1940-06-24 — Page 4

SIEGE OF

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1940

BRITAIN

"Times" Military Correspondent On The Problems

Invasion Impossible While Air Force And Fleet Remain

London, To-day. WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE to face all sorts of problems, some of them very...... difficult, said Captain Cyril Falls, military correspondent of "The Times," in a broadcast talk yesterday.

In the defence of Great Britain, however, we have some assets. We have saved from the wreck seven out of every eight men of the B.E.F. and also the second B.E.F. which was sent to the aid of France just after the great battle began.

We have saved the personnel of the bases established far down to the south-west. We have saved a lot of equipment. We have saved that part of the R.A.F.. which was sent to France.

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We have at present in Britain a greater number of trained and prov." ed troops than we have ever had in our history.

On the other hand, we have lost

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Captain Falls does not think large-scale invasion is possible while the Navy and Air Force remain in being, and he would expect attacks to be made on them first of all, with possible feints against the coast.

Reckless Sacrifice

The Germans have recklessly sacri- ficed their aircraft in the recent offen- sive and although they may be able to

much of the heavy equipment of the replace a lot of them, they cannot re-

first B.E.F. We have lost a lot of base stores which could not be with- drawn.

place pilots so easily. They do not possess the magnificent material now being provided by the British Empire, and their most highly trained pilots are not equal to ours.

They have not yet produced a fighter to come anywhere near the Defiants, Spitfires and Hurricanes. The Germans have a very grim fight

We have lost some aircraft. dam- aged on rutted aerodromes and for which there were no repair ́faciii- ties. We have lost light craft sunk] in the evacuation from: Dunkirk. We now see the enemy with the whole of Western Europe's coast in'in front of them if they depend on his grasp, from the Arctic in Norway to the estuary of the Loire.

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Outflanked

The enemy outflanks us from Nor- way and still more from Brittany; not everyone realises, until a map is stu- died, that Brest, which, the Germans have entered. Is further west than Plymouth and almost as far west as Land's End.

For the first time since the war be- gan, the enemy have launched heavy air attacks on Britain, although so far without results proportionate to the efforts.

The enemy will probably try an in- vasion.

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winning supremacy in the air.

The Navy, in part, depends on the existence of the air force. The enemig can hardly hope to compete with it unless he cripples its bases, and al- though he may damage ships and ports, it is unlikely he will put either out of action while there is an force in being.

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While the Navy and R.A.F. exist, no invasion, on a big or little scale, by parachutists, troop-carriers, ships or a combination of the three, is to be ex- pected.

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Defence Of Britain

B.E.F. ARRIVE HOME-A saitor assisting a wounded Tommy fol- lowed by French troops. (Copyright Fox).

TAXICAB COMPANY'S

COMPLAINT

Turning his attention to Britain Three British soldiers are from a strategic point of view, Cap-alleged to have assaulted a tain Falls dealt with England first.

taxi-driver shortly after mid- Very roughly, it is a low country with

a long chain of hills running from night near the Alhambra north to south-high in the north, low Theatre, in the south-with`another, lower chain crossing it in the south, the whole hill structure being like a T turned upside down...

From the Thames Estuary to the Humber, the whole coast is flat, with wide sandy beaches on which small landings are possible. On the other hand, large tracts of this area have drainage ditches or sluggish rivers with marshes. *.

According to a report by the Blue Taxicab Company, three British sol- diers hired taxi No. 751 at the Nathian Hotel Cafe a few minutes after mid- night. They ordered the driver, Yu Kwan, to proceed to Shamshuipo,

TURKISH MINISTER FOR MOSCOW

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, JUNE 17.

IT WAS REPORTED HERE TO- DAY THAT TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER SUKRU SARACOGCU. WOULD LEAVE SOON FOR MOS-

COW. THE DISCLOSURE CAME AS SOME TURKISH, QUARTERS FORE- CAT A STRUGGLE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY FOR FLUENCE IN TURKEY,

at Ankara said Informed quarters last week that the Turkish govern Near the Alhambra Theatre, the ment had decided not to take any soldier sitting next to the driver, it is immediate action as a result of Italy's alleged, ordered him to "hand over declaration of war on Turkey's Anglo-

rench allies. the wheel." The driver refused-and then, it is alleged, the soldier struck

The south-east and southern coasts are more difficult, with high cliffs of him. either chalk or rock,

Wales is a mass of mountains, though there are wide valleys.

In Scotland

The driver stopped near the Blue al-Taxicab Company's garage and

inside.

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The soldiers followed, and the tele- phone operator in the Garage was at- saulted.

A report was made to the Police the and the military authorities have been

informed.

In Scotland, mountain chains from east to west. Between southern and central chains is a dis- trict, with only occasional hills; Edin- burgh is on the east and Glasgow on the west.

Its castern coast is generally more Inhospitable than Erigland's and the. west coast is extremely rocky and broken.

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Captain Falls does not say England is ideal for resistance to in- vasion, but he points out that Britain's

Investigations are proceeding.

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Turkey informed foreign envoys she would continue her non-belligerent status after Russia had stated, that extension of the war to the Balkans. would be undesirable. Some quarters thought this Indicated a “definite Balkan understanding between Ger- Asso- many, Italy and the Soviets ciated Press.

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