1941-03-06 — Page 7

SMITH YATES ON AN OLD ISSUE

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FREE TO

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Pleasts!

No NAGGING ON

TECCADILLOES OF Tres Boy"

Not

BOTHERED

BY PETTY

DETAIL

OF COURSE.

THE BUDGET's

STRANGELY

TOUGH

AND AFTER

ALL SOME

ARE LUCKIER!

WHO WOULDN'T BE AN EVACUEE HUSBAND?

Here are no sporadic hit-and- run rauds, but the inception, ae- cording to British officers, of an air offensive against German-do- | 10itiative and struck first. Third, accompanying ighters are necded

For iftler has mastered the lesson which, in spate of repeated iminated demonstrations, his victims and opponents have been so slow to

territory that Britain it means

We have accumulated hopes can be continued until the during the Winter a considerable war ends. The rands are distin- reserve of 'planes and pilots and - that "diplomacy"

guished, fret, by the fact that they now feel strong enough in the a "ware not two separate things

to strike in daylight and with con but merely two aspects of there made in daylight; second, in same thing. They are both part of being protected by mass fighter finuity. Fourth, it means we hay e

patrols, and these fighter patrols, itaequned Strategy which been defined as "that which So by indicated, will be kept over the numbers to enable

that Grand

has

const of the Continent daily.

i

fighters in sufficient simultaneous lighter defence of Britain and! fighter protection of raiding Bri-

tish bombers.

Cheets and integrates, the policies and armaments of the nation that fr resmi to war is either render

Heretofore most of the British ed unnecessary or is undertaken

bombing has been done by night; with the maximum chances of t victory." And in this broadened intermittent raids have been car- But it must be remembered that Chception of strategy, the divid-ried out in daylight, generally the daylight bombing raids have line between "pace" and against coastal points, but not... so far been concentrated largely "ww all but disuppears.

except for a brief peria during against coastal points in occupied

In using diplomacy as an - Strument of war. in driving diplomatic wedge between coun- tries to make a later military wedge unnecessary,

using threats, so to speak, to economise on army divisions, Hitler and his Axis partners have the great ad- vantage over their democratie op-

SHOW

this

formidable-looking

When

ture. at all times on strength at the

France and Belgium, very close to British air bases. No longe-range

the Spitfires fast and man-

forays;

and which may have been initial- ed in a limited fashion, cannot amount to much as an instrument for the defeat of Gerinany.

Whether bombing alone, with- out the actual aid of land troops. can ever bring Germany to her knees is, in any case, very ques- tionable.

is For Germany

now sprawled across the

of map Europe and the targets for raid- ing Britisher bombers are innum- mileserable.

in such

and Hurricanes, oeuvrable, that are the principal mainstay of the defence of Bri- tain, can, despite their limited role of accom- range, fulfill the panying fighters when the objec- tives are only 50 to 150 away.

Britain apparently has not yet produced or acquired in quantity a long-range fighter capable of stabbing with the bombers deco into Germany or German-occupied territory, and until she does, un- in daylight as in dark, the "bomb-but a drop in til she is strong enough to bomb ing offensive" so often discussed,

Germans In Norway

Vast Force Would

Be Needed

Some 200 bombers a night are the bucket of the total war. Even 2,000 raiding bombers daily would probably fail tc loosen the Nazi rip upon Ger- many. Yet, to operate 2,000 bomb- ets continuously day after day for a protracted period there would have to be available at least 6,000 bombers--more likely 10,000- - and at least 6,000 pilots and air crews, and there would have to be replacements coming from the

of at least 200 bombers and 200 pilots and air crews daily. For one must reckon on at least 10 per cent losses on each raid.

in, ministration interfere with all or- the World War, and send them to factories and the training schools

ders coming from Hitler's puppet, Norway. the traitor Vidkund Quisling. Only last month 500 local administra- tors were imprisoned for sabotag- ing government orders. The Mayor nationalist leader, withdrew the of one city, a rather well-known licence of the biggest hotel in the city because the owner had per

By Otto Zausmer

a

They will have to police not

they

World War experience demon- astrated the immensity of the task.

Norway is the only country ponents not only of being un- the world where the Nazis are scrupulous and ruthless, but of baving established solid reputa- on the defensive. More than that, tions for those qualities.

In spite of all their ruthlessness, the representatives of the 100- they threaten they are able to

million-master-race quite often

The terrific industrial and tacti- their intended victims that take a severe beating, literally and

only the people, but also the po cal problems in the way of con- they have not hesitated in the symbolically, at the hands of their

lice. Like other officials, the tinuous mass bombardments wêre past to machine-gun civilians and 3,000,000-Norwegian "subjects."

their eyes to all acts of sabotage. ing and waning of the German air police throughout Norway close strikingly illustrated by the wax- 10 wipe out open cities, some-True the Nazis have looted the times purely as a "demonstration."} country exhaustively, they have

Just a few weeks ago a warning offensive last Autumn; the assaults Whichever side a

to weak neutral sent thousands concentration

was issued to the people of Ale-upon England could be kept at a They have shot people!

sund, reading: "Yesterday 33 citi-peak only for a brief time. country may prefer to help, Hit- camps. Jer feels that he can terrorise it at random whenever the instigator mitted the use of the auditorium zens were arrested because

of an act of

street sabotage could not for Quisling meetings. That was staged open anti-German into helping him.

be found and they have made the

a month ago; he is still in office. demonstrations and insulted streets of Oslo swarm with beg- But there is one weakness in gars. (Up to last Spring no living He does not even answer letters German guard. The police took The British found that to main- lenient attitude towards the tain 1,800 planes in operation in or orders from Oslo. struc- Norwegian had ever seen a beggar

demonstrators and consequently France not all of which, by any It depends absolutely and in the capital.

The Nazis have threatened that the extent of manifestations has means, were operated daily-and

increased,"

more than 300 planes in opera-. centre. It is not only Hitler's vic- But they could not quell the they would enforce their will upon

Harsh measures taken by the tion in England for home defence, tins that are kept in line through spirit of the people. The whole the Norwegians by military po Minister of Police stirred so much a thonthly output of 1,500 'planes

But that did not frighten nation is on the offensive against wer. fear of him: his ostensible friends the invaders and the result of this the people because they could not hatred against him that he felt it was needed, which is probably the maximum output of Britain to- even Austria, even great numbers by Maj. Quisling's aide, Nils Flom, army of occupation and maintain plead with the people for coday: The French calculated on a He made a speech to monthly output of 2,400 'planes of Germans, hate and fear him noin the official

organ of Nasjonal that they would not give in to a operation."

this effect, but only Quislingists and 4,000 engines monthly to Jess. If the Nazi leaders were once | Samling. the

bigger, even more brutal army. Quisling Party,

came to the meeting and people maintain a tactical force of 4,000 revealed to be weak at the centre, "Fritt Folk" (Free People): "Even. The Germans, on the other hand, turned off their radios when he aircraft, probably only one-half their whole "new order" "would | Nasjonal Samling men have 2 are in a bad position. It is. im-started talking.,

to two-thirds of which was ever quickly fall into fragments. Ofright to exist," wrote the Nor-possible for the Nazi ́-party to There are very few sympathisers operating simultaneously. their opponents this is not true. If wegian Fascist leader. Then he convince the German people that with the Nazis. Girls who are

went on: "We need newspapers the Norwegians are not at least seen with Germans on the streets output of Britain was 2,668 'planes In1018, the average monthly a single bomb were to destroy a handful of Nazi leaders, the whole have access to local papers

supporting our case or we must as "good Aryang" as are the are seized and their hair is cut and 1841 engines; for France it be- Germans, And while the Ger- Michael Staksrud, up to a year was 2,852 "planes and 3,359 en- aspect of the world might change cause we must give our opinion mans could be persuaded that ago Norway's pride, her world gines (planes and engines of de- in a few weeks: but if such a bomb to counter-balance the opposition Norway had to be occupied for the champion in ice racing, was re-sign far simpler than they are to- were to wipe out the present Bri- which now completely dominates German Reich they will not becently found dead in a lake near day), a combined monthly output tish Cabinet, great as the loss the situation." This complaint was lieve that the Norwegians are "un- Oslo after he had been missing for of 5,520 'planes and 5,200 engines, would be it would not change at voiced at the beginning of this der dogs" like the Czechs or the weeks. He was a meniber of the considerably more (in 'planes) all the determination of the Bri- month, little short of a year after Poles, whom the Germans have Quisling Elite Guard,

than Germany is producing to- tish people to carry on the war. If the country had been invaded by always disliked.

Day by day people cross the day, considerably more than any England itself were invaded and the Nazis!

Ill-feeling has been created in frontier Into Sweden and report planned schedules of future Germany when the Scandinavians to friends important Nazi secrets | American production. have been handled roughly. It which are then transmitted to

and allies, Russia, Japan, Italy, offensive has been described best be intimidated by the present necessary to justify his deeds and

subjugated, the fight for freedom would go on in other parts of the British-Commonwealth.-

|_ would-be-far more unpleasant if England by amateur radio stations. "The start of the British dayw the rules were stiffened. That is Or a small boat furtively; leaves light bombing raids, therefore, -It is possible for tyranny to be. While in other occupied couns why Herr Hitler prefers that the one of the thousands of flords on while indicating increased British struck down by a well-directed tries opposition or sabotage is in- Norwegian Fascists handle the a voyage to England with vital strength, should not be miscon- blow, but throughout the world dividualistic or the work of small situation. alone. Now, since it information. This is one of the strued. For the sheer physical dif- men will-fight for their liberty as groups. Aghting more or less un- does not look as if they could do read why an attempt to invade ficulty, of providing the thousands

derground, in Norway not only the job, the Nazis are about to England from Norway would be and thousands of bombers re long as they retain the power to the whole population but also those conscript volunteers of the young-known in England almost beforequired to produce decisive effects carry on the struggle.

who are left of their former ad- est Storm Troopers, born after dhe Germ

samith, anchor.