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THIS is a war of polli tical-military technique: Germany's military suc cesses have been made possible by her combina- tion of the political and the military weapon.
The political weapon is per- haps the more dangerous. It undermines the morale and de- fences of the selected victim. Only when it has done its foul. work do the tank and the bomber come on the scene.
Russia understood this technique
u long time ago. She tried to tell us about it,
their delegates to Moscow and the
WHAT OF RUSSIA NOW?
HONGKONG TELEGRAPHIOM June 17, 1940.
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WILLIAM SMYTH
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"Well, well, I always wondered what had become of Willie!”.
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TWO RAIDS ON MALTA
Civilian Killed
Eight" Injured »
MALTA, June 16 (Reuter),- Malta had the first of tivo air raids this morning at 8.16 a.m., the alarm lasting until 9.25 a.m.
Heavy ring was heard,
This was about the 28th raid since Tuesday morning.
There were two raids yesterday and „during the first on Valletta, four of fivo
hich explosive bombe dropped." Ons civilian was killed and
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General Dobble, Acting, Governor, yesterday broadcast to the people of Malta, expressing his admiration of their splendid behaviour.
Alexandria Raid ALEXANDRIA, June 10 (Reuter). Many of the city's population were
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Italian Submarine Sunk LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)A evening states that the tanker sunk report from Cairo states that three by the Italians which was reported Italian submarines have been sunk. to be Dutch, now turns out to have
One report says that during the at-been a Norwegian ship. tack on the British cruiser, Calypso, It was torpedoed without warning shells: struck and set on fire two by an Italian submarine. Italian submarines.
Further attacks have been made Norwegian Tankor Sunk : on enemy submarines in the Mediter- ALEXANDRIA, June 18 (Reuter).ranean with some probability of suc- -A naval communique issued this ceas,
THE new British Government has assumed a
When the Allies sent moro friendly attitude towards Russia. And Rus- question of guaranteeing Poland sia, disturbed by Nazi successes, is becoming loss and the Baltle states chung up, the friendly to Berlin.
Russians said in effect: "Since the
Nazis attack a country not openly
That the Allios and Russia
should reach a better understanding of one an within, we must guarantee coun- other's case may prove a vital factor as the
from without, but first of all from
tries against indirect as well as
direct aggression."
On these conditions Russin offer-
ed us a Mutual Aid Pact. But we tees. We did not believe in the
were then opposed to auch guaran-
Quislings and the Fifth Columin.
We had to wait until Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgiuni made it clear to us. Until the Meuse bridges were left intact for the enemy to cross over in their sensational drive towards the Channel Ports.
IN 1034 the Russians held inilltary manoeuvres nit Kiev. British and French milliary missions sus the Red Army use the ineties of the paratroops and in- iltration the very tacties wiich have given the Germans their ex- Iraordinary military sucesses. A Blm was made of those manoeuvres. It was shown London Lo audiences that included Iqurnalists, diplomats, military offiers and members of the Government..
I don't know what the British military mission reported to Lon- don about the Kiev manoeuvres, But a famous military writer who went with the mission and who also, saw the film in London said
to me: "These parachute troops
look very impressive, but in actupl war condillons not one of them would reach the ground alive. You can count them out as an important element in modern warfare, except perhaps for defence."
Now, perhaps, that expert gives an occasional anxious look towards the skies and recalls that summer's day in the Ukraine when his sceptical eye saw whole army descend from the blue. An army equipped for attack and Invasion. Not just collapsible bicycles-but sinall cars and light tanks strapped
to
the undercarriages of giant troop-carrying planes,
Stalin made his agreement with Hitler because he saw danger in the Fifth Column.. Russia had her Quistin Perhaps it is in a new light that we now recull the purge of the Red Army and Air Force.
At the time we only scoffed, and explained the Russian purges as being Stalin's oriental way of deal- ing with personal rivals. We were seether when we benul of intrigue treachery and sabotage in places,
Wrecked tralis, bilghted crops, poisoned tinned foodstuffs, smuggled assassins, Industrial **wreckers." To us at the time * they appeared fantastic. Do they appear quite so fantastte now? They never did to the Russian.
Stalin spared no mercy in deat- Ing with Russia's Fifth Column. But he was still afraid of what the. Fifth Column could do in the Allied' countries. When the Franco-Soviet pact was still in existence, the official Soviet newspaper "Izvestia" warned France that she had 30,000 Nazi agents on her soil.
CINCE then one of the most noted of French: Conserva- tive journalists, Henri de Kerillis, has confirmed In his book, "The Causes of War," the fact that Ger- man money poured Into France at the time of the Munich Aggrement and that newspapers and politicians were receiving fat subsidies from Berlin.
But still France did nothing about her Fifth Column. Stalin, believed that this Fifth Column was working to wreck the Franco- Soviet pact and to make an agree ment with Germany against the Soviet Union,
When, therefore, the Allles re-
struggle intensifies.
In this article à frank apologist for Stalin inter- prets Russia's attitude to the war and the events that led up to it. It will help you to look at cur ront history through another people's eyes..
jerled the Soviet terms for " Mutupi Air Purt, Stalin suspected the influence of the Fifth Column.
It seemed incredible to the Rus- stans that the Allies should have guaranteed Poland's integrity with- out taking the elementary step of planning how their help could reuch the Poles.
NOWING that Poland could not be effectively helped from the West the Russians were stricken with fear lest they should be committed to helping Poland only to find that as soon us the Red Army was locked in coni- bot with the German Army, the Fifth Column would see to it that England nxt France stayed out. The Russians smelt a trop and hurried to make a poet with Ger- many.
They even believed, and pointed to certain speeches made in Paris and in London, that there was a plot to switch the war over into an anti-Bolshevic crusade.
To-day the situation is changed. The Russians are again more dis- posed to see Germany as the real menuce to their interests. At first the Russians thought the
the
wor would last a long time; and they sought their own security in the hope that both skles would be too weak to do anything against them at the conclusion.
The phenomenal German ad- vance had, however, surprised and shaken them. A Germany that won quickly would be a menace ten times greater to them. Never- theless, they still believe that the Allies can win it given time to mobilise their resources.
At the beginning of the war Rus-. sla ostentatiously put her vast re- sources at the dispusal of Germuny, It was more important as a gesture than as practical help. But Stalin probably felt that as long as there was talk in England and France of Hitler being overthrown withlu Germany by a more moder- ate and more anti-Soviet clique, then it was in his Interest to main- tain the Hitler-Ribbentrop clique in power.
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Now Russia must see that we are fighting in earnest and that we can have no thought but that of destroying Nazi Germany. Conse- quently she may be more disposed to shift the bins her neutrality in our favour.
SHE
Us
HE could do this by helping instend, of Germany with supplies. There is, in fact, good reason to believe that Russian supplies to Germany have already began to dry up,
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The trade mission which Slr Stafford Cripps is to undertake to Moscow should be given every en- couragement.
Another job, too, could be tac- kled in Moscow. And that is to bring about a real rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. Such a rapprochement would make Italy think several times before making a move in the Mediterranean, With that possibility reduced and perhaps removed, our own Navy would be freer for operations where the danger la closer to our shores.
David Raymond.
Norway & Belgium ITALY DRAGS IN
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Although
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C'est la
Guerre
in a French Village
TO realise France's effort in this' war, one must visit o Freach village. I have just returned from one situated 00 miles south-west at Paris and connected to the nearest railway station (15 miles away) by coach. It took me and my luggage six hours to get to the
capital 1 guerrel" the peasants
exclaim with fatalistic resignation whenever new difficulties arise, but they manage to carry on despite regulations, restrictions, mobilisa- tion and the like.
In my village, the doctor has been called to the colours. His locum- tenens must also attend his own patients in a distant town, so he shares his time between the two practices. Thus sielatess has be come a luxury-and the villagers. keep healthy!
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The mechaniclan of the village is mobilised, so are also all the good cars, which were commandeered a week before the
war actually started. Only crenky veterans were allowed to remain. At first, the villagers
were chary of taking those out, bat as the weeks passed by, they acquired confidence. "C'est I guerre!" they sold, and the old erocks must have understood, for there has been, so far, no break- down that could not be
tockled successfully by the mechanician's wife and her young son aged 14, who carry on with the business.
The village plumber is gone, 100, and during the winter's severe frost there was not
house that conne
escaped burst
So the inhabitants pipe. must fetch their water from the one pump which is still acting, the other two pumps being out of order, They cannot be repaired until the Ironmonger, the only man whe understands them, comes home on leave.
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The mayor is a former, He lives five miles out, and as he is short of hands, he, au old servant and his three womenfolk (wife and two daughters) must between them do the work of eight men. He has no time to waste at the Town Hall on old pensioned-oft official has been commissioned by the mayor to do all the necessary work in his place and has been taught how to imitate the mayor's signature for all official documents.
"C'est la guerre!”
M. M. D.
Weather Reduces Air Activity
LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)-An] TIRANA, June 10 (UP)-Mus-Alt Ministry communique Issued lo- kong, Mr. D. G. E. Middelburg, said sollsi's puppet regime In Albania has day states that owing to adverse wea on Saturday that he had been in- formally aligned tecll with Italy. formed by his Government tempor-
ther conditions air activity has been arily resident in London that there Corporative Council tas unanimously hours.
The Albanian Superior Fascist greatly restricted during the last 24 existed in principle, solidarity with approved the Royal Decree, uniting Great Britain and Francs regarding Albania with Italy in the "struggle possible and although a number of
Efectivo bomber attacks were im Italy. The Consul-General for Bel against a common enemy."..." alum M. Henry Vonderstaaten and
fighter patrols were despatched no the Norwegian Consul, Mr. D. F. A. The first article of the Decree do- enemy aircraft were encountered. W. Wesman, said that they have not clares: "The Kingdom of Albania
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EXPLOITS of R.A.F. pilots have given a new significance to three common
words- "Spitfire," "Hurricane" and "Defiant." The words, on everybody's lips, suggest the world's deadliest fighter planes,
now
What of the men who-working patiently, modestly, quietly, in the background-designed them?
One of the famous trio, Reginald Joseph Mitchell, did not live to share the nation's pride in the child of his brain-the Vickers-Super- marine "Spire."
He was a dy-
ng man-and knew it when the plane went into mass production for the day when it would emerge victorious from action against over- whelming adds.
.
Mitchell, son of a printer at Han- ley, Staffs left school carly to begin his apprenticeship to neighbouring them of locomotive builders. At 21 he had poined the Vickers
- Supermarine Aviation Company, near Southampton. At 42 he was dead. By then he was a director of the company and its chief designer,
Intimate friends maintain that Mitchell's death--a severe loss to aeronautical selence—was hastened by overwork.
He allowed himself little sleep or He was happiest at his
draard; coat off and shirt-
sleeves rolled back; smoothing back the fair hair from his high fore- head; plotting and designing planes that would give their pilots the ins! ounce of striking power
and TANDARvrablilty; the utmost degree
of
No German fighter can meet Mitchell's Spitfire on level terms. It was the outcome of the last of his famous series of four Schneider Trophy winners-the one in which Flight-Lieut. (now Wing-Comman- der) G. H, Stainforth, RAF, at- tained a speed of 407.5
m.p.h."
Awaiting Death
THAT was in 1991. Four years earlier Mitchell had been awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's silver medal as designer of the Trophy winner in the Venice in- ternational contest,
Two months before his death, and with the Spilßre already a proved success; Mitchell was persuaded to
Accompanied by his wife undergo treatment for a disease which he knew to be Incurable. and a nurse, he How to a sanatorium in Vienna. There his worst fears were confrmed.
In June, 1937, he returned to his home in Southampton to await the inevitable. It came in his sleep,
His son, Gordon, has joined the considers itself at war with all Mr. Wong
-old firm, Yun-wu, yet been informed by their govern nations against which Italy Is at war director of the Commercial Press Sydney Comm, thao, fighter, l
managing Ltd., will speak on "The trend of able for the Hurricane
is modara Chinese Publication griechiot dognez and a director of that he understood that his Embassy | The Norwegian Consul, sald that Man's Ciób at the Bt. Francis Hotel The stress of wartime production",
tima meeting of the Hongkong Y's Hawker Aircraft Ltd, modi
*mento
The Belgian Consul-General-sald
present or future," altualed at Poltters.
In France and Foreign Office was hia Government was in London.
on Thursday, M
Reginald Joseph Mitchell did not live to share the nation's pride in hie Spitfire.
has made in a stranger to the Sur- biton Golf Club. His beautiful
home at Thames Ditton sees vay Uitle of hLn,
Born at Windsor 40 years ago, Canum showed an early interest i aviation. "1 was mucking about with model aeroplanes," he told
"almost as far back as I can retheraber.In 1911-he-was secre tary of the Windsor Model Auro- plane Club.
Britain selected his 21st birthday to declare war on Germany; that was in August, 1914. He was then in the curly stages of a 10 years' with the Martinsyde association Alreraft Works.
North's Defiant HE played a big part in design- ing the first British plane to al- It was tempt to fly the Atlantic. alloted by Frederick Raynham.
Camm is tall, dark, clean-slaven, of medium build and cheery dis position. Incidentally, he is among the hardest workers in the aircraft industry.
His only
child is 17-year-old Phyllis, promising student at the Kingston Art School.
The Defiant, two-seater fighter,
by was designed
John Dudley North. Born at Sydenham 47 years. ago, he has been designer-in-chief since 1917 to Boulton Paul Aircraft, Lid, "somewhere in the Midlands," Ho is also a director of the com- pany.
North is an outstanding person- ality in more senses than one. I would not like to guess his weight, but he is well over six feet tall. When at work-which is nearly always, for he eats and often sleeps in the factory-ho wears heavy, shell-rimmed glasses. He is fair and clean-shaven.
"Our Work!"
THE company's managing direr- tor, Herbert Strickland, told me the ather day that over since the Air Ministry announced the entry of the Deflant into action: against German planes, the workers hays. been puffing out thair chosts. Every nowspaper mention of the Defiant by cut out and pasted up on' the" walls "of workshops and canteens. And beneath the clipp. ings they write" exultantly FÖür Work!!!
"They're striving even harder than
before
said their possible, managing director. "I've never seen them so cheerful. They're not looking for: applause from the oul- Blde world; their one aim is to gat on with the job and turn out two Deflants where only one was pro duced before,"
Strickland is as proud of his
- workers-i
-as they are in their work.. "I'm only a newcomer to the air-
raft industry, ho told me, "and. the lads are all trained on the pre mises. Most of them have been drawn from the surrounding Black Country, where they had started... *-workers in the hollow-ware trade,"
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