NANCY
"Ask your Mr. Churchill"
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German Announcer: "You will remember I told you last week that we'd blown up the entire British Fleet . well, sinca then they've built another and we've blown that up as well."!
OBJECTOR WOULD NOT HAVE SAVED CREW OF THETIS
Friday,
NANCY-- I'VE GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU---
GUESS WHAT
IT IS!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 8, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
I KNOW MY AUNT FRITZI IS COMING
HOME!
THAT WAS A CINCH TO GUESS!
Deadlock On Western Front May Persist
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STRENGTH OF RIVAL ARMIES DELAYS WAR
PARIS One of the circum-| stances that make for extreme hesitation in launching a large- scale war on land is the high pitch of efficiency to which the defensive side of warfare has been brought.
The deadlock that appears to have arisen between the French and German armies on the western front is giving rise to hope that the struggle may eventually be settled in some way other than a great holo- caust like that of the World War.
One of the chlef characterisiles of the. World War on the western front was the almost complete absence of German movement, after the first
thrust had been repulsed ut
Marne.
the THE
Vast armles dug themselves in from the Channel to the Swiss fron-
original
Slegitled 'Linc
la to ho cast
tier and paid for the microscopic of the Saar. gains of territory, only visible on a The "loop" to
Frankfiat
FRANCE
large-scale map, with great sacrifice) ihr west of it is a recent addition. of troops. Among the technical sur-The dotted curve marks the reserva prises of the World War were the Siegfried Line. airplane, the tank. the submarine, and poison gas.
pusts and mine fields can make in- cautious advance extremely costly. Moreover, the use of tanks is made fficult by two kinds of obstacles, into which the camouflaged pils tanks may fail and large acids of upright steel rails planted in the ground.
Foretasto Of Difficulties
With the aid of heavy artillery fire such obstacles can be overcome. But they are only the foretaste of the dimeulties involved in storming line of underground fortresses, "quipped with the most powerful types of cannon, protected by armour- plated turrets, from which fire can he turned in any direction. Tho Maginot Line, built over a leng period of time, is unquestionably Le more carefully constructed of the two. Many of its forts, one of which the writer was permitted to see, are located hundreds of feet under- round, provided with underground communicating telephones, elaborate electrical systems, the most selentific means of detecting gas.
Nolther Ling On Frontier
At the same time it would be unwise to underestimate the strength Wall. even
The outstanding characteristle of formidable natural obstacle to an of Germany's West the present war in its initial stage Is vader. Only overwhelming super-though the French newspapers pub- fority in the air and in artillery ish hopeful reports of inundations of the tremendous power of the defen would give either side much chanch parts of its trenches whenever the The Siegfried Line, sive lines held by both the French of throwing bridges across the Rhine Rhine overflows, and German armies.
ufter the war Minister,
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The French Maginot line, numea and carrying out a large-scale offen- or West Wall, was begun in 1937, aive with any prospect of success. after Germany had reoccupied the Andre Lacking such superiority, the attack Rhineland in the preceding year, was Maginut, who directed its construc- he side would run the risk of having pushed ahead with feverlah spoed tion, and its counterpart, the Sieg-part of its forces cross the river and luring the months which led up to fried Line, which the Germans them- nen find themselves cut off when the crisis of Munich and has been selves usually call the Western Wall hostile aircraft artillery
had greatly strengthened since that time. Whatever may be its defects, in com- are not mere lines of trenches of the destroyed the pontoon bridges. World War type.
parison with the Maginot Line, it is prolonged fortresses. They are
The fighting that has thus far certainly stronger than the "Hinden- which proved very bufit largely underground and made taken place on the western front burg Line,"
the German-French difficult to crack during the World impervious to nttuck
every has been on by Ingenious device known to modern frontier between Karlsruhe and the war.
frontier of tiny neutrni Luxemburg., military engineering.
Neither line is built directly up Hasty critics of the slowness of the "Enormous Reserves Ready" French advance during the peried to the frontier. Over the stretch of The history of war is the history when the Germans were overrunning frontier that is not covered by the Polund overlocked the tremendous Rhine there is an intermediate "no of a constant race between offensive difficulties which an attack even to man's land," partly on the French,
defensive weapon. It un axiom that there is a defence for the approaches of a fortress line pre- partly on the German side of the
xents.
Underground
frontier, ranging in width from eight machine-gun'
to thirty miles, where the advanced units of the two armies can skirmish every attack rid also that no defence. has proved permanently impreghublo
and carry out raids and local against attack. But at the present
operations without coming to grips moment defence seems to postess the SPOTLIGHT:
with the main defensive positions of upper hand over offence, especially under the conditions which prevail on the French-German front, on which each side is in a position to throw into action enormous numbers. of reserves in men and material to who support their strongly fortified de-
fensive positions.
A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD bank clerk told the London Tribunal for 'Conscientious Objectors that he would have left the victims of the Thetis disaster to their fate.
"They were only trying to prepare a worse death for others, declared Percival Judge, of Rocombe Crescent, S.E. He added that his conscience shrank from participation "directly or in directly" in the war machine.
Judge was granted exemption from combatant service only. Another applicant, who asked for total exemption, said: am standing here witnessing for Christ.".
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary issued yesterday says:
Although the amount of business transacted during the day was not in a large scale it does not afford a true indication of the market. The tont
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'Sir James Daille: You don't need to. There are people here understand it as well as you do.
The objector, Dennis Knight, clerk, of Wickham Avenue, Shirley was told that he must get a job with in a month in agriculture, forestry. or the mercantilo marine.
'Could Not Kilt
Derinis Love, a former bank clerk
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"could not kill.**
The chairinn: Have you ever
heard of the Battle of Sidney Streel? Yes. I should refuse to take up urms in elrcumstances like that.
und
For about 100 mites, from Basle to Karlsruhe, the River Rhine can- stitutes the frontier between the two countries and represents an extremely
£3.000 FOR YOUR LIFE
Value In Wartime Assessed
Sir Edmund Phipps: As a police-
"WHAT is the value of life man you might have to stop a dan- gerous spy even at the risk of killing to-day was a problem, set to Mr. Justice Oliver in the King's him- had not thought of that.
Love, who lives in Leybourne Road, Bench Division recently during Leytonstone, was refused exemption the hearing of a claim brought for damages in from military service.
by a widow
death of her the Friend Hitler
respect of Frederick Phipps, a local govern-husband in a motor accident u ment clerks, of St. James's Road. year ago. S.E, cald that he would tavite Hitler here
"as a friend."
Mr. Armstrong Jones, for the de- fendant motorist, submitted that 11 Phipps was registered as a non-cssessing damages the court had to edmbatant.
George Piper of Sandycombe Road, Richmond, who sold that he had resigned his job in the Inland Re- venue Department on the outbreak of war because he could not reconcite it with his principles, was granted unconditional exemption.
When the declalon-the first of its kind that week—was announced, Judge Hargreaves ordered a young woman who joined in an outburst of cheering and clapping to leave the
Argu-
take into consideration war risk.
this "Supposing, during
warnlok w728 ment an air raid given and the court cleared, would damages be fluctuated
by that
'ON
GERMANY
ANOTHER OUTSTRETCHED RAND.
The Sun, Baltimore.
Nazis to Grab Overtime Pay
GERMAN workers are to pay. process?" asked Mr. Justice Oilver, a new "tax." All money they
or Sunday! or if this argument Issied two earn for overtimo days, and by some miracle there work is to go to the Govern was peace during the night, would
the damages to-day be different mont. from those to-morrow?" Mr. Justice Oliver
thero In addition,
are to be no awarded the wage increases to meet the higher widow, Mrs. Marie Hall, of Ferneroft-cost of living.
| court. applicant, asked whether avenue, Easlegte, Middlesex. £2,200 ||
Anbther
The Munchener Neueseste Nach
that the measure Introduced "for reasons of war.
the enemy.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
The Sun Never Sets" (Oriental): A Colonial Service melodramn. The story of the him deals with 'n Colonial fee agent who vindicates the name of his brother on the Gold Const after the furmer has unwittingly brought the Jutter into disgrace. Patriotic appeal.
The "Winter Carnival" (Majestic): alory of an heiress who murried a duke, divorce him, and came back to her nid love who wasn't having any-at Tesut, not at first. The romance of Ann Sheridan and Richard Carlson is long-- winded and you'll sigh with rollef when they finally get together 1 death du them part, Ann Sheridan, is good but it will tako hotter parts than this, to prova hor to be the actress they'ra building her up to be. Light, gay on tertaininent.
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Drama In The Night
CLEVELAND-An old-unlighted
he belonged to any Church, replied:mages and £750 for her two chil-richten explains
I have joined the Force Pledge dren. Union, and the Independent. Labour In arriving at those amounts, he psychology," and adds: "The work- Party
and he had made allowance for war era beliind the Front have to make sedan stopped at the end of a Laice their sacrifice and contribute towards Erie dock bern. One man sat at the riak...
wheel. The other dragged a heavy (Leonard Willam the conduct of the war." The husband
water's edge and The entire weight of the German object to the Hall), a chemist's manager, was 31, and he might have been killed in the propaganda machine has been plopped it in-kerplunk! It was a war if he had gone out to fight, or He brought to bear to "populariso" the smashed cigarette machine which two might have died as the result of an tux, which is called "part wage- burglars, after. looting its.coins had.
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