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MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

THE LONG-PULL STRATEGY

Wherever the German barter system operates, continuous negotiations ac- company trade, Sometimes, no doubt, one side yields a point, sometimes the In the war news reports from China other. Lately the German negotiators appears the statement that spectacu- have had to work with a shrinking list lar victories of Chinese over Japanese of merchandise which Germany can Invaders in Central China are ascrib- offer Rumania in return for Rumanian

products.

commercial On purely ed to superior strategy. To get at the

grounds Rumania naturally would re- correctness of that statement it is ne- .sist the increasingly unfavourable cessary rito: go far back. To the terms. Chinese commander in the field in this particular case might be due the credit of using good strategy, but it was not the field strategy in the cur- rent battle that actually accounted for this turn of the fortunes of war..

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The strategy deserving the big. share of the credit is the basic line of defence employed by the Chinese, the policy of wearing the invaders down and tiring them to death, phy sically and economically. That is the strategy that is beginning to produce telling results.

"But resistance may have political consequences, against which. Rumania needs to keep intact the balance which British guarantees already provide. This fact would account for the Ru- manian claims to a "victory" Germany at the council table. Obvi- ously such reports are for consumption elsewhere than in Germany.

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At the moment Balkan floods would

provide Rumania with excuses if Ber- lin inquired about delayed deliveries. But German authorities would want to know something about those strange reports from Bucharest-unless they already did know, which is the very possibility that makes the reports un- impressive."Christian Science Moni-

tor."

THE NAZIS ON BRITISH HISTORY

When the Japanese armies began to get bogged down in China the Chinese strategy started to work, but has tak- en a long time for material results to show. The strategy is such that the turn of the tide is slow-action, It looks now as if the tide actually has

It is amusing to learn that the turned, but only the super-optimist

Nazis have organised a department can jump at the conclusion that the which is to discover and to describe disloging of the invaders can be ra- the crimes of the British Empire. pid-action. Nothing short of a blow- This is called a serious and scientific undertaking. These terms might mis- up of some kind at home can take lead us if we knew nothing more the Japanese out of China on high about it. Fortunately we know a good deal more. Some define the difference speed, and indications of a near between objective and partisan his- proach to the blow-up at home are tory by saying that in the first case the not to be found in the facts available document speaks to the writer and for the outside world. The weight in the second the writer speaks to the of evidence supports the theory that the war is far from finished and that Japanese armies will occupy large parts of China for a long time yet.

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document. In this case, the scientific historian is instructed to show that certain vices. persist throughout British history: hypocrisy, treaty-breaking, robbery, and violence. The documents must behave like good Nazis and say what they are told to say. The result, we may be sure, will be all that is

Some political observers are inclin ed to speculate on a Japanese stroke at the Netherlands East Indies to save face in connection with the failures in desired. China. The big point in support of

For if that line of argument is the fact that This is a tempting task. seizure of the Dutch possesions would anybody wants to know about British be relatively easy, much easier just crimes he cannot do better than study now than meeting the wear-down British literature. So distinguished strategy of the Chinese armies in and loyal an Englishman as Mr. Ches- China's deep interior. The East In- terton wrote a book to which he gave dies would be a neat prize of war for.. the name "The Crimes of England." Japan but not large enough to make It was Karl Marx who pointed out that up for general failure in the China Britain has received an unfair amount conquest.

of attention from the critics of capi- Furthermore the officially-declared talism just because her Blue-books and officially-repeated" American atti- and her reformers brought the abuses tude towards the status quo of the and the cruelties of the Industrial Re- Philippine neighbours puts a decided-volution into the daylight. Of the ly different light on that which Ja- crimes committed in our history in the pan would be undertaking in efforts last four centuries: few have gone un- to move in on the East Indies,

noticed and unblamed by Englishmen

A dashing stroke might easily pro- The Nazis seize on this with delight, duce quick victories for the time be- and the Nazi historians are directed ing, but again the long-plan strategy wuold have to: determine net results"

"Manila Bulletin."

· RUMANIA TALKS

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to make full use of British material. It seems to them convincing proof that we are and always have been rascals. They are temperamentally unable to understand that self-criticism is a secret of strength in politics and in culture. All history is a mixture of black and white. No Nazis blame the Nazi rulers. Those rulers may break what treaties they please, invade what countries they please. If an historian one day presents their bad history to When a State of Germany's size the world he will not go to the Nazi capitulates to a State like Rumania, sources for criticism: That history so it is indeed:

d news. But that happens far as the Nazis are concerned is all about as often as a man bites, a dog, white. If, on the other hand, a mar Reports out of Bucharest that Ger- wants to study the history of Athens many has "bowed" to Rumanian terms... in the fifth century, B.C..he finds plenty in a trade dispute are therefore not of material for condemning her in the particularly impressive.

« writings of her dramatists, her philo The dispute concerned the trade ar- sophers, and her historians. The Nazi rangements between Germany and, with his blind tribal fanaticism does Rumanis. The Third Reich keeps con- not understand that this is one of the tinuous pressure on Rumania in order reasons why Athens. left her spell to assure the German armies of as upon the world. It a society cannot much oll as may be squeezed out of criticise itself, its art, its literature, Germany's small neighbour. Other and ita culture lose vitality, and depth. raw materials also are involved.

***Marichester Guardian.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1940

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Allies Holding Germans: No More Surprises TIDE MAY TURN

AT ANY TIME EVACUATION

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL "")

Paris, To-day.

THE GERMANS HOLD PART of Boulogne, the French the rest. Both Calais, towards which the Germans are driving, and Dunkirk are held strongly by Allied troops and do not seem to be menaced at the moment. Allied troops are, in fact, holding the Germans. The time for enemy surprises is past, say semi-offi- cial circles in Paris, and at any time perhaps even to-day the risks the Germans háve taken will turn against them. Battle Of Boulogne

Paris, To-day.

A French military spokesman said yesterday that the British, French and Belgian armies have been successfully battering back enemy attempts to break through.

Havas.

|columns on the march.-Reuter.

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Calais In Allied Hands

London, To-day. German claims that Calais is in German hands are declared in au- thoritative circles in London to be without foundation.

A correspondent reports that

It is added that, as has been em- hundreds of refugees in Boulogne phasised from both British and French were bombed and machine-gunned sources, Calais remains in the posses- by Nazi 'planes without mercy.sion of the Allies.Reuter. Many must have been killed and

hundreds wounded.

Three destroyers came into the har- HOSPITAL

bour and opened fire on German gun emplacements on the hill; the guns were put of action.

While this was going on, women, children and wounded soldiers were being embarked on the destroyers.- Reuter.

B.E.F. Goes To Aid

Of Belgians

London, To-day.

British G.H.Q. have issued a com- munique stating there was no serious attack yesterday on the British front.

The enemy launched a strong

offensive against the Belglan forces on our left, and British troops have gone to the assistance of our Al- lies.

There have been heavy bombing at- tacks on towns in the back areas.

The events of the last few days have not Impaired the courage and resource of the British soldier. One tank by itself yesterday de- stroyed seven enemy armoured fight- ing vehicles.--Reuter.

B.E.F. Magnificent

London, To-day.

It was confirmed in London last night that Allied troops are still hold- ing Calais.

Fighting side by side with Allied troops the B.E.F. has repulsed all enemy attacks and is fighting magnifl- cently. --- Reuter.

Violent German Attacks On Valenciennes Repulsed

Paris, To-day. According to military circles here, French troops are firmly holding the ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Zee- brugge.

A fierce battle raged all day yes- terday on either side of Valenciennes, where the Germans launched two strong attacks on Sunday morning.

No Indication of the final out. come-of

these battles, can. yet be given but it was reported late on Sunday afternoon that the French troops had repulsed all German at. taoks and inflicted heavy losses.on. the enemy,

At other points on the front the Germans failed to break through thẹ positions of the Allied armies in the north, either on the River Lys, in the region of Courtrai or in the west.

Above all the day was one of aerial activity. Both the French and British air forces were extremely, active, car- rying out intense <bombing ope donr over the whole region of the well as the German rear

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DESTROYER WESSEX LOST

London, To-day.

The Admiralty announces that the destroyer Wessex has been lost as the result of damage from enemy air attacks while engaged with other naval units off the French coast.. Slx ratings--were killed and 15 wounded Router.

KING OF

BELGIANS AT FRONT

London, To-day.

The King of the Belgians is in the midst of his troops,

SHIPS REACH and the Government is re- ENGLAND

London, To-day.

maining with their Sovereign, declared M. Paul Hymans, former Belgian Foreign Min-

Three hospital ships arrivister, in a statement to the Belgian news agency yester- ed at a south coast port yes-

day.

terday with several hundred wounded from France. Four- teen died on the way across.

A seaman on one of the ships said

bombed the Germans severely

.the harbour from which they sailed on less Saturday, and bombs dropped than 300 feet away as wounded were being taken on board.

Fires were raging in the town and they could see flames and smoke when many miles out at sea.-Reuter.

FULL-BLOODED

OFFENSIVES

IN BELGIUM

Paris, To-day.. The military spokesman states that the attacks on the Allied armies in Belgium on Saturday were full-blooded offensives in which artillery, aircraft and tanks participat- ed.

In the attack on the Lys the opposing forces swayed backwards and forwards but finally the original positions were fully maintained.

Two other attacks were also launch- ed on fronts six to 10 miles wide, and both completely failed-Reuter.

BELGIAN MINISTERS IN LONDON

London, To-day, The Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and the Ministers of Interior and Defence, arrived in Lon- don yesterday, where they were met by the Belgian Finance Minister who had been in London a few days.

The Prime Minister, M. Pierlot, and the Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, visit- ed the Foreign Secretary Lord Hal= Nazifax, Reuter

M. Hymans added that when the German attack began on May 10 the

Belgian army, which had been on

ORDERS IN ENGLISH COAST PORTS

London, To-day.

It is announced that the | Government has decided, since Holland and parts of Belgium and northern France are in enemy occupa- tion, the following towns on the south-east coast will be- come evacuation areas:

Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft,

Felixstowe,

Harwich,

Clacton,

Frinton, and Walton, Southend,

Margate,

Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Sandwich,

Dover,

Deal and Folkestone.

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Arrangements are being made for children whose parents wish them to go, to be sent to safer districts in the Midlands and Wales. The movement starts next Sunday.-Reuter.

up to 35 were called up in addition.

Large numbers of young Belgians imbued with the highest patriotism were now receiving military training on French soil, and as a result the to-

tal Belgian military strength would

guard at the frontier for six months, ultimately amount to over 1,000,000 amounted to 700,000.men, and all men men. -- Reuter.

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