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that were getting up steam to leave.

In a few minutes we were left alone in our cafo with the waitress who had donounced 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

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

"They say that the Germans

had prevalled against pep-talk- ing.

TEST No. 11

1. How was Albania governed before the last war?

2. When did Italy invado.

Albania?

3. How large la 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

important towns.

most

ing the respite, had to endure

After a sleepless night of are in Abbeville. Who says so?

GO E BB E LS, with his thig further strain on their fray- non-stop bombing the towns. It is the traitor of Stuttgart (the amazingly adroit propaganda, ed nerves. All units of $1500 and over in value people were coming up from

French-born Haw-How who

The delayed-action bomb docs their cellars or coming down broadcasts from Radio Stutt- can claim as much credit for the

success of Germany's Big Push no more material damage than gart). Don't believe a word of his from the cliffs. Car-loads of

abominable propaganda, I have as Goering, with his formidable another bomb, but its effect on exhausted refugees were resum-

morale is immeasurably worse. ing their journey to the south,

Or take the lone tanks which which spelled safety.

Inspection and trial invited

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Into the cafe, where I was | having breakfast with some of my colleagues, came £ French Boy Scout, breathless with ex- citement. "On dit que

a husband and even brothers at With millions of the front.

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Wednesday, June 26, 1940, Wyndham St., Hongkong

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THE pre Telephone to the Tela raphy

}ville," he shoulted.

cars which an hour or so before

air force.

Parachutists, delayed-action

other French soldiers they stand bombs, Tone-ranger tanks--all prowled far in advance of the between us and the Boche."

these have a certain military main enemy mechanized column: value, but par Excellence they At night a village went to are psychological weapons. And bed with the comforting thought how skilfully they have been that the vanguard of the enemy IT was magnificent, but of no 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 Blitzkrieg!

During the all-night raids, for to the sound of machine-gun at the next table, sprang to their abborille towalu panie in that Channel port, Ger- ing toward t

A group of refugees, sitting had been speeding south towards, instance, which preceded the fire and see a Nazi tank career- The villagers don't wait to feet, exchanged glances of back.. Escape to the south was many were said to have dropped find out whether the tank was several delayed-action bombs. followed by others. "The Boches The refugees moved fast-- Whether they did so or not, I are coming," went up the cry, Two of the waitresses began to wither bound they could not cannot say: the point is that and the villagers took to flight. The tank, of course, was doom- run round in circles, wringing tell--but the dread news moved the townspeople believed they ed to destruction. Sooner or

is ured by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is sizietly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1814. Buch paralytic fear, then dashed into cut off. bears the indication “UP? ·La tecalved în Hongkong on the date of publication by the strect, and vanished. the United Press Associations, who 201 serve all rights and forbid republication either wholly or in part without previouă LITRDKEDERE

Hour Of Destiny

THE Britain,

their hands.

faster. Panic seized the town, had done so.

The third waitress, a middle. Shops and cafes closed down at So when morning came and S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. living to-day through one of the aged woman, looked scornfully once. There was a rush for the the last of the bombers had gone, supreme moments of their his- at them for a moment, then fishing-boats and other craft the survivors, instead of enjoy 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, 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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The news is black. No good

We Must

What

IN determining the best course we,

can come of dissembling the can take, it is of the first importance facts. The German onslaught, 10 understand how its results have propelled with unprecedented been attained. weight of machinery and ex- plosive, burst

with terrific

There is a fundamental difference

Has

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 centro British politics and strategy followed by a turn outwards to the down the centuries. Possession right towards the coast, whereas the 1014 offensive was a sweeping alvance of them has given the Nazis round the French coastward Bank 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 are not fundu time for close on a thousand mental.

years.

That is the debit side, and it

д

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.

By Captain Liddell Hart

later its career was stopped by an anti-tank gun; but the loss

of one tank was far outweighed by the damage it had done-not, I repeat, the material but the psychological damage.

Panic was sown all along the line of its wild suicide adven- ture. Thousands went to swell the stream of refugees. Roads 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- 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

is heavy. All the more reason,

Far more striking is the way that then, to steel our resolve and the Germons' realised, and exploited, "summon up the blood." Our the decisive importance of machine- Navy stands supreme. our power compared with man-power. heroic Air Force grows. The The basic in their success was that, marching men; the advance of 1940; gressed ʼn stage beyond il-by'exploit- great nation of the United instead of relying on masses as in to a torrent of machines. On meet-ing the conception of "qualitativo States is awakening from its 1914, they pinned their faith to the ing a dam the torrent makes a crack, warfare."

highly-penetrates it and expands again be- Their conscript masses have help-| isolation, and help in ever- penetrative power of

mechanised force manned by relative.; Increasing strength will soon be ly small numbers to quality rather on its way across the ocean. then quantity.

The enemy has achieved his

It would appear that three arm- success by the sheer weight of red divisions, operating in confunc-yond until another dam is met, whened to mask from us the significance of built, and the speed at which mechanism. Against its over-tion with perhaps 300 dive-bombers, the process is repeated. whelming force no courage, how ever inspired, no sacrifice, how ever splendid, is enough to bar the way. We have lived to see the day, prophesied by successive total arrayed along the frontiers. about "total warfare," shouting the 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 litened, to an invading tide of save thought, the Germans have pro- veritably become the master. What is the answer? More

machines, more

and backed up by a few motorised divisions, made the breach which shook the defences of France. The number of men employed in this vital thrust was but a tiny fraction of the

While we are now coming to talk

teaks, more guns and munition STRATEGY TEST: Answers

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 is to fight and to work as never befora 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' WO are but sparks in the great fire-stream of hia- 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.

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VIA

Uskut

ANA

Monastir

GRILLL

1. Before 1912 Albania was part of the Turkish Empire in Europe, became independent in 1913 at the end of the Balkan war by the Treaty of London. It ruled by King Zor. formerly President, from 1928

I 1939.

2. On April 7, 1939.

3. 11,000 square miles. Popula-

tion 1.003.100.

4(a) The Strait of Otranto."(b)

50 miles wide.

5. Albania is bounded by Yugo- Slavia on north and north-east and Greces on the south-east. 6. Durazzo (77,899), Soutari (132,-

336). Tirana (87,808). The control of both shores of Strali 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 ørea. The Italian army of occupation' in Albania can exert pressure on Yugo-Slavin, Greece and even on Rumanta,

the special skeleton keys which they they are going up, was given by were forging for their purpose. ..

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 character of acres. It had miles of roads and volunteers that they paved the way railways, and its own station on the for their startling achievements. railway line adjoining. With equip- 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 finished in one year. ciple, represented by the tank crews, aircraft - crewn and the parachutists.

The factory was mentioned during While we

were still measuring a discussion of allegations of dis- milltary strength in obsolete terms of honesty

the and malpractices in armed numbers, the Germans de-building of factories and milita monstrated that they were calculat-camps brought before the House by ing in up-to-date terms of "power Mr. R. Stokes (Lab., Ipswich)..

the

tamista,

Allegations Donied

The allegations were. denied both by Colonel Llewellin and Sir Ed- (Ward Grigg (Parilamentary Secre

Yet their conception is not such a tary, War Office). Inquiries made novelty as it may appear to most of various authorities, sald Sir Edward, our stateamon and public. It 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 Committee concerned milliary thinkers soon after the last with expenditure who could, decido

If any further investigation war- 'needed, vide

war.

What the German Command, did,

"Dealing with" the case of "Major was to put into practice' ideas from which it was not too proud to learn, Hold-Kollett, who was said to have

whorean, our

own authorities. dis been discharged by the War Onico trusting them as untried "theories," because he had drawn attention to. considered it enfer to keep in the alleged waste and extravagance In the building of comps, Sir Edward familiar rut,

and no foundation for the charge: There is nothing so unsato for 'a had been found, but he was prepared nation as military conservatiem. to look personally, into the matter.