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SEA POWER
and the
WORLD
WAR
The brilliant military cam- Mediterranean, with all it paign which has ejected the means, rests with the Bri-| Italian armies of invasion tish. The result is, that Bri- from Egyptian soil and tish warships have been able thrown them back in dis- to bombard the Italian order into Libya, was only forces in the rear from the made possible by sen power, sea, and the supply of rein- When Italy intervened in forcements and materials, the war her main task was including petrol and water; to assist Germany in defeat- by sea to the Italian forces ing the British Empire by in Libya, is made more dif- invading Egypt and secur- ficult.
ing control of the Suez On the other hand sup- Canal. This would have plics can be carried by sea facilitated the German drive to the British advancing through the Balkans and forces, and their wounded Turkey to the oilfields of and prisoners evacuated by Iraq and Persia.
water. Another result of
By Lord
Strabolgi
The Boy Who Started Life on a Shoe-string!
SURE- I'LL SAVE YOU,
FINITO!
ADOLF
HELP
ITA
LY
THE FARCE THE REICHSTAG
OF
The correct strategy was this failure to risk all on a for the Italian Navy to be great naval engagement is concentrated and to seek a that the Italian Navy is un- decisive engagement with a able to help its army against numerically inferior British the Greeks by creating Fleet based on Alexandria, diversions on the coast of Apparently the Italian Greece or by sending sea Higher Command believed expeditions to operate in the that the same object could Aegean. Hongkong Telegraph he achieved by evasive or A third important result is THE great shadow show with No, for Hitler there must be Guerilla tactics. They hoped that the blackade of Laly concnneted in long-suffering Berlin: big Kroll Opera House provides to lure the British Fleet tinues. The Italian Admirals Hitler, having returned from one it. Here is within striking distance of may attempt diversions with of his tours to the defeated, call- where you can erect really fine THS prefix "Special to the Telegraph their own Air Force and their submarines or by using ed the Reichstag to tell his hire rostrums and hang gigantic ban- indicate news which is strict copyright thus to win à naval battle sporadic attacks and threats.
The
Tuesday, March 18, 1941, Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 20615
Je used by the "ilongkong. To'ecrant" to
under the provisions of the Telecommuni- 1938, Such newr. As
bears, tire indication "Lietved in the traited Press Associations, who re- either who ly or in part without previous
on the date of by
serve all rights and forbid republications,
Arrangement,
HITLER'S HEADACHE
CHAPLIN may have intended
much noise has again been à far more imposing sciting. The
their fast light cruisers forflings all about his adventures.
What a farce. Just u few
A
vast expanse
nurs which are meat and drink to 22 true gauleiter. Strange
without risking their six But unless these are successful yards away from the Kroll Opera metaphor you may say, but I battleships, the backbone of beyond all normal prospects of House is to be found the original have never yet seen a district the Italian Navy.
naval warfare they will not Reichstag building which was leader in Germany unless he was affect the main issue. Once supposed to have been burned to surrounded by bunt.ng as long as This was a strategical mis- more the lessons of history are Communist conspiracy in the nant.
the ground by the dastardly a battleship's "paying off pen take of the first order, and made plain for us in this war carly days of Hitler's dictator-
By Norman Hillson
are many who think it was
03-
a rent
is similar to the blunder Outside the Mediterranean the ship. Actually in that same fire But this solemn farce, which solely to satirise Hitler in "The made by the German High economic pressure of the bloc-only a very small portion of the takes the place of the one time Great Dictator", yet Charlie's
kade continues on Germany, and grent building was burned out freely elected Parliament, is a Command at the beginning
any attempt at invasion of the that of the original democrati- sad tawdry affair. And imaginative study of the Fuchrer
of the last war. Then there British Islands will always be as a spoilt, bad-tempered little
was a favourable period an operation of the greatest boy who screams and raves when things don't go as he wants when the British Fleet could danger so long as Britain dis- -them-to,-comes-very-nesr-the-
have been engaged with poses of superior naval power.
It had been widely held by cally elected chamber of de pecially for those of us who knew Truth judged in the light of Hit-some hope of success, but ler's latest speech to his people. the same mistake was made students of war that superior air puties. In point of fact there the Europe of a happier hour. So many Parliaments have top- It consisted of nothing but of trying to preserve intact power would be able to counter-pity the flames did not du more pled in a decade, in far less.
act saperior naval power. This damage, for, although Berlin vague, generalised boastings and the main German Fleet.
has not happened in practice contains very many
The Reichstag was hideous threats of what he and his mili- In the event it was the except in the abnormal case o buildings, there is surely nothing Parliament. It was elected by the invasion of Norway. There so grotesque as the one time popular suffrage of both male tary forces were going to do to Italian Fleet which was the threat of air attack pre German Parliament house.
and female adults, and the Britain and her Allies. And damaged by air attack, vented the full use of British
people retained the right of re- Hitler in well aware of this. If ferendum and the initiation of these boastings were the product three, or possibly four, of and French naval power on the
German lines of communication the Reichstag had survived it laws. Hitler changed all that. not of confidence, but of rate their large ships being dam- Since then there has been more could never in Nazi eyes have To-day the Reichstag is just a ness and desperation caused by frustration of his magical aged at Taranto, and an- experience in countering air at-been a worthy setting for the body of Nazi nominees who other one in the brief long- German air superiority has been chamber is kept in its charred line of hyperbole he is putting tack on warships at sea while the fulminations of Adolf Hitler. For travel to Berlin to cheer the that reason the burned out Leader no matter what latest greatest and most deadly foe. range action off Sardinia. much reduced."
state as a reminder to good citi- out. It they do not applaud For these are the facts which The result is that the main
The great shipbuilding pro-zens of the dastardly methods of with sufficient vigour at the cry Ifitter had to face, up to during the Italian battle flect is serious- gramme in Britain is bearing Communism, although it is of the cheer lenders, their names week-end, but which, to his own ly reduced in numbers, and fruit, and every month increases difficult to see how the Fuehrer are noted and a convenient op people, he would not admit: Britain the command of the Eastern naval control.
the effectiveness of superior explains this away to his friend portunity is taken to remove
Stalin across the border.
them to another sphere of use- fulness.
schemes to eliminate Britain. his
Last of the Biplanes
close
!
Mussolini, like all dictators, also deprived the Italians of L constitutional parliament. One
This document established Italy as a
had forestalled him in his Balkans quest by placing a formidable army in Greece ready to withstand any invasion from Bulgaria; Yugo-Slavin, undoubtedly encouraged by this fact, had told Hitter Ko and play in his
of the dearly prized privileges of lake at Berchtesgarten before they
those Italians who laboured for would sign away their freedon to
The great
Italian offensive British, Canadian and Aug- But never was a combat air- fire-and the single Bristol Mer- the unification of their land was launched under the personal direction tralian fighter pilots have re- craft more appropriately named cury engine of 840 h.p. gives it the written constitution known of Mussolini has become Basco and
cecently been gaining glory in than the Gladiator, calling to a top speed of around 255 mm.p.h. as the Statuto. a disaster-the Italions have some 50,000 more men and have not encounters over the Western mind the fighter in the arena.
During the Norway campaign constitutional monarchy with a Senate regained an inch of territory; the Desert with fighter and bomber Although speed is not its great Lend and Lease Bill has become im- aircraft of Italy's Regia Acro- asset, probably no aircraft has 4 squadron of Gladiators distin-of 383 members and a Chamber, elected mediately operative and already new supplies are being rushed across the
nautica. Among the aircraft ever been designed more suited guished itself in an eple fight by adult suffrage of 630. Atlantic to Britain:
the
The system, even with the volatile, they have used is the Gloster to
and intricate against immense climatic dif- Hitler's
night
ficulties and overwhelming odds. Italians, worked very well, but it was ruders have been given
Gladiator, last of the long line manoeuvres the
of nir fighting." worst
not good enough for Mussolini and his beating since the start of the war.
of fighter biplanes adopted by Some of the most spectacular Operating from an improvised Blackshirts. He swept the old Cham providing fresh emphasis to the fact the R.A.F.
landing ground, 17 out of 18ber away while still nominally retain. neronautics and breathtaking that the Luftwaffe is being slowly,
formation flying seen at Hendon Gladiators were lost in two days in the Senate. The Chamber to-day is
a "syndleat-corporation." Its members. but surely driven out of the skies. Names of British fighter air- Displays before the war
continuous fighting: but heavy are supposed to be elected. What These are
unchallengeable craft are singularly apt. sober,
"Hur- carried out by Gladiators, And, losses were inflicted on the actually happens is that the voters as facts; to tier, horrid and dispirit-
in whole are presented with a list of Ing.
Airendy there are signs that ricane" and "Spitfire" have as the first British fighter to enemy.
candidates, all naturally ardent and the neurotie dictator is losing his caught the imagination of friend mount more than two guns Gladiators have since exacted
active Fascists, whom they must o'ect, Inlitative; actions are again giving and foc, typifying as they do four being the Gladiator's stan- their full revenge, in combat precedence to
to words, and
the great speed and devastating dard armamentit was the first against the Italian invaders of mises are becoming more and more fire-power of these modern eight- multi-gun fighter to go into ser- Greece and Egypt, though often is also aping the game of the more Now this rascal Qulating in Norway generalised. A few months ago he assured the German nation that the gun monoplane types,`
vice. Gladiators were also used fighting against superior num-estul adventurers. 1le is in pro- gress of abolishing the famous Stort- for the high Altitude "weather bers. In one fight in Egypt re- Ing. Storting was the name given to question of it; now he has fallen back on the loss of confidence, but if he imagines flights" which were a fenture of cently, six Gladiator pilots met the Norwegian Parilament of 150 mert and routed 18 Fiat C.R.42.bers. One quarter of there sat in an upper chamber known na the Loditing defensive; invasion of England is that his blusterings are capable of pre-war days. propped: instead he is "ready to meet luring the British leaders into a false
Bghtors; in another, four Aus- and the rest in a lower house eniled Britain on any soll, on any seas and move, he displays a typlenily naive Technically, the Gladiator tralians, flying
the Obolsin. This inst body was the Gladiators, more important for us in our own syn over any territory", which suggests understanding of British Intelligence. may be described as a single- smashed a formation of 17 tem it controlled all money bills. that he is waiting for Britain to ' The situation is developing quite scat, equal-span, biplane with C.R.42's; whilst the exploits of choose the venue, in the hope, pre- nicely for Britain and she can afford motal structure fuselage and "Lucky B" flight in clearing to the world. Let us hope that that sumably, that she will choose one to walt before sha makes the which gives the Nazis the most od supreme move which will overthrow wings. Wing span is about 32 Egypt's air of the Italians have vantage. It is a striking example of Hitler.
feet-Ave feet less than the Spit- already made history.
prove
Invasion of Britain was simply n
of him selecting the time for
L
were
or reject, willy-nilly. Of course they always clect
One day a better time will return better time will bring about a revival of the rent Parliamentary institutions; yes, even the Reichstag.