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There can be little question lead to reprisals, He may prefer ITLER mines the seas. The generals wani, more time.
round the British The fact is that they have little that Hiller seized the idea. as a to continue his attempted block- BUT...
coast. The cries of faith in the Nazification of the vain hope that he might be able ade, and to keep the war on its.
German Army. They do not be to immobilise the concentrated economic level. They're no tonger necessary when those who suffer in ships eve that politics and military efforts of Britain's men, money, At the moment he is pleased 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
will eventually be sealed. ly.
sca by mines. As in the early This new phase of the
So obstacles have been put in The British decision to re- days of the U-boat campaign. Use WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX | war shows greater Nazi
and and.attain that LONG-LASTING... determination
the way of a frontal attack on taliate to the mining of the sens ho has sunk a large number of more the Maginot Line, and the inva- by seizing all German exports ships. But thig time they are cruelty. We can regard it sion of Holland has been post- is a direct blow at the heart of mostly neutrala mine cannot
between as the first of a series of
the Nazi regime. It must have differentinte
effect tremendous
on the and neutral ships. which desperate, acts to
Generals Hold On course of the war.
At first he blamed the sinking Hitler has been driven by
on British. his present dilemma, and his
THE military custe are Germany will be deprived of of neutral ships insatiable craving for world
still anxious to pre- foreign exchange at the time mines. Now he admits they are domination..
serve their tradition, when all when she needs it most. She has German mines. other traditions
been been living from hand to mouth.
He wants to frighten neutral He chooses a 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 is challenging the greatest Sen and immediately implicates in the contacts established with outside world is to be stopped.
Major Stevens and Captain Best, most of the neutral coun-
She will not be able to buy Power in the world," the two Britons who were kid-
The reputation of the British tries of the world.
napped by the Gestapo at Venlo those essential raw materials
which she requires. Granted Navy is staked on finding an that she has stocks of food and answer to this Nazi brutality. 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,
He will fail because behind the 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,
She will have less money to resources of skill, inventiveness, strangled, and thereby we and again in the early summer
and courage. spend on propaganda in foreign shall be brought to our of his year.
capitals, which has been an in- knees to sue for peace.
From separate sources in portant feature of Nazi shock In his daydreams Hitler no formation has reached here that tactics. She will be isolated save doubt imagines that once this is these dissident generals were from those of her nearest neu- entions Ordinance, 1938. Suck new 2
Empire ready to agree to the restoration tral neighbours, whom she will bears the indication "U is received in achieved the British Hongkong on the Gate or pubication 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 Slovakia and Poland. either wholly or in part without previous
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The Gestapo appear to have Thus the prospects are becom- with France, and avoid what he stumbled on this information by ing bleaker for Hitler, so that at fears most-a military reckoning a fluke arising out of the Munich any moment he may be tempted bomb attempt on Hitler's life, to Inunch his threatened war of No man could make a more and quickly matched the two frightfulness.
But this he must calculate serious mistake, for France is incidents to provide a necessary 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
ERMANY once had a proud offrightfulness would have and mighty Navy-but that again lived up to their high re-man aggression. Already France another Reichstag fire plot.
was a quarter of a contury shows signs that she will not
We Shall Win many dangers for him.
ago. To-day the greater part of putation; and their products this
agree to any half-measures in CHATER ROAD.
So far his attacks on British its tonnage is represented by type- And year are as fascinating, ingen- the peace that the Allies will
THWARTED in his de-
writers, sewing machines The win by victory.
sire to march into shipping have not led to reprisal
motor-cars in thousands of British #GODOSENTADOS00000000000000000000|ious, and topical as ever.
mechanical marvels, the model
Many people think it strange Holland, and probably alarmed raids on German naval depots homes; some of it has even been arsenals. German people exported to Germany in British- made steel products; still more of motor car, and the always popu- that Hitler prefers to use the and annoyed by the opposition or
against of his generals, Hitler is said to know what food shortage means
it, as ploughshares, now helps to economic weapon lar locomotive,
till England's green flelds, exhibit new Britain, to postpone the war of have been all the more willing but not bombs,
If Hitler listens to those ex- More than 100.000 tons of former German navat might still les bar- gadgets, warranted to bring even frightfulness with which he has to listen to Admiral Raeder. He 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 Scapa Flow, where it was consigned by Ger- the nursery floor; among the we must admit his skill. He Britain with comparative ease. bentrop excepted), they will
an have told him that the British-man hands in June. 1919.
It is an ironic twist of fate that steel from the former German Fleet should 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,
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Blockade of Britain
be playing an important part for the Allies in this war against Hilleriam, The reason which made this possible la oven more ironical.
AIR raids over Germany In-
tionary Force to France.
When the Germana scuttled their ships at Scapa Flow in 1010, they took To have cut Britain off from
elaborate precautions to make aura France in those carly days would
that they could never be saved. Their very thoroughness was their undoing. WE are told again that
When they opened the sen cocks to Germany has 30,000 have been a powerful weapon of propaganda to persuade France It is pleasant, however, to see aeroplanes at least, a vast fleet to make a separate peace.
if, and when, they let the water, they even threw water- tight doors overboard; they removed that some of the very old of submarines, and that the real stead, the attempted blockade come, are likely to have much the seats of valves so that they could! favourites are still disdainful of war will begin in the spring of bears all the signs of a desperate greater effect than over Britain. not be closed. And then-to complete Uie job they left air in the double last-minute scheme at which So Hitler may not be in a hurry bottoms of the ships so that they No enemy was ever favoured Hitler eagerly grabbed because to commit a final assault on this turned turtle when they sank.
country which would inevitably with such long warning. Britain of his dilemma. and France are to be allowed to speed up their vast output of munitions and machines while Hitler's aeroplanes become even- more obsolescent.
1940.
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- the force of three-halfpenee plain, threepencetastic belief in coloured, it is still the ancient, propaganda. 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- ten us, but German propagaħda has now lost its force, oven though conveyed by most dia.. 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!
most powerful enemies, the cold cloud, and how the congregated scorn of the Allied leaders and clouds themselves uproll, as stiff the ridicule of the man in the as bolsters! Here is the cottage 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 fulfil his threa Captain Luft, Bold Bob Bowsprit,tened invasion of Holland he
his and a hundred more of that demonstrated
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 They have turn at times from a shiny, ex-generals do not.
warned him that the army ma- quisite, but perhaps rather com-chino is not ready to fight the placent realism, to invest in combined British and Frenchi three-pennyworth of Hoxton Armies, and other armies which magic?--
might become involved.-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
GRENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
"You've broken my heart, wracked my whole lifo, and ruined my entire evening.”
Had they runk them the right way up, salvage engineers could never lave raised them!
As it is, however, out of ever half in million tons of shilps, some 400,000 tons of scrap metal have been recovered; and in due course, doubtless, if tho metal is worth the cost of salvage, the remainder of the fleet will be raised.
Three battleships and four light cruisers still lie at the bottoms of Scapa Flow: nearly 70 ships were scullied. including 50 destroyers.
No one really cared very much when the Germans Bank their own fleet. In spite of the fact that a great many people expressed a great deal of in- dignation at the time.
For five years little was heard of the German abips: then a British serap metal frm decided that it would be à profitable business to raise them.
It was an ambitious idea, and it developed into a tremendous task-a tank which has so for taken 10 years. One by one the scuttled destroyera. were lifted from the bottom, and the capital ships brought to the surface.
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There have been many amusing inci- dants in those Afteen years of hart and dangerous work. The first occurred when the compressed air workers came upon the "cellar" In one of the battle. cruisers.
At Bret the salvage officers could not understand what was happening when men emerged from the airlocks bright of eye and laughing. But ton years under the sen had worked wondern with good Rhine winet
Souvenirs of this tremendous anivage feat are to be found in hundreds of Orkney homes-crockery, cutlery, vasen, even jewellery; for the German sailors. had no time to collect and save per sonal belongings when they sent the last of their navy to the bottom.
But souvenirs, though interesting, are- of secondary account." The raising of the ships has not only provided steel and other valuable metals for Britain's war noods, but it has given a large number of men an un-
rivalled experience in M.H.
sairage.
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