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FERGUSON.-At 15, Meillewood Avenue, Prestwick, Ayrshire, on November 24. 1039, John Ferguson, beloved husband

of

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Democracy At War

NO country, however democratic, con enter upon a great war without suffering a loss of freedom. When Britain toolt up the challenge of Reichsluhrer Hitler, 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 wor |is-hol~merely-that-of-its-armed forces, but depends upon the sum-

total of the efforts of all the people in every sphere of life, it follows that the whole nation must submit itself to authority.

or

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

or

Such regimentation the people of Brilain were prepared for. It was the price to be paid for the waging of wor. All they ask is that the orders shall be wisely made, and that they should really be conducive to efficiency in running the vast machine of a nation at war. Armies of offelals are necessarily formed. and they have great powers, but while the wise use of these powers makes for victory, the unwise use is a hindrance.

Government nets, of course, through various departments. One is concerned with the training of men for the army; another with the provision of skilled men for the

wor

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WILL

THE LIGHT PENETRATE?

How good is Germany's war

material?

HE German army goes to war with equipment that has a number of weak points. In general, the material from which its weapons and machines is made is poor. The designs are usually excellent, ut many have one considerable defect: they have

been

developed too quickly, and have not had enough sert- 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 scrapiron in it, and too large a proportion of low-grade "home-grown Iron ore.

Tho synthetic rubber, called "Buna" rubber, may be of servicc 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.

The Germans, in their civilian life, havo a great love for extremu Their tidiness and regularity. roads are very smooth: on their aerodromes each grass-blade secma

to

be combed to stand to atten- tion in exact line with the next grass-blade. And all their indus- try producing for home sales, for years, has been geared to produce fragile, Bahtweight goods that work quite nicely if treated with care.

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

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

Sam Just Won't

Leave The Army

A PROBLEM of patriotism, a

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 Acting-Sergeant Sam Thomp and censoring of news. It may often

happen that what appears helpful son. of Framlingham, Suffolk.

to one department will be an Im- He REFUSES to leave the Army. pediment to another. All

"We don't want to lose you, Sam,

dellcate balances

The

Quartermaster-Sergeant Thomp- non, as he was then, looked up the regulations. Then he joined up

which develop but we think you ought to go. You've under the natural ebb and flow of nirendy passed the age limit,” they freedom are likely to be thrown out said. 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 indientes 4 skilled thinking: orgun.

again as a drummer.

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

Now Drummer (Acting-Sergeant)

But some of the considerations which make an intrusive ́ "brain trust" objectionable in pence time Sam Thompson, aged fifty-four, pride are arguments on the other side in of the 4th Suffolks, and holder of war time. In view of the muddle

seven campaigner's medals, has that follows lack of direction, that volunteered for active service. “for distinguished English economist, the duration."

Sir William Beveridge, is urging the said I was out there last time, necessity not only of a control and I'm still as fit na u fiddle," Sam board for every important industry, told the Sunday Pictorial yesterday. but a central body of men trained) "Just let 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-

la ventions, it

not always economical to make things that will be out of date before they are worn out in normal civilian use.

But this is of great value in war. War consists of a continual series of crashes. Our vehicles, acro~ 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 thesuo-papor.

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

La 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, have testined that several roads were blocked by broken-down vehicles.

One eyewitness wrote in the Nation Belge:

"There, in brilliant weather without anow

rain, stood or broken-down German lorries. tanks and artillery tractors, in long lines on the Austrian roads, in pitiful 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 "Inde 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 field-gun of about 3 inches and a smaller gun of 37mm., besides machine- guns.

This machine was frat shown when a parade was held in Berlin

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 these guns, which roll along. inerrily on good German reads, may not get badly bogged in Polish inud.

In Ludendorft's memoirs thore is complaint that the Ger man transport vehicles, of 1915. were too heavy for the Polish front: he had to extemporisc. transport, using the local light pensant carts, which the Germans called "Panjo" carta.

Yet the German transport of 1916 mainly consisted of zolld four-wheeled wooden carts-much

to impress Prince Paul of Jugo- slavia in June of this year. From the photographs one would judge that the Germans have now gone--lighter Chan-the-motor-vehicles- to the other extreme, and put into this-medium-weight tank a heavier

than

can be used emclently from such a gun-plat- form.

armament

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 type of heavy gun, said to have a range of 20 miles, which was towed past the saluting base by tractors. It appeared to be 45 feet long and of 10 inch calibre.

This gun is towed in five sec- tions: the gun-carriage, the cradle, the recoll 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. Heavy guns of this sort are usually moved with consider- able difculty 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

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they are now relying on for a con- alderable part of their road work. What will the dirt roads in the wheatfields be ke, whon rain comes and tractor columns have ploughed them up?

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 Hightning war, Blitzkrieg.

The trouble with lightning is that you never know whom or where it will hit. It is not the sort of stuff sane men rely on. The Germans may find it burns their ingers, and more. than their fingers, if they have relied on this "lightning" when designing their artillery and the transport

for it.

Their feld artillery is still

So is abou mainly horse-drawn. B per cent. of their Arst-line in- fantry transport.

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

war.

no-

Having Europe's best railway system, the Germans hava glected industrial road transport, compared

nations. with other until quite recently.

They have not got the immense reserves of light and medium weight lortles possessed by Eng- land and France, or the factories to make them.

But

the retention

of-horse-

drawn transport and guns will tell heavily against their army. Horses and motora do not mix well. Horses move so slowly that lorries caught behind them have to run in low

Overheating

· and other

Ecar

troubles

cellent

follow.

And horse transport is an ex- air attack. ellent target for Horses cannot lie down, when hur- Gessed. They panto. If a lorry hit, you tip it off the road and other lorries do not got scared and bolt. But horses do; and there is no mess more heartbreaking than []) a few gun-teams well mixed and kicking, with a horse or two dead and a limber in the ditch.""

There is too much ersats, too many ingenious ways of making do." about the German army's wor gear. When the strain comes that will tell.