1939-05-22 — Page 14

ORDEAL

BY

STAIRWAY

A

HUSH falls over the gay

chattering groups as she

glides down the great staircase with

cool, unhurried steps. She holds the

centre of the stage and she knows it.

Only the confidence born of a very slender lissom figure could stand up to ordeal by stairway on an "Orders and Decorations" occasion like tonight. She takes no chances with that willowy figure of hers. If, through some rare oversight, her host fails to see that there is gin and Rose's Lime Juice — then she just sighs faintly and drinks nothing. He is a lucky host who sees her a second time at his partics after making such a gaffe. There are many, many parties, but only one Rose's.

Just a minute, please

You have a lot of cargo lying idle in the godowns and you are anxious to ship it to Haiphong for inland China.

Will you please bring the problem to us? We know we can offer you service to your satisfaction.

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22, Des Voeux Rd., C., 1st Floor

HONG KONG

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RUSSIA'S MILITARY MI

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HE courage and tenacity of the in no way be compared with the armies aircraft defence.

Russian soldier has been recognis- of Germany and France."

All this sounds ed by military leaders for centuries. Napoleon's admiration of the fighting oured car and tank forces, he said: militarists?

Turning to the development of arm- How is it apprais qualities of the Russian troops against Taking a salvo fired by all types of tember, 1984, the Even which he was matched led to the peace tank and armoured car guns in 1984 as (leading German of Tilsit. He declared that he wanted

100, in 1939 a single salvo equals 393; stated:- these men for his Allies.

in other words, the power of a salvo The late Lord Kitchener told Mr. fired by our tank forces is almost four It is equipped wit "The Red Army Lloyd George: "I know the Russian times 18 much in comparison with soldier. He is the most fearless, daunt- 1934."

artillery, armoured less, tenacious soldier in the world."

large tanks, chemi During the World War, despite the Respecting the Soviets' artillery, the ials, etc., in great fact that "the shortage in rifles was so Commissar averred: "The range of all personnel is well t

has incrensed great" (to quote the British Ambassa- types of our artillery

General Guderian dor to St. Petersburg) "that a consider considerably. Thus, for instance, the of the German W able percentage of the men had to wait range of heavy artillery increased be- Cavalry Army of E unarmed till they could pick up the tween 50 and 75 per cent. for the dif- developed into the rifles of their fallen comrades,” ferent types of guns, There has also shilov in 1935....1 Russian Army saved Paris and prob- been an increase in the rapidity of fire military tractors, a ably also the Channel Ports. Equally of guns of almost all classes, particu- tary motor-vehicles complimentary tributes have been paid larly, anti-tank and tank guns, where

the

to the Red Army soldiers of to-day by rapidity of fire has more than doubled." put the Red Army

Nazi military authorities.

The two Five-Year Plans, completed

rope in the questi Great Britain and left far behind."

in December, 1937, transformed the Turning to motorisation, Voroshilov schaftliche Runds U.S.S.R. from a backward country into stated that, "in 1934, there was an 1935, p. 72.) the leading industrial country in Eu- average of 7.74 horse-power per Red Hitler, in Februs rope, with a collectivised agriculture Army man, but, în 1939, we have 13 Londonderry that

RELATIVE MILITARY STRENGTHS

Machine-guns* Artillery* Tanks Aeroplanes

Armiest

U.S.S.R.

30,000

11,000

6,000 to 9,000

1,800,000

23,000

1,600

10,000

11,000,000

POLAND

7,000

1,350

700

1,600

302,000

4,300

430

FRANCE

16,000

2,000

4,500

/ 5,000

3,600,000 -760,000

18,500

1,300

BRITAIN

10,000

1,900

600

5,000

5,100,000 529,200

4,200

1,000

2,000,000

14,000

-1,900

1,100

4,000

400,000

5,000

800

2,000,000

25,000

3,300

400

3,700

384,000

10,000

500

2,500,000

6,000

600

270

2,700.

2,000

192

328,000 2,500,000

ITALY

U.S.A.

JAPAN.....

The light figures represent light guns, the bold figures heavy guns. The light figures represent peace strength, the bold figures war strength.

the most mechanised in the world. horse-power per Red Army man, which Commensurate progress, particularly is an increase of 67 per cent. And since 1934, has been registered in the this, while the numerical strength of Armed Forces of the country.

the army itself has increased more than twofold."

*

strongest army an force in the world.' Major Lothar Sch bedroht Europa” ( Europe), published year, stated:-

"The lessons of came the basis on Government built It put the word head of all econom

sures.

"It was evident t to be produced in gi meet the demands of thirteen million me Russia is the only a position to remove dustry beyond the i tack."

the

Continuing, "Soviet Russia has a numerically the larg world, and with reg for carrying bombs, the greatest striking

An on the sea? Power to be reckon cus," an annual issu Admiralty, comments Soviet Navy:~~~~

"It is necessary to

As regards the Soviet Air Force, he Commissar Voroshilov, speaking at the Party Congress in Moscow in declared: "Whereas in 1934 our entire contestable fact that March, 1939, declared: "Taking the Red Air Force could carry 2,000 tons of sesses at the presen Army at the time of the seventeenth bombs in one flight, to-day it can al- powerful submarine f "Another incontest Party Congress (1934) as 100, by 1939, ready carry 208 per cent. more; in other by. the eighteenth Party Congress, it words, its bombing capacity has in- in three maritime re appears as 203-that is, there has been creased three times." a numerical increase of 103 per cent.. or the army as a whole has somewhat more than doubled.”

Respecting the speed and maximum flying height of Soviet warplanes, he

added:-

"the Baltic and the I Mediterranean and every consideration henceforth count with was neglected after Turning to the question of the fire

World War till recen power of the infantry army corps, the “I can report that not infrequently modern, efficacious i Commissar gave the following com- one can now find în our military aero- the Soviet standard.” parative figures of the total weight of dromes not only fighter, planes but also Herr Lehmann, metal discharged per minute by all the bombers with a speed far in excess of "Deutsche Wehr, "-F weapons of a corps-artillery, machine- 300 miles an hour, and a maximum fly- gave figures of the guns, trench mortars, rifle grenades, ing height exceeding 45,000 feet.” etc.:-

French Army Corps

60: tons. German Army Corps 59 tons. SOVIET ARMY CORPS 78 tons.

various countries, wh the table shown her Flying range, Voroshilov went on, are, of course, only an had been amply demonstrated by the they do give a rough feats of world famous Soviet airmen strengths. like the late Valeri Chkalov (hero of and others. the Moscow-California · Polar flight),

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Voroshilov continued: "I intentional- ly am not citing data-although, I have

What of the Officers them available on the Japanese, Polish Commensurate progress was claimed lov declared: "The 6 and other armies, inasmuch as the or- by Voroshilov for all other branches of land forces, which gi ganisation and armament of those the fighting forces, including anti-gas of thousands of our armies, their divisions and corps can detachments, signal corps, and anti- youth, give the army

PROBLEMATICS

No. 31. By

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DSOLUSBET

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