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FERGUSON.-At 15, Meiklewood Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire, on November 24. 1930, John Ferguson, beloved husband of Elizabeth Anderson, Late of Greenock and Quarry Bay, Hongkong,
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Democracy At War
T
WILL THE LIGHT
PENETRATE?
How good is Germany's war
material?
HE German army goes to war with equipment that has a number of weak
points. In general, the material from which its weapons and machines is made is poor. The designs are usually excellent, but many have one considerable defect: they have been developed too quickly, and have not bad enough seri- ous testing before large-scale production was begun.
NO country, however democratic, enn enter upon a great war without suffering a loss of freedom. When the challenge of Britain took up Reichsfuhrer Hitler, Parliament and people did so with the full know- ledge that war meant discipline and control, and submission to orders. Since the strength of a nation at war is not merely that of its armed forces, but depends upon the sum-stitutes. The steel has too large total of the efforts of all the people in every sphere of Me, it follows that the whole nation must submit itself to authority.
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The material is poor mainly because it Includes so many sub-
in it, and too large a proportion a proportion of cheap scrap iron
"home-grown" of low-grade
iron ore.
The synthetic rubber, called This is acutely felt in time of war.
"Buna" rubber, may be of service All men of a certain age are liable
for some joba, but does not stand to military conscription. All indus-
up to war conditions. In particu- trialists. shipowners
rallway lar or
is not good enough for the must be prepared to put tracks of tasks and tractors. Owners their factories, ships, or rallways, at the disposal of the State. A man's house may be commandeered ut have troops or civilians biljetted in it. Shops are controlled, food may be ratloned, light is restricted. At any me a Government department may issue an order inposing ik some restrictions upon the conduct of private citizens,
Such regimentation the people of Britain were prepared for. It was the price to be paid for the waging of war, All they ask is that the viders shall be wisely made, and that they should really be conducive to efficiency in running the vast inchirie of a nation ul war. Armies of ometals are necessarily formed, and they have great powers, but while the wise use of these powers makes for victory, the unwise use is a hindrance.
Their
The Germans, in their civilian life, have a great love for extreme tidiness and regularity. roads are very smooth: on their uerodromes each grass-blade seems to be combed to stand to atten- tion in exact line with the next grass-blade. And all thate indus.. try producing for home sales, for years, has been geared to produce fraglie, lightweight goods that work quite nicely if treated with care.
Their industries producing for export have specialised in cheap things that do not last.
We have a great advantage over them there. Sometimes go-ahead people are inclined to laugh at the
Sam Just Won't Leave The Army
Governmenl acts, of coutro, through various departments. One ja concerned with the training of mien for the. army; another with, the
A PROBLEM of patriotism, a provision of skilled men for the war factories; another with the problem in peace and war, is the provision of food; another with British Army's oldest drummer, laxation; another with the relense Acting-Sergeant Sam Thomp- and censoring of news. It may often happen that what appears helpful son, of Framlingham, Suffolk. to one department will be an im He REFUSES to leave the Army. pediment lo another. All the "We don't want to lose you, Sam, dellcate balances which develop but we thinit you ought to go. You've under the natural ebb and flow of already passed the age Umit," they freedom are likely to be thrown out
sild. when an entirely different organisa- tion is artificially formed. There is needed calculated co-ordination not only in each department of State, but between the departments; and this indicates " skilled thinking
organ.
Quartermaster-Sergeant Thorup -- son, as he was then, looked up the regulations. Then he joined up again as a drummer.
"Now I can serve for another five And the years," he announced. authorities
could.
..
discovered that 110
Now Drummer (Acting-Sergeant)'
But some of the considerations which mako an intrusivo "brain trust" objectionable in pance time Sam Thompson, aged afty-four, pride ure arguments on the other side in of the 4th Suffolks, and holder of war time. In view of the muddle
soven compaigner's modals, has that follows lack of direction, that volunteered for active servire "for distinguished English
economist, the duration.”
Sir Willium Beveridge, la urging the "I said I was 'out there' last time, necessity not only of a control and I'm still as at as a fiddle," Sam board for every important industry, told the Sunday Pictorial yesterday. but a central body of men trained Just let them try to leave me, bo-j in co-ordinating ull departments.
hind-that's a}],"t
British habit of making things
to last for over." In:a world of changing fashions and many in- ventions, it
not always economical to make things that will be out of date before they are worn out in normal civilian use.
But this is of great value in war. War consists of a continual series of crashes. Our vehicles, aero- planes, etc., are not crash-proof. but they will stand much heavier bashing about than those of the Germans. Our machines and gad- gets are not fool-proof, but you do not have to handle them as if they were made of tissue-paper..
When the artificial rubber pads on the tracks of a German tank tear or wear out, the stoel is not good enough to stand the extra hammering of hard work on the road.
That is why the German mechanised divisions made such a poor show when advancing un- opposed on Vienna in the spring of last year. A number of witnesses, including Americans, British and Austrians, have testined that several roads were blocked by broken-down vehicles.
One eyewitness wrote in the Nation Belge)
"There, in brilliant weather without snow or rain, Blood broken-down German lorries. tanks and artillery tractors, in long lines on the Austrian roads, in pitiful immobility. One division lost ng fewer than 45 heavy
tractors out of 400."
The German tanks that saw action in the Spanish war ap- peared to "fade out" after a few
days of fighting, because of the number of breakdowns.
They also seemed to competent observers to be too lightly armed. Perhaps because of experience gained in Spain a new tank or about 25 tons has been developed in Germany, mounting a field-gun of about 3 inches and a smaller gun of 37mm., besides machine- gung.
This machine was first shown
when
a parade was held in Berlin. to impress Prince Paul of Jugo- stavla in June of this year. From the photographs one would judge that the Germans have now gone to the other extreme, and put into this medium-weight tank a heavier arniament Chan can be used efficiently from such a gun-plat-
form.
The German heavy artillery is mainly of new design, and little can be said of it until it has proved or disproved itself in action.
At another recent Bertin parada there was much comment on a new type of heavy gun, said to have a range of 20 mles, which was towed past the saluting base by tractors. It appeared to be 45 feet long and of 10 inch calibro.
This gun is towed in five sec-. tlons: the gun-carriage, the cradio, the recoll and recuperator- gear, various bits and pieces, and last the gun-barrel itself.
The Idea of splitting it up into these five components is to make it moblic. Heavy guns of this sort are usually moved with consider- able dificulty and very slowly..
But what will happen if one of the tractors breaks down? What will be the use of this contraption if four parts get to the position but
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the fifth is stuck' apmowhere miles. behind?
One thing you soon leara, the or- dinary business of war, is to keep things together in one pleco as much as possible. Odd detachablc gadgets get lost.
Another question is whether
which these guns,
Toll along: merrily on good German roads, may not get badly bogged in Pollsh mud. In Ludendorff's memoirs. there is a complaint that the Ger- man transport vehicles of 1915 were too heavy for the Pallsh front:
he had to extemporisc transport. using the local light peasant carts, which the Germans called Panje" carts.
Yet the German transport of 1015 mainly consisted of solid four-wheeled wooden carts-much lighter than the motor vehicles thoy ure now relying on for & con-- alderable part of their road work. What will the dirt roads in the like, when rain wheatfields be comes and tractor columns have ploughed them up?
When these questions were asked. of German officers in the past they answered that they would win their war in a few wooks, during the dry season. They talked of a lightning war, Blitzkrieg.
The trouble with lightning is that you never know whom or where it will hit. It
the sort. not of stuff sane men rely on The Germans may find it burns their fingers, and more than their fingers, if they have relied on this "Ughtning" when designing their heavy artillery and the transport. for it.
Their field artillery is sill mainly horse-drawn. So is about 80 per cent. of their first-line in- fantry transport,
The reason for this is doubtless their shortage of motor vehicles, and probable shortage of petrol in war.
Having Europe's best rallway system, the Germans have pe- glected industrial road transport, compared With other nations, until quite recently,
They have not got the immense reserves of Light and medium weight lorries possessed by Eng- land and-France, or the factories to ma
make them.
But the retention of horse- drawn transport and guns will tell heavily against their army. Horses and motora do not mix well. Horses move so 'slowly that lorries caught behind them have to ran in low gear Overheating
and
other troubles follow."
And horse transport is an ex-
cellent target for ale attack. Horses cannot lie down, when har- nessed. They panic. It a lorry is hit, you tip it off the road and other lorries do not get scared and bolt. But horses do; and there is nu méss more heartbreaking than a few gun-teams well mixed and kicking, with a horse or two dead and a limber in the ditch.
There is too much"“orsata, too many ingenious ways of
making
do." about the German army's war gear.
When the strain conca,
chat: will" tell,”