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that were getting up steam to leave.

In a few minutes we were left, alone in our cafe with the waitress who had denounced the alarmists. As soon as we had paid our bill she began to put up

HE scene was a cafe struck a dramatic pose and the shutters. Panic-mongering

had prevailed against pep-talk- ing.

"They say that the Germans

in one of the Channel addressed the remaining cus- ports in France now tomers: threatened by the Nazis.'

STRATEGY TEST No. 1T

1. How was. Albania governed bofore the lant war?

2. When did Italy invade

Albania?

3. How large is Albania? 4. Name the strait which

separates Italy from: Albania? How. wide is this strait?

5. Which countries have a common frontier with Albania ?

6. Name

Albania's

most

important towns.

ed nerves.

ing the respite, had to endure GOE BBELS, with his this further strain on their fray- After a sleepless night of are in Abbeville. Who says so? non-stop bombing the towns. It is the traitor of Stuttgart (the amazingly adroit propaganda, French-born Haw-Haw who

The delayed-action bomb. does. All units of $1500. and over in value people were coming up from broadcasts from Radio Stutt can claim as much credit for the

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as Goering, with his formidable another bomb, but its effect on. from the cliffs. Car-loads of gart). Don't bellove a word of his success of Germany's Big Push no more material damage than.

abominable propaganda. I have

morale is immeasurably worse. air force. exhausted refugees were resum-

a husband and even brothers at

Parachutists, delayed-action Or take the lone tanks which. ing their journey to the south,

the front. With millions of which spelled safety.

other French soldiers they stand bombs, lóne-ranger tanks--all prowled far in advance of the between us and the Boche." these have a certain military main enemy mechanised column: At night a village went to value, but par Excellence they are psychological weapons. And bed with the comforting thought how skilfully they have been that the vanguard of the enemy IT was magniflcent, but of no

out of the employed by the Nazis in their was still 50 or 60 miles away. In the morning it would awaken. Blitzkrieg! cars which an hour or so before During the all-night raids, for to the sound of machine-gun fire and see a Nazi tank career- A group of refugees, sitting had been speedling south towards instance, which preceded the ing towards it. at the next table, sprang to their Abbeville were now streaming panic in that Channel port, Ger feet,

E

Into the cafe, where I was having breakfast with some of my colleagues; came French Boy Scout, breathless with ex- citement. "On dit que Ics avail. Looking Hongkong Telegraph. Allemands sont deja a Abbe- window we saw that the refugee

Wednesday, Juno 26, 1940.

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The villagers don't wait to. exchanged, glances of back. Escape to the south was mans were said to have dropped find out whether the tank was several delayed-action bombs. followed by others. "The Boches paralytic fear, then dashed into cut off.

"went up the cry.. are coming,' The refugees moved fast- Whether they did so or not,

the point is that and the villagers took to flight. Two of the waitresses began to wither bound they could not cannot say:

The tank, of course, was doom- ed to destruction. Sooner or run round in circles, wringing tell-but the dread news moved the townspeople believed they

later its career was stopped by faster. Panic seized the town, had done so.

So when morning came and an anti-tank gun; but the loss. The third waitress, a middle- Shops and cafes closed down at

There was a rush for the the last of the bombers had gone, of one tank was far outweighed I repeat, the material but the supreme moments of their his- at them for a moment, then fishing-boats and other craft the survivors, instead of enjoy by the damage it had done not

psychological damage. tory, and indeed of all history. The future of our island and Empire, of the French and all democracies, of the very spirit of freedom among mankind, elands in the balance. At such an hour there is only one virtue for us all, and that is courage; only one vice, and that is to. breathe the word defeat.

The news is black. No good

We

Must

Has

What

IN determining the best course we

been attained.

There is a fundamental difference.

can come of dissembling the enn take, it is of the first importance facts. The German onslaught to understand how its results have propelled with unprecedented weight of machinery and ex- plosive, burst with terrific speed through Holland, Belgium between the method on which the and the defences of France and offensive in France was carried out the Channel ports. To protect and that of 1914. I am not referring these ports from enemy hands to the fact that it took the form of a has been a cardinal point of penetration of the French centre British politics and strategy followed by a turn outwards to the down the centuries. Possession right towards the coast, whereas the

1914 offensive was a sweeping alvance). of them has given the Nazis round the French coastward fanic tremendous advantages for a followed by a swing inwards to the war by sea and air against left. Nor is it merely that the means have greatly developed from those Britain. The peril of invasion employed a quarter of a century ago. has come nearer than at any These differences are not funda- time for close on a thousand mental. years.

Understand

Happened

THIS PICTURE IS FIVE YEARS OLD

THEN as NOW:. In September, 1935. Hitler watched this parade of the German Army Tank Corps moving in forma❤ tion over the Leopold Arena at Nuremberg during the Nazi Party Congress.

Panic was sown all along the. line of its wild suicide adven- ture. Thousands went to awell. the stream of refugees. Ronds. were blocked worse than ever before. Another handicap had. been placed on the mobility of the Allied forces.

IT is altogether the new art of war which was applied on the battle-scarred fields of France. and Flanders. The art was de- veloped in Spain and Poland. It was perfected. It was satanic- in its subtlety.

Among the factors which con- Itributed. to the success of War Lord Adolf I put Panic one of the first.

Cool heads are, therefore, de- cidedly the need of the moment.. in England.

£5,000,000 Arms Works Being Built

That is the debit side, and it is heavy. All the more reason,

Far more striking is the way that then, to steel our resolve and the Germans realised, and exploited,, summon up the blood.' Our the decisive importance of machine- Navy stands supreme, our power compared with man-power.

The heroiq Air Force growa.

The basic in their success was that, marching men; the advance of 1940, grossed a stage beyond it--by exploit- On meeting the conception of "qualitative great nation of the United instead of relying on masses as into a torrent of machines. States is awakening from its 1914, thoy pinned their faith to the ing a dam the torrent makes a crack, warfare,"

of a highly-

penetrates it and expands again be- Isolation, and help in ever- penetrative

mechanised forec manned by relative- increasing strength will soon be jy small numbers to quality rather on its way across the ocean. than quantity.

The enemy has achieved his

It would appear that three arm- success by the sheer weight of oured divisions, operating in conjunc-yond until another dam is met, when; ed to mask from us the significance of built, and the speed at which the special skeleton keys which they they are going up, was given by mechanism. Against its over- tion with perhaps 300 dive-bombers, the process is repeated.

were forging for their purpose. whelming force no courage, how and backed up by a few motorised tho breach which

power

ever inspired, no sucrifice, how.divisions, made

thook the defences of France. The ever splendid, is enough to bar number of men employed in this vital the way. We have lived to see thrust was but a tiny fraction of the the day, prophesied by successive total arrayed along the frontlers. thinkers since the industrial

Their conscript masses have holp-

By Captain Liddell Hart

While we are now coming to talk about "total warfare," shouting the The German advance of 1014 may term as if it were a new slogan to age began, when machines have to likened to an invading tide of save thought, the Germans have pro- veritably become the master.

What is the answer? More

machines, more planes, more!

tanks, more guns and munitions STRATEGY TEST: Answers

to rout and destroy the Franken-

stein at his own nightmare Then, when the terror

game.

is over, we can rebuild again a world of sane, free men.

The duty of every man, there- fore, at this hour is to fight and] to work as never boforo in our history. To this must be added the duty of stern courage, whatever blows may strike us und they will be grim. There is only one treachery to-day-- to betray the courage that de

As fends the freedom of man. individuals we are but sparks in the great flre-stream of his- tory; the spirit that moulded our people to greatness was the spirit of liberty, and, so long as that is kept alive for our sona

to cherlah, what befalls cach one of us in its defence is of small. account,

YUGOSLAVIA

Uskub

Tiran

Dura

Monastir

z

GRIELI

1. Before 1912 Albania was part

Turkish Empire of

Europe, became independent in 1918 at the end of the Balkan war by the Treaty of London. It was ruled by King Zog. formerly President, from 1028

1 1930.

2. On April 7, 1939.

3. 11,000 square miles. Popula-

tlom 1.003.100.

4(a) The Strait of Otranto, (b)

50 miles wide.

5. Albania is bounded by Yuzo- Slavia on north and north-east and Greece on the south-east.

0. Durazzo (77,890), Sculari (132,-

336701 of

Tirana (57,808), The

of Orol of both shores of Strait

and the occupation of Albania formed a valuable jump- ing-oft

for Italian econonile point and military control of the South- ern Balkan area. The Italian army of occupation in Albanin can exert pressure on Yugo-Slavia, Greece and oven on Rumania.

By A Parliamentary Correspondent

SOME iden of the size of munition factories now being

Colonel Llewellin (Parliamen tary Secretary, Ministry of Sup ply) in the House recently.

It was through the use of picked. One factory, he said, covered 2.000 forces with the essential charncler of neres. It had miles of ronds and for their startling achievements, railway line adjoining. With equip- volunteers that they paved the way railways, and its own station on tho The men composing these key forces ment. It would cost £5,000,000, fcomprised only a small fraction of In spite of the vast scale of the their total man power. These chosen undertaking it was expected that tho men, who fulfilled the "Gideon" prin-factory would be finished in one year. ciple, represented by the tank crews,

the

aircraft parachutists,

crews

were

and the

Allogations Denied

The factory was mentioned during: While we

still measuring a discussion of allegations of dis-

the: and malpractices in militury strength in obsolete terms of honesty armed numbers, the Germana de- building of factories and militin monstrated that they were calculat-camps brought before the. House by. ing in up-to-date terms of "power Mr. R. Stokes (Lab., Ipswich). units."

The allegations were denied both by Colonel Llewellin and, Sir Ed- ward Grigg (Parlamentary Secro- Yet their conception is not such a tory. War Omce). Enquiries made by novelty as it may appear to most of various authorities, said Sir Edward, our slatesmen and public. It is had found no case for further in- merely an advance to the stage which quiry, but the papers had been sent was reached by our more advanced to the Select Comunities concerned military thinkers soon after the lost with expenditure, who could decide If any further investigation, was Inceded.

war.

What the German: Command did was to put into practice ideas from which it was not too proud to learn, whereas our own authorities, dls trusting them as unirted "theories, considered it safer to keep in the familiar.rut.

Dealing with the case of Majors, Reid-Kellett, who was said to have been discharged by the War Ofen because he had drawn attention to alleged waste and extravagance, in the building of camps, Sir Edword said no foundation for the charger There is nothing so unsafe for a had been found, but he was preparedi nation as military conservatism.“ to look personally into the matters!