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Axis Threatens World

with

Continued Violence

WHEN the war began the

whole British Empire

000 took up arms to overthrow

Hitler and Hitlerism.

Hitler we all know, or think we know a giant in

Dictators' Dreams of the

Permanent Subjection

of Conquered Peoples

even if the Dominions are graciously spared, aa, beyond German or Italian digestion: British possessions in Africa, lir the Near East, in the Middle East, in the Far East; and in the Pacific; sugar islands; rübe ber islands; some of the world's.

$2,700 cunning and political de-

often reinforced by economic act as irritants within the best harbours and strategic key. All cars serviced the same as pravity with brain dis- jealousy, has been the ruling Reich. Enough is it to say that points; colonies in good going eased, the embodiment of a motive of dynastie and national he lied at each success, and that order, with docks, railways and roads, and with native populá- ruthless idea, imposed and ambition. Sometimes the spoils his territorial horizons are now tions which have learnt the. | All units of $1,506 and over in value maintained by force. Hit havo bean consolidated by the'as boundless 85 were Napo- ways of peace and order, yet, -

according to Nazi and Fascist been recovered by the tempor- He denies it, of course, as carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage lerism is the epitome of victors: sometimes they have leon's.

whatsoever is false, brutish, arily dispossessed...

Napoleon denied it. He has propagandists, will leap with joy to change their British servitude, entry into one arrogant and aggressive in Certain districts like Alsace, burgled

for German, Italian and even

suarantee for thres monilis.

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Arrangement.

THE COMING CRISIS

BRITISH military experts appear to be convinced that Hitler will attempt a large-scale invasion of Britain in the coming Spring. The detalled analysis of the possibilities

mude .no

effort

which the "Telegraph" received and published yesterday from the London correspondent of the "United Fress" to indicate why the experts were so confident in their time prediction; nevertheless the fact that ever since the fall of France. the threat of an Invasion has been imuninent, plus the generally accepted hellef that until and unless Hitler has conquered the British Isles. by continent can never be consolidated, are sufficient reasons for accepting the experts' views.

armed invasion his successes on the

connaissance, are fully informed as

an

political theory and action. Transylvania, Savoy, not to neutral country after another on Japanese freedoms.

speak of islands possessed of Napoleon's pretext of "protect- Japan is to be allowed to hold

dreams of diseased

I do not forget the mas- good harbourage, have swung ing" them from British aggres the gorgeous Far East in: fee, sive virtua-not virtue, but from side to side with the cen- sion. He professes a passion and perhaps--unless Fate, in hard, unyielding determina- turies and been tossed over the for justice and a yearning for the formidable shape of the conference table from crown to peace. So did Napoleon. It American Navy, forbids-build tion which has enabled crown. Hardly a country in has taken a long time to rouse up a mighty milltary Empire Hitlerism to become so dead- Europe has retained its boun the United States, but they are which shall take charge of the ly a menace to mankind. By daries unchanged through the roused at last, for they now see Philippines, the Netherland In- gross, deliberate misuse this, lifetime of its oldest inhabitant: as something almost imminent a dies and show the flag of the too, has been transformed new States have been pieced to peril which had been derided as Rising Sun in Australasian

gether out of the disjecta men- remote .and imaginary. After waters. into a vice.

. These bra of kingdoms in collapse. We France, Great Britain. After

Britain the Americas. militarists in a madhouse do not It is no longer Hitlerism, have accepted such wars as the Great however, that we are fighting; it historic instruments. for the Here indeed is "expanding con- terrify me; they are bound to break on the rocklike resolution is the threat of world-Hitlerism, adjustment of national boun- quest."

In view of the size, the re- of free peoples if only the free the many faceted evil thing daries to correspond with the which the Dictators of the Axis nutritions of national strength. moteness, the wealth, the man peoples have nerved themselves

The phenomenon we face to power, the sea power and the to meet the shock. and their satellites call the New

We get more and more ready Order. This black shape al day is of a totally different kind machine power of the United

expanding ready casts its shadow upon the "an organised movement for States the Hitlerite programme day by day: the United States. is naturally seemed fantastic to shielded by their superb Navy It conquest." something new in degree if not Americans till the efficacy of in the Pacific and by the British:

Hitler's recipe for destroying Navy in the Atlantic, will set

world's most distant places.

recent in kind.

By J. B. FIRTH

to work in earnest now that they have settled the momentous question whether they want their great President to have a

Cordell Hull's Mr speech at Washington will have brought home to many on this side of the Atlantic, as on his, a vivid realisation of this truth. President Roosevelt's Secretary It could not fairly be charged the morale and. sapping the third term of office or not. And of State spoke as if he had just even against Bismarck, the man strength of the next victim then in due time the grand of- been smitten by the blinding of Blood and Iron, that he or- namely, treachery and Fifth fensive and the crash of fallen ganised his new Germany for Column activity--was suddenly Idols and bastard Dictatorships. light of a sudden revelation.

For the choice, as Mr Cordell

came

"We are in the presence," he "steadily expanding conquest." revealed by the collapse of one declared, "not of local or re- He snatched the Duchies from small neutral after another and Hall truly sald, is between. Free- glonal wars but of an organised Denmark and Alsace-Lorraine then by the appalling collapse dom and Servitude. We know what freedom is: we can and determined movement for from France, but Austria he of France.

spared, and that not merely be. The heart of France stopped, only judge by the appalling cause he knew he would want because the soul of France had fate which has overtakon steadily expanding conquest."

Those taking part in this her benevolent neutrality when rotted. The secret poisoners Foland and Czecho-Slovakia

settle

with had spread the virus of defeat- what it means to live in movement call themselves the he. "Have-Nots," who are short of France. Uncompromising Prusism. Corruption in high places terror of the Gestapo, the last room to live and expand, who "sian though he was, it did not and in low; the Army riddled word-Hitler's word in the in- demand the colonies which be enter his mind to keep Den- with political intrigue; the Air struments of tyranny which history begun tyrants long to other nations by right of mark, Norway, Belgium, Hol- Force neglected, and let down, since discovery, development and con- land and France in permanent and Hitler's agents everywhere have laboured to devise. Germany. He at work.

There is no need to look be- quest, and are resolved to take subjection to More likely is it that the British by force what they cannot gain was content if his new Germany Napoleon once said at St yond the Gestapo to form one's was organised so as to be more Helena that if his Army of In- judgment of Nazism, of Fasciam war chiefs, through their intelligence by cajolery or fraud. branches and the result of seriál re- "They are on the march," said ready for war than her neigh vasion had got to London the or of Phalangiem if that obs- bours, and always on the alert canaille would have welcomed cure and minor variant is worth to-German-military-movements-over-Mr-Cordell Hull, "with great ar to squeeze concessions out of him. Not so. They would a mention. Without the Gesta the other side of the English Channel mies, air flects and navies. and are consequently basing their They physically disregard every other nations by rattling the rather have seen him torn to po they could not survive a predictions on knowledge and not on

When their military sabre. But he had no plans or pieces; his sentimental admirera month. conjecture.

right of a neutral nation. They time-tables of continuous con- were found in the superior strength is broken in the field threaten peaceful nations with

classes. Hitler has made much the Gestapo will not survive a To many in this part of the world it has been a source of wonderment.

Hitler's most respectable pre- the same mistake. But how day, and many a debt of ven- that Hitler has not before attempted do not remain acquiescent while text for aggression was that he should this foul fellow know the geance, I trust, will be repaid his boasted invasion. In October the conquerors are seizing other only sought to restore to the British mind?

with interest as the tortured Mr Churchill gravely warned continents and most of the seven Reich bodies of German origin He has plunged into a stu-. peoples awaken to find them- the nation to prepare for what he sets of the earth." termed the

Testing-time.

which were aching to return to pendous gamble. No such mas- selves free once more. during the first week in December

"The master and slave rein- Nor are all these brutal vio- the Fatherland. He gave re- sive scheme of world conquest the London papers were declaring lences "mere excesses of the peated assurances that when he was ever launched before. No tionship among nations and in- that Hitler would have lo make

ever dividuals" is not for the 20th decision in the immediate future; yet exigencies of war to be aban- had recovered Austria and the partners in aggression bold toward

when the German districts of the Sude- planned to share so rich a booty. Century. The New Order is ndoned voluntarily occaalons passed without any-

Possibly fighting ceases," leaving the ter tenland he would be fully satis- Whole provinces of France and only a foul and scientific resur- happening. Thing

of the principal reasons for Hit-rorised neutral or the trampled fied, for he did not want large the French Colonial Empire; rection of the worst Old Order ler's continued hesitation was the victim free once more to pursue intractable foreign elements to the British Colonial Empire, of the past. fallure of his trial invasion, which, It is now common knowledge, he his own course, albeit in the attempted. On

he shadow of lost thousands of men

in un might. No, the violence is to attempt which was as futile as the go on. It is not for Herrenvolk expedition by the

by the Spanish Amado

last

one

that

occasion

Again

the direst consequences if they quest,

the

conqueror's

in 1580. It must have had a dam to spare the conquered. They pening effect upon his ardour for are to continue to stamp on the crossing swords with the English faces of their victims: defenders on their own soll.

An-

other subduing influence has been

would-be consinntly successful raids. made

the constantly

by the RAF, upon Hitler's bases. Whenever concentrations of barges and other surface craft have been ob- been mercilessly served they have bombed, and for the major part des troyed; at every turn the dictator has been hampered and thwarted in his ambitious designs.

These factors, however, cannot minimise the crisis which confronts the people of Britain; they do, never- theless, strengthen the confident bellef that Britain will not only meet

brute force."

U.S. For

Lacks Cruisers Wartime Duties

By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr.

"By deed, by utterance, the conquerors have made abundantly clear that they are engaged in a relent-

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (UP). tecling convoys and of running down vision with the idea in mind in each less attempt to transform the Cruisers have multiple duties enemy sea raiders comprising similar individual case of using the ship in time of war. Some of them already. civilised world, as we have to be the eyes of a fleet and converted merchantmen.

Britain's Case

are down in the war plans of the known it, into two worlds in scout out the enemy position, to

Great Britain has more than 75 navy to be converted into cruisers. which mankind will be re-drive home a destroyer attack regular cruisers heavy and light to be fitted in each case was care- The number`and calibro of guns duced again to the degrada- on the enemy in battle, to pro- yet she has not half enough to take fully worked out even before the tlan of a master and slave re-tect the capital ships of its own care of feet duties devolving on ships were built, and during con- lationship among nations and fleet against such attack and, cruisers and, to guard the sea lanes. struction the decks were strengthen- individuals maintained by when these duties are fulfilled, Britain has fitted out a number of ed for the reception of these ruins.

If war came to-morrow these ships to keep open lines of sea com- merchant ships to act as cruisers, The Carnarvon Castle, which fought

would the crisis calmly and with fortilude, That is the New Order which munication.

a German raider in the south Atlan- would be sent. Immediately to the nearest navy yard to have their guns but will emerge from it victorious is to be established in Europe,

installed, armour plate placed to and with the sting of Hitler's powers. Asia and Africa and later, if and cruisers in commission and is build-

The United States Navy hos 37 tic, is one of these...

The United States has in the past protect the bridge and fire control of aggression very largely extracted.

for Neutral

notably when opportunity offers, in the ing 48 more. These latter, however, few years built some fine merchant centre and otherwise prepared and observera, American newspapermen, whose job Americas.

into auxiliary cru- tion storage will be designated and to be 08

objective and impersonalTwo points, therefore, stand years as some are only in the blue for senverstoly designed and adopted their new role. Pincor for ammuni- sers. The latest, and largest, of olteiric power hoists installed from as possible, constantly testify to the out clear. The Axis Dictators print inge. superior morals of both the British

The demands of the feet for these is the 27,000-ton America. magazines to guns.

Manhattan the be considered first. Others are are bent upon world domination. cruisoms must

No Match For Regular: and Aghting forces and the civilian popu-

of 24,200 tons NB- After that, cruisers that may be Washington of

cach Such converted warships would lation over that of their protagonists; The post-conquest status

Washington, 23,788 10:16; the same people have time and again pronounced their vardies that resigned to the conquered is per-spared can be assigned to running George

down enemy sen raiders or to con- President Coolidge, 21,928 tons be no match for a regular cruiser Argentina and Brazu, 20,614 tons with its armoured decks and side tain's air force, given anything like manent subjection.

"Local and regional wars" voying merchant shipping. equailty in numbers, can outfight the

If war comes to this country in the Tach, Monticello, 10,381 tons; Mar armour and a crew highly skilled Nazis; the people have lived through have been the commonplace of Bilccessfully the first, and

European history since the col-next few years our avaliable cruisers posa and Monterey of 18,017 tons gunnery. With these craft it would few new ones cach, and Lurling, 18,800 tons. Some avold battle, if its speed of 33 krojk -37 plus perhaps

against ne of the new and faster freighters similar converted ships of the enemy quenuy the

affe lapse of the Roman Peace. rushed to completion--will not terrors, our land forces and our mighty feet are keenly awaiting the Martial kings and martial States enough. Other vessels must be sup- might serve as light cruisers vaunted "Der Tag". These are the have been in perpetual conflict plied then to do cruiser duty on com- others have been planned for con- and against submarines, it would be Garmany is belloved . to have ** Troopships or hospital, able to give a good account of itself. several such raiders now operating qualities which create calm confi- with their neighbours in order munications lines. This may be done version into tro dence in the ultimate victory of to gain some coveted province or usually passenger liners-into armed

by converting fast merchant ships- ships.

In Mind

at seny and mare of them may be British right over Totalitarian might,

their frontiera more fauxillary cruisers. These ships

All of the vessels named above expectedCopyright 1940 by "United jo. which Colonel Stimson has also make 3. testified.

Territorial acquisition, would have the double duty of pra were built under government super-Press. secure.

will not be in servico for several

a

was sufficient.

and

However

in