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From a military point of view, Germany's dash across Libya is more spec- tacular than valuable. The German forces have! been unopposed and the desert. "being'. as one writer expresses it,

"like the ocean," it makes little, or no difference where battles take place. Hitler undertook this forceful winkage diversión beratuse he can not afford a further set- back in any form whe- ther diplomatic or militum ary. He must at all costs 19 de out continue to inject the doe- trine of invincibility into the minds of his subjects.!

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This kind of assault, dangerous

to the date of it. fuge and fuel and supplies in enough even any one of more than of y parts present progress, has implications ya question of U-boats and seat-scattered along the coast of West-of peril for Britain if it is de-

ern Europe. tered surface raiders; Adolf Hit

and definitive attempt Britain this year.

to realise that the com- then full strength to the paratively weak position attemp! - a desperate of the British forces in with- Libya due to the drawal of large forces for Greece, gave him an op- portunity to stage "show."

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ler is beginning to use the bulk of his navy as he did in Norway to achieve his objective, and if

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veloped to the fullest possible ex- tent. It is an assault that can- Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, not be parried except by ships sister ships, are modern 26,000-and more ships for convoy pro- IL is an assault ton vessels with 11-inch main bat. tection duty. teries, and although they havel

that cannot be prevented, com- high speed, perhaps 29 knots, they mon assumption to the contrary, cannot properly be called battle by the British blockade. cruisers, since they are very heavily protected by armour. They Blockade Job Is ship in the British Navy except a

Difficult capital ship and they have higher excepting the new ships of the fo speed than any British battleship.! King George V class. Only the light blockade. The British Navy's THESE FACTS MAKE three British battle cruisers, Hood, job to day is incomparably great- Repulse and Renown, have a clearer and more difficult than in the

World War; never before. at. "edge" on the Scharnhorst class feast in the days of steam and the in both speed and gun power.

plane, has it had to blockade a continent.

Protection Is Complicated

For no navy, no matter how can maintain an air-

The Germans at home need something of a reas- made by the Germans suring nature. They are might easily be construed reported to be seriously as a heavy defeat for the disquieted by the out- British. This is far from break of war in the Bal- the case. The utmost con- kans, the heavy bombing fidence is placed in Gen- of Berlin, and Russia's eral Wavell's manage- disapproval of Hitler's

ment of affairs. The fall diplomacy, and were un-of Massawa has turned doubtedly in urgent need the Red Sea into a supply of some stimulation by channel, sufficiently sec-. successful enterprise. Ob- ure for President Roose-

The German surface men-of- viously, too, the revival of velt to announce that

war possess the same advantage With such ships operating as the German air force-numer the war in Libya obliges American vessels can against supply routes the British ous and widely scattered bases, General Wavell to main-

problem of protecting convoys From Narvik to Bordeaux Ger- carry war materials as

has been enormously complicated. tain forces strong enough far as Ismailia. The con- The British have been forced in ports like a fox from a hollow man ships can pop in and out of to defend the Egyptian voy position in that im- ships to escort their principal con-ed by aerial reconnaissance, simp..

recent weeks to utilise battle-

log. The British Navy even aid-. frontier, thus hindering portant area has, in con- voys.

ly cannot cover all these ports the dispatch of reinforce-sequence, been relieved,

effectively, and periodic, bombing In addition to the Scharnhorst of those in range are at best a ments to Greece.

all of which not only and Greisenau the Germans

detriment,, not a cura. The most deadly wea-shows that the Italian using cruisers and probably some

The sea must be combed. for pon that Hitler has exposition in East Africa is destroyers, against British trans-

Atlantic routes and the raiders the raiders, but more important, ploited hitherto, however, irretrievably lost, but have probably cruised to within all convoys, not only a special few hundred miles of Newfound- few, must be heavily protected by is the spreading rumours, that, in spite of anything w

battleships, by cruisers, by des- to create doubt and un- Hitler can now do, sup-

troyers, escort vessels and 'planes certainty. In this instance plies can pass up the Red

Despite losses in the Norwegian to guard against the triple threat from unless checked, the men-Sea to reinforce the Brit dacious reports on the ish position in Greece and acknowledged advance elsewhere.

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campaign the German Navy has of assault from beneath, at least soven cruisers and pro- above and from on the surface: bably several more available for

service, and it is likely that three This is the crux of the British or four of these and twenty or supply problem.

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