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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

June 18, 1940.

MAGAZINE

The Line We Must Never Surrender

By Major-General J. F. C. FULLER, formerly

Officer, Tank Corps

THOUGH the Channel is unbolted, its door is as yet no more

THOUGH is unbeded, the core for me, we and our Allies have been driven from part of the western coast line of the North Sea and the Strait of Dover. Nevertheless, that narrow strip of water will remain English so long as our Fleet commands the seas and our Air Force the air. Therefore, let. us remember these old words, which are full of wisdom:

"Fear is Failure and the Forerunner of Failure: Be thou therefore without Fear; for in the heart of the coward Virtue abideth not."

ONCE Clive and 3,000 soldiers

contrated attacks on our ports, our virfields, our dockyards and our centres of manufacture.

Chief Staff

Development of Seu Warfare on

· Land and ita Influence on Future Naval Operations," given at the Royal United Service Institution on February 11, 1920, among other things, I said:

"Let us all, this time, get Into our asiral shells

"We see a stretch of weary

from

then

sand it is the Balile const, We see curious ships racing through the Skaggerak. They are now mile or more from standing out it la likely to take the form of a with their backs to a flooded river" · "blockade, we must expect con-

the

coast, for the water is shallow. There is a rumbling faced Siraj-ud-Doula at the head

sound, their of 50,000 warriors on the plain of

prows squat objects Plassey. Once Wolfe with 8,000

splash into the water they are moving rapidly towards the shore men faced Montealin's 14,000 over the broad St. Lawrence with a pre-

line; from the water they crawl cipitous cliff to climb. Those were

on to the sands; they are Tonks, and Warnemunde, 180 miles from the grim facts of June 23, 1757,

Berlin, is ours. We materialle and September 14, 1759, and be enuse these two brave men did not

And some commotion going and on amongst the enciny's armies on tremble two empires were won.

the Western Front"

Let us then, in our present pre- dicament, remember the simple words of Wolfe, when, having leapt ashore, he gazed

Pward

through

the night and exclaimed: "I don't think we can with ony

possible

means get up

here, but, however, we must use our best endeavo

THOUGH the landing of a at army on our shores, as dreamt of by Napoleon in 1805, is out of the question-because, Culals or no Calais, our fleet commands the sen -an air attack is obvious, and, as

That in these assaults the civil population with suffer is certain, but that they will mainly be directed against the civil will in- stend of the civil stomach, I con- alder improbable.

That our enemy will once again make use of parachutists must be reckoned with; but us, in my humble opinion, anything up- proaching the so-called Fifth Columns, which so grently assisted him in Norway and Holland, doca not exist in England, unless these "bolts from the blue"

can be

backed by German troops their failure will be patent.

Long ago now I considered this problem. but the reverse way

lecture yound. In

"The

on

German Air Strategy

By Dr. HERBERT ROSINSKI, formerly Lecturer in the German Naval Academy

AIR Ministry reports show that

in the intense air battles in France and Flanders our fighters have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy and have themselver suvered relatively light losses. Man for man, and machine for machine, the British are much superior to the enemy.

This article by Dr. Rosinski shows that the Germans hape stalced everything on numerical superiority, aiming to exercise their utmost force from the air and not by fighting in the air.

IR power A

was developed In Germany with strategy of its own to fit into the larger war strategy of mobility and surprise. This was thought out before the huge machinery required-per- sonnel, ground and defence orguni- sution and the aircraft industry-- was planned as one system.

It aims at superiority in the air, not by great battles with opposing aircraft but by bombing bases and, occupying opposing possibic, airfields.

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Mass effect rather then ir- dividual effort permeates the whole system. Types are simplifect to the utmost, and the number of types kept as smalt as possible.

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The fighter s are designed intercept opposing bombers not to meet thete Bghters. Thus the chict German figliter, the Messerschmitt 109 is much weaker in armument thun Its British counterparts, the Spitro and the. Hurricane. This is also true of the more efficient Messerschmitt 110.

Similarly the bombers, unlike Wellingtons and the Blen-

the

brims, are not med strongly enough to force their way through Bghters; they live to reply for safety upon evasive tactics-dis- appearance in cloud, or low flying (near the ground or the sea).

The same principle applies to luck of personnel. There is no daredevil

pilots, drawn from the Hitler youth air training orgonian- Hon numbering 100,000, but the rapid system of training does not adequately it them for air fight- ing. (This, at least, is the opinion of many Allied airmen who have had encounters with them). Night fighting appears to be unknown to them.

Through forcing the system of training to an excessive degree lives have been lost. In the construction,

rapid expansion of too, many a series of aircraft lave find to be sent to the scrap heap because of errors which becanic apparent only during actual trials. as the strength of the Ger

line

forve

Is estimated-at-0,000 and 7,000 second line reconnaissance and

first (including training machinca.

It is backed by 30 airplane and with 110 15 engine factories, separate works, employing over half-a-militon people. The month- ly production now attained, it is believed, is well over 1,500 uir craft.

With 650 wirftells, 500 of which bave perinanent staffs, the Air Command is able to concentrate or disperse its forces with the utmost Rexiblity, making it difficult for with any the Allies to ascertain certainty where the bulk of the aircraft are located.

WEEK-END HERO

E prelude came last week, after the endless anxiciles radlo scis, cutting of collage cruelly into she nover-to-be- forgotten spring.

A volce, unused to telephoniar, telephoned in the morning from the market town three miles away.

"He's all right. He's all right." "Who?" We switched off the 8 o'clock news the better to liçar.

"It's the sister of his young-

She lady speaking.

Tas Just heard from him. She wants YOU to be good enough to send down to tell his mather. He is back from France, and he is coming homo here."

This ploughman's son played for the village cricket team last summer, was a passable hand in the second dart team, and was learning the craft of East Anglian beam and plaster building when ho was not driving the builder's. lorry,

He was tire first to be con- scripted and he went qui from these parts for the first time in 1:19 1c, gawky, shy nililtiaman.

It was bad luck, they said, for ho'd never make a hero, though he would be seeing Londen and the World.

This week-end he walked back sa hero, ko thousands of other country folk who returned from the BEF. to their villages.

His Journey, which began at Arras, ended here in the farm- yard, when he walked in, viralklit from the bus, and shook hands with his Dad, who was just, lend......... g out the farm horses to grass. for the week-end.

He has filled out, the Franch sun has langed him, he is no longer gawky, this hero whom everyone in the village is waiting to shake by the band.

Yes, he was through it all, driving his lorry, firing some- body else's rifle, using a Bren sun, and lying wailing on Dun- kirk sand.

Next to him. his pal was killed, the last he saw of his officer was just before a bomb fell. He saw a dead child fylag beside the read,

Ile grins and chats; and the elders and wiseacres are silent; and his mother, who never says much,

every is remembering word said before hla Kalng back on Sunday night.

fre xays, "That champagne, now. That's the stuff a nover had. and it's all right when you get the tusic."

* Kuppose you get it now and then."

"Why, it was all we had for food and drink for two days at the end. mate." It was soon over, this Spring week-end in the Atili-securo beauty of the coun- tryside, with its customary nero. planes

on guard, of which ha nald, "I wish I had seen as many over there."

group of

Last nighi a Illile them at among the cow-pars- ley at the roadside, waiting for the bus to take him back. He Jumped in, grinning and self- assured, to bo grevied by olher soldiers travelling to the market town and beyond.

This week he will be remem- bered and quoted la thơ fields and raund the dari board, while he' Talis'in hid gold on with the Jobs".

JOHN PUDNEY

Has Hitler go such a weapon up hls #leeve? 1 do not know, but I do know that It can be made.

Such a machine does exist-the amphibious lank,

self-propelled

using tracks on lind and a pro- peller when in the water. It inight easily be launched from a

coastal motorboat, which

count cross the Channel in half an hour. And though, should one crawl up Brighton beach, Hove

will 17- doubtedly be thrown into panic, there is Hitle cause that we "Eng- lish should fear such a machine, beeatise, unless command of the sca La gained by the Germans, its sole object will be to attack our nerves.

THEREFORE, my fellow coun- trymen, at this hour of crisis, let us contemplate these words of a very great Englishman-Lord

Bacon:

Walled towns, stored arsenals and armouries, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like: all this is but a sleep in a lion's

ten of the people

except the breed and dis

be stout

warlike. Nay, number itself

in armies importelb not much, where the people are of weak courage: for as Virgil saith, 'It never troubles a walf how many the sheep be."

Therefore let our countersign be, ny it was on September 14, 1700- "ENGLAND,"

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DART of the glorious, and terrible, story can be told. The very last chapter of the bloody foreshores of Dunkirk.

This is not the place, and I have no the power, to pay the just tribute to the armies who super- bly carried out this evacuation. Three things fower out of the wreckage that give assurance of future victory.

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(1) British

troops and French bore equal brunt together and in turn. General Prioux's devoted divisions covered our' retreat from the larger loop Into the lines of Dunkirk, permitting · us; to begin embarkation in good” order,: A British rearguard held the Just posts through which the Freuch remnant - retired. The entire re- treat by Its siubhern and furious German resistance, diverted, the offensive from the Somune-Aisne:

(m) Thic alendy, disciplined

valour.cf the young British Army Is matched only by that of the 1014 Expeditionary Ferce. So say those who served in both. At no Ume in 21 days' battle, did British troops break.

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resolution and the resource of officers in fearful jams never failed. There is magnificent talent available for the big com- mands in the amies that are forming.

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SO much for to-morrow. And now for yesterday, How did we come to imperil this great simy?

Exvery report tells of the colos- Kally superior enemy tank and air power. Then there are the, para- chute divisions, and the motor cyclisis and never forget them- the Fifth Columnists. All con- tributed to our, misfortunes. All had been prepared for years.

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Marstial Badoglio; when he could assemble his airplanes on the Tigris front, and General Franco, when he could collect enough airplanes from

Italy and Germany, on the. Ebro, smashed through the 11-equipped native levies and millia opposite by using aircraft as artillery.

In Poland the Germans did na mech and

more. They replaced cavalry by armoured divisions and they motorised their Infantry. By combining the old ideas of cavalry raiding with the last war practice of Infantry. Infiltration they re- volutionized war. Not

only the

"front" became the front; not only, the flanks became the front, the rear became the front. Henceforth the word "line" must disappear from the military' vocabulary and "Zone" tako its place.

Herein we find a weakness in our recent dispositions. The so-called Marinot Extension, from Luxem- burg to the North Sea, was a Imlf- baked, half-bull line. No harm in saying so now, since the Germans possess It. This lino licked deptl. Indeed, it wanted strength, too. The Germans simply pashed over the top of 11.

Behind our “Uner" there, were lacking garrisons such as would certainly have held: "zODES.” The Germans infiltrating troops dashed up to the rallway stations and there Hallon- were confronicủ—by the master and a handful of sappers or service corps men. These are the

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LET us here carry this knowledge forward. Britain, too, is a zone of war. Now if Hüler should in- vade us, where would he strike? At the point where the attack

do could

most damage. Which would' doubtless ho the point least expected.

An invasion" would either be a 'major 'assault or elso a mere rald designed to create temporary panie and DIVERSION, General Fuller on this paro disposes of the first prospects. Consider the second,

Parachutists dropped in or near

ob- our cities would quickly be served and pinned down. They could cause trouble, but it would be only local.

But parachutiais dropped, say, on the wild and lonely Welsh moun tains might attack the dams of the buge reservoirs in Elan Valley. If these were blown up a countryside would be flooded and the great city of Birmingham, 80 miles away, cut off from its main supply of water. If the dams of Lake Vyrnwy went down, Liverpool, 60 miles away, would' be parched." Half s hundred bombers over either of .thong mighty industrial centres could hardly wreak the same dis- location and destruction.

CAPTURE of Britain's No. 1 bomb- Responsibility, for our own longing áre, Squadron-Leader Doran, terni unpreparedness will be in due made his gunner and 'radio' operator,|| course assessed, and placed,

Corporal Torn Hoggard, Vaw cannot be charged on the present

Igeance on the energy, Administration or Command, Moro- over, sluce the most urgent effort at repair is now going forward in all branches of production and rupply mere recrimination adds nothing and itself amounts to a hindrance.

THE vital, and Immediate ques- flon li have we yet fully grasped the correct concepilon of the war IIIller is 'waging?" "We hear it sald' that is lice ollier. In fact i As very like three other wars at any rate, in outline. Spáin. Abys- alnia am! Poland provided the blue

REMEMBER. In this war "front" is not only around coasts, but In the sky above THERE 19 "NO REAR,

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Strike Over Two C.O.'s

Objecting to working alongside ven-conscientious objectors, employees at the Ocean Chemical Company's Tom has kept his vow. He has works, Ramsbottom, where ns

per cent. are ex-Servicemen, some with won the DFM,

Doran was shot down and Intersons who will be called up, have for mude a prisoner of war during a rald 24 hours been on strike. fon Stavanger.

There are twe conscientious objec- Hoggard, who is twenty-four, tors at the works and the strikers was in Doran's regular crew and allege that one is doing jab former- had been with his daring leader only held by a young married man whò all his trips, fncluding the Kiel has been called up for service. Canal and Sylt. But, for the Stavanger rald, Duran the firm was held, and the men

A meeting with, representatives of and took n now wireless operator

ckdod to resume worl gunnere.Hoggard win on lenvoima

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Doran, too, should have been on The firm, it is understood, have leave, but he insisted on remaining agreed not, to retain men registered on duty and lending his squadron, as conscientious objectors.

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Hongkong Telegraph Tenth Annual Amateur Photographic Competition

June-September, 1940.

Two Silver Trophies Awarded by ILFORD LTD.

For the best and second-best entries.

Four Silver Trophies Awarded by EASTMAN KODAK CO.

First Prixos in each of the four Sections.

$250 CASH PRIZES $250

SECTION ONE

General Pictorial: Land and Seascapes:

-Architecture: Street Scenes, etc.-

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

SECTION TWO

Portraits: Informal Close-ups: Human Studies. 1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12:50. SECTION THREE

Still Life and Table Top Studies.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

SECTION FOUR (Craftsmen's Section)

The whole of the work entailed in the production of every entry must have been done by the competitors who Each will be required to make, a declaration to this effect.

entry must have pasted on the back 'a special entry form obtainable on application from The Hongkong Telegraph or from the Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Photographic Society... Subjects at the discretion of competitors.

1st. Silver Cup. 2nd. $30. 3rd. $20. 4th. $12.50.

RULES

The following Rules will govern the Competition:

1.-The Competition confined ex- clusively to amateur photo- graphers.

-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographic trade fr permitted to compet 3ho prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best, photo- Each grophs i oach Bection. entry must be accompanied by a

will be

published form which during the period of the Com petition.

mitry.

ne must

pasted on back

be

he right to publish any or all of the entries in reserved to the Hongkong Telegraph."

India

All photograph entered have been taken in the Colony of Hongkong. Photographs which have been ather Competition be accepted nlready entered in Ineligible 6-Ha responsibility will

for non-delivery or, loss of or damigo to antries.

SECTION

NAME

ADDREN

1-All entries to be eliber black, nepla, or tonod pictures, and must be motinted. Coloured photo- graphs are ineligible, -Pictures submitted in sepia tones be accompanied by . * should smaller. Drint in black and while. -No picture to entored in mate

than one Section. it-Mounts to be only white or cream. ratta be of one of the following #izes:-10X12, 10X20.

11-No correspondents will be entered into in connection with the Com- petition.

Members of the State of tho Tiongkong Telegraph and the South China Morning Post are not permitted to compete.

11-The decision of the Judges shall

ba final.

-At 15 conclusion of the Com

petition, entries will be returned to competitor on application at the Telegraph offices within seven -daya?

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