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A New Alexander
by Charles Foley
NEW Alexander, has astonished the world and brought new laurels to Greece.
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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 Mars" in Paris. Here Foch lectured when the century was young.
A cavalry captain in the Balkan wars, Papagos was pro-
BROOK:-At the Queen Mary Hospl-moted in 1914 to command a tal yesterday, Joshua Brook, at brigade.. His age was twenty- the age of 50 years, the Cortege eight.
will leave Anderson's Funeral
Parlour at 3 p.m. to-day passing The Greek warrior king Con- the Monument al 5.15 p.m. stantine made him his right- MAY-At the Matilda Hospital, hand man. They rode victori-
Hongkong, ut 7.15 p.m. on
Thursday, 23rd January, Annie ously against the Turks in 1921, May, widow of the late George deep into Anatolia. Papagos Thomas May, in her G8th year. Funeral will pass the Monument called for श halt; the king at.5 p.m. to-day.
cried "Forward!” Greece suf- fered a devastating defeat.
WHITE-At
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War Memorial] Nursing Home, on the 24th inst, to Margaret, wife of G. A. White, 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 Constantine's' son, George II, of the Hellenes, should return to the throne of his fathers:
Like King George, Papa- gos has always
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serve all rights and forbid republications, In 1986 he vowed that Grecce either wholly or in part without previous would do her duty against Italy if the Abyssinian campaign led to general war.
BRITAIN'S TRADE
January 24, 1941.
THERE'S ONLY ONE TOPIC...
REPRISALS?
PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P., answers the question of the moment with an emphatic-
weapon then, can we not now use the woupon of randum, indiscriminate bomising by which tier liepen to boat us down?
of
course, we can. And, if we did, no-
of a legal wrong.
"Mr. Churchill came hisself to our street. And when he saw what they'd done to our homes, big teura.oiled down his checks, and he said: They'll get the one could say that we had been guilty 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."
HE was a mother from the East End, taking her tilo girl to safety by a Scotch
Sht
the express.
wanted riothers and children of Berlin to be hombed, as she was bombed,
Because they had not been bombed, she proceeded to express dan- what in Japan are known as
Hitler has amastied every last remnant of the Laws of War: our banda aro free to take whatever measures are required to bring his monstrous nggris- slons to an end..
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Bat if we did resort to random bombing. I bellove we should commit the craven
of blunder
all, thi blundering war.
I believe in should 'de more to pro- long the war, perhaps to imperil victory, than if we leat another great campaign,
The People's Part
We nii know that, If we win, it will
gerous thoughts "thoughts o be when the war has become, ilke tão dangerous that they moved a Cana- Napoleonie struggle, a war of Euro dian sergeant in the other corner pean Revolution agatust conquest and to a protest in which sturdy en- couragement was mingled with plain reproof.
"I Can't Forget
the weak is his favourite weapon.
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tyranny.
In that revolution the German people _must_play_thele-part..
At present, the whips and 10 machine-guns of the 8.8, men keep them helpless. But we know that aven in 1933, after he had been six weeks in office, Hiller could not win a majority at the polla.
We know that there are millions, tena
of millions, of Germans who hate the éruelties of Hitlera prisons and the crimes of Hitler's warz
The day will come when our Fifth
· He has proved it often to bo weapon Column in Germany may comprise not
or deadly power. Can we, nak these in only all the German worker, but the favour of reprisals, now admit that be majority of the German nation as
alone shall úre 117
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No-one who saw that little girl could fall to understand the mothers feelings No-one who has followed Itier's crimi nal campaigns, both against his oppon- You must not see in him aents in Germany and his neighbours Although Sir Arthur Salter, reckless, challenging
adven-abroad, can fall to see that radiatie Parliamentary Secretary to the turer. He learned in Paris to errorism against the defenceless and Ministry of Shipping, recently regard war as a science; he ap- stated that it had been found plied this knowledge to the necessary to sacrifice Britain's defensive needs of Greece, re- foreign trade to some extent, organising the army, pushing on the defensive works they call the there is evidence to show that no Metaxas Line.
When Italy
began the flow of exports abroad, es- pecially to the United States treacherous attack Papagos was whose dollars are needed to help ready. "We will write new and SURPRISES - VISIT PARADISE!pay for the equipment that he cried. We will fight on to glorious pages in our history,"
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Must we be restrained by moral Nothing could so certainly retard scruples, by the old rules of interna. that day as the random hombing of the tional law, from adopting methods women and children of Berlin. which he has used on us: mellieds by which, as many people think, we could quickly win the war?
Put like that, the question plainly pro- rokes the answer: "No." But I shall never forget a sunny day in April,
1018.
Anti-Nazis
The German Army has won great viD- tories. They were won, in part, by the vast numerical superiority of their
bombers and their tanke.
They were won sili! more by un-
I was driving up the road from me running in twas and threes. They whether of friend or foed Peperinghe to Ypres, when suddenly, dreamt of treachery, and by an t- round u bend, French Colonial troops credible disregard of human ke
and thrown away their arms, and they were dying, in uncontrollable panic, from the line.
They had been gaased: they were the Arat victims of the Kaiser's violation of
the "Laws of War."
But there is widespread witness that, when they are vigorously opposed, the morale of the German soldiers is not so
good as the morale of the Kaiser's Army a quarter of a century ago.
keeps the British war effort the last breath." moving. The convoys that carry aeroplanes, steel, guns and shells to British ports do not return to the American Continent in bal- Inst. On the contrary, they still continue to make their westward small and poor in war material, his illegal arm. Yet within two years as the fandom bombing of German
The glorious pages have been written to the confusion of Rome's would-be Caesar and.to the admiration of the world, which knew that Greece was
passage well laden with mer. but did not realiso 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 buyors of quick with South America flowing delivery of all orders. smoothly.
Reports from New York and other American cities show that though Britain's trade may not
The necessity of maintaining overseas trade is very thorough- | ly recognised by the manufac-: turers in Britain and though
be "as usual" it is nevertheless Hongkong or other parts of the continuing. Christmas shoppers | Empire may seem short in cer- found that British textiles, toys, tain accustomed 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 truding facilities, more, a circular, dealing with the will not be allowed to suffer any woollen trade, stated that British Inck. The same determination, tweeds for men and women are that scnis Londoners to their available and will continue to be daily occupation no matter what 80. 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 rawing the unceasing effort to keep material is being fairly distri- up the flow of goods to the vital buted, otherwise the circular marketa of the world, -
"We Can, But
We all remember the fearful shock given to world opinion by his ute of
Many of them are anti-Nazi; among many of the rest there is no conviction that their cause la frist, that they are fighting for the safety of their country, their familles and their homes.
Nothing could sa`stiffen their morale
he Allies were beating the German (OWER. Army in the ure of volcan gas.
Both at home and in the Army, it If, in reprisals, wo could use that would be the highest trump that
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By F. G. H. Salusbury THERE'S a red dawn rising whence the raiders del,
And briek dust thick upon a sluttered bad: There's a new world waking that the bombe have madɛ, And one more morting for the Chars' Brigade.
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For the skies may thunder and the guns may roar, But brass wanis citaning on the oface door; There are Doors want washing in a thousand rooms, And someone's got to use the pails and brooms.
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Through the long streets, haunted stiff by wild-eyed cals, Come staunch old bonnets greeting staunch old hate: With Wine luck, dearte?" and a "Can't complain," The Ma's of London take the field again. }
Though the Ilan may threaten until all balls freese, It's anty work will find Bia on her knett: And it goes like, blockwork, after raid on raid, Does the All Clear” giyen by the Chirs' Brigade.
NO!
Goebbels has been able to play, for many a day, -
And random bombing is a form of war in which wu zhaud gl,o Hit.er every possible advantage.
Working tròn France, with theft short "turn-round,” and with their ad- vantage in numbers, tiis alreruit CAD drop a far heavier weight of bombs in Britain than we can send to Germany in reply.
Al night, his pilots dannet Änd their milliary targets; our pilots 'can and do. By random bombing we should sacrifice that immense technical ad- vintage.
Wo know that, up to date, we have dorio incomparably greater. millitary damage in Germany than he has duna LO US.
We know that in London be han wasted-yes. wasted-a vast proportion of his bomba,
Why should we imitate his example and do the same?
That argument is greatly strongth- ened by the fact that tiler may soon be running short of of
Every expert is agreed that he has already begun to feel the pinch. It is his greatest weakness, and it in a mortal ------weaktiez.----
The Best Targets
Without oil, not a single German air-. craft can fly, not a submarine can put to sea, not a tank or a gun can take the feld,
Transport: difficulties make it im possible for titler so bring more than a small proportion of his ̈requirements from Rumania. The other countries he has occupied produce no oll; we have stopped their normal overseas supplies: they are an actual drala on his oil re- Jources.
Already, Hugh Dalton tells us, we have bombed 80 per cent, of his oil re- Bneries and 50 per cent. of his plants for making oil from coal.
-If we multiply the bombs, these refineries and plants can be utterly de- stroyed.
already we have set fire to many of his oil reserves; and we know that oil tanka, once well alight, máy burn for weeks. They are the canlest of all tar- gota to find and bl. 2.. ··
With such targets at our mercy f would be ulter, madness to bomb wonitu aud children instead.
Gorring tuust be on tila knees every night and morning 'praying la Thor and Odia te sfriks un with this mad-" XICAR
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An Abomination Finally, whatever wa oursaires mas auffer, the 'bombing of women and chil dren rentains, an, abomination, which, If we were guilty of it, all future genera tions of our people would deplore.
Our pilots in.... done deeds that have been the wonder of the world. Thes have been inspired, at lexet: in part, by the cold anger which they fell at the atrocities committed by the Nari nirmen in Holland, in Belgium and in France.
If we told them now to commit these, Bame Atrocities in Germany, I bellevo they would think it not only a waste. but a veritable 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- ilove, that no such order will be given, either now or in the montha te pomo..
THE DANCING CENTENARIAN
Suffolk's oldest evacuee, Mr Wil» - Ham Minter, of Ipswichi. ston-tanced round a cake with 100 enndles ni Leicester in celebration of his '100th birthday.
The dancing contenarian writes verns and entertains his friends with colections from music-hall favourites, He has four great-grandsons, in the Forces,
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