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Precautions
JEVER, perhaps, has there been
such an accumulation of inter-
national problems as faces ther
The World's ARMED FORCES
Tewas a definite, direct fear
war that spread over, Britain
months ago. Bix Now, it is-something entirely Uférent." In a matter of weeks the people of this country 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 fad- tories of Britain began to pro- duce death-dealing maelijnery at a rate unknown, In Englanų since the war."
Although those nomellino In- comprehensible "D-notices "Attic necrecy regulations which
Arc Britain's, nearest approach to totalitarian methods-have' din- guined our activities, most people realise now that only a step or two will be needed to put this country on to that much-discussed war basis.
That is why..to-day, when a book is published which claims to give the complete facts of the Btrengt of the world's military `Powers,. care must be taken in assessing the military nower in Europe,
It detracts from the value of any book when 'the authier insists úpori reñalning anonymous. The name of the
The Military book is Strength of the Powers" (Gollancz," .75. 60.), and the author is given 'as "Max Werner," said to be the pseudonym af n," close student of international military affairs."
FROM the name, and the fact that a trans- Jator's name 13 given. we can take it that the author is a foreigner. Against his anony- mity, however, one has to appre- cint the mass of apparently re-
While the diplomats negotiate,
the machinery of war production
world to-day; never,,certainly, has a "war of nerves" been so steadily maintained throughout a twelve-able facto spporting quotations
that he, has produced. month. Yet our people, remain upperturbed. Every indication Points to their determination to enjoy life to the full. by all the tests amid alarums and exeur- sions, the British-people in Hong- kong and other parts of the Empite "Tequaly resolved, to forward with their normal fe- conscious of the threats that over- hang the world but undisturbed by
them.
is working at full blast."s the opening of the book. That is one of those terribly self-evident fact, that most wage earners in this country remembered last week when forms were distributed. But from that openhug, he tells the gruesomely truc story of how Armaments, in twenty years, have Crown from the comparatively simple. nature of the last way to r terrifying plich of perfection.
They (armaments) are atresi
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exerting a terrible pressure on Europena foreign policy, and forc- fall in lớn the directlon of war," lạc saya.To-day, the power of every European State is determined by their strength: by their political and économic strength, and, above all,by their military strength."
The man-in-the-street to-day is" concerned with the military strength of Russia, Stories of fabulous power have come from the Boviet; stories of thousands upon thousands of aeroplanes, troops dropped by parachute; and tales of amazing new weapona.
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This map-dlagrém, reproduced from the New York Times," given na Iden of the differepce Between Europe's peace and war-time Atrength, but it should/ be noted thaf_the__figurej are in some cases only rguelį estimates. Two things are, how! ever, beyond'all doubt--ihä Haval superiority of Britalų and the numeflent military pre dominance of(Russia,"
'fact that the tank and the nei
plane will be the main instru- ments of modern warfare. Ty are the weapons in the forefront of the revolution in militaly 1echnique.
The strength of the Soviet mill- tary machind is. In fatt, a matter of intense Interest to the demo- cratic Powers of the world, yet the Russian authorities havê so, far
During the last war, they wel niated the greatest. dimculties incomparatively new instrument the bath or all official and un-
and have not yet-despite Bpati bdial
investigators
China and Abyssinia-been catle!! that of /strength..
upon to prove their worth unde modern combat conditions,
On
August 8, 1018, severaḥ hundred tanks-115 to be precisé
near Amiens in a battle which was the prolude, to Germany's defeat! To-day, that number would repre- sent about the strength of ond Tank Division, and hardly one- tenth of the total tank army off any of the big Powers," declares Mr. Werner.
MR. WERNER has made one of his, most interest-broke through the German linog) Ing chapters from tho présent, and potential strength of Russia. He points out that with that country's present production capacities and natural resources she should be in a better position and more resourceful on 52 war sis than the United States. By a series of deductions from figures The modernisation and the that have been published in Russia mechanisation of the Soviet Army. and outside it, he assumes a mill-he adds, is likely to surprise many tary and aviation strength. which should be a grave discouragement to any ideas of war now. held by the opposite ends of the totall-. tartan axis.
Here are some figures, which Бесп 30 well authenticated by quotations from German, French and British experts, apart from Russian oficial documents, that,
Expenditure on Russian armament bas increased 20 times in Ave years;
The standing army last year' numbered 1,300,000 men, and there are over 10,000.000 trained reserves:
|- Men enhrot in-these days entire-
this stage would, it is believe con- Tly rid their minds, of anxiety, but
siderably
the help
authorities they enù rightly feel that such a
should compulsory evacuation be position has been reached 0.5
Inter come necessary at a
Stage. enables them to face courageouslý
Reduction of population would whatever the future may bring.
facilitate defence operations; Nevertheless, as our contem-
they cannot be denied: would also reduce the problem of porary so admirably pointed out feeding therent of a blockade- this morning, cortmensense dic-
n contingency that must be faced tales that, the general públic
¿ven in times of peace. Most in- [should, adopt such precautions as
portant for fathers, husbands and are consistent with the interna-
sons we again quote our morning tional altuation. It would bo
contemporary-evacuation of wo- foolish to atake the lives of our
men and children would relieve the families, our children, upon optimism. No person can but fail agony of mind and improve the morate and efficiency of those who to realise the significance of the
must stay. appeal issued this week by the Postmaster General, Mr. E. I. In addition to the question of Wynne-Jones,
and evacuation, housewives who must GRIN AND children to register their names remain should, as we pointed out and address at the General Post two months ago, face the question| Office, and the number of persons of food storage. This problem wag who have already complied with tackled in England almost six months the request indicates a gratifying ago, and we have been surprised sense of responsibility amongst at the hesitation of Government in
for women
| members of the British cominunity. Hongkong at announcing, until
It should be emphasised that yesterday,
the precautions adopted in this
| all
the advisability of thia housewives adopting
direction by Government do not elementary precaution against food
An article published
In our columns to-
definitely envisage evacuation of shortage. women and children. Neverthe-elsewhere less, should the occasion indeed day covers this question of food ̧ The ideal is that every arise, it will be a period of anxiety | reserves. and worry not only for the women home should have some reserve of and children themselves, but for non-perishable foodstuffs and, most !important in homes containing babies the menfolk they will leave behind, and children, adequate reserves of and for the authorities who must the type of food necessary for their cope with the situation.
sustenance. Although that ideal la
For those women
probably unattainable, a step in the right direction would be made it housewives would, bit by bit, com-
and children who can afford to leave the Colony and who intended, in any event, to proceed on vacation, the time to
Three years ago, 150,000 war pilots were being trained; and
000,000 drivers were under training for military vehicles at the same time.
These Ogures are of tremendous importance when it is renilsed that for five years now modern mill- tary experts have accepted the
people who from prejudice havel looked upon Russia as an unlikely Power In modern polities.
While many people have been forced to accept the immense Agures quoted for Russian tanks and aircraft, the importance of those guros have been lowered by stories of pinteilability.
FOO EXU 100 BULGAR
includes in his book, the author Bays: “When military experts and politicians underestimate the strength of the Red Army, they are merely demonstrating their own backwardness in modern milliary matters."
Whatever the truth of the author's various and often con- fusing estimates of the Powers" military strength, he points out the dreadful moral of a war that could happen to-day,
Modern
warfare would be a terribly methodical, almost mathe- matical system dostruction, based on a time programme, country determined on war would spend years of time and millions of money in planning the attack. The war that would ensue would be something more demnalating than anything that has even been Imagined. There will be nothing of the static killing of the Wester front of a quarter-of-a-century ago-how old that makes one (cell -but something more scientific and ruthless,
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"THE history of war." days our pseudonymic Max Werner, "offers u13 no historical basis on which wo can judge present-day arma- menta...To-day, European armies possess between fifteen and twenty imes as many machine guns as they did in 1014, three times as much artillery, and a number of weapons which were entirely un- known then.
"Artillery doubled.
range
almost
"The tank of 1030 has a spred 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 300 miles' an hour and radius of action be- tween 700 and 2.000 miles.”
"The tank of 1919 had a speed Jof three or four miles an hour jand a radius of 18 to 25 mlies, In 1918 the ncroplane had a speed of between 75 and 100 miles an THREE years ago-be-hour and a radius of action of be- Ioke Russian factories tween 150 and 180 miles. had reached their pre- sent productive enpacities-Colonel Martel, a member of the British Military Mission, watched the Red Army manoeuvres and reported: "The fact that very few tanks were compelled to fall out on account of mechanical defects, and that there were no air accidents or forced- landings, inspired us with a respect for your tanks and acroplanes."
In these manœuvres, 1,000 tanks and 1,000 aeroplanes took part.
Considering a mass of inter- national "testimonials" which ho
BEAR IT
By Lichty
And, he says, the big European armies of to-day have something like 20,000 aeroplanes, 30,000 tanka, 60,000 guns and 200,000 machine guns.
Which should be-but is unlikely to be one of the most potent arguments for peace.
Ventriloquist- Pulpit Teacher
New York.
A VENTRILOQUIST'S dummy is helping to convert unbelievers_nt a church in Middleboro, Massachusetts, He is named Jerry and he sits on the knee et a ventriloquist dergyman, the Rev. Gerald Bonney, asking pertinent questions about religion.
Bonney answers Jerry's questions while Jerry, very much like Holly- wood's Charlie McCarthy, wags his head understandingly.
Kitty
These ventriloquist services were founded for children, but now hundreds of adulta are crowding to them.
CONJURING, TOO
"Who led the Jews into the pro- (mised land?" naks Dummy Jerry
in Charlle McCarthy tones.
"Why, Jerry, It was Moses," repiles. Bonney.
"Who killed Gollatht"
"Twos Davið, Jerry, my boy.” Bonney also uses conjuring tricke to illustrate miracle stories from the Biblo.
When telling the story of the loaves and fishes miracle he asks a amalt bay to help him, bringing his bat |which by bla magic mysteriously inwa
ercose to seven
mance to hoard their requirements "Nope, I'm not taking a vacation—the doc said the added strain Bonney drops five colas inte the hat, would bring on a collapse."
now,
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