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ON

PRAYER

-

Be not afraid to pray-to pray is

right.

Pray, thou canst, with hope:

but ever pray,

Though hope be weak, or sick

with long delay:

Pray in the darkness, if there be

no light.

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man sight,

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Then pray to God to cait that

wish away.

-Hartley Coleridge.

1939.

How We Knocked 1/5th Off Hitler's

Battle

Fleet

by H. C. FERRABY,

TEN FACTS ABOUT FINLAND W

during the eighteenth century.

ertishing

1918.

Communist revolt

in

Daily Express Naval Reporter

At the beginning of the war Germany's battle fleet con- sinted of the three ppeket | battleships Graf Spee, Admiral. Scheer, and Deutschland, and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

any of our cruisers. The crushing battleship named after that: 1. Tactics effect of one 670lb. shell is so admiral were not worthy of their

much greater than that of one

forerunners. HEN the first whis- 100lb, shell, and the amount of

But the battle was a remark- per reached me that damage done by one greater than the Achilles was in that by six of the British sliclls able triumph for the gunnery Admiral because of its concentration in men of the British cruisers. For such comparatively light craft Swedish colony for 510 years, action with the

Moreover, the British crui- to knock à ship of the size of Finland was ceded to the expand-Scheer (as we believed the one spot. ing Russian Empire in three stages ship to be at that time) and sers gun range is some 18,000 the Graf Spce about so badly 2. Backed by German troops, she then later that she had been yards, which is well inside the without being smashed up them- finally won her Independence by sunk, I saw nothing im- 30,000 yards of the German selves is a feat that takes some ship. The cruisers could not believing, even though there probable in the report

Why were our gunnery men so Ever since the start of the hope, as it scerned, to be within were three of them on the spot. 3. Finland has been friendly with shirts Germany Bloce. Coloured and swastikas are much in evidence, hunt for the German pocket range where they could damage although the Government is a Social-battleships, those of us who re. the German without being them- successful, the Germans so aur- the tactics which the British member the battle of Coronel selves under such weight of fire prisingly bad? The answer is in

cruisers adopted. The country is governed by a have feared that the Germans a must annihilate them in President (clecled for six years).

It didn't work out that way.

The British tactics seem to Council of State, and a Diel of 200, might have the luck to catch few salvões.

Finland was the first country to some of our searching light The gunnery of the Germans have been modelled on those of long, running give votes to women under a short-cruisers out of reach of pro- Ilved self-government constitution granted by the Czars in 1007. The tection of the bigger ships, and was by no means up to their Sturdes at the battle of the

that another easy triumph for usual standard which was de- Falklands

monstrated when the Deutsch fight; excess of speed ensuring still have them.

Lutheran the German Navy might prerede land sunk the Rawalpindi. Wo that touch could always be kept; 6. Finns

mainly

are told that at the start of the steady hammering at the enemy Protestants. Their other religion is the extinction of the raiders.

reasonable. battle the only ship engaging was physical fitness, Remember Paavo Nurmi, the runner?

Democratic-Agrarian coalition

аге

The fear

serve all rights and forblé yepublication. They are also one of the best Consider the gun power of the the Graf Spee was the Exeter for hours on end with slow, con-

either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement.

Someone Blundered

Europe.

moved

arc

10. Pop., 3,611,791; ares, 132,000

The German gunners had at centrated fire at intervals so as that time only the one target; not to waste a salvo by hitting ing of his salvaes by manoeuv they had niso only the fire of at the empty air; skilful dodg one ship to unsettle them,

and most cultured races in respective ships;-

Single B'side 8. Astatic in origin, they

Shell B'side per min. the eighth.cen- ! from the Volga in

lbs. lba. lbs. tury. They are related to the Estoni-

At that stage gunners of the ring, and, of course, simultane- Graf Spee class 670 4,020 12,060 ans and Hungarians.

6. Main product is timber carried Archilles class 100

800 8,000 skill of those who fought under ous concentration of fire from the gunnery control in the to the coast on the country's Exeter class, 260 1,500 7,600 Admiral von Spec at the battle three directions to worry both How long Germany can wage lakes and rivers. All eral

Not only wug the pocket of Coronel would have reduced war, and with what prospect of scarce, there is no coal, success, is a question exerelsing the square miles (size of England, Scot battleship's total weight of fire the target to splinters in a few enemy ship and the attempts of 50 per cent, greater than that of rounds. The gunners of the the bridge to dodge the fall of talents of government experts in land and Wales). several countries. In all their

BEHIND THE WAR NEWS some .cstimates, speculation in measure is necessarily present. The knowledge whether. Hitler deliber- ately chuse war with Britain and France or whether he blundered

into it on the assumption that these

nations would not fight--this would help toward an estimate of Ger- many's real strength.

GAS

AS

A

WEAPON

shot.

Observers outside the ship have already told us of damage to the superstructure and the bridge of the Graf Spec. But that is superficial damage, and- would not of itself explain her decision to seek shelter in the

of the time. In the same way men neutral harbour. Yet her arm- can crawl forward to cut it. loured sides should have been Shell Are can flatten wire, and that sufficient to resist shells of the In the main purpose of a barrage calibre that were fired at her a weakly held before an advance against a

de-

DURING the last few years

there has been more public by Peter Evans discussion on the subject of gas in warfare than on most lay, gas in front of

oured decks as a defence against centrated in front of another sector into existence to overcome wire. other aspects of the science of or so that troops my corfended position. Tanks largely came She is reputed to have had arm-

Then again, in withstanding on

But gas is subject to none of these plunging fire (that is, shella If Hitler deliberately chose war mutual destruction.

it has always offensive, gas is an effective barrier. For tome reason against two powerful nations in ad-

a particularly. It can be so effective a barrier that disadvantages. It is thus in defence a dropping from a great height), barrier that much more valuable aid than ever and ner gun turrets had seven- heep represented as

have believe, the first army

Either British dition to Poland, one might assume horrible weapon, and there he counted on the material equip-been more efforts to make rules for hard pressed will use it; it will be wire was,

To a large extent it will take the can also play a part in an offensive, shells to-day, even of medium ment of the Third Reich to carry its use than there have been to unable to overcome the templation.

pluct that barbed wire held in the particularly in open warfare, Troops calibre, are a vast deal more abolish the circumstances in which it

can protect advancing on a sector

flanks by contaminating the powerful than we have ever through. But if he blundered into could be used.

suspected, or the construction of The improbability of its use against last war.

In laying wire, men have to expose their it, relying on bluff to win the day,

civilian population, and the rea-

PLEASE Turn To Pago.3, the pocket battleships is nothing like as formidable in defence as sons why it should inspire little fear themselves, and as night a front can country on each side of them.

we have been led to believe.

it was not on German strength but

on his own cleverness that he may have relied.

the

it is, were very clearly shown by be, and probably will be, lit up most Prof. J. B. S. Haldane yesterday.

But the professor said nothing us

to Rs use on the field of battle.

In 1925 the principal Governments of the world, gathered at Geneva,

Thus the recent disclosure by Relkichi Kita, member of the Japanese House of Representatives, forswore the use of all asphyxiating and blistering gases for evermore. Indienting Hitler did not belleva The Governments of the world have Britain and France would fight, is foreworn many things that they have

subsequently done. Mr. Kita Will this prove to be another? extremely interesting. says that a Japanese Industrialist that if will. who was invited to the Nazi rally

wch.

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I

Already one nation-Italy-hos at Nuremberg, but who decided be used gas in war daring the last few cause of the crisis to go Immediately years. The campaign in Ethiopla Gas to Stockholm, was urged in a note seemed to be at n landstill. from Hitler to stay in Germany bee it duid again, and the Italians Many Bard things were said of cause there would not be war.

It was not possible for the Allied Mussolini for his action, but from a military point of view, he was only diplomats, in direct negotiation with doing what any nation might do with Hitler, to know certainly whether its back to the wall-take the best ho was really ready to face a major means to get away from it. war. Many assessed his boldness weapon, and no more inhuman than as bluff. Some appear to have felt anything else that is designed by

Hitler man for the mutilation that at the last moment. began to realize what he was up of his fellow nian.

Gas in war is a very valuable

destruction

It does not do the former and I againat but decided to go aheal

comparatively rarely does the latter. even Into general war Mr. Kita's, But it may put quite a lot of men report, supporting the views of out of action for quilo n long time. The important gases are, of course, those who believe Hitler blundered, the bilstering gases. Except for the helps also to explain why he risked element of surprise among troops un the Russian partnership, Had that prepared to meet them, asphyxlating last gigantle bluff worked, Hitler ise have ittle military value to-

ddy. might have had Poland and peaco-They are volatile and a slight his kind of peace, a spectacular eczo quickly blows them away. victory over the western demo- Since modern armies are provided

with gas-maak, It means cracies and some gains at the ex-phyxiniing gases only add another to panko of the Soviot, granted un-the many discomforts of war.“ wittingly by Stalin's own hand,

that as-

But if somebody blundered, It Gas, therefore, appears as a valu wasn't Stalin,

able aid to defence. It is possible to

But if its chief use is defensive, it inch armour.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Hmmm-she looks too young to be his daughter--she must be his wifa!'!

2. Strategy

The strategical disposition of the British forces in the South Atlantic to deal with the prob lem of the raiders has been justi- fied by the event.

It has always been obvious to the student of naval warfare that if the raiders wore to do any damage it could be done only at the focal points, those areas of the sen into which merchant come os they ships must approach or leave the harbours. They might roam the open space for weeks on end, as they have done, without catching more than an occasional freighter.

Our covering forces did not need to roam the seas wildly looking for them. Sooner or later they must venture into the areas where shipping was to be found. The mouth of the River Plato and a hundred miles to seaward of it is a vital focal point. There are several others in the South Atlantic. There are several in the Indian Ocean.

There and thoreabouts was the place in which our patrols were most needed, And precise- ly off the River Plate the Grat Spee runs straight into some of them