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SURPRISES IN

BRITISH GAMES

ARMY

WHILE WAR is flaming up fiercely in the Middle East the Army at home is training ceaseless- ly and fighting that insidious, enemy tedium, still waiting for the invasion that has threatened since Dunkirk, says Mr. L. Mararsland Gander of the "Daily Telegraph." A whole year has now passed since the people of Britain first felt the peril close, a year during which the Army here has played the unspectacular part of garrison and guard.

Yet the importance of that part hardly needs the emphasis laid upon it by statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic. Logic insists that however far Hitler may press his conquests in other fields, in the end he must turn with all his force upon the island citadel that is the centre and inspiration of continuing resistance.

A year at action stations with-prised and wiped out a corp com- out the stimulus of genuine action inander's headquarters. But in the or the encouragement of victory process the brigade lost 85 per is a test of patience: yet it has cent. of

its armoured Aghting also been a providential oppor-vehicles, and eventually was tunity for strengthening in num-deemed to have come to a stand- bers and equipment the Army still for lack of fuel und ammuni- defending our vital heart of tion.

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SOVIET ENVOY PAYS TRIBUTE TO R.A.F.

A tribute to the "marvellous work done by British bom- bers over Germany

was expressed by M. Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to Bri- tain, at a speech dur- ing a reception offer- ed at the Army & Navy Club.

"I hope," he added, "that during the au- tumn the aid given us by the Royal Air Force will be still more effective."

It goes

00000001 Empire. In the year the progress Incidentally, many of the men has surpassed all expectation. in this flying column were 33, 34

without saying that Certainly there is much left to be¦ and 35 years of age, and thus roads must and will be kept free done and a call for still greater showed their paces to younger from civilian traffic. Nor would efforts in the workshops and fuc- comrades. According to modern there be much purpose in civilian tories, but to cast one's mind back practice they had rushed on re-flight, for the spreading pools and to Dunkirk days is to find great gardless of their flanks, and had rivulets of invasion might be en- cause for thankfulness,

even left many strong points be-countered anywhere. If the Ger- still held by the man runs to form he will fing

them

Detours. Round The Defences

Then we were straining our re-hind sources to re-equip the exhausted, defenders. weaponless legions back from France; the B.B.C. was broadcast. ing appeals for shot-guns with which to arm the new citizen army that had sprung into being over-night-the Local Defence Volunteers, now called the Home Guard,

and dale

The brigadier in command of this armoured force has been associated with tanks since 1916; To-day there is a vast well he had covered 170 miles of wold country in 30 hours equipped regular Army here, sup- ported by a force of Home Guards before the umpires brought him 1,750.000 strong, whose arms and to a halt. His fast armoured cars training are improving steadily. were constantly turning up in the places. and it Our Home Guard is, in fact fur- most unexpected

was a reconnaissance unit of fif- nished with

such as weapons

teen cars which gave the corps Tommy-guns, which not even our

regiments

his commander possessed

indigestion in

breakfast.

This brigadier expressed to me the opinion that even now we under-estimated the speed and the movement possible in modern war.

crack June, 1940.

time

newly recruited

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Equally Important, too, there has been

pass armies from civil life through the process of physical

toughening which is a sure foun-

dation for the best fighting man.

endur-

What Civilians Have To Visualise

at

everything into the battle from the start, altacking everywhere he can with unbridled ferocity. After a time. if our best hopes are fulfilled, he will be contained within fairly well-defined areas and the mopping-up process by the defenders will begin.

Power Of The Trained

Soldier

Fifth column activity in these exercises has introduced another element of confusion—and aleo –

Bogus military of humour. policemen, Innocent "soldiers on leave," and even bogus war cor- respondents have operated in the battle area to keep troops constantly vigilant for treachery.

our

saw

German agents must indeed be He added that a good tank plausible if they can emulate the Now thousands more stooping hunter would prove a dangerous feats of these amateurs. The les- clerks and pallid factory workers man, but he believed that the chief son of discretion is being learned, are bronzed, straight-backed soldi- defence would be anti-tank guns yet, in an official car with a con- ers performing feats of

and mines. The brigadier had, inducting officer, I was "blown up” ance they would have deemed im- fuct, encountered many unpleasant and riddled with imaginary bul- possible a year ago.

surprises in his rapid advance.lets by the 18-year-old cadets of Scme of the secret anti-tank a Yorkshire college who devices suggested that British something suspicious in the fact ingenuity, which evolved the tank, that our car did not carry the flag is finding an answer to it. Sur- of one side or the other., Nothing prise. complete concealment and we could do or say would Induce simplicity of construction are all them to let us pass. illustrated in one, device, In the

Perhaps the most. encouraging of all is the increasing result the jaws of the pincers did feature

nhysical fitness of our troops. not meet.

Nevertheless, despite the num They are prepared to march their erous traps, the elusive armoured 35. miles a day with full equip- columns.seemed to be everywhere, ment, sleep under hedges, wade. progressing by wide sweeps and through rivers and then fight at detours, often by passing defend the end. I have seen some of our ed villages and sometimes taking toughest soldiers, belonging Home Guard posts in the rear. various regiments and training Adding to the general mix-up of specially for guerilla tactics and friend and enemy was the drop-combined operations with the ping of paratroops by bath. sides. Navy, scaling a cliff with full Sometimes the speed and chang-equipment, including a Bren guns. ing direction of battle caused it to These men, educated in the com- lose all obvious pattern. Aircraft plete simple, life, combine some played only a limited part with of the attributes of Boy Scouts," Yet despite their obvious limita- their machine-gun and dive Red Indians and shock troops. tions, much may be learnt from bombing attacks. but it was exercises, and a little imagination obvious that had they could have will paint the picture, It la a profoundly affected the fortunes picture of seeming chaos, arising of war. from speedy 'movement and mix-

The civil population of Britain has had a good deal of instruc tion as to its conduct in invasion, but still, perhaps, finds it difficult to visualise the circumstances of an invasion, England's green and pleasant landscape in June con jures up no picture of desolation, slaughter and confusion. Even exercises have an air of unreality as tanks

rumble sedately along country lanes spurning, out of re- spect for the crops, the short cuts across country which they must know how to take,

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Mimic War

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We are told frequently that men cannot fight against mar but even the best, chines, machines are useless win weak and irresolute hands. What, then, is the best safe- guard against successful invasion,

up of opposing. forces, which, "though it may be limited in its arca, will certainly be reality in war. I lately had the opportun It was regrettable that owing to ity of closely following mimic war the limited purpose of the exer- fought by 70,000 troops and Home, cise it did not include defence of Guards over a wide area of the aerodromes against airborne in- Northern Command, including part vasion. Both this exercise and apart from tactical considerations" of Yorkshire.

another which I followed recently and the multiplication of machine In this exercise the scales in South-Western England as- and weapon power? It Is to ob- were by design heavily weighted sumed that the main invasion tain the utmost from every man against the defenders In order was Senborne and that the Navy and every weapon. This was one to train troops in dealing with by some extraordinarymis of the aims of Lt.-Gen. T. R. tanks, It was assumed that a chance, had been unable to pre- Eastwood, the newly appointed complete Nazi panzer brigade vent a landing in force,

Army commander, during the re

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had somehow, established itself In these exercises the role of cent Northern Command exercise. as an organised unit and com- the Home Guard, the subject of Afterwards he expressed the prised the northern fang of the so much discussion, emerged clear opinion that we must make still pincere, the southern fang boing y. It is to act as a delaying force further efforts in this direction. composed mainly of German in considerable depth, holding its In addition, it is his purpose to Infantry,.

strong points and villages, attack- inculcate a spirit of constant It was a "battle" full of shocks ing tanks with a variety of cun-alerthess, a feeling that there is for invaders and defenders alike. ning, often terrifying, devices, till no end to exercises, that the ntmy, In the first 24 hours the panzer such time as the Regular Forces must (as, in fact, civilians also brigade swept through the doren, and our own mechanisca columns mult) be ready at any time of ces with such velocity that it sur. come to the rescue.

day or night.