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A New Alexander
by
Charles Foley
A NEW Alexander has
astonished the world and brought new laurels to Greece.
Italy's humiliation in the Greek mountains is due above all to Lieut-General Alexander Papagos, who ished look that only white aldo-in-Chief of the Greek forces was appointed Commander-
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In spite of his family name there is nothing of the |patriarch about this sinewy,
handsome soldier.
He received his advanced training in the Ecole de Guerre, the French Staff College, which overlooks the "Field of Mara" in Paris. Here Foch lectured when the century was young,
A cavalry captain in the Balkan wars, Papagos was pro- moted in 1914 to command a brigade. His age was twenty- eight.
BROOK-At the Queen Mary Hospi- tal yesterday, Joshua Brook, at the age of 56 years, the Cortege will leave. Auderson's Funeral Parlour at 5 p.m. to-day passing the Monument at 5.35 p.m.
The Greek warrior king Con- stantine made him his right- MAY.-At the Maluda
Hongkong,
Hospital, hand man. They rode victori- Thursday, 23rd January, Annie ously against the Turks in 1921, May, widow of the late George deep into Anatolia. Papagos Thomas May, in her B8th year. Funeral will pass the Monument called for a halt; the king at 5 p.m. to-day.
cried "Forward!" Greece suf- fered a devastating defeat.
at 7.15
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WHITE-AL the War Memorial Nursing Home, on the 24th Inst., to Margaret, wife of G. A. Wille, a son, Timothy Peter.
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When Constantine was exiled Papagos kept his royalist faith burning high. In 1935 he went to London to ask, in the name
of the Greek Army, that Constantinc'a son, George II, of the Hellenes, 'should return to the throne of his fathera,
Like King George,
Papa: PAPAGOS gos has always
January 24, 1941.
THERE'S ONLY ONE TOPIC...
REPRISALS?
PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P.,
answers the question of the moment with an emphatic-
"Mr. Churchill came hisself to our street, And when he saw what they'd done to our homes, big tears,oiled dow his checks, and he said: They'll get the same; they'll get the same. But next day we read that our boys had been over Berlin, and they hadn't dropped no bombs, You don't know what to think, you don't really.”.
I was a another from the. East End, taking her little girl to safety by a Scotch express. She wanted the mothers and children of Berlin to be bombed, as she was bombed
Because they had not been bombed, she proceeded to express what in Japan are known as "dan-
thoughts" -thoughts
EG
to a protest in which sturdy en- couragement was mingled with plain reproof.
under the provisions of the Telecommual been an admirer of British in-dangerous that they moved a Cana bears the indication "up" is received ta stitutions, and he has his own dian sergeant in the other corner Hongkong on the date of publication by ideas about the Italians. the United Press Associations, who re- -karya-kil-rights-and-forbid-republications,In 1936 he vowed that Greece either wholly or in part without previous would do her duty against Italy if the Abyssinian campaign led to general war.
arrangement.
You must not see in him a challenging adven- He learned in Paris to
"I Can't Forget
weapon then, can we not how use the weapon of random, indiscriminate bombing by whlelt Hitler hopes to beat us down?
Of course, we can. And, if we did, no- one could say that wo had been gulity of a legal wrong.
Ifitter lias smashed every fast remnant of the Laws of War; our hands are required to bring his manatrons opgrek. free to take whatever measures are
sions to an end.
But if we did resort to random bombing. I bellere we should commit the gravest, blunder of all this blundering war,
I believe should do more to pro- long the war, perhaps to imperli victory, than If we lost another great campaign,
The People's Part We all know that, if we win, it win bo when the war has become, like the
Napolconic struggle, a war of Euro- pean Revolution against conquest and
tyranny.
In that revolution the German people
-must play their partum,
At present, the whips and 'the machine-guns at the BB, men keep them helpless. But we know that even No-one who enw that little girl could in 1933, after he had been six weeks in fall to understand the mother's feelings office, inter could not win a majority No-one who has followed Hitler's crimint the polls. nal campaigns, both against his oppon- We know that there are millions, tens ents in Germany and his neighbours of millions, of Cernians who hate the abread, can fall to see that sadistic cruelties of Hitler's prisons Wild the Terrorism against the defenceless and crimes of Hitler's wars., the weak is jais favourite weapon.
The day will come when our Päih Column in Germany may comprise not only all the German workers," but tha
regard war as a science; he up- plied this knowledge to the favour of reprisals, now admit that he majority of the German nation as a defensive needs of Greece, re- organising the army, pushing on
BRITAIN'S TRADE
Although Sir Arthur Salter, reckless, Parliamentary Secretary to the turer. Ministry of Shipping, recently stated that it had been found necessary to sacrifice Britain's foreign trade to some extent, there is evidence to show that no
the flow of exports abroad, es- pecially to the United States whose dollars are needed to help
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He has proved it often to be a weapon of deadly power. Can we, ask those in
alone shall use 17
Must we be restrained by moral Nothing could so certainly retard scruples. by the old rules of interna- that day as tlio random bombing of tho
whole
Metaxas Line. the defensive works they call the tonal law, from adopting methods women and children of Berlin,
which he has used on us; methods by which, as many people think, we could quickly win the war?
Put like that, the question plainly pro vokes the answer: "No." But... I ahall never forget a sunny day in Apr,
Italy began her When treacherous attack' Papagos was ready. "We will write new and 1015. glorious pages in our history,"
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keeps the British war effort the last breath." moving. The convoys that carry aeroplanes, steel, guns and shells written to the confusion of The glorious pages have been to British ports do not return to Rome's would-be Caesar and to the American Continent in bal-the admiration of the world, last. On the contrary, they still which knew that Greece was continue to make their westward small and poor in war material, passage well laden with mer but did not realize she was so chandise for the United States rich and great in spirit. market and similar efforts are would not have appeared in New being made to keep the trade York assuring buyers of quick with South America flowing delivery of all orders. smoothly.
The necessity of maintaining Reports from New York and overseas trade is very thorough- other American cities show that ly recognised by the manufac- though Britain's trade may not turers in Britain and though be "as usual" it is novertheless Hongkong or other parts of the continuing. Christmas shoppers Empire may seem short in cer- found that British textiles, toys, tnin nccustomed commodities,: sweaters, gloves, shoes, etc. especially in non-essential goods, were plentiful amid an almost the United States and other total lack of goods from other countries able to carry on more European countries. Further or less normal trading facilities, more, a circular, dealing with the will not be allowed to suffer any woollen trade, stated that British lack. The samo determination tweeds for men and women are that sends Londoners to their available and will continue to be tally occupation no matter what so. The British woollen indus havoc the air raid of the night try is now under Government before has wrought is dominat- control but evidently the raw ng the unceasing effort to keep material is being fairly distri-up the flow of goods to the vital buted, otherwise the circular markets of the world.
Anti-Nazis
The German Army has won great vie tories. They were won, in part, by the vast numerical superiority of their bombers and their tanks.
I was driving up the road from They were won still mare by un Poperinghe to Ypres, when suddenly, dreamt-of treachery, and by an in- around a bend, French Colonial troops credible disregard of human fe, came running in twos and threes. They whether of friend or foe, hand thrown away their arms, and they But there is widespread witness that, were flying, in uncontrollable panic, when they are vigorously opposed, the morale of the German soldiers is not so from the line.
good as the morale of the Kaiser's
rat victims of the Kaiser's violation of They had been gassed: they were the
the Laws of War."
"We Can,' But
We all remember the fearful shock given to world.opinion by his use of this legal arm. Yet within two years the Allies were beating the German Army in the ure of patron gns.
Army a quarter of a century ago.
Many of them are anti-Nazi; among many of the rest there is no conviction that their cause is just, that they are fighting for the safety of their country, their families and their homes.
Nothing could so stiffen their morale as the random bombing of German towns,
Doth at home and in the Army, it If, in reprisals, we could we that would be the highest trump that
"ALL CLEAR"
By F. G. H. Salusbury
TUERE'S a red dawn rising whence the raidern fled, -
And brick dust thick upon a shattered beds There's a new world waking that the bombs lisya made, And one more morning for the Chan' Brigade, ---
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For the akies may thunder and the guns may roar, Bui brass wants cleaning on the affice door; There are Ngors want Washing in a thousand rooms, Aud someone's got to use the palls and brooms,
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Through the tong streets, haunted still by wild-eyed cals, Como staunch old bonnets greeting staunch old hater With a "What tuck, dearle?" and a "Can't complain," The Ma's of London take the field again,”
Though the Bun may Hiresten until alt bells freezo, It's only work will find Ma on her knees: And it goes like clockwork, after raid on raid, Does the "All Clar” given by the Chiara' Brigade,
NO!
Gochbels has been able to play for many a day,
And random bombing is, a form of war in which we chcu.d plio Hiter every possible advantage,
Working from Franca,, with their chort turn-round,” and, with their nâ- vantago in numbers, his aircraft crin drop a far:heavier weight of bomba lis Britain than we can send to Germany In reply.
At night, hi pilota cannot find their milltary targets; our pilota san and do. By random bombing we should sacrileo that immense technical ad-
vantage..
Wo know that, up to date, wo hara 'done incomparably greater military damage in Germany than he has done to us
We know that in London ka hòa wasted-yes, wasted-a vast proportion of his bombs.
Why should we imitate his example and do the same?
That argument is greatly strength- ened by the fact that Hitler may soon. ba running short of off."
Every expert Is Agreed that, no. Haa already begun to feel the pinch. It is __bis greatest weakness, Anil it in h mortal.
weakness.
The Best Targets
Without oil, not a single German air- craft can fly, not a submarina can put to sea, not a tailk or a gun cait tako ihe field.
Transport dificulties make it in- possible for Hitler to bring more than a imali proportion-of his requirements from Rumania. The other countries be has occupied produce no oll: wo have alopped their normal overseas supplies; they are an actual drain on his oll re sources,
Already, Hugh Dalton tells us, wa have bombed 80 per cent, or.his all re fineries and 90 per cent, of his plohta for making oil from 'edal.......
If we multiply the bombs, these rennerics and plants can be utterly ite- stroyed
Already we have set fire to many of his oil réservés; and we know that.oll tanks, once well alight, may burn for weeks They are the caálest 'of all far gets to And and his
With such targets at our 'mercy,it would be niter madness to bomb women and chlidren Instead,
Goering must be on his knees every night and morning praying to Tube- and Odin to strike us with this mund- ness.
An Abomination
Finally, whatever, we ourselves maɔ suffer, the bombing of women and chit- dren remains an abomination, which If we were guilty of it, all future genera tlona of our people would deplors.
Our plots hn.. done derai thứ him. been the wonder of the world. They have been inspired, at least in part. by. the cold anger.which they felt at the atrocities committed by the Nazi sirmen: In Holland, in Belgium and in France..
if we told thèm'now'ta commit there same atrocities in Germany. I Bellero they would think it not only a waste,. but a veritabla, prostitution, of their courage, their training and their skill.. I should not like to be the man who gave the order. and I hope, and I be Reve, that no such order, will be given.. either now or in the months to comb.
THE DANCING CENTENARIAN
Suffolk's oldest evacuce, Mr Wi- jlám Mintor. of Ipswich. sinn-danced rounil a cake with 100 candies at Leicester in celebration of his 100th birthday,
The dancing centenarian writer verno and entertains his friends with selections from murle-hall favourites.. He has four "great-grandsons in the Forces,