Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 29, 1940.
MAGAZINE
THIS WAR WON'T RUIN ENGLAND EITHER
TWO. things about which most experts agree are:
·That this war is the most expensive ever fought, and that we shall tall 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 us glanceo back at six Import- ant wars, including the Inst, see what they cost and how in wo paid for them and what way they still affect our ordinary everyday lives in 1940.
FIRST,
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MARLBOROUGH'S WAR. We fought from 1702 to 1714. It gave us Now- Hud- foundland, Gibraltar, son Bay and Minorca. We kept the first three and lost the fourth.
That war cost fifty million pounds.
We paid off thirty carried twenty over to National Debi
and the
f
We paid by tax of 28. an acre
an extra
on land, an
£nx оп
houses, graded according to
the_number_of_window. from 108, to £1.
Also by new taxes on salt, pepper.
and raisins,
and
novations: hospital
From a Girl Who Expects
To be Kissed
MEN are not a bad as they're od scorts of times by boon is
ed scores of men, about it.
nterses, both in military and civil life (Florence Nightingale
toda
the frat), and cigarettes; a convenient way to make cheap, home-made smokes In the field.
It was paid for by un extra 2d, un the income tax, which was
then down to 74., and by extra duties on sugar, tea, cafer and spirits.
The population was twenty-eight millons, the revenue sixty millions.
WAS
THE DOER 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 ale (due again to Britala'a blockade) and gliders to get round the pesoo treaty pro- visions against German planes,
re-
The population is now, forty-one million... the national успие nine hundred and forty-two millions.
and
NOW, with
spices steeper duties on beer, wine, spirits, tea, cocoa, coffee and tariffs on tobacco, and by tobacco, foreign timber and coals.
We also paid and are still paying'
by stamp duties.
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That war introduced us to port wine, which we Imported at preferential rates to bring Portugal in on our side, with the result that six genera Lions of Englishmen got gout from drinking too much of from It, over-doctored.
It also established the two-party system by selling up a Whig (War) and a Tory (Peace) party.
The population was then six mil- Ilon people; the national revenue ЗУТЬЯ six milliori pounds.
UR next Important war was
the SEVEN-YEARS WAR-to. check the combination of France
niki Austria, then the most powerful countries in Europe,
We paid for that war, which gave us Canada and India, simply by putting an extra penny on every pot of beer.
It cost eighty-two million pounds, and sixty were carried to the National Debt.
The chief social change was z
lime juice, Ships' "crews, sea for long periods with- out fresh fruit or vegetables, used to suffer from sourvy, which caused thousands of deaths.
When they got to the West Indies they recovered on drinking the there.
Juice of the lemons
So the Admiralty, imagining that
there was no difference
the curative properties
limes
In
of
and lemons, ordered
every ship to carry provisions
of lime juice.
It did no good to the scurvy, but it Introduced a new drink to Britain
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Our population when
Üle
war
the wars I have enumerated and the wars I have not, Britain has, in the lit 240 years, gone through seventy
years of war and 170 years of peace, rather less than one year's war to every two years' Deace. Yet during that time, so
so far from being ruined on ten distinct occasions, she has multiplied her population by about eight and increased her national revenue 150
times over. You'll notice that after every
war both always advanced. And that revenue has not been by Awollen
taxes that crushed the people, since the standard of living дусгоде has certainly advanced by at Icant 500 per. cent. since 1700,
After the last, the most ruinous of
all our wars, the male rate
· of wages' increased. 200 per ceat., the female 190 per coat.
– Of course, flat was not because of the wars, but in spile of them.
I am not saying the Improvement would not have been much freater without.
I am only saying that we have always dutstripped the effects
of past wars, so it is not in- evitable that
We shall bo ruled by this one.
George Edinger
and I'm sure I'm pleased
It does things to my self-con- Adence. That's why I like klases, They're such a topic.
I'm fit and alive and happy.
usually
But if I get a bout of the blues they're never so bad that I can't he kissed into smiles again.
I'm lucky that I don't have to 'search the world for someone to do it. Someone who will kins and ride away maybe. I don't Not even if he tells!
caro.
Maybe you think I'm wrong.... but I've got the right intentions.
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 plek of the bunch-that's why I'll keep on Ilking him.
I've sampled the lot and I know the truth about "thrillers."*
Handsome men don't deliver the most exciting kisses.
That'll save me plaing for close- ups with any Adonis who comes along.
In fact, the odils are, I'll marry an ugly man. The Romeo breed are usually all promise and fulfliment.
no
They look good but they don't feel it. 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 act grand they are! They only with women.
I ilke the simple things.· Like reat kisses--and real love. And I'll know both when I meet them,
I make my lipstick work for me. My cosmetics lock pretty because I am determined one day to sit pretty with the right husband, the -right-home,-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 ty
I learned about kissing in my nursery school. Postman's Knock and Kiss in the Ring are the best
the world has
ever
катся covered.
وات
And I'm going to go on playing them. JOAN.
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THE TANKS IN BATTLE
By Maj. General J.F.C. FULLER
Formerly Chief General Staff Officer of Tank Corps
THE tank is a small mobile 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 Inca, in Flanders.
When, on September 15, 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 only half-cooked, but fre- 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 lie out- break of this war its development has been rapid:
(1) Speed
was vastly in- creased, rising from four to forty milles an hour.
(2) Then, because of the in- troduction of anti-tank weapons, greater tisickness of armour had to be added, which in its turn reduced speed.
So u mean between speed and armour was sought after by con-
structing various types of tanks light, medium and heavy; the first, lightly armoured and very fast; the second, more heavily armoured and slower; and the third slower still, but in some arinies protected by much дя three inches of armoured platė,'..
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Further still, an anti-anti-tanic 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.
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„Somewhere in between come_the_ German school. This school also set out to develop an intimate tholics between tanks and aircraft on the lines introduced by our own Tank Corps during the final stages of the last war.
Now let us turn to the tank soldier-the fighting mechanic, typical warrior of our machine agc.
He has to be more a man of ulta than anything else; for, strange as li may seem, so Hitle doca tank soldier in battlo realise what is taking place out- sido his machine that dangers affect his uerves 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 tinder heavy fire 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 wits are needed to comply with them intelligently.
In general, a tank force operates mnden as a lifeet would in a seu scattered with innumerable shoals and islands; for the tanks, these are the areas they cannot cross, such as mountains, steep hills, thick woods, swamps and rivers.
Protected by the light tanks, the medium tanks follow, covered by the close-support machines, which arc ever ready to destroy or frustrate the enemy's anti-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 wor.
In 1918, under cover of low- Aylog alreraft, 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
the shock trench;
troops dis- covered weak points
and penc-
trated, and the non-shock units exploited these penetrations,
These tactics were very success- than the
LLTMthese" various developments ~~ tul ̄and for less costly
led to two schools of thought for the use of tanks. They may be called the cavalry-minded and -the-infantry-minded.
The cavalry-minded veered to- wards independent tank sellon; the infantry-minded belleved in co- operative action between tanks and Infantry. The first largely repre- sented the British point of view: the second the French,
"U-boats in the Pacific”-is
there anything in it?
NOW what's all this we hear
about U-boats operating in the Pacific? Is it likely to come truc, or is it just another stage in Goeb- bele's war of nerves propaganda?
First of all-where would the U-boats work from? Germany
has not owned any Pacific territory suitable for a U-bout base since 1910: so craft could only operate
began was six millions and Book of the Weok
a half, the national revenue
was eight million pounds.
THE NAPOLEONIC WAN lasted
twenty-one
years.
It
Cape Colony, Ceylon,
Malta,
British
Trinidad, Gulana, Mauritius and the
Seychelles.
The cost was eight hundred and thirty millions, of which 620 were added to the debt. Payment was made by a 4a. FLEI
land tax, taxes houses, coaches, salt, Kuear, currants, beer, wine, spirits, ica, calfee cocoa and tobacco.
candles,
On
Kiss Me, Sarge!
By H. C. Ferraby most of the neutral port authori-
Ues in South America, and alt from a Russian base like Vludivos-those in North America, are too tok or a secret base in 'one of the wideawake to let such a ship Icave isolated island groups off "the harbour. beat," Best of these groups would be the Galapagos Islands. Best of these, an old pirates' hide-out north-west of Indefatigable, central island of the group. This is 800 miles from the Pacife en- trance to the Panama Canal, and would give U-boats nice line of British traffe using the canal.
Right: that would be the plan But there are Ave sound reasons
the
Navy won't have to waste ume dropping depth charges in the Pacific
(3) The passage round Cape Horn is a terrible journey. Even a landsman who sees the sen three the Imes in a lifelline knows what the storms are like down there. And even a bold U-boat commander might well jib at the order to take n750-ton Diesel driven vessel
(1) No U-boat could get there from Germany without refuelling at least once. Their neflon radius,
through the Magellan.
(4) Ir U-boat took the passage" through the Panama Canal (as it legally could do) the whole secrecy
value would be lost: with it any chance of surprise attacks in the Pacille,
(5) Ir dismantled parts of U- bonts went by train to Vladivostok
By Monica Dickenses: Helgoland to Ga- (the only available port on the
SHOULDER-Hipel Slo-
ope-Wait for it, Wait for it, you” (Sorry, the rest of this sentence is blue- pencilled.).
But you all know it's only the "Tor-Sarge's-fun-That's-just-tho-way-
Also on leather, soap, bricks, glass, newspapers and advertisements,” and the first Ume an income tax
... 28. in the pound. That was not the only enduring
innovation. Nelson's block. pão Having cút: all Europe off from cane-sugar supplies, Napoleon set the beet-sugar industry going for the first `lime.
tip
Our skill, at snapping
the French colonial bases do- prived their navy of supply centres, so they were driven to discover for the first time ways of bottling fresh fruit and vegetables. Our population was then twenty-
eight millions and national revenus was thirty- seven million pounds.
TE
the
CRIMEAN WAR Dont seventy million pounds,
of
which thirty-four were added to the deblum makan
We got nothing, whatever out of it. But it brought in two 'in-
he goes on.
But do you know how he goes on after hours at that haunt of rovellers, the Pler Pavilion Southpool?
At
know," he says to his part- ner, his arm, by the way, resting like a band of steel against her ribs,"I know that your name is Gaye, and that your hair is the colour of ripe corn at sunset, and your eyes are dark as pansles....
For further information about the Barge with the steady grey and the eyes and the square
girl with the sapni eyes, dark with pain, seo Love's Revelry by Lewis Cox (Hutchinson: Us. 3d.)
It's evor sa topical, you see, because all the fellows are la uniform,, and do no end of lake- Ing on and pulling off of Service 'gasṣmask bagu..
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In between there's a girl who's in love with a' will-o'-the-wisp man, but he Jills herdn the “excuse mo" dance for a. giri who perox- ider her hair,
about 12,000. So they'd be wanting to refuel in the South Atlantic on the latitude of Monte- video and British patrols are re- markably active rou
round there, as we from the fate of the Grat and the capture of many Ger- merchantinen.
(2) They would need a ship on
Asiatic
were
const, and that only by Ind permission of Stalin) and reassembled there, the U- boats would
would have the following routes of action:
(a) To British merchant shipa of Hongkong 2,325 mlies,
(b) To the routes around Hono- lulu-3,763 miles.
the spot properly equipped as a~~(c) To-Galapagos -base—1,370 floating dockyard-otherwise the
miles.
position.
U-boats would certainly be laid up It doesn't seem a very likely pro- for want of a major overhaul. And
The way to a lovely body
To manage well your pleasing curves.
You must have poise and leady derra
An agile body-well controlled-
Is worth to you Its weight in gold, (Though usi the sort of weight, indeed. Posielied by podzy Betty Beadi So here's an exercise—"twill serve. For steadying control of nerve. For beauty and utility.
For balance and agility.
and
Swing, right arm_ up right, feg "back. Now touch the door with lel("band and hold yourself “riendy
› right arm and leg. in
"straight line.
with
Stand up again, and, try with left kiym and leg raised.
by Dorothy Cooke
former head-on artillery-Infantry assaults.
but on a
We find these tactics applied.
mechanised level
their Polish
the Germans in by campaign last September,
An advanced guard of airplanes was sent out 50 and more miles ahead
of the advancing mechanised columns to strike at the Polish
communications,
centres, -reserves - and comm -just-as-in
1918, within a few
miles, they struck at the field works, com- munications and reserves in the enemy's entrenched zone.
forces
This advanced guard was im- mediately followed by mobile Jargely consisting of tanks which, replacing the 1918 shock troops, unencumbered by infantry, moved forward at top speed and, under
of cover
the confusion created by the air attack, felt out weak points, penetrated them, and then threw the enemy rear into disorder and pante.
In their turn these armoured shock troops were followed by motorised infantry, whe were rushed to exploit or to occupy.
up In these tactics the points of in- terest were:
Ne predetermined objec- tives seem to have been laid down.
(2) Ulinost speed was sought In order that the tanks might as soon as possible exploit the air re- sults.
(3) While aircraft cleared the why and reconnoilred for the tanks, in turn the tanks cleared the way for the Infantry and upset the enemy's anti-aircraft defence.
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THESE tactles are at this moment
being applled in France.
Whether loy will prove as 'nuvecasful as in Poland is to bo doubled, nol only because the Germans aró being met by tanks equal to their owna - great ́battle between some 2,000-on- the two sides is now raging-but because, on account of lis dykes. -canals and rivers, as well as lis many villages and towns, France is more difenit country to operate in ihan Poland.
I have seen reports that the Germans are using flame-throwing tanks. If this is
la so, these formid able weapons should be of
special value in town and village fighting. By setting the ground floors of houses on fire, they will be able to smoke out the upper storeys as if they were lilves, of beer,
In this battle now being fought, tanic success likely to depend more on numbers than on speed, because in so restricted an area the greater the number engaged the less likely are anti-tank wea- pons to stop them.
But it is important to realise this: that unless the Germans pos- Bess tolally new weapon or a totally new method of attack, It is unlikely in any attack against the Maginot Line that they will repeat our victory at Cambral,
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