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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18, 1939 ·

NO SCHEMING BY GERMANY WILL DEFEAT

THE ALLIES' BLOCKADE

On September 4 the Admiralty an-, poverished and emaciated by the nounced that Germany was under policy of Nazism. It is long since blockade. Twenty-five years earlier, Field-Marshal Goering instructed the to people that they had short of one month, the same grip of German

the German choose between guns and butter, and sea-power closed upon Reich of those days. When it collapsed, the benevolence of their Fuchrer had its generals and admirals and politi-chosen guns for them. cians complained that blockade had brought about the downfall. The mea- sured judgment of historians of all countries has since agreed with them.

What chance is there for the Reich of Nazism to escape a still more ruin- ous defeat?

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DRASTIC RATIONING ALREADY

Imports, except those necessary for armament manufacture and the con- duct of war, have been reduced to a minimum. Feverish efforts have been enforced to manufacture sunstitutes for the raw materials which German soil cannot produce.

Some of those who visited Germany just after the Armistice of 1918 will remember the desperate yearning of Germans

In all the greatest conflicts of the world victory has been won by the nation or the allied forces which held Yet at the very outset of this war the command of the sea. Sea power Nazism had to introduce a system of saved the Greek civilisation from de- rationing which, even if the quanti- struction by the multitudinous armies ties allowed are obtainable, will bring, of Asia. Rome had to win and keep as Field-warshal Goering has avow- the command of the sea before sheed, hardship and danger to health. could overthrow Carthage and build up her

own empire. When her sea strength failed she fell before the barbarians. English sea power saved European freedom from the Spanish autocrat who dominated half a dozen countries in this Continent and com- manded the wealth of the New World. When Napoleon had shattered the power of Austria and Prussia and won over Russia by arms and cajolery he became master of the resources of Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic. Germany was at his orders, the Tsar of Russia ready to join with him in partitioning the world.

But he had lost the sea. From the hour that his naval power went down in the night of Trafalgar he was doom- ed. The coasts of the Continent, its trade and its supplies, lay blockaded by British ships till the nations rose against his intolerable empire and he' fell.

NOT ENOUGH EVEN IN 1914

In the war of 1914 the German mili- tary machine conquered control of the resources of Belgium, Serbia, Ru- mania, Poland, the Ukraine and a good deal more of Russia. The hapless Austrian Empire contributed the industrial strength of Czechoslovakia and the fertile wheat fields of Hun- gary. M. Stalin's utmost generosity to his tried and trusted ally could not endow the Fuehrer to-day with more.

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for soap. Field-Marshal Goering told them in his call to arms that they must make up their minds to go dirty throughout this war.

A revised version of his oration may now be issued proclaiming that the Fuehrer has changed all that by the new compact with the Soviet.

Such, doubtless, is the story which are preparing propaganda machines to blare. But when the goods are not delivered propaganda, as the leaders of Germany in the last war learnt, makes bad worse.

From the harvests of Poland and the Ukraine and Rumania, when the Kaiser's legions overran thein, the Germans of 1917 were promised good living, from the occupied oll fields and inines a great access of war strength. The event was otherwise an ac- celeration of the speed with which the German Empire declined and fell,

AUTARKY: A VAIN AMBITION

Whatever M. Molotoff may have signed or meant, no manoeuvres of Nuzi diplomacy can extricate the Reich from the grip of the blockade.

The efforts at autarky have proved hopelessly ineflectual. "Germany's genius and inventiveness," the Fuehrer bragged, "can easily and rapidly solve this problem." Her genius under his direction has left the Reich dependent on, foreign supplies for the greater Yet so constrictive was the block-part or the whole of every important ade of sea power from 1914 that the commodity except cereals, livestock,

and Invigorating German troops on the Western Front coal, timber, lead and zine.

Jimmy's Kitchen

INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

Bringing Up Father

WHERE'S

DADDY!

I LEFT HIM AMONG A LOT OF INDIANS- THINK WE HAD BETTER GO GET HIM-I AM AFRAID HE'S IN DANGER-

YOU SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID OF THESE UTE INDIANS- THEY NEVER ANNOY ANYONE-

AS USUAL- DADDY IS ARGUING

were going hungry before 1917 was out. The workers behind the lines, the whole civil population, deprived for many months of any decent stan- dard of living, stinted of food and fuel and clothes, became so disaffect- ed that at the climax of his furious offensives of 1918 Ludendorff had to instruct his army commanders to keep battalions ready to strike against the Home Front.

But Germany had entered the war of 1914 with a prosperous population, with thriving industries, a large good reserve and considerable financial re- sources In foreign countries.

To the war of 1939 she comes im-

I'M AFRAID

HE IS GOING TO LOSE THIS DEBATE-

JIGGS-

UGH- HEAP CHEAP

GUY

Maintenance of meat production, however, requires imports. During the last war Germany had to kill off her That she cattle for lack of fodder. will get more now than she got then Poland and South-Eastern from Europe is not probable.

In the articles essential to modern whole territory under warfare the Herr Hitler's rule is singularly poor. Even after the rape of Austria and Czechoslovakia and half Poland, Nazi from Germany has still to obtain abroad three-quarters of the Iron ore which her industries require. The sup- plles she drew from Spain and France (Continued on Page 11)

By George McManus

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