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August 14, 1940.
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.
P
IECING together the stories told by soldiers re- turning from the Nor- weglan campaign, one can see that the Germans had an extra advantage that has so far escaped attention.
They were in the fortunate post- 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 fighting than is gener ally realised, the Germans learnt that isolated detachments could be used in attack to an extent previ- ausly 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 might call "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 a 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 infantry wespons. 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
in this war,
The
But the price they hongkong Telegraph.
are paying for neutrality is
It capable of acting as a separate tiny army on its own.
The British army, through old- fashioned methods of organisa- tion and lack of expérience in the tactics and strategy of infll- tration, has not found it possible to
split la forces into a number of smaller nad 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 tracka so diMcult 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 f particular Importance when weapons have to be shipped by
sen.
One German
gun three jobs
does
To give one example, the Ger- mans have a 88 mm, gun which is used for three purposes. It is an anti-aircraft guin. à plece of field artillery, and a heavy anti-tank weapon.
As an anti-alrerait gun it is not 'so good as our 3.7 inch, which ta of about the same size. As field arti)- ery. 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 artillery.-
But this single German gun wol do all three Jobs, and do them suff has clently well.
separate
Soviet Russia. Turkey
Therefore when a Derman ship claims against France. Italy reaches Norway, single guns can and Germany both have claims be handed out which are almost
cquivalent to three against Yugo-Slavia which un-British weapons,
And each of these three British the snowdrifts and over mountain Toads to the fighting front.
almost as heavy as the price paid Wednesday, August 14, 1940. | doubtedly, would be settled if weapons must be hauled through
by the Baltics, or by the victims
of Hitler's aggression. Indeed, most of the Balkan States are
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already at war in a diplomatic Bulgarians, too, have a claim to
hns Rumania Bense.
and to make concessions to Soviet Russia and it seems that
make on Rumania. They want the restoration of the Dobruja, a territory on the shores of the
only the Totalitariane could dis- pose of Britain. Spain, too, easts 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
Sometimes, it is argued, there will be a simultaneous attack by tanks and acroplanes, and the same gun cannot deal with both.
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are wanted
Hungary is going to get her Black Sea, which they say is could only realise his ambitious, are exceptional, and for most of slice of bloodless territory. peopled by the Bulgar people. dream.
Nearly every Balkan State con- siders it has claims against its neighbour. Rumania took Bes- sarabia_from_Russia in 1922.
live in
like
"The fact remains that such cases
the time the Germans have an almost equal fire-power at one- But Soviet Russia has already seized a strip of this territory.
third the transport cost. So, all in all, we
All peace-lime armies Then again, the Bulgars desire world suddenly gone mad with specialised weapons, developed by their experts until each is perfect an outlet to the Aegean Sea the last of conquest. It started, for its own limited job. The sepa which they can only get at the and could have been checked, rawe cliques within such armies Concentrate on their own subjects Now Russia has it back. Having expense of Greece. Only this eight years ago, thousands of and their own prejudices.
In war, armies-nd the need for sided with the victors in the last week we have learned of the miles from Europe. Someone,
all-purpose weapons. and war Rumania was given Transyl- fate of an 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. now seems like getting back, more territory to Italy's tribulation that may not. there is a minority of nearly youngest colony. Greece has even with the end of two million Hungarintis. 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:
watercart,
TRULY
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We the
MISS Catchpole: Well,
he
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Mr. Gumley: Arising out of
Mtainly need rain. My petuning I suppose we really have a wahit.
are all lying flat, and everything carl? clse is simply gasping.
Mr. Sprott: I move that said water-
cart be sent round to dribble on the THE Chairman: There was a water- inst speaker's petunies.
Mr. Grubb; And bust up the sum-
mer.
whether Mr. Muft asked Council would consider the advisa- bility of Well, wasn't it jolly near Hme they did something about their watercart? Said pointed out, had cost the ratepayers best of ten pounds only two years, ago and so far they'd bordly seen the thing. What was the good of a watercart if it didn't cart water?
Miss Catchpolc agreed. The dust in Vicaragewalk, where she lived, was simply dreadful. Only that morning she had dusted her piano three times, and even then was able to write her. nume on 1t morning- quite distinctly.
Rev. R. H. Trite: Although 1 detest these absurd superstitions I must ad- mit that there is something in Mr. Grubb's objection. When I wns at Prestwich in 1012 I had a similar experience. In the middle of a hot, dry summer, I invested in a hose pipe for my roses. The very next
we
Mr. Mufit: Sorry to interrupt und Mr. Sprott: On a point of order, all that but la the rev gentleman's May I ask if this watercort exists hose-pipe in order? Or are for the comfort of individual men- talking about watercarts?. bers of the Council, or for the com- munity at large? Is it suggested.
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that said watercart should confine. THE Chairman: We have a lot of business in front of us, gentle- its attentions to Vicar-age-walk, and equirt exclusively on the last speaker's plano, or what?
Mr. Grubb: I'd like it to come
men, and I really think that if we keep to the paint
Mr. Grubb: Send out that water--
cart in the Counell's shed, but
I haven'i seen it lately! We sent it out, I remember, fast summer.
Mr. Sprott: Yes, and it leaked like a slave.
The Chairman: Order, Mr. Sprott, please.
Mr. Sprott: OK, Hill!
Col. Bludgeon: May I suggest that the last speaker should restrain bis efforts to be facetious. The watercart wea Icaking, 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 sance. Hrim!
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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.
from
Miss
Forget the war for a momont, relax an
read this article.
By Ethel Mannin W
THEN I sot out in mid-
January for Connemara and included in my baggage sheets, towels, blankets, 11 lerge 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- mer, 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 rond...
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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 gin.
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 ns 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 "range" in an Irish kitchen is simply a large brick fireplace with a brick hob bullt up on either aide 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- But ing back into the room. there are days, nevertheless, when it does blow back, just ne there are days when the patches of damp which you always hope have finally "dried out"-as you are always being assured they will reappear in the walls.
ALL the cooking is done on
this range, and we have "constant lot water"-in. the kettle on the hob.
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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 us such.
This philosophical attitude simplifies a lot of things bc- 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 te for the day and the first to- morrow. Every morning look to our lamps.
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we.
YOUR load of turf usually ar-
rives on
a wet day-and".
you set great stere on "good". dry turf" 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 sen- 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.. with an amendment Catchpole-
but why the whitewash should' Rev. Trite: Before the matter is be in a country full of white- tercart be sent round on Monday, according to our Surveyor, the horse
Mr. Multi: I move that the wa- put to the vote, may I mention that, washed cabins is a mystery.
You learn, also, to your dis-
Mr. Sprott Sorry, Bill.
Miss Catchpole: If, as has been that was in the habit of puiling said
round and have a go at my early cart and you'll ruin the haymaking. suggested, this is likely to cause a watercort was hired by us from Mr. may, that you have been mar- pens: They're as yaller us yaller, Mr. Gumley: What about the break in the weather, may I point Plimley. This morning I was in- ried no fewer than nine times out that Monday is washing day formed that the poor creature had which seems, somehow, a slur · and the sprouts is that shrivelled corn and the taters? Don't they with the majority of the villagers, passed away. A sad business. It on your intelligence and that
The Chairman: We are wandering, want rain?
Wednesday would be more con- reminds me of a similar decurrence some any you are a spy. from the point. The question be- Mr. Grubb: Yes, and so do you, venient.
when I was at Frinton-on-Sea, One fore the meeting-
Not
Mr. Grubb: Pet sows is out of BUT you
George, with a shop full of goloshes. Mr. Grubb: Wednesday is the bell-of my flock had a pet sow-
are compensated' Mr. Grubb: We know all about and umbrellas and wellingtons.
ringers outing. I say Friday.
when an old woman in a that, Bill. The trouble la that if half you don't!.
Col.' Bludgeon: And, a wet week- ordet. I move that the watercort
be referred back, owing to its horse black shawl comes in and taps. end.
being dead.
everything with her stick and Mr. Sprott: Carried anonymous-laughs and is delighted and re-
we send out that watercart, the Col. Bludgeon: May I suggest that weather'll turn sour, as sure as ducks the matter is one of national rather local importance. It is our can swim. You know what hap- than pened last yeak. Dry as a bone it fundamental duty to was, till we started watering the food, and if sending out our water- THE Chairman: Order, please. ly. And as it's nearly closing, me gards your settee which con- roads. And then we had a wet cart is likely to bring rain then by
“Bummer.
all means, send it out.
grow more
The molion is that the water- I move that we adjourn to the "Much
cart he sent out on Monday next, în Little." All those in favour? Turn to Page 7, Fifth Column
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