Keen Enjoyment
SPARKLE
ZEST
ARE FOUND IN
WATSON'S
TANG
MINERAL WATERS
Other children may cry but like my laxative-that's because mother gives me Castorla-It tastes so good! mmmh!"
DO YOU FORCE YOUR CHILD
TO TAKE A LAXATIVE?
Does your child act up every time
he has to take a lax- ativo? Do you have to force him to take it? Such scenes are apt to
shock his entire nervous system. Children should get a laxative that tastes good one they take will ingly But not an adult laxative. A child's delicate aystem needs a special laxativo-one that's mild, gentle and SAFE.
Give children what is made especially for childron
TU's a comfort for mothers to know there is a safe laxative,
ПА
Castoria, made especially and only for children. It contains no harsh “adult” drugs. Castoria in mild and gentle, you couldn't ask fer a safer, more effective laxa- tive. Children love Castoria's won- derful taste. It's one laxative, you never have to force a child to take. Always use Castoria for your children, from babyhood to 11 years. Give nt the first sight of a cold, an upset stomach or constipation. Get a bottle today.
CASTORIA
Where there are children, Castoriais „needed..“Econom).........
cal. 12 doses or more in cachbottle.
CASTORIA
The SAFE laxativa for children
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz
Investment Bankers, and Brokers
Members of New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Manila Stock Exchange
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Commodity Exchange, Inc.. New York Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montreal New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange Hongkong Sharebrokers Association Shanghal Stock Exchange
SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and DUENOS AIRES Cable Address: SWANSTOCK
JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENT OF SPARTON HORNS
}
AIRTONE with MULTITONE CONTROL. TWO MATCHED HORNS with FINGERTIP CONTROL. TONE can be varied from a soft TROMBONE NOTE to a SHARP HIGH-PITCHED NOTE or a COM- BINATION OF THE TWO for a HEAVY, POWERFUL SIGNAL. IT PERMITS THE MOTORIST TO CON- TROL THE SIGNAL TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF TRAFFIC.
THEY WARN WITHOUT OFFENSE. STOCKED IN 6-VOLT AND 12-VOLT.. CHINA MOTOR AGENCIES & SALES CO. 157-8-9 GLOUCESTER RD.
P. O. BOX 673,
TEL. 22157
Count the
TELEGRAPHS”
Everywhere
Vednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
"PREST O-LITE"
YOUR NEXT
BATTERY,
NÒ BETTER ASSURANCE OF RELIABLE
SERVICE
Than the Expressod Satisfaction
Of Car Owners
TYPES AVAILABLE
(Dry, uncharged) 6`VOLTS-13 & 15 PLATES.
12 VOLTS 7 PLATES
For further particulars apply
HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE
Phone 27778-9
The
Stubbs Road
Thongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, May 28, 1941.
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
Tue preax "Special to tolerapa is used by the "ilongkong Telegraph to under the provisions of the telecommuni- bears the indication UP is received in
Indicate news which is strictly copyright
cations 1930. Such news us
Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Preû Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid repúblications, alther wholly or in part without previous arrangement
May 28, 1941.
THE OFFENSIVE
TAKE
FROM
THE NAZIS
Major George Fielding Eliot
noted military expert, urges U.S. action. Time to prepare, he notes, has been Hitler's best weapon in all campaigns; without it, he might be lost
vices; that such co-ordination requires the most thorough. plan- ning; that planning 'takes time and cannot be complete in every dotnil if there is an unknown "X" factor provided by an ac tive and offensively minded enemy; moreover, that the al- most miraculous: German speed of movement, the follow
Every now and then in the course of my articles I have been calling attention to the increased importance of the time factor in modern war. Everything moves faster in these mechanised days, particularly air forces. There is less time to think
to the day and hour, with no an- counted by those who are doing through requires the forward things over, to weigh de- xiety as to the upsetting of their all the attacking and have good assembly of supplies, which is cisions. That applies to the schemes by a sudden Allied sur- reuson to know that they are again dangerous if not impossi- corporal with his squad, the prise counter-move.
facing an enemy who has no ble in face of vigorous enemy major general with his divi-
The French sat snug behind thought of attacking them while counter-action. sion, the commander in their Maginot ling, the British they are preparing his destruc- | chief of great forces-to the were too few to attack if they tion.
people and government of a had wished, and the Belgians threatened nation.
and the Dutch were indulging in the customary wishful thinking
more
Here the Ger-
་
this moment
the Germans in
Hastily conceived and ill- planned attacks--as of the British in Norway or the Itali In The Balkans
ans in Greece have failed in At In no era has there been which seems to include, the tions apply to the most recent North Africa are proceeding
Exactly the same considera this war as in past wars. force behind the theory that even to consult to example of blitzkreig, the Bal with respectful caution in the maxim of the old field ser- gether in fiice of common dan kan campaign.
ger is a "provocation" vice regulations: "Even a avoided at all costs. This theory occupy Rumania and Bulgaria Graziani, the British in East to be mans were able successively to face of an enemy who is likely to hit back. The British against defective plan boldly and presupposes that tigers do not and to establish control of the Africa Carried out campaigns resolutely carried out is cat rabbits unless "provoked."
Hungarian railways. Then they with almost the same freedom better than the hesitating
had well over a month in which of action as the Germans in Po- to establish their supply dumps land and Norway, with similar search for the ideal." Bet- ter-and safer; for the new
in Bulgaria, concentrate their forces, make ready for any even- techniques of total war are
In all these cases the forward tuality. most dangerous when the assembly of supplies was es- aggressor has had plenty of pecially notable and contributed
immensely to time, undisturbed, to make speed of the striking power of modern wea the subsequent what they were going to do if static defence is doomed, the his plans and launch his at- it is a practice which is hardly When the time came, they did pons used according to undis. turbed plan is certain to be tack. The best defence is possible in face of an active
Yugoslav victorious. The best defence is
of vigorous offensive action before he is all set.
Supplies Moved Ahead
They knew exactly how they were going to attack Greece, and
results.
Best Defence
The evidence is overwhelming
own, delivered at an unexpected ·
to upset him by some sort enemy air force too strong to those things. The
be beaten out of the air, because-government of Cvetkovich was in such a case large ammunition overthrown, but not before it had a well-planned offensive of one's and supply dumps in forward doomed its country by refusing, moment. areas offer the most inviting of while there was yet time, to con- targets and are likely to become duct the all-important military nothing but bonfires.
Looking back over the | blitzkrieg campaigns of this war, we can see how true
EIRE AND CONSCRIPTION this is.
IN the midst of wars and a threat of invasion from Ger- many that has never relaxed, the burning nationalism of the Irish will not permit them to allow conscription in Northern Ireland, Mr Churchill feels that the issue is too important to be over-ridden and has tem- porarily abandoned the measure. Certainly the problem is one calling for the closest attention and high statesmanship. The question will be largely solved by Mr de Valera's personal in- clinations as he has a tre- mendous and fanatic following who will sway the Dail to his side in whatever decision he takes.
As we sit here in America de- conversations which might have bating risks and shivering at the resulted in a Yugoslav-Turk- taking of chances in "distant" Likewise one of these perfect Greek defensive alliance backed war, we might think of these ly co-ordinated and timed blitz by British air and sea power, things. We have a chance now kriegs, once set in motion, is and which would have con- to take the offensive; later on Polish Campaign difficult to check or to reorient fronted both Bulgaria, to begin we shall be deprived of that op
in direction, so that it is especi- with, and Germany in the lust portunity, we shall have to sit In Poland, the Germans acted ally vulnerable to sharp attacks analysis, with a very different and wait for the enemy to move, in accordance with a plan which by strong enemy armoured situation. they had had plenty of time to forces on its flanks or rear, and work out very thoroughly, particularly to an enemy turn- They, knew exactly what they ing movement which might as- were going to do, and how, and sail it in a totally unexpected with what forces, and against quarter. what sort of opposition. More,
Plan Has
"
Weaknesses
in the fullness of his own good
time, with a plan he has con- ceived and...prepared in full security.
This is the course our defeat- Meditating upon these things, ists and appeasers would have But all these considerations, one comes inevitably to the con- us take. On the evidence of they had plenty of time to bring restraining as they might be clusion that blitzkrieg in its full this war, it is the most danger- up their troops to their jump under ordinary conditions of flower requires very careful co- ous, course we could possibly off positions, to assemble sup- war, plies well forward, to make
may be cheerfully dis ordination of all, arms and ser- adopt.-(M.I.), '.'
every sort of preparation; even to rehearsals by staffs and by units of certain parts of the operations.
While all this was going on, they were not disturbed by any fear of attack; their opponents were indulging in wishful think- Ing and futile negotiations.
Then Norway. Here the re- hearsals, the training in em- 'barkation and disembarkation,|| in mountain warfare, în the sci- zure of the Norwegian ports, was conducted for months in perfect security. No one was so rude as to drop anything] bundle of lethal than a
Lindbergh's Views Opposed By Most
By George Gallup
policy, the American Institute of Public Opinion has completed a nation-wide public opinion survey which shows that appro- ximately two-thirds of the
Mr de Valera's stand, it is as- sumed, is taken on the ground that conscription will set back in-
Director, American Institute of Public Opinion · definitely the permanent strug-
PRINCETON, N. J., May 8- bergh, who is regarded by many voters interviewed who Bre Widespread gle of Eire to acquire suzerainty more
controversy has as the leader of the isolationist familiar with Lindbergh's views been stirred up throughout the movement. Το discover how on foreign policy disagree with over the entire island; second-pamphlets on Germany to upset country by the speeches and many Americans agree with those views. ly, intensification of the British the even tenor of the Oberkom-writings of Charles A. Lind-Lindbergh's views on foreign
military effort in North Ireland in- vites the closer attention of the
enemy to that quarter and Eire can not escape some of the consequences. It is not clear which of these phases are uppermost in, Mr de Valera's
gifted
mand's way.
Likewise the "fifth-column" than those in Poland because arrangements were even better!
there was so much time to pre-1 pare, and the Polish experience) on which to draw.
mind. He is an extraordinarily The plan worked perfectly- man intellectually, but his and little wonder.. As to sup- whole outlook is dominated by uplics, there were even supplica lifelong struggle against the British secretly stored in Norway itself, for the indepentience of his country. especially in the Narvik region, So passionate and profound are the in anticipation of the arrival of feelings engendered in this struggle, the German troops. No wonder] which did not cease with the end of the calculations which some of armed hostilities, that it is question us made, based on former ex- able whether Mr de Valera will allow the real possibility of invasion perience with logistics, went from Germany to persuade him to the infinitely safer course of eventually withdrawing his opposition to con- scription in the British-governed Pro- vince of Ulster. As statesman and a democratic-and the Eirean leader is both-it is inconceivable that he would risk for still unsatis fied nationalist appetites the infinitely great threat of total invasion by Germany.
←
awry.
Followed immediately the ap- plication of all these methods on a larger scale. While the plun- ning for Norway had been in progress, indeed as far back as the Polish war, plans had also been in hand for the invasion of the Low Countries and France. It was perfectly clour to the Germans that they need There are of course, books to be have no fear of an Allied of written for both sides of this argu- ment but this is the time when fensive, either ground or aerial.l simple facts must be faced and, in | They could plan their own moves, the ense
of Britain and Ireland, "trust must be, reposed. The remark-
como
over
fusal.
able changes that have
If we are going to and that the British Government, the new the conscription of a manpower in prevented by fire which has swept through the North Ireland In
their and its administration have Elrean nationalists who fear that
wrong
Camps and a frame of mind in which this will intensity British influence,
the Irish Nationalists will find it and divert
patriotiams then Eire will have taken a step in the easier to prosecule their enda much the war. It is incontrover¬.
direction. She
will have put a tible that Hiller will invade Elre shackle on demoerney which may will have Just when and where he pleases and prove important, she
the sympathies of her and she will have done nothing to justify a revision of British attitude on her eventual. Independence." Eire will always depend militarily and crono- mically on Britain and she is risking all this against an Internal political victory for extreme nationalists.
The Irish wlil put up a very gallant whore in America
but very hopeless fight unless gus lained by Britain.
We have taken no, violent action on the refusal of Eire to lend us bases so necessary to fight U-boat enidors, though there is bound to be sume bitter, feeling about the re-
LINDBERGH
quote
Cartoon by Bernard Seaman in "P.M.” (New York),
Many who disagree have, right or wrong, gained the im- pression that "Lindbergh wants Germany to win, the survey ahows, while others think he is mistaken in believing that Britain cannot win the war. On the other hand, the group of voters who do agree with Lind- bergh say that the views which he expresses have shown him to be realistic, that he was proved right in his early early judgment of German air superiority, and that the United, States should not "stick its neck out" by med- dling in the war abroad,
The survey found that appro- ximately six voters in every ten of those interviewed were familiar in general with the views which Lindbergh has ex- pressed concerning American foreign policy and the war abroad. Those who. showed themselves familiar with his views were asked:
"Do you agree or disagree with what Lindbergh says?"
The results are;
Agree ...
Dlangree
Undecided
249%
03% 13%
The survey is strictly a study of opinion on Lindbergh's views, and not on his personal patriotism ́or loyalty, Virtually none of the voters Interviewed questioned his sincerity
or his right to speak.
Moreover, the volo in the survey does not necessarily mean that the majority dlangreo will all of the views which he has expressed, :
Note:-These surveys are made by a system of highly selective samplings in each of the forty-eight States in pro- portion to voting" populations; thereby, The American Insitute, of 'Públic, Opinion" holda, la, obtained ́i rezuti "which"would not vary from that-of-a- 'numerically much larger canvass,E