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T
HE scene was a cafe struck 1
that were getting up steam to leave.
In a few minutes wo 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
dramatic pose and the shutters. Panic-mongering
ing.
in one of the Channel addressed the remaining cus had prevailed against pep-talk- ports in France now tomers: threatened by the Nazis.
"They say that the Germans
who
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After a sleepless night of arc in Abbeville. Who says so?
GO E BE EL 8, with his It is the traitor of Stuttgart (the amazingly adroit propaganda, non-stop bombing. the towns-
Haw-Haw French-born All units of $1500 and over in value people were coming up from
broadcasts from Radio Stutt- their cellars or coming down from the cliffs. Car-loads of gart). Don't believe a word of his abominable propaganda. I have exhausted refugees were resum-
a husband and even brothers at ing their journey to the south, the front. With millions of which spelled safety.
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STRATEGY TEST No. 11
1. How was Albania. governe i bofore the last war?!!
2. When did Italy invade
Albania?
3. How large is Albania? 4. Name the strait which separates Italy from Albania? How wide ig this atrait?
5. Which countries haye a common frontier with. Albania?
6. Namo Albania's most
important town
ing the respite, had to endure this further strain on their fray- ed nerves.
The dolayed-action bomb does. can claim as much credit for the success of Germany's Big Push no more material damage than as Goering, with his formidable another bomb, but its effect on
morale is immeasurably worse. air force.
Or take the lone tanks which
Parachutists, delayed-action
other French soldiers they stand bomba, lone-ranger tanks-all prowled far in advance of the Into the cafe, where I was between us and the Roche.” these have a certain military main enemy mechanised column: At night a village went to they having breakfast with some of
valuc, but par Excellence my colleagues, came a French
are psychological weapons. And bed with the comforting thought Boy Scout, breathless with ex-
how skilfully they have been that the vanguard of the enemy IT was magnificent, but of no "On dit que
les avail. Looking out of the employed by the Nazis in their was still 50 or 60 miles away. In the morning it would awaken Allemands sont deja a Abbc window we saw that the refugee Blitzkrieg!
to the sound of machine-gun cars which an hour or so before During the all-night raids, for fire and see a Nazi tank career- A group of refugees, sitting had been speeding 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-
The villagers don't wait to feet, exchanged glances of back. Escape to the south was mang were said to have dropped find out whether the tank was. paralytic fear, then dashed into cut off.
several delayed-action bombs. followed by others. "The Boches. the street, and vanished.
The refugees moved fast-- Whether they did so or not, I are coming," went up the cry.. 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..
Sooner or ed to destruction. run round in circles, wringing tell-but the dread news moved the townspeople believed they their hands.
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 cafea closed down at THE people of Britain are
There was a rush for the the last of the bombers had gone, of one tank was far outweighed S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. living to-day through one of the aged woman, looked scornfully once.
supreme moments of their hia- at them for a moment, then fishing-boats and other craft the survivors, instead of enjoy by the damage it had done-not, repeat, the material but the tory, and indeed of all history.
psychological damage. The future of our island and Empire, of the French arid all democracies, of the very spirit of freedom among mankind, stands 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.
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IN determining the best course wej
to understand how its results have been attained.
There is a fundamental difference
the French centre
can come of dissembling the can take, it is of the first importance facts. The German onslaught, propelled with unprecedented weight of machinery and ex- plosive,
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 British politics and strategy followed by a turn outwards to the right towards the coast, whereas thet down the centuries. Possession 1914 offensive was a sweeping alvance of them has given the Nazis round the French coastward flank 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 Britain. The peril of invasion have greatly developed from those employed a quarter of a century ago. has come nearer than at any These differences
not fundo- time for close on a thousand mental. years.
are
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 declaive importance of machine- Navy stands supreme,
our power compared with man-power.
Understan
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.
heroic Air Force grows. The The basic in their success was that, marching men; the advance of 1940; gressed a stage beyond it-by exploit- great nation of the United instead of relying on States is awakening from its 1914, they pinned their faith to the ing a dam the torrent makes a crack, warfare."
of a highly-penetrates it and expands again be-{ Their conscript masses have help- penetrative power isolation, and help in ever mechanised force manned by relative-
masses as in to a torrent of machines. On meet-ing the conception of "qualitative
increasing strength will soon be ly small numbers-to quality rather By Captain Liddell Hart
on its way across the ocean. than quantity.
The enemy has achieved his It would appear that three arm-
divisions, made
The breach which
Panic was sown all along the line of its wild suicide adven- ture. Thousands wont to swell the stream of refugees. Roads. were blocked worse than before. Another handicap had. been placed, on the mobility of. the Allied forces.
ever.
IT is altogether the new art: of war which was applied on the batue-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- tributed 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
By A Parliamentary Correspondent
SOME idea of the size of munition factories now, being
whened 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 were forging for their purpose.
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success by the sheer weight of oured divisions, operating in conjune-yond until another dam is met, mechanism. Against its over- tion with perhaps 300 dive-bombers; the process is repeated. whelming force no courage, how- and backed up by a few motorised ever Inspired, no sacrifice, how-hook the defences of France. The ever splendid, is enough to bar number of men employed in this vital
While we are now coming to talk the way. We have lived to see thrust was but a tiny fraction of the
about "total warfare," shouting the the day, prophesied by successive total arrayed along the frontiers. thinkers since the industrial The German advance of 1914 may term as if it were a new slogan to [age began, when machines have be likened to an invading tide of save thought, the Germans have pro- volunteers that they paved the wayirallway line adjoining. With equip
veritably became the master. What is the answer? More machines, more planes, more tanks, more guns and munitions to rout and destroy the Franken- stein at his own nightmare game. Then, when the terror is over, we can rebuild again a world of sane, free men.
The duty of every man, there- fore, at this hour la to fight and to work as never before in our history. To this must be added the duty of stern courage, whatever blows may strike us and they will be grim. There is only one treachery to-day- to betray the courage that de fends the freedom of man. AB individuals we are but sparks | in the great fire-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 sons
to cherish, what befalls each one of us in its defence is of small account.
STRATEGY TEST:
160 SLAVIA
Otari
Tirana
Uskub
Monastir
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Answers
In
1. Before 1912 Albania was part
of the Turkish Empire Europe, became independent.in 1913 at the end of the Balkan war by the Treaty of London. was ruled by King Zoz. formerly President, from 1028 tl 3030.
2. On April 7, 1939.
3. 11,000 square miles. Popula-
Lion 1.003.100.
4(a) The Btrait of Otranto, (b)
50 miles wide.
8. Albania is bounded by Yugo- Slavia on north and north-east and Greece on the south-east,
6. Durazzo (77,899), Sculari (132,-
336), Tirana (67,808).
The control of both shores of Strait of Otranto and the occupation of Albania formed a valuable jump- ing-off point for Italian economic and military control of the South- ern Balkan area. The Italian army of occupation in Albania can exert pressure on: Yugo-Slavia, Greece and even on Rumania.
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*
railways, and its own station on the forces with the essential character of peres. It had miles of roads and for their startling achievements.
The men composing these key forces ment it would cost £5,000,000, comprised only a small fraction of In spite of the vast scale of the their total man power. These chosen undertaking It was expected that the- men, who fulfilled the "Gideon" prin-factory would be trilshed in one year.. eiple, represented by the tank crews,
the aircraft parachutists,
crows and the]
Allegations Denied
The factory was mentioned during While we were still measuring a discussion of allegations of dis- military strength in obsolete terms of honesty and malpractices in the and militia. de building of factorien armed numbers, the Germans 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 Grieg (Parliamentary Secro- tncy, War Office). Inquiries made Yet their conception is not such a novelty as it may appear to most of various authorities, said Sir Edward,.
had found no case for further In It is and public. our statermen merely an advance to the stage which quiry, but the papers had been sent. was reached by our more advanced the Select Committee concerned
with
expenditure who could decido... military thinkers' soon after the last if any further investigation was
needed.
war.
What the German Command did
Dealing with the case of Major was to put into practice ideas from Reid-Kellett, who was said to have: which it was not too proud to learn been discharged by the War Office whereas our own authorities, dis- because he had drawn attention to trusting them as untried "theories, alleged waste and extravagance in considered it safer to keep in the the building of camps, Sit. Edward) Lamlilar rut.
said no foundation for the charge There is nothing so unsafe for a had been found, but he was prepareds
to look personolly into the matter. nation as military conservatism.
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