1939-11-23 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 23, 1939

WAR SECRETARY ON ACTIVITY OF B.E.F.

London, To-day.

ENGINEERING

Leadership

GIVES, IN ALL VAUXHALLS—

REMARKABLE ECONOMY

(20% more m.p.g.) INDEPENDENT SPRINGING (changes riding into gliding)

CONTROLLED SYNCHROMESH

"NO DRAUGHT VENTILATION

(fresh air without shivers)

run on any Vauxhall model, and demonstrate its petrol economy

MR. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, Secretary for War, (you can't help making a good change)

making his periodical statement in the House of Commons yesterday, opened with a reference to the value of the operations in Poland, which fa- we will provide an adequate trial_ cilitated preparations on the western front. Their cause was attracting like a magnet their

countrymen from all parts of the world. Thousands of British troops were going every week to France, and by Spring will have been reinforc- ed by no inconsiderable armament.

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"We could not have completed our formations in France," Mr. Hore-DB 1830-MOONLIGHT AND ROSES Belisha stated, "without the assistance

of the Territorial Army, whose units DB 1811-ON A TROPIC NIGHT reached France at a very much ear-

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lier stage and in greater numbers DB 1851—LET'S DREAM IN THE MOONLIGHT

than in 1914.

"Do not let the country pretend, however, that Britain can within

a proximate time furnish an army of Continental dimensions. "Nearly a million men are inten-

CAUTION OF FRANCE

A report drawn up by Brit- ish experts who inspected a sively training in Britain. German explosives works at Oppau mysteriously disap- peared from a sealed railway carriage.

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"The Maginot Line is in some mea- sure the debt which free nations owe DB 1829-HOME ON THE RANGE to the caution of France, which, even

of

when beset with financial troubles, diverted an unstinted proportion its economic resources to the con- struction of the Line.

"Whereas Germany has to defend 200 miles of frontier, France must

This incident, which occurred in A. 1919, was revealed by Mr. H. Humphrey, who gave the Melchett' lecture for 1939 before members of the Institute of Fuel, in London.

Mr. Humphrey was one of the lead-envisage the possibility of aggression ing experts at the Ministry of Muni- tions during the last war.

"On our return from Germany it was arranged that we should travel by car, via the battlefields, to Paris," he said.

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by Germany along 800 miles the North Sea to the Alps."

MUD EVERYWHERE Having referred to the more cent extension of the Maginot Line, Mr. Hore-Belisha said the sector now allotted to the British Army was

re-

"We placed our luggage and the fortunately provided in advance with

the precious report in the care of senior French officer who saw it lock- ed up in a closed railway wagon and officially sealed.

"A French soldier travelled on the train in charge of the wagon, but when the train reached Paris it was dis- covered that part of the floor had been removed and all my luggage and the report had been abstracted.

"Fortunately, we took all our notes with us in the car, and on reaching England we were able to reproduce the report and to make plans."

Mr. Humphrey also disclosed that the cause of the Silvertown factory explosion in 1917 was the formation of a little-known self-igniting chemi- cal compound formed as dust.

The explosion was heard a hundred miles away, killed sixty-nine people and injured four hundred.

NAZIS 'CRASH' TROOPS' RADIO

British officers listening to Nazi broadcasts in English to our troops on the Western Front claim to have recognised the voice of the announ-

cer.

He is a renegade Englishman, they once in trouble and say, who was later fled from England,

are

This propaganda is given out on a wavelength so close to the B.B.C. wavelength that troops searching for news and music

the from

English station bound to pick up accidentally the

stations, German

saya special correspondent. Put Nazi radio propaganda is not of amuse- the Tommies only form ment.

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Is running

its own One unit football pool. Coupons are print- The matches 'ara ed locally, played by the unit's teams. Camps have already been prepared behind the British lines for prisoners of war. First arrivals are expected

soon.

fleld works, and the task which fell to our soldiers on arrival was to add to and improve on these.

"Everywhere there is activity and everywhere there is mud.

almost in- "An organisation of conceivable dimensions has been established.

MORE VEHICLES AND MORE "In the initial stages the British 500 Expeditionary Force consumed tons of petrol a day.

"Now alternative bases have been established, additional locomotives will be imported and a permanent way laid down, but still it is a ques- tion of vehicles, vehicles and more vehicles."

the

let-

The War Minister illustrated size of the organisation by the fact that the Force has an improvised or- ganisation dealing with 270,000 ters and 17,000 parcels a day, which is double the quantity in 1918.

WIDE PREPARATION

As a result of his recent visit to able to the western front he was give an encouraging account of the of our fortitude and good temper troops, whose health was extremely than in good, sickness being less peace time at home.

Meanwhile, we were despatching arms and equipment to other parts of the world, and were preparing for all eventualities.-Reuter.

HE WANTS TO BREAK IN!

Jackson, Michigan, Guards at the

expecting a guol Prison, U.S., are break-from the outside!

Ex-convict Joseph Bush, since serv- ing a sentence there, insists it's his rightful home.

He broke in few months ago and was found sitting in an unlocked cell. He returned a week later with a gift of fruit for the governor.

Broken with grief at being refused readmission, he became ill and was sent to hospital. Yesterday he vanish- ed from hospital after complaining of Tool sickness, vowing he'd get back there.

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