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Dutch East Indies

{21

are

or

-American Admiration

about the makers of these bombs or about the farmers who are

because hundreds of thousands No, there is certainly nothing apa- of them simply have not got ex- thetic cited enough about the coun- felling trees and digging ditches try's danger to do anything to across their meadows to provent help her.

German troop-carrying planes from landing.

THIS attitude in general can be traced back to the inherent

to the

of

ore,

reprinted.

NOR are other likely to be a detached audience said Germany had taken on a belief that somehow they will apathetle when the present active British Government catches up with watching with intent but hostile people they would never win. America or Russin will the mistakes of is 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 ble continuity of a Greek trage- contribute to the defeat of Hit- to get across the Channel, they point where it can offer jobs

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

lo do. gium and 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 east

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 Heem to possibility that the forces in the have to spread their forces. tragedy might also apply to themselves.

cisive battle of the war ato a bad start and the general insufficiency of This is not to say, however, everything The nation has quality of men and machines-but it has not quantity in anything.

BRITISH fighter planes, they that all the people of this coun- truly pointed out, were built to try are merely sitting around

But it has, of course, its strength. The Englishman's confidence defend this island and they were waiting for victory to come to Hitler may be a mirnele man, but he has not yet mastered the elements. is boundless. As the battle for more effective here than any them.

He cannot turn water into land, and And best of all-

has a big mont As a matter of fact, only to the so long us Britain 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 uli logic, one and if, as many belleve, It has they rejoiced that now all Bri- been suggesting this should be turned advantage in the coming struggle.

reduced

to him

his

presen

The German Fuehrer

can bring.

stute, at least one cannot hair, fish troops were back home todled mon In the country should be this country to its knees in three

thinking that since it has sur- vived the Battle for France,

tle for Britain.

inten people's war, that every able-

where they could work as a 80- given

unbeatable army on lid.

the that, an

The last Is going to be

sunie kind of re-am and main ways,

He can bomb her out, in days of old, this mob starve her out, or drive her out by

remains enemy if he attempts to lansk perhaps it will survive the Bat. Simple task of the defending of my should be turned loose on the invasion, but so long as that moat

the island.

Those who suggest this would get difficult. It is not only that the Bri- around the nation's shortage of urma

If Britain la lo withstand Germany parachute tish are trying to cheer one an- by urming men with hand greandes, in this war of industry,

the

troops, sabotage and blockade, she Many of them which can be manufactured by other up, either.

hundreds of thousands in a hurry, must prove she is able to rebound sincerely have set their minds The Daily Express wants " hand

surprise attacks. If on quickly from and full these half-truths

dump nl

village craft factory is bambed, she every Krenade them, sich e anny tends to frighten the

The British are not fools and the thinking people of this country know as well as any body else what a terrific blow the collapse of France was, but

out Bome good argument

wor

placency

to

and

by repenting

going.

must,

factories. Initiative

All over this section and elsewhere their teapots along with them, they cal or panicky and waste a lot

nervous energy worrying in the country, too, peuple are be made tea and they sang songs. When Holland stopped fight- of

out that the When they found already were besleged. Ing they said it was a good thing about invasion and bombing beginning to act very much as if they

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

Down in Kent, for example, one some men on their own from attempting a desperate

this is a strength, hears about people aliing old wine started shuttering windows with steel In a way

and gasoline, paraffa adventure.

too, because as a whole they do battles with went When Norway

down not really understand the scri- tar, fusing them with firecrackers, manning machine-gun posts In It that spirit spreads as the attack how many ousness of their strategic posi- These crude home-made bombs_V. they said: "Look

cocktails"-will presumably be used increases the conquest of this island the tion or the comparative wenk Sackville West calls them "Molotov planes the Nazis lost in

Hitler. campaign," and when the Low ness of their equipment, but at against any parachute troops who at kingdom will not be easy for Adolf Countries were conquered they the same time it is a weakness tempt to land in the vicinity.

their own time.

in their eagerness not to show themselves into a state of com- pump." but though the thought of improvisation, ingenuity, hard their disappointment everybody hey want, in fact they almost General Staff here more than an in- work and imagination, get that fac- vasion by the Germans, the muve. tory going again in a hurry. It o ho felt it his duty to search insist. on believing

the best, ment definitely indientes that apathy railroad junction is bombed she must

Prime anly extends to une section of the net quickly to restore it. matter what

Alfred population.

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

weak rather than strong on the score or the editorial

IT is perhaps significant and pro- of fast, inaginative work, but it will The future of the Dutch East

THE British have a genius Duff Cooper

this Indies is a subject that is going for

sort of thing. All writers say, they keep on feel- ghetse of the future attitude of the be necessary if she has to keep her

they

have ing that everything is going to English under fire that this drive industries and vital war organisation

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

managed to find something good be all right.

has been most popular along the east the War lasts. Since the Ger

where most The people along the east coast n everything. When Poland

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 much time In shelter in bed. It caves along the cliffs and dug-outs islends represent the centre of at least Germany was not because they do not get hysteris hard to be pathetic about that. for as much as four hours; they took Dutch economic life. There are

strong as before. 240,000 European inhabitants. and of these 200,000 are Dutch. Dutch possessed of !** nationality. The Powers that

Oriental,

that have interests in the East, apart from Italy and Germany, have ex- pressed a desire to maintain the political status quo in the Dutch Erst 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

cent: cinchona per

bark (quinine), 50 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

27,735 tons of tin.

Gun

Across

The Channel

$

By HECTOR BYWATER

World famous Naval Correspondent

than

During the last war the whole of

Another factor enters into this bombardment busi-

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

THE modern heavy gun, apart mounting. Smaller guns such as the from the freak guns de- sin., can also be given great range but they are much more affected by veloped by the Germans in the by adjustments to their mountings, last war, which could fire up to wind and climatic conditions Japan is working actively at 70 miles, can bridge the Channel the heavier projectile.

at its narrowest point with ease. precent to get an large a share as possible of the product of these Certain ships of our Navy, using the Belgian coast concerned, parti- East Indies; Great Britain is their guns at extreme elevation, cularly in the vicinity of Ostend and striving to benefit, while the can lob shells up to a distance Zeebrugge, was lined with guns of every calibre, and while they did not United States is also in the field. of well over 20 miles.

Are-so far as I know-a shell into! made the passage All these countries are seeking As soon as the Germans secured England they to increase their sales so that in bases on the Channel const it became through the Strait dangerous for

that they would start a ships. return they can get the import- obvious int raw products of the islands. campaign of frightfulness against the British coast opposite. During 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 these new, German gun emplace filling up that gap in trade. It but now things are different.

for the Gunnery (and I speak as an old is in the matter of the economic

crews and possibly do great darnage rivalries now in evidence to hand at the game) at long range is ments, make things warm

Ineffective unless it is correctly

to the guns themselves.. secure the trade of the Dutch

spotted." In this case that can only East Indies that. danger for be done by aircraft. In other words, Again, we have guns which 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 Calais and Boulogne, but they will milltary authorities are not already at the same time you cut down the never in history had a decisive effect use a heavier charge and the erosion this case, will certainly bring forth in the boro increases enormously as severe reprisals. Government, now in London, be simply shooting into the blue taking steps to deal with what is "life" of the gun because you must and merely arouses anger and, in

unless they have effective spotters merely a nuisance,

you do so.

Another point to be considered is remains unwavering. They are

aloft, 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 great wealth to be maintained for

Long-range gunnery has a pecullar that shelled Paris in 1018 could fire distances are, except when the target Holland when the time comes for the restoration of that kingdom. Presuming the Germans are using fascination for the leyman, 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 an esoteric art, and yet being taken back to be relined. than those of fat trajectory, because, sacrifice much to win, but with lake 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 German monkey trick will 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 sporadie 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.

from the RAF

"I'll wait out here, Your Honour;

: nobody ever listens to

aro

me anyhow!".