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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

OFFENSIVE ON ALL FRONTS

The threat that the expected Spring offen- sive may be an of- fensive

all on

fronts begins to take the shape of reality. The possibility that all the aggressors might strike at once and together, not in concert but in collusion, each out to rake in his own plun- der in a general orgy of plunder, has long loomed as the logical finale to the desperate gamble for world dominion in which they are now so deeply in- volved. The dictators have gone too far to retreat. They mistrust one other too much to act separately. The failure of the Italian attack in the Mediterranean, designed to be a key move in the grand manoeuvre, is a grim reminder that they rise and fall together, and a spur to the develop-| ments now taking place as they race to beat the assembly line in the American arsenal.

an-

Having "arbitrated" to her own advantage the dispute between Thai- land and French Indo- China, Japan is appar- ently casting her shadow on Singapore.

Zater

pms.

ONE

HUNDRED

YEARS OF

IN THE LIMELIGHT

THE MERRY WIDOW

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We need modern

Machine

ner?

Britain undoubtedly has the

perience.

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