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Talk prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is ged by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of tho_Teiccommuni- tations Ordinance, 1938, Such news as bears the indicatión "Open in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- nerve all rights and forbid republication, ather wholly or in part without previou arrangement
Winston Churchill
Thirty-five years ago Mr. Churchill was making his first speeches is a Liberal and gaining the confidence that returned him to the House of Commons us a Minister. Much has happened since to polities and to Mr. Churchill.
On
carecr
There are probably few who oking back over-his long would claim that he has always been right. There are some who have so profound a mistrust of bis judgment that they bring to everything he says a mind full of suspicion. But that he stands out among public men as 3 man of character, of initiative, of in- __dependence,_and_of_ténuelty.nobody. will deny. And he has at this no- ment a very special claim to public conßience. Month after
month during the fatal drift of Western po-;
one day pay a terrible penalty.
He might break through... but he
Afford
couldn't
"I hope Stalin's watching
a
British
Life in Internment Camp
THE
Lernees!
About his campaign for collective transferred; several hundreds of Gers/, "Camment centre consists off
security there was something of the character of Gladstone's campaign against Disraeli's Eastern policy in the seventies. For Mr. Churchill Anw In one case, as Mr. Gladstone saw in
a fumovs Territorial regiment.
to
THE myth of the Maginot Line-a section of which has now been taken over by British troops-is that
it is impregnable. And a very dangerous delusion that is. : It certainly is not held by the French or the British staffs, to say nothing of the German staff. Those students of military science understand very well the value of fortifications in modern. warfare and their limitations.
But the mass of the population in France believe that the Line cannot be broken. Many people here think so too.; "On ne passe pus."
THERE les a danger.
For if the Line were pierced by a German attack, the public in the two Allied coun- iries would be dismayed in-pro portion to the confidence they
by Charles Richardson
had been taught to place in the ahead, without being too anxious Invincible strength of the forti- about their flanks, they believe that fication. They might feel, in a they can create a chaos among the wave of pessimism, that the nerve-centres of the hostile army great barrier between them and that will be reflected in a confusion end impotence of ila front-line forces. the Germans had been swept
The further behind the front that away.
the attacked nerve centre. Hes the Tint woukl be quite a mistake, wider the length of front that may The plercing of the Line would not be disorganised through the paralyals mean defeat and the ending of the of that contre. And in the me war, so long as the British andhanised army and the bomber the French armies were substantially in- Cermans think they have the means tact. The effect on the ultimate of paralysing those centres. course of the war would depend on the cost
Hitler in lives, tanks. wirplanes, ele, of breaking through.
THE proposition, can be ex-· pressed as a diagram:-
That operation tight well be so ex-
By the heavy bombing of centres pensive that it brought about Hitler's X, Y and Z the Germans would hope ruin, just as the costly German at- to break communications, prevent tacks in the spring of 1018 led to reinforcement and promote confusion the German crack-up in the autumn over an area wider than the front of of that year,
But the effect on Allied, morale: might be big. It is unwise in war to pin too high hopes on the old- ing of one position.
Line.
LET us
talk some common sense about the Maginot
It is a very formidable zone of fortifications designed by the best military engineers in the world, the French. But it is like other fortif- cations. It can be taken. And that Aces for the Siegfried Line too.
The world is littered with the ruins of "impregnable" fortifications. Those rains still show the breath in the invincible walls through which the assailants poured to victory.
Some British soldiers in France at this moment may be passing one ["celebrated British military monument | of the Middle Ages. It is one of the masterpieces of medieval fortinea- tion.
• HOLDING
HOLDING
ATTACKS
ATTACKS
INFANTRY
BONSED
LIGHT TANKS
[HEAVY TANKS
MAIN THRUST
B
BOMBED
to
It might be far, from being knocked out. But, in theory, it would re- NO the story runs through all cover too inte. The battle would
mechanised
..
950
а
They will see an imposing ruin on a rocky height, CHS, surmounted liey, when our realists were talkingESTAPO terrors of Dachau and THE charges uire
Into grouped
lay tremendous walks. They may classes, "A" and "B"the Cluss wonder if-and-how-It was taken of 'composing all the troubles of the Buchenwald... you know all
about that, following the Govern-A internees being people of some by soldiers who had no artillery or world by appeasement, when thement's publication of the White social standing who can't be expected high explosives or even rifles. Nazi ruters were presented to us as Paper or Nazi tortures in concentrato mix with mere proletarlin in-l Their admiration was shared by harmless men justly sensitive about tion cumps.
In fact, you can very clear-]
the treatment Germany had received
For the other side of the picture,ly see from the "Ruests" here that the royal builder, Richard Coeur de lon, who, clapping eyes on it for come with me to one of Britain's National Socialist has bred more the first time, exclaimed in delight, the attack. Assuming the main de but essentially reasonable and good-internment camps. No tortures, no militant snobbishness, and is not "It's a saucy
brotherly Socialismi at ullt
child, my year-old [fensive zone pounded by the barrage heuried, when we let our defences hard work, no starvation.
Class B chaps are used
od crossed by heavy tanks, the Castle." balmen 15 rust and our diplomacy dream, Mr.
Being interned, in fact, has only
it So it got its name, Sauey Castle faster mechanised forces, light funks, one disadvantage. You get bored Class A gents pay 4s. Od. a day -Chateau Gaillard. Churchill was warning,the
motorised guns, and infantry would nation stiff. Regulations at present prevent better food, The colonel, quiet and enn afford it, and get slightly they
Tince years later, the French laids further on without paying loo that these
lilusions, were
and internees from nyt any kindly, is trying to instil some siege to it. After eight months much attention. mopping up in
military illusions for which mankind would game more arduous than football.
or playing drili,
British pubile-school spirit into these work by their engineers, Chateau the front zone. Gaillard fell... Some were brought to this big bullet-headed Teutons, It isn't easy. of course, is a misnomer. internment camp and have since been mone have pensed through, in this several very solid buildings-you way, and believe me they have been would be used if I could disclose pregnable-until it is taken. Liege) army would be thrusting at X itself,
where The place is. well treated as prisoners of war,
was going to hold up the German hoping to turn chaos into paralysis though they have not been molly- There's no secrecy, as there is at invasion of Belgium. Liege crumpled at that nerve centre. tril,
Duchau. The internees are allowed under the German siege guns in This is to over-simplify the Ger- to write home lo
weck... Germany, though
The The "boss" of the
Hindenburg Line man problem a great deal. But it is the other, that the choice for his Guards officer. The iron gates of the in view of Sanr evacuations only
camp is.
not be taken. could
It was taken. 40
a rough atutement of the thing in country was ultimately, however the
per cent of the letters reach their Every line can be taken if you can the tempo.of modern war, where the camp are guarded by
destination. However, they're allow ngremble at a given point a pre-initial stage of the attack moves at truth might for the moment be dis-
ed to write two letters guised under soothing phrases, tho
week each. ponderance of stout-hearted men perhaps 15. m.p.h. (speed of a heavy Of course, they're censored, and are and efficient material, and if you tank) and the later stages at up to choice between upholding tyranny
posted together with a printed slip have a well-devised plan and, good 30 m.p.h. (speed of a light lank). and defending freedom. Can Any-
that was swept by Napoleon's armies in German advising, relatives what staff-work.. body deny that if the two Western
This compares with the tempo of But two things distinguish the pr they must not say in reply, for fear
Now, Hit
Hitler has a good staff, as the last war, which depended in all from the past miseries of of upsetting Gestapo censors. There's a Polish campaign showed. The stages, on the 2 mph. of the tramp- Governments had listened to him the Europe. Never before has so min service for
German soldier has not lost his couring soldier: world would wear to-day n very energy been n spent in
in spreading
or you!
11ge. And there is probably for its own sake. Never bef misery
kevind as ACH German no ho arrives, after numerical advantage on the German those days depended on the physique The possible depth of an attack in Mr. Churchill, who, alone among fore has the
power to
inspection by the military side. men holding high office to-day, held well as body, to wound men
and tribunal, has his identification papers.It would be absurd to suppose that on the refuelling of petrol-driven. of the footslogger. Now it depends high office in the last war, devoted | women through memory
memory and Im-
a brief medical filler's generals could not concen- vehicles. most of his grave and sober eloquence agination, through love of family or checked, is given in yesterday's speech in the House
with test, and after his luggage is oxirate their men and guns for a sur-
atlack. of Commons to encouraging und
ND that might be the real. weapons so sure and sa steeling the spirit of the nation. He What a picture could Mr. Churchill of mattress, pillow, bolster, and four
A problem before the Ger analysed the elements of cur strength draw of this Eutope, where all the blankets.
'Their mechanised man generala. to show how vast are the resources sufferings of callous war have beenMost of his own personal stuff he
is allowed to keep,
but only one tack of this kind should be conducted stranded with empty petrol tonks. on which we can draw if we know eclipsed by the cold crueltier of der how to use them, to conserve them, liberate policy, where a Government fazer muted as our cutting The French and the German The Could those tanks, be filled?
all for caution. The
- In any case, nobody need suppare it pinin tet, we must be (endy,de of vast inrength and, Immense resident Auch as-clasore ar nell-French, ro
that for
dermana for boldness and speed..
The French lay emphasis on could ever be a repetition of the I that an attack on the Western Front have made as yet, and his description disease, homelessness, Insanity, and present, visits from rela-
absolutely barred. Inter-methodical preparation. The Ger- Polish cake-walk. with solicitors are allowed mans on dash, leaving a great
deal
The Allied Command is w aware evidently intended to, shake the false Hic could feitore to the lurid within the night (but not hearing) to the initiative of the subordinate optimism that, is so easily induced by the unusuhi Corditions under which
colours that fade on our imagination of officers, and they have to check emmander, who will be forgiven of the German theories of war, and, and censor all parcels arriving much. If.anly, he keeps moving.on...no doubt, has lis plara ready. Ger- * |—for we, live, in a world where, tho this War la Helig Waged.
Mr. Churchill closed, his
The French pro concerned about mor losses would be horrifying But his speech by
crime of yesterday is forgotten in the through neutral countries. by crime of to-day and the crime of to- Internees can buy their newspapers their flanks, about widening their is just as well to get rid of the reference to
at all costs the
Aing any circumstances, be broken. of their own their full power to move our in ment their ordinary food rations if Germany's sen warfare dignation and pity. He could make sweets. Few do. however, as the Their idea is not so rash as it looks. people
they want to with. tinned food grid
And that if we lose it we lose all; of the attack
Hitler might, In. For two reasons accustomed by the cinema even the slowest mind understand to spectacular sensations, burdened that this is not a
rations-aro adequate. quarrel to settle
They hope to win by disorganising the spring, decide to gamble on an by the numbing power of terrible rome dispute between one
Covera
The men are allowed to smoke all the enemy. That was how they won attack on the Line events, some are slow to realise whomes and another, but a quarrel to day right up fullahin out" at 10.10 the Falls warm by disorganising (1) Psychological effect, especial is happening in all its truth. At this settle whether Europe is to muster and are rapidly getting used to Eng- an army you turn it into an armed ly in France.
which the Class A cabbie, easy to destroy..
(2) Command of the Lorraine iron. PLEASE
By thrusting boldly and swiftlyforé fields.
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In a world.
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