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Wednesday,

HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.

December 6, 1939.

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COUNT THE "TELEGRAPH

EVERYWHERE.

GONE

ARE THE HORSE

· AND CARRIAGE

And Gone with them are the old- fashioned methods of waxing the carriage.'

Have you been using the same auto wax for sear

simply through force of itabil? .

Don't use horse and carriage auto wax,

It is no longer necessary to work all day, to wear yourself out, i- Lo RUB and RUB, in order to attain a waterproof, weather resisting wax finish for your car.

Try. WillZ LONDON COACH WAX for longer lasting beauty for your automobile and less work for you. Your waxing troubles, like the horse and buggy, will bo

Gone

Sold Hero HONGKONG

HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Ed.

DEATH

FERGUSON.--AL 15. Meiklewood Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire, on November

1030, John

Ferguson, beloved husband of Elizabeth Anderson. Late of Greenock and Quarry Bay, Hongkong.

BIRTH

WILLIAMS. To Zoe, wife of H. G. Williams, at the French Hospital, Hongkong, on December 8, 1039,

a son.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, December 6, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 26615

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" E used by the "Hongkang Telegraph” to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommun)- calon Ordinance, 1016. Buch news a bears the indicatión “UP*** is received In Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Prass Atraciations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

Democracy At War

NO country, however democratie, can enter upon a great war without suffering a loss of freedom. When Britain took up the challenge of Reichsfuhrer Hiller, Parliament and people did so with the full know- ledge-that-war-meant discipline and control, and submission to orders. Since the strength of a nation at war is not merely that of its armed forces, but depends upon the sum- tutal of the efforts of all the people In every sphero of life, it follows that the whole nation must submit itself to authority.

This is acutely felt in time of war, All men of a certain age are liable to milltary conscription. All indus- trialists, shipowners or railway must be prepared to put owners their factories, ships, or railways, at the disposal of the State. A man's commandeered or be house may have troops or civilians billetted in It. Shops are controlled, food, may be ralloned, light is restricted. At any time a Government department may issue an order imposing irk- some restrictions upon the conduct of private citizens.

WILL THE LIGHT PENETRATE?

How good is Germany's war material?

THE German army goes to war with equipment that has a number of wenk points, In general, the material from which its weapons and machines is made is poor. The designs are usually excellent, but many have one considerable defect: they have been developed too quickly. and have not had enough serl- ous testing before large-scale production was begun.

The material is poor mainly because it includes so many.sub... stitutes. The steel has too large a proportion of cheap scrap tron in it, and too large a proportion of low-grade home-grown " iron ore,

The syntholle rubber, called "Buna" rubber, may be of service for some jobs, but does not stand up to war conditions. In particu- lar it is not good enough for the tracks of tanks and tractors.

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The Germans, in their clvillan life, have a great love for extreme tidiness and regularity. Their roads are very smooth; on their aerodromes each grass-blade seems to be combed to stand to atten tion in exact line with the next grass-blado. And all their indus- try producing for home sales, for years, has been geared to produce fraglie, lightweight goods that work quite nicely if treated with

care. care

Their Industries producing for export have specialised in cheap things that do not last.

We have a great advantage over them there. Bometimes go-ahead people are inclined to laugh at the

Suca regimentation the people of Britain were prepared for. It was the price to be paid for the waging of war. All they ask is that the orders shall be wisely made, and that they should really be conducive to emelency in running the vast machine of à nution at war. Armies of officials are necessarily formed; and they have great powers, but while the wise use of these powers makes for victory, the unwise use

a hindrance;

Government. acts, of through various departments, One is roncerned with the training of men for the army; another with the provision of skilled men for the A PROBLEM of patriotism, a wor factories; another with the problem in peace and war, is the provision of food another with British Army's oldest drummer, inxation; another with the release and censoring of news. It may often Acting-Sergeant Sam Thomp happen that what appears helpful son, of Framlingham, Suffolk. to one department will be an "Im- pediment

delicato

course,

Sam Just Won't Leave The Army

He REFUSES to leave the Army. to another. All the "We don't want in losɑ you, Sam, balances which

develop under the natural ebb and flow of already passed the age limit," they but we think you ought to go. You've freedom are likely to be thrown out when an entirely different organisa tion

is artificially formed. There is: needed calculated co-ordination not only In each department of State, but between the departments; - and this indicates a skilled thinking organ.

old...

Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomp- son, as he was 'then,. looked up the regulations, Then he' fölned up again, as a drummer.

"Now I can serve for another five years." he announced. "And" the authorities discovered that ho coal

But some of the considerations which mako on intrusive "brain Now Drummer (Acting-Sergeant) trust" objectionable in peace time Sam Thompson, aged afty-four, pridej ace arguments on the other sido in of the 4th Suffolks and holder of 'ware times? In view of the muddle seven? campaigner's "medals,

that follows lack of direction, that volunteered for active - berviện "for distinguished English economist, the duration."

has

Sir William Beveridge, is urging the "I maid: I was out there)-last time, necessity not only ・of a control and I'm still as £t anjo fidla!! Sama board fok" eldrys important industry; told the. Sunday: Pictorial yesterday, butha, central lody ofimen: frained:] 7. #Justrlet them by to leave me, be- In co-ordinating all departments. hindthat's all,

British habit of making things to last for ever." In a world of changing fashions and many in- ventions. It fy not always economical to make things that will be out of date before they are worn out in normal elvillan use.

But this is of great value in war, War consists of a continual series of crastics. Our vehicles, aero- planes, etc., are not crash-proof, but they will stand much heavier bashing about than those of the Germans. Our machines and gad- gets are not fool-proof, but you do not have to handle them as if they "were made of tissue-paper.

When the artificial rubber pads on the tracks of a German tank tear or wear out, the steel is not good enough to stand the extra hammering of hard work on the road,

That 15 why the

German mechanised divisions made such a poor show when advancing un- opposed on Vienna in the spring of last year. A number of witnesses. Including Americans, British and Austrians,

havo -testified that acveral roads were blocked by broken-down vehicles,

One eyewitness wrote in the Nation Belge:

"There, in brilliant weather without 8220W or rain. stood broken-down German lorries, tanks and artillery tractors, in long lines on the Austrian roads, in piful immobility, One division lost no fewer than 45 heavy tractors out of 400,"

The German tanks that saw action in the Spanish war ap- peared to "fade out" after a few

days of fighting, because of the number of breakdowns.

They also seemed to competent observers to be too lightly armed. Perhaps because of experience gained in Spain a new tank of about 25 tons has been developed in Germany, mounting a Reld-ġun of about 3 inches and a smaller gun of 37mm., besides machine- guina.

the fifth is stuck somewhere miles behind?

One thing you soon learn, the or- dinary business of war, is to keep things together in one piece as much as possible. Odd detachable gadgets get lost.

Another question is whether thego

which roll along: sace guns, merrily on good German renda, may not get badly bogged in Polish mud. In Ludendorff's memoirs there is a complaint that the Ger- man transport vehicles of 1915 were too heavy for the Polish front: he had to extemporice transport, using the local light pensant carts, which the Germans called "Panje" carts.

Yet the German transport of 1016 mainly consisted of solid four-wheeled wooden carts--much-

This machine was Orst shown when a parade was held in Berlin to impress Prince Paul of Jugo- slavia in June of this year. From the photographs one would judge that the Germana. havo-now gone---lighter-than-the-motor-vehicles- to the other extreme, and put into this medium-weight tank a heavier armoment than can bo used eficiently from such a gun-plat- form.

The German heavy artillery is mainly of new design, and little can be said of it until it has proved or disproved itself in action.

At another recent Berlin parade there was much comment on a new typo of heavy gun, said to have a range of 20 miles, which was towed past the saluting base by tractors. It appeared to be 46 feet long and of 10 inch calibre.

This gun is towed in five sec- tions: tho Eun-carriage, the cradio, the recoil and recuperator- gear, various bits and pieces, and last the gun-barrel itself,

The idea of splitting it up Into these five components is to make it mobile.

le. Heavy guns of this sort are usually moved with consider- able difficulty and very slowly.

But what will happen if one of the tractors breaks down? What will be the use of this contraption if four parts get to the position but

GRIN AND BEAR IT

AMMAS

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ALL

CAMERAS

By Lichty

special discount to the spy trade?!

they are now relying on for a con- siderable part of their road work What will the dirt roads in the

• wheatfields be like, when xuin com ca

mes and tractor columns have

ploughed them up?

that

When these questions were asked of German officers in the past they answered that they would win their war in a few weeks. during the dry season. They talked of a lightning war, Bultzkrieg.

The trouble with lightning is

you never

know whom or where it will hit. It

It is not the sort of stuff sane men

rely on.

The Germans may find It burns their fingers, and more than their Angers, if they have relied on this lightning when designing their heavy

artillery and the transport

for it

It.

Their field artillery is still

mainly horse-drawn. Bo is about 10 per cent. of their Grst-line in- fantry transport.

The reason for this is doubtless their shortage of motor vehicles, and probable shortage of petrol in

war.

Having Europe's best railway Byatem, the Germans have no- glected industrial road transport, compared with other

nations. until quite recently:

They have not got the immense reserves of light and medium weight lorries possessed by Eng- land and Francs; or the factories to make them.

But the retention of horse- drawn transport and guns will tell heavily against their army; Horses and motors do not mix well. Horses move so slowly that lorries caught behind them have to run in low Kear Overheating and, other troubles follow.

Horses

And horse transport is an ex- attack collent

cannot lie down; when nar- for air

nessed. They panic. It a lorry is and hit you tip it off the road, other lorries do not get acared and bolt. But borses do; and there is no mese more heartbreaking than a few gan-teama": well mixed and kicking, with a horse or two deal and a fimber in the ditch.

There is too much rate, top many, Ingeniöur' whys' dr'"**making. dol" about the German"krmiý's war BOOK

the strain comes:

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