1939-10-11 — Page 2

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GERMAN DEFENCES

|SEVENTY-TON FRENCH TANKS, waddling forward like prehistoric monsters, have surprised the German High Command in the same way as when British tanks launched their first attack in 1916 and spread panic in the German armies, says the "Daily Express" Military Correspondent.

Their existence, it can be revealed now, was a secret kept even from the British General Staff until recently.

It was not believed that any prác- ticable tank four times the size of the largest wartime tank could be devis- ed, nor that it could mount, as these tanks do, a gun of the calibre of the French "75" the equivalent of our field gun.

PORTUGAL'S ALLIANCE

Built in secret, made on principles POLICY

never before conceived, and armoured with a special type of steel, these tanks, now being used in considerable numbers, have been the force mainly responsible for the French advance on the whole front from the Moselle to the Vosges Mountains...

NELSON TOUCH Anti-tank guns and rifles, even land mines, have proved as useless against them as were the rifle bullet and bomb against the ordinary tank in 1916.

They are tike. the Nelson or Hood to a light cruiser, compared with the tanke that the army staffs of the world were aware of a month or so ago. Almost all the German anti-tank defences have overlooked the possibility of such weapons.

These tanks have at least negatived any surprise effect of the electrically fired German machineguns, whose existence was made known officially in a French communique.

French and British General Head- quarters were well aware that the out- posts of the Siegfried Line contained a multitude of machinegún pillboxes, operated electrically from a central control two miles behind, in the same manner as a battleship's guns are fired.

"PUSH THEM OVER"

The German belief was that these machine-gun nests would be able to decimate any infantry following up behind a barrage or a tank attack.

The new French tanks have proved themselves able to demolish these pillboxes, not only by direct fire from their "75" guns, but by pushing them

over.

LONDON, TO-DAY. THE REFERENCES TO THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE ALLIANCE IN THE MESSAGE DELIVERED YESTERDAY BY THE PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT. TO A SPECIAL SES- SION OF THE PORTUGUESE NA- TIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS BEEN WARMLY WELCOMED BY OFFI- CIAL CIRCLES IN LONDON.

Dr. Salazar's speech, with its ex- pressions of friendship and fidelity to the Alliance, has given great satisfac- tion here, where the present attitude of the Portuguese Government meets with profound understanding.

The Portuguese Government's policy is held to be one which well serves the mutual interests of the British and Portuguese peoples.

President Carmona's friendly allu-

sions to his recent visit to South Africa are noted with pleasure and, it is believed, will be highly preciated in the Union itself.-British, Wireless.

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H.K. BOY NOW AN R.A.F. OFFICER

Word has just been received in the Colony to the effect that Mr. E. A. Gaubert, formerly of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s Hong Kong office, has been given a .commission in the Royal Air Force.

They may well be the cause which Mr. Gaubert, who was in England has forced the German High Com-on leave when war was declared, was mand to withdraw so many divisions educated at Central British School and from Poland, and which has seen the was a Flight-Cadet in the Volunteer German roads leading to, the Western Air Arm, where he was considered Front blocked for miles with troops. one of the most promising pilots.

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