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GOOD NEWS INDEED!

WHEN "The Star", one of London's evening papers, des- R.A.F. blitzkrieg cribes the raids on the invasion ports as being of "immense significance", as it did yesterday, there is every good reason to accept this

assessment of Britain's new air

Is Russia

NOME of Hitler's most strik

ing successes have been gained by doing the unforeseen and the unexpected.

He is the prime exponent of the doctrine that surprise is the most important. clement in the waging of war, and he always support salts the ground well ahead.

By Candidus

Next?

why Hitler should turn his legions against the U.S.SH., and one reason. that towers over all the rest-the Ukraine.

The Ukraine is a land that drips with riches and fatness; it would

******** provide Hitler with virtually all he

One or Two Things About JAPAN

If war comes in the Pací to wants, both for his milltary adven-fic, how well is Japan pre-

There is definite evidence

possibility. First.

that there is Mein Kampf.

A very significant passage in the Nazi Bible is that in which. Hitler asserts that the Bolsheviks have no an honourable of, forming

It is eminently worth keeping. that fact in mind when we weigh up the present situation, idea and being very much on the alliance or of remaining, true to it look out for a-double-cross.

We have heard a great deal lately of the Axis, plans for a "pincer" movement and it has been rather taken for granted that the Nazis' part in it would be a drive through Turkey and. Syria to Egypt, to break Britain's control of the Mediter- ranean, and at the same time to deal our prestige among the coloured races a heavy, blow.

A

That plan may, of course, be the one that Hitler intends to operate; but there is another one which has not been exten- sively, canvassed-In itself suspicious circumstance-and it is that, at long last, he will turn on Russia, thus realising an am- bit'on that he has cherished 'for all his political lifetime.

OUT OF CONTROL

By

Robert Power

was once my disturbing ex- perience to be in a car of Some- which control was lost. thing went wrong with the steering mechanism just when we were trying to overtake a the break- When small van. down occurred the car staggered crazily from one side of the road to the other.

if they did. (That observation in

tures and the purposes of peace.

In the foregoing connection the pared to fight it out, is the Istanbul, correspondent to *The

question on the lips of every Times" writes:-

Japanese these days. The

"Failing a brenk-through to the

to the Axle—the_conquest of part of Russia. That would · provide the sources.of materials and food- stuffs necessary for a long war

Enst, there is an alternative open Nipponese realise that Ja

pan's fourth year of the China incident may turn out to be the first year of a. struggle for the supremacy in the Pacific, according to the information service, "Business Week."

RUSSIANS IN MASS-Impressive view of Rusafans in mass, as thousands of troops passed through Red Square, Moscow, in observance of 23rd'anniversary of Octobor Socialist revolution.

embedded in a long diatribe against

Russia and its rulers.)

Its significance now lies in the it makes of the implicit criticism

For a second or two it seemed that we might hit the van, but that moved ahead as our car lost speed. The next danger was that we should overturn in austo-German Pact. Mein Kump! was written years ago, but we have ditch; but, changing its course had ample proof that Hitler seldom again, the car charged towards changes his main bellefs. offensive as being accurate. It bank on the opposite side, and

An incident of very recent date seems to give colour to the likeli- is probably an understatement; there the driver contrived skil-hood that Stalin also does not con- for the significance is not so fully to end its mad career with-sider that the Russo-German Pact is -much-that-we-are--destroying-out-hurt-to-cither of us..

Hitler's chances of attempting. an invasion of England, as that our air force is now humerically strong enough to adopt and im- prove on Goering's Luftwaffe technique.

"Out of control"-the phrase has a vivid meaning for anyone who has had an experience of it, as upplied to a piece of mechan- ism, be it an airplane, a car, or even a cycle whose brake refuses to operate at a critical moment. My mind has been running on unpleasan!' happenings reading a Ilne written by the Bishop of Norwich on the virtues of silence. Says the Bishop, "Once a word has been spoken, it is out of contrat."

British bombers no longer have to carry out their raids these without protection other than their own guns; they are now receiving the assistance of fighter planes, theroby adding tremendously to their striking power and effectiveness.

*

by

How seldom we think of the cou- sequences of speech in that way! And yet the truth of the statement is beyond question.

A lawyer with exceptional ex- perience of actions for slander and bel once told me that when a lle gets

or explanation apology, can ever overtake it. In some places the lle will take root, the correction will never be

start, no #

the word spoken

we to

to

is

so to

con-

either strong or durable,

in

An obviously inspired article ve cently which speculated on the form

the "coming" revolution that Germany would assume, and gloat- ing over the prospect. Are the two strange bed-fellows-there has been none stranger In history-beginning to quarrel about the blankets and the sheets?

MUSITY

and the

Japan's self-sufficiency in foodstuffs has been impaired by growing lack of labour, fertili- sers, fuel and machinery, con- tinues the service. Output of rice, the most important food staple, has declined every year since the outbreak of the China incident, from 19,000,000 tons in 1987-38 to 17,100,000 tons in 1989-10. The 1940-41 crop is expected to fall short of inst year's by more than eight per cent.

The composite Japanese in- dex of mining and manufactur- ing production for the first five months of 1940 (all that are available) · has consistently tagged behind the corresponding figures of last year.

Increase in Labour Force

Japan's industrinl labour- forec has swelled 32 per cent since the outbreak of the China incident In July, 1937 In Bome of the defence industries the increase has been much larger: 131 per cent in the ma- chinery and tool industry, 79 per cent in the vehicle, air- craft, and shipbuilding indus try, and 55 per cent in the metal industry. The Govern- ment figures also reveal the strange fact that workmen in these supposedly high-geared

work less defence industries man-hours a month now than they did three years ago, pro- there is not bably because enough raw material, fuel, and electric power to keep the pro- ductive machinery going at full. blast.

information regarding raw materials ig

ngainst Great Britain United States, and it would niso remove the potential Russian menace to the Bank of a German advance in the Near East. Some well-informed circles in Turkey firmly believe that this idea was behind the conclusion of the Ger-

A No mun-Italian-Japanese alliance. curious story has now

reached Istanbul, from sources believed to stocks of be reliable, that the German Air available beyond vague official statements that the stock posi- Lion is by no means serious:** But despite the slow supply of to industrial raw materials plants and the decreasing volume of railroad shipments, there are many reasons to sup- port the belief that Japan still has a considerable stockpile of industrial raw materials, built up probably at the sacrifice of immediate defence require- ments.

the under-

Ministry has ordered from two Czeer companies 3,000 pairs of sicis for fiting to carriages of aircraft. Aircraft do not require skis for making win- ter landings in Great Britain or Turkey, but it is not diflcult to guess where skis. would be use ful."

Inclination, therefore, jolus hands deep hatred of with advantage, and in combination Apart from his Bolshevism, there are many reasons they are irresistible.

New U.S.Bomber:

Britain Will Buy

All Made

called the 167 F, which was mennt

to combli the best features of both attack plane and bomber and to give

Adverse Trade Balance

Japan's international balance high performance at both low and of payments has grown increas- High attitudes. By early spring lastingly adverse since 1937, main- year Mariins were turning out three

of these planes a day-for the French, ly as a result of heavy raw-mn- The machines that are now being terial imports from the Western produced for us are called 107134. Hemisphere and the British They weigh 8 tons, have a wing Empire and mounting shipments spread of over 81it.

of manufactured goods to the and China) which does not provide foreign exchange. Another plece of bad news for. During the first six months Hitler is that out In Burbank,

Bad News For Berlin

with

com-

This has been the Luftwaffe's method ever since it took such a beating in the early mass ralds and on Britain, and the presence of heard or read. escort fighters very largely ac- No sane person would dream of

ultering Ka recklesa or malicious By Robert Waithman counts for the decreased number statement into the microphone that of invading machines brought serve broadcasting system. Yet down. Now the Nazis are to green, at a lonely an a village | YOU may be hearing soon, California, a vast new factory of the of 1940, Japan ran up an ad-

table, or on a street

in transactions corner, may travol

in much the secing, a new plane that is being sidiary--a working on another new 000,000 yen have a full dose of their own same way us a wireless talk, being

Vega

37, which is bigger and faster passed on from bile to another. You made for us in one of the largest twin-engined bomber, the Lockheed with countries other than binn medicine, and the results can be cannot tell how far it will reach, or acroplane plants in the United than the Lockheed Hudson that huchukuo and China, as

394,000,000 yen served us so well and which has pared how it be distorted in the tell-States.

moy confidently predicted.

Ing.

brood

the dan- It will be called the Baltimore striking new devices to give it greater for the like period of 1939 and offensive power and greater immunity 1938. In the process Japan upon As fighters, always at a nu-

Kers of the spoken word, we might, merical disadvantage, British from fear, become silent and unso Bomber, British air experts in from attack. We have placed an sacrifice nearly all of her

America think enough of it to order for £6,000,000 worth of these negotiable gold reserves. ciable.

The safeguard

have placed with the Glenn L. new bombers, and Empire aviators have proved trol the tongue that you acquire

reputation for penkings of things Martin Company of Baltimore a time and again that they are with discretion, and of persons with strangely-worded contract. superior to the Germans; as charity; and thus the word that goes-We have agreed to buy all planes French Ship Held China against Japan, Tokyo's

crashing out of control, can never be

of this type Martins can make be- bombers our men have demon-attributed to you.

tween now and the end of 1941. strated that they are very, much

Details of production plans are more accurate than the Huns. to victory against fantastic odds; confined to the announcement that

volume, that engineering work to those enjoyed by the Germans up them to have reduced those odds to virtually complete, and that to, the present escort. Oghter planes negligibility and thus to consolidate duction will start "shortly." and masses of bombers the battle their earlier achievements. As day for air supremacy is as good as won, succeeds day, Hitler's prospects of

The action claims that the British materials on these three terri- This is not boasting; the claim is invading England become dimmar; But the facts are available on a substantiated by cold and sober facts, his bases have long been taking un bomber which the Martin Company Ministry of Supply shipped 1.500 tories, besides China, Manchu The time appears to have arrived awful battering; now his troops are has been and still is making for tons of pella form of zinc kuo, Soviet: Russin, and, to existence. Britain, and it may be reasonable to nhoard, the French freighter San some very small extent, Ger- when Britain finds herself in the being bombed out of position to challenge the Germans Britain, the Empire, and the rest of guess that the new Baltimore Bomb Jose trom Vancouver for Le Havre many and Italy. The entire Western Hemlaphore, Asin west' in the air on more or less equal the Democracies can take renewed er will turn out to be fast, and nearly lost June..

Subsequently, the pinintiff con- of Singapore, and Occanin tends, the, San Jose. "converted" the would most likely be inaccesal- terms; the thought must be a fright- heart in the knowledge that the air more deadly version of this already! ening one for Goering's Luftwaffe. war is steadily going against the fast and deadly plane.

The Martin Company began large-cargo, by putting into Casa Blancs,

bla, to Japanese morchantment.. Our men havo battled their way Nazla. ·

scale production in 1939 of a mactilna). Morocco, instead of Le Havre,

In New York

In the event of a war pitch- ing the United Staten, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and

economic "Lebensraum" would undergo a drastic curtailment. A writ of attachment is holding ese thrust into the Philippine Assuming n successful Japan-

in New York pending trial of a libel pro-action for $145,000 damages which and complete mastery of the British Government says it aus Franch Indo-China, Japan tained by the alleged "conversion" would be able to draw for war

a cargo by another French ship.

Given, therefore, similar conditions] within a few weeks we can expect the planes will be turned out the French steamer. Fort de France lalands and Dutch East Indies,

Faster, Deadlier

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of