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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1939.

Ubery, Supreme Court

War Strength Of The European Powers Compared

Anonymous Author CHINESE

And Soviet

REFUTE JAP.

"The Military Strength of the Powers" (Gol- CLAIMS

lancz. 7/6), by an anonymous author, is published at a moment when many readers are likely to turn to its pages for guidance.

CHUNGKING, TO-DAY. JAPANESE CLAIMS THAT OVER 20 CHINESE DIVISIONS

It is a remarkable book. Its figures appear to be fairly accurate, so far as they are known, and the opinions expressed are supported by a wealth of documentation from the Press and other military |BY THE writers in a number of countries.

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GOVERNMENT GIVES WAY TO LABOUR

LONDON, TO-DAY.

A LABOUR AMENDMENT TO THE MILITARY TRAINING BILL COM- WAS ACCEPTED IN THE MITTEE STAGE OF THE MEA- SURE BY THE GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY.

The amendment provides that ARE TRAPPED IN HUPEH AND employers' liability to pay a maxi- WITH AN- mum of four weeks salary if they men returning NIHILATION, ARE DECLARED do not reinstate ARE THREATENED TO BE ENTIRELY GROUNDLESS from military service, should be

MILITARY SPOKES-extended to 12 weeks salary.

Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, Parlia MAN.

The spokesman says the expan-mentary Secretary to the Ministry

and difficult terrain of Labour, announced that the Gov I should not be unfair to him if I said that the sive

who have too few troops to sur-militiamen returning from military author's main thesis is the invincibility and effi-belies the claims of the Japanese, ernment intended to arrange

work service and not obtaining ciency of the Russian army. His facts and figures round the large Chinese force.

would receive unemployment bene- are impressive. No one can doubt its enormous

fit. Reuter. numbers or its formidable industrial backing:

area

Actually the Japanese have suf- fered considerable losses in Hupeh. Their right wing lost 1,000 killed and the division in the centre was

"In this huge area

Eastern has joined the pact against, aggres- decimated, while the Horiuchi de- on the left wing was can de- sion, she, with her 60 or 70 divi-tachment Europe-mobile wartare

se-effectively checked and its Chief of velop with the support of Russia, the sions, can give the collective

Reuter. Soviet Union, has the strongest war curity forces in the East an over- Staff killed. potential, the most mobile army whelming military superiority. and the most powerful offensive weapong."

be

£28,000 SPENT ON BURMA-CHINA ROAD

has

No contribution to this sum, he added, had been made from any source outside Burma.

Of the German army the author speaks with great respect, and sug- gests that it could ultimately mo- RUSSIA'S 10,000 TANKS Russia has apparently at leastbilise no fewer than 300 divisions, 10,000 tanks, and the author quotes though he admits that 200 of these the "Wehrmacht," a German mili- would not be composed of first- that the line troops, and he seems to doubt

London, To-day. saying tary organ, as

equipment would

Rather less than $28,000 strength of the Russian Air Force whether

not less available for them. He emphasises in 1937 must have been

immense number of tanks, been expended on improvements to machnis,

the than 15,000 to 17,000

7,000, and the boldness of their tank the Burma-China road, declared The author then adds:

for Burma, in the House of Com- European military experts are of doctrine, which contemplates their Lt. Col. Muirhead, Under-Secretary the opinion that the Red Air Force employment in great masses.

Her air arm is no less powerful, mons yesterday. is by far the strongest in the world,'| not only numerically, but also in the aim being to create by 1939- the matter of quality. .Numbers 40 no fewer than 8,000 to 10,000 He believes, however,

Asked whether the Government and first-class technique comple-machines:

Red Air that once again she will meet her ment each other in the

two fronts would give serious consideration to the defence of Burma against Force, and the Soviet air. industry | fate. by the war on is served by absolutely modern and which was her undoing in 1914.

The book devotes rather less unauthorised Chinese immigration, but Lt. Col. Muirhead said that while progressive scientific laboratory

to the French army, space

these fears would unnecessarily work.

the enormous expert, draws attention to

power of the Maginot arise, the permanent consequences also to this defensive

Line. The author thinks, how-of the road were recognised as

Reuter. being Important. The author discusses the position ever, that her force is undully force hardly camps,' weak and her tank of "Poland between two

of her sufficient to meet the Germans. He gives accurate figures

remarks BRITISH REARMAMENT mobilised strength, but

He deals fully with British rear- that she is weak on the munitions side. Her doctrine is offence at mament, as well as Italian difficul- all costs, and her large forces ofties. cavalry indicates her preference.

He quotes the German Colonel von Bulow, effect.

"

He says:

With French naval support the Now that the die is cast, and she British Mediterranean Fleet would

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London, To-day. The Ambassador finds Shanghai the most convenient place with which to maintain touch with Bri- tish interests, declared Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for For- eign Affairs, in the House of Com- mons yesterday.

Mr. Butler had been asked where Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr's perma- nent headquarters were.

From Shanghai, said Mr. But- ler, the Ambassador could make ne- cessary periodical visits to the headquarters of the Chinese Gov- ernment and other places such as Peiping, where branch officers were maintained.-Reuter.

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