Wednesday,
MAGAZINE
THIS WAR WON'T From a Girl RUIN ENGLAND EITHER
TWO things about which most experts agree are: That this war is the most expensive ever fought, --and that we shall all be ruined at the end of it..
Both these things have been
said about every major war we have fought since. 1700. The first was al- ways true and the second was always false.
Let glance back at six import- ant wars, including the Inat, sco what they cost and how wo paid for them at In what way they still affect our ordinary everyday lives In 1940,
FIL
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MARLBOROUGH'S
ILST,
WAR. We fought from 1702 New- to 1714. It gave us
Hud- foundland, Gibraltar,
That
Bon Bay and Minorca. Wo kept the first three and· 10st the fourth.
war cost filly million pounds. thirty and We paid off
to the carried twenty over
National Debt.
We paid by a tax of 2x, an ere
on land, an extra
tax on
windows,
houses, graded according to
the
of number
from 10 to £1.
Also by new taxes on salt, pepper,
novations: hospital
nurses,
both in military and civil Uƒe (Florence Nightingale LUXLE the first), and cigarettes; a convenient wody to
make cheap, home-made smokes in the field.
li was paid for by an extra 24. on the income tax, which was and by then down to 7, extra dutler on sugar, tea, coffee and spirita.
The
population was twenty-eight millions, the revenue sixty millions.
TVA.
THE BOER WAR cost two hundred millions. THE GREAT WAR cost nine thousand millions. Social results of the last war were
Summer Time, closing hours, nitrogen extracted from the air (dus again to Britain's blockade) and gilders to ret round the peace treaty pro- visions Kainst German plants.
The population is now forly-one
milions;
national re- Die venue nino hundred and forty-two millions.
spices and raisins, and Now, wit
steeper dutles on beer, wine. spirits, tea, cocoa, coffee and tobacco, and by tariffs on tobacco, foreign timber and coals.
We dao paid and are stiil paping
by stamp duties.
That war. Introduced us
·
to part wine, which we imported at preferential rates to bring Portugal in on our side, with slx genera- the result that tions of Englishmen got cout from drinking too much of it, over-doctored.
It also established the two-party a Whis system by setting up (War) and a Tory (Peace) Darty,
Ti population was then six mil- 1100 people; the national six million
OUR
revenue pounds.
Was
UR next important war was the SEVEN YEARS WAR to check
the combination ̈ ̄of France
and Austria, then the most powerful countries in Europe.
We paid for that warm wirich-give us Canada and india, straply by putting
penny
an extra
on every pot of beer.
Il cost eighty-two million pounds, and sixty were carried to the National Debt.
The chief social change was
an
lime Julec, Ships crews, at with- sea for long periods out, fresh fruit or vegetables, used to suffer from scurvy, which caused thousands of deaths.
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When they got to the West Indies they recovered on drinking
You
Every
the Warn K have enumerated and the wars I have not, Britain has, in the last 240 years, gene through seventy years of War sndl 170 years of
of peace, rather less than one year's war to every two years' peace,
So far from Yet during that time, so
being ruined on ten distinct occasions, she has multiplied her population by about eight and increased her and inc
national revenue 150 times over, will notice that after war both always advanced. And that revenue has not been
swollen by
that taxes crushed the people, since Diel average alandard of living kas certainly advanced by at least
cent. 500 per
since 1700,
After the last, the most ruinous of all our wars, the male rate of wages increased 200 per cent, the female 100 per cent. Of course, that was not because of the wars but In spite of thom.
I am not saying the improvement would not have been much
greater lout
I am only saying that we have
always outstripped the effects
of past wars, so It Is not in- evitable that we shall be ruined by this one.
George Edinger
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Who Expects
To be Kissed
MEN are not so bad as they're
prated about. I've been kiss- --rd-scores--of-lines-by-scores-of-
men, and I'm sure I'm pleased about it.
It does things to my self-con- fidence: That's why I like kisses. They're such a tonic.
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1940.
May.
y. 29, 19
TANKS
IN BATTLE
By Maj.-General J.F.C. FULLER
Formerly Chief General Staff Officer of Tank Corps THE tank is a small mobile THE
fort equipped with guns, protected by armour, and pro- pelled by an engine; the aim of its originators was that it should be used to storm for- tresses, or rather fortified
I'm fit and aliye and usually lines, in Flanders.
happy.
But if I get a bout of the blues they're never so bad that I can't be kissed into smiles again.
I'm lucky that I don't have to search the world for someone to do It. Someone who will king and ride away maybe. I don't care. Not even if he tells!
Maybe you think I'm wrongt. but I've got the right intellons.
Some day there will be a kiss that is different and then they can tune up the wedding march for me. I'll make a dependable wife too!
My husband will be the pick of the bunch-that's why I'll keep on liking him.
I've sampled the lot and know the truth about "thrillers."
Handsome men don't deliver the most exciting kisses.
That'll save me pining for close- ups with any Adonis who comes ulong.
In fact, the odds are, Pil marry Lan ugly man. The Romeo breed are usually all promise and no fulfilment.
They look good but they don't feel li. There's something wrong with their kissing psychology.
They don't make you forget yourself because they never forget themselves.
You can feel them thinking how grand they are! They only act. with women.
I like the simple things. Like real klases and real love. And I'll know both when 1 meet them.
I make my lipstick work for me. My cosmetics look pretty because I am determined, one day to sit pretty with the right husband, the right hume, and the right kids.
Until then life is merry and I'm not one to part with it for the lack of a kiss or two.
“I learned about kigger in my nursery school. Postman's Knock and Kiss in the Ring are the best games the world has over elis. covered.
And I'm going to go q playing them.-JOAN.
15,
When, on September 1916, it first underwent its baptism of fire it was a crude, ponderous. 'slow-moving ma- chine and unbelievably un- comfortable; its crew were not fre- only half-cooked, but quently asphyxiated by its exhaust gases.
Nevertheless, on November 20, 1917, at the Battle of Cambrai, on account of its ability to cross wire fields and trenches and because it was impervious to rifle and ma- chine-gun bullets, it revolu- tionised tactics in twelve hours.
Since then and up to the out- break of this war its development has been rupid:
Was
(1) Speed
vastly creased, rising from four to forty miles an hour.
(2)
Somewhere in between came the get out German school. This school also to develop an Intimate taciles between tonks and aircraft on the lines introduced by our own Tank Corps during the final stages of the last wor.
Now let us turn to the tank soldier-the fighting mechanic,
typkal warrior of our maching age.
He has to be more a man of wiis than anything else; for, strange as it may stem, so lililo does a tank soldier in battle realise what is taking place out- alde his machine that dangerm àflect his nerves far less than if ho were in the open,
Nevertheless, fighting in a tank is no easy task; noise and heat are still considerable, especially under heavy are when the machine has to be closed, up.
Then observation depends main- ly upon its periscope, much as in the case of a half-submerged sub- marine. Orders are constantly be ing received by wireless, and quick wils are needed to comply with them intelligently.
in general, a tank force operates much as a feet would in sea scattered with innumerable shoals and islands; for the tanks, these are the areas they cannot
CTOS8, such as mountains, steep hills, thick woods, swamps and rivers.
Protected by the light tanks, the Then, because of the in- medium tanks follow, covered by troduction-of-anti-tank-weapons-the-close-support-machines, which- greater thickness of armour had to be added, which in its turn reduced speed.
con-
So a mean between speed and armour was sought after by structing various types of tanks light, medium and heavy; the first, lightly armoured and very fast; the second, more heavily armoured and stower; and the third slower still, but in some armies protected by much us Ihree inches armoured plate.
of
Further still, un anti-anti-tank was introduced in the form of a close-support machine, which by throwing smoke shell and emitting smoke clouds could blind the enemy's anti-tank gunners.
I these various developments
Tre ever ready to destroy or frustrate the enemy's unti-tank weapons. In the rear comes the
main army-Infantry, artillery, etc,
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understand the tank tactics of our enemy, it is necessary to go back to the last war,
In 1918, under cover of low- fying alreruft, small formations of shock troops (Infantry) ad- vanced and were followed by non- shock units (also infantry).
The airplanes forced the enemy to keep his head down in his french; the shock troops covered weak points and penc- rateel, and the non-shock units exploited these penetrations,
These tactics were very success- ful and far less costly than the
A led to two schools of thought former head-on urillery-infantry
for the use of tanks. They may be called the cavalry-minded and the infantry-minded.
~~~The cavany-minded veered to wards Independent tank nction; the infantry-minded believed in co- operative action between tanks and The first largely repre- infantry. sented the British point of view; the second the French.
"U-boats in the Pacific"—is
there anything in it?
the Juice of the lemons Now what's all this
there.
So the Admiralty, Imagining that there was no difference in the curative properties' of limes and Lemons, ordered every ship to carry provisiona of lime juice.
It did no good to the ncurvy, but it introduced a new drink to Britsin
Our population_when_the_war
we hear
about U-bonts operating in the Pacife? it likely to come true, or is it just another stage In Gocb- bels's war of nerves propaganda?
First of all-where would the U-boats work from? Germany has not owned any Pacifle territory suitable for a U-boat buse since 1918: so craft could only operate
began was six millions and Book of the Week
half, the national revenue
was eight million pounds.”
THE NAPOLEONIC WAR lasted
twenty-one
123
years. It gavo Ceylon, Colony, Cape
Trinidad. British Malta,
the Gulana, Mauritius and
Seychelles
The cost was eight hundred and
дего
thirty millions, of which 620 were added to the debt. Payment was made by a 4s. an
nere land
an tax, taxes houses, coaches, salt, sugar, carrants, beer, wine, spielts, 1c
coffee. сосод and
tobacco.
Also on leather, soap, bricks, glass,
candies,
newmapers
advertisements, and
and
..for
the first time an income tax ... 28, in the pound,
Kiss Me, Sarge!
By H. C. Ferraby
from a Russian base like Vladivos- tok or a secret base in one of the isolated island groups off "the beat." Best of these groups would. be the Galapagos Islands. Best of these, old pirates' hide-out north-west
of Indefatigable, island of the group. This
central
the
is 800 miles from the Pacific en- trance to
nee to the Panama Canal, and would give U-boats a nice line of British traffe using the canal.
Right that would be the plan.. But there are five sound reasons why the Navy won't have to waste lime dropping depth charges in the Pacific:
(1) No U-boat could get there from Germany without refuelling at least once. Their action radius, Is 7,000 miles: Hellgoland to Ga-
By Monica Dickens tapagos is about 12,000. So they'd
Slo- ope-Wait for it, Wait for it, you” (Sorry, the rest of this sentence is blue- pencilled.)
"SHOULDER-Ilipe!
But you all know it's only the Sorge's fun. That's just the way he goes on.
But do you know how he goes on after hours at that haunt of Pavilion at revellers, the Pler block- Epropo
Southpool?
That was not the only enduring
Innovation. Nelson's
ado having out all
off from cano-sugar supplies, Napoleon-set the beet-sugar Industry going for the first -Umer-
Our skill at snapping
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210 de-
French colonial bases prived their navy of supply centres, do'ihey 'were driven to discover for the first time ways of bottling fresh fruit. and vegetables.
Our population was then twenty- olgut millions and the national revenue was thirty- seven million pounds.
TUIE CRIMEAN WAR cost
sevenly million pounds, of which thirty-four werb added to the debt.
por nothing whatever out of It. But it brought in two in-
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"I know," he says to his part- ner, his arm, by the way, resting like a band of steel against her ribs, know that your name is. Gaye, and that your hair is the colour of ripe corn at sunset, and your eyes are dusic as pansics...." For further information about the Sargo with the steady grey eyes and the square jaw, and the girl with the sapphire-blue eyes, dark with pain, see Love's Revelry by Lewis Cox (Hutchinson: Bs. 3d.)
It's over to topleal, you see, because all tho fell va are in uniform, and do no`end of tak- ing on and putting off of Service gun-musk bigs.
In between there's a girl who's In love with awill-o-the-wisp mun, but he is her In. the "excuse me dance for a girl who perox«* ides her hair.
be wanting to refuel in the South Atlantic on the latitude of Monte- video and British patrols are re- markably active round there, as we know from the fate of the Graf Spee and the capture of many Ger- man merchantmen.
(2) They would need a ship on the spot properly equipped by a floating dockyard--otherwise the U-boats would certainly be laid up for want of a major overhaul. And
most of the neutral part authori ties In South America, and att those in North America, are too widenwake to let such a ship leave harbour.
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(3) The passage found Cupc Even Horn is a terrible journey.
landsman who sees the sea three times in a lifetime knows what the And storms are like down there. even bold U-boat commander might well jib at the order to take a-150-ton Diesel-driven vessel- through the Magellan.
(4) In-host look the passage through the Panama Canal (as it legally could do) the whole secrety value would be lost: with it any chance of surprise attacks in the Pacific.
U- If dismantled parts of (5) boats went by train to Viodivostok (the only available port on the Asiatic coast, and that only by and kind permission of Stalin> were reassembled there, the U- boats would have the following routes of action;-
ships
(a) To British merchant off Hongkong-2325 miles.
(b) To the routes around fiono- tulu-3,703 miles.
(ε) Το miles.
Galapagos base---8,370
It doesn't seem a very likely pro- position.
The way to a lovely body
To manage well your pleasing curves.
You must have poise and steady nerven
An agile body-well controlled-
Is worth to you in weight in gold.
Though, not the sort of weight. Indred. Possessed by podgy Belly Bead.) So here's an exercise will serve
For steadying control of nerve. For beauty and utility. For balance and agilly.
Swing right arm up and right" og "back. Now' touch the door with tell band and hold yourselľ endy with riztat arm and leg. La straight line.
A
Stand up again and try with left arm and leg raised.
by Dorothy Cooke
assaults.
We find these tactles, but on a mechanised level, closely applied -by-the-Germans-in-their-Polish campaign last September,
the
An advanced guard of airplanes was sent out 50 and more miles ahead of the advancing mechanised at the Polish columns to strike
communications, supply centres, reserves and cominand, just as
in 1918, within a few miles, they struck at the field works, com- munications and reserves in enemy's entrenched zone.
This advanced
was Im- Bord mediately followed by mobile forces largely consisting of tanks which replacing the 1018 shock
unencumbered by infantry,, moved forward at lop speed and, under Cover
af 'the confusion created by the air attack, felt out weak points, penetrated them, and then threw the enemy rear into disorder and panic.
In
their turn these armoured shock troops were followed by motorised infantry, who were rushed up to exploit or to occupy.
In these tactics the points of In- terest were:
(1) No predetermined objec lives seem to have been laid down.
(2)—Ulmost-speed-was-sought. in order that the tanks might as soon as possible exploit the air re- sults.
(3) While aircraft cleared the the and reconnoitred for Woy lanks, in turn the tanks cleared the way for the infantry and upset the enemy's anti-aircraft defence.
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THESE tactics are at this moment
being applied In France.
Whether they will provo as successful as in Poland is to be doubted, not only because the Germans are being met by tanks their own a great equal to
оп battle between moms 2,000 the two sides is now raging-but because, on account of its dykes, canals and rivers, as well as lis many villages and towns, France IN amoro difcuti country to operate in than Poland,
the
I have seen reports that Germans are using flame-throwing lanks. If this is so, these formid-
•able weapons should be ̃of ̈spečin“ value in town and vilinge fighting. By selling the ground floors of houses on Bre, they will be able to smoke out the upper storeys as if they were hives of bees.
In this battle now being fought, tank success is likely to depend more on numbers than on speed, because in so restricted an arca the gpenter the number engaged the less likely are anti-tanic wea pons to stop them.
But it is important to reallsc this: that unless the Germans pos- Bess a totally now weapon or a totally new method of attack, it is unlikely in any attack against the Maginot Line that they will repent our victory at Cambral,
Uberov. Sieprints Court-
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