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Saturday, FEBRUARY 3, 1940,

by CAPT. LIDDELL HART

The famous military expert

SINCE 1916 the risk of an invasion of Britain has received little attention, perhaps because the fact that there had been no attempt during four years of war on the greatest scale made the possibility look like a bogy that had been laid,

Yet, by now, at any rate, there is sound cause for discount- ing the danger-in its old and familiar form.

For the development of air power has greatly diminished the possibility of sen borne invasion.

A landing on a foreign const in face of hostile troops has always been one of the most difficult operations of

WILT",

It has now become much more difli- cult, imfeed almost impossible, because of the vulnerable tar- get which a convoy of transports offers,to the defenders' air force us it approaches the shore.

Britain

CAN'T

be Invaded

Even more vulnerable to uir attack is the process of disemburka- tion in open bọnts.

It might be achieved only if the opposing aircraft could be driven out of the sky while the operation was proceeding,

But the defenders' aircraft, since they will be operating from the shore, are almost bound to out-number those that the invader can carry in his ships or in aircraft carriers to cover the landing.

OF

F all types of force an air force has the greatest mobility and flexibility, especially when it is operating in its own territory, where there is likely to be a close-linked chain of aerodromes.

Drab and Dirty

HONGKONG residents re- turning from teave discover that, after the capitals and larger cities of Europe and America, one word hells our eity.

That word is "dings." This" city has an ill-kept, unwashed, unpainted

Its appearance. architecture is generally Jack-

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Saturday, February 3, 1940. Wyndliam St, Hongkong! Telephone: 20615

Ing in beauty and imagination, and if it were not that it is so picturesquely set on its lovely harbour, it would resemble an ill-kept city in the middle of China.

Whose is the fault? Is it due to govern- mental neglect, Inck of vision by the business It is every- community, apathy of the people? body's fault-all these things are contributory to a general Inck of civic pride. The business people build unadorned boxes of ugly shape in which to do their business They have no money for the adornments of architecture. The public never gets angry enough about these things. It betales itself to its sports and gets out of the city as quickly as it can..

At the root of this general Inck of civic pride is a general lack of response to beauty, n preoccupation with the affairs of business, and sport, and 'en. joyment, which finds na time or money for the graces of life. It is not that there is not a leaven of aesthetic sensibility among our people. We have artists and architects, and a minority of citizens who love beauty and order, and attempt in their Byn homes to make up what the mass in its city has neglected. There are a few-a very few- Beautiful city buildings. These, however, are set check by jowl with vulgar erections.

The trouble is not with the Tick, then, "of nesthetic taste, but with the fact that there is no plan, no vision, of what Hongkong might be. The ugly building is allowed to destroy the beauty provided. It complies with the building regulations—which take little, cognisance of nesthetic fitness or design.

These Times in Rhymes

A WARDEN

By N. B. WHITESTONE

Dees Phosgene turn you red or blue? What does a Warden have to do When the population Kallops through Paddles of ilquld gas?

How many Inches of mid steel plate?. What use is Sodium Bicarbonate? What are the ills which hasten the rate

of pulse and respiration?

When Amah retires on a damp, cold night ller le chattle burning. the door.nhul

tiglit And never awakes to the morning's light- Monoxide's a deadly inhalallen!

Who is a candidate for quick evacuation? Who to be sent for de-contamination? Who shooed off to his private' habitation? What turns green paint red?

SOM

The Gentie German

them, perlops,

NOME people maintain, you have heard That most of the Germans are excellent

chaps.

They try to persuade us that it is a sin,

To unger the Prussian by rubbing it in. They Did us be kind to each dear little Hun, That he may be sorry for what he has done. They say that the German is gentle and mild; (The They

soul of (I wonder what Neville would say abou think of the German as friendly and fat: a saint and the heart of a child.) that?) The trouble, of course, he is easily led,

And loves all his enemies-when they are

dead! Come, let us unite with the Czech and the

Pole,

To honour the Hun and his little white soul, We love him so much, we are sending the

Acct,

To blow him to blazes-by way of a treat; And when we have finally scuppered the lot, We won't give a hoot if he's angry or not.

And the queerest point I ever was taught In the local realms of martial thought Was the official version of how I ought To take down a contaminee's trousers! Wash and bake and steam and boil; Sounds like amal's Jally toll Not the warlike task of deleting oll From the heavier canvas fables.

If Lewisite fell in the Reservoir Poliuting our 'somewhat meagre store; Would a deink of this stuff occasion sore Internal perturbation?

ENVOIM

another

The Examiner frowned a deep, black frown, And he said, said he "That's

tinmbs down;

All he seems to know is that Mustard's

brown"

That's why I can't be a Warden!"

Black Out

A FIGURE sauntered past me In the black of night; Admittedly my torch

bright,

was bordly

But batteries are scarce now, and her

gult Certainly reminded me of Kate,

caught up. Then

I hurried on,

cruel shock!

It wasn't Kate but just a kilted Jock.

E. B.

A. Nazi acrial photograph of Britain.

Thereby

it can be concentrated together with 150 machine- swiftly in evergrowing numbers at guns and 18 light field-guns, any point on the const where an in- was carried 100 miles in troop- vader's, appearance is reported.

By contrast the invader's re carrying aircraft and dropped sources are

are rigidly Hmited, unless on an acrodrome behind the and until he can not only make good enemy's front. his tanding

ing but occupy a

Buffetently Within eight minutes of the re-

large stretch of the country to es- lense of the parachutes the forea tablish aerodromes.

had assembled on the ground and Only against some isolated colony, driven off the defenders."Since then out of reach of air reinforcement the scale of the forces used in such from the mother-country, does there operations has been increased. scem to be a chance of overseas In-

As regards their actual use and vasion succeeding under present-day material effect, it would seem that. conditions.

They might find opportunity Britain herself is at least more thinly populated and badly-roaded secure than

before against countries, especially in Anta invasion in the familiar sense.

Africa,

mountain warfa

warfare Also in This island is not likely to feel as a pass or narrow valley can be the tread of an invading army, un- held by a few men against many. less as a sequel to capitulation from other couses,

ever

forces

By dropping parachute unila

to seize anch pdlnts in the rear of the opposing army is rein- forcement might be prevented. - its supplies Interrupted, or its

retreat cut off.

But in the

greater

in

or

of

So far as there is any chance decisive stroke directly of a against us It could only come from overwhelming air attack. This would not be invasion in the normal meaning of the word, since

would be delivered by

part it operating from and returning after Western Europe, where forces are ench attack to another country. It thick on the ground, and there is a would really be super-scate raiding, network of roads, any small para- None the less, there is now a chute force that was dropped might serious threat of a new kind of be quickly located and overwhelmed motorised troops and tanks invasion by "ground forces," though by

to were rushed the prospect for such detachments would be

The

not by "an army." This possibility which were has arisen just as the old danger was disappearing.

spot.

alr-borne

there

army

even less It wns heralded by Russia's de- promising in Britain,

would be no main enemy velopment of parachute troops within reach to profit by their ef Which has since been copied in forts, break through the defenders' several other Continental countries.

front and come to their relief.

An Invasion of this country by IN the Russian manoeuvres of troops carried through the air may

1936 a force of 1,200 men, thus be reckoned unlikely.

--

OF COURSE YOU KNOW-

ALL, you need are a pencil, a

place to sit, a few moments' leisure and the ordinary umount of ious to steer you through this maze of general knowledge.

Method of scoring is to take two points for each correct answer, Average is 30, good 30-40, excellent 40-50. Read each question care- fully, mark your answer, and when you've completed tre 25, check the answers, but DON'T PEEK.

1. Most soldiers. of fortune and vagabond world travellers have been, at one time or another, " the beach" at Callao, which is a town in

Brazil, Peru, Panama, Hon- duras, Chile, Nicaragua. 2-Sald Murgatroyd: "Some- thing in Jewellery should gratify my daughter Mignonette. How about a simple necklace of cacbalets?" Said But how absurd, Cachalots

I:

FC

Ancient

palleys, Roman sperm whales, desert plants, confections for sweetening the breath.

"Last night the moon had &

golden ring.

And to-night no moon we see!" these ines, recalling schooldays, were written by-

Tennyson, Coleridge, Byron, Keets, Longfellow.

4-You should have little or no trouble in translating these well- known Italian cities into Engl

.

Firenze. Genova, Venezia, Torino, Napoli.. 5.-Chinese New Year day doesn't fall on January 1 because

It's a lunar new year; it's cussedness on the part of the Chinese; It's Confucius' birth- day; It's a solar new year; It's exactly 30 days later each year.

You most probably would not understand a man who addressed you in Taal, but you would know that he came from-

India, Chisin, Burma, Sonth Africa, Mexico, Borneo, 7.Mighty hunter though you may 'ke, you would not need a

high- nowered rifle to beard 'the' abalone în fly native lair, because it is

· Intercly

A Terc specics - of South American orchid, a fruit found

only in the East Indies, an edible shell-fish, an edible fun- pus which grows in Italy.

8-Lord Verulan and Viscount

St. Albans was only ono 111371 great English thinker. The modern world refers to him simply as

Isaak Newton, Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, John Wesley, John Bunyan.

D.

80

Coal-miners have every rea- to be grateful to the memory of Bir Humplirey Davey because he......

the Introduced

picce-rate system, inuented the mechani- cal cool-cutting machine, in- vented the safety-lamp, or- ganised the first; miners' union. 10-A British wartime military ecmbination which made

self was the Dunsterforce. Its here of operations was

for

#

name

The demilitarised Rhineland, zone, the Italian Irriilenta, Arabia, Persia and Baku (Cas". plan), the north-west frontler of India, German South-West . Africa.

11. Play cards? Only one of thest is not a card game--

Ecarte, tarot, bezique, hal-a- lai, pinochic.

12. That opening in the parapet of a fortified, pasillon to enable a gun to be fired through it is, cɔre rectly called→→

Au echelon, an embrasure, a', redan, a salient.

13.---You know what an Epleurean is, or do you? To become a true" Epicurean you must

Live only for the pratification of the senses, pursue happinces through experience, live a life of complete abstinence from sensual picosures, eat and drink more than is good for you. 14-Farinaceous foods, are those.

feeds which, taken correctly-

Form bone, supply heat and. energy, build worn-out tinster, strengthen the bloods

15A fight-lieutenant in the

Royal Air Force holds rank equival- ent to an armý........

Lieutenant, captain, "major, colonel, lieutenant-colonel.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 7.