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NEWSETTES THE LESSON OF CRETE: on wor, will be closed
tre of the B.W.OF,
Government House Cen- COMBINATION OF THREE SERVICES ADVOCATED BY
on Monday. Jure and there will
be no Ladies' Knitting Party at the Helena May Institute on Thursday, June 12 owing to the public holiday.
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"In what must be regarded as a despicable attempt to justify his betrayal of his country and in a vain endeavour to disrupt Chi- His Excellency the Governor, will nese unity which has so successfully opposed Japanese aggression, be present at the Army Football the Nanking puppet, WANG CHING-WEI, through his publicity ground. Chatham Road, today at 3! agent, TANG LIANG-LE, has published a translation of the various pm, at the opening match of the treatises written by the inte Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with special refer-Baseball League between the H.K. Brewers and the U.S.S. Mindanao ence to Sino-Japariese relations.
CAPT. CYRIL FALLS
We have to combine all three Aghting services, be- cause if we do that we shall have a distinct advantage- over Germany, who is weak in one of them-the navy.. That is the whole lesson of Crete," said CAPTAIN CYRIL FALLS military correspondent of THE TIMES, when he broadcast from London yesterday in a very informative talk on some of the most significant aspects of the Cretan campaign.
the
that when puppet and will throw the first ball. The author admits that " Dr. recall here Yat-sen had lived. might have: Wang made his treacherous exit revised some of the matters in from Free China to join the King George's Field, Kowloon,
"I don't think that it is "In the last war," continued. GIVE THE P.B.I. these documents. Composed at enemy's camp, he made it appear will be officially opened on Wed-
intervals over # A CHANCE -
period during that only an immediate peace nesday, June 11, at 6 pm. His Ex much good trying to com- Capt Falls, "Germany profited by which events moved and circum- and a peace at any cost at that-cellency the Governor will perform ment in detail from London her interior lines for four years and put one of her less dangerous EVENTS, which stances changed at a rate hitherto was China's only salvation.
the opening ceremony.
on the tactics of the Germans enemies, Russia, out of the Aght. RECENT
The question that immediately
in Crete," began Capt. Falls. If she had gone on fighting in that culminated in the loss of unparalleled in world history..."
these writings naturally contain arises is: What is Wang Ching- His Excellency the Governor will!" Information on the subject way, the Allies on exterior lines
have soon reached 294 Crete, have aroused wide-
much that is ephemeral, and can-wel and his gang of traitors doing hold a Consular Reception at Gov. has to come from Cairo and would
through spread criticism throughout not but bear traces of the condi- to bring about the establishment ernment House on Thursday, June it has already been extremely Rhineland
France and the British Empire on the tons of the changing moments." of this so-called. "New Order" with-12 at 11 am in honour of the well collected and sifted and
swept across the Danube.
took to heart most: conduct of the war on land, The author, however, goes on to in China? So far all that has Birthday of His Majesty the King sent to us by air and has now thoroughly these last few months
many with special reference to the insist that "the choice before the become apparent is kidnappings. Chinese people.... is either blackmailing, murder, graft and a
been rebroadcast from Lon-of defeat. That is why you have Middle East. While no one abide by and carry out" Dr. Sun total disregard for the welfare of
don.
often heard that Herr Hitler bas in any way under-estimates Yat Sen's precepts, "or openly the people.
a terror of what is called a war on. the gallantry of the British renounce the Late Party Leader."
two fronts, which is a new name and Greek fighting forces onį FUNDAMENTALS OVERLOOKED
for aghting on interior lines.
Dr. Sun's treatises on Ching's The Sixtieth Ordinary Meeting the island, evidence has been
accumulating,
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Even a Japanese newspaDET, the Asahi Shimbun, has felt impelled to advise Wang to of discontinue his approval open gambling and opium houses and to devote his time to the development of China's social and cultural improve- ment as embodied in Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's New Life Movement,
REAL MEANING
Almost,multaneously with the
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* FRENCHMEN
WAITING FOR
"THE DAY",
Ger-
I they had no effect on the course with plenty of big potential air-
STRATEGIC POINT OF VIEW "It la better for me, therefore, to look at this campaign from the
STRATEGY ON CRETE broader strategic point of view to
"Now, let us look at the local see what it means and what it is likely to lead to. The first thing strategy" of the Cretan campaign," to note is that that this campaign went on Capt. Falls, "The eastern represents the first air-borne in-end of the island is 750 miles from left undone which ought to statesmen, including the majority
vasion in the history of warfare. Alexandria and the western end is have been done to prevent the jearows, was actually leno-
This is most important, especially about 400 miles, The eastern end ing China's revolutionaries assis-
is about 100 miles from Rhodes, because it was completely success- what is now admitted to be a tance to bring about an enlighten-
while the western end is about the ful. serious reverse for the allied ed Chinese Government and nut
"Nobody, except persons like same distance from the German That Both Major. Olivera. Japanese "New Order."
myself who are interested in such occupied airfields in the Pelopon- Stewart, editor of the London was before the infamous twenty-
things, troubles to remember that nese and 90 miles from the Ger- "When shah we put on magazine "Aeronautics" and one demands, the occupation of publication of Wang's efforts to
our there were cannons of some sort man airfields on Mela. Manchuria, the invasion of North distort the conceptions of great uniforms again and kick
"Crete is a pretty big island a recognised air expert, and China and, finally, the occupation leader. the China Fublishing Com- swine out where they belong?
these at the Battle of Cressey, because Captain Cyril Falls, military of nearly every one of China a pany has come out with a reprint hope. It's soon. and most of usiof the battle. But air-borne in-fields on it. So it seems that we correspondent of The London coastal provinces with a naval of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's work on "The,
swait for that day.
vasion, having succeeded on the were handicapped not by lack of Development al Times, have made scathing blockade stretching from Vladivos- International
to the southernmost tip of China."
"The newspapers, the wireless, first occasion it was used, comes airfields, but by lack of numbers. If we did have sufficient numbers Kwangtung Province.
In fact everything. here is run by into another category.
of aircraft on the island in the The book, which is dedicated by the Germans, but fortunately
It pays a tribute to German Yes,
first instance, the Germans could indeed, things have
Dr. Sun to Sir James and Lady can hear the news, from England!
organisation and thoroughness
not have driven them off. certainly changed at a pate
Cantlie, whome he describes as his
and boldness and 1. for one. at night and Fearn the truth. unparalleled in world history,
"devoted friends to whom I once
am not going to make any ex- "The Aussles are doing great but puppet Wang and his "Dr.
lowed my life." It deals with si
cuses for our defeat, Victories. Goebbels," Tang Liang-B,
socialistic scheme which includes work in Egypt, and FOOD, I pray,
are won by a concentrating de- have conveniently overlooked
cisive superiority of numbers in its scope the industrialisation our Navy and what's felt of the these fundamentals and, in
greasy- of China to save it from being a Air Force will fight the
at a decisive point. It becomes obedience to their Japanese
Hike a football match of eleven constant prey to militaristic de looking Italians. They say here, masters, continue to look upon
men against six There is signs of its neighbours and to con-If you want to visit Italy, join the the aggressors of China as
nothing unfair, about it. tribute in this way not only to Greek army,'” *friends."
the permanent peace of the coun- try, but to a generat realisation of this aim for the world as a whole "
criticisms on one important aspect of the campaign-that of the necessity of air co- operation with the land and Sea
forces. This, indeed, seems to be the crux of the whole subject of the loss of Crete and many issues have been raised in an attempt to explain this, defeat.
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THE FIRST question we would ask is why the airfields SITUATION NOT THE SAME in Crete, of which there were To use an apt Chinese phrase, quite potential number, "It Dr. Sun Yat-sen was still alive, were not properly defended, he would weep until his eyes be
came dy over the treacherous APPLICATION HAS been taking into consideration the application of his honest views on made to this Company to issue to fact that the island has been a situation which is diametrically CHENG WONG SHI (WE) in British occupation for at eontrary to that which prevailed also known as CHENG, TIN least six months? Had we a in his time. It is interesting to SUM (L) of 99, Des Voeux mobile anti-aircraft regiment Road, Central, ground floor, in Crete and how many of duplicate certificates for
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12th May, 1937.
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No. 7528 dated the
This publication gives the real meaning of Dr. Sun's policy and Wang and his as
learn sociates would
muel
more
of the deeper reasons that prompted the late lead. er's actions by reading it.
SUCCESSFUL DEBUT OF
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(Extacts from a letter re-.
ceived in England from & French ex-soldier now in occu- pied France.) «
BALLOON MEN
ON THE SUN?
де
to
For instance, we brought many
"It is far more likely and far more; credible to say that we knew
not afford could We greater air strength in Crete and that we miscalculated the forces which the Germans would throw into the cam--- paign.
Some people have been
re-
ships from many quarters to bear proaching the Army and Navy for on the Bismarck, because we were thinking they could run shows on determined that she should be sent their own and neglecting the air the bottom of the Atlantic, factor, That is an unfair accusa- navy That was perfectly fight and when tion. The army and the the German commentators bleated have. been crying out for further They belleve about the number of ships it took air co-operation. to destroy her. we knew they were that victory can only be won by only trying to console the more the complete co-operation of the ignorant part of their public at three services.
AIR CO-OPERATION "I have been reading the script TWO ASPECTS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A man on home. the sun, although feeling as if he
on
weighed a ton, might leap & mile "Making excuses for an enemy's of a very fine talk given in this off the ground and float gently superiority the battlefield is very series recently by Major Oli- is called 'Can back to the surface-gently. that not the same thing as explaining ver Stewart. It is. for the sun.
how it came about," continued Bombing Win a War? and broad- He would do this if he behaved Capt. Falls. "There are, therefore, ly speaking, he answered the ques-
RUTH LITVIN like the peculiar costs astrore, to my mind two strategie aspects tion with a direct negative. He re-
been observing with of als campaign: ers nave new instruments recently.
These clouds the masses of be
these very essential units in Last autumn an Air Marshal modern warfare have we in was placed in charge of what the Middle East? It may not was called Army Co-operation be generally known to every- and it was earnestly hoped. one, but it has been establish- then that the German dive- ed that as early as in July | bomber would no longer be
The occasion marking her first 1936, the Germans had form-allowed to work its wicked public appearance on
the local ed thirty of these regiments will on the land forces with concert stage. Miss Ruth Litvin. and, for more obvious reasons impunity. So far as the Mid-the talented young planiste from candescent gas. Some weigh ml than it is possible to explain dle East... is concerned, it Shanghal, was accorded a here, such units must today seems to have been merely a reception at the Peninsula Hotel days, 50,000 to 100,000 miles above
last night by her first Hongkong the sun's surface constitute a very necessary pious. hope.
audience and thoroughly deserved and integral part of any
LET US examine this ques-the. applause. army in the Field.
tion of dive-bombing. In the
AS FÅR BACK as a year first place, it obviously does on
the concert Miss Litvin,
Warm
programme with and Miss . Pauline guest artiste.
lions of tons. They may float for
The mystery is the reason they don't fall with a crash, for tronomes say that the sun, un-
"Firstly, what we may call the grand strategy for making the whole war and the whole
arca
concerned in the war come into our view;
marks that there was a fairly large school which used to hold that the He air arm was self-sufficient. goes on Experience of the war has put air-power in its proper perspective and has led us to see that air-power in conjunction with the other arms, is fulfilling its true role.'
"Secondly, the local strategy in the particular area of the campaign and its preparation..
"He must mean that we are go- "You have probably heard of the miiltary expressions interior line ing back to the older theory, the Mr. Gaston d'Aquing, featured ke the earth, has no atmosphere and 'exterior line. Broadly speak- theory of co-operation. If I have able to hold up clouds and keeping, a force is said to be operating any criticism to make of these ago, in the Battle of France, not take the lengthy training Chow (soprano),
them ficating above the surface. on interior lines when it is tight wise and heartening words, it is if 9th December, 1938 it became clearly evident that which is necessary for pilot were also given a warm ovation.cloud stuff of the sum moves
More often than not the blazing ing from a central point against he suggests and I am hot so sure respectively have been lost or the Germans owed a great and crew of a long-distance Mr. E, O'Neil Shaw was the actor down over a
up opposing forces which are divided. that he does, that the army has rainbow-shaped These forces may be divided into abandoned this old theory. But I am mislaid: and Notice is hereby measure of their success to bomber or a fighter. It is un-companist.
arch between it and the sun's sur-numbers distributed in a circular that does, that the army has aban- given that, if within thirty days the work done by their mass doubtedly a non-spectacular,
The programme included "Love face although occasionally there a form or only into two parts, but more glad than I can say to see my friend, Major Oliver from the date hereof no claim or dive-bombers, which entirely arduous, and dangerous duty, sounds the alarm" "In native no arch or other support.
so long as they are divided they that representation in respect of such supplemented the old artillery but so is war. Then again, is worth" (Gaston d'Aquino): "Care
nome" "(Miss Pauline
The nature of the force pushing are acting on exterior lines, while Stewart, speaking from the air
of this co-operation. is not known. Astronomers have lines.
Chow);
original certificate is made to the barrage to cover the tank or a very expensive 400 mile per "Sonata Pathetique" (Op. 13)--in up the clouds.or holding them up the enemy is acting, on interior point of view, recognises the value
Company, the Company will then the infantry advance, What hour machine necessary for four
work? deal with such applica
proceed
tion.
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the infantry (the men who this
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wars) now complain think not. about is that they were shot
movements: "Beethoven, suggested it may be the pressure "By this definition it is obvious We certainly Venezia e Napole-in two move of radiation. Probably there are that Germany is fighting on in-
ments: In D flat major, Nocturne
terior lines, while we are opposing Assuming that a tank, at promptu (Op. 68) In C sharp!
Number 1 (Op. 55) in Fantasie Im-magnetic forces also at work...
Whatever the forces, if a man her on exterior lines. In Abyssinia to pieces by these dive-bomb-its best, travels at not, more minor-Chopin,
It could protect himself from the and the Middle East Italians were
able to feel acting on interior lines. ,sun, he might be ers without ever so much as than 30 miles an hour under) vin)..
them. secing our own air force service conditions, any air- which should have protected craft with a bomb-rack-and 251 them.
machine-guns with a speed
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IN REPLY to this charge, of over 120 miles an hour the General Staff of the Roy-should be good enough for
al Air Force explains that the the job. We must literally
(Miss Ruth
$1,200 LOST ON BUS
LOCAL ESTATES The late Mr. Pel Kuang-hu, otherwise known as Ku Pe-klang. An elderly man travelling on a allas Ho Yua, banker, formerly
"For various reasons, either because they lacked mobility or because they were not enter. prising enough, the Italians could not take advantage of their interior, position, while we were able to seize the "ad- vantage of our exterior posi- tlon, which is to crush the enemy,
GERMANY'S ADVANTAGE "Germany, on the other hand, is
"We want to combine all three services, because if we do that we shall fight with a dis- tinct advantage over Germany, who is weak in one of them--- the Navy. This will mean the combination of three services against two, but this is only possible if these three services are perfectly co-ordinated. That is the whole lesson of Crete," concluded Capt. Falis.
REGISTRATION FOR EGGS INTRODUCED LONDON, June 6 (Reuter)
air is a big area and that al- have thousands of machines crowded bus had the misfortune, of No. 1 Tai Hang Road, and who though our infantry might in the above
to category
of losing a wallet, containing about died in the China National" Avia- have felt that they were not spare, which are obsolete for $1,200 from an inner jacket pocket tion Corporation plane disaster an
Then on Wednesday." other purpose...
Aug. 24, 1938. at Mr. A. Manuel Fox and Mr. Cyril getting the necessary air" süp- any
Chungshan, experiencing the advantage of in- Registration for eggs is being in- Rogers, members of the Anglo- port, yet the Royal Air Force why not use them and give) Chan Chak-yu, 74, manager of Kwangtung, left local estate swornterior lines, which enables her to troduced at once by the Ministry. Chinese Stabilisation Fund Com-was doing more useful work the P.B.I. (Poor B-Infantry) the Shing On Cheong Construction under $28,000. A petition by Hut switch her forces rapidly from one of Food to ensure fairer distribu- mittee, arrived
Colony elsewhere. This is all very a chance. The dive-bombers Company, Bowrington Canal, Tung-Chu-hu hanker, for letters of ad- flank to another and gain suc- tion.
the deceased's
An official announcement last lowan told the Police yesterday, ministration "of
It takes Germany a much cesses, yesterday.
shorter, time to transfer forces to night states that from June. 13 all Mr. Fox, who is accompanied by/ Well, but the man in the tank can have, fighter escorts in that he boarded a No.. 11 bus at, estate has been granted..
Local estate valued at $17,780 the Middle East than it takes us. retailers will receive supplies in Mr. W. H. Taylor, alternate Ame- and the man with the rifle in the same way as long-distance Tokwawan for the Jordan Road rican delegate, and Mr. W. Frese, his hand does not think so bombers. This is a vital mat- ferry wharf, after having collect has been left by the late Mr. This applies to her air force as accordance with their registered customers for eggs, together with assistant, will proceed to -Chung-and, in a major battle, it is ter and it is gratifying to ed accounts totalling about $1,200. Rebecca Jewell Men-chong (or well as her land forces.
Some time after he got on the Ming), who died on Jan. 24, 1941 "Bo long as a combatant, fight allowance in respect of those who these men that count most. learn that the question is be- Mr. Rogers who le an official of And now, a year later, in ing raised in Parliament in bus, his pocket was picked, but it at No. 14 Chatham Road at the ing on interior lines, can concen- hold ration documents which do
was not until the bus had reached age of 80 years. Probate of the trate superior forces at a decisive net permit them to register. the Bank of England, was in Hong Crete, exactly the same com- order to give our land troops the junction of Jordan Road and will has been granted to late Buey point, he maintains this great ad- Registration should be carried
Ross's plaint has been made by the the moral and material sup- Shanghal Street that he discovered Lun, allas Elle Suey-hing, aloge vantage, but when he is beaten, he out immediately and in any
is beaten thoroughly.
by Saturday, June 14, Economic Mission to China in 1935. British and Anzac troops, port they deserve.
king.
kong in 1939 and was a member of Sir Frederick Lefth
hits' loss;
woman,
case
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