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"T WAS ́a definite, direct fear of war that spread

over Britain six months ago. Now, it is something entirely different. In a mat- ter of weeks the people of our Homeland have come to the knowledge that there is a big difference between the fear of war and prepared- ness for war.

But they have reached that understanding with a slowness that almost confirms the Con- tinental jokes about British wit.

Months ago, the armament factories of Britain began to |produce death-dealing machinery at a rate unknown in England since the war,

Although those sometime in- comprehensible "D-notices"... the secrecy regulations which are Britain's nearest approach to totalitarian methods-have dis- guised our activities, most peo- BURTON.-At the War Memorial Ple realise now that only a step Hospital, Hongkong, on Monday,or two will be neeeded to put June 10, 1039, Dulele, dearly this country on to that much- beloved wife of Dr. Cyril Burton, discussed war basis. Funeral Service at the Colonial Cemetery Chapel at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

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matter of intense interest to the That is why, to-day, when a democratic Powers of the world, book is published which claims yet the Russian authorities have to give the complete facts of the so far placed the greatest diffi- strength of the world's military culties in the path of all official Powers, care must be taken in and unofficial investigators of Europe.

Hongkong Telegraph. assessing the military power in that strength.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 June 19, 1939

Jitters

You will not find, for instance, that the pot boils over in Ger-

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discover that Mussolini never

It detracts from the value of any book when the author in- Įsists upon remaining anonymous. The name of the book is "The

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MR. WERNER has made

ong of his most in-

This map-diagram, reproduced Times," from the "New York gives an idea of the difference between Europe's peace and war-time strength, but it should be noted that the figures are in some cases only rough estimates, Two things are, however, be- Fond JE doubt--tho

naval superiority of Britain and the numerical military predomin- ance of Russia.

main instruments of modern warfare. They are the weapons

Germany or Italy will raise new evident facts that most wage Expenditure on Russian-arma- Powers," declares Mr. Werner.

fears.

earners in this" country" remem

200,003

THREE years ago-be- fore Russian factories. had reached their present pro ductivo capacities--Colonel Mar. tel, a member of the British Mili--- tary Mission, watched the Red Army manoeuvres and reported: "The fact that very few tanks were compelled to fall out on ac- count of mechanical defects, and that there were no air accidents

or forced-landings, inspired as

In those manoeuvres, 1,000

"י.

Military Strength of the Powers" teresting chapters from the pre- realised that for five years now with respect for your tanks (Gollancz, 78. Gd.), and the au- sent and potential strength of modern military experts have and aeroplanes." When we cast our eyes back thor is given as "Max Werner," Russia. He points out that with accepted the fact that the tank through the newspaper files of said to be the pseudonym of a that country's present produc- and the aeroplane will be the tanka and 1,000 acroplanes took

part. the past twelve months, the first "close student of international tion capacities and natural re-

military affairs."

sources she should be in a better

Considering a mass of inter- in the forefront of the revolu- national "testimonials" which ho thing that becomes obvious is

position and more resourceful on tion in military technique. that Germany, Italy and Japan

war basis than the United

includes in his book, the author are acting in concert.

States. By a series of deduc- During the last war, they were says: "When military experts FROM the name, and the tlons from figures that have been comparatively new instruments, and politicians underestimate fact that a translator's published in Russia and outside and have not yet-despite Spain, the strength of the Red Army, many at the same time it name is given, we can take it it, he assumes a military and China and Abyssinia-been call they are merely demonstrating does in China, and you will that the author is a foreigner., aviation strength which should ed upon to prove their worth their own backwardness in mo

Against his anonymity, however, be a grave discouragement to under modern combat conditions. dern military matters."

Whatever the truth of the áu- Jone has to appreciate the mass any ideas of war now held by makes his move until his two of apparently reliable facts sup- the opposite ends of the totali hundred tanks-416 to be pre- ing estimates of the Powers "On August 8, 1918, several thor's various and often confus- Allies are quiet,

porting quotations that he has tarian axis.

cise-broke through the German military strength, he points out Tientsin, of course, is the produced."

Here are some figures, which lines near Amiens in a battle the dreadful moral of a war that latest instance. The Axis "While the diplomats nego- seem so well authenticated by which was the prelude to Ger- could happen to-day. Powers are determined that the tiate, the machinery of war pro- quotations from German, French many's defeat. To-day, that Modern warfare would be a world will have no peace from duction is working at full blast," and British experts, apart from number would represent about terribly methodical, almost war jitters-ho sooner will this is the opening of the bood. That Russian official documents, that the strength of one Tank Divi- mathematical system of destruc- latest trouble be settled than is one of those terribly self- they cannot be denied:

sion, and hardly one-tenth of the tion, based on a time programme. total tank army of any of the big A country determined on war would spend years of time and bered last week when forms ment has increased 20 times in World jitters have cost the

distributed. But were

The modernisation and the millions of money in planning five years; from democracies hundreds of mil- that opening, he tells the grue- The standing army last year mechanisation of the Soviet the attack. The war that would lions of pounds in the past year, somely true story of how arma- numbered 1,800,000 men, and Army, he adds, is likely to sur- ensue would be something more devastating than, anything that Apart from the cost of keeping ments, in twenty years, have there are over 10,000,000 trained pride many people who from pre- has even been imagined. There navies, armica and air forces grown from the comparatively reserves;

judice have looked upon RusNÍC as an unlikely Power in modern will be nothing of the static kill. constantly on the alert, the simple nature of the last war to

Three years ago, 150,000 war politics.

ing of the Western front of a effect on the world's markets has a terrifying pitch of perfection. pilots were being trained; and

quarter-of-a-century ago-how While many people have been old that makes one feel!--but "They been disastrous. It has cost

(armaments) are al- 900,000 drivers were under forced to accept the immense something more scientific and shippers more because

of in-ready exerting a terrible pres- training for military vehicles at figures quoted for Russian tanks ruthless. crcased war risk rates; the Bure on European foreign policy, the same time.

and aircraft, the importance of world's gold has gone across the and forcing it in the direction of

These figures are of tremend those figures have been lowered Atlantic to the United States, war," he says. "To-day, the ous importance

when it is by stories of unreliability. stocks and shares have fluctuat-power of every European State ed violently; exchange has a determined by their strength;i responded to each fresh excuse strength, and, above all, by their by their political and economic It would cost Britain thou-military strength," sands of pounds to send even one The man-in-the-street to-day warship to Tientsin. The Fleet is concerned with the military Mobilisation last September cost strength of Russia. Stories of £20,000,000—what the total cost fabulous power have come from of Mobilisation to the countries the Soviet; stories of thousands surrounding Germany was no upon thousands of aeroplanes, one will ever estimate.

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Britain and the other demogrim tragedy that death in cracies—an, economic war that submarino can be. It has the costs very little less than real special kind of horror that death in a mine disastor too often holds Publie confidence in Great death gains in fearfulness becauso where the real tragedy is that Britain can reduca much of the it has to bo awaited in allent help economic strain imposed on the lessness.. Submarine mon take the Democracies, That is why we risk with the same calm equani- should not give way. to jitters mity which the colllor goes down each time Hitler, Mussolini or the mine. Their work is un the Japanese militarists start a comfortable and dimeult, and the new offensive

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THE history of war," says our pseudonymic

torical basis on which we can judge present-day armaments ...To-day, European armies possess between fifteen and twenty times as many machine guns as they did in 1914, three times as much artillery, and a number of weapons which were entirely unknown then.

"Artillery range has almost doubled.

"Tho tank of 1918 had a speed jof: three or four miles an hour and a radius of 18 to 25 miles. In 1918 the aeroplane had a speed of between 75 and -100 Imiles an hour and a radius of. Jaction of between 150 and 180

miles.

"The tank of 1939 has a speed of between 30 and 35 miles an hour and a radius of, action up to 180 miles. The aeroplane has a speed of between 250 and 900 miles an hour and a radius of action between 700 and 2,000 miles,"

7 And, he says, the big Euro- |pean armies of to-day have something like 25,000 nero- planes, 30,000 tanks, 50,000 guns and 200,000 machine guns.

Which should be but la un likely to bo-one of the moat potent arguments for peace.

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