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German Army. They do not be- to Immobilise the concentrated economic level. They're no longer necessary when those who suffer in ships ieve that politics and military efforts of Britain's men, money, waxing your automobile. Thanks can be heard from the land. discipline can be mixed efficient and machines by which his fate by the success of his new war at At the moment he is pleased will eventually be scaled.
sca by mines. As in the carly The British decision to re days of the U-boat campaign. taliate to the mining of the seas he has sunk a large number of by seizing all German exports ships. But this time they are is a direct blow at the heart of mostly neutral-a mine cannot the Nazi regime. It must have differentiate between British a tremendous effect on the and neutral ships. course of the war.
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This new phase of the
So obstacles' have been put in War shows greater Nazi determination and
the way of a frontal attack on the Maginot Line, and the inva- cruelty. We can regard it gion of Holland has been post. as the first of a series of poned. desperate acts to which Hitler has been driven by his present dilemma, and his insatiable craving for world domination.
Generals Hold On
THE military caste are Germany will be deprived of of neutral ships on British 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 chooses
He wants to frighten neutral- મ 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 autaide world is to be atopped. is challenging the greatest Séa
She will not be able to buy Power in the world. those essential raw materials The reputation of the British which she requires. Granted Navy is staked on finding an that she has stocks of food and answer to this Nazi brutality.
most of the neutral coun- the two Britons who were kid- Major Stevens and Captain Beat, tries of the world.
napped by the Gestapo at Venlo Obviously Hitler believes on November 9. 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.
before the Munich crisis in 1938,
us to an extent that means German generals were in touch to wage a long war. Now she He will fail because behind the our national life will be with the British Government will not be able to get them. British Navy there are endless 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. knees to sue for peace.
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In his daydreams Hitler no formation has reached here that tactics. She will be isolated save under the provisions of the Telecommand-doubt imagines that once this is these dissident generals were from those of her nearest neu- DeRrs the Indication, "UP 1 received in achieved the British Empire ready to agree to the restoration tral neighbours, whom she will BobEKOBE on the Cats of publication by will collapse and the war end on of the independence of Czecho- try to force into her barter sys- serve all rights and forbid republication, his terms. No doubt he thinks Slovnkin and Poland.
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ERMANY once had a proud and mighty · Navy-but that. ‚was: a...,quarter of a century To-day the greater part of
its tonnage is represented by type- writers, sewing machines and motor-cars in thousands of British homes: some of it has even been exported to Germany in British- made steel products: still more of
it, as ploughshares, now helps to till England's green fields.
More than 100,000 tons of former German naval might still les bar-
But this he must calculate most carefully, and there are signs that he is doing so. A war rightfulness would have We Shall Win many dangers for him.
THWARTED in his de So far his attacks on British sire to march into shipping have not led to reprisal Many people think it strange Holland, and probably alarmed raids on German naval depots that Hitler prefers to use the and annoyed by the opposition or arsenals. German people economic weapon against of his generals, Hitler is said to know what food shortage means, new Britain, to postpone the war of have been all the more willing but not bombs. gadgets, warranted to bring even frightfulness with which he has to listen to Admiral Racder. 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-nacled beneath the waters of Seapa the nursery floor; among the we must admit his skill. He Britain with comparative east bentrop excepted), they will Flow, where it was consigned by Ger-
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 Press, to trumpet German propa- plan now operating the moment in himself and his country.
ganda all over the world in the war was declared, to prevent 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,
prise for him. and every detail that makes for
Blockade of Britain verisimilitude.
overshadows the economic
Our Long Warning
to make a separate peace. In-
tionary Force to France..
To have cut Britain off from France in those early days would WE are told again that have been a powerful weapon of
Germany has 30,000 aeroplanes at least, a vast fleet propaganda to persuade France AIR raids over Germany if; and when, they of submarines, and that the real atead, the attempted blockade come, are likely to have much 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 No enemy was ever favoured Hitler eagerly grabbed because to commit a final assault on this with such long warning. Britain of his dilemma.
country which would inevitably and France are to be allowed to speed up their vast output of munitions and machines while Hitler's aeroplanes become even more obsalesċent,
1940.
It is pleasant, however, to see that some of the very old favourites are still disdainful of the spell of time, which would whisk them into lumberland; and of these the most notable are the "penny plain, twopence coloured" toy theatre sheets that Stevenson made famous. The 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- three-halfpence plain, threepence tastic belief in the force of coloured, it is still the ancient, propaganda. - splendid, and authentic "king- dom of Transpontus" into which they introduce one.
Nothing has altered there. "How the roads wander, how the castle sits upon the hill; how the
His object is to crack the re- sistance of Britain and France from within. He wishes to frigh- ten us, but German propaganda has now lost its, force, even though conveyed by most dis- tinguished visitors.
It has come up against its sun eradiates from behind the cloud, and how the congregated scorn of the Allied leaders and most powerful enemies, the cold clouds themselves uproll, as stiff the ridicule of the man in the ns bolaters! Here is the cottago street.
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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, toned invasion of Holland be and a hundred more of that demonstrated his weakening swaggering brotherhood spring leadership,
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, warned him that the army ma- generals do not. They have visite, but perhaps rather com-chine is not ready to fight the placent realiam, to invest in combined British and French three-pennyworth of Hoxton Armies and other armies which
Fmight become involved.
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
HIGH SCHOOL
"You've broken my heart, wrecked my whole life, and ruined. my entire evening."
man hands in June, 1010.
It is an ironic twist of fate that steel
from the former German Floot should. be playing an important part for the
Allies in this war against Hitlerism. The reason which made this possible is even more fronieal..
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When the Germans scuttled thor ships at Scapa Flow in 1919, they took elaborate precautions to make sura that they could never be salved. Their very thoroughness was their undoing.
When they opened the ses cocks to let in the water, they even threw water- the senta of valves so that they could tight doors overboard; they removed not be closed. And then-te complets bottoms of the ships so that ther the job-they left air in the double
turned turtle when they sank.
Ifad they sunk them the right way up, salvage engineers could never lace raised them!
As it is, however, out of over half a million tons of ships, somo 400,000 tons of scrap metal have been recovered? and in due course, doubtless, if the metal is worth the cost of salvage, tho remainder of the fleet will be raised.
Three battleships and four Eght cruisera still lie at the bottom of Scapa Flow: nearly 70 ships were scuttled. including 50 destroyers.
No one really carod very much when the Germans sank their own fleet, in
spite of the fact that a great many people expressed a great deal of in- dignation at the time, teen
For 70 years little was heard of the German ships; then a British scrap metal Arm decided that it would be a profitable business to raise-thom.
It was an ambitious idea, and it developed into a tremendous task-~ 'task which has so far taken 15 years,
One by one the scuttled destroyers, wero lifted from the bottom, and the capital ships brought the surface.
There have been many amusing incl- denta in those' fifteen."years of hard and dangerous work. The first occurred when the compressed air workers camo tipon the "celiar" in one of the battle- cruisers.
At first the salvage ofcers coukl not. understand what was happening when men emerged from the allocks bright of eye and laughing. But ten years. under the sen had worked wonders. with good Rhine winni
Souvenirs of this tremendous salvago. feat are to be found in hundreds of Orkney homes-crockery, cutlery, vases, oven jewellery; for the German sullore. had no time to collect and save per“. sonal belongings when they sent the Inst of their navy to the bottom..
But souvenirs, though interesting, aro of secondary scooudke. The raising of the ships has not only provided ́stest. and other valuable metals for Britain's. war needs, but it has given, a înrge- number of rišem juis toen van bepaal
rivalled experience in M.H.