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Some of the man who ward rescued from the Altmark.

AT Shepherd's Bush they are tactful man, and they did their due to "shout" the Altmark stuff obediently all over again rescue episode which, with the and were enjoying their new job reconstruction of the River as actors before their part of the Plate battle, should make this proceedings came to an end. tale of newsreel enter- prise, entitled "For Free- dom," one of the out- standingly "actual" pie- tures of the year.

This would not have been possible if the Government authorities

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I think the most surprised

people, when they learnt that

the Admiralty had consented to The battle sequences were done their re-enacting the circum-at sen.

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stances of the historic battle, Will Fyffe plays the editor of were some of the heroes them-the newsreel which, in the selves.

story, brings off this remark-

Hitler Says MARCH

MOST of Hitler's major coups have been carried out In the month March.

Here is a list:

of

March 16, 1935, De- nounced disarmament clauses

of Versailles Treaty and in-

troduced conscription..

March 7, 1936.-Marched

into the Rhineland and ended Locarno Treaty.

March 11, 1938-Marched into and seized Austria.

March 15, 1939--Marched into and subjugated Czecho- Slovakia.

is the son, also in the newsreel PICTURE ARTIGLE office, who argues in favour of a pence film, whilst his forceful elder holds that a war film is the thing.

Naval officers tend to becomeable "scoop." Anthony Hulme uneasy at any suggestion of being displayed as "heroes," and one quiet young lieutenant con- fessed to me that they felt a bit sheepish at having to parade be- fore the applauding multitudes in the streets, much as they were stirred by the warmth of their reception. However, or- ders were orders.

The merchant captains who were imprisoned in the Graf Spee appear in person. They seem to have had no studio in- hibitions. On the contrary, the experts declare they entered Maurice Elvey, director of into the spirit of the occasion "For Freedom" (in association with the aplomb of experienced with Castleton Knight), is a actors.

ARTICLE on WAR

Nazi generals don't believe in the Blitzkrieg

THAT is the German-Army They-ure-thinking, he says, ol frontal attacks. These are not to

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going to do? All of us are be decided by a sudden stroke, but asking this question. On the by a long struggle. One side will morning ferry, over the lunch eat away the enemy's position until table, in slack minutes at the he collapses. office, it is one of the big pro- blems which dominate conversa- tion.

None of us knows the answer. But to make a good guess, to have an idea of the way a German general or high staff officer will see the alter- natives open to him, one has to know what the German Army is, how it 15 organised, and the way its leaders

think.

If you want to see what the Duke

of Wellington used to call "the other side of the hill," I advise you to read a new book called "Tho German Army," by Herbert Rosinski. It is published to-day by the Hogarth Press, and costs 12s. 6d.

This is very much like Joffre's Idea It of "nibbling" in the last war. bears out Rosinski's contention that the Germans have lost their old pre- eminence in what is called "the higher study of war."

In any case the Germans in Poland went all out for the policy Rosinski says their leaders don't believe in- a sudden decisive blow by strong mechanised forces or air attack."

believe such tactics to be possible in But is probable that they don't

the west.

Rosinski says that German methods

Dr. Resinski is a very well-known of tactical training are very good. writer and lecturer on naval and But he also says that the standards military problems.

And he is a for young officers are very low,

German refugee from Hitler. He

"Six years of Nazl rule," he says,

tries to take you under a German "have so depressed the intellectual officer's skin.

Icvel even of the high schools that the military, authorities are at their wits' end where to find the necessary

candidates," There won't be Army, and ita tragedy, is that it embodies a noble Idea gone wrong. a few years, and

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and those there are will The idea is a selfless devotion to not for the most part be good,

Everybody is compelled to And the Nazis have difficulty. In serve the State, and yet everybody finding N.C.O.'s, too. does it of his own free will.

The instructors are excellent but

duty.

It has gone wrong in many ways, but chiefly because the individual wasn't encouraged to think for him-

the pupils poor.

What does it all amount to? The Germans are fine soldiers, but self whether the State was a healthy their younger leaders have not had und Bound one. The German was enough training nor an education taught to think that blind loyalty was which has taught them how to think better than intelligent loyalty, and it for themselves, isn't so good.

dual.

The machine ignored the indivi- The German command farmed the habit of thinking that materiais counted for more than men.

The Germons get their strength from their devotion to duty plus their technical efficiency,

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What are their ideas about using According to Dr. Rosinski few of the leading professional soldiers believe in a lightning victory. That is the pet idea of the Naxi

politicians."

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(Beethoven) (Haydn) (Schubert) Overture Pt. 3 Rosamunde. Rhapsody in blue, (Gershwin) Tannhauser. Overture Finlandia

(Bibellus) (Sibelius) Val of the South, (Strauss)

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Funeral march of a Marionette.

.Berlin State Opera Orch.

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HIGHLY SKILLED, scienti-jarmourer is capable of examining fically-trained mechanicsthe and adjusting rangefinders, telescopie British Army's

rifle sights and prismatic compasses, handymen-

and can strip and reassemble a Bren mend anything and every

At another Ordnance school boys' are trained thing."

as Atters, and become

More often than not they have to work under extremely difficult con- ditions. A lorry, or a tank, or h Com- fleld-gun, each with its own plicated mechanism, may need their expert attention.

by

ERIC HICKS

Speed Is imperative; there may be long line of urgent" trafle be- hind the stricken monster, Army mechanics are quickly on the scene, qualified to tackle any kind of re- diagnoze the trouble with the skill pair to mechanical transport. Every of a surgeon and soon the machine is mechanised unit of the Army has a Light Ald Detachment of the Ordnance Согра attached to it; At- ters on completion of training are

a great deal of scope and responsi bility. But the Nazis have aimed at turning out "Yes-men," not leaders. rumbling on its way again,

As for the higher commanders, many of them are ablo men. But

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they are not up to the best standards The Importance of Army mechanics drafted to these.

can be judged by the fact that they For heavy repairs", workshops of the past, and it is doubtful whether they will have the firmness to with-

are attached to units as varied as the are maintained at the base, where stand the extravagant demands of Royal Engineers, the loyal Army welding, heat treatment of steel and the Nazl leaders."

Service Corps, the Royal Signals, the copper-smithing can be carried out Royal Artillery and the Royal Army with the most up-to-date machinery. Ordnance Corps. While many of

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Y'S MEN'S CLUB

them have been recruited from young men with a mechanical aptitude, "SAPPERS", or Royal Engineers, who prefer

the Army to civilian em- employ skilled mechanies to maintain a training machinery used in tunnelling war- The next meeting of the Hong-ployment, others foin The German generals nave few

kong Y's Men's Club, will be held at school, at the age of fourteen. fore, sound-ranging and anti-gas hopes of being able to follow the the residence of Mr. Ho Shlu-que, Some of these start as "Armourer measures, while

the RASC classic German strategy of moving 14 Koon Ma Terrace, Happy Valley, Apprentices" at the R.A.OC. Depot, ing School turns out efficient driver- very rapidly so as to turn their

where intensive training, over a mechanics, acquainted with enemies' Danks. They may not even at 0.30 p.m. on Thursday, when Mr. be anxious to invade Holland or Bel- George A. Fitch, Associated General period of four or five years, is given nut and bolt of their vehicles,

In the mechanics of Service weapons, Mechanics' rate of pay vary, ac- flum or Switzerland to give them the Secretary of the War Service for

Soldiers, will be the speaker,

When training ends the fully-fiedged¦cording to the unit widi which they chunce of doing this,

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are serving, but they are appreciably higher than those pali to the less- peace- specialised infantryman. In time, the Army mecbanie returns to well-paid civilian jobs.

The British Army prides itself on turning out mechanics who are also scientists in no small measure, trained by the latest methods and provided with modern equipment for the accomplishment of their dificult and often hazardous taska.

PICTURE (1) shows an officer in the final stages of his training as an Army chemist. With test tubes and retorts, he is at work in a modernly- equipped laboratory.

Picture (2) These boy apprentices are `receiving Instruction at a training centre in elementary forging, rivetting and welding heat treatment. At the end of four yours they will be ready to Join the Royal Ordnance Corpa as Ar- mourers or Fitters

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In Picture (8) This young soldier- mechanla da putting the finishing touches to a scale model of a delicately adjusted machine. These "Jobs" often taken, home to show to parents,

Pictura (4) The sergeant instructor la demonstrating machinery to earnest students, at Mechanical Transport branch class. Soon they will be able to take down and reassemble the many parts of this machinery.

Picture (5) shows youthful pupils' who are listening to s lectors at one of the training' schools, which supplement practical workshop training,

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Roses

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Grand Symphony Orch.

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