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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 22, 1940.
By Walt Disney
DONALD DUCK
HERE'S YOUR CANVAS, SON! WHAT Y MAKIN”
A SAILE
WELL, WELL!
· MAKIN! YOUR OWN SAILBOAT, HUH?
NOPE! GARDEN!
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DONALD DUCK
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WILL NAZIS INVADE
IRELAND?
THE occupids on further are to the vast cirports and
THE Nazi occupation of the Western French ports and
tegle points Hitler attempts to draw round Great Britain. Two more points are required-Iceland and Ireland.
Iceland we have occupied.
It is quite possible that Hit- ler will make a serious at. tempt to dislodge our forces from that point. by tactlen similar to those employed in Norway.
We must be prepared for a sudden naval-alr attempt in some force upon that North- ern base. And it is not be.
yond the bounds of possibility for him to try similar tactica upon the Shetland Isles.
IRELAND, however, is the most
urgent and vastly more impor tant question, for Ireland, strange as it may seem, offers to the dar ing and ruthless invader a far săn- pler problem than Iceland or the East C
Const. We must not, there- fore, allow the German occupation
and the proximity of the French parts to blackmail us into concen- trating everything against the ad. mittedly seriou threat of direct invasion of Britain vis the Enst Coast. It is highly likely that the German High Caminand hope to
we this East Coast threat as a colossal frint to draw our attention from our Western Coast.
Ireland offers Hitler a first-class opportunity for the politico-mill- lary strategy he has borrowed from Napoleon. Here are all the local Intrigues and party aquabbles which were exploited in Europe In the early nineteenth century, and more recently with such paralysing effect in Norway, Holland, Belgium
and France.
There is in
Ireland more than
the nucleus of a potentially power- ful Fifth Column. Many of the leaders, we are told, have been im- prisoned, but those left would offer a more powerful and ruthless gang as a spearhead for Hitler's inter- nal disruptive warfare than he has yet had in any country. Let us make no mistake about it: there are enough men still at liberty in Ireland thoroughly antagonistic to (1) Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (2) Mr. de Valera's own Government, to give the German military machine that vital hours during which it can move half-consolidated forward from base.
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Strategically a swift occupation of Ireland is possible. The tempt at a Nazi seaborne invasion is improbable. The distances would be too vast and any German prima- da would be subjected to an anni- hilating attack from the British and Allled Fleets and Air Forces. But Invasion by air is not such a re- mote possibility.
FROM bases in Brittany German
warpinnex can now fly direct to the centre of Ireland (400 miles) without crossing English territory.
Operating
bases a from ruch thousand Gernan troup planes (easily within the scope of the German Air Force) each trans- porting 20-40 men, light tanks or feld
King, and with each plane making two journeys in the course of a day, could thus dispose in Ire- land
hard-hitting. highly- striking mechanised
force at vari- ous points in the great plain which runs across the middle of Ireland.
From these points an army of the calibre of the present German army could falily easily take con- South- ern Ireland, could occupy: (1) The
consta ne Mountains to the Wicklow strip from the Mountains, including Dublin, and thus directly threaten Liverpool; (2) The south-eastern corner, In- cluding Cork and Queenstown, thus controlling the southern coast and
tom of the main
main railways of
Mourne
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I'm rocking junior to sleep!".
Mount Kina
The amall map above shows the mountains and railways of fre- land. The railway system takes full advantage of the
central plain. The map at left shot" the European coastline now in German brands and the
mark the possible mutes for at- tack
Great Britain and
Ireland.
threatening Britain's vital ports in the Bristol Channel: (5) Galway and Limerick on the west coast. From these three main areas the Nazis could dominate Southern Ireland in much the same manner as the occupation of Bergen, Trond- helm and Oslo dominated Southern Norway. As in Norway we should be left with the north.
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coume. there are terrific obstacles to such a plan, but there were similar difculties about Germany's Norwegian venture. Chiefly, it can be argued, Germany would be fighting far from home bases, but 400 miles is little to the modern bomber, which can continuously ferry men and sup piles brought from central Germani bases to Brittany overnight, to be sent on to Ireland before dawn. with little vulnerable large-scale massing of planes at any given time at bases in Brittany.
"German losses would undoubted- of chance ly be heavy, but the success, In view of the present de- fenceless state of Ireland, might persuade the Nazi war masters to take the risk.
They have always before them the overwhelming factor which emerged from the Norwegian cam- paign and later from the Invasion of Holland that it is virtually im- possible to dislodge a well-equip- ped invading force, complete with bombers and fighters, from air-
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fields and airporis which they had
taken.
In Ireland there are good afr- fields at Dublin, Belfast and Cork, With occupation of these airfields Germany would have strong post- tions for attacks upon the English ̈änd Scottish west consta and
defences against organising strong troops which would immediately be sent down from Northern Ire- land. (Here again the invaders would be well placed, for Ireland's railways run across the island, not down the Island as in England.)
CO arises the vltat question: have
we enough troops in Northern Ireland? We cannot once more allow delicate questions of neut- rally and ft technical infringe- ment to slow down our prepara- Lions into that letborgy which per- mited the Germans to invade and Tetain Norway.
one reason why they want pots and pans
MANY people have been puzzled to know why aluminium
pots and pans are wanted by the Government when mer- chants have large stacks of aluminium scrap which they have not been able to sell.
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It is because pols and kettles and saucepans are made of high-grade aluminium which when melted down and reclaimed is almost as good as virgin-aluminium.
Scrap in the hands of merchants mostly 'comes from broken-up mo- 'tor-cars-gear' cases,
Gulana, Italy, Dutch East Indies, and Russia.
Your gifts, which will
become high-grade aluminium seray, are -collected, in dumps la' your locality, then passed through the merchants, who grade them and take off handles and rivela ̧ which stumps.sicht aluminium.
not and is classed as low grade. There does not appear to be any shortage of aluminium, but the authorities are probably looking ahead and providing against a temporary drop in bauxite Imports owing to the cuiling off of suppiles from France,
and her Empire
FRANCE
produced about 18 per
cent. 'of
the world's supply, of bauxito-the clay or ore from which 'aluminium is obtained. Now thai la' at the mercy of Germany, which also gels supplies from Hun-. gacy and Jugoslavia.
* Other large producers are Bellich" Culans, the United States, Dutch
The broken-up articles are next sent to the refinery, where they are melled down into ingots, Little of the tensile strength is lost. But all aluminium is strengthened by small additions of other, metals,
The reclaliied aluminium, then roes. to the foundry: where it is converted into castings before be- Ing sent to the scroplane factories to via machined to very fine limits 'and-flied to Bghter of bomber,
Brest
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We have several good bases in Northern Ireland Northern Ire- land is responsible to HM." Coy- ernment. It Northern Ireland
feels its inde 10
threatened contingen- pre-
by remote but cies, then there is vent a well-equipped democratic army up to, or even over, 200,000 Troops being sent as a precaution- ary measure, and as we are told the Irish don't like the English there is no reason why this army shouldn't have quite a substantial proportion of Catholics:
Poles, French and Delgians. And 200,- 000 officers and men would bring Ireland quite a lot of trade.
But obviously it would be best If Ireland could prepare itself as a united body against the possibili- ties of invasion.
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Sea-
The Behind Them
Defeat! At odds from which the damned might flinch;
To have smashed 2672- counted hordes en- cased in steel;
To have made them pay ten deaths for every inch, And gashed them with a wound too deep to heal; To have hurled their legions flaming through the air, Five to our one, and kept the wide world free; Defeat! What phantom
bida the conqueror. stare
:
From that, cold brink, at Britain, and the sea. -ALFRED NOYES.
C. O. TO FIGHT
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"Now that the invasion of England seems imminent,” said Joseph F. Kelly, twenty-four, motor driver of Sandon street, Liverpool, at Liverpool Conscientious, Objectors Tribuna! I can very sorrowfully do nothing but offer my services in any capacity whatever.”
Kelly asked to be placed on the Imilliary register, and Judge E. C. Burgess ordered his name to be re- DW moved from the register of objectors.
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