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Saturday, MARCH 2, 1940.
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Winston Churchill
Neutrals: Shun
the
the Crocodile
EVERYONE wonders what
Is
kappening about the war. For several montlis past the Nazis havo been uttering ferocious threats of what they are going to do to the Western democracies, to the Bri- tish and French. Empires, which once they set about thens,
Dat so for It is the small neutral States that are bearing the brunt of German malice and cruelly.
We must always be expecting some new bad thing from Germany, but I will venture to say that it is with growing confidence that we nwalt the further developments or variants of their attack.
A after long niul hard experience, spoken with the utmost restraint and caution about the war at sen, and I
I am quite sure, that many losses and misfortunes are lying us here; but in all humility and self-questioning I feet able to declare that t the Admiralty, us at the French Minis- try of Marine, things are not going so badly after all.
you know, I la
have always,
abearl of
INDEED. THEY HAVE NEVER GONE SO WELL IN ANY NAVAL WAR.
Very different is the lot of the unfortunate neutrals. Whether on sea or on land they are the violinis upon whom Hitler's hate and spite- descend.
Every one of them is wondering who will be the next vielim ou whom the criminat adventurers of
Accident - Makers
THERE are motor-car
drivers who have fre.
The
to accidents when he started driving the con- clusion of the experts is
quent accidents and others Hongkong Telegraph. that he will still be prone
who have few or none.
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The first kind of driver has often little sense of humility, or he could pro- fitably read the report “A Study on Accident Proneness among Motor-drivers" that has been prepared for the Industrial Health Research Board.
He would learn from it that he will go on running into the backs of cars, misjudging the size of buses, grazing the gate-post, and wrecking the garage if nothing worse—until he dies, or is killed, or has his licence suspended.
He might be consoled to find that as he grows older he may do these things less frequently. Even then there will be a period in the early fif- ties when he will be as dangerous on the rond as ever he was when he was young-that stage when he is too old to take risks but not old enough to have realised it
But if he was constitutionally prone
to
them after he has driven for years.
THERE are two ways of finding him out. The chvicus one on the evidence of the re- port is to discover from his first few years of driving whether he is given to accidents.
This way has the disadvantage that the trivial mishaps, which are as re- vealing as the major ones in determin- ing proneness to accidents, are usual- ly a secret between the driver and the garage man.
There is, however, another way in which he can be detected,
By psychological tests on bus drivers in London and elsewhere the authora of the report found that they could to some extent predict which drivers would be most often involved in accidents.
When further experiments have made the tests more reliable there should be many to welcome this means of discovering before they begin to drive a car whether they are fit to do
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STING IN THE
FAMARTH
The gunner in the tail of Bri- tain's bombers in the man with one of the most perilous jobs in the Air Force he man who strikes terror into the heart of the Mes- serschmitt fghter pilots.
Iti the drawing you see hilm operating his four Browning guns (A), which fire approximately 100 bullets
a minute. Sitting in his tiny round glansholisa he can sweep the sky--upwarda, downwards. aldeways by the simple handlebar control (B).
The guns themselves move only up and down (shown by are C)- ail four together. But the entire
TAIL
turret can be 'revolved (ns shown by D).
Main details of the gun mechan- ism are as follows; magazines (E), spent
cartridge shute (F), gun- sights (G), and flash-dompers (H). The great advantage of these gun turreta is their enso of control, all manoeuvring being done mechanic- ally.
The gunnor keeps in communien- tlon by telephone with his pilot, observer, and forward gunner. The microphone (J), in action, is strap- ped across hin face. Round the gunner's neck la his air lifebelt (K.)
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The Smear ́of Hitler in
in the Human Path!
Berlin WIDE cast Bedr rending stroke.
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A German major makes a forced landing in Belgium with plans for the invasion of that rountry, whose neutrality Germany as so recently
worn to respect..
Ja Itumanta, there is deep fear lest by some deal between Moscow and Berlin they may become the next object of aggression.
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The Dutch, whose services European freedom will be remem- bered long after the smear. of Hitler has been wiped from the human
path, stand along their dykes as they did against the 1yrants of bygone days.
Only Fintand, superb, may sub- lime, in the jaws of peril shows what free men can do.
The service rendered by Fiuland to mankind is magnificent. They have exposed, for afl the world to see, the military incapacity of the Red Army and of the Red Air Farce.
Many illusions about Soviel Rus- sla have been dispelled in these fierce weeks of fghting In the Arctic efrcle. Everyone can see how Communism rots the soul of a nation; how I makes it abiect and hungry in peace, and proves It base and abonisible in war.
BUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL THESE NEUTRAL NA- TIONS WERE WITH ONE SFON- TANKOUS IMPULSE ΤΟ DO THEIR DUTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE
AND STAND ·TO- GETHER WITH THE BRITISH
FRENCHI
EMPIRES
AND AGAINST AGGRESSION AND WRONG?
At present their plight is lament- able, and will become much worse. They bow humbly and in fear to German threats of violence.
- EACH ONE HOPES THAT IF HE FEEDS THE CROCODILE ENOUGH. THE CROCODILE
WILL EAT HIM LAST. ALL OF THEM HOPE THAT THE STORM WILL PASS BEFORE THEIR TURN COMES TO BE DEVOUR- --- ED.
But the storm will not pass. It
If Hitler
FILL the Germans attuck on the West Front? Many believe it. Spring, say these prophets, will bring us the birds and the bat- ties.
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If war en land should open up in the west we must expect the inl tial German thrust to be delivered vin the Low Countries.
This decision, as I have pointed out before, will carry serious dis- advantages. These disadvantages still seem to me to outweigh the advantages. But I must add that the Dutch High Command fully
wil rage and roar, ever more loudly-ever more widely. It wif spread to the South. It will spread to the North,
THERE IS NO CHANCE OF A SPEEDY END EXCEPT THROUGH UNITED ACTION, AND JF AT ANY TIME BRITAIN AND FRANCE, WEARYING OF THE STRUGGLE, WERE TO MAKE A SHAMEFUL PEACE, NOTHING WOULD REMAIN FOR TIF
SMALLER STATES OF EUROPE, WITH THEIR SHIPPING AND THEIR POSSESSIONS, BUT TO HE DIVIDED BETWEEN THE OPPOSITE. THOUGH SIMILAR, DARBARISMS
NAZIDOM
AND BOLSHEVISM.
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In the bitter and Increasingly ex- seting conillet which flen before us we are resolved to keep nothing back and not to be outstripped by any in service to the common rause.
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The day will come when the joy- hells will ring again throughout Europe, and when victorious na- tons, masters not only of their foes, but of themselves, will plan an build in Justler, fa. tradition and in freedomí a house of many transions where there shall ho room for all.
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The summe word may be used more than once, and proper names are permissible,
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2 Change a letter in "a sea-fowl," 3 Change a letter in "a feminine
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believe that Hitler will order an invasion of Holland in a few weeks' time.
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IN this event, where will the blow fall? I predict the Germans
will advance' westward into South Holland. They will not seek to cross the Dutch "water line," nor the Belgian floodable area of La Compine. Marching between the two the Germans will move straight on to their North Sea ob- jective.
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This objective is the Island of Walcheren and the coastal strip of
THOSE U.S.A. PLANES
qUIERE is a widespread bellef that the United States will provide Britain and France with all the air- craft" we ; require. This idea is wrong, and it is, dangerous. We must rely on our own outpul,
The sale of American machines to us is governed by two factors. The first is the limited capacity of the American warplane-producing plant. The second is the obsoles cence of their models.
Major George Eliot, in the American Journal Life, estimates that by next Christmas the United States will have provided the Allies
3,199 planer. will
The total is made up thus: 2,230 bombers,
710 Bghtert, 250 Dying boats. The America maler also counts on supplying 1,185 trainer airplanes.
I rive us notice to Major Eliot's calculations because they
are po
widely quoted in the British Press. In my view such figures are quite inadmissible.
Actually accepted by American Arms are orders for about 2.000 warplanes. Delivery is another story.
A few Anterican machines have arrived since the outbreak of war. Mett of them are goed only for reconnaissance and training. No "American machines are used by the B.A.F. as heavy bombers, dive- Ambers, er Jong, range fighters, 'Only · them. Lockleed ·Hudson twin
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engine has been employed with Luccess on coastal patrol. 16 has range and rellability, but is not suited to combat.
The Americans are stil deliver- Ing their Curtiss "Hawk" type to the French. These machines, had triumphs against the some early Old German Messerachnidis, They are easily outpaced by the new Alesserschmidt 110.
Then there is the Douglas D.B. - 7 twin-engined bomber, now being delivered in Canada. A sure carl- FIGERS,
horse, but no warhorse.
But the Americans may now be producing some types that would terve us. The trouble have priori- ty in the delivery of these types. By the time we got them they are Hikely to be out of date.
bambers. completely protecting
Air fighting is changing. The reason is: puiting armour on the bomber. The Nazis now put ar- meur and deflector plates on their
both pilot and navigator.
To counter this the fichier st. lackers started alming At the bomber's
petrol tanks Instead of concentrating on the pliot. Tho Nash, however, filled their craft
Icak-proof tanks
The fighters now aim at the bember's wings.
And nobody ham yet discovered how to put simcur en Wirkk Holland which Iles west of Ant-
werp and is cut off from the rest of Halland by the Sefteld estuary.
TITLER will thus:
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(a) Secure son bases only 120
miles from Harwich; (b) Túrn the flank uf the
main Belgian defences.
These defences conslet of three lincs:
(1) The Albert Canal linking the Scheldt estuary and the River Meuse; the fortress pren of Llego; the system of pill boxes running southward From Liege, throught the Ardenness Forest to the far end of Luxemburg.
(2) Fortifications running soutit from Antwerp to the Meuse and thence behind that, river to, the French frontier.
(3) Entrenchments running west from Antwerp to Ostend.
Fler can establish himself on
the Scheldt estuary
ho can. threaten the enfety. of both (1) und (2) defences. Only (3) standa betwcon him, and the conquest of Belgium.
The Belglans are in no situation to oppose Hiller's march Brdnab Ticlland towards
their
frontier. The Belgian Army is a defensive force, lacking the heavy tanks re- quired for offensive action.
Therefore the Belgians must nwait the enemy, standing on their own defence line. It will be the task of the British and French to move at once against the invador..
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N Allied expedition to Walcher A
cn and the outer islunds of the Scheldt and
Rhine
mouths check the German drive here:
Belth and French, marching north-east through Belgium, would reck to forestall the German throKİ at (3) and push the enemy landing parties back into the water.
At this corner of Europe, then, where Holland, Belgium and the North Sen meet, may come the first- great clash of armies in the West,