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Dr. and Mrs. Sun Fo wish to announce the wedding of their oldest son, Tse-ping, to Mi S. L. Jay of Honolulu, in California, U.S.A., on Christmas Day, 1930. Outport newspapers please copy.
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Paying For War
During the past two years Ger- many has put so large a proportion of its national Income into war pro- duction that it was able to start hostilities with the maximum of mechanised force. It appears that Germany has left little margin for Increasing this production without depriving the nation of the bare necessities of life. The time has come when Britain, too, in swinging over from a high pence production to full war production, and its inherent strength-is-now-manifest- ing itself.
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Britain has large capital resources und sound
and ita currency, external trade, unlike Germany's, will continue in all parts of the world. Britain, like Germany, has to face costs of production which for most kinds of armaments far greater than in the World War. Some of the modern types of air- plane cost ten times as much as was needed to produce a similar type in 1918. It takes twice as much to equip modern divisions of the army 18 to equip the less highly mechanised divisions in the last war. For the colossal expenditure now required Britain must be prepared to use its great resources till it, too, reaches a maximum of production. So far as factories and man-power are available, there is no estimable Emit to the expenditures which Britain will Incur.
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This does not mean that Britain 108
bottomless
purso. The nation cannot devoto an ever- increasing part of its energy and production its money to war without decreasing the proportion devoted to other purpoaca. That is to say, the nation must pay for the war. It must sacrifice other things to feed the war monster. Ita
zons must spend less on their day living in order that the machine
may consume more. Parliament ana this when Sir John Simon, Chan- Doople recognised cellor of the Exchoque, went to the House of Commons with taxa- tion demands the liko of
which had nover before boon templated...
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By accepting this sacrifice, tho. British agreed to reduce tho bur- den of debt on posterity, and in so doing to avoid the risk of present inflation and mounting prices. It was a bold thing to do to put so heavy burden on an already burdened people. But in modern warfare the sacrifice must be universal. This fact as well as increased costs is sure to engender some support for peace-whenever. a sound and just peace made.
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Hitler: "And I meant him to stay only a little while ! **
Men
the
OMINAL leader of the German Army in the West is the shyest of all the German generals WILHELM VON KEITEL, sub- ordinate only, to Hitler, who has himself assumed supreme command.
Keltel's recent career is more
suggestive of a military clerk than a soldier or strategist.
He has worked in the German War Ministry for many years and is now 57.
During the war of 1914- 18, he commanded an artillery regiment for a short time, but
a staff officer. afterwards he
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given his supremte position following the army purge in February, 1938, Hitler then dis- missed every Reichswehr general
Was
who held idens of his own. Keitel was not among them.
REAL position of Com- mander-in-Chief is held by a Prussian officer- WALTER VON BRAUCHITSCH.
Recent events have proved Brauchitsch to be one of the Reichswehr generals of the Luden- dorff type. He holds strong political
Behind
Siegfried Line
Pen pictures of Hitler's military leaders on the Western Front, now the main war theatre and llable any day to blaze up into violent activity BY
WILLI FRISCHAUER
views and is extremely nationalist, but not nccessarily a hundred per cent. Nazi. Like Ludendorff, he has achieved success in the East and turns now with increased ambitions to the West.
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Brauchitsch is assisted by the significant of all German generals Artillery General FRANZ HALDER, his deputy.
The official Nazi biography about Halder has nothing better to say of him than that he "expressed 'thế
the "Reichswehr's respects to Ludendorff on his seventieth birth- day."
The others are the men, who really conduct the war. One of them, General VON RUND- STEDT, 13 03, and is Hitler's specialist for accupationa
As military commander of Ber-
CLIPPED WINGS
by John Heygate
F
OR the first few weeks the two young evacuees clung to their mother's skirts. The country was strange and cold to them.
They missed the life of the streets, and the life of the farm was a very poor sub- stitute. Besides, there was no ice-cream man!
They seriously thought of running away to London.
In the third week they showed a little mote interest. Thoy, still looked down on the plodding drudgeries of the farmer and wondered how he could possibly go on doing such dull tasks. But they con- descended to ask
ask questionis.
Ernie, the boy, the older, asked: "What... d'you call those, mistor?
Du said the farmer laconically..
ono got colours on his back and the other's plain brown?" asked Ernie's sister, being shut up instantly by her brother who remembered having seen a Why pair of them in a London park. don't they ay away, Mr. Farmer?" he asked instead.
Because their wings is clipped," sald the farmer, and moved away, followed by the -two children, now showing decided signs of
Interest
bariy
Next day the children were up watching the farmer feed his two ducks,
'Don't they get tired of swimming round the same bit of water a day? "asked Ernie. "It ain't a bit of water to them," replled the farmer/ "And why should they? One place in na good na another
In he was for a short time military dictator of Prussia. His activity was then chlefly directed against Nazis and Communists.
Since then he has mado-it up with Hitler. He marched Into the Budetenland at the head of the Gorman
troopa
last year, and led the advanced guard of the German troops sgalast Poland.
He is bild-headed, thin-lipped. energetic, ruthless and harsh.
It is
that General VAT predicted "WALTER VON-REICHENAU-Will-
lead the spearhead of the German attack in the West,
Reichenau is perhaps the only. full-fledged Nazi among the Ger- man generals. An artillery officer and a sportsman, he was in com- mand of the Munich and Leipzig garrisons under Hitler. Ho
Which was too when it's your home." much for Ernie and his sister, who retired, baffled.
But in the evening they were back in time for feeding. It was the girl's turn: "What happens when their wings grow? Don't they fly away, Mr. Farmer? ""*
"Maybe they do. But they don't go far, And
"Why!omes back." The farmer looked at the two children. Ito scratched his head. 'I dunno." he said. "But I reckon if you were to get your meals three times a day regular in the same place-good sound country grub; none of your ice-creams and stuff- reckon you wouldn't ny jar neither!"
The farmer was right.
There's no need to clip those children's wings any more. They've already taken. over the duck-fooding, and that farm to them is beginning to seem as large a home as the pond to the duckel
would have been Hitler's choice as C.-in-C. had not the army ex- pressed resentment at the possi- bility of a party man assuming command.
Another German general ox- pected to play a big part in the West is GUENTEIL VON KLUGE, communications export of the Ger- man Reichswehr.
Wounded' in the Battle of Verdun, he has a family tradition of experience in war against Franco. His father was Kluck's. chief assistant in the last war.
Guenter von Kluge has devoted his life to the study of anti- French strategy. Hitler recognised his ambition, and allowed him to lead the German troops which occupied the Rhineland. Now Kluge wants to march into Francel
TOUR other generals will be found on the Western Front. One is VON BOOK, formerly attached to the German Crown Prince's staff. He was highly decorated, and was given important commands after -the inst war. He led the German troops into Austria in March, 1938.
Another is General YON BLASKOWITZ,
pi "invader" Czecho-Blovakia. Blaskowitz, how- over, is a devoted defender of the Reichswehr traditions,
General LIST commands the German troops along the Swiss frantler. He is a Bavarian and a. Nazi, but his milltary record is in- significant. Five years ago nobody had ever heard of him. even in Germany. Now he is one of Hitler's favourites.
Finally we come to GEORG VON KUECHLER, who is rather a mili- tary professor than a strategist, **** is responsible for the training un the troops, and only Hitler's lack of generals loyal to his regime has in- duced him to give Kuechler a com- mand.
Ho is 50, a man of little person- ality.
THE German air force in the West is led by the Flight-Generals LOENR, KESSELRING and JESCHONECK. Lochr is an Austrian, one of the illegal Natis who betrayed their country to Hitler, Kesselring la a -Bavarian, and closo
friend
of his chief, Goering.
Jeschoneck is only forty, and his chief qualification for the big job is his ardent Nazi faith and his personal bravery as a flyer.
Soviet Open First Cocktail Hall
MOSCOW, Dec. 4. The Bovie! authorities formally opened their first so-called "cocktail hall" last night. Thirty variaties were tasted by official guests in the State-operated bar in a street named after. Maxim Gorki. The Soviet Press claims that the bar is decorated In the highest possible taste,
Bavlet alcohol on general sale to the pubile is usually less than a year old. It is therefore apt to be shal tering, especially when mixed even. 'In less than 30 variotics,