1940-10-02 — Page 23

- THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 2, 1940.

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CHINA MAIL Japan's Pact With

WINDSOR HOUSE

HITLER'S PLAN?

Nazi spokesmen in Bor great flourisht

The Axis

Witch animates Germany. and Italy. The treaty marks their failure to achieve the kind of victory which alone will assure their hegemony in Europe which they so loudly proclaim is theirs. Hitler has shouted from the house- tops that Britam would be invad- ed and subdued this year, and that he would dictate peace from moveBuckingham Palace in August,'

assuming that Buckingham Palace was still standing.

States, and by the closure of the Japan is for the time being the Burma Road, in spite of control, King of the Castle in Indo-China of the whole coast of China, the and the United States is the dirty prospect of creating the new or rascal for criticising this 'an empty throat in the Hope order in that part of the world is south.

moro romote than ever. Having

The signing of the tripartite pact has bodni, carried out ̃WHb_a

trumpets a though it wore the solemn pro lin, have recently in pre-nouncement of final judgment. bos senting their versions ofore the victim against whom it

is directed, was hanged, drwaza:] great losses inflicted on

and quartered. On closer exam * Britain, been beginning to mution; however; it turns out to speak of their supposed be, not an indication of aid effect on "an air force once in final victory so much a even as large as the staving off defeat. R.AF? It is a justified admission of respect and one which must be forti- fled in the minds of Ger- mans by the nightly news from the Rhineland.

and reduced the standard of liv-

What Is the position? Japan failed against Russia and second- loudly proclaimed for years that ly against China, having burden- Russia was the enemy in the same cd the nation with a colossal debt way as Germany did: Russia was: internally corrupt, ruled by a gang of sub-human beings, in Hitler's words; and: could easily be conquered, Japan tested; the

By CIVIS

ing Japan now looks for another

If Hitler's plan, what strength of the Russian forces at ever it is, is to mean any- the battle for the hill of Chang Ko thing in the way of a de- Feng in July 1938 and then re- cision it must not only The idea was that such a success- justify some part of the fut war would be a way out from long threatened assault the unsuccessful effort to subdue on the British Isles but it China but it was realised that must also curb our de- such a campaign would involve monstrated capacity for even greater risk and more like

lihood of defeat than the car attack. The second neces-

paign in which Japan was already sity is clearly unfulfilled

involved at the present time and so long as it remains unful- filled it is impossible to maintain that the first is in effective operation.

tired to think the matter over. way of escape.

German tales for home and neutral consumption grow, if anything, wilder as the air war deepens; they now even invent dis- sensions at our Air Minis- try. But of the serious intentions of the attempt- ed assault there is no doubt.

Convoys, ports, aero- dromes, balloon barrages, and here and there by night industrial centres- these are not targets of terrorism but of signifl- cant importance; if great and sustained damage could be there inflict- ed our war effort would be accordingly handicapped and attempted invasion by sea brought nearer.

But in spite of the in- creased severity of the at- tacks the damage does not increase as do the losses to the attackers.

If the aim of the "well- laid plan" is attrition, it is so far working to Ger many's disadvantage both at home and, in the air. But we cannot expect that| the attacks will slacken; by sheer necessity of war and by the tales that have been told to his own peo- ple Hitler is too deeply committed to them. He must do something with what remains of the aut umn and that something we must be prepared to meet in whatever form his necessity may drive him to attempt. For the pre- sent the valour, sacrifices, and ability of the R.AF, both in defence and in at- tack, have served us mag- nificently and cannot be too gratefully saluted.

France lies bleeding and help-'

less, and her distant colonies un- defended; with the connivance of the Nazi people and as a bait to lure Japan in to the vortex the latter is urged to take advantage of the situation; -

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The simple and incontrovertibla fact remains that he has not done and Goebbels' loud threats 50. denunciations over the Berlin

being calculated. The rearma- ment in the United States, carried on with all the tremendous indus- trial rescurces of that country and the embarge on metals and radio have not been implemented aviation spirit destined for Japan, by the achievements of Goering's mean that the recognition by Ger- luftwaffe. On the contrary the many and Italy of Japan's dom-R.A.F. has blasted his invasion ination there is not going to be bases on the European coast with- unchallenged

out intermission and to such a degree as to make the attempt Japan has been pondering, deep impossible. But that is merely ly how she is going to meet that the preliminary for the navy and challenge and this tripartite treaty the land forces in Britain also is one of the means by which she have to be overcome before peace hopes to stave off the day of rec- can be dictated in London. It is koning. From the Japanese point a truly formidable task which the of view then, the signing of the Nazis have undertaken, and to a pact with Germany and Italy person of average intellect an should hardly be accompanied by impossible one.

The fact is the paeans of victory.

Nazis have been thinking in terms

The road North to Siberia is closed; the advance to the west through China having been held up for two years, tlte, expansion In the fourth year of war ir south is now opened up. Having China in spite of the assistance failed in two directions there is a rendered to her by the war mat-last hope she will succeed in the erial obtained from the United third effort. Like the little boy with Japan, it is a similar

FRIENDS

It is a treaty demanded by the situation, because of abject fear.

of land power with the air force

as the spearhead of a successful attack, as in Poland. Britain, If, however, that is the case however, is not

Poland neither fear from a geographical, military, naval, or acrial point of view. It is the centre of, the British Em- pire and the focus of its power..

KISEDIPLOMACY

IT JUST KEEPS, ROLLING: ALONG'

STRWIES

Hitler then has proclaimed his failure since he has wisely failed to make the attempt: Italy, too, which has beori urging Germany to get on with the blitzkrieg against Britain, is obviously wor- ried. She fears a long war and the power of the United States.

There has been no progress in her major operations in Africa, her warships carefully avoid cons tact with the British fleet, which parades the Mediterranean for days on end, as in times of peace, Both Italy and Germany, who have nothing whatever to offer Japan except the French derelict possession of Indo-China, look for 'her help against the United States. They also are afraid of the future. Japan then is expected to face the United States, and from Ger- many she will get sympathy, and encouragement in her predica

ment.

China which is handed over on- "paper to the tender mercies of Japan is now in a stronger poși- tion than before, since Japan hav- ling interests elsewhere will prÓ-

bably be satisifed to contain the Chinese armies within their pre- sent positions and will seek ulti- mately to make a-graceful with

drawal on some plea or other. With regard to Italy and Germany, it would seem that Free China's "attitude now must be ond of non- belligerenty. The activities of the Gerinan and Italian nationals in Free China are now officially an- nounced to be in favour of Japan. Whatever trade they are carrying ¡on in: wolfram and such things should be stopped scoing, that the supply of this material to Ger many indirectly helps Japan in. her efforts at conquest. It would be ironic to welcome the Ameri- can embargo on scrap metal and aviation spirit and to aid Japan's ally in any way whatever. The new embargo' begins on October. 16th and the Burma Road in expected to be, re-opened about. the same dato,