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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1939.

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cargo-carrying fresh points of interest are arising constantly.

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Just at the moment as a chat with an Imperial Airways official reveals-two new facts are worth noting. One is increasing variety in the loads now consigned by nir-particu- Jarly on European routes. The other is the still greater time- saving made possible by the speed_of_new__express-planes operating on continental routes.

"Anything from a motor-car part to a box of flowers; or from a consignment of wireless valves to a valuable pedigree dog"!

That is how a freight official illustrates the variety in the loads now forthcoming.

He goes on to emphasise how speed in the air is reinforced by speed on the ground. On receipt of a message that a load is on its way to London by train, prepara- tory to dispatch by air, arrange- ments are made immediately for this consignment to be collected at the rail terminus and rushed to Croydon to catch the next outgoing air service. It is a question of saving minutes us well as of hours and days.

Britain's inland air-lines are playing an increasing part in the acceleration of urgent loads. Put aboard an express-plane say at Glasgow, a consignment can be flown to the Croydon air-port, arranged schedules being so that an immediate connection la established at Croydon with one continental air-liners of the leaving for Paris or some other destination across the Channel.

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A member of the Washington Fire Company was convicted of sending in false fire alarm. He allegedly called the firo company and then stood in the middle of the street and directed traffic,

WILL THEY KEEP THE

GATE CLOSED?

Europe

How strong

is

N

the Axis? Goes On

BY DOUGLAS JAY

AZI

Germany and Fascist Italy are econo- mically much less able

to fight a long war than either Britain, France, Russia or the United States.

We must not count on Fascist finance producing sudden "col- lapse" or bankruptcy" during peace time. "Bankruptcy" in the normal sense exists only in the world of capitalist econo- mics, where economic relations are free and uncontrolled.

In that world you go bankrupt if nobody will work for you any longer, or if you have not the money to buy the goods you want,

In Nazi Germany coercion and terror can always be used if, goods and services cannot be secured voluntarily. As long, therefore, as there is no extomai resistance to Nazt aggression, the system can hardly go bankrupt. A brigand can- not go bankrupt" if the police let him rob as he pleases.

ON the contrary, Hitler Bnance has now reached such A revolutionary point that the Nazi leaders must. for economic reasons alone, feel impelled towards further aggression. First, the shortage of foreign exchange, due to war pre- paration, has been twice solved during the past year by the seizure of gold and foreign securities in Austria and Czecho-Slovakia.

But each mobilisation uses up more imported materials; and the Nazi authorities now evidently count on replenishing them by the seizure of more foreign gold.

Secondly, a big part of German Government expenditure is now by being

covered not by cash, but promises to let the taxpayer off his taxes a year or so hence. This system also cannot work unless the authorities are intending to seize new territories and tax them ruth- lessly also.

So it would be too optimistic to expect either that the system will break down quickly in peace time, or that its weaknesses will restrain the Nazi leaders from risky aggres. sion. Only the certainty of col- lective resistance will do that.

But i actual war between great Powers the economic weakness of Germany, and to a greater degreo Italy, would increase with every month of the struggle.

THIS is not mainly be cause, as is sometimes said, the Nazis have "used up their reserves" before the war begins, whereas the de-. mocracies have kept theirs intact. Actually the greater economic preparation of Nazi Germany-the fact that tho. system is already working all out--would at the out- set be in the Nazis' favour,

Germany, would have two real weaknesses. First, her inability to produce or import certain esser-

tial raw materials, Secondly, the lower resisting power of a people who would embark on the struggle after already having made pro- longed sacrifices, both material and psychological.

Germany in wartime could pro- duce a large proportion of the necessary food supplies, but not the whole. Probably 20 per cent. would still have to be imported, and experts would have to be sold in order to pay for these. Even so, there would be a chronic famine of certain foods, such as butter and eggs.

IN munition - making power Germany 19 ex- tremely formidable, par- ticularly after the seizure of Czecho-Slovakia. Steel produc- tion is still 50 per cent. greater than ours, and coal as great. In aircraft production we are only about drawing level,

But Germany's manufacturing machine could not function for long without imported materials. The need for timber has been largely solved as result of the conquest of Austria and Czecho- Slovakia, and textiles could be partly supplied by the new wood substitute for wool-which is the one real success of the substitute programme."

But in oil, iron ore and rubber enormous imports would be neces- dary, and in certain other materials there would be a continuously critical situation. It is unlikely that Rumania could supply all the all necessary for a warring Germany, even if the Nazis had complete control of the Rumanian oll wells and if those wells were ruthlessly and uneconomically exploited.

Bly supplies of ore both from Spain and Sweden-assuming Lorraine not to bo conquered. would be necessary. If the Nazla controlled the Baltic, Sweden would be compelled to sell: but Spanish supplies would clearly be more difficult to secure.

OTHER cereals and would be minerals largely drawn from south-eastern Europe; and the consequences of the Munich Agree- ment have enormously increased, the Nazis' power of drawing raw materials from that area.

I think it is reasonable to assume that whereas Hitler could not have fought for more than six months before Munich, he could now, as a result of it, fight for two or three times as long.

and strategical position would be altered, and the Nazis' chiel wat problem would be solved.

Parade

WH

THAT of the European Powers? How do they with their young' 'con-

Italy's importing problem would be for more acute, and can be illustrated by one point. Big Im-deal ports of coal are essential to Italy.#cripts? and normally she gets them from Britain, Poland and elsewhere. If she were blockaded in the Mediter- ranean, and had to get coal from Germany, goods-trains full of eosi would have to run day and night on both the two railways between Italy and Germany, to the exclu- slon of all other traffic, to keep Italian industry.going.

Most Important of all. even where Imports could be strategically obtained by Germany or fialy, they would have to be paid for wherever the terroristic weapon could not be used; and in the ultimate power of buying imports Britain and France are immeasurably stronger than the Fascist States

Neither Germany nor Italy "hak"any." thing but a negligible reserve of gold or foreign securities; and it is only the seizure of £100,000,000 or so of forelent Asscis, now largely exhausted, from Austria and Czechio-Slovakia that has kept Germany going in the past year. Great Britain has 700.000,000 of gold, as well na probably £3,000,000,000 of foreign securities. France bas £500,000,000 of gold and a very big reserve of securities.

FRANCE

ALL Frenchmen between the

ages of 20 and 50 are able for military service.

On reaching 20, the recruit serves continuously with the Colours for to two years, and then returns civilian life. For the following two years he is liable to Immediate recall to the active Army without the pro- mulgation of special decrees.

Then, for the next 10 years-until he la 40-he is in the First Reserve, and for the following ten years in the Second Reserve,

While in both Reserves he is called up for training in camp är barracks for a fortnight or three weeks every alternate year.

Exemptions from military service are allowed only in the case of those not physically fit, but students wait- ing to pass examinations or in train- ing for certain special civilian occu- pations when reaching the age of 20 can postpone their period of service for two or three years. They cannot, however, escape it altogether.

ITALY

ITALIAN mens receive com

IN any long struggle these colossal rescrves would be bound to tell in the end, even if Russia and the United States were unwilling to supply

pulsory training from the, gooda on credit to the democratic

age of 0 to 32, when their normal countries. In this sense it is a vital period of Army service is completed. truth that the Fascist Governmenta

After that they are liable to be draft- have used up all their reserves already.

ed into the Army in case of emer- Secondly, there is the crucial ques-gency up to the age of 55. tion of the slaying power of the people. If war al come, the German worker would start it having already endured Eve years of over-werk, under-payment, and under-feeding. The average Der. man is now working ten hours a day, and 60-60 hours a week, for a real wage roughly equivalent to British unem- ployment beneßt.

Insurance and other contributionA are forcibly deducted from his wage, his trade union organisations have been destroyed, and all his savings are in effect in the hands of the State.

On top of all this, he has to suffer a shortage of certain foods, such as eggs and butter, which were con aldered a normal necessity before the Nazi syalem descended upon him.

He works, therefore, more out of fear than out of hope; and if war came fear and hunger would as a matter of course be redoubled. How long could propaganda succeed in driving him on? That is where the economic break- dawn of the totalitarian States will

be ultimately

the reached--when people themselves soo that poverty is the reality and propaganda' merely the façade of the oppression under which they live.

SO while the free peoples must not under-rate tho strength of the formid- abid military machine now threatening But even so the cereals and them, they should have confidence in minerals of south-eastern Europe, their own ultimate reserver of moral like Rumania's oil, are not sum- and material power. Properly organ. ised and uulted, those reserves must in cient both to supply those coun

the end be invincible. war-time tries and to give a

Though the first blow of Nazi Ger Germany all it would need.

many might be terrible, she could not Here one moral is plain and win long war it Itusain ware against paramount. If Russia were allen her. It is even now in the poker at ated by the Western Powers and the Pence Front, therefore, not merely became, sufficiently neutral to be to win a war if it should come, but to willing to supply Germany with prevent it from coming by an over- materials, the whole economia whelming show of defensiva strength.

"Catch them young, and we will see to it that they are mentally and physically moulded for the battle of national life," is the slogan of the Hallon Government.

Boys between 8 and 14 are trained by the Balilla, or youth organisation. This is chiefly a moral and physical education. Between 14 and 10 their training is in sports and games; and from 18 to 21 it is of a military character.

At 21 they become liable to come. pulsory miltary service, and the normal time of servico in the active Army is 18 months for all arms: Posts they beld before enlistment must be kept open for them on their return to civil Ufe.

They are then placed on the Re- serve, liable for military service when, called on until the age of 55. During this period they undergo dellis and military. Instruction at regulor but diminishing intervals.

RUSSIA

"

UNIVERSITY military ser

rule in Russia. Liability to servico begins at the age of 19, when preparatory training on a militia basin begins. Then follows an advanced training course of 280 hours. Later comes service, with the Colours, and then on Reserve. The average number of men called up each year is 1,200,000 of whom about 1400,000 gain exemption,

Pre-conscription military training. non-compulsory, is provided" schools for boys and girls from $ upwards, Moscow and Leningrad both have an Infantry regiment in which the maximum age is 10. Girl as well as boys are aceepted for service.