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August 22, 1940,

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DONALD „DUCK

By Walt Disney

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WILL NAZIS INVADE

IRELAND?

THE further are to the venture

HE Nazi occupation of the Western French ports and

and

tegic points Hitler. attempts to draw round Great Britain. Two more points are required—Iceland and Ireland.

Iceland we have occupied.

It is quite possible that Hit-

nt-

ler will make a serious tempt to disloxige our forces from that point, by tactles similar to those employed in Norway".

We must be prepared for a sudden naval-air attempt in some force upon that North- ern base. And it is not be- yond the bounds of possibility for him to try similar tactics upon the Shetland Isles.

IRELAND, however, is the most

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urgent and vastly more impor- tant question, for Ireland, stronge It may term, offers to the dar- Ing and ruthless invader a far sen- pler problern than · Iceland or the East Coast. We must not, there- fore, allow the German occupation and the proximity of the French ports to binckmail us into concen- trating everything against the nd- mittedly, serious threat of direct invasion of Britain via the East Coast. It is highly likely that the German High Command" hope to use this Enst Coast threat os n colossal feint to draw our attention from our Western Coast.

Ireland offers iter a first-class opportunity for the politico-mil)- tary strategy he has borrowed from Napoleon. Here are all the local intrigues and patly squabbles whsch were exploited in Europe in the early nineteenth-century, and more recently with such paralysing effect in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France.

There is in Ireland more than the nucleus of a potenilally power- ful Fifth Column. Many of the leaders, we are told, have been im- prisoned, but those left would ofter amore powerful and ruthless gang as a spearhead for Hitler's inter nal disruptive warfare then he has yet had in any country. Let us make no mistake about it: there are enough men alil at liberty In Ireland thoroughly antagonistic to (1) Great Britain and Northem Ireland, (2) Mr. de Valera's own Government, to give the German military machine that vital 24 hours during which I con

move forward from a base.

half-consolidated

FUNNY SIDE UP

“Drive over a lot of hills, dear

Strategically a swift occupation of Ireland is possible. The ot- tempt at a Nazi scnbome invasion is Improbable. The distances would be too vast and any German orma- da would be subjected to an anni- hilating attack from the British and Allied Fleets and Air Forces. But Invasion by air is not such a re- mote possibility,

Mountaini

The ́amoil map above shows the mountains and railways of tre- land. The railway #yitem' taker full advantage of the crnitral plain. The map et left showi the European coastline now in German hands and the arrowi mark the possible roules for at- tack

Great Brilain and

Ireland.

threatening Britain's vital ports in the Bristol Channel; (3) Galway and Limerick on the west coast. From these three main areas the Nazir couk dominate Southern Ireland in much the same manner as the occupation of Bergen, Trond helm and Oslo dominated Southern Norway. As ip Norway we should be left with the north.

FROM bases in Brittany German course, there are

warplanes can now fly direct

to the centre of Ireland (400 miles) without crossing English territory. Operating from such bases thousand German troop planes teasily within the scope of the German Air Force) cach trans- porting 20-40 men, light tanks or feld guns,

and with coch plane making two journeys in the course of a day, could thus dispose in Ire- land

hard-hitting. highly- mechanised striking force at vari- ous points in the great plain which runs across the middle of Ireland. From these points on any of tha

calibre

of the present German army could fairly

take con- tral of the

main railways of South ern Ireland, could occupy: (1) The eastern coastal strip from the Mourne Mountains to the Wicklow Mountains, including Dublin, and thus directly threaten Liverpool; (2) The south-eastern corner, in- cluding Cork and Queenstown, thus controlling the southern coast and

--By Abner Dean

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terrific

obstacles to such a plan, but there were similar difficulties about Germany's Norwegian venture. Chiefly, it can be argued, Germany would be fighting far from her home bases, but 400 miles is litle to the modern bomber, which can continuously ferry men and sup plies

brought from central German bases to Brittany overnight, to be

Ireland sent on to

before

dawn. the vulnerable large-scale with massing of planes at any given time nt bases in Brittany

German losses would undoubted- ly be heavy, but the chance of success, in view of the present de- fonceless state of Ireland, might persuade the Nazi war masters to take the risk.

They have always before them the overwhelming factor which emerged from the Norwegian cam- pair and later from the invasion of Holland-that it is virtually im- possible to dislodge a well-equip- ped invading force, complete with bombers and fighters, from

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flelds and airports which they had taken.

In Ireland there are good air- fields at Dublin, Belfast and Cork, With occupation of these airtelds Germany would have strong posl- tions for attacks upon the English and Scottish west coasts and for organising strong defences against troops which would immediately be sent down from Northern Ire- land.

the Invaders

(Here red, for Ireland's

would be well Tollways run across the island, not down the island 'ws lo England.)

So arises the vital question: have

we enough troops in Northern Ireland? We cannot once more allow delicate questions of neut. rality and its technical infringe- ment to slow down our prepara. tions into that lethargy which per- milled the Germans to invade and retain Norway. air-

one reason why they want pots and pans

MANY

ANY people have been puzzled to know why aluminium pets and pans are wanted by the Government when mer- chants have large stocks of aluminium scrap which they have not been able to sell.

It is because pots and kettles and saucepans are made of high-grade aluminium which when melled down and reclaimed is almost as good as virgin aluminium.

Scrap in the hands of merchants mostly comes from broken-up mo- tor-cars-gear cases, sumpă, etc.

grado. —and is classed as low There does not appear to be any shortage of aluminium, but the authorities are probably looking ahead and providing against a temporary drop in bauxite imports owing to the cutting on of supplies from France.

POLANCE · Aand her Empire produced about 18 per cent of the world's supply, of hazvila-lhe clay or ora, from which aluminiman is obtained. Now that is at the mercy of Germany, which also gets supplies from Him- gary and Jugoslavia:

Other large producers are British Gulans, the United Sisigs, Dalch

Gulana, Haly, Dutch East Indica, and Russia

Your gifts, which will become high-grada aluminium BCTED. Aré first collected in dumpa in your locality, then passed through the merchants, who grade them and take of hapdies and rivets which are not aluminium.

The broken-up articles are next. sent to the refinery, where they are melted down into lagols. Litilo of the tensile strength is lost." But all valumizol un is strengthened by small additions of other metals/

The reclaimed aluminium theo goes to the foundry where it is *converted · Lito easilngs bilfore be- Ing 'went to the aeroplane factories to be machined to very: Ana. Imita and filled to fighter or bomber.

Aluminition, which is one-third the weight of steel, is'invaluable

·in 'airenti production because of lia? lightness, and exceptional strength when alloyed with other metals

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We have several good bases in Northern Ireland Northern Ire- Iand is responsible to H.M. Gov-

Northern ernment. It

Ireland feels its independence threatened contingen-

by remote but to pre-

cles, then there is

vent a well-equipped democratic army up to, or even over, 200,000 troops being sent as a precaution- ary measure, and as we are 'told the Irish don't like the English there is no reason why this army shouldn't have quite a substantial proportion of Catholics:

Poles, French and Belglans. And 200,- 000 officers and men would bridg Ireland quite a lot of trade,

But obviously it would be best if Ireland could prepare itself as a united body against the possibili tles of invasion..

Sea-

The

Behind Them

Defeat! At odds from which the damned might finch;

To have smashed un-

counted hordes en cased in steel;

To have made them pay ten deaths for every inch, And poshed them with a wound too deep -to-heal;

To have hurled their legions flaming through" "the air,

Five to our one, and kept the wide world free; Defeat? What" phantom

I

bfde the

conqueror stare From that cold brink, at Britain, and the sea. -ALFRED NOYES.

C.O. TO FIGHT-

"Now that the invasion of England seems imminent,” said Joseph F. Kelly, twenty-four, motor driver of Sandan-street, Liverpool, at the Liverpool "Conscientious Objectors Tribunal "I can very sorrowfully do nothing but offer my services. in any copacify whatever.

Kelly haired, to be placed on the military register, and Judge E. C. Burgess ordered his name to be re- moved from the register of objectors.

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