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January 17, 1941.
The war has been switched, and now
It All Depends On The Navy
-by Captain-
Bernard Acworth, D.S.O., R.N.,
distinguished commentator on naval affairs.
world, the Eastern Mediter- ranean is a world battlefield, or, more accurately, a "battle-sen,' because victory or defent for either combatant turns on sea- power.
As far as can be foreseen al the moment, the enemy's stu- sen gates, Hitler's pendous plan for the overthrow To those who are un- these
dergoing trial by military victories on land of the British Empire, which the Buttle of Britain has failed bomb in London and cannot be consolidated.
to achieve, can, therefore, be other cities the war The Straits of Dover are summarised as follows:
The Outer War"
SECRET PACT BY THREE GENERALS
By Victor Schiff
|IT
TT is revealed now that when France was crumbling under Invasion, three French colonial generals agreed secretly to fight on with the British Empire.
These rebels, who communi- ented with each other over thou- sands of miles, wore:
General Catroux, the Gover- nor-General of Indo-China.
Two Gave Way
seems to be raging on in our hands, and will re-
General Nogues, in charge of all French forces in North their doorsteps, and the main so, but Gibraltar and Aden are threatened, if only heavy merchant ship verbally at present, and by overthrowing our sen control Tunisia);
The breaking of the blockade Africa (Morocco, Algeria and losses-no less than these two vital sea-gates at Gibraltar and Aden. If the
General Mittelhauser, who had Axis cannot win this victory in 195,000 tons last week- must be held..
what can most simply be de- succeeded Weygand in Syria as remind us that in the
If the Straits of Gibraltar seribed as "The Outer War," it C.-in-C. of the French Army in Atlantic, and round our were opened to enemy ships, ler's "New Order," no matter
cannot finally consolidate it-the Orient; and shores, the Battle of and closed to ours, the bloc- what successes it achieves with- Britain is not yet finally kade would be lifted, and in this ring. won, though we are get the war, for us, would be The land battles in Egypt will settle the fate of Alexandria, the ting the better of it.
Indeed, if the Axis, with Navy's main base in the Eastern Under such circumstances, the connivance of Spain,
Mediterranean. the Mediterranean seems a could establish control at attack on Egypt, and if his ment was General Nogues,
Mussolini is committed to an long way off, and to many the Straits of Gibraltar and armies are threatened with de- it might at first appear that Aden, our fleet in the East- feat he will be compelled to
General Mittelhauser, who had events in these distant lands
ern Mediterranean could not reinforce across the Mediter just assured General Wavel! that Hongkong Telegraph. and seas must be second in be indefinitely sustained, and ranean, which will give the Navy he would ignore the armistice of
importance to
events at might even be caught in a battle that might prove as de- and declared that he could not its opportunity of a great sea Compiegne, then got cold feet cisive on world history as Tra-possibly continue the fight alone in the Mediterranean if he was
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out of hand.
trap.
..
The first to give way-after much hesitation-to the pres sure from the French Govern-
Our Opportunities let down by Nogues.
But this is not in reality
So much for Gibraltar, falgar. so, and it is far to the South against which Hitler and and East where our great Mussolini are plotting. est dangers, and opportuni- though the nature of the ties, lie.
plot has not yet been re- vealed.
Hitler Knows
The third of the
three
Sully to rebels," General Catroux, stuck Should Italy be able seize. lands, the threat to Syris, and to his word.
+
He was dismissed by Vichy
escape arrest by his appointed
successor, Admiral Decoux..
He came to London to colla-
thus to Palestine, will be in- tensified because, with Turkey the United Press Associations, who re- It is true that a successful In the Eastern Mediter neutral, the dispatch of Italian-and had to leave the colony to
ranean the war, has flared German armies to Asia Minor either wholly or in part without previous invasion of this island-or,
what would be equally effec-up by Italy's attack on by sea will be facilitated. tive, its successful. blockade Grecce. This attack, though An attack on Palestine at the by U-boats would lose us ostensibly a wanton aggres- same time as we were repelling the war, as would the break- sion against another little an attack on Egypt would rive CALMLY and confidently the ing of civilian will-power by country, is in reality aimed us two fronts to defend simul as a mortal blow at Britain. taneously, and would strain our military resources to the utmost.
COLONY'S BUDGET
If
•
Hon. Mr H. R. Butters, the bomb raids. Colony's Financial Secretary, yesterday introduced before the But in all these three Legislative Council ย budget aspects of the Blitzkrieg, which, as an original estimate Hitler knows that he is fail--
Its object is to turn our covering a 12-month period, is ing, and that it is elsewhere armies out of Egypt and easily a record for Hongkong, he must try to compass the Palestine, and the Navy out The community faces_the_pros-defeat of the British Com- of what Mussolini has pre- pect of an expenditure of $62,monwealth-that is to say, maturely called "Mare Nos- 389,776 between April 1 this in the Mediterranean.
trum"-Our Sea. year and March 31, 1942, and an
If Graziani could defeat
Never before in our adven-
borate with General de Gaulle.
Against Laval
The story is told by "France," the French daily newspaper in London, and comes apparently from General Catroux's entour- age.
It gains interest in view of rumours about Nogue's reluc- tunce to support the second
The dangers facing Britain in the Eastern Mediterranean are great, but they are also the men- sure of our opportunities for a decisive victory over the Axis.
Victory or defeat depends nine maintenance of our capitulation of France now pre- own sen communications with,pared by Laval, and of the Axis and in, these narrow waters. drive in the direction of Syria. To meet De Gaulle, who had turous history has so much de- left for Africa when he arrived ended in so small an area on in London, General Cutroux had
Seto fly thousands of miles.
Their first dramatic meeting It is upon the Navy, undertook place in the Sahara desert, the good Providence of God, that at Fort-Lamy, the capital of the victory must chiefly depend,
Chad colony, which was the first * Editor's Note; - The foregoing to break away from Vichy. the remaining part of the deficit Hitler, as we must admit, would immensely complicate, article was written in the carly
slaper of the campaign in the Now both M. Eboue, Negro is to be met by increased war dominates the Continent of if it did not entirely pre- Mediterraneen, since when Britain's Governor of the Chad, and Europe, as did Napoleon, clude, the reinforcement of naval and military forces have scored General Catroux, are members decisive victories over the Italians of the National Council of De- One-fifth of the expenditure with his vast military war our Army in Palestine. both at sea and in the African de-
sert, thus breaking the plan of Aris fence appointed by General de
ther entertainment tax,
in-
envisaged deficit of $7,553,776 To understand clearly the which is to be met by various opportunities of decisive vic- our army in Egypt we means, including an increase in tory in the Mediterranean should lose the great Naval the rates of one per cent, fur- it may be well to outline base at Alexandria, and the creased estate duty and higher very briefly the salient fea- port of Suez at the North of duties on liquor, as well as new tures of the strategical the Red Sea. taxation on table waters. All situation at the present mo- The loss of Suez, even this, however, is only expected ment.
with Aden in our hands,
to produce about $4,000,000, and
Laxation.
war purposes, including locul
the triumph of British
power.
Emergency Mercantile Fleet For America
is to be devoted specifically to machine, but we remain do- While Italy threatens our strategy discussed by the author. Gaulle, civil and military defences, and minant at sea, and are thus position in Egypt, Germany a community gift of vessels able to blockade Europe, and Italy combined threaten valued at $6,220,000. The re-cutting off our enemies from our position in Palestine maining $50,000,000 constitutes the outside world, without which, at present, is power- domestic spending; for this, an which Germany and Italy fully buttressed by Turkey|
cannot live indefinitely. against attack from thị
North. Blockade Weapon
Turkey's action in the an Experimental Agricultural The blockade, slow work- near future is, therefore, station in the New Territories ing as it is, is our chief of awaited with anxious atten- with the avowed object of im-fensive weapon, and it is the tion. proving the nutrition of the blockade which Hitler has Colony's population and at the
effort is being made to maintain progress in social services; an infectious disenses hospital is to be built; there is to be a Fisheries Research Station and
same time help to make the therefore vowed to raise. Colony more self-supporting; two new police stations are to
Battle-Sea
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Reuter).—President Roosevelt has formally asked Congress for authority to build a fleet of 200 merchant ships "on an emergency basis." He has also asked for an appropriation of $213,000,000 to cover the cost.
President Roosevelt made the re- quest in a message to Congress in
which he said, "I am convinced that Hoover On Powers
the national interests demand Im- mediate steps to be taken to provide United
The President's message added that emergency ship construction should
Of President
Should Turkey remain neutral, against the effect upon the It is exercised at the three
the Axis must "by-pass" Turkey States of a possible world shortage of be constructed to meet the cry-great sea-gates of Europe and attack our army in Pales. cargo vessele."
Wants Definition Drafted ing need for more effective Dover, Gibraltar. and Aden tine through Syria,
NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (Reuter) — police protection in Kowloon and, so long as we control
not be permitted to Interfere with the Mr Herbert Hoover, the former Pre- Tong and Wongnelcheng; and the
But this means that the at-long-range shipbuilding programme aident sent a letter to Mr Sol Bloom, vexed problem of nightsoll carrying
tack must be sea-borne, and which the United States Maritime Chairman of the House of Repre- and its present dangers of spreading which deserves commendation. At a hence the declaration of war on Commission was already pushing for sentatives Foreign Affairs Committeo disense, is to be solved by the work time when it is vitally necessary, to Greece by Italy in order, main- ward, nor with naval construction. to-day,
a definition of being taken over by the Sanitary strain every resource to assist in the ly, to obtain naval bases in the whether these new ships might be the Lease and Lend Bill and calling
Thero has been some speculation President Department. A new
Roosevelt's powers under Public Mortuary Empire's night for an enduring cause, is included in the programme, as well Government might well have been islands lying off the Dardanelles, lent to Britain or whether they will on the Committee to draft into the as a disinfecting station in Kowloon. excused if it had Ignored social Im which would control the en- replace existing ships which might be Bill "positive definitiona
of the Government subsidy of the Tung provements; that the authorities, as trance and exit to those Straits
transferred to Britain,
President and specifically to exclude Wah hospital
to be increased to the
the Hon. Mr Butters expressed it,
what they are not.”— $750,000, large sums of money are in preferred to try and steer middle through which oil and wheat can
Mr Hoover declares that such mellon be spent on an adequate cemetery course and have followed the golden flow.
would eliminate much for the Chinese in the New Terri mean of practicality as against the
controversy and bitterness,.. torles and, we are promised, several extremes of both ultra conservatism Also Mussolini covets, the Is- Inkhs will be spent on road main- and radical change", is both en-land of Crete, with its magni- he Royal Army Medical Corps was tenance and improvement.
couraging and consoling.
ficant harbour at Suda Bay, harged at Kowloon this morning
with having had carnal knowledge Gunboats For Nanking These then, are the provisions for Extra' taxation was inevitable, but which stands athwart the enor a Chinese girl without her consent the coming financial year: it will the end is for more important than trance to the Aegean Sea, ̧ : certainly not please everybody, but the means, and towards that end, it
a
in these abnormal times, it is a skli- is to be hoped, Hongkong will cheer- Once again, therefore, 06 ful effort to strike a happy medium fully make its contribution.
throughout the history of the
Soldier On Serious Charge
Private Frank 'Kenneth Jacobs of
yesterday; and also with indecent assault on the same girl.
The case was remanded for one week.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 (Router)- Two gunboats for the Nanking Gov ernment were launched yesterday at the Kiangnan Dockyard.