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ITLER mines the scas The generals want more time.
Hround the British The fact is that they have little
German Army. They do not be They're no longer necessary when those who suffer in ships ieve that politics and military waxing your automobile. Thanks can be heard from the land, discipline can be mixed efficient
war
ly.
At the moment he is pleased by the success of his new war at
There can be little question lead to reprisals. He may prefer that Hitler seized the idea as a to continue his attempted block- to immobilise the concentrated economic level. efforts of Britain's men, money, and machines by which his fate to WHIZ LONDON COACHI WAX.
will eventually be scaled,
sca by mines. As in the early This new phase of the Don't spend 11OURS and ENERGY:
So obstacles have been put in The British decision to re- days of the U-boat campaign, shows greater Nazi; Use WillZ LONDON COACH WAX
and more the way of a frontal attack on tallate to the mining of the scas he has sunk a large number of and altain that LONG-LASTING ... determination
the Maginot Line, and the inva- by seizing all German exports ships. But this time they are .. BUNPROOF DEXX cruelty. We can regard it sion of Holland has been post- is a direct blow at the heart of mostly neutral-a mine cannot
as the first of a series of poned.
the Nazi regime. It must have differentiate between British which desperate acts to
a tremendous effect on the and neutral ships. course of the war. Hitler has been driven by
At first he blamed the sinking his present dilemma, and his insatiable craving for world domination.
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on British THE military caste are Germany will be deprived of of neutral ships
still anxious to pre- foreign exchange at the time mines. Now he admits they are serve their tradition, when all when she needs it most. She has German mines.
other
traditions have been been living from hand to mouth He wants to frighten neutral He chooses а war of smashed in Germany. A num through lack of credit for a long shipping away from British economics against Britain, ber of generals were concerned time. Now her trade with the ports. But in this campaign he and immediately implicates in the contacts established with outside world is to be stopped. is challenging the greatest Sea
Major Stevens and Captain Best, most of the neutral coun- the two Britons who were kid- She will not be able to buy Power in the world. tries of the world.
Now she He will fail because behind the
The reputation of the British napped by the Gestapo at Venlo those essential raw materials
which she requires. Granted Navy is staked on finding an Obviously Hitler believes on November 9,
that she has stocks of food and answer to this Nazi brutality. that he can imprison the This statement is not difficult certain raw materials, there are The Navy' will succeed. Hitler. British Fleet, and isolate to believe when it is known that still other commodities she needs must fail, us to an extent that means German generals were in touch to wage a long war.
British Navy there are endless our national life will be with the British Government will not be able to get them.
before the Munich crisis in 1938, strangled, and thereby we and again in the early summer
She will have less money to resources of skill, inventiveness, shall be brought to our of his year.
spend on propaganda in foreign and courage. capitals, which has been an im- knees to sue for peace.
From separate sources in portant feature of Nazi shock in ured by the "langkong Telegraph to
In his daydreams Hitler no formation has reached here that tactics. She will be isolated save indicate howe which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni doubt imagines that once this is these dissident generals were from those of her nearest neu- Nears the indiesulon "U" I received in achieved the British Empire ready to agree to the restoration tral neighbours, whom she will Hongkong on the date of publication by will collapse and the war end on of the independence of Czecho- try to force into her barter sys- the United Preu Associations, who re- serve all rights and farbid repablication his terms. No doubt he thinks Slovakia and Poland. either wholly of part without previous he can make a separate peace Arrangement
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ERMANY once had a proud and mighty Navy-but that was a quarter of a century ngo. To-day the greater part of Its tonnage is represented by type- motor-cars in thousands of British writers, nowing machines and homes: some of it has even been exported to made steel many in British-
still more of
It, as ploughshares, now helps to till England's green fields,
More than 100,000 tons of former
might
No man could make a more and quickly matched the two frightfulness. serious mistake, for France is incidents to provide a necessary
But this he must calculate THE British manufacturers of as determined as Britain to end diversion at home and to make
Christmas toys have once for all time the threat of Ger- the world believe that here was most carefully,, and there are signs that he is doing so. A war of frightfulness would have shows signs that she will not putation; and their products this agree to any half-measures in
We Shall Win many dangers for him. year are as fascinating, ingen-the peace that the Allies will
So for his attacks on British THWARTED in his de.
march into shipping have not led to reprisal sire to SHUTTONS...........................BOUDTA. |ious, and topical as ever. The win by victory.
mechanical marvels, the model Many people think it strange Holland, and probably alarmed raids on German naval depots German people BEST CHOICE
motor car, and the always popt that Hitler prefers to use the and annoyed by the opposition or arsenals.
economic
against of his generals, Hitler is said to know what food shortage means Jar locomotive, exhibit new Britain, to postpone the war of have been all the more willing but not bombs. GIFTS FOR LADIES & MEN gadgets, warranted to bring even frightfulness with which he has to listen to Admiral Raeder. He If Hitler listens to those ex-
pater-familias to his knees on threatened us so often. In this boasted that he could blockade perts who know Britain (Rib-atriname is of pa we must admit his skill. He Britain with comparative ease. bentrop excepted), they will the nursery floor; among the overshadows the economic This must-have-been-an have told him that the British dolls there is a superb Mr. Cham-attack on Britain with more eleventh-hour scheme, or other man-in-the-street is a stubborn berlain, able to face up to any-threats.. He uses the neutral wise Hitler would have used the person with an enduring belief thing, since his expression can ganda all over the world in the war was declared, to prevent
Press to trumpet German propa- plan now operating the moment in himself and his country.
He has become so inured to be altered at will; and Lilliput hope that he can force a peace Britain transporting her Expedi- repeated threats of Nazi fright- has its streets complete with to his own advantage.
fulness that there can be no sur- traffic lights, Flying Squad cars,
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Blockade of Britain verisimilitude.
AIR raids over Germany if, and when, they
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It is an ironic twist of fate that steel from the former German Fleet should be playing an important part for tho Allies in this war against Hitlerisin. The reason which made this possible. In even more ironical,
When the Germans scuttled their ships at Scapa Flow in 1910, they took elaborate precautions to make sure that they could nover be solved. Their very thoroughness was their undoing,
When they opened the sea cocks to let in the water, they even threw water- light doors overboard; they removed the scale of valves so that they could not be closed. And then--ta complete
the job-they left air in the double turned turtle when they sank,
Had they aunk then the right way. up, talvage engineers-could never hava raised thenit
tionary Force to France.
To have eat Britain off from WE are told again that France in those early days would Germany has 30,000 have been a powerful weapon of It is pleasant, however, to see aeroplanes at least, a vast fleet propaganda to persuade France to make a separate peace. In- of the very old of submarines, and that the real stead, the attempted blockade come, are likely to have much favourites are still disdainful of war will begin in the spring of bears all the signs of a desperate greater effect than over Britain.
last-minute scheme at which So Hitler may not be in a hurry bottoms of the ships so that they the spell of time, which would
No enemy was ever favoured Hitler eagerly grabbed because to commit a final assault on this country which would inevitably whisk them into Jumberland;
with such long warning. Britain of his dilemma. and of these the most notable and France are to be allowed to are the "penny plain, twopence speed up their vast output of coloured" toy theatre sheets that munitions and machines while Hitler's aeroplanes become even Stevenson made famous. The
more obsolescent, old shop at Hoxton is still busy
There must be something reproducing them; and though wrong here. The best explana- the price of admission is now tion is probably Hitler's, fan- the force of three-halfpence plan, threepence tastic belief in
propaganda. coloured, it is still the ancient, splendid, and authentic "king- dom of Transpontus" into which they introduce one.
His object is to crack the re- sistance of. Britain and France from within. He wishes to frigh- Lon us, but German propaganda has now lost its force, even though conveyed by most dis- tinguished visitors...
Nothing has altered there. "How the roads wander, how the castle sits upon the hill, how the
It has come up against its sun eradiates from behind the cloud, and how the congregated most powerful enemies, the cold Bcorn of the Allied leaders and clouds themselves uproll, as stiff the ridicule of the man in the ns bolsters! Here is the cottage street.
interior, with the cloak upon the Having heard so many Nazi nail,... the gun and powder-boasts, the people of Britain and France look for action. When horn and corner-cupboard...." Hitler failed to full his threa Captain Luff. Bold Bob Bowsprit,tened invasion of Holland he and a hundred more of that demonstrated his weakening swaggering brotherhood spring leadership,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
GRELAVIH HIGH
up to greet one, with all the Hitler, the visionary, may verve, the inimitable clan, of dream of glorious victories to be their palmy days. Is it any won against the whole world, wonder that the nursery should but it is quite clear that his turn at times from a shiny, ex-warned him that the army ma
generals do not. They have. quisite, but perhaps rather comchine is not ready to fight the placent realism, to invest in combined British and French three-pennyworth of Hoxton Armica, and other armies which "You've broken my heart, wrecked my whole life, and ruined magic?
might become involved.
my entire evening."
As it is, however, out of over half a million tons of ships, some 400,000-tons of scrap inetal have been recovered: and la due course, doubtless, if the metal is worth the cost of salvage, the remainder of the fleet will be raised.
Three battleships and four light cruisers still lo at the bottom of Scapa - Flow: nearly 70 ships were scuttled, including 50 destroyers.
No one really cared very much when the. Germana sank their own fleet, in apite of the fact that a great many
people expressed a great deal of in- dignation at the time.
For Lvo years little was heard of the German ships; then a British scrap metal firm decided that it would be a profitable business to raise them.
It was an ambitious iden, and it developed into a tremendous lask-a task which has so far taken 10 years. One by one the scuttled destroyers wers lifted from the bottom, and the capital ships brought to the surface.
A
There have been many amusing inci- dents in those fifteen years of hard and dangerous work. The first occurred when the compressed air workers came upon the cellar" in one of the battle-
'crumors.
"
Atnrat the salvage officers could not understand what was happening when men emerged from the airlocks bright of oyo and laughing, Bub ten years under lie sen had worked wonders with good Rhine winet
Bouvenirs of this tremendous salvage feat nro to be found in hundreds of Orkney homes-crockery, cutlery, vases, even jewellery; for the Guman sallora had no time to collect and savo per sonal belongings when they sent the lot of their navy to the bottom.
But souvenirs, though Interesting, aro of secondary, account. The raising of the ships has not only provided steel and other valuable mielais for Britain's war needs, bus it has given a large number of men an un-
rivalled experience In M.H.
salvage,