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TUESDAY, JANUARY

1934.

BRITAIN'S "ANCIENT

DEFENCE FORCES

MONEY LAVISHED ON OBSOLETE WEAPONS

STRONGER AIR FORCE IMPERATIVE

(By Major-General J. F. C. Fuftèr, C.B., D.S.V.)?

[Major-General Fuller, one of the most clear-sighted of mili- tary thinkers, emphasises in this trenchant article the "auicidal folly of neglecting Britain's first line of defence and trusting for security to sceapons which, though more costly than air protection, are ́already obsolete.},

During the war it was the sub- marine and not the capital ship which all but brought us to our knees; yet what do we see to-day?" Of this weapon we have 61,000 tons, France has 97,000, the Unite ed States 77,000, Japan 77,000, and Italy about the same.

Soon France, very wisely, so I think, from her point of view, will possess twice as many of these vessels as we shall, that is 124 to In 1914 the world was armed to some 69, and be it remembered

London.

a motor drive, and at 5.30 rests the teeth. We were armed also, that, in 1914, Germany entered the

again until dipnet.

Heavy Water

If this were not madness enough;"

yet our armaments exerted little war with 271 His only amusement is a game called Numerica, which resembles froce because our policy was paċi-

Had we openly said: In the since 1914 we have reduced our Solitaire. He starts and finishes fic.

jevent of our power, support Franco, destroyers (our anti-submarine the day with this mental exercise,

it is possible, even probable, that weapon) from 216 to 152, and in * * *

war would never have been de- tonnage to-day have less than clared.

France, and 62,000 tons less than : Heavy water, the new poison To-day the greater part of the the U.S.A. Though these figures which may revolutionize science. is world is still armed to the teeth are sufficiently perturbing, the about the most expensive commo-it.is greedy, truculent, and vol-neglect of our Air Force has bonn dity in the world. A gram

costscanic.

What are we doing? nothing short of suicidal. 30. At this rate a teaspoonful We are meandering about with a Here is the arm of the future," would cost £120 and a quart £30-cage of cooing doves in one hand and what do we ace? In 1919 we 1000,

and a blunderbuss in the other. We were in possession of the About 1200 gallons of ordinary are trying to see peace for which powerful Air Force in the world.. water have to be treated to

pro-there is no market and we are hop-To-day we have reduced it by 80 duce three ounces of heavy watering to protect ourselves with arm-per cent, and stand fifth, if not The daily output of Professored forces which are in no way ad-sixth, among the air forces of the Taylor's "factory" at Princeton equate to defend these islands, let nations. University is about half-a-thimbleful. alone accure the Empire or stamp We still bold fast to building about, it will be as difficult for In view of the demands for samples |

out a European conflagration. capital ships costing £5,000,000- Europe to censure Japan with he is planning to increase it to a

It is a strange and terrifying ships which are next to useless for conviction as to oppose her with thimbleful.

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which every nation carries a gun

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on its hip, unless we carry an effec- To pit a battleship against 1,000 tive weapon also we can command aircraft carrying torpedoes or even no respect. How can

we speak a tenth of this number, is about as sensible as to expect a slug to actresses with authority when

even defend ourselves?

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cannot

It

Is this the true situation?

get out of a swarming ant-heap).

This, however, is not the worst,

is; for though we are spending the because the few square miles which

we

Japan is in desperate need of markets. and in seeking them in Asin she is not acting differently from the Powers whose opportunities preceded her own. In theory, sentiment While Europe is preoccupied and sympathy should be on the with her own pressing problems side of China, at whose expense (and perhaps in part because of once more this excision is to be Buch preoccupation), there are made. But have not the weak-hobby. forces of change ceaselessly atinesses of the Chinese themselves work in Asia. The map of Asia, brought this and other losses Spot of Cynicism even to its unfamiliar centre, upon them? Twenty years have The reason why there's no rest colossal sum of £105,000,000 on our comprise the Port of London are promises more and more to re-pussed since Chinn overthrew for the wicked nowadays is be defence forces, to all intents and both the stomach of this country quire and repay our study, her monarchy, and high hopes cause of the huge public demand purposes are impotent, be- and the true heart of the Empire Cause we have refused to heed the If this port goes, "all goes, and to

day only a strong Air Force can lessons of the war. in the West, realista makes head-reform. Instead of reform

Threaten to bomb it way. Yesterday it was what anarchy, corruption, and civil

In 1914 we had a powerful Navy protect it.

breakfast table will fis now called Manchukuo that war have devastated the

based on the capital ship; we had and every A shopkeeper shot a man who witnessed the triumph of a firm country. There are surely lea-was riding his till.

an efficient Army of cavalry, in-tremble; bomb it for three days, He pleaded and definite purpose over in-sons

here for those doctrin- that he only did it in self-defence, fantry, and horse-drawn guns; and not to obliterate but to disorganise effectual protestations-a sad aires who teach that nationul

a microscopic Air Force, still in its it only, and even had we a thou lesson, maybe, but one as old weakness is the way to peace, or '

early infancy. We were equipped and warships and a million armed GREAT THOUGHT as mankind itself. To-day there that democratic theories, applied

Ilke other nations and better. Yet men we should be verging upon. closely in the East or the West alike, are but it takes her best

Men make their own reputations, what happened?

collapse. is reason to expect a

friends to

To-day our Air Force is our first similar development in Inner a swift and certain cure for all

make one for a woman,

Navy No Safeguard line of defence, yet in the yearly Mongolin. Once again, the pros-political evils, Those who pity.

Battleships proved more of an Estimates it stands third on the pect is presented of a demand the plight of China should the

CYNICISM DEPARTMENT

encumbrance than a safeguard, and list. On our Army we spend for autonomy. highly likely to be more resolve to learn from her! followed by actual secassion, mistakes. There is less need to

After a man marrica he finds as for cavalry, and field artillery,|£18,000,000; that is well over twice

they decided the other that it only takes one to make a

nothing outside as much as on our Air Force, and either of which events would commiserate with

slaughter and destruction.

remembering our obligations it is mean the virtual thrusting for-Power most certain to be dis- quarrel.

The weapons which decided the not an excessive figure; but how is ward of a lengthy and formid-comfited by a Japanese thrust to

military operations, or which most it being spent, and for what war able Japanese wedge between wards the heart of Asia. It is STOCK AND SQUAWKS.

we preparing?-this in the Russia and China. Here lle pos-easy to imagine Russia's chagrin The canary fills the house with certainly would have done so had are

the war continued sibilities of the very greatest im at the prospect. Inner Mongolia song, but the stork is net so par-year, were not the old traditional ¡portance.

(Continued on Page 11). The addition in this lies right across the direct line ticular. form of another Manchukuo. to from the Lake Baikal district to that so recently created would Peiping, Tientsin, and the Gulf

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The size and of number.

arme and JEWISH ATTORNEY

DEFIED

mean nothing less than the carry-of Pechihli, a line that might A football club has just signed not the quantity arms, the arms of ing forward of Japanese influence some day have conceivably been on a 17,stone goalkeeper,

a Russia which even theory is that the fellow should along more than half the north-useful to ern frontier of China. That now has been practically dis- be forth his weight in goal. would be clearly in itself a possessed of the Chinese East- weighty matter, even apart fromjern Railway.

In spite of this obvious lesson, immediately after the war, and German Woman's Stand' from then onwards, our one pur-}

In New York.

Lack of transport The Boy Who Created at O's and pose has been to get rid of the

X's

A double-crosser.

HOLLYWOOD. PROVERB Marry in hate; repeat at

sure.

quality weapons, weapons which

Weapons

the turning of Russia's southern facilities has been a great draw- flank. Outer Mongolia, to the back to Mongolia, but the rail- north of such a wedge; has for ways, when they come, may now

we as an industrial, nation can REFUSED TO GIVE EVIDENCE long been more Russian than take other routes, than towards

easily manufacture; Chinese in character and in-the Siberian system. In these

which are so powerful that they lel-can bring the terrors of war to

New Yo clination. At the time of considerations there lies no little

Her blue eyes ansyping, and her the Chinese

every hearth and home and to can slippered foot tapping angrily on revolution, the irony? Lenin declared in 1920 Mongol princes took the op- that it was in China that the

teach the people what to expect, the stone floor of a Federal Bulld- Facts You Did Not and weapons which, should a warfing hallway, Mrs. Maria Griebl portunity to declare their in-British, Empire would be over-

Know. dependence, and Czarist Russia thrown, yet to-day it is precisely

be declared, can end it quickly and blonde": and' definant German assisted them to maintain it. from that ground that the Red

so prevent the world being economatron, declined to tell a Grand' After years of strife between Czardom-as expansionist in de- Japanese have formed a company mically bled to death and thrown Jury at the behest of a "Jewish China and Bolshevist Russia. sire as ever was any Romanoff for the manufacture of automobiles into a delirium of hatred.

District Attorney" what she knows? Outer Mongolia was in effect left is slowly being thrust back in Nagoya,

Look at this question to-day.jöf Nazi affairs in America. ae a buffer State between the Russia on the Pacific coast is

We are faced by three problems: She is the wife of Dr. Ngnat two, with Russian influence still manifestly far weaker than she Provided with three forks, az Home defence, Empire defence, Griebl, president of Dan Neue the stronger. A similar pro-was a year or two ago. She has electric table toaster for marsh and the maintenance of peace in Deutschland and was recently, hoa- cess, though with different fac-in that region accepted rebuffa mallows has been invented." Europe, and that largely depends toss of Heinz Spanknoebel, a Nazi. tors, may now be at work in the which she would at one time?

on the first two. Without security agent now- missing, whose affairs inner province. Japan has for have fiercely resented. Encour-Hungary, has launched an exten- at home nothing is secure; for are under scrutiny of the Federal“ some time claimed the eastern aged thereby, the inpanese, con- sive electrification programme that firmly believe, and there are many authorities, section of Inner Mongolla as part tinue to make for themselves new it will require ten years, to com- who believe with me, that the The "Jewish District Attorney, of her sphere of influence, and is allies and subordinates, The In-plete,

security of these islands is the of whom she spoke in United States, now, it would seem, at work to dependence, real or otherwise,

koystone in the arch of world Attorney George Z, Medalie, who fu conducting", the "investigation to learn whether or not Spanknoebel acted as an emissary of the Hitler s allværed. This keystone need not be large Government, unknown to the State" but it must be of the highest Department here. Sadrz

What are we doing with have a right to be questioned our $105,000,0001 We are doing by a Gentile District Attorney or exactly what, in 1878, Lord Car- Judge, aha snapped, when narvon said we were doing then; orale came to question? her an abe "We Inviat on what is phrointe, walled outside, the Grand

what is essential, and al-room, th

dominate a more extended area which the princes of Inner Mon-Two Cornell University, scientista prace. by means of a well-tried device. golia declare they desire should have, constructed a belescope, that The Mongolian rulers resent their not be hard to win from nower- catches more ultraviolet Ught from treatment by China, and have let icas China. But sho the sta

the

it be seen that they will, if help latter attempt to suppi [fa" needed", in their fight for movement, or Bussis to autonomy, seek it from Manchu that would give the pre cuo, that is, from Japan: Prob haps a welcome one, ably before long the dissatis the aid of faction expressed will become accompany Keener negotiations if any...

will be broken off, and the final stage of the mock drama quickly the alt

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