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flow of runours. People explained: EFFECTIVE ROOM IN THE make it a republic. REAR COMPARTMENT,. MORE

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In March 1804 the public discovered that we had 207,243 men on 'regular!

What did the English these preparations? Did they have the jitters? They did.

Thousands volunteered, drilled, and active services, upwards of 400,000 But Napoleon's volunteers. If Napoleon's fleet sail- England ed, it would have to break its way

through 08,000 seamen in 1,500 ves-|

HOTELanned defences.

expedition never sailed. still has n King, not a President.

England developed crisisterla In sels.

The patient Parliament devided to increase the { the summer of 1803. continued poorly all through the Hegular Army by 40,000-feeding N winter, and had a bad relapse in the from the militia, The Military Ser- spring Invasion was expected daily. vice B allowed every one In April temperature slid back to seventeen to afty-five to volunteer. normal. Suddenly, in the autumn, The Warden of the Cinque Ports crisisterin struck again.

AZEVEDO.- Malvina Ramgel Azevedo, passed away at her residence, No, 5 Victory Avenue, at 2.30 am. Funeral will pass the Monument (Shanghat and Macho please copy).

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The papers printed lists of Alarm papers Posts for volunteers. In some places officers were not allowed to go more than two miles from their quarters even when off duly.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Monday, May 13, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

THE Prime Minister Iniro- duced a Bill into Parlia- ment called "A Plan for the Defence of the Country." The papers pressed for a volunteer corps of irregular in THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph" fantry. The Government, after about Is tied by the longkong Telegraph co indicate naws which is strictly copyright year's dithering, gut on with con- under the provisions of the Telecommunl structing the Martello catione Ordinance, 1035. Bach news as bears the indication UP is received in along the const. Hangkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all fights and forbid republication, either wholly or la part without previous

arpungemen

Hitler's Strategy

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North Sea

FANSTERDAM

EROTTERDAM

DUOfIDUNT

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RUSSELS

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PARIS

STRASBOURG

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raised 3,000 volunteers. Each of thei Ridings of Yorkshire raised cavalry regiment.

up.

England's diplomats got warnied!

Rather reluctantly, England concluded K treaty with: Russia. Each pledged herself to support a general European Icague. Napoleon did not hesitate to conceal this from

Maginot Line,

SWITZ

RLAND

his people by falsifying the news and Siegfried Line, and now

by forging letters. The technique seems somehow familiar.

THE country with the few

million men 'must givel way to the country with the many million men." "Mein Kampf"? No

You can see them to-day. Round,

..Just Napoleon. England's milit- thirty-foot-high pillboxes from which soldiers were to rake the disembark ary fame had been forgotten in ing French with a cross-fire. A look-

France. They thought, riches hadƒ..... out service was started to watch for

"A nation oll the French fleet. (They're still made us decadent. watching.)

shopkeepers," wisecracked

Bona-

1

But month followed month. with-|

66 WATER

LINE

99

Hitler has invaded Holland in a struggled for centuries, should sud- desperate effort to regain the Initia, denly become his shield, and should

defend for him live in his war?

the country from which it had bren chased to make a fertile soll.

The Duke of Buccleud wrote to. parte. Etiler is the first political op- portunist to betray all his plans the papers suggesting Food Reserves. before he has put them into execu- Some one signing himself "Suse out an attack. tion. When he was weak and help- Yeaman" advised all the people who or incredulous, to

Then, while the Emperor's corona-i less he told the world what he were too busy, wanted in "Mein Kampf" and after volunteer to equip themselves with EVER he seized power he exactly foretold shot and powder and practise at dis- tion, feast was being celebrated with Opposing the invading Nazi hordes every magnificence (he had just be- are over a million men armed with the me

methods he would use. Hitler, tances of 100, 130 and 200 yards.

How is this great sacrifice, this They should arrange for some one come King of Italy) Napoleon struck the most modem weapons.

You have read how roads along it seems, was too open to be be

warned to drive off the cattle and horses again.

parts of the east and south frontiers vast nooding of fertile land, being lieved. All the world was

If the enemy landed. As soon as

Crisis No. 2. England was ready are bordered with high trees, mined carried out? what would happen, and yet most

The dykes have been plerced, the But the ships ready to block the roads to an in- of the world is still asleep when it they saw the foe they ought to set docent in Norway and Denmark regiment. Then, he suggested, they for which Napoleon was waiting at vading army, and how machine-guns sluicos of the canals opened, and the doas. We have been astonished by a haystack on fire to warn the nearest Day followed day.

Boulogne did not appear. The Briare in position to mow down the men whole country is now flooded in such and by-the-invasion-of. Luxembourg, / should stand in a doorway di takse tish Navy had dispersed them. He who would have to spend days clear- a way that only the lund chove sen

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Belgium and the Netherlands.

over-

ing the way.

Then comes into play the Dutch

And from these high arcos artillery

TAVE you ever told your Napoleon had struck a strong H child Hitler will come for commemorate his conquest of Eng-Waler Line-net so times, perhaps, and machine-guns cover the flooded

No member of a nation cf but sull... him if he is naughty? Parents did land.

hundred years ago, "If you don't shopkeepers, Napoleon.

the French

Otherwise

Gordon Taylor

The fate that has already come these five neutral states is, if "Mein Kampf" is now to be re- "Bible" (as cognised as the German

go to sleep this instant," mothers he'd have known that proverb about in- themselves have the Germans sisted it is for the past five years), used to say, "Boney will come and counting your chickens... In store for all the small neutral get you."

borders, Alarming stories altered back to Germany's countries on.

England. In Hanover ties in The German niinorities

Yugo- Slavis, Rumanla, Hungary, Switzer- Bulgaria and Sweden which (If Russia and Italy are excepted) are the only neutral States left with common borders with Germany, are already actively at-work, preparing the way for this modern Genghis Khun.

felds.

No tank or armoured car can cross this immenee lake, The soll

It is ironic to find that in time of will soon be covered by at least three nced the Dutchman's great enemy feet of water, water-against

These Gauleiters

TTITLER is in consultation with his Gauleitera, whom he summoned from all over Germany to a conter-

ence.

What Is a Gauleiter? What kind and of mon holds these jobs?

BY

WILLI FRISCHAUER

whom

It's

And under this water ure unsus- pecled traps, for the fields are in- tersected for drainage purposes by wide ditches and canals which could not be delected once the land was flooded.

Tanks, the general land forces, are done useless, whatever damage Is In from the air.

Troops cannot reach the essential parts of Holland once the water has spread over it.

Already one part of Holland, the

of being the most cruel Wazi Germany. On the other hand, Dr. Modern war is swift; countries the with must work

Meyer, Gauleiter of Muenster, is re- waging it

Travel-

garded as a good adminătrator. exactness of machines. lers" can wreck railway bridges and

The nounes of most of the Gaules- throw mobilaution off its balance much quicker than have the para-

Mayer. If his district & bigger than ters probably mean nothing to you: chute troops in Bolglum Holland:

few words over a cap- There are about sixty such Nazia town the Gauleiter can often also There is only Forester, the Gauleiter province of Utrecht, has been flooled. An offeer who accompanied me turefi wireless station, as in Oslo, leaders. "Gau," the ancient German boast of the titic of "Reichs-Statt- of Danzig, who had a spell of inter».

national prominence before the war said it will be exactly like that can let dismay into the hearts of o

province, and halter"-Reichs-Governor, the power of expression

started, or Krebs, the man who was everywhere between the coast and the people. We know

on the defensive, "Leiler," freely translated as "leader," ilght anaments and can imagine how strong points make up this title of a provincial far inside Belgium and Holland are leader of the Nazi Party, now being held by German para- chutists and "durists" until their Army arrives,

for

3

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In short, the Gauleiter is the head appointed "Gauleiter of Czecho- frontier, by to-day except on the of the party organisation in a certain Slovakia" years before Hitler match-immense mourids where our district of Germany. With the ever-fed in. increasing influence of the party on

troops

will have strategle positions.

On the way back he showed me In the middle of the highest felds

buble life he was given all sorts of civil Jobs.

As in the case of Krebs, there are contre platforms for guns. On Nazi Gauleiters for many countries (both sides of the dykes are the const Goebbels, for instance, is the Gauwhich are not within the frontiers of shelters for the troops, The iciter of Berlin. But he, like overy the German Reich at all, Only a defence is just as efficient. In the ollier Gauleiter, has a deputy-Gau- week ago the French police, arrested dunes from south to north hundreds letter and a third-in-command, the "Nazi Gauleiters" of Alsace and of nests of machine-guns and numer- ous camouflaged big guns watch over Guu-Obmann,

charged them with high treason.

the dykes' security.

I know a boy who used to bring By all the books of strategy, Hit me my papers in Vienna every morn- ler's adventure in the Lowlands' is madness" that permits the Gormans ghag Nazi propaganda material into sheer mndness. It is this "sheer ing. He spent his spare time smug-i

news- the flats he supplied with initial advantage papers,

Lowlands have Fortunately, the nover under-estimated the brilliant cunning of the Germans, or sneered

to

obtain

Arst hitch.

the

ridor.

J

When the Austrian Nazi Party was

Another prominent Gauleiter is In the same way there was a "Gau- at the unorthodoxity of their techni-secretly formed, this boy was ap pointed "Gauletter" for the district

he was Herr Wagner. Ic rules the Nazi leiter for Britain"--Herr. Rolsel- que. They were prepared and have, in which he lived, Later

lake over. He has since

And in the first line the Dutch as a result, provkied Illtier with his transferred to another in Austria-party in Bavaria. Apart from that ready to

men-of-war are on the watch. Kugenfurt-and became the Gau he speaks for Hitler over the micro-been expelled. The invasion of the Lowlands has] leitor of the province.

phone very frequently because no- In the new Nazi provinces of Po-

The enemy would spoll in gur shown that no government has any

His name was Globocnik. You body can distinguish Wagner's volee land Gauleiters were installed a week and shells by bombarding a hinter

ago. One of Viem is Herr Koch, who land of dead ruin and wastes of excuse for being caught unprepared

now rules West Prussia and the Cor-water. But even were it possible for and it will be certain that every may remember in as the man who from Hitler's. neutral country which valuen its in- was appointed Gauleller, of Vienna

* *

him to land he would and that avery artulety dependence will watch with extra when Hitler marched into Austria.

Strelcher, chiefly known as Nazi' Why has Hitler called his Gaulet-factory hides heavy pleces of

every Hittle farm shelters precaution every move in the vicinity He who sacked n few months later because he got drunk every day and of their frontiers.

oven every did not properly fatal his task of Jew-Balter Number One is--or wasters to Berlin! Some say because he and

opinion about machine guns, and that

deadly Either Rumania or Switzerland looking after the political education before his arrest- Gauleiter too, wants to hear their

Gauleiter of Frankonia. Buerkel, how the people of the Reich feel advertising, plilar holds a

charge along the accessible roads seem fate to be next on Hiller's of the Austrian people and the ad-Hitler's friend, is Gualeiler of Aust about the war.

where all kinds of obstacles used in a programme, Hungary and Bulgaria ministration of the Nazi Party's trin. ого apparently

Another guess, to which I would modern war prevent any motorked safe; temporarily affairs in his district.. Sweden seems secure because her

are acores of others who subscribe, is that he wants to make it troops and units being of the slightest geographical position makes her, for There are, of course, other Gau-havo no International Importance, clear to them that the German army, use. the time being, more of an asset ne leiters who do their job properly. Their names are hardly known out-the Reichswehr, will tako a neutral than a belligerent to the Most of them have since been up-side their own places. But all of supreme command not only at the Germans. But if the Allies succeed pointed to the highest civil posts in Them are the dreaded henchmen of front but inside Germany as well. in advancing in Norway or threaten their localities,

the Nozi tyranny.

And that would mean "good-byo" Kauffmann, for instance, the Gou- Nowadays the Gauleiter of a big Sweden would do well to take care, town in Germany is often its Lord letter of Hamburg, has the reputation to the glory of the Gauleiter.",

the German conquerers in Denmark:

by throwing them back from Holland,

There

over-

This is how Holland has organised her defence.. The Dutchman knews. how to fight for his liberty and his in dependence, and ho is ready to de ferxt both to the uttermost.