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The European war has now developed on five fronts. In this article, a well- known Peer and political commentator
The European war has now developed on five fronts. There is first the direct war between England and Ger-
Ever many.
since the capitulation of the French Government, Germany has been preparing to invade Britain directly by sea and preparations are still going on. The reason this offen- sive has not yet taken place
sums up the situation.
Survey Of The War
By Lord Strabolgi
Federal trade, all of which had to be paid for by the British Government after the Civil War as the result of an arbitration.
It is not difficult for Ger- man raiders to escape into the Atlantic by way of the Norwegian coast during the long winter nights, but thein problem then is to receive
disposal of the Axis are the fuel. One counter-measure. Italian ports in Africa, is to intercept the supply
is that Germany, failed to attack on the morale of the only overseas bases at the supplies, particularly of oil win air supremacy and as a civil population. corollary the British air
and
The fifth, and possibly the.
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forces have done great dam- age to the harbours from most important front of all, access to which is prevented ships serving the raiders: is on the High Seas. There, by superior British sea Another counter-measure is which such an attempt
to provide powerful escort would set out, notably in on the one hand, the British power.
The Germans are making vessels for convoys of mer- Navy controls the main Belgium and France.
Since the ocean trade routes and ham increasing use of surface chant ships. In the meantime new pers all German and Italian raiders particularly for the Jervis Bay was destroyed in British armies have been commerce, and over wide attack on convoys. Heavily guarding her convoy from a
equipped areas prevents German and armed and disguised as German "pocket battleship" · Tel. 27778-9 prepared
which in due course will be Italian export and import peaceful merchant ships, in the Atlantic, more power- used for a direct offensive trade, altogether. Only in usually flying false colours, ful vessels have been used as by means of invasion on the Baltic and Black Seas two at least are at large. escorts.
One of these is known to be When a British convoy German or German-controll- can German commerce move
operating in the South At- was attacked in the Atlantic front is in the Balkans, and
lantic, and was engaged in a by several German warships presents itself as a German
running fight with the Car- on Christmas Day, its escort threat to advance through Germany,
Italian narvon Castle. Another is was strong enough to beat Turkey in order to reach the help, is attempting a coun- in the Pacific and is the off the raiders. The squad- .which bombarded ron which attacked the con- oilfields of Persia and Iraq ter-blockade by rendering vessel
and inflicting Nauru island. These raid- voy on this occasion may and also to threaten the hazardous British communications losses on the commerce of ers cannot use neutral har- have been working from a Britain and her allies at sea bours partly because this German harbour. Two or with India.
by various means. These would betray their positions three cruisers could leave a are attacks by submarines, and partly because it would German harbour and, mak- The third front is the war- long range aircraft and sur- be a breach of neutrality, ing use of thick weather and fare between the British face raiders on merchant Thus, if Japan permitted long nights of darkness, Empire and Italy in the A comparatively short time ago a Mediterranean, the actual ships at sea; and the laying German merchant ships to reach the Atlantic, but their of mines under water in the be converted into armed fuel supplies would only last watching world chronicled Rumania's land fighting taking place entrances or on the lines of cruisers in her harbours she a few days and they would capitulation to German threats. Her submission was the signal for mass simultaneously in Albania
approach to harbours. The would become liable to heavy then have to return with the kllling of patriotic citizens accomand in North Africa.
of conquest
possession of the French damages at the best. The risk of interception. panied by all the horrors
The fourth front is the Atlantic ports and the Nor- leading case here is that of Confederate cruisér fater Bulgaria likewise fell. Fear general air warfare between wegian coast gives the Ger- the
Another difficulty of the and an incredible hope that some Germany and Britain, each mans certain advantages Alabama, which, during the German surface raiders is wreck made a weak Government put trying to disrupt the manu- here, but the British have American Civil War, was to find the commerce, which
little in the way of sustained re-facturing
and the advantage of overseas fitted out in a British port is widely dispersed. Cer- up sistance. Bu
Bulgarla,
now experiencing the transport systems of its bases in all parts of the though she received her tain parts of the ocean
lacking true lea dership, Ls humiliations which the Germans
which opponent, while the Ger- world
are secure actual armament at sea. where, for geographical reu- know so well how to inflet.
Slavia's turn to be mans are making a direct against enemy attack. The She did much damage to sons, merchant ships must It is now Yugo-
bests the inuication "Up" is received in Hongkong on the date of pubucation by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republicacions, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement
THE BALKAN RIDDLE
as conceived by an inhuman and unscrupulous enemy. A few weeks
might be salvaged from the
coerced into a surrender which would
Germany to the borders of
bring Greece, whose truly remarkable Oght against Italian aggression, has not only broken Mussolini's dream of al triumphant march into Athens, but has turned the tide of fortune against
be
resources
·
WHAT IS THIS TANGIER?
pass, such as the entrances to the Panama Canal, the Cape of Good Hope and the
IR Samuel Hoare has been The mystery about this whole business of the status of Tan. Straits of Gibraltar, are
S protesting in Madrid against little Wroccan port is kier has got to be settled all over
~here~explained-
ngain.
always strongly patrolled by
Hitler himself, Yugo-Slavia may give-way-the-pressure brought to Spain taking "full charge" of
Tangler has the makings of a first the commerce protecting bear the Government is tre- Tangier, and has been "re-
of
class naval base, right at the mouth of Power in order to deny these mendous, but the fact that a few her ministers and citizens are brave serving all our rights" there.
By W. N. EWER cannot afford to have it in the paper fruitful areas to the raiders. What is it nil about? What is this enough to offer resistance, is an in-
or under the control of any poten The problems of commerce dication that Hitler's power to in- Tangler, which has given its name lo timidate is waning. Indeed, the fact the tangerines which we used to eat can question" began to disturb the fally hostile naval power.
protection have not varied in Maybe we shall have to take it over that Hitler is endeavouring to beguile at Christenas time, and shall eat again "Chancelleries."
The "Powers" began to talk quietly ourselves again. But we do not want principle from the days of Yugo-Slavia into submission by pro- when we've finished with Hitler?
to do so-unless the Spaniards force sailing Navies, except that nising to respect her integrity, This little Moroccan port on the among themselves.
SU
It was all rather sordid and un- us to it. lotig as he. be permitted to use her Atlantic side of the Gibraltar Straits,
We should prefer some arrangement the defenders have a new lines of communications, is an in- a fine harbour, with the white-walled savoury, and very, very complicated. ellention of weakness that should not; town climbing the slopes of the hills The upshot of it was a set of secret which would ensure that it is perman- ladvantage in the use of which ring it, has a curious history, treaties between us and the French ently a peaceful harbour: just a white- allowed to pass unnoled.
All crui- the Spaniards which in and
effect Hitler has several reasons for at- It was once part of the dowry of
walled town with the green hills look scouting aircraft. arranged for a partition of Morocco tacking Greece. He fears the psycho-a British queen.
between France and Spain, leaving or own on the blue waters of the sers and larger warships logical effect of small country re- Before The Romans
Tangier in the "Spanish zone" but no nece ever a pints of any kind carry these, and they en- no menace ever again to the shipping mulning master of the battlefield in
Let's go back. There was a town (on our insistence) in a "special posi- of the world "on its lawful occasions arged the scope of the which
his colleague has been beaten. Greece would also be An attack on
If we can ensure that, then frankis guarding warships at least here long before the Romans came tion." useful
attention from into Mauretania and called it Tingis. First Morocco Crisis" the detalls of the administration of diverting in his failure to invade Britain. The After the Remans fell before the
Germany got wind of it all. Dra- the Tangier de natier one hoot to us. twentyfold.—(M.^I.). conquest of Greece would bring his sweeping on-slaught of Talam it was a matically the Kaiser landed at Tan-
Moorish port for centuries. armies near Turkey and would take
gler and made a speech. back in
GRIN AND BEAR IT in 1471, just before him so much nearer to the coveted columbus found America, the Portu-
That was 1904. oilwells of fran. But his plans have gone awry, Hitler tells the world use took it, made it a sort of police that he wishes tu suve Mussolini, station against the Barbary corsairs but it is extremely doubtful whether who haunted all that coast,
The ports to the south-Sallee, in considers his partner worth say-
By the time the war was over Fedala, Mogador and the rest-were Morocco was divided up between remember France and Spain. But Tangler was As far back as December, when all pirate bases. You the Greeks first proved themselves Robinson Crusoe was taken prisoner still a sort of cosmopolitan no man's
by a "Sallee rover."
land. to be Lougher soldiers than the
Nearly 200 years later, in 1662 our Italian, when Graziani's men were Charles II married a Portuguese prin-
Ing.
It
of series of "crises" that pre- state frst "Morocco crisis"-- luded the war of 1014. Last was the "Agadir crisis" of 1913,
beginning to realise that Mussolini's cess-Catherine of Braganza. She diplomney a complicated arrangement
nspirations in Egypt were not at brought us her dowry, Bombay and
Many
ablained
With infinite trouble and infinite was reached. Tangier was pul under simple of execution as they were led Tangier, Tangier became a British curious International regime-part to believe, it was
known that Ger colony: might to this day have been British, part French, part Italian, part had already
# a British naval base as valuable as stranglehold on
on Itallon economle
nic Gibraltar. life. It was known that even at But holding Tangler was a difficult that time Il Duce was a pawn in and costly job.
It was held for 20 Hitler's diplomatie Intrigues. The years against continual Moorish Intler has, however, hesitated 100 attacks.
long it he were sincere in desiring But the Merry Monarch was a die- to help his Axis partner. Britain is iator short of cash. Elther he had now in control of the Italian African to summon Parliament or he had to Empire and of the Med
Mediterranean
economize.
Spanish.
The Moorish population stayed under the nominal control of the Sul- ton of Morocco, under Moslem Inw. For the Europeans there were Con- sular Courts, and an elected Assem- bly; four "Administrators," one Bri- Italian, 'one sigh, one French, one Spanish.
And with right of veto over every- thing y
Council of Control of the four from one end to the other, whi
while the He preferred to economise.
And Consuls. Greeks are fast annihilating the one of his economies was to abandon
Obviously, it was quite unworkable. Italian forces in Albania.
Tangler. Kirke's Lambs left in 1634. But all the same, It worked somehow did Hitler wall? It has been one of the jetties of Tangier is "the for nearly twenty years.
reason that he English Mole" to this day. would not object very strongly to Tangier became a Moorish port about it all the time. Tangier is in weakening of the Italian
army again. When
piracy stopped after which would, as a result of the dis- Exmouth had smashed up its G.HQ. astrous African and Albanian cam in Algiers, it became the one gate paigns, be able to offer little rests way between Morocco and the Euro Innice to his open domination of penn world.
fo. Mided for one
Italy.
Only the Spaniards were pretty sare
the middle of the Spanish zone. It Is Its best port-though as a port its prosperity waned when the French developed Casablanca. Of the 11,000 Inhabitants 9,000 were
with.
If this be so, he has waited A strange cosmopolitan city, too long or Italy's defeat hus been East and West mingling disreputably
always felt that they had had more rapid than he anticipated. In where the European Consulates and à raw deal, that Tangler ought to be any case the Fuehrer has again Legations dwelt, outside whose walls just part of "Spanish Morocco." But he score some successes in the Balaropean could move without risk they could not do anything about. It' zeriously miscalculated. Even should no
We Should Prefer
of being kidnapped by the bandits of until this war. kans he can never regain the ground the Riff. he has lost by his hesitations. The Nothing partleatur to report
until myth of Hitler's Invincibility is being the early 1900's, when it jumped again exposed and every nation that resists spectacularly into history, him, even temporarily, is niding to- The Moroccan Empire was visibly wards the Anal destruction of his at-crumbling. Africa was being more or tempted domination of Europe. less quietly partitioned. The "Moroc-
Now the Spaniards have taken "full charge."
Protests and reservation of rights were inevitable. What it all boils down to is that after the war. the
PRECUREMENT
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The Governmant is spending $27,000,000,000 for defence and it's up to us to soo it's spant wisely!Who put a 3-cant stamp on this letter, when a 2 would havo dono, as well?"