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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1940.
2 MEN WHO COMMAND
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Soldiers of the Empire from Aus- to be. He pushed a raft ̈ containing tralia and New Zealand are in their decoys in front of him. It was a frostly positions in high spirits and under night, and he was naked and painted two able commanders, Blamey and black. Freyberg. We shall hear more of that pair before this trouble is over, for the Empire forces have always been fortunate in their leaders.
They don't look much alike-Blamey is stoutish, benign of face; Freyberg is slimmer, with a face formed in firm lines. Both have one thing in com- mon; they know war..
Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Blamey, in command of the Second Australian Imperial Force, is Australia's most ex- perienced warrior. Certainly he has had more experience in Europe than any other soldier in the Common- wealth.
CHIEF AT 35
When World War No. 1 began Blamey was on the permanent staff of the Australian military Forces. Almost immediately he was switched over to the General Staff, and in 1916 he was appointed to command the 2nd Battalion of the A.E.F. in France. By the end of that war he was Chief of Staff of the A.E.F.--and all that at 35!
Then he went back to Australia as Deputy-Chief of the General Staff, and
later came to London as Australia's military representative at the War Office. Other military appointments came his way until he retired. Retired is hardly the word, for then he began working on plans with the dynamic Australian-Welshman Hughes for the development and expansion of the Militia.
So, like the great Sir John Monash, the Jewish Australian commander of the last war, who led his troops when the Germans made their last attack in March 1918. Blamey is a soldier who knows fighting.
What are his views on modern war- fare? Says he: "We cannot expect to win this war unless we carry the fight to the enemy.
“I do not underrate the importance of the Air Force. Its proportionate part in the war is greater than ever before, and, probably, will increase, but it is ancillary to sea and land fight- ing rather than an effective win-the- war instrument.”.
Blamey is a sportsman: hunting, tennis, golf, shooting, ski-ing-in that order.
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The commander of the New Zea- landers. Major-General C. B. Frey- berg, is a terrific fellow, and, like our own Gort, a V.C. He has also a D.S.O. with two bars and a CM.G. In the last war he was wounded nine times, and mentioned in despatches six times. He got his V.C. in 1916 by most conspicuous bravery and brilliant leading as a battalion commander at Beaumont Hamel in France. There he drove a wedge into the German de- fences, and next day followed it up by personally leading a charge which ended in the capture of Beaucourt.
In those two days he was wounded four times-and he was then only 28. I remember J. M. Barrie's famous Rectorial address on courage which sums up this man for you:
"Be not merely courageous, but light hearted, also gay.
There is an officer who was the first of our Army to land at Gallipoli.
"He was dropped overboard to light decoys on the shore, so as to deceive the Turks as to where the landing was
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“Firing from the ships was going on all round. It was a two-hours swim in pitch darkness. He did it, crawled through the scrub to listen to the talk of the enemy, who were so near that he could have shaken hands with them
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-lit his decoys and swam back. He seems to look on this as a gay affair."
Then Barrie turned and shook his head at his friend Freyberg sitting near him on the platform.
WHAT HE SAID
As I recall, the general has only was on war books. Said, he: "For the once let himself go in public. That
sake of the generation growing up, I deprecate most strongly any such sug- gestion as that the people who fought in the war were drunkards or cowards.
"In my four years of war service, I saw only five drunken men. I do not know of a single man shot for cowardice."
Another point: Freyberg can't bear inaccuracy, so I hope the facts here set down are all right!
LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS
London, To-day.
It is officially announced that a new force is to be created, known as the "Local Defence Volunteers.”
The force will be voluntary and unpaid and of ages between 17 and 65 years. Volunteers will be armed and the force will be used mostly in small towns and villages and other sparsely populated areas.--Reuter.
MORE NAZI SUPPLY SHIPS SUNK
London, To-day. It was officially announced in Lon- don yesterday afternoon that since the beginning of May at least nine more German transports and supply ships had been successfully attacked by British submarines off Norway. Sub- marine operations are continuing.- Reuter.
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London, To-day. During the last four weeks, the Al- lies have bought about £86,000,000 worth of aircraft and engines from the United States, and the Allled Purchasing Coinmission is now nego. tiating two other large contracts.
Reuter.
By George McManus
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