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and all that; the Royal Navy mobilised; fleets out in the blue ready for action; Lou- don breathlessly watching the drama
of tho. Chamberlain- Hitler-Mussolini talks; - rapid hasty preparations for war: air raid trenches scarring the parks and open spaces-how amateur they would scom to-day-yet no sign of panic among the people. On the top of the bus, in the casual encounter in the grocer's shop, you heard the grin half" rueful comment, "Well it's time Hitler was told where to stop, and if it has got to come it's got to come!"
September 3, 1941.
TWO YEARS
OF WAR
BY JOHN DENNY
servo all rights and torbid republications people on the Continent: At First Four Months
FAREWELL TO AN ABLE
ADMINISTRATOR
THE WINTER of 1940 saw the chief inlarest changed to Greece and "Africa, Italy, stabbing Greece in
the back in approved Fascist fashion, : had met with unexpected resistence which no trick of Mussolini could overcome.
Wavell
brbice In Afrien
had
the Italian armies and started the campaign which although adversely altered by a German thrust pushing back the Imperial forces to Tobruk, successful and brillant results in the completo elimination of Italian rule from Abyssinia, Somaliland and Eritrea. To this victory, Empire forces, British, Australians, Indians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Sudanese and African units on land and in the air, made a well-knit con- tribution.
Yugo-
Germany's advance through slavia and Bulgaria against Greece in support of the pitifully outfought Italions was for a time strongly re- sisted by British Imperial forces in alliance, with the herole Greeks, both on the Grecian mainland and at
Crote They could not however,
yet another German occupa- tlon in Athens and the evacuation of Crelo, after a valuable time gaining defence, followed.
Meanwhile, German submarines and aircraft had engaged in the Bat- tle of the Atlantic, and from Janu- ary, 1941 to the present time that battle slient and gravely, destructive of British tonnage, has been raging.
In the
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Then came the dramatic news of the Munich agreement. For the time, reality seemed to be forgotten. The uppermost thought in the mind of a nation, which had long sensed the futility of war and its waste of young life, was of profound re- llef, of intense gratitude, to the Prime Minister who had brought what, in calmer mu- ments, most people felt was only a respite. Chamberlain's
In close parallel with the be- minute offer of an act of union There again, the Germans were held landing in England, triumphant-
hind been diminished, Although ly brandishing the scrap of ginning of that other challenge between France and England so that by July British losses at sca paper pledging Hitler's fidelity to Germany twenty-five years from Winston Churchill, Franco even now it is far too early to speak to a pact which was to prevent carlier, the last days of peace asked to be released from her of final conclusions, there is a con- ndence that, thanks to the tenacity war between Great Britain and were uncertain with apprehen- obligations to her ally.
of the Merchant Navy, the unlimited Germany, vividly illustrated the sion lest the country would be
great American re-
ก Phone 27778-9 amazing optimism which had confronted with another un- ON June 22, and June 24, res- support of the
public, as well as the vigliance of pectively. France had signed the Royal Navy and the Royal Air emerged so swiftly and which, availing sop to an insatiable
will be worsted. alas, was to be so relentlessly glutton. On Sunday, September armistices with Germany and Force, the enemy will
3. 1939, doubts were resolved, Italy. The latter was a bitter, ship, the Bismarck-a loss which to ho has lost his finest shattered.
The Prime Minister told his tragi-comical aggravation of him is for greater than that of the Illusions Destroyed people and the world that Great French distress. Italy had been food to Great Britain, however SIX MONTHS later, the Britain once more was at war biding her time, flambuoyantly much the
thunder of German tanks with Germany, In the light of flourishing Mussolini's spiritual battle cruiser and the loss of her
the gangster men have to be deplored. through Prague destroyed all after-events, it is now recalled allinity with
of Germany. Italy Navy's Work Illusions left. There were not as a curious portent that her regime RO many then, because, during French ally delayed the declara- had since the outbreak of the that winter, the Nazi gangsters lion for a few hours. Moreover, war profited by a false neutra-THE ROYAL NAVY'S (osk became enhanced by the showed themselves quite unable the sense of anti-climax was lity. Then, in Indecent hast, immeasurably to maintain for long the pose created by a prompt alert in lest she should be too late for loss of France as an ally, for the French coast, almost enveloping the temporarily assumed at Munich. London which turned out to be the spoils, she had formally de- South of England and giving a elear Through the summer of 1939 a false alarm. London was declared war on the side of Ger- field for submarines, became an im the war cloud grew ever blacker. atined to wait for a long time many on June 11-an assassin's portant German vantage point for stricken despatching submarines and bombers attack shipping in the Atlantic. It might be said that Eng- before it felt the attack of the dastard thrust in a
neighbour's side.
Germany's naval inferiority seemed land did not see it as clearly as enemy from the air.
In the meantime British ot Arst blush after the entry of
entry of Italy inte the_war to be forces in France, with incom- Italian fleet showed no disposition to be mitigated, but the Geneva in May I found the Swiss Government already in-F THOSE first four months, parable skill and indomitable challenge the Royal Navy, which, stituting ก comprehensive- the despatch of British forces bravery, had extricated them with the help of the Royal Air Force the Fleet Air Arm, was able to scheme of food rationing-a to France and their arrival on selves from an apparently hope reduce the Italian Navy to insignif
Brillah wise precaution for a little re- the Maginot Line, the rapid or- less position and managed, by
proportions. Even when public landlocked in the midst ganisation of the nation for de- the help of the Royal Air Force, had to run the gauntlet in of war-menaced Europe. fence, the eagerness of men and the Royal Navy and the. Mer- the Mediterranean, exposed to at- In July I had to tour London women to serve and the difficul- cantile Marine, which, for the tacks from the air, British naval and included even alr supremacy was enough to ensure. and the provinces, meeting ty they experienced in obtaining emergency,
non-fulfilment of Thames pleasure boats and people of all kinds of interest fulfilment, of their wishes, the
dream of the Mediterranean and occupation. In the rarefed swift entry of the Royal Navy barges, seaside steamers and Italian lake.
The remnants of the Italian Navy atmosphere of Whitehall, I upon its occasions as guardan Private yachts, to accomplish a found a quiet but almost settled of the British trade routes, its wonderful evacuation in the re- discreetly kept in harbour, even conviction that war before the stifling of German seaborne turn of 335,000 men to home though light British naval forces on the sea. Malta showed the end of summer was inevitable. commerce and its relentless en- shores, at the price, heavy way to disposing of Italian claims, In England generally there was forcement of the blockade with enough far less than had at that gallant island, unceasingly at stern determination to resist the co-operation of its French once been feared-of 30,000 tacked from the air, maintained its any further aggression on the comrades, it is not necessary to killed, wounded and missing.. in the summer of 1941, Italian light Continent. There was equally write much in detail.
Epic Of Dunkirk naval air craft; in a forlorn hope, attacked Valetto, none of the abo01- n profound belief that the strength of Great Britain was battle between Germany and
By the turn of the year the THE EPIC of Dunkirk, for lants lived to tell the tale, thanks to retirentent in health and pros- such that Hitler could not dare the Western Powers had not tributed alone to the gallantry Royal Malta Artillery and the Royal the efficiency and vigilance of the epic it was, cannot be at- perity and in the confidence to challenge it. If he did, as been joined. Stagnation of the resourcefulness and tenacity of Navy, that they will find plenty of one sturdy East Anglian farmer chief conflict, after the tragic the mer engaged. Once again the sudden German assault on Rus- enterprises to replace the full-put it, it would be because, Poor dismemberment of gallant Pons in the days of Queen Eliza- sla gave Homeric irony to the boast-
creature. he did not know the ness of their lives here,
truth of the situation or wag land, enabled the public to con- beth when the Armada was put ings which had sought to Justify to centrate on the exploits of the to flight, the weather fought for sign Pact on the eve of the outbreak Most of their achieve- unable to gauge the conse ments in Hongkong have to do quences of his own internal Royal Navy, especially in the Great Britain, and the calmness of war. Despite his declared inten- policy. Everywhere, my notes story of the battle of the River of the narrow sea made possible tions, Hitler was thereby forced to with cultural and relief activi- recorded, were signs of inten- Plate, which saw the Graf von a rescue on a scale quite incon- fight
quick victory was speedily ties-two branches of public life sive recruitment for civil de Spee come to an ignominious ceivable had the normal volati- ridiculed by events. which will always demand at- fence and territorials. There end, her herols Commander vin- lity of these waters prevailed. showed devastating powers of resis-
own seamanship This blow characteristically tance. The titanic battle was no hysteria and no particu. dicating his tention. The administrative side lar anxiety, for, to quote from and valour by self-destruction. stimulated rather than cowed mechanised might and masses of His Excellency's tenure of those notes which I have with
troops; engaged from the Aretle The United States of America the national spirit of Great
to the Black Seu, continued me still, "the underlying con- was probing the situation in the Britain. Apparently lying at to the German war machine office was largely dictated by the
viction was that, although no early spring of 1940. Mr Sum- the mercy of the German victors to the uttermost. In the air the exigencies of war; much of it
British were pounding in ever-in- weight on German towns was necessary; some of it was
touring Europe for President prepared to defy their fate with and Roosevelt whose second term of a vigour, phlegmatic driving the Russian armies, and Berlin was unpopular. The total picture
office was coming to an end. force and electric team- given practical evidence of cannot be judged in the light of
work which carried the country reality of the double front when its temporary character and it
ate days rained bombs upon it." must be accepted as i con- scientious effort to adjust a thriving business community to the artificial conditions created
THE departure of His Excel- lency the Governor Sir Geoffry Northcote, is the occasion of the customary valedictory speeches and regrets which, in all com- munities serve to bow out of public life the servant who has done his duty to the best of his ability. We join in the unanim- ous wish that Sir Geoffry and Lady Northcote will enjoy their
TO-DAY KING'S by potential war.
AT THE
WITH
DIRECTLY CONFLICT IN CENTRE
DEATH IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR FACES CHAN!
14.as he stalks an enrie killer
In aweird chamber of horrors!
The critics call it "the best Chan hit yet!!
CHARLIE CHAN
AT THE
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COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE
It therefore appears what has been achieved in the
cont
the
were
Mussolini's an an
calm and integrity, Moreover, when
Towards the end of the two years,
on amazed German people the, Rus-
on. two fronts. His promise of
The Russians
Ocstrain
of
effort must be spared to con- ner Welles was the rapporteur on the continent, the British asstrial centres in support of
solidate the country, war would not come."
under
the
the second year has drawn to a
Cry For Churchill
War In Earnest through those weeks of grim Russian and British planes on altern- THE London Press was de-
manding the inclusion of Mr TN APRIL, the drama began in peril. The Home Guard sprang
real earnest. Germany seized out of the ground, as it were.. Road To Victory Winston Churchill in the Gov. crnment. This view was echoed, key points in Norway after The beaches, the roads, the indeed led, by the "Yorkshire overrunning Denmark.. The streets, the towns were trans- close, Vichy Franco has gradu- Post" in Leeds, but generally Norwegians, who were taken formed into a network of obsta- ally come more ignominiously under that the provinces, and therefore the unawares, had to succumb to cles and defences under the he German yoke, and, after losing leadership of Churchill, who Syrla and surrendering bases to the country as a whole, were con- occupation by their powerful had already announced the un- Japanese in Indo-China, is moving Inst few years is an ameliora: tent to rely on Chamberlain. neighbours, thanks in large shakeable determination of the tion with Germany to the point of Darlan toward full collabora- If war could be avoided, Cham- measure to the sinister activ!- Empire and its allies to regard toping American friendship. In the tion of the acute problems with which the Colony is beset: dire berlain would be the man to tics of their Quislings. The un victory as their solo preroga- United States of America, the gather
achieve that feat. If he led the availing efforts of the Brit sh poverty, unrestricted immigra- tion and over-population, cor- country into war, then it was a forces on sea, in the air, and on tive. The country had rallied ing dynamic force of material aid in nerons the Atlantle, has been war which no skill in statesman- land to give the Norwegians in earnest; nor was it too soon. mones and munitions, steadily pour- By the middle of July, the reinforced by important decisions 10 ruption, racial discrimination, taxation anomalies, labour dis- ship could have averted. It sufficient support to prevent putes, town planning and pros- would be a war in which every the German occupation came as German air force began its at- occupy Greenland and Increase the United States itself. In tune with titution just to mention a few. shade of political opinion would a shock to the people of Great tack on London. Hitherto it strength of the fighting forces in the had contented itself with occa- Great Britain and the Netherlands Britain. The work of succeeding ad- be united in prosecuting.
sional raids on Scotland, const Government, as well as Australia, ministrators when peace
August followed with tho re-
The resignation of Chamber towns and the like, but in mid- Washington has been lending diplo
power to restraint of Japan's turns to the world will be clouds banking up in unmis
new democracy are to be ex- tended to this outpost.
ing
the
Allies and
have
threat
10
of Italy,
now
brought more directly to bear on takable blackness. Parliament lain followed and Winston Chur- July enemy reconnaissance in s to aid the Axis in the Pacific. chim; called upon to form a new
as Indo-Ching, with There must have been few administration, left the nation to be the main object of attack. Members of the two Houses and the Empire in no doubt of On August 16 Croydon was Thailand, had impelled a more im who did not realise that the the gravity of the task he had raided.. Nine days later the first peralive note in representations by.
and the United States. His Excellency can take away vacation would be short. Hit- assumed. "Blood, tell, tears and enemy bomba fell on centrals The third year thus opens with the September the grim recognition that Great Britain with him the conviction that he ler's attempt to secure the neu- sweat would be the portion of London. By
still a
a herd row has done as much as could be trality of Russia and his threats the British people and their "Battle of Britain" was well in and her alles done in these parlous times to to Poland brought the danger allies in their renewed pledges progress, and the R.A.F. had to hae. But
u German province, the bold resil ease the Colony into the new nearer. When the invasion of to fight till victory was ensured. already shown the enemy a taste veness of the peoples in German tempo, and his task in this re- Poland was launched, the die He entered office Just. when the of its quality. That atory need cupled territory, the weighty colla- Germans had fallen upon Benot be told here, for it is on re- boration of Russia, and the closing gard has not been alded by the was cast.
gium and the Netherlands and cord in burning words which of the ranks in the Far East against laissez faire attitude which has
let loose a fury of machanised have gone round the Empire all, sill upholds the Bing of freedom China, veteran of them Japan-while characterisad Hongkong for so long. While the administration to deny that Hla Excellency has columns which turned the flank and the world. Its climax was and refuses to bow her head--por- continues to be the impersonal had to leave unsolved many of the Maginot Line, ruthlessly reached on September 16 when tend the beginning of a successful ambilons mouthpiece of a Colonial Office matters to which he would beat down the herole resistanco 185 German planes were shot move to thwart the vile In London that tries to run all willingly have turned his hand of the Netherlands and Belgium, down by a force which the Ger- of Germany. When that move gels under way, the experience and de- territories it controls into one if time and circumstance had cut off the British Expeditionary mans outnumbered three to one, termination arrayce across the world mould there is little chance for permitted. For what he has Force and penetrated so far into By the end of October the "Bat- by the democracies should show the An administrator oven of the done the Colony thanks him: French territory that, in the tlo of Britain" had been won, road to victory. For nothing less Nazism' is entertained. In the minds. personality of our own depart for what remains to be done we space of a little over a month, and on November 1 the R.A.F. than victory over the evil furces of Ing Governor, to satisfy local de look with expectation to his suc- German troops were in Paris. staged what was, to that dato, of any man who cares for liberty and mands. It would be hypocrisy cessors,
On June 16, despite a last its heaviest raid on Berlin. civilised progress-ay, life itself, (*)
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