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In March 1804 the public discovered that we had 267,243 men on regular
through 08,000 seamon in 1,596 ves-
England developed crisisterla in Eels. the summer of 1803.
The patient Parliament decided to increase the continued poorly all through the Regular Army by 40,000---feeding it winter, and had a bad relapse in the from the militia. The Military Ser- spring Invasion was expected daily, vice, Bill allowed every one from In April temperature all back to seventeen to fifty-five to volunteer. AZEVEDO. Malvina Ramgel
of the Cinque Ports | Azevedo, passed away
at her hornul. Suddenly, in the autumn, The Warden
rulsed 3,000 volunteers. Each of the residence, No. 5 Victory Avenue, crisisteria struck again.
of Yorkshire
raised at 2.30 am. Funeral will pass
Ridings cavalry regiment.
England's diplomats got warmed up. Rather reluctantly, England concluded 篩 treaty with Russian, Each pledged herself to support n general European league. Napoleon
(Shanghai and Macao please copy).
the Monument at 5 p.m. The papers printed lists of Alarm papers Posts for volunteers. In some places officers were not allowed to go more than two miles from their quarters even when off duty.
The
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Monday, May 13, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
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SWITZERLAND
ment called "A Plan for the Defence his people by falsifying the news and Siegfried Line, and now
of the Country," The papers pressed by forging letters. The technique
for a volunteer corps of irregular in- seems somehow familiar. fantry. The Government, after about
THE prenz "pecial to the Telegraph" is used by the longong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright year's dithering, got on with con- under the provisions of the Telecommant- structing the Martello towers all estions Ordinance, 1938. Such news ai bears the indication "UT"" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re-
serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly In part without praviolis Strangemedi
Hitler's Strategy
along the coast.
THE country with the few million men must give way to the country with the many)
You can see them to-day. Round, million men." "Mein Kampf"? No ...Just Napoleon. England's millt- thirty-foot-high pillboxes from which soldiers were to rake the, disembarks- ary fame and
been forgollen in
ing French with a cross-fire. A look France. They thought riches had!
out service was started to watch for
the
"A nation of French fleet. (They're still made us decadent.
shopkeepers," wisecracked watching.)
parte.
Bona-
H
The Duke of Buccleuch wrote to Hitler is the first political op- portunist to betray all his plans the papers suggesting Food Reserves. But month followed month with- before he has put them into execu- Some one signing himself "Sussex tlon. When he was, wenk and help- Yeoman" advised all the people who out an attack.
or incredulous, to
Then, while the Emperor's corona=! Jess he
told the world what he were too busy, wanted in "Mein Kampf" and after volunteer to equip themselves with tion feast was being celebrated with he seized power
wer he exactly foretold shot and powder and practise at dis- every magnificence (he had just be the methods he would use. Hitler, tances of 100, 150 and 200 yards. It seems, was too open to be bo- Hoved. All the world was warned what would happen, and yet most of the world is still asleep when it does. We have been astonished by tic-events in Norway and Denmark and by the invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
66 WATER
LINE
99
Hitler has invaded Holland in n struggled for centuries, should sud- desperate effort to regain the initia- denly become his shield, and should tive in his war?
defend for him the country from Opposing the invading Nazi hordes which it had Eten chased to make a are over a million men armed with fertile soil.
How is this great sacrifice, this They should arrange for some one come King of Italy) Napoleon struck the most modern weapons.
You have read how roads along to drive off the cattle and horses again.
As soon as
parts of the east and south frontiers vast flooding of fertile land, being Crisis No. 2. Englund was ready are bordered with high trees, mined carried out? the enemy landed.
The dykes have been pierced, the they saw the foe they ought to set
But the ships ready to block the roads to an In- a haystack on fire to warn the nearest Day followed day. regiment. Then, he suggested, they for which Napoleon was waiting at vading army, and how machine-guns sluices of the canals opened, and the should stand in a doorway and take Beul fine di not appear. The Bri- are in position to mow down the men whole country is now flooded in such
tish-Navy-had-dispersed them. He who would have to spend days clear-way-that only the land above..sen... pot-shots at the advancing French.
abandoned his project.
ing the way.
level remains untouched. Then comes into play the Dutch Napoleon had struck a medal to Water Line-not so strong as HAVE you ever told your
the And from these high areas artillery The fate that has already over-
child Hitler will come for commemorate his conquest of Eng-Maginot or Siegfried lines, perhaps, and machine-guns cover the flooded come these five neutral states is, if "Mein Kampf" is now to be re-him if he is naughty? Parents did land.
Otherwise but still... cognised as the German "Bible" (as a hundred years ago. "If you don't shopkeepers, Napoleon. the Germans themselves have in- go to sleep this instant," mothers he'd have known that proverb about sisted it is for the past five years), used to say, "Boney will come and counting your chickens... in store for all the small neutral gel you."
Alarming stories Aitered back to borders. countries
Germany's on The German minorities in Yugo England. In Hanover Slavin, Rumania, Hungary, Switzer- land, Bulgaris and Sweden which (if Russia and Italy are excepted) are the only neutral States left with common borders with Germany..are already actively at work, preparing the way for this modern Genghis
Khan.
Modern war is swift; countries H
the French
No member of a nation of
Gordon Taylor
fields.
No tank or armoured car .cun.
The cross this immerse lake.
Boil It is ironic to find that in time of will soon be covered by at least three need the Dutchman's great enemy feet of water. waler-against
These Gauleiters
TITLER is in consultation with his.
Gauleiters, whom he summoned the waging it must work with
from all over Germany to a confer- "Travel- of machines. exactness lers" can wreck railway bridges and ence. throw mobilisation off its balance What is a Gauleiter? What kind much quicker than have the paras of man holds these jobt? chuto
In Baglum troops Holland; a few words over
and
1 cap-
for
BY WILLI FRISCHAUER
andhalter"--Relcha-Governor.
There are about sixty such Nazi
P province, light ormaments on the defensive, "Leiter," [reely translated as "leader," and can imagine how strong points nuske up this title of a provincial for inside Belgium and Holland are leader of the Nazi Party. now being held by German para- chutists and "tourists" until their Army arrives.
whom
Fis
And under this water are unsus- pected traps, for the fields are in- tersected for drainage purposes by wide ditches and canals which could not be detected once the land was flooded.
Tanks, Uie general land forces, are done useless, whatever damage is In from the air,
cruel Wazi of being the most Germany. On the other hand, Dr. Meyer, Gauleiter of Muenster, is re- garded as a good administrator,
Troops cannot reach the essential paris at Holland once the water has
troops
const
The names of most of the Gaulei-spread over it.
Already one part of Holland, the Mayor. If his district A bigger than ters probably mean nothing to you. a town the Gauleiter can often also There is only Forester, the Gauleiter province of Utrecht, has been flooded. ture wireless station, as in Oslo, leaders. "Gau," the ancient German boast of the title of "Relchs-Stati- of Danzig who had a spell of inter- An officer who accompanied me can let dismay into the hearts of a
national prominence before the war said it will be exactly like that people. We know the power of expression
started or Krebs, the man who was everywhere between the coast and the In short, the Gauleiter is the head appointed "Gaulelter of Czecho- frontler, by to-day except on the or the party organisation in a certain Slovakia" years before Hitler march-immense mounds where our district of Germany. With the ever-led in
will have strategle positions, Increasing influence of the party on
On the way back he showed me in the middle of the highest felds I know a boy who used to bring public life he was given all sorts of
As in the case of Krebs, there are confere civil Jobs.
platforms for guna. On By all the books of strategy, Hit-
Nazi Gauleiters for many countries both slites of the dykes are the ler's adventure in the Lowlands is my papers in Vienna every morn-
Goebbels, for instance, is the Gou-which are not within the frontiers of shelters for the ing. He spent his spare time-smug-
troops. The sheer madness. It is this "shwer madness" that permits the Gormans gag Nazi propaganda material into leiter of Berlin. But he, like every the German Reich at all. Only a defence is just as efficient. In the to obtain the initial advantage. the flats he supplied with news other Gaulalter. has a deputy-Gau~ 1week ago the French police arrested dunes from south to north hundreds
the Lowlands have papers..
leiter and a thiet-in-command, Fortunately,
the "Nazi Gaulettera", of Alsace and of rests of machine-guns and nurger- ous camouflaged big guns watch; over never under-estimated the brilliant
When the Austrian Nazi Party was Gau-Obmann.
charged them with high treason.
the dykes' security. cunning of the Germans, or sneered
secretly formed. this boy was ap-
Another prominent Gauleiter at the unorthodoxity of their techni-
La In the same way there was a "Gau- Nazi weiter for Britain"--Herr Holsel→ que. They were prepared and lave, pointed "Gauleiter" for the district
in which helved, Later he was Herr Wogner. He rules the
take over. He has since as a result, provided Hitler with his transferred to another in Austria-party in Bavaria. Apart from that ready to
And in the first line the incu-of-war are on the watch. Klagenfurt and became the Gau- he speals for Hiller over the micro-been expeiled. The invasion of the Lowlands has leiter of the, province.
phone very frequently because no- In the new Nazi provinces of Po-
The enemy would spoll his guts shown that no government has any
His name was Globocnik. You body can distinguish Wagner's volceland Gauleiters were installed a week and shells by bombarding a hinter- excuse for being caught unprepared
ngo. One of them is Herr Koch, who land of dead ruin and wastes of and it will be certain that every may remember him as the man who from Hier's.
now rules West Fruzsin and the Cor-water. But even were it possible for ridor. neutral country which values Its in- was appointed Gauleiter of Vienna
him to land he would and that every dependence will watch with extra when Hitler marched into Austria.
Streller, chiedy known as Nazi' Why has Hitler called his Goulel-factory hides heavy pieces of pridety
every little form precaution every move in the vkinity He was sacked a few months later
shelters of their frontièrs.
because he got drunk every day and did not. properly full his task of Jew-Baller Number One is or was, ters to Berlin? Some say because he and
before his arrest-a Gauleiter too, wants to hear their opinion about machine guns, and that even every Switzerland looking after the political education Gauleiter of Frankonia.
holds " deadly Either Rumania or
Buerkel, how the people of the Reich feel advertizing pillar seem fated to be next on Illes's of the Austrian people and the nd-Hitler's friend, is Gauleiter of Aus-about the war.
churgo along the accessible reads programme. Hungary and Bulgaria minisinition of the Nazi Parly's trin.
where.all kinds of obsincles used in a ato apparently safe; temporarily affairs in his district.
Another guess, to which I would modern war prevent any motorised Sweden seems secure because her
who subscribe, is that he wants to make it troops and units being of the slightest geographical position makes her, for There are, of course, other Gau- have no International Importance.elear to them that the German anny, usa, the time being, more of an asset as Jeliers who do their job properly. Their nines are hardly known out-the... Relchswehr, a neutral than a belligerent to the Most of them have since been apside their own places. But all of supreme command not only at the Germans. But if the Aliles succeed pointed to the highest civil posts in them are the dreaded henchmen of front but inside Germany as well. in advancing in Norway or threaten their localities.
the Nazi tyranny.
And that would mean "good-bye" by throwing them back from Holland, Sweden would do well to take care. town In Germany is often its Lord Jelter of Hamburg, has the reputation to the glory of the Gauleiter,
first hitch,
the German conquerors In Denmark-
Nowadays the Gauleiter of a big
There are scores of others
Kauffmann, for instance, the Gau
will take over
Dutch
This Is how Holland has organised, her defence. The Dutchman knows how to fight for his liberly end his in- dependence, and he is ready to de-. fend both to the uttermost,