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TITLER' has acquired a consider- tibles" of 1914 had behind them Brigade terrible in the literal heavy lighting yet.

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He Archibald Wavell commands.

Quarter-Master General, the Min on whom rations and great Beet of muderned rounding-up of some thou- saw to it that they worked off He has as strong a force under

him as that which fought the "Ammo" depend, buttons, bil- neroplanes, and a useful stretch of sands of Bour farmers was the their energy on the Germans.

battle of Le Cateau, in 1914, and food-producing land have fallen into 'largest. his hands.

To that extent, the Reich

failed to give it the one raw

At the age of 39 he was given it is being strengthened from lets, beef and bread, is Lieuten- ant-General Venning, who has been getting to bed late at is To these commanders of 1914, the worst job of the lot; com- India. stronger and better equipped for their blundering plunges across mand of the Allied Army in He believes that a great nights since the war started. warfare against the Allies on the South Africa constituted "the North Russia.

general has "a touch of the western front. Bu! its conquest has War." To "Tiger" Gort or

He did better work in that il- gambler" in him. He shocked senior officers by saying that, material without which it cannot "Tiny" Ironside, "the War" fated command than could have for high command, a general The war we none of us want hope to indefinitely continue a major means 1914-18; and that vast been expected, partly because he ought to prepare himself by "six may, most of us realise all too war-oll.

struggle was the training-field insisted with all his immense months really close association clearly, soon come very close Had the Soviet not stepped in,

for the men whose duty it may energy that when the job was with the Air Force."

home to England until the Hitler would have seized the great Pollah att-Belds east of the Vistula. be, under these two leaders, to through, it was through, and the This one-eyed exponent of bombers are mastered as they But these are claimed by Russia, take our Regular Army into troops must be withdrawn. such heresies served with the will be. An immenso responst- Russian Army in the Caucasus bility may fall on the general He is possibly Britain's future during part of the Great War. commanding the London' Dis- Kitchener. The job of Secre. He has had fighting in Palestine trict. He is Major-General A. John Standish Surtees Pren-tary of State for War, may be to keep his wits at work since F. A. N. Thorne, the Rumanian frontier, so that Hitler dergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount too much the job for a technical 1918. He is 50.

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cannot now invade Runantan soil -without-first-vlotating the territory

of Hungary, Yugo-Slavia or But- garla.

He commanded n Guards Brigade towards t..e end of the Gort, was the only peer to win soldier, at the beginning of a

war. Later he served as Milit a Victoria Cross during the world-struggle-for-any-civilian-

ary Attache in Berlin. A The Aldershot Command has gossip-writer has described him Great War. Twice wounded, politician to hold.

At 59, Ironside is the oldest always been one of the highest as "winning the personal friend- near the Canal du Nord, in 1918,

active positions in the Army ship of Hitler." he personally led a platoon of of the new group of generals Lieutenant-General Sir John his battalion down a sunken on whose shoulders the burden Dill has been in charge there for But a friend of Hitler is not

Modern Bernaments are Infinitely more lethal than ever before in history but they are also more dependent. Oil-fuel is their life- blood. Great Air fiecta and road that took them to the flank of war would fall. He bulks two years. mechanised armles require enormous of their "impossible" objective. largest also. And bis .name quanțilies. Unless Germany import suflelent of supplies, her

can

men.

the right label for this stocky, One may expect that he will quick-stepping general. At 53, corps in he is one of the Army's coming army He personally brought up, alone might be worth an army command an

France, as did Haig, his

pre- bombers will, in due course be im- under heavy fire, the "stray" corps to us.

decessor in 1914. mobilised and her striking power tank that could help his men Two other mon stand out.

Although we cannot say for forward.

One is in charge, already, of sure in far-off Hongkong, it is Two "mystery men" close the

blunted,

sumed something like 0,500,000 tons

In peace-time alone Germany con- He lost so much blood that at the largest force of British probable that Sir John Dill was list. One is Mr. Hore-Belisha's of liquid fuet a year. Ifer require- one time he was directing his troops outside England and In- in charge of the British forces military secretary. Previous oc-

ments now are probably four or five fimes that Ogure,

battalion from a stretcher. But

In recent years, oil has been dishe got on his feet again to lead covered in a number of places in the assault, and organised the the Reich, and domestic production

has been rapidly expanded. Even defence of the captured ground so, Germany's output of domestic before he collapsed. crude oil was only some $50,000 tons inst year.

But her total production of mineral

He is Chief of the Imperial

Conscious of her dangerous de- ficiency, she has worked feverishly General Staff, the Cabinet's nt the production of oll from coal military adviser, the man who oils from all kinds of domestic raw chooses the Army'a leaders. But. materials in 1938 was not much over his personal qualities are more

24 million tons.

In short, Germany's capacity to those of a commander than of

wage a long modern war with

Great Britain and France depends a staff officer.

to

22 decisive extent оп her

getting imports from abroad. If the

He is 53, the youngest Chief

British blockude succeeds in cutting of General Staff our Army haa these off, the war will be aortened.

Before the war, Germany's chief ever had. He was promoted to foreign sources of supply were the his present job over the heads

Dutch East Indies, the United States

and Rumania. The frst two of of thirty-two generals. When

these are already lost to her. Be-

fore the wor, she imported Rumanian this roused indignation from old oll by ships passing through the men in London clubs, Sir Ian answerd: "Thank Mediterranean. This route is also Hamilton

cut off, and the more direct overland

route is accessible only along for God we are now under a proper turous mountain paths through third soldier and shall not be shot nailans. Between Germany and the

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Rumanian oilfield are the Carpathian sitting." Alps. They are a wide and rugged range of mountains, rising to much

as 0,0001 Germany inst provide ber own fleet of motor trucks to bring the vital fuol ncross these mountains.

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General Sir Edmund Ironside, six-foot-four and therefore call-

We cannot but doplore Russian aggression against Poland. But ed "Tiny," is Inspector-General Russian aggression has at Ieus! of the Overseas Forces. This robbed the Nazis' of the parts of

Poland which, to war-me dermany, is the position. Sir John Franch are by far the most necessary. held in 1914, before war broke |

To-day, Germany's only hope is

that Russia herself will provide the out: Sir Edmund is Comman- fuel for her bombers and mechanised der-in-Chief of, the B.E.F. in units. Without Russian aid, Hitlerism

France.

will meat swift justice.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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By Lichty

"Boys, the president of the club is pretty sick-the least wo could do to show our sympathy, is to play only nine holes!"

cupants of the job have become

Chief of the Imperial Generat Staff (Lord Gort) and Director- General of the Territorial Army (Lt.-General Brownrigg). Lieu- tenant-General Gifford, who now holds this post, has served main- ly in the Colonies. He has been in Africa so much that few |Londoners know him.

Last, perhaps most important of all, is 62-year-old Sir Ronald Adam. Deputy Chief of the Im- perial General Staff, his promo- tion during recent years has been even more rapid than that of others in the new group of commandera.

He is said to be "the brains of the Army."

He is so professional that one feels "this is a foreign soldier, not an English one; English soldiers are always rather ama- teur."

But, in fact, nothing could be lean foreign than his reserve, the cover of casual phrase with which he hides the penetration of his comments and questions. Here is the rare type of mind that is always searching for essentials.

This is the team, or part of it. It is hand and shoulders. above that of 25 years ago.