Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
WINTER SPORT
Cartoon by Billiken
LENINGRAD
ODESSA
MOSCOW
DREADS THE WINTER
HITLER
RUSSIAN
The German campaign in ences in most of its western
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September 20, 1941.
SHALL WE INVADE?
By Major-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller
TO myself, at least, it is an our fighters will almost certainly extraordinary thing, verging be outnumbered. Once again the almost on an inferiority complex, Crete invasion proved this. that whenever a fresh crisis arises we talk of invasion, by which we mean invasion of these shores. Yet, strange to say, cach new aggression has not only left our const inviolate, but our de- fences stronger.
That we should be prepared to resist such an assault is too obvious to need accentuation.
What is not so obvious is that we should daily be frustrating the possibilities of such an at- tempt by every means at our disposal. That is, we should put invasion into reverse and invade in order not to be invaded,
Now there are two forms of invasion-the unlimited and the limited, The object of the first is the knock-out followed by the occupation of the enemy's coun- try. That of the second-dis- traction leading to dispersion, Russia has entered the areas a relative uniformity the first snows often fall in enemy's forces and resources. In Moscow and Leningrad confusion and exhaustion of the month of September and of climate. Winds, often of early October, and
Which of these methods should weather always a vital gale force, sweep across the rarely melt until Winter has upon ability to move, which is they be put into practice depends factor in the fate of armies flat plains and vast forests, ended. Many of the cities governed by earth, sen and air. -assumes increasing im- From north to south the of Russia between white As the third is common to the portance with each passing Winter is very cold and the cities for six day.
to seven other two, for a moment I will snow very deep; the Summer months, or even more. Inset it aside and consider the first The terrible difficulties of is very hot, and there is re- the Ukraine and the warmer and second. Russia more than a year latively little rain.
southern areas the snow ago in breasting the ram parts of the northern snows frost lasting until late April these regions comes earlier.and we being an oceanic empire
comes somewhat later and are long, is not so heavy. during the Finnish cam- and sometimes until, fate
Spring in GERMANY being a Continental country is an earth Power, paign are but a small in- May. After the relatively from Leningrad to the Arc-tion as it may at first seem,
In the extreme north, dication of the problems short but hot Summer, about tic, where the open lakes though in unlimited invasions it are a sea Power; yet, contradic that may beset the German which the Germans have and armies if they are caught by frequently complained, Win- Winter in the midst of an active campaign along a 2,000-mile battle front.
European Russia and a great part of Asiatic Russia are a great plain, broken only by the low reaches of
The Winters
By Hanson W. Baldwin
the Ural Mountains, which ter closes in early. In the
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waterways and the is obviously easier for Germany swampy tundra make the to invade a Continental Power terrain virtually one vast than these islands, conversely, morass in Summer, freezing invade Germany on an unlimited it is nearly as difficult for us to temperatures might facili- scale as it is for her to invade tate a German offensive, if us. the
properly Why and how is this? equipped and trained for Winter warfare.
men were
SETTING nalde economie, col-
lapae and revolution within these islands or Germany, in which case invasion becomes mera occupation, and also that neither country can transport of thousands of tons of arms and millions of men with hundreds supplies through the air, we are left with invasion in its limited form-nevertheless, with this
difference:
Whilst Germany can only carry out such operations by. air, we can carry them out by air and sea.
Here we atifhd at a tremen- dous advantage, so much so that we should have cashed-in on every occasion upon which our enemy turned against another Continental nation.
greatest of all his unlimited land To-day he is engaged in the
is the supreme moment to dis- invasions; therefore, surely now tract him by a series of limited const lines of Norway, Holland; overseas invasions-raids on the Belgium, France, Sardinia, Sicily and Greece. What for?
To compel him to look in many directions and not. only at Rus- sia, in order to perplex and worry his high command,
being moved to his eastern To compel him to defend his now vast shore lines and so impede reserves and supplies front.
These compulsions will assist in lengthening out his invasion, which in turn will weaken him, leaving him, should victory be eitheir form than ever before. his, less able to invade us in
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Well, look at the problem a SUCH was Sir Francis Drake's little closer. As regards Ger-
idea, and had Queen Eliza- many, we have 4,000,000 armed beth but listened to him, it is Excepting this area, where men in this country; we have probable that the Spanish Arma- exceedingly efficient Air da would have never sailed. This
these great preparations of the.
"Most renowned Prince
vented by sending your Spaniards may be speedily pre- forces to encounter them some-- what far off, and more near their own coasts, which will be. the better cheap (mare advan- people, and much the dearer for
mark the border between Urals the temperature drops some of Germany's mountain an European and Asiatic Rus- to freezing as early as the divisions have been stationed and. Force and the most powerful is what he wrote to her on Apri sia, and by the winding first part of September; in where the Germans would have Navy in the world. Even were 28, 1588; courses of numerous rivers, Western and Southern Rus- the help of Finnish troops ex- the Germans to gain for a period the largest in Europe. In sia frosts start in the be- perienced in Winter warfare, it command of the sea, how many the west-central portion of ginning of October; in the would be able to continue in the have to land in order to subdue seems unlikely that Germany men, machines, etc, would they the country-south and east Caucasus they begin_in_the_Winter operations on the pre- us? Unless we are without arms of Lake Ilmen, near the middle of November.
sent scale. area that has formed a
She probably would and also a knock-kneed bunch of have insuflicient equipment for cravens an equivalent force battleground for some of
Most of Russia is locked in a 2,000-mile Winter front, and This is a sheer impossibility the German thrusts-is tha ice by mid-November. By the intense cold, the frequent unless command of the sea is tageous) for your Majesty and low morass plateau of the December 20 virtually all high winds and the deep snow permanent, and even then, with Valdai Hills, the watershed the rivers are frozen solid would materially handicap her. the shipping she has, it would the encu from which some of the and sledges may be driven In only one way-river cross-take months and months to dis- across them. From Octo facilitated, but this advantage Surely Crete has taught us how principal rivers of the coun-
ings-might the German task be embark an army of millions. try flow north into the Bal- bar to March great winds probably would not compensate impotent she is to carry troops tic or Arctic, or south into blow, especially on the tun- for the disadvantages the Ger- across the sea. the Black Sea-Caspian area along the Arctic coast, and first snows found them still dras, or treeless, regions, man armies would incur if the Because of its flat the steppas, the grain-farm- on the Soviet's limitless
locked with the Russian hordes uniformity, Russia experi- ing regions in the south. tern plains.
Good Whisky-
wes.
JOHNNIE WALKER
Born 1820-still going strong
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YET, seeing that we do possess command of the sen, how comes it that we cannot invade her on unlimited lines? The answer is: even if we had the shipping to transport millions of men-which we have not-all extensive overseas invasiona must take the form of an army marching through a tunnel the sea-its far end being the land. Though a fraction of the invading host may emerge, long before the romainder can do so and deploy, those already landed will be halted, when those still in the tunnel are liable to be bottled up.
Note this: the
Free French
Airman Decorated
20 of the Free French Air Force, CORPORAL du Fretay, aged, is the first Free French airman to have been decorated by King Georgo. Pattinson, Air Officer Command- Alr Marshal L. A. ing in Chief Flying Training Command, presented the Medal. of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire, now known as the British Em- pire Medal, to Corporal Maurice Halna du Fretay. It was awarded for meritorious service.
France in a
Du Frelay
clay escaped from occupied which he assembled secretly in a a single-engined aeroplane greater the force the longer thewood at his home. During the day tunnel.
THUS for earth and sea, what now of the third element of movement the air?
he camouflaged the aircraft with branches and leaves and when night fell he worked by the light of a torch to complete his machine.
Petrol was scarce, and Du Fretay had to wait for a tail wind to help him on his journey, as his supply of opportunity came one afternoon, and petrol was barely sufficient, The with a few personal effects; he took off from the avenue in front of his home. An hour and hull later he taken the risk of being shot down by landed safely in England, having patrolling German fighters, by Hur- riennes and Spitfires or by anti- aircraft fire,
To gain command of either the sea or land,, first it is eason tial to gain command of the air. Were the Germans able to do so last summer? No! Then why should they be able to do it to-day, or to-morrow? Yet, can- not we? In an unlimited inva sion my answer is-uel Because, In presenting the medel, Air failing the entire destruction of the German air force, which is nt present out of the question, the target offered to air attack, even should disembarkation take place at several points; will be
Marshal Pattinson asid, speaking In French, "Corporal du Fretay gave a fine example of those qualities of bind together the Allies in their enterprise and determination which struggle against their enemy and which will bring them victory.
so immense that no partial com Du Frelay is now under training mand. of the air will aufice to as pilot at an RAF Flying Train protect it Fürther unless the ing School Recently he had his por- localities selected 2
embarkation argit
out home, or frie
distrait painted by Henry Lamb, A.R.A., unroof. Khd it was hung in this year's: Royali
Academy-slow-will the title of Young wrench Alrman."
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