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THE prefe "Apertal to the Telegraph isterd by the songkong Tetes:aph to Indicale news which is strictly copyrisht under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinaner, 1936, Buch news Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Pre Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, ether wholly or in part without previous krrangement,

Gallants of England

in a crescendo of screaming planes net herce air fighting, the Battle for Britain hos raged for over month. It is on a seale which could not have been dreamed of a few years ago, and once more Britain is surviving one of marked her long and glorious island The German Reich is dashing its mighty mir strength against what

these arenuous tests which

story

have

has proved, so fus at least, an almost

impenetrable wall of fighting planes. Whether the present uetion is part of the main blow which is to be aimed al the Mother Country or in but the opening phase of a plan Involving an attempted sea invasion, a gleam of light is uppearing through the clouds so long obscured the which have

Ilure.

soon as the world thinks we are down, up go our tails and the fur begins to fly.

In a long experience of having my. finger on the pulse of Britain, I have never known it beat so strongly as it is beating to-day.

We

We are now at the crisis of the war. promised the world two months ago that if we could hold on just for a month we should win

Well, we not only held on for that month but we have doubled the time. And we can say now without hesitation that the tide is on the turn. Hitler is doomed. It is our job to hasten the day of his doom.

Now is the time to throw defensive ideas out of our minds and fill them with the spirit of at- tack.

I WOULD suggest for a start that we begin to talk a little less about the defence of Britain. Let us call it instend the protection of Britain. Defence sounds too much like sitting in the for- tress and waiting for Hitler. That is the last thing we want to do. We can force a stalemate But we are going to have by walling for Hitler. no stalemate ending to this war.

Hitler is going down good and hard, if it costs

us every penny and every ounce of strength we have.

Eyes On Italy

I

Where do we begin-and when? press again for action against Italy with all the force

of which we are capable.

Despite the bounce and brag of Mussolini, the heart of Italy is not in this war, Mussolini, once well liked in his own country, is now widely hated there. One good reverse and Sawdust Caesar's throne will rock.

we have the Already there are signs that

In the skies they are measure of the Italians.

no match for our grand airmen, although they have a vast superiority in numbers.

I am told So far as the army is concerned. by those who should know that the Italians in the last war were heroes compared with the Italians in this. We know what that means.

We have not tried our strength against the Italian Navy yet except in submarine chasing, the results of which have been very gratifying, but although un paper the Italian Fleet is far men have complete confidence in us in turn show him what war stronger than ours in Mediterranean waters, our the result of any battle.

is. It will, in any case, be good But we must not leave the practice for us before we start Italians in peace to dodge the on the chief gangster, issue too long. We must get rid

THE Air Force is already re- of this old men's nonsense time being on our side. We ported to have broken communi. The cation between Germany and want the job over soon.

the Brenner Pass. lives Italy at longer it lasts the

tions left St. Gothard Tunnel will be lost, and our young lives There are two other rail connec- are precious.

and Mont Cenis.

more

of

are

Both We must goad the Italians vulnerable, because the railway There is now no question of Britain being defeated in this air battle. The into sending their fleet out. lines on the Italian side emerge

raining between steep cuttings. spirit of her people has proved to That can be done by strong and resolute, and the skill, yourage, and tenacity of her young barnba on their inland cities and

ur men have indicted such appall-shells on their seaporta. Pound

that

even

them into action.

Choose Five

and do it.

Ramparts We Watch!

CARIBBEAN SEA Q

CALBURT

and set the forests of Germany need that if Hitler possessed

If his air strength is so great there And let us not forget that

Why his airplanes” Are are other weapons than high explo- where

send 1,000 instead of sive bombs. A fortnight has passed doesn't he

You may argue that he is since I first suggested that we should 190?

moment he take advantage of the dry weather keeping them for the

con- needs them, but I am alight from end to end. Still nothing

hos 30,000 airplanes of which he has been done.

boasted we should never have been

We b But make no mistake, it can be able to take a single one of our boys done. It should be done. And we of the Dunkirk beaches, should insist on it being done.

the

If Hitler had the airplanes, he would have used them, because it

Architect Advises was vital to him to obliterate that

A landscape architect who was Army. He did not do it because he And because he could consultant to several huge estates could not of German landowners tells me that not be lost the war.

to cause a forest are on the calos- trophic scale we want would be a matter. But he adds the simple warning that if we delay more than

But Act Now

So let us have less fear of Hitler

A few heavy bombs there would bring down a mountain- side on the railways. Let us go a few weeks the best opportunities and more faith in ourselves. Don't

will be lost. So why delay?

He

says: The Germans I have seen a suggestion that

summer. It would be possible to with us. her air Take the five chief cities of a few depth charges dropped always petrified of fire in the late we might as well make peace with increase

now

herself.

were

let us hear any more defentiam, or any more of this stupid talk that Do quarrel Hitler because he has

Italy and set about their swift into Vesuvius might destroy the cover with flames and smoke hun- If he has come to the stage now

ing insces on the enemy that we know Britain can withstand

The vita! isa- beuvler assaults.

fact lies in the portance of this knowledge that Germany nearing the maximum in striking power. She may the number of machines sent over Britain, but she is rapidly approach ing the limit of safety for Once she goes beyond this she will be risking the whole existence of her uir force. Too great an effort would mean that the much vaunted Luft- waffe would smash itself into such state of disorganisation moralisation suffer from her own mussed air Mussolini wanted war. altacks in this war as she suffered

and de-

no

matter how

to the bombing and the forest fires. man and woman,

born, who has the nerve to any

otherwise.

and systematic destruction. Give protection erected there to pre- dreds of miles of Germany, and on

of smoke them a dose of what the German vent disaster in the event of an the minds of the population a huge that he has no quarrel with us, we overhanging the certainly have a quarrel with him.

And we are And

going to enrry that dive bombers gave Rotterdam. eruption. It may sound fantas- pall

When Hitler found himself on tic, but if it is possible why not country for weeks would have on quarrel through to the bitter end.

enormous effect."

AND here is another idea to add I would arrest and shut up every the spot after the rape of Poland try it?

If we can make Naples into he is reported to have said:

Germany's jugular vein-the high The French want war. Well, another Pompeii no one in this Cut

BUT do not underestimate the country is going to object. A River Rhine.

The Rhine runs the whole length

Hitler are inflamed with a fanatic- crusaders. factory as boiling oil-once a

them German army in the west needs in normal weapon of war-and as men and supplies, must cross it. If Ism which makes

which they are prepared to die. L a first-rate disaster for will tell you two stories. constant Nature has stored it on the pre- we could destroy the bridges it evil and beastly as are the ideals for harassing which the raiders receive mises we might as well try to would be Germany. A third is the use it.

A German was brought into a feld we cannot bomb them be hospital in France with difcuit terrain for air navigation of the Mediterranean will take operation, too costly in lives and too With its narrow, winding country

that Germany would they shall know what war is. lttle molten lava is just as satis- of western Germany. All that the task that lies before us. The hordes

from massed infantry attacks in the

last.

What has happened so far is a promise of what is to come.

be a matter of scale, but the general results will be the same namely,

them.

losses

ia

the

Another years.

from British fighters.

So let

Now,

fact that England 19 a notoriously I do not think the sanitisation cause it would be too slow to shattered leg. He was almost, un-

roads, Its puzzling network of railway us very long if we

the

guide signs.

immediate

once

face.

a badly

that heavy losses will be inflicted on the raiders in the ratio of about one

get uncertain in results. But the Rhine conscious when the anesthetist came remove the leg. Suddenly he awoke Europe. machine destroyed in five, that the lines and its patchwork of small fields down to it. But that, of course, is one of the fastest flowing rivers in to prepare him for the operation to:

be and woods, it is deficient in identis only a beginning. The real corresponding British

Why not, as I have suggested in as the mask was being put to his comparatively small, and that the fable landmarks or

"What are you doing?" be cried. damage caused by bombs, extensive German raiders are therefore lable job on hand is the defeat and other schemes, harness Nature to and levous though it may be, will to become lost and drop their bombs the punishment of Hitler and help from dive bombing, planes in they told him. "You are going to us? Drop ordinary floating "You must have un anesthetic," This has not inflict morial wound on the on mistaken objectives has every German, big and little, in hundreds between Mannheim and have an operation. It will be pain- nation. The results will not justify apparently happened many times, the enormous effort and cost which and the reason why the British his gang. Whatever goes before Cologne. The fast-moving river will ful and this will save you pain.

carry the mines downstream. What will not have it," he said. "I Germany is putting into obtaining authorities are chary of announcing is only a preliminary to that.

the names of places, particularly The same trick that in a ever they touch will go up-bridges, can suffer pain for my Fuehrer."

barges, and even the river bank. And he did. This L thoroughly considered small places, affected by raids is that

Another German lay in hospital on statement, because the information the revelation of suth names would smaller way will surely bring which, incidentally, carry the

the British enable the Germans to check their down Mussolini will in turn de- ways. Every hang would be a prize, the edge of death. There was only being given out by authorities is accurate and reliable. navigation.

stroy the German gangster. big or small

saved, and they prepared for it. There is no exaggeration in the It is almost with relief that we can That trick is attack, not de. Is it worth trying? Remember one way in which his life might be

that once

the forward to

mines were down the

"What are you doing?" he moaned. figures supplied about German planes look

fast-flowing tide would make sweep-

"We are giving you a blood trans- destroyed, and no diminution of our future, We are nearing the end of fence..

an WE have plenty of evidence that ing impossibility. Come O fusion," they told him. own losses. As much as can be safely that unpleasant period, when the

He spun into alertness. divulged about the damage.caused by worst lay ahead, when people were the Gormans do not like to be hit. experts! Think it over But hurry.

NO doubt some of the people in whose blood?" he demanded. the bombs is divulged. Many Hong-constantly wondering what it would only last week there were curious

thesc For statements on

"A Frenchman has given it for kong people, far away from the scene, be like "when it really started."

the German radio high places will demur that

they replied. are asking how much damage is the Royal Air Force it means the

fa that really being done. There is a fcal-end of a long strain. The strain or which suggest that the Germans suggestions' are not war according 17 youth French blood," he shrieked

once promised by Goering that no the text-book. My answer ing that this must be heavier than it fighting is not nearly so bad for the British plane could ever reach them you have got to get down in the "I will not have it in my veins.”

And he did not. So he died.. appears on the surface. It can be fighting airman as the strain of sitare now being driven crazy by our gutter with Hiller and fight as he

These are the men you are fight- sinted authoritatively that the Britishing down and waiting to

fight nightly poundings.

fights. Devise and use every hellish communiques give as accurate a There may be some dark days ahead; statement of the real position as is heavy blows may be inflicted and The German radio speaker actual instrument you can think of and Ing To defeat them, those who

damn the Queensberry rules for the

ness must be Crusaders too, prepared possible without betraying valuable } there may be pain, tears, and Korrow. (ly said that unless the Germani Airuration." You can't tame a tiger with night the good fight for righteous- information to the enemy. Owing to But the young Callouts of England Force was sent over England the

thing in the milk.

die, but determined that their ideals a number of reasons, neither the have proved themselves of the same people in the Rhineland would rise saucer of milk. So let's put some to suffer, prepared, if necessary, to material destruction nor the casual breed as the men who overcame the in revolution to demand it.

"Ahsome will-any, Hiller tles are us heavy as might be thought. might, of Spain in 1888, the menace. Chief of these reasons is the excel of Napoleon in 1810, the plans of the What a revealing thing to say, reply". Of course he will:. But the shall live whatever the cost o

What a hint. What an invitation to longer the war lasts the more we lence of Britain's air defences, which. Kaiser in 1914-18- have now been in course of prepara They have shown that they can us. Bomb, bomb, bomb night after realise that some of Hitler's strength

night, day after day.

le blud tlon and perfecting, for nearly two do their job.

".

win

John Gordon