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Twenty-Four Years Ago
The Blitzkrieg Was Born
By General Sir Beauvoir de Lisle, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O.
N November 20, 1917, in ing by batteries had taken place, When, however, the mass of nd- bral, the tank as a weapon of vancing tanks could be heard, all our, war came into its own.
ortlilery opened with HE. and smoke to the Before this date, much scepticism shells, adding considerably on the part of the War Office and denseness of the fog. high military commanders existed as
the raise of the artillery barrage to its practical value.
The inventor had submitted his approach without the enemy being iden to the War Office and had falled aware of the unusual clatter.
Ohe venet 20% spend
A & B.Te the noisy tank to
to interest the department concerned The crossing of our trenches by the -but the
of brushwood First Lord of the help of the difeully, and the Admiralty, Mr Winston Churchill, was made with
surprise was complete Staff had re- upproved
the suggestion.
In fact, he was to confident of The German General
its value that he ordered a number ported to Ludendorff that the Hinden- of heavy tanks to be bullt at navy burg Line was Impregnable, and that no danger toy In the British tanks. expense.
enreer,
ily this order, he endangered his But the panie caused by these mon- aters, moving enajestically along both so great In order to maintain complete parapet and parodos, was
leading
divisions gulned the Recrecy, the first machines were that our shipped to France as "anks." The German position of the Ifindenburg name has been accepted with our Line, and its Support Line, with small
loss and little diMculty, furces to this day.
The tank ltd ro
into its own! come It was the answer to the devastat- It led the way to victory. And on that day in 1917, Hitler's mechanised Blitzkrieg was really born.
AT CAMBRAI
£1
.
Before November, 1017, few ing fire of the
the machine-gun.
tenks had been used in the latter part of the Battle of the Summe in Sep teenber, 1910, and during the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.
This triumph of the tank was so complete that it convinced the most
of the ptical of the value
weapon.
now
At Passchendaele the ground was quite unsuitable for innks owing to the wet state of the soil. The truth was that we did not then know how Much development was still neces- to use our new weapon.
sary, of course, for the pace of the Before the Cambrai Battle, how 1917 tank did not exceed 5 m.p.h., ever, the tactical employment of a and its petrol consumption Tank Division had been carefully enormous.
studied.
ed to
officers were select-
R.E.
and Mas Hugh Elles,
the then Brigades,
secrecy
WAR-WINNER
Was
On the other hand, its possibilities
(now General Sir Hugh Elles), was were so extensive that months were placed in command of this Division, spent by the French and ourselves in Many difliculties were met and the preparation of a mechanised force overcome. Of these the greatest was to enable the Entente to reach victory
in 1018. the
of compd. maintenance
Without detracting in any way in assembly the
on The next most important was how from the bravery of our forces, it is to enable the tank to cross the deep historically correct to say that the success of August 8, 1018, described and wide German trenches.
This second diffleulty was solved by Ludendorff as the disastrous day Germany was due to the ski-
for
on the roof a suns
by ench tank carthwood, which, fui employment of massed tanks.
large bundle of
Since the last war, much of the rolled together, had a diameter of
overwhelming value of the Tank has from four to five feet.
been overlooked by us and by the As the tank dipped into a trench, a
Military writers In its bolt was released and the bundle French.
as Major-General J. F. favour, such dropped, to give the nose of the tank C. Fuller and General
step on which it could rise over
have been looked upon as cranks. the parados.
This mistake was not made by the German General Staff, who provided The assembly of those 350 tanks many Tank Divisions to ensure the presented some dimculty, but in the success of the Butzkrieg a success end they were hidden in woods some they certainly aclieved on the Con- five miles behind the line. ~-
.tinent.
350 OF THEM
I
February 1, 1941.
I WANT A
SCHOOL-TIE
NEW
USED to be a school teacher.
To-day I am another kind by the Rev.
of teacher. So I have been
studying with special interest
the confusion into which Eduen W. Rowland
tion has been thrown by the
war,
I do not agree with those who demand that full courses of lessons must, instantly, and at all costs, be
for our organised population.
Keep them safe and well first es-
Jones
..
1 do not mean, of course, anything no silly na* that the buildings must be pulled down, or that the excel- Jent endowninents for education must be diverted into other chan-
But I do definitely mean that the. whole prep school- public-school structure na we know it, as a quite separate educational avenue planned on special lines for special people,
ourselves, a Christian nation..
ncattered chlid Vicar of Denton, Man-e Acropped if we want to call
chester, whose challeng-
Three Grades pecially as the kind of learning that ing articles in the pross would be thrust upon them is of are arousing widespread, Church ought to put it as boldly and
secondary importante.
"The Public Schools must go!" The
Better to learn on a form about favourablo response as boldly as that, rotation of crops then to learn in a throughout Britain, if they put it in any other way... school-room about reyal nonentities
auch, for example, ns in the phrase, where evidence of a vast "equal educational facilties for all of the past.
Much-Needed Reform
social change is notica-It will have little meaning for the
Colonel Blimps of our society. able while people of all
These easy gentlemen have no classes girt themselves doubt heard that half the students at Oxford go there with scholarships,
conclusion that the sons of poor men hove as much chance of getting there as the sons of rich men. notice that when Mr needs without which it is impossible
Our softened phrases lead these for anyone to attain to a position in Ernest Bevin announced recently which his abilities will be of best use gentlemen to think that all we need new Hlaison between his Ministry of to the community-it is un-Christian do is to tinker about with our pre- Labour and the Foreign Office, he added that the aim would be to for the rich to be able to purchase sent educational system, and all will
their children, whatever their be well. throw open the hitherto exclusive, abilities, a kind of education which You've got to stick n pin in them, Foreign Service to able men of all the poor can only hope for by the and make them sit up! classes?
rarest of chances."
That is why I want the Church That is the kind of reform that
One of my critics makes fun of to put it baldly and say, "The Public must be made to emerge from the me for referring a short while ag Schools must go!" For that is in- educational melting-pot.
to my Father's top-hat and my own deed what must happen if we are going on to call ourselves a Christian As a teacher and a clergyman I Juvenile Elon jacket. have no hesitation in saying that the
He says, "We know your typel democracy. system under which
young Your father was a snob, and you are people are at present educated is un- one of the old-school-tie gang!" Christian.
I even feel that if our whole system and join together to boat and from that they draw the wrong of education collapsed so far as to the blitzkrieg. Heed complete rebuilding. It would be a good, not a bad thing.
Did you
our
Many of our elementary teachers are fine Christians, and as a branch of the community have done their share nobly in bearing their burden at the difficulties of education in war days.
for
on to say that he is
"
He goes working miner.
By Chance
Here, then, is a Christian plan:- I want to 'see three grades of education in this land-Primary. Secondary and University or Techni- cal..
I want educntion to be free to all, and I wont the sons of the rich to
Well, my father was a miner when go to the same schools at the cons
he began life, and the only school of the poor. As we progress, of I ever rejoiced in was not a course, there will be no poor and
tie
They have my unstinted admira- lion for their patriotism and their school-tle at all, but a quaint school rich, if we are a Christian demo-
cap designed by the headmaster of cracy. faithfulness to their duty.
are
iny elementary school in St Pancras.
But I know they are called upon to work within rules which fundamentally un-Christian and I see that it was the merest chance magnate to rub shoulders with ench ought to be scrapped.
which got me a scholarship (there other in the Primary and in the happened to be a fow more given Secondary School.
I want to make it possible for the of a miner and the son of a Looking back on those schooldays, son
de Poor Man's Burden that year), and the merest chance I want them to be trained on the
At last, the day dawned. A thick Their tanks are able to cross rivers fog was all in favour of the attack, on their own. Fortunately for us, Although no artillery preparation and for the world, they are still un- had been allowed, some casual rang- able to cross the Channel...
THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
OR THE TWELVE
FIGURES OF REINCARNATION Frequently one meets with a It has been known, for some set of twelve figures with robed to falsify the time of their birth
1 Small High Explosive human bodies but with animal to the matchmakers that they
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Some regard it as lucky to sonts a year, and also two hours of each day. These periods are marry a woman one year older laid down in the Chinese calendar than themselves, for this will as "rat years", "cow years", usually put two animals together "tiger years" and so on. A man that would get on well, even if born in the year of, say the rat, would not caro
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GODS OF CHINA
they happen to be, a "dragon" and "snake”. This, however, cannot happen with the tiger, who is reckoned to upset almost
would eat the snake and the everything but another tiger. partnership would be disastrous. Instead of asking d'lady how Similarly in marriage, It is old she is, the polito Chinese often known for fortune, tellers question is "nay suk mo yo ga" to be called in before "the mar "to what zodiac sign do you riages are arranged to find out, belong?" The reply is am a not only the year, but often the raf". am a snake and so on. time of day in which the two Therefore the lody can often clip parties were born. Each figure 12 years off her age, yet still tell represents a two-hour period of the truth.NE the day, and 'one born between
(It has only been possible to
11 p.m. and I a.m. Is born under collect 10 figures for the purpose the 'rat" sign, and one born be of Illustration). tween 1 a.m, and 3 a.m. under
the 'cow" or "bull".
-Walter C. Clark,
which got me to a University.
same curriculum. Those rules lay down one form of I am convinced that in that, ele
When, they reach the age of eleven education for the rich and another 'mentary school there were scores of, or twelve,; it will be easy for us for the poor, and it is only by the boys who ought to have had the teachers to discover the lines upon merest chance that a poor boy can same chance.
which later education must run. leap the barriers.
A Gift of God
A system which denies those boys If your father a rich, it means the advantages of proper training Preparatory School, Public School must remain un-Christian so long as and University, quite regardless of such wrongs are maintained.
Perhaps the son of the miner will whether you can take advantage of
need the University education to be- such protracted education.
I know the Preparatory Schools come a Member of Parliament, and and the Public Schools. There are perhaps the son of the Mugnate will If your faller is poor, it means many excellent men working in never profit very much from any only the Elementary School, with a them.
thing except a limited technical training. bear the stigma of the training of an clementary school-fencher.
happy and as useful for the com- You have to be "Prep-school- munity, and as fit for life's services, public-school-university-to-bea as education-and-training can make
"
twenty-to-one chance of getting into But you can't get into them if you so be it. They must both be mude
a University.
Critics may Bay that this has {-nothing-to-do-with-Christianity...
They may say that Jesus never anywhere sald that it was wrong for
in them.
ne
them.
However good the men may bo Money must not be allowed to a man, if he had money, to spend it who teach in them-we remember enter into it. Education, is na much on the education of his son. Indeed, Mr Chips-the Public School system a gift of God as food or clothing; it seems a very Christian thing to exists to maintain class education, and just as there cannot be naked It makes boys think Uoy are a cut people in a Christian land, so there above the common herd.
must not be men and women who
want to do.
Top Hat and Tiet encourages clans-contelousness are Ignorant and half-trained.
That may be, but this is point:-
a kind which politicians very A Christian country will see that my rarely condemn, but which is just the best of their brains and the
Anest us poisonous as every brand of that skill of their hands are brought to detested thing must be,
that perfection, through education And so I say it is a Christian thing and training, which will make them Schools into complete men and women, as
In our society to-day, with all its vast resources-a society in which to declare, education, and technical training are must go!"
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