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SYRIA VICTORY MIGHT TURN TIDE FOR ALLIES
It is of the gravést import- ance to the democratic enuse that there should be up failure in Syria; the results might be truly disastrous. But the re- wards of victory seem likely, on the other hand, to be consider.
able indeed.
THE BRITISH-FREE FRENCH OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST ANALYSED BY AN
EXPERT
But these things are sure: That if the Germans can but get enough troops into Libya, and be able to maintain them in an offensive against Egypt, they are likely to win; that their
Alexandria and the supply line
must prove their ability to de- Sierra Leone al Gambla) are fend their empire if they are to admirably located for bringing be considered a colonial power direct pressure on the French ability to do so depends on their ability to overcome or neutralise suggests that the Germans colonies of Dahomey, Togoland, British sen power in the Medi- In the strategic, field, assum have pretty well written Syria the Ivory' Const and French
terranean; that this sea power ing full success in Syrin by the off, though of course they may Gainea, and the Niger territory in turn depends on the base at Allies. the Germans will have desire to give this impression of French West Africa. Leen denied a high road into for the purpose of effecting surs Once these were transferred of the. Suez Canal and the Red Egypt from this direction. For prise. Very possibly the Ger to the Free French, and they Sea, and that the Nazis have the Germans to bring pressure mans expect to derive such and their Britishi Allies em never yet willingly abandoned on the Turks to permit passage vantage as they may from the placed on the middle Niger, it ny enterprise to which they of German troops into a Syria Syrian affair by gaining time is hard to see how a direct af have once set their hands.
vance by rond and railway upon We may, therefore, anticipate held only by the cowed Vichy
in North Afrien, and by gain Dakar could be prevented. This further German efforts to deal French might have been pos- ing more French support in the is a matter in which the United with the British in the Middle sible; the same operation, if
Mediterranean area in general. States has a most important East, whether in Syria, Cyprus certain to meet with fierce re- sistance at the Syrian frontier, would be a very different mat-
Hongkong Telegraph key as a military zone.
By Major Fielding Eliot
or Egypt.
Meanwhile, it is becoming fairly clear that those who
ter, requiring the establishment If they could have free use of stake, for Dakar in the hands maintained that Germany could of large supply depots and a Tunisia they could make Gen, of the Free French is a very not wage effective war on two different matter from Dakur in fronts were right, for the in- complete line of communications Rommel's tusk much easier.
the hands of Vichy and liable crease in the scale of German service on Turkish soil, in effect All these considerations go to at any moment to be taken over air efforts in the Mediterranean has been followed by a sharp a full Nazi occupation of Tur: show how gravely important is by the Germans,
decrease of their efforts against This the whole Middle Eastern cam-
The United States could do a Great Britain. Whatever the the Turks would be unlikely to paign, and how widespread may grant without a fight, especial- be the consequences of success great deal to support and for outcome in the Mediterranean, ly since they will be relieved or failure there. While Britain ward such a movement in West the British may at least claim holds fast to the Suez Canal and Africa, and it would be a fur--to have gained valuable time in of any apprehensions as to their the naval base at Alexandria, ther consolidation of position as the really decisive theatre of Germany is denied the use of against any Axis attempt to the war, but that time will be Syrian and Iraq frontiers.
the Mediterranean, While the push southward, while it would of value largely in proportion to In any case the initial contact
desert frontiers of Syria and certainly give Gen.. Weygand the use made of it to assure the between the Germans and the Iraq remain inviolate, Germany much to think of. If it could arrivals of American supplies This is another bears the indication "UTH is received in defenders of Suez has been is denied access to Middle East- be combined with a resounding and weapons.
moved forward- from the Pales- ern oil. While the Nile Valley defent of the Axis forces in point to which the apostles of
their attention.-(M.I.) nerve sil rights and forbid republications,tine frontier to that of Syria, remains in British hands, Ger- Libya, the war might take a delay in America might give
Tuesday, July 15, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615
THE prex "Special to the Telegraph"
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SIGNIFICANT PLEDGE
BRITAIN and Soviet Russia have signed an
a difference of 300 miles.
is a considerable gain.
This many is denied the only natural new turn.
getaway through the Sahara
Desert into Central Africa.
There will be a great gain in All this means that the bloc- GRIN AND BEAR IT time also. No audden reversal kade of Germany remains in- of Turkish policy in favour of tact; more, that the Nazi re agreement-Germany can now bring a quick voluntionary dynamic, which
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which provides that neither frontier; it will take too long to self, is dammed back from ex- prepare and mount any German panding into Africa and Asia. shall conclude a separate peace effort of the type which will it would be too much to say with Nazi Germany or her al-
now be needed.
that the war would be lost werel lies, and lest the cynics should
Hence Syria, once occupied, the Middle East lost; but cer- endeavour to minimise the im- can be held with a minimum tainly its course would be im- grow far portance of this step by pointing garrison and the British can measurably prolonged, the road
devote major attention, with to victory would out that France signed a similar Ethiopia disposed of and Iraq steeper and rougher than it is declaration with Britain, yet quiet, to the most pressing dan at present-which is saying a violated it, it is well to be re- ger-that on the western fron- great deal.
tier of Egypt. As to this, we minded that the circumstances shall presently discover whether
In the political field, the Ger- under which the two pacts were the diversion of British naval made are essentially different. forces during the battle of Crete mans may well find that a com- enabled sufficient reinforcements bined British-Free French occu-j Russia has committed herself and supplies to reach Libya to pation of Syria is less advan- to the obligation-three-weeks-give-Gon. Rommel any hope of tageous to their cause than they after sanguinary warfare and taking the offensive. If Rom- may have hoped. It is difficult mel thinks he has a chance he to see how assumption of the must, therefore, feel reasonably will be very likely to make some Syrian mandate by the Free confident that she can carry out move while part of the British French-as appears forecast by the terms, otherwise the gesture forces are busy in Syria. is pointless. France repudiated her promise three weeks after
MARCONIPHONE, ALL WORLD RADIO the Nazi invasion when the will
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Gen. Catroux's remarkable pro- clamation to the inhabitants- can fail to be followed by Anglo- American recognition of the As to German interference Free French in greater measure directly to support the Vichy than at present, of the people was already at a French in Syria, this is a prob
If a joint enterprise in Syria terribly low ebb and the French lem which, from the German
was disorganised. The viewpoint, is difficult to solve proves successful, it ought im- without a base, The nearest mediately to be followed up by Anglo-French commitments con-
Africa, where the British cerning separate peace with the Axis base is Rhodes, more than a joint enterprise in West 100 miles away; this is probably colonites (Nigerin, Gold Coast, enemy were made before the
an insuperable handicap to the war had properly started conduct of anything like con- when, in fact, United States and tinuous operations with air- many other neutral States were borne troops, and such opera- tions if sporadic are unlikely of describing the conflict 29 "phoney," Russia and Britain, success. Cyprus would be an admirable base for the Ger-
the same solemn pledge after tance factors favour the British,
By Lichty
L
diski, Chicago Miami, Ind
Pág. U. A T&S DIT, AN NIA, RAM,
"Now try to enjoy yourself at the Browns to-night, Edgar.— You know how destructive they were at our party!”
Officers and
Gentlemen
on the other hand, have made mans, but here again the dis- A into the office of a major who had held important posts, seem to heed it. He came thousands
the former has been fighting with great tenacity and fear lessness for three weeks and has been able to measure with some accuracy the fighting actual and potential of the enemy, and the latter hns for 13 months en-
dured even more at the hands
of the Nazis.
PRIVATE soldier walked salesmen, bank clerks, and somet There was one man who did not come private in the Black Watch. and we must surely assume at an Officers' Training Unit. A few were of Colonel Bing-of miles from the Argentine to be- Thirty-four years of ago-wealthy, that before the advance into I was the private. The major ham's standard--Eton and Ox- Syria began the defences of had the look of all a major ford and men. from old families with Argentine nationality-although be-nuat moustache,but 70 per cent.' were as good British-born, he had no need to join Cyprus were brought to a scale should
a cross-section of our commu-lin the war excret his devotion to the who was killed In the last war. sufficient to make the island sim, Brm juw. reasonably secure.
Here was I about to begin nity as would be met anywhere, land of his father,
They tried to teach him the com- marching by The line taken by the German training to be an officer. Create In the afternoon we were asked
paper: "What do you think of compass, and reading a map. They propaganda-that the French a good impression-a smart to give our opinion on a piece of pileations of tactics
salute that was the thing.
tried to impart the wisdom of the Colonel Bingham?
General Staff. but he disdained As I stood stifly to attention
The 75 per cent. were wary, it all.
"Fix bayonets and charge," he told The distinction is of prime eventuality which makes the I noticed something in front of
latest Anglo-Russian pledge all me. It was the major's out-and many of them, gave their
them. "That's the way to get the Germuns-with steel." importance, and the fact that the more significant, for it Im-stretched hand. I looked at it views without signing them. the Soviets at this time are plements M. Stalin's assurance and continued to stand to atten- willing to commit themselves to that the Russians will, if neces-tion. He smiled and I under- such an unequivocal pledge in- sary, pursue a "scorched earth" stood. He wanted to shake dicates not only that they are policy, luring the Nazi hordes hands a major with a private.
I clasped his hand and that to the routine of the Officers' confident and determined to into the vast hinterland of the withstand the Nazi offensive, Soviet Union where they will be was the beginning of my train-Training Unit the Captain gave
"Don't be worried about Staff-that's a new order. But on but that the grandiose claims of confronted with guerilla war-ling to become an officer and a talk. Buccess made by the Germans fare, lack of resources and com- gentleman. are to some extent a figment of modities, interrupted lines of Goebbels' highly developed imu- communication, and abotage gination.
By the same token, it must be admitted that the Russian armica face 4 perilous situation; In fact, the immediate outlook
is anything but consoling. The eventual collapse of sections of the Stalin Linb is not impossible which means, very probably the lose of Leningrad and Moscow, But It la recognition of this
Russians have the courage and
order.
FTER our first day of
lectures and introduction FN the middle of our course the Captain read out a War Offles "Gentlemen," said the Captain, you will be called Mister by the
R.T.U.," he said.
parade the sergeant-major will not I asked him the meaning of call you Mister he can't sweat at: a man for turning left about and call
you
him.Mister in the same BS
length
becbene
the
on a tremendous scale. If the ON the following morning at the initials.
my first lecture the Cap- "Cadets who prove unsatis know." We laughed and
We factory are Roturned To their. In 12 weeks- Gentlemen" determination to carry out this tain began, "Gentlemen." policy and there, is no reason privates, despite our white hat Unit, he explained. "But course the
But most acceptable of all was the
Argentine. As W to doubt this-then their pledge bands, sign of the officer cadet, none of you need worry-the acceptable, and so did the "Mister."
man from the drunka to Britain will remain honoured shuddered a little. People look-only people who are returned!
and Impossible parted on the train for our first leave as officers, he turned round to until the day that Hitler meets ed round to nce whom he was aro his. doom; us for the United addressing. Then we realised lopes."
Despite the Captain's renesar-lus all. There was a gleam in his oyes the news of German evanes Kingdom and her Empire, there he meant all of us,
Back in the billots I met the ing words the mention of R.T.U. in the Enst was fresh in our minds. can never be any talk of peaco
“Gentlemen," he said, "fx bayonets There were except on the terms proposed mon who were on approval with continued to strike terror into by her and her Allles.
aur
peace-time us.
and charge,