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Mrs Gaskell's "Cranford" -is not, like "Pickwick" or
"Alice" or "The Visitors," n book which can supply an apt quotation for
conceivable every
circums- tance, says "The Times." The more noteworthy, then, is the topicality of its Chapter Five.
The chapter begins with small economies. In the reign of King William IV they were matters of taste, not of compulsion, er next door to it, as they are in 1940; for no war had come to strain the re- sources of the country. The old gentleman who took the failure of his bank with stoical mildness, but worried over the waste of the blank leaves over his now useless passbook, and always turned en- velopes (newfangled things then) Inside out and used them again, had no stern official warning to back his pel economy:
The narrator of "Cranford" con- fested that her faible was hoard- ing string, and that "sort of dein- tion of string" which she called 11 Indiarubber rint and we call on elastic
band. She hoarded
an
clastic band for nearly six years and never learned that it must have perished in the time, because she could never bring herself to use it: "And
so with certain people's anxiety aver butter, and Miss Matty's chariness of candles. Such economies were a pleasant hobby, no more.
There was no one then to insist that, though one elastic band is worth nothing, all the elastic bands used in London on any one day would make tyres for two
hundred thousand Army lorri
or something like that. No hands were outstretched then to seize such treasures as otr pet
ravening maw of a creature more Insatiable than the daughters of the horse Jeech.
And then comes the burning of the ok! Jenkyns famly letters- yellow bundles of love-letters, some of them-sixty-or sevenly years old. It seems incredible In 1940; but Miss Matty and her friend sal night afler night burning one by one burning in the open cool fre- dozens upon dozens of letters.
It is not that they were wrotig to destroy the letters. How runs Dr Inge's quatrain?
oft remind
"Lives" of great men
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We may suffer in our furn, And departing leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn- -thus, or something like it. Times like these are no times in which 10 go on keeping letters that either writer or
both or would hate a
eye to see, or even a stranger's hand to de- stroy. But to burn them would
strant ·
be even worse than to hoard them. All that paper gone into smoke and ashes instead of being collect- .ed and pulped and used all over again-the thought would turn - my town councilfer frantic,
These Cranford people, thought themselves 60 economical, and judged by present standards they were recklessly wasteful. We know, too, that they made splita of paper. Miss Matty's speciality. was spills of coloured paper cut so us to resemble feathers. And any statistician could have told them that in overy hundred thousand spills here was enough paper to But we must not be hard on www. Mies Matty and her extravagant friends.
It was many years since Miss Jenkyns, at a dinner party in Newcastle, had heard the signal Which
meant Invasion, and Misa
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February 12, 1941.
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"A NOW-IT-CAN-BE-TOLD STORY
French General Staff had planned for
blitz years
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By George Slocombe
TWO years before war broke out the French General Staff,
in
on
the Future," just published in English. by Hutchinson, sug- of the gests some- reasons. Here is the explanation advanced by his latest .lieu- tenant.
its lectures strategy at the famous "School of Marshals" in Paris, the Centre des Hautes Etudes
"The original strategy Militaires, had actual was wrong," continued ly foreseen the exact General Legentilhomine. "We ought never to have circumstances in
advanced into Belgium.. which the German We ought never to have
of Blitzkrieg May left our strong positions along the Belgian frontier 1940 took place.
to advance into a country with which we were un- familiar, in which we had no prepared positions, and attempt to defend a line which, once pierced by the enemy, would have to be abandoned."
More than that, it had worked out a plan of operations which included the advance of the Allied' Arinies into Belgium, the pivoting of the whole
Allied front on
a point near Sedan, and the occupation of a new defence line from
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little-collections-of-what wo insistMally-hud-woken-in-the-night-to Antwerp through
on calling the pet little collections of shrapnel put together would make enough scrap to bulid umpteen tanks. Cranford could konrd to please it- self. We must hoard only to see our precious goods go down' thu
shrapnel, because all
think the heard the tramp of the French entering Cranford. The Miss Mattys of to-day, gentle, indomitable souls, have sterner calls to economy, and they wake in the night with no need to fancy noises that are not there.
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These facts, hither- to unpublished, were revealed to me by General Lege ntil- homme, late comman- the der-in-chief of Allied forces in British and French Somaliland, who has arrived in London to join General de Gaulle, after, inciden- tally, escaping drown- ing in the Empress of Britain.
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is remark able," added the general; "the French strategists in 1937 Ger- assumed that many would, attack with sixty-five divi- sions, of which six would be armoured.· ́ Actually the Blitz- krieg was fought with sixty-three divisions, five of which were armoured."
"We were wrong alsó in thinking that the dense forest of the Ardennes and the steep ravines of the river Mouse would prevent the enemy from breaking through opposite Sedan.
This alert and con- fident commander replied forcibly to Marshal Pe- tain's broadcast complaint that the French Army, was overwhelmed by the enemy's superiority in men and machines,
"When war broke out in September 1939," he said, "the French Army-was the most-magnificent, the best armed and equipped, that France had ever possessed. Marshal Petain states that
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we suffered from an enemy superiority in machines of four to one. But in 1914 we fought German mechanical superiority not of four to one, but of sixteen to one. To every infantry bat talion in the French Army were allotted two machine- guns. The German bat- talions had thirty-two. And in the artillery we had only our 75's, where- as the Germans pounded us with 105's and even 155's.
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the way back to the Seine and the Marne and pre- pared his resistance on these rivers. If necessary he would have defended Paris, house by house and street by street, as Wey- gand should have done last June, and as the French. nation expected of him.
"In December 1914 when' Joffre was told that the guns and shells he had been clamouring for could
not be delivered before December 1915, what did he do? He did not remain idle in his trenches like the army of 1939 in the Maginot Line. He kept the fighting spirit of his army active by constant nibbling at the enemy, with the result that when the full force of the Ger- man machine was exerted: against us at Verdun in the following year we had an army already hardened in warfare and ready to take, the sternest blows without flinching.
"In September 1939 the morale of the French Army was good. It re- mained good until January 1940, and after that it diminished steadily. had been mined from with- It
in by idleness, lack of military activity, boredom and the propaganda of the Fifth Columnists among the soldiers' families. The French soldier is not like the British soldier. Cinemas and football are not enough to keep him cheerful in inactivity.
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"The destruction of the niorale of the French Army was one of the causes of its defeat. The other was the deficiency in leadership, the reliance on an old general out of con- tact with modern ideas. The last act of folly was to send for an old man like Weygand, who had been five years in retirement and who could not possibly realise the needs of the situation. The obvious man to succeed Gamelin. was General Georges, but: I am told that Daladier did not like him.”
GENERAL LEGENTIL
HOMME had some shrewd things to say about the war in the Eastern Mediterranean. The key to desert strategy lies in one word water. The first man to seize a well and to deprive his enemy of it wing the battle. The difficulty in supplying a brought hundreds of large army with water,
miles over exposed roads
mans in 1914. were two to one. In the first two days of the war we lost in killed and wounded The element of sur-
as many as in the total prise, on which Hitler duration of the French has so often, counted campaign of 1939-40. The with success, was history of the French de lacking in the case of feat makes it clearer than ever how great a soldier France. Why, then, were the French dewhen he was beaten in
Joffre was. feated? General de Belgium he did not retire Gaulle, in his brilliant on the Somme like Weyin tank lorries, is book, "The Army of gand. He retreated all enormous.
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A total of $1,570,440,40 waa yesterday by the Wdr Fund inaugurated by the S. C. M. Post, Ltd, with the fol- lowing donations:
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THE D. W. O. P. The British War Organisation Fund wishes to thank the Middlesex Regi ment for their donation of $1,000 collected by all Ranks.
In connection with the B.W.O.F. Dance- at the Peninsula Hotel on January 31, the following prizes have not heeri claimed ants are awaiting collection at the Peninsula Hotel:
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Canton, Feb. '3. The contributions to the British and War Fund in Canton still continue to come in. So farji | about - 2078.0 have been received, and these have been remitted to the Brush Embassy in Shanghol-Our Own Correspon- dent.
New Wonder Vitamin Discovery
NEW-BOÈN babies in Singa pore hospitals are being saved from death or paralysis by the administration of a new vitamin, known as "K," which stimulates blood-clotting, Fortunately the use of this vitamin is. Infre quently required.
Doctors in Singapore, Aus- tralia, England and in America are agreed that the new vitamin, discovered by a Danish scientist, Dr H: Dam, ranks is a major discovery in medical science.
Quantities of Vitamin K in syn-, thetic form bave been-received in Singapore from England," - and" 'its first use in the maternity hospitals has been extremely successful."
For unknown reasons, probably half the new-born infants have abnormally small amounts of prothrombin, with- out which surgery or even relatively minor wounds cars enuse, fatal bleed- ing.
Consequently, the slightest injury. during.birth or in the first few days on life can have falal consequences.
In Spinach
Vitamin K Ja known as the coagu- Jant vitamin, and it is present in the green leaves of alfalfa, and in cabbage, spinach, strawberry, ripe. "fomatoes," soya beana, bran and potatoce::
Chickens were the "guinea pigs" upl by a group of American scientists to Isolate the mysterious K In its pure form and see what could be done with it.
Not for Haemophilia
Vitamin K however, will not remedy haemophilia, the bleeding disonse of the Spanish Royal familysik.This fle a rare disease and ls traced to a deficiency
of a blood-clotting. footor other:
Vitamin k
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