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extranetiens with eenballon of The European fainties from Hongkong to Australia Issures which hitherto have rental- ed slumbering beeruse other aspecÈR of more ahmediate import have been Devopying the official and lay mind will shortly require attention and drand des int These lasuFER they ate feneral were indicated a our Final Edition yesterday in which an Lealth and strikesman gave Government's jeeply to var His Famous which have (been widely exculated in the Colony
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"THEY ALL SAY IT, BENITO!"
Hitler's Army
didn't do it all
F. G. H. SALUSBURY, War Correspondent sums
up his impressions and reveals the amazing weakness of France's military masters,
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I would have liked to be assured the disposition reflected £1 muiltary genius beyond ordinary human comprehension,
HE Prime Minister has said that the British Govern- ligh ment is grieved and amazed Oort's disponi at the acceptance by the Bordeaux Government of the terms dictated by the Germans.
It remains to ensure against future rief and amazement for those people who still believe that freedom is worth the most com- plete and Lerrible sacrifice.
you were in no position to retailnte 11 Kind and you allowed him to make all preparations on his own side of the frontier down to the last gation of petrol.
retreat.
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What Nazi Rule Would Mean To -YOU-
By George Lathan, M.P.
The handful of defeatista and Fifth Columniste- who still lürk among us are saying that it wouldn't make much difference
to us If Hitler won. "Things would naturally be a little dif- ferent", they say. "A few politicians and journalists would probably be shot, but the rest of us would be all right."
Well, next time you hear any- · one talking like this, ask a few questions. Study the facts in this article and ask your defent- ist friend to explain them away if he can!
The Nazis have declared that "n lower rnce needs less living space, less clothing, less food and less culture than a higher race," and to the Nazis every man, woman, and child who is not a German belongs to thin "lower race."
The Nazis have no hesitation In putting this belief into prac- tice. They fire systematically starving the people in the coun- tries they have invaded.
In Holland, every person is rationed to two and & half ounces of flour a week. In Nor- way, bread, flour, rice, peas, coffee and sugar have been rationed. The margarine indus- try has closed down. A quar- ter of her cattle have been slaughtered and the meat ment to Germany.
In Denmark 5,000,000 hens were killed and sent to Ger- many. In Poland, no Pole over six years of age can buy milk. In the earliest stage of the war Poles have a green ration card, the French had made a most gallant German's a red. And if you advance through Warndt Then they were ordered to if you get any food.
the Forest ofhave a green card you are lucky It is often. announced that holders of green High Command bad remem- bered its manners.
It decided to cards will not be allowed to buy sacrifice the tonic effect of an ad- butter or margarine for Vance on their armies to the dull, week. sparitiess deity of strategical retreat. Thousands of Paris workers
I remember a general in command of a
are being left to starve because a French army telling me how In other words, a sudden German attack might catch a proportion of
difficult it was to explain the neces- they have refused to work for This means a violent reversal of trained men in France and they of retreat to the troops, and their German masters. Make the psychology which, until re- tanks in England.
how many of them had refused to no mistake, we, too, should find cently, inspired the strategy of the
obey the Arst order to withdraw. ourselves on a starvation diet Allied High Command, a strategy of
This policy of retiring resistance From the first day of Nazi inaction. Incompetence and fatuous
to an attack made at the
enemy's optimism.
sweet will bad a disastrous effect. triumph. German troops would
Mr Stanley replied thai the armoured division was in England because it was thought beat to have It there for training purposes.
FATAL DELAY
This is practically what happened Its resulta have been appalling The armoured division was actually Let us realise that our only hope is
on its way over when the German immediately to catch a bus which invaston began. will overtake the one that an Emul. nent Statesman declared Hitler had missed.
The French General Staff, where the disease originated, had suffered from a Superiority Complex for
Hory of attack.
All through that lung Winter and years It was fatal to initiative. Spring the High Command dit faint to imagination, fatal to the nothing to complicate Hitler's plans He was allowed to move frat and was then followed weakly and too late.
THEY KNEW !
The Maginot Line, which cessed here it would have been of in- esilmable value. was based on a throry of retreat. Plant that in the winda of your fighting soldiera before ever a shot has been fred. Many weeks before the invasion and you will have a lot to answer of Norway, the war correspondents 10r with the B.EF, were told that con- of
The Line WLA generally well centrations of ships, troops and behind the frontier.
It was pro inaterial had been observed at Ger- tected by troops whose function wRA man ports on the Baltie,
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Che was to the effect that either the Imperial GoverninerCl CH the Hontkung motherfars were investigu lang pion whetrhy a certain MULTY of my would be paid nothly to all evacuces from Hongkong now in Austraia 会员卜 121 Caer of
the suggestion n hest commonsense and fiverr raments deal was anticipated Nevertheless it is att established fact that many evaenated familles are o straightened en rupadances and when har Government spokesman declared "Naturally. the PVD VAN is the bagRCH The evan gabion, he probably intended convey that the authorities have not lost sight of the enforced plight of many families. Precisely
what method to be adopted for the alleviation not get indirated, con- sultations with the Home Guverneral this problem me in progress. Hovicaesly there must be some pulleylons. of discernment which will eliminate the possibility of those who can afford Fo gay, Inking advantage uf il beneficent Gaverument. This may volve a form of Mesus Test. The phrase, at krast in England, has earned for itself unhappy reaction. but the method, applied with fuel, sympathy arad fairness redeeming features.
POSSESSES
In considering this question เป Anuncial support for evacuees, it in salutary to renteinber that not every husband or father has been left im- poverished as a result of the evacun. tion; examples are available to show that some men are, if anything. financially better off; they send their wives and families certain monthly remittances which, while
fully adequate for needs In Australia, by no means represent the monthly out- luy necessary when their families were in the Colony.
to retreat until the enemy could be
You had selected.
We were told, under a pledge of tempted on to a battle-field which secrecy, that this meant a threat to Scandinavia, but the High Com- mand was content, apparently, to do nothing.
Not even A pamphlet raid was organised on the German prepara-
I was told personally by an ofcer
Then the idea was that you would smash him.
From September to May, among the fighting soldiers, respect declined steadily for the High Command.
France's magnifcent élan was sapped by her leaders, who were consistent to the very end.
ON GUARD !
What did the official communiqué say when Italy declared war? That the French had taken up a strong defensive position: that the Italians
had not attacked,
A
strong defensive position against the Italians! One would like to have Napoleon's comment on That.
We have been told that this is no time for recriminations. But 1 be- love that there is just time before we settle down to win this war.
I believe that to put the past briefly in the pillory is the best way of securing A reversal of the De- fensive Psychology and its Cat- Optintiam,
But you ignored the possibility of his outflanking you by fast-moving tendantly Incompetent armoured warfare-agalust which
of high rank that he had advised FUNNY SIDE UP
a bombing attack on a large Ger- man petrol reserve, whose where- abouts he knew, at the outbreak of wat His advice was ignored.
Some of us began wonder if we were really fighting a war, or merely giving a sporting exhibition of a Tewt--which is the army jar- gon for Tactical Exercise Without Troops,
INCREDIBLE
Our daintiness went to incredible lengths. I remember once writing that, because of the behaviour of his machine, a German pilot had obviously been killed before he dived into the sea.
The censor asked me if I would mind substituting "disabled" for
"killed." His reason was that the Royal Air Force must not be made to appear too
"too bloody-minded." Lest I should be accused of hypo- crisy. I have begun with these examples of the effect of the disease on ourselves. I will give 'bae more before I proceed to the original source of Infection-the French General Staff.
Complaints of financial strain in many cases. Ignore the idea of the provider making any sort of sacrifice) he insists upon making full use of his club; he denies himself none of the comforts; if anything he spends very much more en himself than be- fore, pleading inability to adapt him. self to solitude. This is not a general Indictment, but it is applicable to a section of the affected community, and usually to those who complain the most. The truth is we have got to grin and bear this evacuation; the days when we could indulge our leve it wise, to revert to the old emotions are over; the sober fact is orger; (unut then, less computing)
When Mr. Oliver Stanley, the (to) late Beuretary of State for War, paid the BEF. a courtesy visit, I asked him why there was no armoured division in France.
I did this because I knew the number of heavy tanks-apart from
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your cupboards bare. Hunger follows the Swastika.. Hitler's "Friendship" For The Workers! Hitler Ig thio "Friend of the workers”~40 Goebbels Boys But his friendship is a great deal worse than most people's hatred.
He has already torn 800,000 Poles from their homes and transported. Them 10 Germany, During this
the process
Gestapo dellberately separates husbands and wivca,
Every Pole in Germany has a dis- tinctive badge sewn on his clothes. to ensure that no German makes the mistake of saying a friendly word to him.
These Poles must stay indocre be-%. tween D p.m. and 6 am. They must not enter an inn or public holise nor any place of entertainment. Nor can they travel by bus, tram or train.
Their wages are low, their food in- adequate, and their treatment brutal. They are slaves. Norwegians, too, are compelled to undertake forced Jabour even on aerodromes where they risk death and wounds from aerial attacks. Dutchmen are being
ly paid labourer.
By Abner Dean transported to the Reich as wretched-
"You can koep there love letters I sent you from South
Africa
alf ^1^want: is "the"stamps!
Our fate would surpass any. thing that has befallen Hitler's earlier conquests. Before we were shipped like cattle to Ger- many, we should see our Trade Union, Labour and Co-operative Movements destroyed and their- funds confiscated. It happened in Czechoslovakia, the moment the Nazis marched in.
Even if the Fuehrer allowed you to keep your wireless set, you would. hear nothing but blaring military' bands and dreary vicious propaganda, for if you were caught listening to any but German-controlled program- mes you would be sent to a concen- tration carpp.
The press, the cinema, and the | theatre would be controlled." You | could neither hear" see, read, nor say what you liked. You still wouldn't be safe even if you worked like a slave, never complained about your food, read "Mein Kampf" every day, and tuned in to Goebbels every night.
For one day you might forget to give the Nazi saluto-fust like poor.. Josef Franz Pawelka, a Czoch, once- forgot. He got seven months impri- sonment for his lapse of memory
.So when' "anyone says Hitler wouldn't really do us any harm, you can be sure that he is either a foot or a traitor, Hider has, always de- lighted in onslaving free men and women. We should be no exception. Fortunately he won't get the chance, But it is just as well to bava no illu- sions about the fate he has planned out for un
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