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Friday, August 30, 1940. Wyndham St. Hongkong Telephone: 28615

THERE is now little danger that the value of tanks will be underrated by the civilian. The triumphant and unparal- . leled success of the German armoured forces has established clearly in the public mind the supreme importance of this arm in conjunction with air force in land warfare.

There is rather home danger of an exaggerated idea of the invin cibility of these machines. It is the purpose of this article to point out some of their weaknesses.

August 30, 1940.

CAN STOP TANK

YOU

THE

By Major-General P. C. S. HOBART, D.S.O., M.C. (Commander Tank Brigade, 1933-37; Director of Military Training, War Office 1937-38). even if they do not stop them.

(d) Tanks are unable to depress) track are sufficient to break it. The Moreover, broadly speaking, the their weapons sufficiently to shoot destruction of a bogle or even, a The bulk of the armoured smaller the tank the poorer tant objects on the grounds close to bogie-tyre is apt to bring the track

performance. forces of Germany have been cross-country

The then. The lower down you are and off the sprocket and the tank to n organised and trained as large light tank is quite unable to tackle the closer to the tank, the safer you standstil and fast-moving formations of many a field-bank, ditch or even are from its fire.

(g) In Spain, it is sald, men hid- stout hedge that is easily traversa- tanks accompanied by light ele-ble by the bigger varieties.

(e) In addition to apertures foting in a ditch were able to throw a ments of motor-cyclists and Boggy or waterlogged ground is vision, tanks must have large open-petrol-soaked blanket so that it be- ings for nir-inlets for the engine,came entangled in the tank-track armoured cars, and followed by unfavourable to mechanized move. These are usually guarded by ar-and to fire it, thus burning off the

ment. The Germans have been especially trained motorised in-

The dry moured louvres, and are usually bogle-tyres and causing the tank to Jucky in their weather. fantry, but unhampered by conditions have made passable much contrived on the upper surfaces of shed its track. slower-moving arms. They were country that would have been im-the hull.

It was also reported that in street- Burning liquids thrown upon these fighting other heroes had even commanded by men with ex-possible in wet weather, expecially

the wheeled portions of the louvres tend to be sucked into the destroyed them with petrol. perience of and faith in the for

force. But, even in this dry sum-engine compartment and to set the (h) The belly of a tank is usually tank, who were allowed freedom mer and even in Western Europe, tank on fire, if in sufficient quan- the most lightly armoured portion, of manoeuvre, and given wide their tanks kept to the roads as farity.

It is exposed to fire from the bank, discretion in exploiting success. as possible. This procedure will be

And from behind when dropping These formations were laun-forced on them more than ever in or a tank in the suspension: Le. the down the for side.

this island. chcd

terrain suitable for their movement, and, even when less favourable and more

over

*

*

* TANKS are dependent on petrol.

(1) The most vulnerable portion

track, bogles and sprockets. The NONE OF THE ABOVE IN- fracture of a single track-pin breaks WOLVES THE USE OF SPECIAL the track and immobilises the tank. ANTI-TANK WEAPONS, NOR DO Track-pins are weakened by strain THEY BY ANY MEANB EXHAUST intersected country was reached, The German aratoured forma and by rocky or stony going. A THE POSSIBLE METHODS OPEN they were able to secure cross-tions were able to keep going small mine or a few pinda of ex-TO THE INGENUITY OF STOUT-

fuel stucks they found behind picsive exploded in contact with a HEARTED VOLUNTEERS. ings and continue their advance the

the Allied Ines. We must by the rapidity of their move good me that they are unable ment and by the wide deploy- do this in England. We must iment which enabled their com- drastically reduce the number of

manders to exploit immediately petrul-pumps, especially any weak spot discovered.

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IT is improbable that such conditions could be repeated in this country.

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ensure

it isolated lons, and take steps to make;

that no supplies can fall into if this en- hands, even chemy's Latis some inconvenience to our civilian motorists meanwhile.

When Invasion takes place, small bodles of enemy tanks and motorised

Will

probably succeedi Unless a good port, with har- troops

pushing inland, perhaps to consider- hour facilities in working order, able distances. They can only make can be seized, it will hardly be great progress by keeping efferlive system possible for the Invader to land With an

their advance road-blocks heavy or medium tanks in large made extremely hazardous. numbers. It may be possible 10 devices adopted In Spain and Fin- disembark some on beaches from land to deal with small numbers of

The picha apprciat in the Telegraph is used by the "Bongkang Telegraph 10

under the provisions of the Telecommună - rations Ordinance, 1930. Such new a from Bat-bottomed boats. hear the Indication -UP to received in Itongkong on the date of publication by the nited Press Antorialna, This Fa serve all Nghia and torbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Retang extient,

indicate news which is strictly copyright | specially constructed ships or tanks have been described.

Troubled Waters

The "New York Times" which is usually extremely well informat recently declared that "the

refusal af General Metaxas to renounce the British guarantee la Greece the note of confidence that the British have had for long time The paper added and it is worth questing This unexpected detlance by the weakest of the Balkan States signites Two Billigs the weight of Houst

www power in the Eastern Mediter patienu and the intention of

Britone to mucntion her posien that are, which piny turn out to be the manjor battlefield of the wat Wu]4 we would not venture peoplesy

the future of the costern MediterrancaÐ. For would we dare say that the major battle" will be in that pest of the world, there is every indication that the shadow of war is lowering percepti. bly over the Eastern Mediterriwscan Gibsony seems to have succeeded

exterit

but

roada. of local can be Various

There

certat weaknesses common to all types. for the most part such vessels (a) Tunks are ruther bind unless can carry only light or cruiser the look-out has his head out of the Farmour, in which case he is vulner- types

from especially

houses or Light tanks can also be car-juble,

other rantaide

When closed ried by stirplanes, but can be down, the vision of the tank crew is landed only from these on good restricted and all-round cutlook is Birckis.

difficult.

Cuver

(b) Tanks can only shoot in the 11 15 Unnecessary. therefure. 10 antelpute encimy tank ntinck in the direction in which their weapons orc numbers used In Belgium

and pointing. The larger the turret, the France,

slower the traverse. If an enemy tank cranes along a rond with its. Wafercourses are unk obstacles, weapons trained ühend, the defender especially if the banks and bottoms behind roadside cover should get a are muddy. Streams of any depth free shot or two un it passes and sti; ve only be erased by bridges or have time to take cover before the

which net turret en by special contrivances

be traversed. By require tlante 1 bring up and

gefale

ter All tanks have apertures for A great part of England is par- | vision, for gun-sights, etc. These ticularly suitable for tank man-perkates

deve It to generally close, much moll-arm Bre

are stually sensitive to It may be possible such a ent up by ditch and bunk, and full to block an enemy tank r et brooks and other small obstacles position that close and accurate fre which slow down as delay tanks, Jean be brought to bear on it.

PORTRAIT

When the French firm got

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

•Over 18 turbod Pradom vyučenka, Dne

7.19

"Were you a good little boy while Daddy was away?"

BRITISH FOREMAN

OF A BRITISH

persunding Ru-delivery from America of HIS name is Melbourne johns and he comes from

mata inte gev ing hei Balkan neigh-

a considerable portion of hertain important machine tools, own territory.

It is true that there

Pembrokeshire; a short, burly, square shoul-

By

and had difficulty in assembling dered man, with an immense head and jutting|PATRICIA WARD

IN "madiy sp twist the eup and them, it was natural that "Mel"

the lip, and the Hungaro-Ramanian Johns should be sent across the jaw, uncannily like a bulldog. negotiations over Transylvania have Channel to advise, for in the two so far not run too smoothly. It is stated in

this connection that the countries there are few men Humanlin delegation

headed by with a greater knowledge of all the ex-Premier, M. Valerian Pop. types of machinery. Who

declared reventiz strongly against my attempt either Rumanians In

He is foreman in an armament factory "somewhere in the Midlands"; a factory which until recontly was subsidiary to a larger one in South-west France.

Lip

the

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himselt

From

זיי

under the

of the

But the Consul

was not there. There was an attache, stiff with red tape and responsibility, who gur- anteed John's personal passage

"regretted" about

they not succeed, can be withdrawn home were ople of his Midland and courage, in the nature of a sago. But I explained how importani it appeared over the town.

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was to get those machines back

children,.

..

the

So off he went into the highwaya home, but in the middle of all the and byways behind the factory to machines "Come back when the job's done," enemy.

chaos of the Ger-look for help. And drawn up by

It was then that this stocky little they said, as they packed him into confusion and "to deliver

the road he found an man went off the handle, Like the advance through France, this the side of the R.AF. airplane that was to fly man.

British workman had Army lle sturdy

lorry manned by four ex buil-dog he resembles. Transylvania

he tore at to foreign duminution

to the coast of France,

his precious tools und hausted Tommies. or Impair the political unity of Ru-

reached his destination after a fur-matched

that official. He ranted and he safely home. That brought them nania!

The fact that n

ther flight and there he remained the job" he did; a job ten man

They were lost. They had been roared, he shouted and he bullied. this calibre has been chosen by the for several weeks. Then suddenly wes

driving south and further south for "It worries mo sometimes; to Rumanlon Government to take part Hitler burst through the Allied ram- times the size of the one he was the better part of a week, without remember the names I called that in the humiliating discussion of sur-

"But it did the though he doesn't steep, without food for hours at a man," he told me. render of territory, seems to indicate parts. Great armies railed back in sent out to do,

time, trying unsuccessfully to rejoin trick, all right." that the negotiations may not run headlong retreat upon Paris and be ree it that way.

yond. A rea of refugees engulfed

only did what anyone else the unit from which they had got The official gave way. Johns was:, and what is perhaps of greater im- the towns and vlilages, a torrent of would have done, and I had a lot of separated.

given shipping-space for his lorry, portance at this tinic, not so speedily humans, horses, cattic, and ma- | luck," he'll tell you in real embar

"That lorry was just what I sailing permits for his four soldiers as he would wish,

chines. into this dark tide disuprassment. Observers are of the opinion that peared "Mel" Johns.

But his luck was the result of needed for my machines," Johns told and himself, and a guide to take and a ship. me, "Se I talked the boys into him to the quayside Mussolini's trade against Greece on

The last British troops reached enterprise, and the story of those behalf of Albania, who, of herself, England. The

They didn't There he and his tireless Tommies. last refugees from salvaged muchines it, as an illus-much want to thought their duty slung the lorry aboard and jumped

coming along with me. bas no particular cause for co Bordeaux were brought off. Then tration of individual resourcefulness was to go en looking for their unit. after it as the first Nazl airplanes. plaint, enables him to bluster and while the demand concessions which, should

reading the fearful and

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** * without loss of face as such tirades agonising story of the final evacua-

tion from Europe, an Army lorry WHEN the RAF. Arst landed home so we could make more guns and accusations leave him free to rumbled into the factory yard. In him in France

IT took them to beat the Jerries with. And so

three days and. he was still some

nights to reach port on the West. declare Albania og "katisfied", should the driver's cab sat ""Mel" Johns. circumstances advocate such a step,

Coast of England. The ship was Loaded on

way from his factory. News from they agreed to help." that lorry were the the

They drove back to the factory, full of refugees; mostly women and North was bad, and motor- Mussolial is waiting for his cue four machines which he had gone transport was worse because the those four exhausted Tommies and from Berlin, who, in turn, is walt-out to inspect; euch the size of a

endless the determined foreman. Between ronds were blocked by the settlement of the Hun- baby grand piano, each worth £4,000, streams of population in fight. ing for

them they dismantled the machines There were not enough life-belts garian-Rumanian territoriai ques- all invaluable in the munufacturing

to round, but there were a lot of Jolins couldn't get a lift, "because and piled them on the lorry. tions before any more decisive step of arms, and all irreplaceable under I can't speak French and anyway

"Now drive like hell to Bordeaux civilians' cars on board. So Johns can be taken.

elght to ten months.

we've got to get there before it's went down to the hold and removed room in any of the wasn't In the meantime much propaganda

ars he told me.

So he hung dark," said Johns.

the tyres, from every car, blew up cars,"

the inner tubes and handed them to› in regard to the situation not only are now definitely too near to Rus-around the air-feld until he found

everyone who had not got a life-belt............. who

flying WHE

Then he found a British officer. In in Greece, but also Turkey and Russia for confort both in Scandinavia on Alt-marshal

quantity of valuables. slo. The latter country, through the which she now says must remain South in a specially chartered toxi- official Toss Agency, has had already under her protection "even after the plane.

"He didn't tell me what they were, on tape and red tabs means way. Johns sat in front with hisd I didn't like tonak," he ex-- to deny most emphatically the ru war and in the Balkans. But Ger-

ours spread from sources domin-

man Intrigue

must be warlly managed nothing to "Mel" Johns. So after hand on the driver's aren, shaking and

threatened to fall plained. "But rumour went that it ated by her Axia partners, that she so

so as not to

Crown with her a

bit of talking, he said I could him when he create difficulties

was radium, plus the Belgian asleep over the wheel.

Jewels; sald to be worth 25 millions, has made demands on Turkey in powerful neighbour. Russia is, how come too."

Three miles outside Bordeaux we regard to

the

Dardanellas. This aver, astute enough to know where Big man and Ille man dew of does not say that such demands will she stands, She cannot have for- together, and that's how Johns got met some. French soldiers going out and the question arose as to how not be made should she find it ex-gotten Hiller's own words to Herr to his factory, Almost on prelva with guns to stop the Germans, be they could be saved it, the ship got were only three sunk b pedient to do so, but quite rightly, Rauschning which he reported in he was handed a telegram from the told me. They Russia is not anxious to be pushed "Hitler Speaks","

English frm telling him to return bours behind us, but that was the "So I thought of a raft, and we made one from the planks that were reason why I at by either Germany or Italy into any

once I view of the gravity of first time we realised. It

And so his resolve to get the ma- lying around in the hold. We on to it on The situation is delicate one, if that will improve my position, I knew I could get back all right chines away was strengthened by loaded the valuables

the lower deck. It was a lovely Germany favours Russia's embroil, it will depend on Poland when this in one of the RAF, airplanes. But the need for hasto, meat, with Turkey which would give happens. But In this way we it romed a terrible pity to leave Up to the portals of the British raft would have floated akely if

anything

hed happened her a freer hand in extending ber shall never attain what is neces- the tools behind, he said reflec- Consulate in Bordeaux dushed

Army

happen. And But nothing did On the contrary, tively." would further entangle Great, Bri- we, ahould then

Up men at the factory--they

stairs to the Consul's room his fourney ended, and this indomit- tath, but Russia could not tolerate more than ever, and the end of such were all French had decided to rushed Johns, huning the permit able man, with his travel-stained any step that might tend to close a pact would be the decisive battle pack up. They had a feat of lorries which would give him the right, to but jubliant soldiers, and his prmel- her only outlet from the Black Boot Which cannot be escaped Only one standing by to take away their own sling the lorry and its freight on our freight, drove his clorry dff the buty; they said they to whichever ship was due to sall ship at the English port and rattled Germany is at all times, an unpleacan ride. If we want to “rule, we ranchinery,

Immediately.

pupup the road to his Midland home. sant bed-fellow and her frontiers must first consudr Russia,”"" * couldn't sparë, bile for Ta

is being issued by Berlin and Rome

there

position before she is ready for it. show make a pact with Russia the news?

own-sphere, of influence, and it/sary for Ulstrust each other

*

IT was ninety miles to Bordeaux, but they stopped for nothing on the charge of

dlushed the

BQ

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