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MAGAZINE

INDIA

AS

ARSENAL

THE trend of the war has emphasised the significance of India's position in the Im- perial chain which links the British Common- wealth together. The intervention of Italy, by widening the orbit of hostilities, has brought the enemy nearer to the outer bastions of In- dian defence stretching from Malta' to Aden, and the implications of this extended front have given new importance to strategical posi- tions in the Middle East and Malaya,

The protection of India from external aggression is primarily but indirectly secured by British and Indian forces occupying key posi- tions in Egypt;- Aden, and Singapore.

Those forcas hold all the main bulwarks in a strategie circle which the vigilance of the Royal Navy keeps intact.

In the main Indian waters are kept immune from ACO raiders by British and Indian war vessels in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Units of the Royal Air Force in Egypt and Malaya guard the country from air attack; the land frontier on the north-west is held by a friendly Power; and important. tribal elements in the belt of mountainous 'tor- rain between Afghanistan and India have shown that they are anxious to uphold British sovereignty against the in- roads of Nazism, Fascism, and Communism.

The unexpected course of the wor

in its curller stages did not Justify the creation of a large In- dian Army similar to that; which was raised in the last War: but the spread of hostilities to the Mediterranean has resulted in the Introduction of ao expansion scheme aiming at the Immediate formation of a new dind formidable jprce..

Thia measure supplements the extensive

arrangements, already made for the Internal defence of the, country, and is linked with the maintenance of, the expeditionary "forces which have reinforced gar-

rfsons abroad.

Is

Army expansion in India largely governed by the country's capacity to arm and équip the re- cruited men in a manner that will fit them for modern mechanised warfare, Indians have quickly adapted themselves to modern war weapons and machines, and there are indications that it the need arises the country, will be able to 'raise, equip, and maintain forces (as large and as competent as those raised in the last War, when more than 1,000,000 men were in the field in various theatres.

The New Army

*** Although ́n milltary" force of some thousands, adequately, equip» ped for mechanised war, is already oversen," the Army" in: India is rauch stronger today than it was

when war broke out, -

This has been achieved by the reinforcement; of: Regular | units, the embodiment of Territorials, the raising of garrison companies, and the acceptance for service of Units of the Indian States forces.

gard

'to the former polley, which restricted Indian officer recruit- ment to 21 units of the Indian Any.

more

Steps are being taken to provide for à potential output of than 1,100 officers a year. A new training centre, to be catabilshod

in

Central, India, will have 15 capacity for training 500 emer- gency commission cadets at one time on an extensive six months" course. The production of Indian officers at the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun is being speedied up. Already 381 Indians have been brought on to full pay na commissioned officers, and 130 more are at present undergoing traming at Dehra Dun,

for

The country is becoming a vast arsenal, supplying war materials Indian forces at home and -oversea, and also for Great Britain, the Dominions, and Allied coun- trics,

After an exhaustive survey of the country's industrial resources. measures are now being taken for a combined military and Industrial effort to increase the output of war supplies and military material manufactured here.

not partment of Supply, or-

The

before the war, has been into a War Supply Board, under the direction of an Indian Minister who departmental experts. servises ordinating

is co-

the activities of all ordnance factories, which have been increased in number and en- larged in size, and all civil indus- trial organisations engaged in turning out munitions and ‚war : supplies.

A Peak in Industry

In the first eight months of the war supplies from ordnance Inc- tories reached a peak which was touched only towards the end of the last War, and the steps taken to increase output will presently create records never before

reach ed in Indian experience.

Of the 40,000 items needed to equip a modern army more than 20,000 are already being produced in India. Munitions and materials sent oversea, since war broke out include: 75,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 200,000 shells. of all categories, 0,000 rifles, 0,500 tents, 4,500,000 sandbags, 10,000 Bets of web-equipment, 600,000: Blankets, 3,000,000 yards of khaki drill, 150,000 pairs of boots, 20,000 greatebats, 73,000 and 17,000 saddles.

·Groundsheets.

Under the scheme of expansion now being put into effect the most modem types of weapons and munitions will be made, including fald-guns, anti-aircraft guns, air, bombs, land mines, and depth"

charges.

Air Force expension la contem- plated. The civil aviation authorl- ties are organising the training, of " 300 pilots and 2,000 mechanics as reserve from which the Air Force in India can draw, bab

mission has gone to the United States for this purpose..

An Indian Defence Savings Movement, has been launched to facilitate regular from all sections of contributions of the people for financing the enlargement of the army. Civle Guards and distric war committees have been formed throughout the land to maintain public order and supervise local aspects of civil defence.

From The TIMES

con-

Imports and exports are trolled for the purpose of conserv- ing the Empire's currency re- Aources. Contributions continue to flow in to the Viceroy's War, Pur- poses Fund; opened to take care of unsolicited cash gifts which have poured in from Princes and peasants.

Front the neighbouring country of Nepal, which has strengthened

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its forces in the Indian Army, handsome cash gifts have been recolved. Chieftains and leaders of the frontier tribes are offering

The German Government solemnly declare the French Fleet will not be used for their own purposes

ARMISTICE TERMS

You see, Fritz, der Fuehrer is always right

their services in men and money, An intensification of A.RP. policy has been sanctioned and is being promoted.

I was in a shelled convoy

By A. J. McWHINNIE

WAS in the convoy which was sholled and bombed for nearly four hours in the Channel.

the With

finest

convoy sailors in the world, we ran Hitler's multiple gauntlet little more than Д dozen miles out from his new door- step-France.

guna

Germany's long-range shelied is in the Straits of Dover for more than three hours. His big bombers rained bomba down all round us.

We fired siz German mines. We ran through his U-boat and E-boat beat.

But the convoy, made it. There were no losses. The Channel is open for British shipping.

The captain, of the crack war- ship from which I saw it all hus just said: "Well done, boys!"

1,000 m.p.h. Shells

The "long-range" "guns firing thousand-miles-an-hour shells, we know now, are planted around the Cap Gris Nez area of the French Coast:

Co-operating with them are Ger- man spotting planes.

The shells whizzed past us. They stopped short. They fell

astern.

f

ear

Sometimes, one smashed into the sea and exploded with an spiliting. thunderous roar within 100 yards of our bow."

Everything was in Jerry's favour. But still he did not get anything in the most important convoys of the war.

Visibility was excellent. We sailed: almost midway between the two coastlines, A

The black shapes of the cargo ahlps, coasters, colliers, and trawlers, and the deep grey of the escorting warships, must have; and ground staffs are being select-stood out in the sunlight against

The necessary number of pilots,

The Royal Indian Navy has beened to meet the requirements of a

„forced at the

It was rein-

doubled in. tbreak of war Training of the Indian Air Force.": {

Capt coculsitioning

the

and

of

merchant

Gestablishments at Labore..

aval establishments at and Ambala, are being enlarged

and recruitment, la préceeding for and Karachi, have been the Royal Air Force to bring its ground, staffs up to establishment and to replace vacanele conse

ships Bem to cope with the expan enlar Gunnery,

anti-submarine slonit znine-sweeping, and tignalling schools have been extended) and a new school for training 400, boys will, make an even grooter expan alon of the Navy possible on more vessels, to be constructed in India, become available.

With the decision to enlarge the isine/02(restricted re-

quent on the dilution of stuff re-, quired by the expansion of train- ing schools.

serious limitation is the lack of machines for tralolag, craw but this is being remedied. The possibility of manufacturing al- craft (in the country,in kunder, examlaation, and, there are, signs, that this new industry. developed immediately ments

abroad

the white cllital of "Dover.

Not A Hit

But of the 145 shells they almed)

ath us from the French shore clearly visible even without glasser not one found aftarget, even though there is not a man who was

lump and Bags, hind been flashed from the escorting warships to the convoy. "Proceed with utmost

speed," they said:

You can imagine the stokers in the little cargo ships shovelling conl as they never shovelled be- tore,

Jay abcad "the Temptingly corner" of the. Dover, cliffs round the South Foreland.

Our warships raced at 30 knota up and down the lanes of British shipping guiding them, thep- herding them, and waving their greetings to stolid skippers' of: the tramp ships, who waved back and gave us the "Thumbs

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#

up" signal as each shell missed them.

Smoke Secret

Each warship acted instantly with smoke screens. The sky, from sea-level upwards, was full

of smoke.

There was black, curling, rolling, belching 'smoke from the funnels; white smoke from the enemy's shells; snowy smoke from our smoke floats, and foaming smoke, which is one of the Navy's secrets. The tolliers, the tankers, the coasters, and the tramps were blacked out behind the wall of smoke. It completely obliterated their movements from the enemy's › long

range guns.

NAVAL WAR LIBRARIES

:

N emblem of a ship's now means a great deal to men serving in the smaller naval craft at lonely bases. This is the device of the Royal Naval War Libraries. Since the end of May they have dis- tributed nearly 100,000 books and turned the once-ominous "sack" into a message of good, cheer.

A wheel on an open book

The scheme works like this. You are serving, let us suppose, on a destroyer. Everyone on board is anxious for something fresh to of read. Once, la the early days the war, you had been reduced to sharing a copy of a railway guide and the memory is desolat ing.

Sacks, Of 20 Books

Now, thanks to the war libraries, when you go ashore the port liaison amenities oficer will let you have a small suck of books. This anck, one of many which came in the first place from the London headquarters at 40, Wil Mami TV-treet, W.CZ holds twenty books-sixteen novels, four serious works besides magazines and the smaller editions known as

Eddiers

You take it on

it on board for the of the crew. At your next port. you exchange it for another unit and your discarded books travel elsewhere on their rounds from port to ship ship to

is no overlapping. The

For

the sack are sympathetically clipsen; there is genuine var

In that convoy who does not ap-nilai the books ga out in prociate: thé ? narrow" escapes, we And, flora

dondition.at-lgthe adhuck for war-am

„From the bridge of the warship "the" look-out. "man's called

Finali, sirk About"

the direct-

ting, the columns

the

then the books are stamped, sorted, mended-this iB 00: important

operation assigned to sacks and sent on their travels,

Headquarters receive such let-

of thanks as this;---

of an Perhaps the best method

an

is to tell you quite frankly that we shall at ways be ready for more."

Books have been sent in the same way to ships of the Royal Navy-these Dutch Netherlands books are hard to get and to the French under General de Gaulle The greater part of the books, are In the language of the countries. The organisers would like to ex-. tend their work to the Polish ships us 'well.

supply needs

the

Naturally keeping up. Fersonal gifts have been remarkable; large consign- ments have come from the Lord Mayor's service, But the flow must be maintained, and the libraries welcome any form of

biography, travel book, novel, anything indeed except Junk.". None would wish to use the scheme. sta rag-bag. for unwanted litera ture

Some afty to sixty voluntary workers help at William IV.-street f during the week. More permanent helperd would be a banent. The mending department alone has an Con its hands, HA Immense amount on professional bookbinder coines from the Admiralty in his spare time and teaches the arts of pat ing in loose leaves, spining and re- backing

scheine

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the central depotiora;

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