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THE preds "Apecini to the Telegraph" in used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to Indicale arms which is strictly copyrigh under the provisiom of the Telecommuni- rations Ordinenen, 1934. Bach new ka brace the indication "U is received In Hongkong on the date of pahlication by Chr United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement

This article was sent by an' American journalist in London, James B. Reston, to the New York Times, from which it is

A

reduced him

reprinted.

troops were

lid, unbeatable army

the island.

DD

American Admiration

because hundreds of thousands No, there is certainly nothing apa- of them simply have not got ex. shetle about, the makers of these bombs or about the farmers who are cited enough about the coun- felling trees and digging ditches try's danger to do anything to cross their meadows to prevent help her.

(German troop-carrying planes from,

landing.

NOR

THIS attitude in general can be traced back to the inherent

27

at

visive battle of the war are a bad sturt and the general insufficiency of everything. The nation has quality of men and machines but it has not quantity in anything.

remning

the lust 1

knees

work and imagination, get that fue tory going again in a hurry. If a

arc others likely to be detached audience sald Germany had taken on a belief that somehow they will apathetic when the present active LIKE

America or Russia will British Government catches up with watching with intent but hostile people they would never win.

the mistakes. of its predecessors and academic interest the inexora- be able to feed and who would come in, or Hitler won't be able gets machinery speeded up to the offer jobs of ble continuity of a Greek trage- contribute to the defeat of Hit to get across the Channel, they point where it can

or, as one responsible national importance to thousands of who are dy, the people of Great Britain ler and his regime in the end. figure, have watched the collapse of Now their explanations of the journal suggested, the Germans able-bodied, young men Poland, Denmark, Holland, Bel- French collapse are equally il- may even decide, now that they willing to serve, but who, for lack of a specific lend, don't know what beaten France,

to turn to do. Kium and France, and even logical and picturesque. It was have

ngainst the Balkana or

The chief weakness of this country now, when the play is spinning bad, they admitted, but at least cast

of attacking in the present and perhaps the de down through the final act, they now they could concentrate on Russia, instead

consider the their own island and would not England. do not Reem to possibility that the forces in the have to spread their forces,

This is not to say, however, tragedy might also apply to

BRITISH fighter planes, they that all the people of this coun- sitting around themselves.

truly pointed out, were built to try are merely

But it bas, of course, ita strength. The Englishman's confidence defend this island and they were waiting for victory to come to tler may be a miracle man, but he A not yet mastered the elements. As the battle for more effective here than any them.

He cannot lurn water into land, and in boundless.

big mont And best of all- As a matter of fact, only in the so Intag as Britain has his homeland starts it matches where else.

heard this everywhere past few days a lot of people have around her fortress she has a great his patience and defies all logic, one

can bring and if, as many believe, it has they rejoiced that now all Bri- been suggesting thus should be turned advantage in the coming struggle.

The German Fuehrer Into a people's war, that every able-

in three back home bodied man in the country should be this country to sta state, at least one cannot help where they could work as a so- given

some kind of firearm and main ways. He can bomb her out. the But, we in days of old, this mob starve her out, or drive her out by thinking that since it has sur- for France. the Battle vived

going to be enemy if he attempts to land. perhaps it will survive the But, simple task of the defending of army should be turned lease on the invasion, but so long as that moot

Those who suggest this would get diffleuft. tle for Britain.

It is not only that the Bri- around the nation's shortage of arms

If Britain is to withstand Germany industry, parachute The British are not fools and fish are trying to cheer one an- by arming men with batki grenades,

in this war of this

troops, subotage and blockade, she Many of them which can be manufacturer by the the thinking people of

other up, either.

of thousands in a hurry, inust prove she is able to rebound as well a624 1973-

minda bunda edy sincerely have set their

The Daily Express wants "a hand country know

from surprise attacks. If an terrific blow

and lull these half-truths

village every body else what a

actory la bombed, she must, Rende the collapse of France was, but themselves into a state of com- pump," but though the thought of in their eagerness not to show

General Staff here more than on do their disappointment such an amy tends to frightest by

Insist on believing the best, ment definitely indientes that apathy

matter what Nome good argument to and no

Prime only extends to une section of the act quickly to restore it.

So far in this war she has been minimise the present tragedy. Minister Churchill or Alfred population:

weak rather than strong on the score" or the xxiitorial

IT is perhaps significant and pro- of fast, imaginative work, but it will THE British have a genius Duff Cooper

All writers say, they keep on feels phetic of the future attitude of the beessary if she has to keep her Mor of thing. for this

they have ing that everything is going to Englishmen under fire that this drive Industries and vital war organisation

for mob action against the Germana going. to keep cropping up as long as through the

has been most popular along the efst

where most The people ulong the east coust The War lasts.

Poland Since the Germanaged to find something good be all right.

in everything. When

This is at once a strength and coast of the country. man conquest of Holland these collapsed they pointed out that a weakness. It is a strength German raids have spent almost as were magnificent. They went into istends represent the centre of

at len Germany was

because they do not get hysteri- much time in shelter as in ed. It caves along the cliffs and dug-outs is burd to be apathetic about that. for as much as four hours; they took Dutch economic life.

All over this section and elsewhere their leapots along with them, they There are

strong as before.

enl or panicky and waste a lot

nervous energy worrying in the country, too, people are be made tea and they song songs.

out that the 240,000 European inhabitants,

When Holland stopped fight of

When they found already were besieged. and of these 200,000 are Dutch, ing they said it was a good thing about invasion and bombing beginning to net very much as if they

Germans were after their factories own initiative Dutch

Down in Kent, for example, one same men on their because it prevented the Allies fore they come. of possessed

u desperate In a way from attempting

this is a strength, hears about people filing old wine started shuttering windows with steel nationality. The Powers that

adventure.

too, because as a whole they do bottles with gasoline. paraffin and and manning machine-gun posts in Oriental.

tha! have

When Norway

down not really understand the serl- tur, fusing them with firecrackers, their own time. interests in the East, apart from

If that spirit spreads as the attack Inany ousness of their strategic posi. These crude home-made bombs-V Sackville West calls then "Molotov Italy and Germany, have ex- they said: "Look

lost in the tion or the comparative weak-cocktails will presumably be used increases the conquest of this island pressed a desire to maintain the planes the Nazis

campaign," and when the Low neas of their equipment, but at against any purnehute troops who af- kingdom will not be easy for Adolf political status quo in the Dutch Countries were conquered they the same time it is a weaknes tempt to land in the vicinity. Eest Indies, but the question of the economic status quo remains a problem. Figures for 1938 indicate the percentage share of the islands in world production of the following commodities: rubber, 33 per cent; pepper, 86 rinchona bark cent per (quinine), 90 per cent; kapok, 64 per cent; rocoanut products, 29 per cent; tea, 17 per cent; sugar 6 per cent; oil palm pro- ducts, 24 per cent; coffee, 4 per

has felt it bla duty to search They want, in fact they almost union by the Germans, the move-irond Junction is bombed she must

Dutch East Indies

The future of the Dutch East Indies is a subject that is going

or

are

or

cent; while islands in 1938 pro- duced 8,600,000 tons of oil and

27,735 tons of tin.

war

went how

not HIM

Gun Across

The Channel

By HECTOR BYWATER World famous Naval Correspondent

During the last war the whole of

THE modern heavy gun, apart mounting. Smaller guns such as the from the freak guns de- Bin., can also be given great range but they are much more affected by conditions than veloped by the Germans in the by adjustments to their mountings, last war, which could fire up to wind and climatic 70 miles, can bridge the Channel the heavier projectile, at its narrowest point with ease. Certain ships of our Navy, using the Belgian coast concerned, parti- their guns at extreme elevation, cularly in the vicinity of Ostend and can lob shella up to a distance Zeebrugge, was lined with guns of every calibre, and while they did not of well over 20 miles.

Are so far as I know-a shell into made the passage As soon as the Germans secured England they

Strait dangerous for buses on the Channel coast it became through the

ships. obvious that they would start

frightfulness against the British coast opposlte. During campaign of the last war they did not think it cross-Channel bombardment

It will not be long-lu fact, worth while to practise this form of ness. what the Chinese call "Fierce face," it may have happened now-before our aircraft spot the positions of these new German gun emplace-1 but now things are different.

warm for the ments, make things crews and possibly do great damoge

Another factor

enters into this busi-

Hiller.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

Cupr. 1500 hp Coded Posters Byodonta, bus

Japan is working actively at present to get as large a share as possible of the product of these East Indies: Great Britain is striving to benefit, while the United States is also in the field. All these countries are seeking to increase their sales so that in return they can get the import- ant raw products of the islands. Holland itself is now cut off from trade with the Indies, but the latter are finding no difficulty in filling up that gap in trade. It is in the matter of the economic rivalries now in evidence to secure the trade of the Dutch East Indies that danger for their political status may exist the Germans may and certainly have capable of replying in kind, and it in the future. In the meantime mounted. long-range guns between would be surprising if the naval and

use a heavier charge and the erosion this case, will certainly bring forth their loyalty to their Queen and Colais and Boulogne, but they will military authorities are not already the same time you cut down the never in history had a declive effect

In the bare increases enormously as revere reprisals. Government, now in London, be simply shooting into the blue taking steps to deal with what is "of the gun because you must and merely arouses anger, and, in

unless they have effectivo spoliera merely a nuisance.

you do so.

Another point to be considered is remains unwavering. They are noft, and we may be confident that the repositary of great economic these spotters will have a rough time

For example, the long-range guns that shells fired from very rent wealth to be maintained for

Long-range gunnery has a peculiar that shelled Paris in 1918 buld fire distances are, except, when the target Holland when the time comes for from the A.F.

Presuming the Germans are using fascination for the layman, who re- no more than 70 rounds without is a ship, much less to be feared the restoration of that kingdom. it is wealth that Germany would their ordinary naval guns, we may gards it as an esoteric art, and yet belog token back to be relined. than those of flat trajectory because, sacrifice much to win, but with take it that the heaviest is the 15in., it depends on several quite simple Taking it by and large this typical, they tend to bury themselves in the all her European successes she whose shell weighs nearly a ton and physical facts. Increased length of Gerinan monkey trick will have no earth and in spite of special fuses can ba given a range of 40,000 yards your gun, and other things being effect on the war because sporadic, they very rarely cause widesprend or inure according to the style of equal, you enlarge your range but bombardment from, great rungo has destruction,

is still far from realizing her dream of a new colonial empire.

Gunnery (and I speak is an old hand at the game) at long range is ineffective unless it is correctly "spotted." In this case that can only to the guns themselves.

be done by aircraft. In other words,

Again, we have guns which

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