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FRANCE was not conquered in 43 days. France

collapsed in 43 days. The French defeated FRANCE COLLAPSED

themselves and they know it.

What happened was the logical consequence of the BECAUSE

last ten years of French social and political history and

if there had been less misty-eyed journalism, the world

OF

would have been better prepared for the shock. There INTERNAL DECAY

was relatively little Fifth Column activity.

.

*

Our definito impression was gasoline. Not until last Thurs- The French people. —essen- was appalling. We have not that there has been little hard day did the military. finally tially good, though perhaps toe heard the Germans mentioned fighting since the fall of Paris, order all refugees to stay put, civilised, given to too much except with a kind of impersonal we saw virtually no wounded at traffle which, in some areas, had ending most of this senseless. food, drink and above all talk respect. All one heara ia bitter

any time, which was explained paralyzed military operations. --had forgotten how to work. recriminations made in an at- by the rapid German advance,

* Two hours for lunch was still tempt to explain the defeat.

Considering the numbers in- the governmental rule, right to Troops are fed up with the

volved, casualties are probably The Government pulled up people, the Government and

suddenly on June 14, heading. the bitter end.

surprisingly low. Bombing in a officers are apparently looking

terrifying instrument, but at for Bordeaux in shameful bed- As one old lady put it, "We after their own skins. Every worst it is child's play compared lam, one feature of which was are responsible for this terrible one is brokenhearted, angry and with intensive artillery prepara. the spectacle of fat senators. thing France needed a lesson, expecting the worst.

tions and drumare barrages of with plush cars and lush women demanding priority in miles-long but this is a very cruel one." All reports agree that the the last war. There was no However, the basic sin for which officers, one of the strong points machine-gunning of the ronds refugee queues at the few gas the French are now punished of the French Army, falled their with refugees and only a small pumps. Was their long tolerance of men and their country. Cer- amount of bombing for military France was not united before stupid, bureaucratic, corrupt, tainly we saw hundreds among purposes, slothful, hopelessly ineffective the refugees, evacuating their

There were no reports of any war had unified it failed to re- leadership.

own wives and families. We German frightfulness, unless cognise facts. On the contrary, The final debacle started June noticed the mingling of refugees one considers attacks on military many intelligent Frenchmen 9, the day the Government left and defeated troops all the way roads containing refugees in thought the war was

with that category, and these were bad idea, preferring a prosper- Paris. The rapidity and the from

ous, if weak, France to a vic- extent of disintegration-moral- (amilies, army trucks with civi- confined to northern France.

torious France impoverished by ly, economically and militarlly- lians.

The idea that the French the efforts of forty million people would fight only when their back to maintain their ascendancy on was to the wall is another lovely the Continent. myth. Much of the French Army fought hard and well; and they governed France until

The First

The second year of the war opens with Hitler savagely un- leashing his air force against Britain, because he ta impotent at all other fields. The anniver- sary of our declaration of war Since Brilaan m full command of the sen, Hitler deprived of the initiative on land and air and the British Empire far powerful than it over has been before in history.

The derision of this war will

The

Tours soldiers

Year

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, September 3, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20013

second year with every hope of ultimate sucerss We must not

20.

French officers

the war and the belief that the

A very

These were the men of Munich

and unprepared as we were two thousands of years ago, nay, twelve months were courageous and loyal,

Our Navy remains to us as our first and priceless heri. tage, and we have shown that French Army being the best in for in France. The reaction to on land and in the air we can the world was a pathetic illu- the news of the pence was com transform ourselves under sternsion. Its personal stoppiness plete, bitter grief. A soldier necessity into the world's fore-

"We've been led by men

March. There are million of French workers brought up on But the old saw about the Marxiam who saw little to fight

most military power--not for was not, as people have naively said: purposes of aggression, but to insisted, a sign of its democracy, with the hearts of rabbits."

to defend but a sign of its inadequacy, extirpate evil and

if there was ever a country fiberty.

Preparations were inadequate, ripe for revolution, it is Franco In this second year of war. material was inadequate, leader- to-day. The rich French refu-

be attained through the instru. disguise from ourselves that the the Empire must bend all its ship Wils inadequate, morale gees on the train to Lisbon mentally of the British Navy, road to victory must still be energy and resources to the one in the first-line горя and it will depend in the main long and painful. The task great and paramount task of actually high, but once a great the entire country to prevent

upon the outcome of the Battle which lies before the British brating Hitieriam, In Hongkong

was hoped the Germans would occupy

Officera trying to

triumph after triumph for Hit- from the threat of bondage, but Fund for the purchase of aero-

planes. The SUTU total the rout of Corap's Ninth Army is summarily pushed out of fine by

F!

of Britain Bow raging in the people must be judged, not by we must do our share by the army starts to crumble nothing disorder. skies.

calculations of the extent from only method at present available will stop the process.

claim military priority in the The first year has witnessed which we can

free ourselves 10 us, by subscribing to the War

I don't believe the complete gasolihe queues last week wero

ler, but the collapse of France by a steady contemplation of was and will remain his last, the wide areas of Europe from people of this Colony can offer typical. Five months ago Ninth the embittered civilians. When, nothing compared to

the Army

permissionnaires unless he decides upon further which the Germans and their

were in the little village of Branne, enormous expenditure trequest against weak neigh- Judas-ally italy have still to be

which talking about discipline dif- outside of Bordeaux, a group of bours in the Balkans. The dislodged. All but half a dozen must be incurred by the Mother

culties. When it broke, the officerless, hungry, exhausted obliteration of France is the last European countries are

land in the prosecution of the under and most striking of Hitler's the heel of the conqueror and War,

But our contribution, add-officers went home to evacuate troops turned up just out of the ed to those from the other their families. The men just line, the villagers tried to gouge achievements. But he has not they all look to us for freedom, defeated the spirit of many of

Colonies, is like the grain of kept walking. Six hundred were them on the few bottles of wine Our greatest task yet lies be- sand that goes to build the picked up later in Paris cafes, they could afford, but then re- the people of France, just as the spirit of the peoples of Nor. fore us. We have learned much mountain. More particularly, way, Belgium and the Nether from the first twelve months of the spirit animating the Colony's An unconfirmed report says one fused to feed them because they hands demand that the war be warfare. If Britain and the contribution is ever-important, out of six was shot, along with couldn't pay. We finally fed When last heard them ourselves out of our fought to successful conclusion. British people have to make for. In donating whatever small many officers. Our powerful armies in Egypt yet heavier sacrifices and to sum we can afford, we are volun-of. Corap was in Paris writing canned-goods reserve. The next bide their time, but are not face further grievous losses, we tarily casting back into Hitler's his memoirs, but presumably, time those soldiers are hungry meant to remain motionless for have always found salvation ns teeth the pre-war boast that the

an Empire in this war of wars. Empire would disintegrate the along with a number of other they'll take what they want and

similar characters, he was no nonsense. Yet though we enter the We are no longer unsuspecting moment Britain went to war.

Levacuated in the paddy wagon,

ever.

TRAWLER

At a word spoken through megaphone the skipper brings

NIGHT PATROL

21

By Second Officer]

his vessel alongside the battle- their faces the while with filthy

sweat-rage.

Alone in the bows, the look-

man.

wheel-house to join the lusk-out

"What do you make of it?" "It's a ship, sir, so far as I can ship, and down a rope-ladder

make out," come a lieutenant and a handful

Suddenly the lleutenant yells turn- of men. Each man is heavily

thut his voice clad in oilskins, sou-wester and out man stares into the gloom,ng his head of so

may carry. "Hard-a-starboard. the menboots, and carries his food for constantly dodging behind

The trawler swings round in ons- the night. Slipping her ropes, little canvas screen erected for wer to her helm. Out of the dark- the trawler moves away into the his protection. On through the ness comes a ship, bearing down gathering dusk.

night the trawler keeps her vigil, upon the trawler.

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•

•

"Signalman Challenge!" yells the Suddenly the look-out stiffens. For lieutenant. moment he thinks he sees a blob

Towering high above

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Civil disintegration was first evident in the north where was clear that one shot would In Rayonne, on June 21, it

workers in some industrial

have touched off a ghastly towns awoke to find that civil bloody mess. The city was full authorities, factory manage of French and foreign fat cats, ment and the best families had with big cars and expensive fled in the night.

women, just ripe for paving One of the village authorities, bricks. panicked, commandeered a train

French troops rescued from and put the entire population Cherbourg had just landed, aboard, chuffed off for Paris, haggard and hungry.

When a only to be told to go back go terrific thunderstorm came up, Outside the harbour the sea is

to work.

these troops threw themselves choppy; white horses shine in

flat in the mud at the first the gloom, and a waft of hazy

The headlong evacuation of thunderclap, which made them smoke blows over the starboard of blackness a little more black than boat are the bows of

the patrol Paris began on June 9. What look foolish and, therefore, quarter. The forepart of the the surrounding night. But how

cruiser, her was needed was: (1) clear, con- sorer than ever. funnel is soon covered with aorten has he Imagined queer shapes water at slow speed. The blurred

R.A.F. con- protruding rpm cutting trough the white coating of brine.

atant radio directions as to who tingents were pouring into the like ships and submarines during the outline of the bridge comes into should go, where to go and how which looked like more British city for evacuation to England, past forty-five minutes! He watches view, with the faint indication of Inside the wheelhouse are and waits.

funnels abaft it.

to get there; and (2) efficient rattling. The Portuguese con- three figures. In the middle is

In the wheel-house the three men cruiser's deck. She is a friend, mak-

A light flashes downward from the road policing. There was nei-sulate was literally besieged, re- the helmsman, energetically sense something unnatural. For aing for harbour, and timing her arrther. When the French radio quiring five men with rifles to spinning the wheel; on his star- tense moment all words cease. Then val to coincide with the first streaks should have been going copiers to get four of us in and hold the door. It took two sol- board side, jammed into the "Seems to me as if there's a ship of dawn. Presently the trawler foremost corner, is the skipper, ahead of us, skipper," says the alters course to return to harbour, istantly in an effort to control one, of them got clubbed with a a hardy old seadog, while to port lieutenant.

and a little later again makes contact this incredible population move rifle for pushing us too fast. Is the lieutenant. Between them. "Ayo,

The with the ship that nearly ran her ment, much of it entirely un- Altogether, the effect was a seems, to mc. 80," they keep the boat on her course, moment he speaks into the

skipper replies doubtfully.

Out of the grey mists of early necessary, it was playing dance most dreadful atmosphere, pro- keep each other company, and pipe in front of him.

morning come towering funnels and keep a sharp look-out. Qe "Stand-by, below"

masts. Ship after ship passes, until

music or repeating over and bably not fully realised in casionally they stamp numbed The uncertain shadow grows, and whole squadron in line has steamed aver stale communiques. The America. feet.

darkens. Then comes the look-out's by.

The lieutenant hall, his voice compelling, yet" not

glances al the Upon the funnel casing in the over raised,

skipper,

and went on days and days with Man Of 72 Dives In That lee of the wheelhouse are gather- "Ship ahead, sir."

must have been a near half of France fleeing, the other ed the handful of naval ratings,

thing, old, man. We were right in ght ahead!"

To Save Boy Evacuee amongst that lot, and must have half watching fascinated. Final- save for one man who is on look- A moment before a group of sleepy missed them by a narrow margin."

When a boy evacuee from Acton, "Sure," replies the skipper, shrug the virus of flight would w., fell from landing steps into the out duty in the bows. Theymen were huddled together, Now

infect watchers and they too river at Tatnes, Devon, a man who the signalman, ging his shoulders, "we certainly do huddle together for warmth. lamp on band, ready to flash the see life."

could not swim held on to a rope and Below in the stokehold, the challenge, the crew of the 12-pounder alongside the battleship. A hard, not really knowing where they He could not reach the boy, so

Presently the trawler again draws would pack and take to the road, jumped to save him trawler's own stokers keep their are hurriedly removing

firm hand-shake passes between the

ahead, sir."

everyone a tense,

by a torpedo. N

down.

Next

voice-|

a canvas

result was utterly demoralising

a

watch, appearing at intervals over, while two torpedo men stand lleutenant and the skipper. Tho were going or why, These Fents scientist, dived and recued above deck level to snatch, a "Bring the gun to the ready," cries the rope ladder flung down to them. of food and, more important, fe in hospital recovering

officer and his handful of men, climb hordes stripped the countryside the boy, M

The boy went home, but Mr. Kent "breath" "of "cold" air, mopping the "Heutenant," jumping from the Another patrol is over.