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THE Meż "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is sirletly copyright wader the provisions of the Telecommun)« <om Ordinance, 1900. Such per s wears the Indication "Up" is received in Stougkong on the date of publication by

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serve all rights and turbid soyublication, misher wholly or in part without previons arrangement

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

and

him

-American Admiration

because hundreds of thousands No, there is certainly nothing apa- of them simply have not got ex- thetie cited enough about the coun- try's danger to do anything to help her.

some kindt

about the makers of these bombs or about the farmers who are felling trees' and' digging ditches.

their meadows 'ncross

to prevent German troop-carrying planes from. landing

NOR

of a specifle lend, don't know what to do.

of men and machines-bat it has. not quantity in anything.

But it has, of course, Its strength.. Hitler may be a miracle man, but he has not yet mastered the elements, He cannot turn water into land, and moal has a big

perhaps it will survive the Bat. Simple task of the defending of any should be turned lovse un the invasion, but so long as that mont

ile for Britain.

The British are not fools and the

the island.

placency

hundreds

of #

hurry

THIS attitude in general can reprinted,

others likely to be- be traced back to the inherent 1 detached audience said Germany had taken on a belief that somehow they will apathetic when the present active British Government catches up with LIKE

watching with intent but hostile people they would never win. America or Russia will

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 defent of Hit- to get across the Channel, they point where it can

one responsible notional Importance to thousands of dy, the people of Great Britain ler and his regime in the end. figure, or, as

who fre 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

It was have beaten France, to turn gium

France, and even logical and picturesque.

against the Balkans or

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

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

cisive battle of the war are a bad consider the their own island and would not England. do not seem to

start and the general insufficiency of possibility that the forces in the have to spread their forces.

This is not to any, however, everything. The nation has quality tragedy might also apply to

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

fruly pointed out, were built to try are merely The Englishman's confidence defend this island and they were waiting for victory to come to

As the battle for more effective here than any then. is boundless.

And best of all- his homeland starts it matches where else.

As a matter of fact, only in the so long ng Britain his patience and defles all logic, one heard this everywhere- past few days a lot of people have around her fortress she has a great and if, as many believe, it has they rejoiced that now all Bri- been suggesting this should be turned advantage in the coming struggle.

into a people's war, that every able- The German Fuchrer can bring reseed

to his present

were back home bodied man in the country should be this country to its Lish troops

knees in three state, at least one cannot help where they could work as a so- given

of fire-arm and muin ways. He can bomb her out. on the that, am In days of old, this mob slarve her out, or drive her out by thinking that since it has sur-

ariny fid. unbeatable the Battle for France, vived

enemy if he attempts to loud.

emains the last to going to be Thor who suggest this would get difficult, It is not only that the Bel- around the nation's shortage of arms

If Deftain is to withstand Germany thinking people of this fish are trying to cheer one an- by arming inen with hand grenades,

other up, either. Many of them which can be manufactured by the in this war of industry, parachute troops, sabotage and blockade, she rebound country know as well as any sincerely have set their minds any of thousand in a bar must prove she is abft If an body else what a terrifir blow

quickly frum surprise attacks. and lull 100 these half-truths 073

Krenade dump at every village United Pron Associations where the collapse of France war, but themselves into a state of com- pimp," but though the thought of wireraft factory la bombed, she must. by improvisation, ingenuity, hard in their eagerness nut to show

by repeating them. such an army tends to frighten the work and imagination, get that fac- General Staff here more than an in- tory going again in a hurry. If a their disappointment everybody has felt it his duty to search They want, in fact they almost vaston by the Germans, the move- railroad junction is bombed she must inmint. on believing the best, ment deamtely indicates that athy

restore it. net quickly some good argument and 110 matter what Prime only extends to one section of the minimise the present tragedy. Minister Churchill or Alfred population,

So far in this war she has been or the editorial

weak rather than strong on the sobre The future of the Dutch East

THE British have a genius Duff Cooper

IT is perhaps sigulfcant and pro- of fast, imaginative work, but it will of sort thing.

All writers say, they keep on feel- phetic of the future attitude of the Indica is a subject that in going for this

Industries and vital war organisation the war they have ing that everything is going to Englishman under fire that this drive be necessary if she has to koop her

for mob action against the Germans to keep cropping up as long as through

going. has been most popular along the east the War lasts. Since the Germanaged to find something good be all right.

Poland

where most This is at once a strength and cost of the country,

The people along the cast coast mun conquest of Holland these in everything. When

collapsed they pointed out that

n weakness. It is a strength Grimman raids lave spent almost ns were magnificent. They went into islends represent the centre of

at least Germany was not

because they do not get hysteri- much time in shelter as in bed. It caves along the cliffs and dug-outs Is hard to be apathetic about that. for as much as four hours; they took Dutch economic life. There are strong as before.

cal or panicky and waste a lot All over this section and elsewhere their teapots along with them, they nervous energy worrying in the country, tou, people are be made ten and they sang songs. 240,000 European inhabitants, When Holland stopped fight of

oul that the When they found und of these 200,000 are Dutch,ing they said it was a good thing about invasion and bombing beginning to act very much as if they

already were besleged.

Germans were after their factorica because it prevented the Allies fore they come.

in Kent, for example, one some inen on their Down

initiative possessed of Dutch n

desperate In a way

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

too, because as a whole they do bottles with geruline, paraff and and manning machine-gun posts in Oriental,

have adventure. or that

with firecrackers, their own thine. went down not really understand the ser- tar, fusing then interests in the East, apart from When Norway

said: "Look how

If that spirit spreads as the attack many ousness of their strategic posi- These crude hume-made bombs V. they Italy and Germany, have ex-

the tion or the comparative weak- Sackville West calls them "Molotov planes the Nazis lost in

cocktails" will presumably be used increases the conquest of this island pressed a desire to maintain the campaign," and when the Low ness of their equipment, but at against any parachute troops who at kingdom will not be easy for Adolf political status quo in the Dutch Countries were conquered they the same time it is a weakness tempt to land in the vicinity. Feat 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, 85 per cent; cinchona bark (quinine), 90 per cent; kapok, 64 per cent; cocoanut products, 29 per cent; tea, 17 per cent; sugar 5 per cent; oil palm pro- ducts, 24 per cent; coffee, 4 per cent; while islands in 1938 pro- duced 8,600,000 tons of oil and

Dutch East Indies

Or

are

27.735 tons of tin.

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.

out

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to

AM

Gun Across

The Channel

By HECTOR BYWATER World famous Naval Correspondent

the

the Strait dangerous for:

own

Hitler.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

Comm. 1900 by Dusted Pastur fyndesta, inn

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: veloped by the Germans in the by adjustments to their mountings, than last war, which could fire up to wind and climatic conditions 70 miles, can bridge the Channel the heavier projectile. at its narrowest point with case. During the last war the whole of Certain ships of our Navy, using the Belgian coast concerned, part- their guns at extreme elevation, cularly in the vicinity of Ostend and can lob shells 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 shell into All these countries are seeking A 600 BR the Germans secured England they made

passage to increase their sales so that in bases on the Channel coast it became through return they can get the import-obvious that they would start chips.

this Another factor ealers Into Ant raw products of the islands. campaign of frightfulness against the British coast opposite. During

bombardment busi Holland itself is now cut off from the last war they did not think it cross-Channel trade with the Indies, but the worth while to practise this form of ness. It will not be long-in fact, latter are finding no difficulty in what the Chinese call "Fierce face it may have happened now--before our aircraft spot the positions of filling up that gap in trade. It but now things are different.

these new German gun emplace; is in the matter of the economic

ments, make things warm for the crews and possibly do great damage rivalries now in evidence to

to the guns themselves. secure the trade of the Dutch

Again, we have guns which East Indies that danger for be done by aircraft. In other words, 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 their loyalty to their. Queen and Calois and Boulogne, but they will military authorities are not already at the same time you cut down the never in history had a decisivo effect use a heavier charge and the erosion this case, will certainly, bring forth Government, now in London; be simply shooting into the blus taking steps to deal with what is fe" of the gun because you must and merely anouses anger and, in

in the bore Increases enormously as severe reprisals. unless they have effective spotters merely a nuisance. remains unwavering. They are left, and we may be confident that

you do so.

Another point to be considered is the repositary of great economic these spotters will have a rough time

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

Long-range gunnery has a peculiar that shelled Paris in 1918 could are distances are, except when the target. Holland when the time comes for from, the RAF. the restoration of that kingdom. Presuming the Germans are using (ascination for the layman, who re- no more than 70 rounds without is a ship, much less to be feared: It is wealth that Germany would their ordinary naval guns, we may gards it as sh esoteric art, and yet being taken back to be relined, than those of Bat trajectory because, sacrifice much to win, but with take it that the heaviest is the 18in, 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 German monkey trick wil have no earth and in spite of special fuses is still far from realizing her can be given a range of 40,000 yards your gun, and other things being effect on the war because sporadle they very rarely cause widespread dream of a new colonial empire: or more according to the style of equal; you enlarge your range but bombardment from great range has destruction.

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

are

"'ll wait out here, Your Honour

mo 'anyhow!':

DEAN

nobody ever, listens to

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