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THE profix "Bpecial to the Telegraph" i used by the Hongkong Telegraph to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomintini- estions Ordinance, 1836. Such news a bears the indication "UV" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previoni arrangement
Winston Churchill.
Thirty-five years ago Mr. Churchill was making his first speeches at a Liberal and gaining the confidence Chat returned him to the House of Commons s Minister. Much has happened since to polities and to Mr. Churchill.
There are probably few who or looking back over his Jong career would claim that he has always beco right. There are some who have SO profound a mistrust of his judgment that they bring to everything be says a mind full of suspicion. But that he klands out among public men as man of character, of initiative, of in- dependence, and of tenacity nobody -will-deny. --And--he-has-nt this-mo- nient a very special claim to public confidence. Month after month during the fatal drift of Western po- licy, when our realists were talking
that thesu
lusions for which mankind would one day pay a terrible penalty.
ה
He
February 29, ́ ́ 1940.
might break through... but
couldn't afford
"I hope Stalin's watching
a
Life in Internment
British Camp
NESTAPO terrors ut Dachau and THE charges are grouped
Buchenwald.... you know all
10
one
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to
THE myth of the Maginot Line—a section of which has now been taken over by British troopsis 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. Thoso 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 pas."
THERE lies a danger.
For if the Line were pierced by a German attack, the public in the two Allied coun- tries would be dismayed in pro-i 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 and impotence of its front-line forces. that will be reflected in a confusion the Germans had been swept
The further behind the front that away,
the attacked nerve centre lies the That would be quite a mistake, wider the length of front that may The piercing of the Line would not be disorganised through the paralysis mean defeat and the ending of the of that centre. And in the me.... war, so long as the British andhanised army and the bomber the French armiles were substantially in- Germans think they have the means tavi. The effect on the ultimate of paralysing those centres. course of the war would depend on the cost to Hitler in ilves, tanks, airplanes, ete, of breaking through. That operation might well be so ex- pensive that it brought about Hitler's X, Y and Z the Germans would hope By the heavy_bombing of centres ruin, just as the costly German at- to break communications, prevent tacks in the spring of 1018 led to reinforcement and promote confusion. the Germun crack-up in the autuma over an area wider than the front of of that year.
But the effect 011 Allled morale might be big. It is unwise a war to pin too high hopes on the bold- 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 fortin- cations. It can be taken. And Bat goes for the Siegfried Line too.
The world is littered
with the rusting of "impregnable" fortifications. Those ruins still show the breach 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 fortifien-
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THE proposition can be ex- pressed as a diagram:-
HOLDING ATTACKS
INFANTRY
BOWIED
|LIGHT FANKS
{HEAVY TANKS
MAIN THRUST
B
COMBED
HOLDING ATTACKS
They will see an imposing ruin on a rocky height. Cliffs, surmounted into classes, "A" and "B"the Chuss wonder and how it was taken walls. They inny by tremendous of composing all the troubles of the about that, following the Govern- A internees being people of some by soldiers who had no artillery or world by appeasement, when the ment's publication of the White social standing who can't be expected high explosives or even rifles. Nazi ruders were presented to us as Paper on Nazi tortures in concentrato mix with mere proletarian in-i
Their admiration was shared by harmless men justly sensitive about tion camps.
ternces! In fact, you can very clear- the treatment Germany had received
For the other side of the picture,ly see from the "guests here that royal builder, Richard Coeur de
of Britain's National Socialism has bred more the first time, excialmed in delight, the attack. Assuming the main de--
Lion, who, clapping eyes on it for cone with me but essentially reasonable and good-Internment camps. No tortures, no militant snobbluhness, and Is not hearted, when we let our
"It's a saucy. child, my year-old fensive zone pounded hy the barrago defences hard work, no starvation.
brotherly Socialism at all!
Class B chaps
castle." Being interned, in fact, has only Class A gents pay 4s. 6d. a day if
are Uteel rust and our diplomacy dream, Mr.
as balmen.
and crossed by heavy tanks, the So i got its name, Saucy Castle faster mechanised forces, light tanks, one disadvantage. You get bored Churchill was warning the nation stift. Regulations at present prevent better food. The colone), quiet and
they
can afford it, and get slightly-Chateau Gaillard.
motorised guns, and infantry would Three years Inter, the French lak (push further on without paying too were ilusions, and internees from receiving anything
is trying to instil sore siege to it. After eight months' much attention like military drill, or playing any
to mopping up in. gmne more arduous than football,
public-school spirit into these work by their engineers, Chateau the front zone. Some were brought to this beaded Teutons. It isn't easy. Gaillard fell.
It might be far from being knocked. of course, is a misnomer. internment camp and have since been
out. But, in theory, I would re- About his campaign for collective transferred; several hundreds of Ger. The internment centre consists
NO the story runs through all cover too late. The battle would security there was something of the mans have passed through in this severd be stuused if I could disclose pregnable-until it is taken. Llege army would be thrusting at X itself,. several very solid buildings-you
the ages. The fort is im-have moved on. The mechanised. character of Gladstone's campaign way, and believe me they have been against Disraell's Eastern pelley in well treated as prisoners of war, where the place is.
was going to hold up the German hoping to turn choos into porolysis: the seventies. For Mr. Churchill saw though they have not been molly- There's no secrecy, as there is at invasion of Belgium. Liege crumpled at that nerve centre, In one case, as Mr. Gladstone saw in
coddled.
Dachau. The internees are allowed under the German slege guns in a
week.
This is to over-simplify the Ger-- The Hindenburg Line to write home to Germany, though could not be taken. It was taken. The "boss" of the camp Is the other, that the choice for his Guards ofleer. The iron gates of the in view of Snar evucuutions only
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man problem a great deal. But it is: 40
a rough statement of the thing in. country was ultimately, however the camp are guarded by sentries from per cent. of the letters reach their Every line can be taken if you can the tempo of modern war, where the truth might for the moment be dis- a famous Territorial regiment.
destination. However, they're allow-assemble at a given point a pre-initial stage of the attack moves at. guised under soothing phrases, the
ed to write two letters a week each, ponderance of stout-hearted men perhaps 15 m.p.h. (speed of a heavy choice between upholding tyranny
Of course, they're censored, and ara and efficient material, and if you tank) and the later stages at up to. and defending freedom. Can any that was swept by Napoleon's armies, posted together with a printed slip have a well-devised plan and good 30 mp.th. (speed of a Ught tank).
in German advising relatives what staff-work. But two things distinguish the pre- they must not say in reply, for tear Now, Hitler has Europe. Never before has so much service for sent from the past miseries of of upsetting Gestapo ernsors. There's his Polish campaign showed. The stages, on the 2 m.p.h. of the tramp
This compares with the tempo of a good staff, as the last war, which depended in all you!
German soldier has not lost his couring soldier. energy been spent in spreading
igo. And there in probably a misery for its own sake. Never be
The possible depth of an attack in. military side.
body deny that if the twa Western Governments had listened to him the world would wear to-dny A different face?
Very
What a
Inspection by the
of
on
of the footslogger. Now it depends.
the refuelling of petrol-driven
Mr. Churchill, who, alone among fore has the power to strike mied as ACH German as he arrives, after numerical advantage on the German those days depended on the physique. men holding high office lo-day, beld well as body, to wound men and high office in the Inst war, devoted women through
It would be absurd to suppose that on memory and Im-tribunal, has his identification papers most of
t of his grave and sober eloquence agination, through love of family or checked, is given a brief medical iller's generals could not concen-vehicles. In yesterday's speech in the House love of God, beers equipped with test, and after his luggage is extrate their men and guns for a pur- of Commons 10 encouraging and steeling the spirit of the notion. He weapons so sure and so terrible. amined he is served with his issue prise attackt.
AND that might be the reati of mattress, pillow, bolster, and Lour a pleture could Mr. Churchill
A problem before the Ger analysed the elements of our strength draw of this Europe, where all blankets.
the Most of his own personal stuff ho THERE are two schools of to show how vast are the resources sufferings of callous war have been
man generala. Thoir thought about how an at- forces might after a few hours be
mechanized: on which we can draw If we know eclipsed by the cold cruelties of delis nilowed to keep, but only one tock of this kind should be conducted, stranded with empty petrol tanks. how to use them, to conserve them, liberate policy, where a Government instrument such as scissors or upil French are all for caution. The
razor bindo and no sharp cutting The French and the German. The Could those tanks be filled? and to develop them. But he made of vast strength and Immense re- It plain that we must be ready for sources seeks as the object and uses
fles.
Ciermans for boldness and speed.
In any case, nobody need supporą for greater exertions than Gny wo
For the present, visita from rela-
French Jay as the instrument of its plans famine,
that on attack on the Western Front emphasis bave made as yet, and his description disense, homelessness, insanity, and views with solicitors are allowed mats on dash, leaving a great deal Polish cake-walk.
iives are absolutely barred. Inter- methodical preparation. The Ger- could ever be a repetition of the of the efforts that are needed was despair. evidently intended to shake the false He could restore to the lurid within the sight (but not hearing) to the initiative, of the subordinate The Allied Command is wil aware optimien that is so easily induced by colours that fade on our imagination of officers, and they have to check commander, who will be forgiven of the German theories of war, and, the unusual conditions under which for wo live in a world where the and censor nli parcels arriving much if only he keeps moving on. this war is being waged.
no doubt, has its plans ready. Ger- Mr. Churchill closed his speech by crime of to-day and the crime of to-
crime of yesterday is forgotten in the through neutral countries.
Internees can buy their newspapers the french oro concerned about man losses would be horrifying. But
about widening
is just as well to get rid of the referenco
the theopathy of the day blurs the crime of to-morrow from the canteen, and can supple- front. The Germans about main idea that the Maginot Line cannot. outrals at the slaughter of their own their full power to move our in- ment their ordinary food rations if Laining at all costs the onward drive in any circumstances, be broken.. people by Germany's sen warfare. dignation and pity. He could make they want to with tinned food and
And that if we lose it we lose all In a world accustomed by the cinema even the slowest mind understand sweets. Few do, however, as the attack
For two reasons Hitler might, "In Their Idea is not so rash as it looks,} to spectacular sensations, hardened that this is not a quarrel to settle rations are adequate. by the numbing power of terrible some dispute between one Govern- The men are allowed to smoke all the enemy. That was how they won attack on the Line:
They hope to win by disorganising the spring, decide to gamble on an
is happening in all its truth. At this settle whether Europe, is to, master and are rapidly getting used to Engan any you turn it into an armed ly in France. events, some are slow to realise what ment and another, but a quarrel to day right up till "ights out" at 10.15, the Pollai war. By disorganising (1) Paychological effect, ospecial- moment the area swept by war in these dark passions or whether these sh cigaroites which the Class A rabble, easy to destroy. Europe is much less than the area dark-passons are to master Europe.i PLEASE Turn To Pago 9.
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(2) Command of the Lorraine Ironi
By thrusting boldly and' swiftly ore folds.