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It means that the Burnsion continent is shot off from the world on three sides. Europe bring geographically no more than the north-western pen insula of Asia

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The FIUE3L1:4-5C་ blockad stretches from Shanghaik wan, where the Great Wall enters the sea, to Haiphotige, 2,000 miles distance of mensured along the steamship route down the China const; the British blockude reaches from the North Cape inside the Arctic Circle round the Arctic Circle round the At lantic const of Europe and through the Mediterranean to Haifa. a distance of 5,000 miles. Thus both navies have

a formidable length of coast- line to watch.

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Asia To Europe Beyond that there is no possible compari- Hon the task of the mightier British navy is incomparably more difficult.

It is not merely that the European coast is far more hazardous complicated and

than the China coast, it is not that Dictator Europe has a navy of sorts, whereas China has none, and cannot build one because she has not a single seuport but Japan has large armies operating

the China coast and mainland. There is no point where a ship could discharge cargo with the hope of reaching the Chinese armies in the interi-

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There are a dozen overland routes from Asia into Europe over which Great Britain has control-through Mur- mansk,

vin or

the Trans- Siberian railway,

the the Turk-Sib railway and Caspian Sea, and others. But 19 soon 18 Japan had, by diplomatic pressure, stopped the passage of arms to China by the French railway from Haiphong, and similarly closed the Burma Road, she had almost completely cut off China's land communications with the outside world.

Although there are several over- Jand routes. into China from the. south and west-ong runs east- wards from Mandalay to Kengtung for example-on the Chinese side of the frontier they are too primf- tive to be of use because munications Inside China have only of lato years been developed beyond the horse-and-cart stage. One possible motor road remains open, that through Russian Central Asla into north-west China.

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If we compare the areas under blockade, we find that Europe, ex- cluding tussin, has an area of, in round numbers, 1,010,000 square miles

about half of which (803,459 square miles) chemy territory

blockade purposes, However, for all Europe

control. under China proper, comprising the 18 provinces, has an area of just un- der 4.300,000 square iniles, of which about aquarters uneasily occupied by Japan. While the blockude of this huge territory is ns thorough By the blockade of Europe, its effects are less felt to proportion, as China is less dell- cately organised.

China, It is true, cannot build u ship or launch a ship. She is even more tied to the continent than is Nazi Germany, with Infinitely in- ferior overland communications, Internal and external. Neverthe- less, It must not be forgotten that the land frontier open in her rear is three times as long as the Euro- peon land frontier open to Ger- many.

Closed Burma Road

The immediate situation for China is critical, The closing of the Burma Road marks the last move in the total blockade by Ja- pan. Though it is now the close scason for dirt rouds within the monsoon belt, there is a real dan- ger that it has been closed for the

moral duration. The

effect is

bound to react unfavourably on up-keep, so that by the end of the rains, in November, a deterioration will have set in...

Neither China nor Japan shows the least inclination to make peace; .and it will be an awkward mo-

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one another morally

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111 votes Trestn China and unlike Germany. she proslarISM other ores No amount of block- infe can deny

her these. Industrial Chino. inluding the coal and iron fisterets of the nurth, and the seal factory ventres of Shanghai, Carlon and Hankow, is in enemy hands

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This includes practically the en-" fire net-work of ruilways and the northern

between the Tire plain Yangtze and Yellow rivers Sull more sigilleant is the fact that In-

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these cow supply materials of which Germany is most in need, especially rice, co- conut, cotion, rubber, teak, iin, mid wolfram These also might reach Germany overland you China whal Rusall

working nline between Germany and China as a result of the Continental blorkade is logicul but difficult to nehirve--physically Lecause of the great distances to be covered, in regions scantily populated; politically bernuse Russia 15 the Birthpin of any mutual assistance pact.

Russian and Chinese interests conflict in Central Asin, Russion and German Interests in south-cast Europe, In any event the streng- thening of the trans-Continental routes will take time, perhaps a generation, and the need is press- ing. That is why Hitler has been urging his clutms in tropical Africa, which is much nearer and might be expected to supply him until Asia is ready.

China And The Axis

The final outcome of the blockade must be to speed-up in every way trans-Continental communications by land and air, and to drive agri- culturally rich China Into the ans of industrially organised. Europe, with Russia as Halon,

This is what is happening in Asia now. China is being drawn as by a magnet towards the Axls. Nor would this paradoxical result make for improved relations between". London and Tokyo. Taking the short view, Great Britain, with her hands full in the west, had to close the. Burma Road or suffer certain obvious consequences. Taking, the long view, it was a profound mis- take, for little worth; nor is it too

ment when Britain is asked to relate to make amends to a vallant open the road. On the other hand,

country fighting for freedom,

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Dover is Mastering

the Enemy's Tricks

By L. D. HUNTER

those of us who knew

The traits of Dover dur-

our lust period of disagree- ment with Germany the first months of this war presented a strange contrast.

From the early days of the 1914-18 campaign We had been confronted with a Ger- man penetration to the coast. with

Not that such netivities are in despised, nor are any way to be they easy to counteract But we have heard of none of the specta- culer destroyer combats with which Dover was so much assoct- ated in the last

war

sional submarine hunt, ending in kill, was the only event of moment during the Brat seven or eight months of the

war; if we except. the epic of the evacuations.

Since May, however, there have bren factors which have changed Not only is the enemy once inore upon the door-step, but almost has he entered the hall; at least be hus created the impression of a desire to mount the stairs.

all that. Nieuport-Bains some 20 miles, S.E. of the sorely- tried town of Dunkirk as the high-water mark of the enemy's advance, Dover sen forces were thus carly M conciled to the permanent presence of the enemy within i few miles of their gates, and took action accordingly.

Almost daily contact with shore batteries and surface ships was the order of those days, in addition to the opera- tions necessary for the block- ing of the Straits against enemy submarines. Although the air menace in all its mo- edern aspects confronted Dover from the beginning of the present war, this last duty prevention of submar- ine activity--was the princi- pal pre-occupation of the Command there during the winter of 1989 and the spring of 1940.

News of surface craft like- ly to menace the Dover area only began to come through during the weeks preceding the invasion of Holland and Belgium.

Indeed, if reports are to be believed, even to-day the sur- face forces of the enemy are ... for the most part conspicuous by their absence even since the Continental shores of the Channel were laid open to them, and would seem to have been principally used for the hit-and-run operations of motor torpedo-boats.

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Under the constant menace of the air from bases brought unplea- santly close, and even-If the ex- perts are to be beloved-of long- range bombardment from the Ger-, man-occupied coasts across street, in support of unwelcome callers, Dover has had to readjust, Its outlook on life in general in a manner which seems almost un- believable to veterans of the Inst war.

Barbed wire entangle- ments, interspersed with pill- boxes and other precautions for the disillusionment of the enemy lie athwart our usual promenade, and the daily life of naval and military organ- isations has had to adapt it- self to the stern requirements of the sirens' frequent wail- ing.

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The problem is being met, of course, by provision of offices un- derground, where it is possible for the machinery to function regard- less of whistle-blowing, sirens and therefore gunfire. Underground, has coyly retired

the army,of "black-coated workers" necessary to the servicing of a modern car- rison

and

naval base and evert some of the militant ranks retire thither likewise in the intervala of their above-ground activities.

to be encoun- Opposition had to bo tered from some die-hards, and also from the high officers of the women's services, jealous for the well-being of their charges thus condemned to something like trog- lodyto existences, though it is acknowledged that means must be found for essential work to be con- tinued.

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