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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 15, 1940.-

Prod. MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas settle a slight feud with somewhat disastrous results in this scene from Columbia's "Too Many Husbando," coming next to the King's Theatre. In- Buccoss by Somerset cidentally, the film is based on a atago

Maugham.

NAZI MENACE INSIDE U. S.

SUPPLY FEATS IN DESERT

Despatches from this front have dealt almost exclusively with the fighting elements, whose deeds have fully merited the publicity they have received; but many other who have céntributed to these successes have remained anonymous writes, a "Daily Tele- graph" Special Correspondent with the British striking force, Libyan Frontier.

Almost daily striking feats of endurance are achieved behind the lines by the supply services, without whose efficient collabora tion the fighters would not have achieved what they have done!

Wherever you go there is a of the devo- lively appreciation tien and doggedness with which supplies to the front line are re- gularly maintained, offen in face or bombing attacks, over the long distances and barren country which separate even the forward į supply depots from the frontier. Repairs On The Spot

terrific sand-

In the teeth of storms, under an. overpowering sun, whose heat

causes cars to "hot up" every few miles, along difficult tracks which, when they are not vast rubble-dumps, are covered with thick dust and sand concealing the deep furrows made the best cars to break down, the during the winter rains, causing men engaged in these srvices have persevered to enable

their com-

rades to fight on.

The strain on the mechanised tremendous, and

THE COMPLEXITY OF the Nazis' world-wide propaganda organisation and the gravity of the Fifth Column threat to the United States have been examined by Col. Wm. Donovan and Edgar Mowrer

praise is due to the recovery sta- in the final articles of a series distributed to Ameri-ure has been can papers by Col. Frank Knox, Secretary of the on which, isolated in the middle Navy, as part of the nation's preparedness pro-aid detachments the work of suc-

gramme.

Every year, the writers assert, Hitler's Germany spends £50,000,000 on the organisation of Germans living in foreign countries and ori propaganda.

"As matters now stand," they say, "it is highly probable that the United States has the finest Nazi- schooled. Fifth Column in the world, one which, in case of war with Germany, could-be our un- doing.

"Nazi Germany is now prevent- ed from an assault on the Western Hemisphere by nothing but the might of Great Britain. Unless we Americans take the trouble to see through Hitler's stratagems and learn by others' experience, we, too, may fall a victim to them.

An Ideal Field

"Whatever plan he adopts there is little doubt that the United States constitutes just about the ideal field for the exercise of the same sort of thing that brought Norway, Holland, Belgium and France to their downfall.

"Here there is a German co- Tony several million strong. Here, in thousands of important households, are domestic ser. vants ready to fulfil their duty to the Fatherland by revealing to the German authorities any- thing of interest that comes their way. Here are thousands of Ger. man waiters, as 'snoopers.' Here are skilled workmen in arsenals, business factories, shops and houses.

"Here there is already an entire party apparatus and organisation with, unlimited friends. Here are scores of extra-territorial agents in

the Germany Embassy and Consulates engaged in God knows what form of activity, of which the least one can say is that it is

against American directed

mocracy.

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“Susceptible Masses"

de-

"Direct links with Germany aside, are we Americans ourselves invulnerable to Nazi propaganda? Our masses are strikingly ceptible-hundreds were quick to flee from columns of allegedly ad- vancing invaders from Mars.

sus-

"If, deaf to Naz! propaganda, we finally went to war many would risk life and limb to dos.. troy their own country, sabotage Ko defences, weaken its war ef- fort, sink its ships, and kill. Ita soldiers and sailors for the bene. fit of an alien foreign dictator And his allén political philo. sophy.

"A situation like that in Francs might well arise. If France, with its highly centralised administra- tion and all-seeing police, could not effectively deal with enemy propaganda in time of war, how much chance has the decentralis- ed and pluralistic American de- mocracy unless it has learned from the experience of Germany European vletims and has taken the necessary steps in time?"

WHAT NAZI

AIR FORCE

IS DOING

one

Ansaldo, Mussolini's propa-

of

of

gand-a-henchmen,

edito'r

and the newspaper "Tele- grafo," which is owned by Ciano, the Italian Foreign Secretary, reached new heights of imagination cently.

re-

of the descrt, directs through light couring lame dogs.

LEAVE PETROL ANOMALY

THE FACT THAT OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE REGULAR ARMY. ARE DENIED THE PRI-

BY.

THE VILEGE ENJOYED NAVY AND R.A.F. OF GETTING SHORT-TERM LICENCES FOR. LAID-UP OR BORROWED CARS IS NOT THE ONLY "ANOMALY [5 OF WHICH COMPLAINT MADE.

For their own fully licensed cars Army personnel can only get more than the basic petrol ration by applying with leave certificate to their divisional petroleum ofli-.

allowance. cer for an ex gratia The other Services are entitled to petrol for 300 miles while on leave and may draw it twice a year.

The discrepancy is due to the

the regulations fact that drawn up while the B.E.F. was abroad and were made to apply while on personnel to Service

the United leave "from outside Kingdom." In existing conditions the regulations do not carry out

were

In his weekly radio effort to cheer up the Italian forces he an nounced that: the great attack on Eng- land had been in pro-Parliament's intentions, but un- gress for some time.

He told them that

every day in the Ger- bulletin they could

man High Command

follow how "the ring. round England is clos- ing ever tighter and more pitilessly, how England is becoming increasingly affected in her life, in her vital centres and in her or- ganisation.

less the War Office moves, they will nct, it appears, be altered.

CURFEW FINES ON

COAST

Four women and a man were fined 20s each at Hove for being out of doors in the curfew area after 10.30 p.m. without a writ- ten authority. Chief Inspr. Lo- vell said that the cases were the first of the kind brought by the authority of the Regional, Com- missioner.

"What the German air force is now doing over England will only be understood proper ly by the layman when Albion has at last been brought to the ground like her former ally France and lies in came into force the previous week

Mrs. Queenie Watts, of Water- loo Street, Hove, said she had been delayed by a car breakdown. She was stopped by a policeman at Iher door.

Mrs. Fanny Barley, of Water- she was loc Street, Hove, sald crossing the road at 10.30 after visiting a sick brother.

the dust. This day. will shortly.come,” he concluded:

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Charles Ernest Bennett, a Shore- ham_labourer, now serving with the Forces pleadedignorance of the curfew, He said when it

he was on night work.

Two other defendants were Edith May Burgess, of Bucicing- ham-place, Brighton and Helen Marion Pearson, of Westbourne Place, Hove.'