1941-03-06 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.

CHINA MAIL An Air

WINDSOR HOUSE

DIPLOMACY OF TERROR

Offensive?

By Hanson W.

Baldwin

The final humillation and vir- the invasion threat of last tual destruction of Marshal Gra-autumn--in the continuous, ziani's thoroughly beaten Libyan determined manner started re- Army have provided the high-cently. And usually the bombers lights in the Mediterranean theatre that made these raids have operat- of the war.

ed unprotected by fighters.

By the manner in which he has

handled the Balkan nations--

keeping them divided, working on their mutual jealousies and im- memurial feuds, concentrating his pressure on one country at a time, enforcing "moderate" demands which enable him when granted to nake further and less moderate demaats, infiltrating one country

But, important though the Bri- after another "peacefully" with

tish victory has been in the orbit 'military instructors," "techni-

of Mediterranean conflict and per- cians" and "tourists." until the haps in consequences yet to be felt. number and equipment are great; it is perhaps rivalled in signi- enough to render further diseance by the British air offensive guises needless by tacties sucffus, against the Channel coast,

these, Hiller has once more shown

Not only do the continued as- himself to be a diplomatic strate-saults by British bombers against gist of consummate cunning. Just the so-called invasion ports in- a before he made outright war diente British determination to heat the Germans to the punch and to throw off balance at pos- sible invasion attempt but the suming this "bloodless" conquest¦mportance is underscored by the even within a war, he has tighten- | methods adopted. 'તે the Nazi 4250 successively vround Hungary, Rumania atrd Bulgaria, and has begun to apply

tt Yugoslavia,

Hiller had marched from one "blondless" conquest la another Austria, the Sudetenland. Czecho slovak.a. Memel

RGAV, If..

Lessons of Air War Applied

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procedure indicates many things. First, that the Bri- tish have found out, as the Ger mans previously learned, that daylight bombing without fighter protection is too expensive in mas chines and pilots lost to make the game worth the candle largely unnoticed, British bomber losses tshot down in both night and day raids) in many recent weeks have exceeded the German losses.

Second, the aerial offensive means Britain has seized the