1941-08-18 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 18, 1*1.

WHAT IS THE

ANSWER TO TOTAL WAR?

(Continued from Paga 8).

Dakar, for instance, might be seized 'with or without. French cooperation (though It might now require a major expedition to do it), and the tide of Bri- tish advance might gradually seep up the African coast to the Pillars of Hercules to hold there the onrushing surgo German conquest.

Assault On Vital Centres

Eventually

of

given British naval superiority and hard-won local air superiority, given train- ed, thoroughly equipped men Narvik, one of the principal ports for the export of fron ore to Germany, might be seized. Gra- dually this conquest might be extended down the Norwegian coast -- gradually and with diff- culties and losses - until air bases could be established, per- haps at Trondheim, perhaps at Bergen, from which Northern Germany could be bombed.

The Iberian peninsula. the Grevian peninsula and Sicily all offer possible similar objectives

not for millions of men, but for relatively small, very heavily armed and highly trained expedi- fionary forres. heavily protected by considerably superior air

power.

most

Even the coast of France or the Low Countries is a possibility. perhaps in a sense the promising possibility from the British point of view for an as- sault on Germany. For this last is closer to Germany's vital cen- tres than the points on the peri- phery of the Continent, and with British air bases only some 50 to 350 miles away, the danger and difficulty of establishing a land- ing with only the protection of carrier-based 'planes (as would .be necessary art Narvik,

instance) Is obviated.

In this Channel coast region British air power could operate

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U.S. CAN STRIKE FROM BASE

IN PHILIPPINES

for ing United States and commonwealth forces in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur was viewed in official quarters in Washington as a step to make secure a base for any necessary operations in the Far Pacific.

from its own protected bases against German defenders and always provided a sufficient Bri- tish air superiority is achieved locally a successful landing in this region might be made.

If

In cooperation with British and Netherlands more than an enclave were to be East Indies forces, military authorities explained, pushed into German-held terri- American forces in the Philippines could at least tory, and the foothold developed give pause to any threat of a southward attack by expeditionary force would have the Japanese, regardless of support from the main to fulfill de Gaulle's formula of United States fleet. "tanks and guns thousands of aeroplanes, tens of thousands of

into buses and a battle front. the

acroplanes." Not only would Bri-MacArthur's command have been ped Filipino forces in reserve.

The island forces under General with partially trained and equip-

tish air superiority have to be conclusive to permit even the planning of any such sten, but the present German quantitative and qualitative superiority In tanks and mechanised vehicles would have

neutralised. to be just as the German Air Force has to be neutralised.

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measure=. though fundamental, represent on' partial answer to the problem of victory over Germany. To the external pressure of the military vise must be added com- plementary internal pressure →→ an ecconamy of scarcity within the Third Reich and the lands i controls, produced by tightening. of the blockade and by other: measures. Sea power plays a fundamental part, therefore, in! the receipt for a British triumph.

· Psychological Measures

built up energetically in recent, months, but officials in Washing- Can Be Defended ton do not view them as potential expeditionary units.

The commonwealth army force Any need for offshore operation. is believed to have ample equip-

said, cou'd be they

answered ment of rifles, which were turned largely by aviation, such as the over from surplus United States long-range, four-engined bomber. Army stocks, but lacks modern of the Army and the Navy's big mechanised equipment, anti-air- Aying boats. Both types are cap craft and possibly machine-guns. able of covering the 1,000 miles to Indo-China, bisecting the sea lane south through the China Sea.

Conjunction With Hong Kong

the

General MacArthur has con tended, although many military men do not share his view, that the is ands could be defended against a major attack from the sca, As military' adviser to President Manuel L. Quezon and director of commonwealth army training for. the last five years, General MacArthur stated this view repeatedly.

From northern Luzon, island on which Manila is locat. ad, It is less than 600 miles to a conjunction with defenders cf British Hong Kong. From the Defending the Cavite base and southern Island of Mindanao a the capital city of Manila is the string of Isfarids with air bases island fortress of Corregidor, at There is still more to the com- reaches down to the oil-pro- the entrance of Manila Bay, but plete answer. For there is an-

ducing island of Borneo.

land troops might be required to other sort of internal pressure At least one squadron of naval beat off a thrust toward Olongapo possible, which has as yet unpatrol 'planes already is in the and Manila from northern Luzon. known, perhaps undreamed of Philippines. Although there has potentialities. This form of war been no word that four-motored Reliance On Regulars fare is new; it was introduced by land planes, are on the islands, Hitler and it is a weapon which twenty-one of these latest type General MacArthur is an advo- can be turned against him per-warplanes recently were flown to cate of reliance on professional haps with disastrous conse-Hawaii. From Hawail, the Philip troops and air forces rather than quences. It has been called psy-pines are reached by the small mass army forces. Such a nucleus chological war, moral war, war island stenting-stones used by is provided by white troops of by sabotage. Though it com-trans-Pacife commercial planes.5,000 or more men, and possibly prises and includes all these Any Far Eastern operation bv 12,000 Philippine Scouts, Filipinos things, it is more inclusive than the United States Asiatic Fleet of who are an integral part of the any of them, and perhaps is best more than two-score war vessels United States. Army, called, as the British have called depends upon the security of bases. Some military, men are inclined it, revolutionary war,

at Cavite, on Manila Bay, and at to minimise the strength, though

that aside from the question: of equipment, there is a dearth of experienced officers;

On the moral and psychological Glongapo, to the north. All these not the value, of the Filipinos who front may be Germany's greatest in turn, depend on General have gone through the common- weakness. For her armies are MacArthur's combined forces wealth training scheme... saying now- spread over the conquered. The consolidation order, drafted Jands of Europe, they contral months ago to be sued in an 152,000,000 people, most of them emergency, gives General Mac unhappy (and – dissident - people, | Arthur- professional, army some of them on the thin edge of nucleus of 20,000 or more tranns, revolt but without milkary means for such expresslum: In. (verinany, itself is a body of dissent, hidden and secret, but one which would certainly feed on reverses and might be stimulated by propa by the hostility of intransigeant members of the Philippine con ganda injected under the skin of peoples are likely targets for stabulary, a police rather the German troops, themselves, propaganda,

military force.)

the German body politic. And wearled by the endloss occupa tion of strange lands, influenced

The consolidation order, oficials explained, did not immediately put all the commonwealth forces un- der General MacArthur's order, but permitted him to call specific units as considered needed.

Excluded were 7,000 or more

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