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May 25, 1940.

CURRENT COMMENT... By Scrutineer

THIS has been, and still is the The Allies seem to have withstood air arm has really been developed most critical period in Bri- the first lock, but the position is and the time has not been sumelent tish history, for on the plaing of still perilous, Yot unless the Ger- yet to reach the maximum Empire Belgium is being decided in through, they are likely to meet with will be a diminishing gap between mans do succeed in their first break output, as that point is reached there deadly struggle, with the most more and more opposition, for the the Allled and the German air forces. efficient weapons of destruction Allios know exactly what the forces

are against them ever dovised the fate of demo bring up the necessary reserves in and can quickly cracy and the fate of totali- guns, tanks and aeroplanes to counter tarianism.

the attnelt. But why ig it that the initial success has gone to the enemy?

Several questions are being asked -simple questions which occur to the man to the street, both French and British. Among them are to be found these.

While the French could not 'be expected to have their forces just

In quality, in training and in Individual skill and courage, the Royal Air Force has proved amply its superiority. It is important the home front should not fail to back it up.

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Perhaps the most encouraging Colombo and their fortifications were atrong

nek.nows of the present week has enough to hold the Germans back.

Apparently they were not strong been the further unmistakeable enough, but on the other hand the evidence not only of national p

come and the unity (for now none is for the air force has harried the enemy, so it is possible to hope for better news, Inferno of Death

Having made the Maginot Lino impregnable and thereby frightened off the Germans from that front, why reinforcements have was it not extended so as to enclose the whole of the land frontlers of France? Was it not practically cer

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Then how did it come about that three to

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They might have smashed through Switzerland, but they chose Hoi-

land and Belgium. instead. Neutrality, treaties, International law and the common deoencies of life are not in the vocabulary of Hitler and his confederates

Those correspondents who talked about this phoney war anda_#Eguid=; ed ti ay nait down sirike, arp surely sated now with the horrors | and carnage that is occurring every minule.

The curtain has gone up and the grim tragedy they were wanting is being unfolded,

It makes splendid headlines, and thrills thean who watch in the detach ed mood of the spectator without anything at stake. But the fortunes of struggle, Involved in the There is not a person in the world whose outlook will remain unaffected by the issue of this war In volume these battles are on a vaster scale than any in human history.

What of Italy?

The position of Italy in the struggle is still uncertain.

The presentation of the high ordes to Marshal Goering by the King of Italy seems to contradict the general- ly accepted view that the King and the Crown Prince are opposed to Mussolini's policy.

It

the bay, however, simply be part of the Allies

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Messrs. William Jenkins, Llewelyn Evans and Owen Evans of the same unlt will leave a week later for Hai- phong en route to Kunming and Kwelyang....

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United States by air suggests that Michael Sullivan at Kwelynng Iceland, which the Germanis, present-ward the end of June. Mr. Sullivan cd to us, may be the midway island has gone ahead of them to the Kwel- for these flights

chow capital to make arragements.

Central News.

surveyed

leeland before the war with the Idea

The Germans certainly

of using it for transatlantic'ights. In consequence likewise the war With the summer weather and the will alter the social and political planes from USA by this route longer days the delivery of bombing life of nations profoundly,

It was refreshing to read that ought to be continuous

President Roosevelt realises more A Nation Conscripted clearly than anyone in America, more than Col. Lindbergh

instance,

that the future of democracy depends.

The law which has just been

people at home take of this task.

"The movement, however, has long been desired by a considerable sec- tion of people, for in this war it is should make a profit, while so many. unthinkable that any single

are aurrendering the most precious gift of all-life itself;

person

But the neutrals must have fore on the supply of acroplines here and passed for conscripting the seen this. The destruction of their now. It was likewise pleasant to nation and its wealth indicates slupping was merely a prelude to the hear his request for prompt delivery the serious view which the destruction of the neutral nation it was loudly oppinuded by Congress. self. It was in logical sequence, and the

The R.A.F. German policy. in keeping with There are no rights in the world, when

The Royal Air Force has German policy is thwarted. There was no preliminary quarrel. written its name indelibly on the There was no pretence that either skies in Belgium. country had violated its neutrality,

Neyer will anyone in future years EARLY JUNE until the plan already long prepared look up into the heavens and

had been put into operation. The recall the fierce and deadly combats

This step will put new heart into only thing that is missing from the staged there day by day. The odds the nation, for they now know that present and latest example of Ger- have been much against our airmen: the war la now being waged by the many's treachery is Ribbentrop's dis- covery of incriminating documents. ter less than three times their numnouncement by Mr. J. Nehru, the

Seldom have they had to encour people, and for the cople.

Last of all there is the welcome an- That discovery will probably come ber, and yet, as tri the along in cluc

course

after the tradition of the Navy, they

President of Congress In India, that evidence has been forged.

salled in and never refused battle this is no time for civil disobedience. The clash of these titanio forces, even though the odds were over India is interested in the destruction

whelming. the speed at which the battle rages,

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the growing impotence of the in-}, unfaltering courage

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dividual coldier, and the colossal

effort have been called for, power of the gun, the plane and the beemise of this disparity in the air; lank, these things are a testimony Because there have been so readily to the Ingenuity man displays when provided, the altuntion which 1105 he really studies the problem of been extremely perilous has, we hope, how to kill the Freatest numbers been saved.

of the enemy in the shortest pos- sible time.

What tremendous courage is need- ed for this work in the plane over- head, as well as on the ground below. There is no glamour now, no shining Bashing sword, no ex- urmour, no hilarating rush on horseback with yelling comrades as they gallop towards the enemy. There is nothing thrilling in modern warfare, It is

all grim, stark tragedy, unt

unrelieved horror, with devastation and death spread a hundred times wider than

The present Prime Minister alone has no responsibility for this in- feriority in acroplane numbers because he warned the Government time and time again about the menace that was being prepared in Germany. Mr. Winston Churchill's maxim for waging war l

.

In war resolution. In defeat defiance.

In victory magnanimily,

"Before

In peace goodwill,

He might have added:

ever before. We do not hear of gas war adequate preparation". attacks however. It does not seem

of Nazilsm, not in its preservation: and anything which subtracts from the great effort must not be allowed.

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This will do moje to bring about Dominion Status for India than anything else, for li shows a great sense of responsibllliy, as well a deep loyalty which is all the Srcater because is given in a critical hour?:

NO RIOTS IN THAI

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Shanghai, May 24. Rajaowongse Seni Pramoj, newly- appointed Thai Minister to Washing- ton, denied, the reported anti-Chinese demonstrations in This, on his ar rival here last evening en route to the United States, in Palest

"The reports are pure exaggera- tion and no demonstrations have Germany started this war at the taken place. There have only been to be of much use in the present peak of her war effort Just as the arrests and deportation of criminals campaign, for the movement is so Allies were really getting into stride, and other undesirables,” he declared. rapid.

It is only since Munich that Britain's-Reuter.

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