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CONSIDER THE
TWO BLOCKADES
JAPAN is blockading China
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Britain is blockading Europe in the West That is a very significant fact
It means that the Eurasian continent is shut it from the work on three sides. Europe being geographically to mare thren the north-western pen inda of Asia
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Blockade Japanese strerte hew from Shanghaik- Great Wall wan where the enters the sex. to Haiphong. listame of 2,000 miles
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news ared along the steamship route down the China const the British blockade reaches from the North Cape inside the Arctie Circle round the
AL Arctic Circle round the lattie coud of Europe and through the Mediterranean to Haiti a distance of 3,000 miles. Thus both navies have a formidable length of cost- line to watch
Asia To Europe Beyond that stark fael, there is no possible compari- son; the task of the mightier British navy is incomparably more difficult.
It is not merely that the European coast is far more complicated and hazardous than the China coast, it is not that Dictalor Europe has a navy of sorts, whereas China has none, and cannot build one because she has not a single senport; but Japan has targe armies operating
the China const and mainland. There is no point where a ship could discharge cargo. with the hope of reaching the Chinese armies in the interi-
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There are a dozen overland routes from Asia into Europe over which Great Britain has no control-through Mur- mansk, or via the Trans- Siberian railway, or the Turk-Sib railway and the Caspian Sea, and others. But £15 soon as Japan had, by diplomatic pressure, stopped the passage of arms to China by the French, railway from Haiphong, and similarly closed the Burma Road, she had almost completely cut off China's land communicationa with the outside world.
Although there are several over- land routes into China from the south and west-one runs cast- words from Mandalay, to Kengtung for example-on the Chinese side of the frontier they are too primi- tive to be of
use because com- munications inside
China have only of late year been developed beyond the horse-and-cart stage. One possible' motor road remalas open, that through Russian Central -Asia... into "north-west China.
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While Britain does not control the overland routes into Europe.
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China, It is true, cannot build a ship or launch a ship. She is even mare tied to the continent than is Nazi Germany, with infinitely in- ferlor overland communications, Internal and external. Neverthe- less, it must not be forgotten that the land frontier open in her rear Is three times as long as the Euro- pean land frontier open to Ger- many,
Closed Burma Road
The immediate situation for China la critical. The closing
of
the Burma Road marks the last move in the total blockade by Ja- pan. Though it is now the close roads. within the season for dirt
is a real dan- monsoon hell, there ger that it has been closed for the duration. The
moral effect is bound to react unfavourably on up-keep, so that by the end of the rains, in November, a deterioration
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Neither China' nor Japan shows the least inclination to make peace; and it will be an awkward mo- ment when Britain is asked toʻ re- оред
the road. On the other hand,
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Treba land Cha in lustong the coal and sun disfræls of the north, and the gled
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those raw mates als of While Germany is most in need, especially nice, c conut, cotton, cutiber, tenk, tiz, bari These ako might resuch Germany on erlund va Chain
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Chinese Interests congbet in Central Ama, Russian and German interests in south-cust
Europe In any event the streng-
thening of the trans-Continental routes will take time, perhaps a generation, and the need is press- ing. That is why Hitler has bean urging his claims in tropical Africa, which in much nearer and might be expected to supply him until Asin is ready.
China And The Axis
The final outcome of the blockade must be to speed-up in every way trans-Continental communications by land and air, and to drive agri- culturally rich China into the arms of industrially organised Europe, with Russia as liaison.
This is what is happening in Asia
China now.
is being drawn as by n magnet towards the Axis. Nor would this paradoxical result make for improved relations between London and Tokyo. Taking the short view, Great Britain, with her hands full in the west, had to close the Burma Road or suffer certain obvious conséquences. Taking the long view, it was a profound mis- take, for little worth; nor is it too late to make amends to a valiant country, fighting for freedom.
the
Enemy's Tricks
By L. D. HUNTER
Ao those of us who knew
Not that such
activities are in any way to be despised, nor are they easy to counteract. Bul we have heard of none of the specta- color destroyer combats
with which Duver was so much associ- ales aled in the last
An octa- Sonal submarine hunt, ending in a kill, was the only event of ment during the final seven o right months of the war. if we except the cple of the evacuntsons. hund
the traits of Dover dur- last period of disagree ment with Germany the first months of this war presented a strange contrast.
From the early days of the 1914-18 campaign been confronted with a Ger man penetration to the const, with Nieuport-Bains,
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20 miles. N.E. of the sorely- tried town of Dunkirk as the high-water mark of the enemy's advance, Dover rea forces were thus early convided lo the permanent presence of the enemy within a few miles of their
Kates, and took action accordingly.
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Almost daily contact with shore batteries and surface ships was the order of those days, in addition to the opern- tions necessary for the block. ing of the Straits against enemy submarines. Although the air menace in all its mo. dern uspects confronted Dover from the beginning of the present war, this last duty-prevention of submar- ine activity was the princi- pul pre-occupation of the Command there during the winter of 1939 and the spring of 1940.
News of surface craft like- ly to menace the Dover aren only began to come through during the weeks preceding the invasion of Holland and Belgium.
. Indeed, if reports are to be believed, even, to-day the, sur- face forces of the enemy are for the most part conspicuous by their absence even since the Continental shores of the Channel were laid open to them, and would seem to have been principally used for the hit-and-run operations of motor torpedo-bonts.
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Since May, however, there have been factors which have changed all hint Not only is the enemy once more upon the door-step, but almust, has he entered the hall; ut least it has created the unpression of a desire to mount the stairs..
Under the constant menace ut the air from bases brought unplea- santly 'riose, and even-H the ex- perts are to be bellered--at long- range bombardment from the Ger-. man-occupled coasts Dcross the street, in support of unwelcome callers. Dover has had to readjust its outlook on life in general in a manner which scema almost un- bellevable to veterans of the last war.
Burbed wire entangle- ments, interspersed with pill- boxes and other precautions for the disillusionment of the enemy lie athwart our usual promenade, and the daily life of naval and military organ- isations has had to adapt it- self to the stern requirements of the sirens'. frequent wail- ing.
The problem
is being met, of course, by provision of offices un- derground, where it is possible for the machinery to function regard- less of whistle-blowing, sirens and gunfire. Underground,
the therefore, has coyly retired the
necessary to the servicing of a modern gar- rison and naval base and even some of the militant ranks retire thither likewise in the intervals of their above-ground activities..
Opposition had to be encoun tered from some die-hards, and also from the high officers of the women's services, jealous for the well-being of their charges thus condemned to something lite trog- lodyte existencer, though it is acknowledged that means must be found for essential work to be con-. tinued.
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