tor Knox to answer the charges. made by Senator Wheeler that the United States is sinking sub- marines, say the same correspon- dent-Router.
stde.
An officer who, incidentally, had nothing to do with it at all found himself confronted by three burly "paratroops." There was a quick blow with a fist, and the parachutists were driving his car away.
Telephone lines were cut and explosions rang out as this new branch of Britain's armed forces: got to work.
SAVING SPACE IN SHIPS
Carcases of mutton and lamb sent to Britain from
EVIDENCE OF
BULGARIAN WATERS
BRITISH STRENGTH MINED
Reviewing the events of June in The Bulgarian Army ComTM the Mediterranean area, the well-mand announced yesterday that known Swedish military expert, Bulgarian territorial waters on Colonel Bratt, singles out General the Black Sea will be mined to Wavell's simultaneous mechanised day at noon, according to the attack in Cyrenaica and the offen- official German News Agency in sive in Syria."
Berlin.
The Colonel says that it must Foreign vessels will be able to be admitted that it was highly use the territorial waters until original thus to strike in two a.m. to-day, after which permis- directions at once; this is evidence sion to enter these waters must be obtained 12 hours in advance,
Reuter,
of British strength. Reuter:
overseas are "telescoped" M.P.S AND SEA WAR
to save shipping space
MAHRATTA LL'S ACHIEVEMENTS
A background talls on the war Major Lloyd George, Par at sea was given to the 1922 Com- mittee of Conservative MPs at liamentary Secretary to the House of Commons recently the Ministry of Food, by Mr. Francis McMurtrie, the stated in a written Parlia- Daily Telegraph His talks dealt LIGHT INFANTRY TOOK JA mentary answere
Naval Correspondent of The THE FIFTH
·MAHRATTA
STATES A PRESS" NOTE, ISSUED IN SIMLA YESTER DAY.
with the naval position and the PROMINENT PART. - IN THE This method of using the space prospects for the coming months TIGHTING IN ERITREA, PAR- within the carcases and of filing in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean TICULARLY AT KEREN the Irigerators, of the ships to and the Far East. capacity has been in operations since the carly days of the war, Major Lloyd George- also dis closed that the entire boning-out capacity of the packing plants in, the South American mont produc- Sweden having, decided not to ing countries and the Dominions raise a volunteer force for the is now being used, another means war against Soviet Russid, Swe-
SWEDISH AID TO FINLAND
At Ummhaagar, they participat- led in a little campaign all" on their own following up a retreat- ing garrison and capturing prison- crs and equipment.
Up to date the regiment has re- colved one Bar to the D.S.0, one
of saving shipping space. Large dish volunteers will be attached to purchases of canned beef had the Finnish formations, states the D.S.O., four M.C.'s, live 1.0.M.'s, also been made.
Finnish radio-Reutor.
and two IDSM's-R¢uter.