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CONSIDER THE
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It will be interesting 10 compare Japan's lockade with Great Britain's, and see how far they resemide on another and wherein They differ, both as regards their incidence and their results.
The Japanese blockade stretchen from Shanghaik- wan, where the Great Wall enters the sen, to Haiphong.
distance of 2.000 miles measured along the steamship route down the China cast: the British blockade reaches from the North Cape inside the Arctic Circle round the Arctic Circle round the Al- lantic coast of Europe and through the Mediterranean to Haifa, a distance of 6,000 miles. Thus both navles have a formidable length of const- line to watch
Asia To Europe
Beyond that stark fact, there is no possible compari- son; the task of the mightier British navy is incomparably more difficult.
It is not merely that the is far more European coust
complicated and hazardous than the China const, it is not that Dictator Europe has a navy of Horts, whereas China has none, and cannot build one because she has not a single scaport but Japan has large armies operating on the China coast 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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It we campure the areas under blockade, we find that Europe, ex- hading Rasma, has an area of, ta rotanul muthibers. 1,610,000 square miles, about half of which (203,459
is enemy territory square miles) However, for Trockne purposes, all Europe is under control
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China proper, romprising the 18 provinces, has an area of just un- der
Jare 4,300,000
miles, of which about a quarter is uneasily There are a dozen overland
uccupied by Jupan While the routes from Asia into Europe
blockade of this huge territory is over which Great Britain has
thorough as the blockade control-through Mur-
Europe, its efferts are less felt in mansk, or via the Trans- proportion, as China is less delf- Siberian railway,
cately organised. the the Turk-Sib railway and Caspian Sea, and others. But Boon as Japan had, by diplomatic pressure, stopped the passage of arms to China by the French railway from Haiphong, and similarly closed the Burina Road, she had almost completely cut off. China's land communications with the outside world.
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Although there are several over- land routes into China from the south and west one runs cost- wards from Mandalay to Kengtung for example on the Chinese side of the frontler they are too primi- Live to be of use because
com- munications inside China have only of late yours been developed beyond the horse-and-cart stage, One possible motor road remains oper, that through Russlon Central Aala into north-west China.
China's Resources While Britain does not control the overland routes into Europe
China, It true, cannot wild a ship or launch a ship. She is even more tied to the continent then la Nazi
Germany, with inanitely in- ferior 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-
mony,
Closed Burma Road
The Immediate situation for China is critical, The closing of the Burma Road marks the last move in the total blockada by Jz- pan. Though it is now the close
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morni duration. The
effect in bound to react unfavourably up-keep, so that by the end of the rains, in November, a deterioration will have set in
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Nolther China nor Japan showa the least inclination to make peace;
and it will be an awkward mo-- ment when Britain is asked to ro open the road. On the other hand,
in the situation in Europe has im- persex that will ease
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out to one another, or reaching fun stern motives of self-preser- vation, however little they approve of t another morally.
And there, sprawling arross the mother bonizon from sea to sen, hes Use great bulk of Russia, the tif-have between Europe 14 the Orient
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FUNNY SIDE UP
MATERNITY WARD
By Abner Dean
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ABNER DEAN
I'm just practicing
"I'm NOT nervous, I tell you.
walking baby to sleep!"
Precious As Exports Dover is Mastering
The DIE PAS of The Barakah blockade turns cluelty on the stop- Pake of all, of certain
ot all read my tra le sok angel ing Euge Mucha is fast is sresti in que, apare Cham, where
of economic jer Klend varjeÊ ̧y chave sind
may bean, Kround- Tak, tunt ful and many Blues satch
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Tutone have korist been cultivatori, 30 per cent
work! at.kamony comes from Chema and, nalike Germany,
fin, wolfram other tes
No amount of block- ande com deny her these.
Industrial Chon, inluding the ond and aon districts of the norths, and the great factory retrizes of Sharathan, Canton and Hankow immy lunds
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This meludes practically the fire bel-work of railways and the between the Five plaats Vangize and Yellow rivers. Sull more significant in the fact that In- Justn would supply those w
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between working! Germany and China as a result of the Continental binekide is logical la difeult to selleve physically Levnuse of the great distances to envered, in regions scantily populated: pulitically because Bussin the linchpitu of any mutual as
assistance pact. Russian end
Chinese Conflict in Central Asia, Russion and German interests in south-east Europe. In any event the streng thening of the Irons-Continental routes will take time, perhaps a generation, and the need is press- ing. That is why Hitler has been urging his elnima in tropical Africo, which is much nearer and might be expected to supply him until Asia 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, ugri- culturally rich China into the arms of industrially organised Europe, with Russia as liaison.
This is what is happening in Asia now. China is being drawn as by a magnet towards the Axla, 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 stiffer certain obvious consequences. Taking the long view, it was a profound mis- lake, for ilttle worth; nor is it too late to make amends to a valiant. country fighting for freedom.
the Enemy's Tricks
By L. D. HUNTER
T
O those of us who knew The Straits of Dover dur- our last period of disagree- ment with Germany the first mouths of this war presented a strange contrast,
We
From the early days of the had 1914-18 campaign been confronted with a Ger- man jenetration to the coast, with Nieuport-Bains, Some 20 miles, N.E. of the sorely- friet town of Dunkirk as the high-water mark of the enemy's advance, Dover sea forces were thus early re-
the conciled to presence of the enemy within of their gates. a few miles and took action accordingly.
permanent
Almost daily contact with shore batteries and surface ships was the order of those days, in addition to the opera- tions necessary for the block- ing of the Straits against enerny submarines. Although the air menace in all its mu- dern
aspects confronted Dover from the beginning of the present war, this last duty-prévention of submar- ine activity-was the princi- pal 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 area only began to come through during the weeks preceding the invasion of Holland' and Belgium.
Indeed, if reports are to be belleved, even to-day the sur- face forces of the enemy, are for the most part conspicuous by their absenco 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-boats.
Not that such
activities are in
But we
any way to br despised, nor are they rusy to counterakt. have heard of none of the specta- cular destroyer contats
with which Dover was a minh ngwe)- ated in the last war An veta- sional submarine hunt, eming in 4 kili, was the only event of ameni sharing the first seven ui right months of the war; If we except the ple the evacuations
Since May, however, there have been fuctory which have changed all that. Not only is the enemy once more upon the door-step, but atmont hus be entered the ball; at test he has created the impression of a desire to mount the stairs,
Under the constant menace of the air from buses brought unplen- santly close, and even-if the ex- perts are to be believed --of long- Tange bombardment from the Ger-, man-occupied courta across the street, In support of unwelcome enllers. Dover has had w rendjust, Its outlook on life in general in al runnner which seems alinost un- believable to veterans of the last war.
Barbed 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 mot, of course, by provision of offices un-. derground, where it is possible for the machinery to function' regard- less of whistle-blowing, sirens, und, gunfire. Underground, therefore, has coyly retired the army of "black-conted workers" necessary modern gar- to the servicing of rison and naval basomand even some of the militant ranks retire thither likewise in the intervals of their above-ground activities,
Opposition had to be cacoun- tered from some die-hards, and Diso from the high ofeers of the women's services, jealous for the of their charges thus and to something like trog-. lodyte existences, though it is acknowledged that means must be found for essential work to be con- Unued.
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