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January 17, 1941.

The war has been switched, and now

It All Depends On The Navy

-by Captain-

Bernard Acworth, D.S.O., R.N., distinguished commentator on naval affairs.

sea - gates, Hitler's TO those who are un- these

dergoing trial by military victories on land bomb in London and cannot be consolidated.

The Straits of Doyer are other cities the war

main so, but Gibraltar and

world, the Eastern Mediter- ranean is a world battlefield, or, more accurately, -a "battle-sen," because victory or defeat for either combatant turns on sea- power.

As far as can be foreseen at the moment, the enemy's stu- pendous plan for the overthrow of the British Empire, which the Battle of Britain has failed to achieve, can, therefore, be summarised as follows:

SECRET PACT BY THREE GENERALS

By Victor Schiff

TT is revealed now that when France une crumbling under invasion, three French colonial generals agreed secretly to fight on with the British Empire.

These rebels, who commun}- cated with each other over thou-- sands of miles, were:

all

General Nogues, in charge of French forces in North

Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia);

seems to be raging on in our hands, and will re: The Outer War" their doorsteps, and the Aden are threatened, if only The breaking of the blockade heavy merchant ship verbally at present, and by overthrowing our sen control losses no less than these two vital sea-gates at Gibraltar and Aden. If the

General Mittelhauser, who had Axis cannot win this victory in 195,000 tons last week- must be held.

what can most simply be de- succeeded Weygand in Syria as remind us that in the If the Straits of Gibraltar scribed as "The Outer War," it C.-in-C. of the French Army in Atlantic, and round our were opened to enemy ships, ler's "New Order," no matter

cannot finally consolidate Hit-the Orient; and

General Catroux, the Gover- shores, the Battle of and closed to ours, the bloc- what successes it achieves with-

nor-General of Indo-China. Britain is not yet finally kade would be lifted, and in this ring. won, though we are get- the war, for us, would be ting the better of it.

Indeed, if the Axis, with Navy's main base in the Eastern Under such circumstances, the connivance of Spain,

much hesitation-to the pres the Mediterranean seems a could establish control at attack on Egypt, and if his ment was General Nogues.

Mussolini is committed to an sure from the French Govern- long way off, and to many the Straits of Gibraltar and armies are threatened with de-

out of hand.

The land battles in Egypt will settle the fate of Alexandria, the

Mediterranean,

Two Gave Way The first to give way—after

Hongkong Telegraph. and seas must be second in be indefinitely sustained, and ranean, which will give the Navy he would ignore the armistice of

Friday, January 17, 1941.

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under the provisions of the Telecommuni- calions Urdinance, 1936. Buch new as bears the indication “UP” la, received Ext Hongkong on the date of publication by tha Gulted Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications,

home.

Hitler Knows

it might at first appear that Aden, our fleet in the East- feat he will be compelled to General Mittelhauser, who had events in these distant lands ern Mediterranean could not reinforce across the Mediter-just assured General Wavell that

importance to events

at might even be caught in a battle that might prove as de-and declared that he could not its opportunity of a great seaCompiegne, then got cold feet

trap.

cisive on world history as Tra- possibly continue the fight alone But this is not in reality

fulgar. So much for Gibraltar,

in the Mediterranean if he was so, and it is far to the South against which Hitler and Our Opportunities let down by Nogues. and East where our great Mussolini are plotting, est dangers, and, opportuni- though the nature of the

The third of the three" Should Haly be able to scize ties, lie.

plot has not yet been re- lands, the threat to Syria, and to his word.

naval bases on the Greek Ig-"rebels," General Catroux, stuck

vealed.

thus to Palestine, will be in-

He was dismissed by Vichy, tensified because, with Turkey and had to leave the colony to In the Eastern Mediter- neutral, the dispatch of Italian- It is true that a successful ranean the war has flared German armies to Asia Minor escape arrest by his appointed either wholly or in part without previous invasion of this island-or, up by Italy's attack on by sea will be facilitated.

what would be equally effec- Greece. This attack, though An attack on Palestine at the tive, its successful blockade ostensibly a wanton aggres- same time as we were repellingborate with General de Gaulle. by U-boats would lose us sion against another little an attack on Egypt would give the war, as would the break- country, is in reality aimed us two fronts to defend simul- ing of civilian will-power by as a mortal blow at Britain, taneously, and would strain our

The story is told by "France," bomb raids.

military resources to the utmost.the French daily newspaper in The dangers facing Britain in London, and comes apparently the Eastern Mediterranean are from General Catroux's entour- great, but they are also the meaage.

decisive victory over the Axis.

It gains interest in view of aure of our opportunities för a

rumours about Nogue's reltic- Victory or defeat depends tance to support the second

Own sea communications with, pared by Laval, and of the Axis "and"inthese"narrow-waters.drive in the direction of Syria.

arrangement,

COLONY'S BUDGET

If

successor, Admiral Decoux.

He came to London to colla-

Against Laval

CALMLY and confidently the Hon. Mr H. R. Butters, the Colony's Financial Secretary, yesterday introduced before the But in all, these three Legislative Council a budget aspects of the Blitzkrieg,

Its object is to turn our which, as an original estimate Hitler knows that he is fail- covering, a 12-month period, is ing, and that it is elsewhere armies out of Egypt and easily a record for Hongkong. he must try to compass the Palestine, and the Navy out of what Mussolini has pre- pect of an expenditure of $62-monwealth that is to say, trum" Our-Sea The community faces the pros- defeat of the British. Com- maturely called "Mare Nos- upon the maintenance of our capitulation of France now pre- 389,776 between April 1 this in the Mediterranean. year and March 31, 1942, and an

our

power.

If Graziani could defeat Never before in our adven- To meet De Gaulle, who had envisaged deficit of $7,553,776 To understand clearly the

army in Egypt we turous history has so much de- left for Africa when he arrived which is to be met by various opportunities of decisive vic- should lose the great Naval pended In so small an area on in London, General Catroux had means, including an increase in tory in the Mediterranean

the triumph of British sea to fly thousands of miles. the rates of one per cent., fur-it may be well to outline base at Alexandria, and the ther entertainment tax, in creased estate duly and higher very briefly the salient fea- port of Suez at the North of duties on liquor, as well as new tures of the strategical the Red Sea. taxation on table waters. All situation at the present mo- The loss of Suez, even this, however, is only expected ment.

to produce about $4,000,000, and the remaining part of the delicit

is to be met by increased war

taxation.

It is upon the Navy, under the good Providence of God, that victory must chiefly depend.

Their first dramatic meeting took place in the Sahara desert, at Fort-Lamy, the capital of the Chad colony, which was the first to break away from Vichy.

Now both M. Eboue, Negro

with Aden in our hands, • Editor's Note: The foregoing written in the early would immensely complicate, article was

of the stages Hitler, as we must admit, if it did not entirely pre- Mediterranean, since when Britain's Governor of the Chad, and

the campaign in dominates the Continent of clude, the reinforcement of naval and military forces have scored General Catroux, are members Europe, as did Napoleon, our Army in Palestine. decisive victories over the Italians

with his vast military war-

One-fifth of the expenditure

both at sea and in the African de- of the National Council of De- sert, thus breaking the plan of Aris fence appointed by General de

Gaulle. is to be devoted specifically, to machine, but we remain do- While Italy threatens our strategy discussed by the author. war purposes, including local civil and military defences, and minant at sea, and are thus position in Egypt, Germany

a community gift of vessels able to blockade Europe, and Italy combined threaten PIONEER MALAYA

valued at $5,220,000. The re-cutting off our enemies from our position in Palestine maining $60,000,000 constitutes the outside world; without which, at present, is power- domestic spending; for this, which Germany and Italy fully buttressed by Turkey

against attack from the progress in social services; un cannot live indefinitely.

North.. infectious diseases hospital is to

effort is being made to maintain

be built; there is to be a Blockade Weapon Turkey's action in the

Fisheries Research Station and

an

Experimental Agricultural The blockade, slow work- near future is, therefore, station in the New Territories ing as it is, is our chief of awaited with anxious atten- with the avowed object of im- fensive weapon, and it is the tion. proving the nutrition of the blockade which Hitler has Colony's population and at the

same time help to make the therefore vowed to raise. Colony more self-supporting:

two now police stations are to

Battle-Sea

Should Turkey remain neutral, It is exercised at the three the Axis must "by-pass" Turkey

be constructed to meet the cry-great sea-gates of Europe and attack our army in Pales- ing need for more effective Dover, Gibraltar and Aden tine through Syria. police protection in Kowloon and, so long as we control

Tong and Wangneichong; and the vexed problem of nightsoil carrying

B

of

PLANTER

Montgomery of Kelantan'

Archibald Montgomery, known as “Montgomery of Kelantan,”

is dead but his memory will always live in the East Coast state -in the hearts of the kampong Malay, the turn of a road which converted virgin jungle into a prosperous area, in the dart of a salpe over level fields.

He died on the last day of the year at the Singapore. General Hospital after 30 years in Malaya as a pioneer planter.

Kelantan knew Archibald | myth, for he employed, with great Montgomery best. It was there success, Malay peasants on work that is usually given to Chinese Immigrant But this means that the at- he chose to live, and it was in labour, tack must be sea-borne, and the midst of the level rice fields

London Memories

of his youth, but not for long.

and its present dangers of spreading which deserves commendation. At a hence the declaration of war on that he worked, building roads, London he knew well the old Lon. disease, is to be solved by the work time when it is vitally necessary to Greece by Italy in order, main- mining, prospecting in- thedon of the West End, stolis at-the being taken over by the Sanitary

Sonitary strain every resource, to assist in the ly, to obtain naval bases in the jungles, planting almost every Galety, opera hats and hansom cabs. Department. A new Public

Public Mortuary Empire's

fight for an enduring cause, is included in the programme, as well Government might well have been islands lying off the Dardanelles, thing the Malayan soil can grow. He liked to revisit these old haunts as a disinfecting station in Kowloon. excused if it had ignored social im- which would control the en-

No man' had the welfare of the the Tung provements; that the authorities, as trance and exit to those Straits kampong Malay closer to his heart the home in Kelantan where he Rubsidy crnmen

He preferred sunshine to fog, and Wah hospital

is to be increased to the Hon. Mr Bulters expressed through which oil and wheat can than Montgomery. He belleved in lived in simple comfort, never linp-

middic $750,000, large sums of money are to preferred to "try and steer

course, and have followed the golden flow.

him: worked unceasingly for him pler than when entertaining one or

his point of view on the countwo friends with an evening's snipe urged hila mean of practicality as against the

Also. Mussolini covets the Issels of Government in problems aris extremes of both ultra conservatism

whooting. and radical change" is both en- land of Crete, with its inagni-ing from rubber regulation and

In 1934 he received the O.B.E~- couraging and consoling.

fleent harbour at Suda Bay, export tariffs: emphasised how large- which stands athwart the en-ly the welfare of Kelantan in generat tribute that gove great pleasure to depended on the welfare of the rayat. those who knew how well he had earned it Another decoration Mont- trance to the Aegean Sea.

He proved that, given proper goinery valued highly was the Kelan- Once again, therefore, as guidance, diet and health, the pro-inn Order, bestowed on him by the throughout the history of the verbial "laziness" of the Malay is a Sultan.

be spent on an adequate cemetery for the Chinese in the New Terri tories and, we are promised, several lakhs will be spent on road main tenance and Improvement,

This then, is the balance sheet for

Extra taxation was inevitable, but the coming financlat year; it will the end is far more important than certainly not plenso everybody, but the means, and towerda that end, It In these abnormal. times it is a skil- is to be hoped, Itongkong will cheer- ful effort to strike a happy medium fully make its contribution).