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FUNNY SIDE UP

ner Dean

AIR STRATEGY?

THE

HE question most people weaken us at some point by of our are asking is whether the causing withdrawal British air victory has halted squadrons to defend a main

danger area. the German invasion plans, The answer dépends on whether the air attack is a thing apart or was-intended as the prell- minary to invasion.

Had that policy succeeded, no doubt a waiting force of ma chines would have smashed in at the denuded spot. But we withdrew nothing and cach All the evidence available area retained its own strength. The whole of our fighters were points to the attack being a not used. Our reserve strength challenge to the strength of the remained. unimpaired. We won R.A.F. and a series of defeats at every point.

inflicted on us might very well On Saturday, Marshal Goer- have brought forward one of the ing conferred alone with Hitler. enemy schemes to land troops It would not be a pleasant in- in Britain.

terview, with the strength of

On the trial of strength may nearly 50 squadrons lost in nine have depended the whole future days and as many again ren- of German invasion policy, dered unserviceable for some which was framed on limita time, The averages before the tions and relied on winning pair at this meeting would be mastery in the air before it B2 machines and 200 men lost could be made effective as a per day, with the top note for plan.

one day revealing 180 aero- planes destroyed and 450 pilots and gunners lost.

The long-drawn-out combat has given air supremacy in the

On those Ögures cume quiet combats to Britain. The R.A.F.

something of

renewal An has won the first great battle day. In the history of military avia- next day, and new planning.

pir-escorted Army is ruled out on the tion and won it by a margin we general showing, and it is said that has ordered a blockade of ourselves hardly hoped to at- Hitler tain, confident though our air- England, which means increased at

the use of tacks on shipping and men were that they had a better

mail naval craft. force than the Germans, even if smaller.

BIG SCHEME WRECKED

TWO MONTH'S WORK

Called Ponseti Krukanda, Ra

"I hear the firm is giving you two wooks vacation at MY desk, Mr. Poople!"

One of the German objectives is In looking back at the fighting it seems that the attacks in the South to drive our shipping to the West of were meant to draw strength from England harbours and cause a dis- the East Coast and leave the indus- tribution of naval strength to that This would give the enemy trial Breas unprotected. Hnd we area.

we elbow room in the Channel and drawn any squadrons South, could have given the enemy casual- North Sea for coastal assaults.

18 The policy shown

the by Hitler still talks in terms of a ties at the ratio of eight to one in-

enemy's claim to have accomplished blockade though he cannot impose stead of the four to one achieved

this. Actually he has failed to divert The day of decision came, one. He is asking neutrals to be- by dependence on local forces.

Clearly, WC defeated enemy shipping, British or Neutral, or to when over a thousand, perhaps lieve that the siege of Britain has

The air ing rendered Impotent. Note that he tactically at the same time. THE predix "pecial to the Telegraph 1,500, aeroplanes were launched begun as a result of the RAF. be- strategy in that way and beat him disturb naval distribution.

going on for two to does not speak of invasion.

attack has been months, and, from zero to peak, it has the following course;~~

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1940. Wyndham St, Hongkong Telophone; 20015

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The strategy was

PARCELS FOR

PRISONERS

OUR ADVANTAGE

Hitler is not likely to accept his air defeat as anything but a tom- 1. Reconnaissance flights to locate porary setback, and will try again. warship distribution in the North He cannot move an army or an air- Sea;

borne force without air mapremincy,

2. Raida against shipping to test our and he has embarked on a plan of wearing the RAF. down. But our convoy defence;

force grows stronger every week 3. Raids on our coasia reconnoltring with Home and Dominion intakes.

defensive strength;

to be able to send a second parcel, which may contain 5.

prisoners have uniform, when all

We have a pull in the matter of

A CALL TO THE BALKANS

THESE days most people are turn-

The Red Cross and St. John| Red Cross stocks as soon as possible. 4. Attempts to drive shipping from equipment, with hydraulle gun tur- ing to each other with the questions "What do you think Bulgaria wil War Organisation has issued a It is hoped do?" "Is Rumania going to become statement showing what may or another Indo-China?" "Will Turkey may not be sent, and how things been supplied with essentials. But Aght for UB If necessary?" "Will Russia give the Nazis a free hand?" may be sent, to prisoners of war it may not be possible to send a "Is Greece going to let us use her in Germany. naval bases when we want them?"

the

before clothing parcel again

should therefore The International Convention winter. Relatives

underwear, woollies, provides that not later than one collect The series of questions goes on and the dreadful answers are slowly week after his arrival in a prison stout and comfortable shoes, and if a prisoner can send a post-possible a light blanket. No food, and Inexorably churned out by the camp

machine. Nazi-Fascist

They arc card to his family telling them of tobacco, or chocolate can be included

bis in a clothing parcel. copture and the state of dreadful answers because millions of his peaceful people whose narrow lives health.

month; otherly controls. Food (carefully ana-

FOOD, BOOKS AND GAMES The only food allowed to be sent should never have encompassed more If the post is delayed, the family than their awn domain, are being may not receive this for some time. is contained in the Red Cross Stan- tortured to death by that machine. Oncers may send three letters and dard parcels which the Censor rizic-; Turn suddenly from parochial pur-four postcards each suits they learn that the old evils ranks, they hoped they had buried with cards. their school days have become a the WAT reality. Tho Hun is on path again and his monstrous mo- the dernised hordes have taken pitiless path of conquest. The Italian has donned his armour and aspires to become a Roman controlling the destinies of the world,

Heroic

pictures these

in

the

two letters and four post-lysed by a dieiician), soap, tobacco All correspondence to and and cigarettes, costing approximate- from prisoners of war goes post ly 10s. a week, are sent to each pri free. Photographs may not be in-soner, whether or not financial con- tributions are received for indivi- cluded.

As the expense is met en- Letters to prisoners should not ex-dunis. cred two sides of a sheet of note-tirely by the Red Cross Society andj paper--they should be posted in the Order of St. John, donations towards ordinary way, but without a stamp the cost are welcomed, and postal and not sent to the Red Cross Or-orders should be made out to "Red

the Channel;

rets working round 'the whole com-

What we knny" Raids on the coast and Channel by pass. The Germans, with fixed guns, A hundred acroplanes involving fire in one direction.

expect is enemy reliance on dive loser of three to one;

bombers covered by fighters over- 6. Wider radius with 200 machines head to secure air-borne landings or

and losses four to one;

surface rolda: »

7. Attack increased to 509 and losses · The Hurricanes and Spitares, the six to one; victory propaganda to ground defence, the troops an shore, cover losses;

and the Navy afloat are more than

area and Jones five to one, per 18 matters stand, the movement of B. Massed attack by 1,500 over wide a match for any such onslaught. And, haps six to one. victory bulletins of a lurge, German Army across the sea German is still an unsolved problem for the amazing mocesses for

enemy, and the vital one for him. arms to hide the truth;

If he could draw our strength 9. Temporary ball in the German

attack with a probable loss of 650 South, a raid from Norway might be machines daring August and es- risked. But probably the air defent timated lows of 1,600 pilots and has cast all plans into a fluid state- runners; local attacks renewed by upsetting the schedule and time-

table for the arst, time.. yesterday.

BRUSSELS

A

DEAD CITY

with manacled wrists. From A Belgian Correspondent man is paraded through, the streets

Belgians who were in Brussels

*

·

ganisation. The sender should write Cross and St. John Fund, Prisoners during the first weeks of the When the German troops pass pageantry of this tumultuous little his name and address on the back of Wur Account," and sent to the German occupation, and have by the Belgian public look the tea cup of a world. They ignore the of the cavelópe, unless he is a mem- Appeal Secretary, St. James's Palace, since succeeded in escaping to other way. There was a grest

neutral countries, state that the military review in Brussels, oub Intolerance, deliberate cruelty, hateber of his Majesty's Forces, in which London, SW.1.

Books, music, packs of cards, absence of transport and raw side the Royal Palace, some and greed that fuels the machine.case he must give the address of a

friend or relative in this country, games, sporting equipment, &c., may materials prevents any return days after the Belgian Fete They discount the millions of young lives that were born to fructify but and arrange for letters so addressed be sent direct to prisoners through to normal economic life in Bel- Nationale, but few Belgians”

n. firms holding to be forwarded to him.

permit to send ghum and Northern France. turned out for it. Letters cannot be sent to a prisoner printed matter abroad. They, in- and which their ancestors and pre-unless the camp address is known, elude:-

The form of address is:-- decessera also fought for in vain.

were instead. sacrificed for causes which they never fully understood

Happily a defence is always found for the most terrifying form of at- tack. Against the spirit of conquest and all that it implies in this day, there has arisen the latent determina- tion of the

NO

PRISONENS OF WAR POST

STAMP KRIEGSEFANGEN POST.

Service Noi, Rank, Name, British - Prisoner of War (No, 11 known) Camp

Germany.

grams are allowed.

No attempt should be made to British spirit. Self-communicate with prisoner through |; preservation, the retention of our way of living and a firm defence of people in neutral countries. No tele- the will to subdue, has stirred us to a pitch which is only heightened by Ta reverse but will, when our sword sharpened to its keenest edge, bear us on to victory as inexorably as the evil forces of Germany and Italy are spreading over Europe to-day,

Hundreds of bridges have disap-

In spite of the hatred felt towards peared, and the wooden structures Army and Navy Slotes, Boots, Harrods, which have taken their places are the invader, however, the Belgians. Lillywhites, Meccano. Selfridges. W. H Smith and Son, The Times" Book Club, not strong enough to bear trains or will need even more courage than in at a snail's pace, the last War if they are to preserve motor-cars, except and Truslove and Hanson.

canals is also pain their faith and hope. The Educational Book Section ar- Traffle on the

obstruc-

They are finding it hard to explain.

especially to account for the cotos- trophic collapse of France. They are. so mistrustful of German propagan-:

ranges for books to be sent to pr-fully slow on account of the wacked the swift defeat of their ariny nad

soners wishing to study special sub-tions caused by jects.

debris from bridges, and

unusable. Brussels, formerly so lively and Comforts Section gay, has become

routes are entire. Failway and canal.

INVALID COMFORTS

The Invalid

ช

sends every four weeks consignmentsling to these Infod city, accorde da that they' suspend. fudgment on 'D'

Tramcara:

GIFTS OF CLOTHING of household drugs, bandages, int, do not run after: 9.30 p.m., and few great number of questions, but the tonics and invalid foods and comforts cars are to be seen as the military fact that King Leopold III, in retire. Brussels, regards himself as a pri- Relatives may send by ordinary for in cases of illness or minor autherilles have requisitioned many meat in his chateau at Lacken, near

post (no special label injuries. Relatives of a prisoner can and petrol is difficult to get.. parcel

Motor-lorries no longer of use for sober and does not treat with the in- needed) suitable clothes and tollet send to the Invalid Comforts Section accessories to the Clothing Section, medicines or special remedies direct the army have been resold by the vader, supports their morale. St. James's Palace, as soon as the from their own whemist, to be in Germans to commercial and indus The German propagandists try to One can only desire that the little permanent camp address is known. cluded in these parcels. At the re-trial firms, who use them for goods console the working classes by de- claring that all employers, whether nations of the Balkans will call only one 10lb. parcel (not counting quest of the relatives of the sensor transpo has been severely rationed, they have raw materials at least truce to their internal disputations, packing) may be sent. Items which officer of the camp, individual food, which have been many and long make the parcel overweight cannot parcele can be arranged for serious and there is destitution everywhere. three-quarters of their pre-wat em-

or chronie cases requiring special Anyone, who has cash available buys, ployees. Standing singly in suspicion of their be returned. HERE AN

food parcels. Men known to be in be has the chance of a free, democratic people, they

name and of

Most of the cafes are open, but with the farming community, who are easy spoll for the Nazi mlitary-one thould be clearly written hospital are sent a special parcel for

when Gommans enter the Belgian see even more clearly than the in- The things curn-agreement machines.

the outside and inside of the four weeks.

Seventy-five cigarettes (or the customers fall silent and soon begin dustrial workers that the Germans they make, the food they grow, the armies they drill will be moulded parcel. A list of the contents must into weapons against themselves by be included. The following Items equivalent amount in lobacco) are to leave, one by one, without wait will bring them nothing but guln sent to the camps for each prisoner ing to Bnish their drinks, The Industrialists and financiers are it is evident, however, that the courted in a thousand ways, and their Nail masters unless a bold are suggested blow for freedom is struck in time

Food

eighbours and fax from the example The name 'end address of the pri-/diet; in place of the ordinary weekly articles of prime necessity REFER A los akilful policy is followed

Eastern Europe to flame against the

and comb, hussit, windcheater, Krey Ban- nel trousers, shoes, toothbrush and tooth which next-of-kin can send a parcel

1 shirt, 1 pair pants. I vesh socks, towel every week by Germans have received instructions Several Brussels theatres have re- to rouse the spark that will set blanket. pullover, handkerchiefs, brush the personal parcels service; show politeness and even kind- opened and turned themselves "Into-!!!

paste in Uns, pipe, Tazor, blades, shaving every three months to a prisoner ofness on every occasion With un music-halls. They are frequented;

A war, la temporarily suspended ostentation which makes the Belgions only by Germans and the less deair No tubes, 1azs, or bottles are al- Meanwhile nothing but the article laugh, the Germans give up their able clements among the city popu

Unhappily the Balkans.

ans have nearly

suffered oppresslatí of some former

both from their own rulers and lowed. The following clothes kisses and guvernuni 11 remains not be sent

hether tel for their Complete sulte, colour

zery mackintoabas, or “BUY beetfquenched or

kind of overovať ar : jacke

4.

must Usted in the paragraph above about seats in the tramears to old or in lation. Honest citizens meet in his glothing should be sent to St. James arm passengers, and in the streets groups behind, friendly doors, and, 1-/ Palace valve we wearing they are to be soch giving cigarettes is already clear that Intellectual

so well ir political abivity willbes

The department derling with the to beggara, abject: In the Prisoners of War De Occasionally the German authorl ried on cords partment,War Organisation of the lies amounce, that they have arrest Red Cross and St. John St. James's a German soldier who falled to

Palace, London,

elvillan Ki and

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