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Graf Spee, one of the most valuable warships in his fleet.
What of the remainder? Will they be as easy to trap as the Admiral Graf Spee? Has Hitler many such ships? These topical questions are answered below.
H
TTLER is trying to con- vince the world that Germany is a great naval Power. His propa-
gandists have claimed that Ger- many now commands the North Sea.
More likely than not Hitler's boast is a hope for the future. Just as he described the Blegfried Line as invincible long before there were more than half-a-dozen machine-
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unrest had appeared, and it become CHATER ROAD more stringent as the war went on. This time the German Government has started from the other end. Food rationing was brought in from the start of the war and it has been extended since. It is now on an extremely elaborate scale. At the same time there is an equally com- plicated rationing of clothing. In Britain the Government takes it us:
a virtue that English people do not) have to put themselves. to much in- convenience to meet the needs of the wor and avoids rationing like the plague. The Germans take the op- posite standpoint. Their Govern- ment boasts that it puts the screw on hard at the beginning.
Now, it claims with pride, it is possible ic relax a little. This no doubt is the consequence of the unexpected course of the war: the German
counted no more than we did Or such a relatively Innctive war, and if is characteristic that they should at- tribute the relaxations (such as they are) to the superior courage of the Fuhrer's administrative measurer rather than to the unpredicted way) the war has developed.
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It is important in estimating German strength and weakness to keep in mind the thoroughness of this organisation
front. on the home Rationing is only one aspect of it. The German worker has been com- pelled to give up his eight-hour day and is working a normal ten-hour day at the same time rates. But he is now to receive the concession that his exim earnings are not to be taken away from him by thxation and that it, ́exceptionally, he does work an eleven or twelve-hour day he will get his old overtime. Holl- days were stopped, but are now to be reintroduced. The ten-hour day is to be sweetened by the general establishment of works ennfeens and
four or five 35,000-ton battleships which were laid down in Hamburg. Kiel and Wilhelmshaven in 1937 and 1938. They were scheduled to be completed in
in 1941-42, They may be ready sooner.
For the time being Germany's biggest battleship is the Scharn- horst, of 20,000 tons with nine 11it.. and twelve 5.0in. guns, thirty A.A. guns, four aircraft and two cata- pults.
The Scharnhorst is certainly a formidable vessel. But so was her sister ship, the Gneisenau, which was certainly seriously damaged, and may have been sunk outright, in the British air raid on Wilhelms- haven,
RETREAT ΤΟ AND FROM MOSCOW
What is
Hitler's Navy?
by Willi FRISCHAUER
Graf Spee-was one of the last German warships to visit a British port. She attended the Coronation Naval Review in 1937.
The rest of Hitler's fleet cannot compare with the British Navy. The Nuernberg and the Leipz!6. both of 0.000 tons, are his two out- standing cruisera.
the Fuehrer; about the Schleswig. which is only a training shilp, bujit in 1006, but is put to sen as a war- ship like her sister-ship Schleswig Holstein.
Soon there may be a number of new German warships ready, blg- ger than all those mentioned. The Bluccher and the Admiral Hipper were on the Nazis' 1938 programme. The Prinz Eugen was launched only recently.
There are also destroyers of a smaller size-the D. von Roeder class and the Maass class—tor- With the Koenigsberg, mcdel pedo boats, most of them built in tor another class of German war- 1020, depot-ships, mine-sweepers, ships, she visited Portsmouth a few escort and patrol vessels and ten- years ago. The Kcenigsberg, how---ders.--Two-aircraft-carriers, each over, does not always wait for an (or 40 aircraft, are being built, invtiation. She gate-crashed the
The mas
difficult craft in the Nazi Navy to assess are the sub- British naval and air manœuvres of East Coast in 1038,
marines. There were 15 occan going A ittle
smaller, but highly e-
submarines when the wat
war started. There are, of course, better and clent too, is the Emden, 5,400 tons The total number of German sub- more carefully bullt German war with ciglit 5.0in. guns and four tur marines was roughly 60. ships.
With the construction of pedo tubes, namesake of the Ger-
More
than
an 20 of them were sunk these ships Hitler and his Nazis man raider which made her name by the
British and
and French Navies had little to do. They were planned during the Great War.
within
seven weeks. Twenty had to and laid down before he came to
return to their home buses for re- power. They are known as Ger-
pairs. The rest are still at large, many's pocket battleships, the
But there will not be many Nazi Deutschland, the Admiral Scheer.
submarines to bring Hitler any and the Admiral Graf Spoe.
good news for Christmas.
Only two of these remarkably effeleni ships of 10,000 tona now remain. One the Deutschland, is known to be at sea. The Admiral Graf Spee is destroyed. No one knows where the Ad- miral Schrer is at present.
Their captains and crews can hardly be proud of the tasks to which Hitler put them in the past. The Deutschland was sent to Spain during the Civil War. She had no business there and Hitler is the only one to blame because a Spanish plane bombed her by mis- take, killing twenty of the crew and wounding seventy.
Hitler's revenge for this mishap was a typical example of frightful- nesa. He sent the Admiral Echeer to bombard the defenceless Epan- Ish town Almeria. Almeria was destroyed, Innocent women and children were killed. The world was shocked.
The Deutschland encountered began. During the crisis in May the British Navy before this war
she made auspicious moves in the Mediterrancar. The British battle- ship Hood never left her until she renched German waters.
The third of the group-Admiral
could tell you about many other Nazi ships: about the Koeln, which was on a world-cruise when Hitler came to power and was the first German ship to be greeted by
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...and who are his soldiers?
OME Tories in this country--- even perhaps some of those who rule us--would like to sea the old "military mustera" of Ger- many return to their full power.
Certainly, any sane man could well prefer the narrow and brutal, but honourable and dutiful, tradi- tions of the Prussian officer class.
But a book published to-day, The German Army, by Herbert Rosinski (Hogarth Press, 125. 66.), reveals, with terrible precision, the decay and death of that old tradi- lion, and the mergence of men in the leadership of the German army whose fate it is to be domin- ated and destroyed by the criminal Tyranny they helped to fisten on their country,
Dr. Herbert Rosinaki, was until re cently an instructor in the theory of warfare at a German Staft. College; ho in an admirer of "the real aristocratic
by the giving of extra food allow dangerous to assume that these mea-, tendition that used to rule the Iances through the factorles, allow-sures of control on the home front; German officer class. It is because he ances which will be used in the ure so stiff that the German workers refugee.
holds to this tradition that ho is a
main for the canteen meals. Extra
must be driven inevitably towards! From the inside, as the personal LTD. pay for night work was stopped but revolt. It would be a wiser judg- oficial of the War Ministry not only acquaintance of generals, and a trusted is now to be given again. Women ment to note them as examples of the bofere litfer's access to power, but for Ki three years after it, he tells a story.of are only exceptionally to work at
energy with which Germany is intrigue. reaction. selfless and nights. Christmas-boxes are to re-throwing her organised strength into murde appear. Compulsion to work is only the war.. And although her methods the Parlamentary system and theis
· Fighting against each other, against to be applied after the most careful examination and if cases of abay not be ours her chery and fore- dwn. Governments, this leaders of the German army tried to use Hitler as a palule necessity." It would be,ght are contething we allould be
"They Bad, long before, paid hili” to` Dish to `despise.
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A Look Through
The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO·
Dec. 10, 1889. The prisoner who escaped from the chain-cing at Kennedytown in June fast year pleaded guilty. He was serv- Ing ten years imprisonment, menclog in 1883, at the time, and was ordered to complets bis sentence and afterwards undergo two years' further Imprisonment
25 YEARS AGO
Dec. 19, 1914. It is officially announced that, in vlow of the state. of war arising from the action of Turkey, Egypt. will honceforth" constitute a British Protectornto. The suzerainty of Turkey in thun terminated, The British Governinent will adopt all measures recensary for the defence of Egypt and the protection of the in- habitants.
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Although it is not to be expected that mulion pictures can be mocured which show scenes of netun! fighting in Europe. It is satisfactory to know that the kinematograph is placing on record incidents in the great crisis which w aut only provo of much interest in years 10 come but which have, of course, great attraction at the present time, Kinematography has roached a wonderful scientific pitch and its pop albilities appear to be unlimited. It is In form of entertainment which requires no all to ensure its general apprecia- tion, whether to interest, inntract or amuse; animated photography la aver obliging.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 19, 1029. Saying that all who had given carnest eunaideration to British naval needs viewed the proposed reduction of cruiser tonnage with apprehension, Earl Beatty, one of Uritain's foremost naval commanders in the Groat War, issued be their agent in the petty politics of Munich beer-balls. Now they tried te
a warning against precipitate navul dis armament, in the House of Lords yer- make him, in Dr. Rosinski's words, "a
terday. He declared that Britain WOL political cover to camouflage both the approaching the London Naval Confer- rearmament and the military dietator. enen with figuros representing a danger- ahip that they desired.
ous minimum in cruisers. The advent These officers thought of themselves of a German 10,000-ton warshly, 'so fast as the real dictators' behind the and powerfully armed that a battle- Nazi dictatorship. Whenever a dis- cruiser was the only effective counter, pute arose between themselves and
was mentioned during the discusalón. Hilfer, they referred the question to old Von Hindenburg, the President.
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By that means, for example, they got General von Fritsch appointró | Chinese kouars being built on the now- Chief of the Army Command against Praya raclamation, and also in other Hitler's wishes. Fritsch blocked parts of the Colony. It is disgrace to allow some of these houses to be built in the way they are.
Roehm's plans for amalgamating the army, and the Storm Troops.
Then Hindenburg was known to be dying.
Who would, now. arbitrate?
In view of the widespread disappoint- ment falt that Hongkong. did not this They planned to get Hitler completely
year competo in the interport RI In their power by forcing him to
Shoot, Mr. G H Summers, the late murder his own triends, the so-called secretary of the Hongkong Bille League, revolutionary wing of his party. And others approached. Mr. B. Wylle For weeks they haggled in secret with a view to calllog a meeting of over the lists of those to be assu13- those previously connected with the sinated. Hitter accepted their terms. League at which the question of xo- le murdered Rochm, his personal suscitating the League and makla ar friend: had thousands of others shot. rangements for future interport eventa
But Hitler, by taking old Von Hinden enuld be discussed. burg's place, and by using the Gratopo and the 8.9. to control the army, be- came the Generals' master, not their
The men who had haggled with hi ovor names for death in 1834 were Von Blomberg and Fritsch, then all powerful in the Army To-day Von killed, in mysterious circumstances Blomberg la in prison. Fritsch was
tool.
The other lesiders of the Clermont Army have ater by step surrendered to Nasidom. They cannot'tive escape. T. W.
5 YEARS AGO
Dec. 19, 1994.). In the presence of the Emperor, the Japanoso Privy Council plenary, mozalon to-day unanimously approved Japan's decision to abrogate the Washington Treaty.
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