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Hitler Learned It In Spain
TOM WINTRINGHAM,
"who fought against Franco in the Spanish War, explains how some of Hitler's Norway tactics developed from that campaign.
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IECING together the stories told by soldiers ro- turning from the Nor- wegian campaign, one can see that the Germans had an extra advantage that has so far escaped attention.
They were in the fortunate posi- tion of being able to, uso tactics and equipment which had been thoroughly tested and improved during the war in Spain.
In that war, which included more mountain Aghting than is gener- ally realised, the Germans learnt that isolated detachments could be used in attack to an extent prevl- ously impossible.
They learnt the value of a well- organised Fifth Column.
The Spanish origin of this much used phrase should not be forgotten.
They learnt the need for a close integration of all arms with the Infantry, and the value of what one
call might
"double-purpose weapons.
General Keitel, Hitler's Chief of
Staff, who at one time commanded the Condor Legion in Spain, has had the German infantry equipped with certain amount of light artillery, some engineering gear, anti-tank and anti-aircraft units. and so on.
These are not separate organisa- tions, of which bits are added to the infantry units, but are integral parts of the infantry regiment.
Old-fashioned Army
Organisation
Those who control the British Army have unfortunately, paid no attention to this lesson from Spain.
-For example, our anti-tank guns. which began as infantry weapons. have been taken away from the infantry and made part of the Royal Artillery.
Our Infantry have only anti- tank rifles, smaller weapons of which the efficiency has yet to be proved in battle.
This integration of the German army has made each small unit of
Lust of Conquest
The Balkans have reason to be thankful that they are neutral
The
in this war. But the price they Hongkong Telegraph.
are paying for neutrality is almost as heavy as the price paid by the Baltics, or by the victims of Hitler's aggression. Indeed, most of the Balkan States are
already at war in a diplomatic
sense.
Rumania has had to make concessions to Soviet Russin and
that it seems Hungary is going to get her slice of bloodless territory. Nearly every Balkan State con- siders it has claims against its neighbour. Rumania took Bes- sarabia from Russia in 1922.
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Bulgarians, too, have a claim to
Soviet Russia.
It capable of acting as a separate tiny, army on its own.
The British army, through cld- fashioned methods of argania- tion and lack of experience in. the tactics and strategy of infl- trailon, kas not found T possible to split its forces into a number of smaller and self-contained units, a process that is especially necessary when fighting along a number of narrow valleys, -
In the fighting south of Trond- helm the German attack split up into four separate spear-heads, two of them coming over moun-. tain tracks so dimeult that few people believed they could be crossed
No similar splitting up of the British forces could be noticed when they were moving forward to the attack on Trondheim.
The Germans' superiority in "double purpose" equipment is at particular Importance when weapons have to be shipped by
sca.
One German gun does
three jobs
To give one example, the Ger- mans have a 88 mm, gun which la used for three purposes. It is an anti-aircraft gun. à piece of feld artillery, and a heavy anti-tank weapon.
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As an anti-aircraft gun it is not good as our 3.7 inch, which is of about the same size. Aa field arthi- lery. It is not so good as our 25- pounder. As an anti-tank gun it is too heavy and fires too slowly, as compared with our own anti-tank artillory.
But this single German gun will do all three jobs, and do them suff- ciently well.
has Turkey
claims against France.
Therefore when a German ship Italy reaches Norway, single guns can be handed out which are almost equivalent to three separate.
And each of these three British
and Germany both have claims against Yugo-Slavia which un- British weapons. doubtedly would be settled if weapons must be hauled through only the Totalitariane could dis- the snowdrifts and over mountain
roads to the fighting front. pose of Britain. Spain, too, casts covetous eyes on adjacent territory, notably Gibraltar. The fate of the French colonial Empire, and of the British, too, can be well guessed if Hitler could only realise his ambitious
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Sometimes, it is argued, there, will be a simultaneous attack by tanks and aeroplanea, and the same gun cannot deal with both. All-purpose weapons
are wanted
The fact remains that such cases are exceptional, and for most of the time the Germans have an almost equal re-power at one- third the transport cost.
make op
Rumania. They want the restoration of the Dobruja, a territory on the shores of the Black Sen, which they suy is peopled by the Bulgar people. But Soviet Russia has already seized a strip of this territory. So, all in all, we live in
Then again, the Bulgars desire world suddenly gone mad with the lust of conquest. It started, an outlet to the Acgean Sea, which they can only get at the and could have been checked, Now Russin has it back. Having expense of Greece. Only this eight years ago, thousands of sided with the victors in the last week we have learned of the miles from Europe. Someone, war Rumania was given Transyl- fate of un Albanian "patriot" in permitting that initial aggres-organisation that may not seem vania which had been Hungarian. who sought to stir up revolt in sion to go unchecked, certainly neat and tidy but is fit to meet the In that territory, which Hungary Greek territory in order to add let the world in for trial and happen.
territory now seems like getting back, more
to Italy's tribulation that may not cease there is a minority of nearly youngest colony. Greece has even with the end of war in two million Hungarians. The claims against Turkey: so has Europe.
THE
fortnightly meeting of. the Little Wipplesham Rural District Council took place on Tuesday evening in the Parish Hall, The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved:
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Mr. Sprott: I move that said water- cart be sent round to dribble on the last speaker's petunias.
Mr. Grubb: And bust up the aum-
mer.
Mufit asked whether the MISS Catchpole: Well, we cer- Mr. Gumley: Arising out of that, Council would consider the advisa-tainly need rain. My petunins I suppose we really have a water-
all lying flat, and everything cart? bility of Well, wasn't it jolly near time they did something about their cise is simply gasping.
watercart, watercart? Said pointed out, had cost the ratepayers best of ten pounds only two years ngo und so far they'd hardly seen
Rev. R. H. Trite: Although 1 detest the thing. What was the good of
these absurd superstitions I must ad watercart If it didn't cart water?
mit that there is something in Mr. Miss Catchpole agreed, The Grubb's objection. When I was at dust in Vicaragewalk, where she Prestwich in 1912. I had a similar lived, was simply dreadful. Only experience. In the middle of a hot, that morning she had dusted her dry summer, 1 invested in a hose plano three times, and even then pipe for my roses. The very next was able to write her name on it morning
Mr. Mudit: Sorry to interrupt and quite distinctly.
Mr. Sproti: On a point of order, all that but is the rev gentleman's order? Or are we May I ask if this watercart exisis hose-pipe in for the comfort of individual men- talking about watercarts? bors of the Council, or for the con→ munity at large? Is It suggested that sald watercart should confine Its attentions to Vicar-age-walk, and
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last squirt. exclusively: speaker's piano, or what? q
THE Chairman: We have a lot of business in front of us, gentle- men, and I really think that it we keep to the point
HE Chairman: There was a water- THE
cart in the Council's shed, but I haven't seen It' lately! We sent it out, I remember, last summor
Mr. Sprott: Yes, and it leaked like a sleve.
The Chairman: Order, Mr, Sprott, please.
Mr. Sproft: OK, B. Col. Bludgeon: May 1 suggest. that the last speaker should restrain efforts to be facetious. The watercart was leaking, I would point out, because the purpose of a water- cart is, in fact, to leak. That is its object. Nor do I think that mem- bers should call each other by their baptismal names. Hrirmi
his
Mr. Sprott: Sorry, Bill.
All peace-time urmics like specialised weapons, developed by their experts until each is perfect for its own limited job. The sepa rate cliques within auch armies concentrate on their own subjects and their own prejudices.
In-war, armlen find the need for all-purpose weapons, and
an
unexpected things that always
We did not learn from Spain. Let us hope we learn from Norway how to change from the peace-time shape of our army to a more flexible and handler shape.
with an amendment from Miss Catchpole-
Forget the warf moment, relax
road this article..
By Ethel Mannin WJanuary for Connemara.
I set out in mid.
and included in my baggage sheets, towels, blankets, R large framed Gauguin print, and a great number of books, friends were good enough to tell me I was crazy:
Bog and rocks and wilderness were all very well in the sum- mner, and for a holiday, they sald; I would never stick it in the winter, with the Atlantic gales and not one single con- venience, not even a drain, and the water in the field across the road.
It does take faith, of course, to make up your mind you are going to take a place you have never seen. But I had that faith plus what they call in Ireland "the strong nature,” which takes you back to the country of your ancestors; and away from it fills you with an intolerable, consuming nostal- gia
WHEN I saw the cottage for * which I had braved the Irish Sea in wartime, and for which I had crossed the whole of Ireland from Dublin to Gal way; when I saw it, grey and dingy and utterly neglected, with a blue enamel bucket on the roof where ♫ chimney should have been, I refused to be discouraged.
It had been described to me as comprising two rooms, a kitchen, and a porch. It turned out to be what we should call three rooms and a tiny en- trance hall,
The
an "range" in Irish kitchen is simply a large brick fireplace with a brick hob built up on either side the turf fire. Boarding is nailed across under the wooden mantel-piece to en- courage the smoke to go up the wide chimney Instead of blow- ing back into the room. But there are days, nevertheless, when it does blow back, just as there are days when the patches of dump which you always hope have finally "dried out"--pa you are always being assured they will reappeur in the walls.
ALL the cooking is done on this range, and we have "constant hot water"-in the kettle on the hob.
One of the things you learn through living in a house with "no conveniences" (but with God's own view of lake and_bog and mountain) is not to be fussy. If the chimney smokes there is nothing you can do about it.
It is the Will of God, as they say here, and you accept it as such.
This philosophical attitude simplifies a lot of things be sides damp walls and smoking chimneys; but it is an attitude' difficult to acquire in the over-- civilised life of the towns.
Here in the wilds; we have three basic material needs- water, turf, oil. Last thing every evening we see that we have enough turf brought in for the fire and sufficient water left over for the last cup of tea for the day and the first to- morrow. Every morning
We look to our lamps.
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YOUR load of turf usually ar- rives on a wet day and you set great store on "good dry tur" in these parts.
A neighbour brings you milk and eggs and local gossip, and in this fashion" you learn' that your blue front door is a gén- sation, because everyone knows that green is the proper colour for front doors, and the fact that you've whitewashed the place brings people in all the way from town of a Sunday evening to see it,
The blue front door you can understand being a sensation. but why the whitewash should
Rev. Trite: Before the matter is be in a country full of white- Mr. Mufit: I move that the wa~ put to the vote, may I mention that, washed cabins is a mystery.ge tercart be sent round on Monday, according to our Surveyor, the horse You learn, also, to your dis-
Miss Catchpole: If, as has been that was in the habit of pulling said
Mr. Grubb: I'd like it to come. Mr. Grubb: Send out that water- round and have a go at my early cart and you'll ruin the haymaking,ggested, this is likely to cause a watercart was hired by us from Mr. may, that you have been mar
break in the weather, may, 1 point Filmicy. This morning I was in- ried no fewer than nine times Mr. pens. They're as yaller asyaller,
Gumley: What about the that Monday is washing day formed that the poor creature had which seems, somehow," a slur
Don't they out
with the majority of the villagers, passed away. A sad business. It on your intelligence and that venient.
and the sprouts is that shrivelled.corn and the taters?
The Chairman: We are wandering want rain? from the point. The question. be- fore the meeting
Mr. Grubb: Yes, and so do Wednesday, would be more con- reminds me of a similar occurrence | some say you are a spy.
George, with a shop full of goloshes. Mr. Grabb: We know all about and umbrellas and wellingtons. Not that Bill. The trouble is, that if half you on May I suggest that
Col. Bludger
we send out that watercart, the weather'll turn sour, as sure as ducks the matter can swim. You know what hap thun le
pened. last year. Dry de a bone lt fundam was, till we started watering the
ronds. And then we had
Bummer;
course
UT you are compensated BUT
when I was at Frinton-on-Sea, One of my dock had a pet sow
Grubb: Pet sows in out of ordered buck, owing to its horse black shawl comes in and taps Mr. Gru move that the watercart when an old woman in a
... everything with her stick and Mr. Sprott: Carried anonymous laughs and is delighted and re-
Mr. Grubu: Wednesday is the bell ringers outing. I say Friday.
of
national rather end. tance. It is our.
Col. Bludgeon: And, a wet week
be
to .grow. Dore out our water-
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ing rain then by Chairman:, Order), please. Jy. And as it's nearly closing time,
The Rards your settee which con
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