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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940

ITALY CANNOT INCREASE WAR STOCKS WOUNDED

THE NINE MONTHS of non-belligerency were

TOMMY'S

profitable for Italy. September had caught her HEROIC

with her war stocks depleted after Mussolini's. two

campaigns, and she had to tell Germany in almost ESCAPE

so many words that she could not go to war even if she would.

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A Tommy in a London

But during the autumn, winter and spring she hospital, the first wound- has been rapidly building up her war stocks and her led British prisoner to es- war industries, little restricted by the Allied block- (cape from the Germans, ade, which for political or diplomatic reasons did not tells an unusual story of err on the side of strictness.

his fight a venture

So long as there was a chance that she would marked by grim deter- keep out of the war the Allied Cabinets did not feel mination to win his free-

dom. justified either in provoking a crisis or in depriving Italy of means for defence at a time of European tension. In point of fact the clamp was applied Come early for best selection. only a few days before Mussolini gave the signal.

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When a unit of the ordnance corps was attacked by German

forced to retreat, tanks, it was into a wood, and this 22-year- Cold Dagenham man was left be- hind, wounded in the shoulder, Now, the clamp is fast and sure. Of her coal imports, the 3,000,- He was taken prisoner and re- In September Italy had barely a 000 tons which she used to obtain turned to a German dressing fortnight's supply of petrol; now from the United Kingdom will station where he found a number she has enough for some months now be cut off. Although her of French wounded. -but she will get little more, ex-strenuous efforts to get German. Next morning as the prisoners cept from Rumania and from Al-coal have been successful so far, were being moved out, he took bania. Hemmed in the Mediter-it seems unlikely that the level of advantage of the guard's back ranean by the Allied strength at supply will be maintained. Lack being turned for Я moment to Gibraltar and in the Suez, her of trucks is being felt. In addi-leap a wall and hide behind a oversea trade is almost entirely tion the German railway system hedge. He was not missed at the gone. She will have to live on has been showing increasing signs moment.

her hump. Germany has added of strain, and the Frankfort-Basle The next four days he hardly to her own stocks by supplies section which carries 40 per cent. remembers. His wound and the gained in raids on neighbouring of the coal to Italy is highly vul-difficulty of travelling made his countries-Denmark, Norway, and nerable.

mind a blur but he remembered

the Low Countries. But it is hard! The maximum capacity of the that at one farm the family gave to see how, or even where, Italy Italian steel industry is 4,000,000 him civilian clothes and at another ◊◊ could gain similar additions by tons a year, but the highest out-where he called at night, he ob-

attempts at similar raids. The put so far is 2,000,000 tons, and is!tained food countries near her are either pool hardly likely to remain at that. or well defended.

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Dash Through Fire

On the fifth day he found himself in a village recently bombed and taken, He hid in a ditch for several hours to avold a party of Germans nearby.

How far other industries will be affected is seen in the figures of her annual imports from outside Perhaps Italy may hope to add the Mediterranean: 75,000 tons of to her supplies more or less peace-copper, 4,000 tons of nickel, 4,000, fully from the Balkan countries, tons of tin, 30,000 tons of rubber, but-without falling into any 250,000 tons of castor and other wishful thought that Germany and oilseeds, 40,000 tons of wool, and Italy may bicker-it is none the a quantity of toluol. She will find nearby canal and in the face of less true that as Italy seeks te herself deficient in molybdenum, continued firing managed to reach develop her purchases in the Bal-cobalt, and tungsten.

the other side. He took shelter

•

Finally he made a dash for a

kan markets she will be compet- Indian food resources are also in the undergrowth until he had ing with German demands. Alimited. While she has made recovered and then moved on. any rate, even if there is no com-great progress toward self-suf- Two miles along, he met French petition between them, even ficiency in wheat, she has had inj troops who mistook him for a fifth if there is an arrangement, recent years to import an average columnist because of his civilian

countries will be draw-of 500,000 tons, together with clothes.

both

ing from a common pool," a poo. 100,000 tons of maize, 75,000 tons He proved his integrity by his which is almost the only one left of potatoes (largely from Ger-identity disc, which had not been to them now that the Mediterran-many), 30,000 tons of meat, 100,- taken from him, and they took ean is closed.

000 tons of Ash (from France and him to a hospital. He eventually Until Mussolini's "irrevocable Scandinavia), and 900,000 tons of reached England. decision" caused the gates to be phosphate for fertilizer, Italians closed, Italy got by far the greater can live on little for a long time, part of her imports from coun- but scarcity begins to tell when tries out-side the Mediterranean. added to war strain.

DAFFODIL

FORTUNE

BRITAIN COMPETING IN N.E.I.

In 1938 she imported 1,571,000 quintals of raw cotton. Of these at least 1,537,000 quintals came! from Allied countries and from neutrals outside the Mediterran- can. She imported 14,742,000 quintals of crude oil; of these over

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") 13,500,000 came from Allied or ex- tra-Mediterranean countries. The

Recent British efforts to ob- same proportions are true for

tain a stronger economic foothold A daffodil expert, Mr. Robert in the Netherlands East Indies almost as high for iron ore. These England, has figures show what the closing of £31,000, amassed by the cultiva-Seas, the Tokyo "Chugai Shogyo" left a fortune of mercial advance in the South the Mediterranean gates means for tion of daffodils. He grew blue states, quoting Government of

The Allied naval nentinels al

daffodils and red daffodils, and ficials. each end of the sea will now ap to buy his bulbs. His assistant, most as

experts came even from Holland, It points out that Britain, ál- ply the contraband control auto- Miss Stella Tiddpratt, was almost trying to keep abreast of the though, she were matically. Even within the Me- diterranean Allled

as clever with bulbs as he, and Japanese drive southward, has warshipa in his will he may be expected to stop sup from £5,000 to Miss Tiddpratt trade relations with the Indies.

left the income taken steps to improve her own plies which Italy may hope to and the income from a further get from her own possessions or from neutral States around the

crop iron and raw wool, and are Ormson Backhouse," of Hereford, will not deflect Japan in her com-

Italy in the long run.

sia.

Poor Credit

Only lately, the "Chugai" says, £2,000 on condition that, if re-Australia and the Netherlands quired by the executor she would Indies concluded a new trade assist him for not more than two agreement providing for the Indies years in the management of his sale,without. restriction, of tea, of his stock of bulbs. house and garden, and especially coffee, fruit, and other goods

to Australia,

the ACTOR COULDN'T EAT Per declares, the British

the

she

It was the knowledge that her supplies would largely end from the moment she came into the war

· Morcover; the Japanese newspa- Gov- that drove Italy to make all

ernment has established a purchases she could during past nine months. Even so

100,000,000-guilder credit for the HIS FAVOURITES could not do all that, she, wished.

[N.E.I., while the latter has or-. worth Her credit abroad was bad, and

|dered 4,000,000 guilders' A British West African, Mr. she had to draw heavily upon her James Spencer Desmond Godonu, of cotton goods from England. resources of gold and her foreign film and stage actor, claimed £00 look on these developments with Cotton trade quarters in Japan exchange, leaving herself only damages from Barkets (Contrac-"sour faces," the "Chugai" states. 100,000,000 dollars in gold and tors) Ltd., London, canteen con- 30,000,000 dollars in foreign .ex-tractors, who admitted lability, change. Gaps have been left in because he was so ill after drink- her purchases; and at home, injing-their sarsaparilla in a film

·· CZECH CABINET spite of her tremendous drive for studio-canteen that he "even now MEETS IN BRITAIN production, she could not over-could not eat his favourite, foods [come the_natural deficiencies of of rice, stewed meat, hot pepper, (SPECIAL TO "CHINA_MAIL”)

the country. Her own coal de- yams and fu-fu”.... Judge Sir The locally-formed Czechoslo- posits, for example, are negligible. Mordaunt Snaggo asked what is vakian Cabinet met in London THE HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. She has to import 12,000,000 tons fu-fu? And was told it is made and worked to define the exact

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for her metallurgical, of semolina and ground rice and duties of each member, as a pre- chemical, and other industries, is cooked very hard, A doctor liminary to the envisioned and for her railways, of which said that the drink was probably convocation of a Czech only a third run on hydro-electric contaminated by the vessel in parliament. on British torri power and which in times of dry which it was mixed, and Mr. tory, Premier Jan Stranek pre- weather (as at present) have to go Godonu was awarded £12, 158. sided, over the Cabinet meeting. largely on coal.

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940

D.S.O. COLONEL SWAM, SAVED HIS

TROOPS

FRANCE IN

THE STORY of eight men is the story of the AXIS CAMP

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British Army in Flanders: the story of a brigade de- cimated but indomitable; the story of a surrounded An analysis of the prin- battalion which broke through and crossed a river ciples that the German by swimming and wading; the story of a company, and Italian peace dele- cut off, which fought its way through the German gates will lay down as the lines marching forty miles in fourteen hours.

basis for the eventual

Acting Brigadier D. W. Furlong took command peace treaty, is contained of the 6th Infantry Brigade in its withdrawal from in "Le Temps." The arti- Belgium. When the brigade arrived in the Aire- cle was signed by P. Gen- La Bassee Canal sector it was found that the sector tizon, for a long time "Le of the front allotted to it was in enemy hands. Temps" correspondent in

When ordered to retake the line, fring demolitions contributed Rome. of the canal, the brigade acted greatly to the success of the with- He continued with the state-| with the utmost courage and de- (drawal.

ment: termination. Although complete At St. Venant on May 27 enemy "One of the most important success was denied it the brigade tanks pierced the line and he problems of the war will be that stuck to its task, thereby hold-was cut off from his division. of the creation of Governments ing the enemy for forty-eight critical hours despite heavy casualties.

Finally surrounded but indomit- able, the remnants of the brigade were led back to our lines by the gallant leadership and example of brigadier Furlong.

He led his company through of a corporative or totalitarian the enemy column, and after nature, so that all the peoples of two further encounters with the jour continent shall no longer enemy rejoined his division with speak more than one

political

his company In good order. language and because of that, having marched forty miles in end up by understanding each

fourteen hours.

other..

Corporal William Stewart, of "Rome and Berlin", Mr. Gen- Although the brigade was de- the Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C, tizon asserted, "believe that when cimated, the peried May 26 to was in charge of a cruiser tank the same principles dominate the May 28 must be regarded as which knocked out five German continent from Portugal to Fin- epic days in its history.

tanks. This operation was of in-land for Soviet Russia appears Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. estimate value.

to be excluded from the Europe Stephenson was commanding a Lieutenant-Colonel G. P. Miller of to-morrow--it will be easier battalion of the Dorsets when it commanded

a battalion of the to establish a general entente was surrounded near Festubert Cameron Highlanders, which held guaranteeing peace; to assure on May 28.

out, until completely surrounded, progressive disarmament, which| After dark Lieutenant-Colonel and then withdrew through the would relieve European national Stephenson personally guided the enemy lines.

budgets from the heavy burden battalion through the German This resistance prevented the of military expenditure, and to lines, crossing the line of advance enemy from turning the right organize a new European eco- of an enemy armoured division-flank of the French troops on the nomic order."-Havas.

Beat Five Tanks

Camerons' left.

At the river Lys the bridges had He Always Got Through 'insuccessful counter-attack, then

been blown up, but by swimming

D. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Kled his company to another coun- and wading he got his battalion Money, R. Scots, continued to lead ter-attack, which was successful. across and rejoined the brigade. his battalion until he was wound- Captain H. Pickard, Royal

Major L. F. Morling, during the ed. Even then he insisted on be-Signals, always had an alternative withdrawal from the River Dyle ing brought to Brigade Head-line ready by the time the enemy to Dunkirk, was in command of quarters to report before being cut his telephone lines.

By this a field company of the Royal En- taken to an aid post.

skill and initiative he kept fighter gineers. His company's skill in

Acting-Major R. G. Watson, R.Jaircraft fully informed right up _________________ Scots, rescued two survivors of an' to the moment of evacuation.

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WRITERS APPEAL TO WORLD CONSCIENCE

AT THIS MOMENT, when the future, not of our nation alone but thất of all nations, is being decid- ed, we, the undersigned English writers, members of the International P.E.N. Club (London Centre), ask to be heard by the writers of other countries from the "Publishers' Circular."

Our country has been blamed people of every nation. Without in the past for actions most exception.

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We manifestly taken because we We ask you to know this. hoped by them to avert war. We ask you, with the confidence that. failed, We failed to check the you will judge us fairly, to sup- deliberate and carefully prepared port us as best you

Can in a violence which has invaded and struggle which is not ended yet killed in one country after an- We do not expect defeat. We other Austria, Czechoslovakia, expect danger and we are able Poland, Norway, Denmark, to face it. We expect your bellef Holland, Belgium and France. in us. And we pledge ourselves Where the invading armies of on our part to remember that a Germany, have gone, unarmed lasting peace can be based only men and women and children on justice. We do not desire and have been mercilessly killed, and we will set our faces against re- freedom of mind and spirit has venge. been crushed out.

We appeal to each one of you It is not only life. which is individually to pass

our words threatened. It is freedom of on, by every means, to the na- conscience, and if it is lost, as it tions of the world.

is lost wherever the Nazi” power Storm Jameson, President; extends, life itself is not worth a Hermon Ould, General Secre- breath. We ask all those whojtary.

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