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"THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1941.

CHINA MAIL New

Trend

WINDSOR HOUSE

WAR PRODUCTION

No one who under- stands the immensity of

In War

adopted in the last war.

the task of turning over As Axis moves in the Balkans industry from a peace to appear to herald the opening of a campaign, signs begin to a war basis will have been new

multiply that Great Britain is pre- surprised at Mr. Chur-paring to conduct the struggle on chill's recent statement, entirely different lines from those that Britain is still only a That is why any estimate of the partially armed nation. outcome at this stage is highly uncertain and why we have at Under the modern con-

One and the same time Colonel ception of total war a na-Lindbergh giving technical rea- tion is only fully armed sons for Britain's expected down- fall, while Wendell L. Willkie when industrial war pro-furnishes well-authenticated in-

formation duction reaches a maxi-

indicating probable British victory. mum such as to keep fully The very completeness of the

equipped the largest pos- of last year

German victories in the first half

has enabled Mr. of

its

sible fighting force. The Churchill to discard a line number of men who can strategy which Britain followed in

1914 and 1918 and which profitably be trained to fight is limited by the capacity to equip them -adequately. Far

more

munitions will be needed for, say, 4,000,000 soldiers

leaders clung to tenaciously up to the moment when Mr. Churchill

took over the Government.

German occupation of France took away Britain's chief ally, but it also took away one of the mostį pernicious sources of defeat-the West Front theory.

in this war than for Scope of Dunkirk

5,000,000 in the last.

•

What Mr. Churchill-and Mr.

pay, the new unity is an immense

George termed it, "butting away

To achieve the desired Lloyd George before him-had been struggling to get rid of for results requires the most nearly a quarter of a century was exact organisation of all effectively liquidated for all pre- sent purposes at historie Dunkirk. the major activities of the with the disappearance of the country. Control at the West Front myth, Britain becomes united in its strategic outlook, and top is essential, and the while the loss of France and the people have asked noth-Low Countries is a heavy price to ing better than that they asset and likely to take effect in should be told what-each surprising ways during the com-

ing campaign. should do in the common

This West Front theory-the cause. From the moment "billy-goat tactics," as Mr. Lloyd that conscription for the army was adopted it was able generally agreed that the only be won by defeating Ger- same fundamental must many in the west and that armed be applied to civilians, strength should and that the Government

Strongly advocated by Joffre, should have power to con- Haig, and some of the most in- trol property and profits, fluential members of the British and French Governments and and the labour of men services, this theory was respon- and women, rich and poor|sible for the loss of almost alike.

1,000,000 French and German sol- diers during the terrifle eight-day German attack on Verdun in

one's strength against unbreak-

around

walls" was built the postulate that the war could

not be frittered away by sending it to other sub- sidiary fronts.

SIDI

BARKAN

BARENTS

KEREN

ALFAN

AFRICAN

·EMPIRE

AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE

(Leaving it to Mussolini to try and conjure the picces to- gether again.)

points with devastating sureness.

While the West Front theory gave maritime supremacy, the navy is Britain no advantage from its the key to Britain's policy to-day.

Signor Mussolini, failing to ob- The machinery to be in February, 1916.

serve this revolutionary change of set in motion was intri-

It was responsible for the loss tactics, and assuming that he had of the flower of Britain's youth an open lane for supplies to his empire launched cate. The fighting ser- 480,000 from schools and univer- North African vices had to decide what sities in the attack on the Ger- his attack on Egypt last August, as France had dropped man lines at the Somme the fol- as soon equipment they needed. lowing June; for 300,000 more, out. To his surprise he found the "The supply departments butting against the German lines lane suddenly closed, while the

at Arras and Messines between

schendaele -tember.

the following

or

the find

of British-instead

blundering insufficient men placed orders on a gigan- April and June in 1913 and 430,000 along with tic scale with firms cap-more in the Flanders mud of Pas- supplies as they had done at Gul-

Sep- lipoli in April, 1915, when "able of adapting their

125,000 "Anzacs" landed to plants. There was im- And for all this tragic cost in the Turks..unsurprised and well men, with tens of millions of prepared to meet them-in two mense demand for ma-shells, and even the whole Mes-months disposed of his army and chine tools and skilled la-sines ridge blown off by long and all Eastern Libya at a cost of less bour. More tools had to

elaborate mining operations, only than 1,000 a few square miles of territory selves. be manufactured, more were gained. labour trained. Care had Reversal of Policy to be taken that the rate!

casualties to them-

Fascist Fallacy

weeks and months in wrangles be-

tween Lloyd George, Haig, Joffre, policy to adopt, or between Chur- Millerand and the rest as to what chill and Fisher as to whether to force the Dardanelles. She has lost Russia as an ally, but it may well be that effective help to the indomitable and self-reliant little Greece has more value than no help at all from millions of Rus- sian soldiers, who in 1915 and 1916 were impotent because they had no ammunition.

Russian Failure

are

Every day desperate appeals were being sent from: General Yanushkevitch, Chief of Staff of the Grand Duke Nicholas, to the War Minister. Two or three times a day cartridges are asked for from the fronts, and there none. My heart is heavy,” the un- happy general would plead. More- over, the Russian people to-day. are little likely to be more help- ful to the conquering Nazis than the Czechs or Norwegians who are already under the German heel.

From the human standpoint, while Britain is in some ways weaker in political leadership than she was in 1914, yet the Prime Minister who gave General Wavell all the men and equipment he needed for the campaign in Libya

man who above all has been try- ing-to-shift-Britain's policy from the West Front to the world-wide The net result so far for Britain | naval policy, is two new bases in the central Mediterranean-at Crete and Ben- He is the man who-in 1915, as ghazi-which bid fair to eliminate First Lord of the Admiralty, had and prospect of Signor Mussolini's the enterprise to spend £70,000 of making further claims to control public money on unauthorised ex- periments in a field that was no of the Mediterranean,

official "concern of his-tests with a new contraption subsequently known as the "tank.”

Registration for service continent, but the continent is an effective air force detachment and at the right moment is the

By a similar miscalculation, of production of one part To-day Mr. Churchill reverses when on Oct. 28 the Duce de

the policy he attacks where the cided to invade Greece, he found of a weapon kept pace enemy is weak, instead of where that the British, instead of land-

ing with the rate of produc- the enemy is strong. He may have an ill-equipped, ineffective only a fraction of the men and force at Salonika-as the Allies tion of other parts manu- arms that were assembled on the had done in 1915, with some idea factured in perhaps many Allled front in 1916 and 1917, but of proceeding against the Turks everything he has is effective.

were able to send timely equip other factories.

He may have lost most of the ment to the Greeks by sea, with seething mass of discontent and to supplement their bombing and in the Forces has now incipient rebellion, so that the reconnaissance work. been followed by the in- German occupation is only partial

ly effective. dustrial registration of Moreover, if he does not control the civilian population by the land, he controls. the sea and can uncover the enemy's weak age-groups-that is, by the making of lists of those who may be called over and run industrial on to serve the State in undertakings.

Heavier tests than there may be -national industry, Com- How far this vast ma-expected to face the British at any moment, but so long as the fleet 1 pulsion in like manner is chinery of production has remains intact, there is every rea- Considerations such as

applied to employers who, been organised to the son to suppose that it will pro- must be thrown into the balance

ceed to uncover the Nazi weak before one can size up the..pros rif engaged in vital war best possible advantage points, as it has, uncovered the pects of the war.

In the matter of the Imponder.

these

work, have no longer the cannot yet be fully judg- Italian-for though the Nazis are

an entirely different propositionables that play so vital a part in

fairs, they mount up to a formid-

right to dismiss their emed, but there is no doubt from the Italian Black Shirts, the the final destiny of human af-

ployees except for mis- that equipment is now vast extent of their conquests may

be expected to leave inevitable able array-the more so since the conduct; and the Govern coming into production weak points,

new strategy:of:wea.control;unlike ment has the power, spar- on a scale that is literally

"the strategy of the West Front Britain has Jost Frange and Bel-makes-cooperation --from Ameries": ingly exercised, to take enormous.

pturn, but she will no longer wi "bot, enzy and great

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