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NAZI AIR

STRATEGY?

THE question most people weaken

us at some point by withdrawal of our

main

are asking is whether the causing British air victory has halted squadrons to defend a the German invasion plans, danger area. The answer depends on whether Had that policy succeeded, no the air attack is a thing apart doubt a waiting force of ma

chines would have smashed in or was intended as the preli- at the denuded spot. But we minary to invasion.

withdrew nothing and each All the evidence avaliable 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 overy 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 60 squadrons lost in nine have depended the whole future days and as many again ren- of German invasion policy, dered unserviceable for 80me 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 82 machines and 200 men lost could be made effective as a per day, with the top note for pinn.

one day revealing 180 aero- The long-drawn-out combat planes destroyed and 450 pilots has given air supremacy in the and gunners lost. combats to Britain. The R.A.F.

Those

Il figures came quiet something of a renewal has won the first great battle day. in the history of military avia- next day, and new planning. An air-escorted Army is ruled out on the tion and won it by a margin we general showing, and it is said that ourselves hardly hoped to at- ler has ordered a blockade of tain, confident though our air. England, which means increased al- men were that they had a better tacks on shipping and force than the Germans, even if

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A CALL TO THE BALKANS

fight for

On

smat naval craft.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

d'he United Fontari tyndinudu, Bad,

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

A

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In looking back at the fighting it One of the German objectives is seems that the attacks in the South to drive our shipping to the West of the use 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 " trial Areas

unprotected. Had we area. This would give the enemy

we elbow drawn any squadrons South,

room in the Channel and TWO MONTH'S WORK

could have given the enemy cosuni- North Sea for constal assaults. ties at the ratio of eight to one in- BIG SCHEME WRECKED Hitler still talks in terms of

The polley in shown by the

The day of decision

He is asking neutrals to be- by dependence on local forces. came, one,

this. Actually he has falled to divert lieve that the siege of Britain has

Clearly. we defeated enemy shipping, British or Neutral, or to when over a thousand, perhaps begun as a result of the RAF. be- strategy in that way, and beat him disturb naval distribution. 1.600, neroplanes were launched ing rendered impotent. Note that he tactically at the same time. The nir

LIA. The strategy was to does not speak of invasion.

attack has been going on for two months, and, from zero to peak, it has the following course:~~

оп

PARCELS

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

FOR PRISONERS

to send a

OUR ADVANTAGE

Hitler Js not likely to accept his air defeat as anything but a tem- 1. Reconnaissance flights to

locate

'porary setback, and will try again. warship distribution in the North He cannot move an army or an air- Hea;

bome force without air supremacy,

2. Raids against shipping to test our and he has embarked on a plan of

canvay defence:

wearing the R.A.F. down. But our force grows stronger every week 3. Kalds on our consts reconmoftring with Home and Dominion Intakes.

defensive strength;

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THESE days most people are turn-

We have a pull in the matter of

ing to each other with the questions

The Red Cross and St. John Red Cross stocks ne soon as possible. 4. Attempts to drive shipping from equipment, with hydraulic gun tur-

the Channel:

rets working round the whole com- "What do you think Bulgaria wil War Organisation has issued a It is hoped to be able

second parcel, which may contain 5. Raids on the coast and Channel by pass. The Germans, with fixed guns, do"" "Is Rumania going to become statement showing what may or

hundred aeroplanes involving fire in one direction. What we may expect is enemy reliance on dive uniform, when all prisoners have another Indo-China?" "Will Turkey may not be sent, and how things been supplied with essentials.

losses of three to omej

bombers. covered by fighters -over- But

6. Wider radios with (200 machines head to secure alr-borne landings or ця if necessary?" "Will

to send a and losses four to one;

surface raids. Russin give the Nazis a free hand?" may be sent, to prisoners of war may not be possible

clothing parcel again before the 7. Attack Increased to 500 and lösses › The Hurricanes and Splifires, the "Is Greece going to let us use her in Germany.' (

six to one: victory propaganda to ground defence, the troops on shore, The International Convention winter. Relatives should therefore

cover losses;

and the Navy afoot are more than later than one collect provides that not

underwear, woollies, i week after his arrival in a prison stout and comfortable shoes, and it& Massed attack by 1,509 over wide a match for any such onslaught. And, area and lowes five to one, per- as matters stand, the movement of largé German Army across the sea camp

can send a post-possible a Bght blanket. No food, |

s six to one. victory bulletins of haps prisoner

amazing EXCCESSES for German is still an unsolved problem for the of tobacco, or chocolate can be included

enemy, and the vital one for him. card to his family telling them аге

arms to hide the truth; capture and the state of his

his in a clothing parcel.

naval bases when we want them?”

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health.

warm

ana-

9. Temporary halt in the German 1t he could drow our strength attack with a probable loss of 450 South, a raid from Norway, might be machines during August and c risked. But probably the air defeat. timated loss of 1,600 pilots and has cast all plans into a fuld state- runners; local nitacks renewed by upsetting the schedule and time- yesterday.

table for the Arst time.

The series of questions gues and the dreadful answers are slowly and inexorably churned out by the Nazi-Fascist machine,

They dreadful answers because millions of

FOOD, BOOKS AND GAMES proceful people whose narrow lives should never have encompassed more

If the post is delayed, the family The only food allowed to be sent than their own domain, are being may not receive this for some time. is contained in the Red Cross Stan- tortured to death by that machine. Officers may send three letters and dard parcels which the Censor rigid-| Turn suddenly from parochial pur-four postcards cach month; other ly controls. Food (carefully

two letters and four post-lysed by a dietician), soap, tobacco sults they learn that the old evils ranks,

and and cigarettes, costing' approximate-j they hoped they had burled with cards. All correspondence to

from prisoners of war Cocs post ly 10s. a week, are sent to each pri- their school days have become

free. Photographs may not be in-soner, whether or not financial con- cluded.

tributions are received for indivi- duáls. As the expense is met en- Letters to prisoners should not ex- ceed two sides of a sheet of note-tirely by the Red Cross Society and 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 ganisation. The sender should write Cross and St. John Fund, Prisoners 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 of the envelope, unless he is a mem- Appeal Secretary, St. James's Palace, since succeeded in escaping to other way. There was a great neutral countries, state that the military review in Brussels, out- ber of his Majesty's Forces, in which London, S.W.1.

reality. The Hun LA on the war path again and his monstrous mo- dernised hardes have taken the pitiless path of conquest. The Italian has dunned his armour end aspire. to become a Roman controlling the destinies of the world.

Herole plctures these in

tea cup of a world. They ignore the intolerance, deliberate cruelty, hate and greed that fuels the machine. They discount the millions of young lives that were born to fructify but were instead, sacrificed for causes which they never fully understood

to be forwarded to him.

PRISONERS OF WAR POST NO KRIEGSETANGEN POST. STAMP

Servies No, Rank, Name, British Prisoner of War (No, if known) Camp

Germany,

and Truslove and Hanson,

BRUSSELS-

A DEAD CITY

From A Belgian Correspondent man is paraded through the streets

with monocled wrists. Belgians who were in Brussels during the first, weeks of the

When the German troops pass

case he must give the address of a Books, music, packs of cards, absence of transport and raw side, the Royal Palace, some friend or relative in this country, games, sporting equipment, &c., may materials prevents any return days after the Belgian Fete and arrange for letters so addressed be sent direct to prisoners through to normal economic life in Bel- Nationale, but few. Belgians.

Arms holding a permit to send glum and Northern France.

turned out for it. In- Letters cannot be sent to a prisoner printed matter abroad. They

Hundreds of bridges have disap peared, and the wooden structures the invader, however, the Belgians In spite of the, hatred felt towards and which their ancestors and pre-untess the camp address is known, clude:--

Army and Navy Stores, Boots. Harrods, which have taken their places Dre will need even more courage than in decessors also fought for in vain, The form of address is:-

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 British spirit, Self- preservation, the retention of our way of living and a irm deflance of the will to subdue, has stirred us to a pitch which is only heightened by reverse but will, when our sword is sharpened to its keenest edge, bear us en to victory as inexorably as the evil forces of Germany and Italy are spreading over Europe to-day.

No attempt should be made to communicate with prisoner through

people in neutral countries. No tele- grams are allowed.

GIFTS OF CLOTHING

Relatives parcel

jects.

Lillywhites, Meccano, Selfridges, W. H. not strong enough to bear trains or Smith and Son, "The Times" Book Club, motor-cars, except at a snail's pace, the last War if they are to preserve

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

They are finding it hard to explain ranges for books to be sent to pri- fully slow on account of the obstruc soners wishing to study special sub-tions caused by debris from wrecked the swift defeat of their army and bridges, and railway and canal especially to account for the catas- routes are en unusable.

trophie collapso of France. They are INVALID COMFORTS. Brussels, formerly an lively and so mistrustful of German propagan- Invalid Comforts Section guy, has become a dead city, accord. da that they suspend judgment on a these informants. Tramcara sends every four weeks consignments ing to

: The

of household drugs, bandages, lint do not run after 9.30 pm and few great number of questions, but the tonics and Invalid foods and comforts cars are to be seen as the military fact that ting Leopold III, in retire- may send by ordinary for use in cases of illness or minor authorities have requisitioned many ment in his chateau at Lücken, near post (no special label

send the Invaild Comforts Section Motor-lorries no longer of use for soner and does not treat with the in- needed) suitable clothes and tolletjies. Relatives of a prisoner can and petrol is difficult to get Brussels, regards himself as a pri 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 chemist, to be in Germans to commercial and indus The German propagandists try to One can only desire that the little permanent comp address is known. cluded in these parcels. At the re-trial firms, who use them for goods console the working classes by de- nations of the Balkans will call Only one 10th, parcel not counting quest of the relatives, or the senior transport. fruce to their internal disputations, packing) may be sent. Items which oficer of the camp, Individual food

Food has been severely rationed claring that all employers, whether they have raw materials at least which have been many and long. make the parcel overweight cannot parcels can be arranged for serious and there is destitution everywhere three-quarters of their pre-war em- Standing singly in suspicion of their be returned.

or chronic cases requiring special Anyone who has cath available.

ployees. neighbours and far from the example

diet, in place of the ordinary weekly articles of prime necessity whenever The name and address of the pri food parcels. Men known to be in he has the chance. of a free, democratic people they

A less skilful policy is followed

are easy

for the Nazi military-soner and the name and address of hospital are sent a special parcel for asy spoli

Most *of the cafes are open, but with the farming community, who cum-agreement machines. The things the sender should be clearly written four weeks.

The on the outside and inside of the

when Germans enter the Belgian ace even more clearly than the in- they make, the food they grow, parcel: A list of the contents must Seventy-five cigarettes (or the customers fall ellent and soon begin dustrial workers that the Germans armies they drill, will be moulded be included. The following Items equivalent amount in tobacco) are to leave, one by one, without weit will bring them nothing but ruin into weapons against themselves by

sent to the caraps for each prisonering to finish their drinks The Industrialists and financiera are their Nazl masters unless a bold are suggested:

It is evident, however, that the courted. In a thousand ways, th blow for freedom is struck in time 1 shirt, 1 pale pants, I vest, socks, towel every week.

Germans have received Instructions Several Brussels, theatres have re-

blanket pullover, handkerchiefs, brush

to rouse the spark, that will set and comb, huzsit, windcheater, Erey Ban- The personal parcels service, by :

Europe, to flame against

to show politeness and even kind. opened and turned themselves into paste in tine, pipe, rator, Blades, shaving every three months to a prisoner of ness on every occasion. With an music-holls. They are frequented

war, is temporarily suspended. ostentation which mates, the Halgians only by Germans and the less desir Unhappily the Balkans have nearly APAR

No tubes, Jars, or bottles are al- Meanwhile nothing but the articles laugh, the Germans give up their able elements among the city popu Buffered oppression of some form or another from their own rulers and lowed. The following clothes must listed in the paragraph above about seats in the tramcars to old or in- Intion. Honest eluzens meet in line clothing should be sent to St. James' firm passengers, and in the streets group behind friendly doors, and it classes and governments. It remains not be sentimy wy

they are to to be sech whether ardour for their Complete sulis, coloured trousers, sports Palace,

The department dealing with the to beggars be seen giving elgarettes is already clear that intellectundas own land had not been quenched coats or blazer mackintoshes, or any

authorl cried on underground. So far, how- Prisoners whose relatives cannot partment War Organisation of the ties announce that they have arrested ever. Belgians are still able to give clothing, or can only give.part Red Cross and St John, St. James German soldier who failed to show fearity among themselv of the parcel, will be supplied from: Palace, London, B.W.2

respect to civilians, and the sulity are few traitors, el

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'utterly: A now enemy to Hitlerin kind, of overovať OF A MERE subjectile the Prisoners of War Do-Occasionally the Germanwell natpolitical Cactivity will be S

in Eastern Europe will help our caused a duiescent victim will only giva" it more “justice.

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