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THE CHINA

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1930.

WINSTON CHURCHILLIS WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK

THE GRAND ALLIANCE

A gallant

had

ani

opponent

By Winston

Churchill

•

"/site/beds?

Correspondent revives the com- plaints about difculty in goiting talephones. Ife, and others who have walled for years should take comfort from all those new hotels, office blocks, Juxury fints, ele none of which have a phone, poor things.

'Grenade thrown into Singapore · newspaper office.

(desort, warfaro. ...do rapid.

Into the camp and there surren been our advance, so easy

dered. *complote jours vletörles), that these

The

missing 3rd Armoured straiggle incta were not effectiva-

Brigade; now reduced to à don Fly" "grospod" at", this stage. How-

tanks, moved on Dorna, reputed- Favièr, ‘a-superiority in armikar

ly because of shortage of petrol gand, in, quality; rather than num-

and near that place was ambush "Gers,--" "and 'a reasonable Throughout the African came in the air would have

parity Prime Minister to Gen. Wavell.

ed and destroyed on the night of enabled palga Rommel, proved himself the better and more lively force

April:2, 1941,

April . Throughout the opera- One Year

master in handling, mobile' form- to win in a rough-and-tumble In

It seems most desirable to tions the German Air Force had news contribution to baatians, especky in segrouping the desert, even if the gate-way

ettop the German All

suvance had complete air superiority. Tila rapidly after an operation and had been lost. addrasted to Editor-in-Chief.

against Cyrenales. Any robtiff contributed in no small degree to Advertisemente and Bualness following up success, Ho was n

None of these conditions wäre

to the Germans would have far the entiny success. plendid military gambler do stablished by the arrangements

effects. reaching

On the night of the 8th tho communications should be ad-

would be to, give up which hid by then been rem“) Håbomb?” WANAPO minating the problems of supply which were made.

Australian reached Tobruk. Į all. dressed to the Company CHINA

We wore and scornful of opposition.Anterior in the air, and our ar

ground for MAIL LTD.

fret the German High Command,mour, reasons which will be, ex-

the purposes of

oses of forced by sea with a bilgade of having let him loose, were astouplained later, was ultely inadee

any Borious the 7th Australian Division Srbr ished by his sucoesses, and we aunte, as was also, the

Benghaz trafing Inclined to hold him back,

DEATH

ZAJAC Morla, beloved wife of Romn, passed away on 8th March 1959, at the Queen Mary Hospital, Cortege will puss the monument at 5.30 p.in., on 9th instant.

THE COLONY'S FINANCES

Inspection tour

loyai : German soldier, he atebello, and Dill was immedia

struck, by the difeißtynt ofending the large stretches pi resort between. Aghelia and. Bon-

would

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прредг

but

It

can

In Hong Kong we thank heuven that our most, ex- plosive deliveries are, letters £3 the clitor.

What can we expert after he Add awful mess

most melancholy Egypt. The enemy whosd for

ward troops included "spartol of

Mr. Strachey puzzled by the I cannot understand how is the 9th (Light): Panzer, Division on the Brition enemy can have developed any one Italian armoured and one In Army, junginjos met considerablo force at the end of fantry Division, took Barilla on What about paying them a good this long, waterless, coast-road,

Egypt. pag

His ardous and daring indicted and equiment of the troops West grievous, susters upon us, but her Tobruk. deserves the salute which I madp him and not without some re prouches from the public-in, the

and I cannot reel that there is at April 12, but riade no effort to shifty Not as much as a coolie's, House of Commons in •January,

this moment a persistent weight of the frontier ucfence of course, but about half. 1942, when I sold of him, "We-con-March, 17 Generals Waveli

behind his attack in Cyrenőled, have a very daring and skithul and Dill visited Cyrennica and

If this blob which has come In the early morning of April

Having listened to that very opponent against us, and, may 1

forward against you could be 6, 1041, German armies invadedalje radio talk. I am left with „modería, pensandi..Inspection. They say across the shavoc of war, ›ñ

through

cut off you might have, aupro both Greece and Yugoslavia. In the Impression that it's the public Antolalo motored great general."He also, deserves

longed, eusement. Of course, if tensive air attacks wore at the our rapect because, although af

they succeed in wandering on same time, Idunched on the Pirwho are at fault when the wea- wards they will gradually des neus,

where our expedition ther forecasts are wrong Hitler and all his works, and fook

troy the effect of your

victories. convoys were discharging. That parf in the conspiracy of 1944 to

You got aman like night the port was almost coth,

flown American airline has rescue Germany by displacing

In a telegram on March 18

Dr Creagh, dealing

wrecked by the blowing 600 000,000 miles In nationalis- pletely the maniac, and, tyrant. For this from Cairo to his deputy at home he paid the forfeit of his life.

of the British ship Clan Fraser Cd, mall-carrying aircraft In the sombre wars, of, modern be said that the outstanding fact

On April 2

and the support group of alongside the quay with, 200..tong, only shirk, you've travent you salt-pane our..

on board. Here was democracy chivalry Ands

wak of no was that between. The

afar.. East of Aghatia and

driven eat of Agedabla by 60 misto Benghazi

60 misfortune place, Dull butcheries effect the desint was so open

which made .it necess- gigantic scale and mass,

and so enemy tanks, and retreated to the ary to (divert, supplies to other Dir-harmed. overwhelm all detached senti fat, other things belux equal, Antelat area, 35 miles to the and minor ports. This attack India's Socialist lender says ment. Still, I do not regret or

the stronger Acet would win. North East, The division was alone cast us and the Greeks 11that sending an armed force into

Infantry posi-ordered to withdraw to the night ships, aggregating 43,000 tons. retract the tribute T paid to Rom-There were no

to fight.of bourhood of Benghazi. Our ar

Henceforward the mainten mel, unfashionable though it was tions on which judged.

course, the maintenance problem moured forces under the German ance of the Allies' armies by sen

*

• A certain British Prime Minister will, always be rej membered alike by cynies and by those who dote on high lights of oratory - for his incitement to imagination: "On and on and pn, and up and up and up." It reminds us with desk pain that the speeches in the. In London we agcepted Wo Legislative Council yesterday, yell's telegram of March 2 (re- that the cost of governing large-scale enemy attack before feating the Ukelihood of any like that of living, is proof the end of the summer) as the against depression. More.basis of our action. The Agheils : money has to be found touchie was the kernel, of the altu- ution. If the enemy broke finance the Government of the through to Agedabla, Benghazi Colony during the ensuing and everything West of Tobrok could year. We will say this for wore Imperiled. They

Lahoose between taking the good Governments- they always coast road to Benghazi and be manage somehow or other thyand or using the tracks leading find the money they need straight to Mechill; and: Tobruk, which cut off the bulge of desoft 200 miles long by 300 miles it much after the manner of broad. Taking this latter route the Walrus, Indirect taxation: In,

had nipped-and Kupry,wej

many thousands of that was the method. In these allads, retiring through Beng days of private austerity and public Indulgence, our masIt should not have been a ters are less sympathetic matter of surprise to us if Rom- mel also took the desert-router tu about our deeper feelings play the same trick on us. How- But if a little more is to go ever, so long as we hold the gate- on the income-tax, at least we denied the opportunity or, bom- 'waynt:Aghella the enemy was may, think of the delectable using us in this, fashion. There Mrs. Wiggs and be thankful are good positions there, but that we are so much better partly owing to the extra strain off than our fellow-country through the port

transport from Tobruk, of Benghazi not men, whether they be in Bri- belje, judged usable, they were tain or, alas, in present-day not adeguately defended. China.

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ROMMEL'S COUNTER-OFFENSIVE, APRÍL 1941

› General --Wavell: few, to the forces w

place, cover the left flank

Battle of

Barrin

EGY P

Pakistan" may be the "sanest, leest harmful solufich.” ́ ́

"This might sound odd for international behaviour," he adds. Odd? Not at all. He fargets this genetution was, brolight up on. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.

"Parole open to all Japwar criminals."

They are not yet, however, being encouraged to form their own political party,

劭

✰

"My husband is so jealous.”

How absurd!"

"Why, Isn't yours?" "O course not.” "How humiliating!"

Mr. Attico says nobody can be. blamed for not suspecting Fuch's. espionage activities. It was just that nobody, told the security bill- Zera!

These Siamese twins born to the wife of a woodcutter made him put up rough. :

blockade."

Americans.asked to end China CgBut;er, isn't it the Nation-

alists....

but no adequate and were therefore forced-to-

which

tho

Myrtle's boy friends often All this depended upon id over these vast distances of da attack became disorganised, and continued against an increasing compare her with leeshe melts knowledge пipt" only of thesert remained, and entirely fav-there were serious losses. The scale of air attack, to which no so quickly. A Budget, is always the oqground, but of the conditions of red defence. Wavell, he said, message ended, Orders have effective counter could be made. casion for an annual, and

this dimelf defenco prob- been given for demolitions in The key to the problem at sCA generally indignant, reflection

well in hand.

Bonghart."

was

the enemy's air on the vast proportion of ex- Governments, of course, and Astralian Staff of General Mor- In a conversation with vie

bases in penditure which has to go to always being made: the pro-hdad, whom he met on the way, front on the 3rd, and reported ones were available for such a attempt the defence of the whole those who have to spend the testing subjects of what they the CICS is said, to have sex bli saturn, that a large part of the banks, and meanwhile, heavy ship-frontour Yugosl Army

were certain. rest. We can readily, soc heads like to call windfalls, on the pressed the opinion that the for- armoured brigade had been over- I was fortunate that the recent in the North werb apilly" and

piko getting a bloody run and disorganised by superior nodding in dismay as they principle no doubt that it's anco/looked

Matupan, had

had, as Ad- irrealstibly: Bent inwards by look at the papers today and ill wind that doesn't bring why not be the only pincis Corman armour. This would un-viral Cunningham-stated in his German armoured columns sup- of the 9th dispatch, taught the Italian Fleet porte crossed the Danube and

·Hungarian troops note that personal emolu-them any good.

afther." This

This latter opinion was

phon East and bf, Benghazi..

a lesson which kept the

kept them out of ...action

Their-active: amount to over $80 million levels" which the duties on men be made to us.

In consequence of the this, i

intervention But it is only the Communists liquor, tobacco, and petrole he had been during March sorg

increasing evidente, of

enemy's strength in Libya, hoeriod, wquid on during|vancing" towards Zagrab, “. The who dream of a time whenum products reached, are rival of Germans Governments, and with then brought within this category. Tripoll towards Aghella, and an could not do to Greece, but must public servants, will no longer. In the case of tobacco, the ap-/ March 20. Wavell reportedat move to the Western Desert in-four count of Belgrade entered Belgrade.

attack on Imited sepiestead. The 6th, British | Division, be necessary. The normal ], proved estimate is expected) Hemed to be in preparation, and at incomplete,, must become the alrea 18 - Bemies pHEATRESAGAHARAJA person shrinks from so strange to be about:$17 million. Smok that the situation on the

prospect even in bis, most ers vexed at the implied dis- naica frontier was causing him "This will involve the postpone pious moments. But he does pleasure over the unortho-some anxiety. If our advanced ment of the attack on Rhodes," nevertheless wish, in an hour doxy which they so thought of graceless impiety, that the iessly confer on, finance, will cost was less exacting and no doubt try to be less re that it would pccasionally gular in their indulgence. In show a downward trend. any case, auch windfalls, the Council was assured, are un- likely to occur again.

ments-of-Government, staff | -The aquite Junexpected not.in harmony with any stute. \. » Their withdrabät may be,neces for the rest of the year by German and Italian forets ade

But, one must, in these of all times, try to look on the bright side of things. The revised estimate of revenue, at more than $248 million, is

the

Arnops

from said, the 7th Australian Division

Cyra

reserve.

troops were driven from their. Flank crumples

present positions there would, he no good blocking points south of dead level plain. Administrative almost in a day, the Desert Flank Benghazi, as the country was Thus at a single stroke, and problems should, however, pre- upon which all our decisions had clad anything but à limited ad- depended fiat, crumpled and vance by the enemy,

expedition

the

made the main Yugoslav forces werd, thus task in Greece Impossible, driven in confusion Bouthwards, with the feroc and on April 13"German" troops

pulsed on the frontiers To be invaded Yugoslavia from

several directions. The Yugoslay Gens World Copyright reserved. "Re- eral-Sur-did not attempt to procution, corn partially in strike their one, deadly blow at any ; Janguage, strictly pro» the Italon rest; } "Thoy? "con---hibited. colved themselves bound not to Exclusive rights in Hong Kong

""by the "China-Mall!! undon Creatin and Slovenir,

slender, was heavily reduced NO OTHER INK GIVES YOU THIS VALUEL Rommel's attack upon Agbeile seizure of Rhodes, which was an If the surplus of just under began on March 81. general essential part of our air plans im $58' million is realised, the Neame had been ordered," If the Aegean, became impossible. financial year 1930-51yshould pressed, to get a delaying uc (Benghazi war evacuated. open with a revenis balance to both peak long as posegne who

During the retreat Lt. Gen. commanding

coven

of some $130 million. Revenuesible app song as pos Wilib, was ERAVIT permisalar

Our

dil

in carefully expert be not to evacuato it. Il necessary, after

2 milion, but making demolitions.

kly and phil- motured division at Aghella, which had in fact only pac'er- suppressed. Ex-moured brigade. and

ming year roup therefore, withdrew fr

jan $199 during the o have two

dr the enemy

prayed nated greatly unt to Air Force syn, counted for lift 12MM, but there were about a hand

German

fighters.and a hungina warned bombers and dive-bombdes ? On iate April General "Wavall, reported to the that the forward: ¿oppa”

and renal pre being a tacked by

a record and exceeds the or- iginal estimate by, more than $68 million. The Financial Secretary protested persua- more than sively, and without passion or the. that excess which prompts a aspp) familiar retort, against| pendi charges that he had delibera- total tely under estimated revenue and overestimated expende doll ture, There had been merely $735. a sensitive-response to atmbs-"|4% phere, and those who would of have those in authority reflect liabili so loyally, the ups and downs cons to which our own moods are recl prone in such times, will not with bemoan the result, all the more so as in ments the De

en

in the Desert, and L-Gen, O'Connor, :: V.C., who wato

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take over kia, command, were captured by a German patrol.]| Warbli, Zew to Tobruk on Air hos

Land gave orders for the defence of the Koritess. He started, back) for zaira as night toll. The engine allud,and, they made a forced anding sa the darknThe aircraft Wacistlashed and Choy | stepped Unt on to the open desert, they knew not" where. Merke

The Commander-in-Chier do- cldodjite pljum his bedret papers. After oug wait the lights of a vehicle aweze e sad. Fortunately, it proved to beje Brilän patról, whó approached, in mariecing fashion. Sumesforward area were for mix hours the sale in Cairu the over sin posterday want losses "be" "ore" alarmed,” not without, rdas

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