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February 12, 1941. By Walt Disney

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WALT DISNEY

A NOW-IT-CAN-BE-TOLD STORY

CALLS TO French General Staff

ECONOMY

Mrs Gaskell's "Cranford" is not, like "Pickwick" or "Alice"

"The of

Young Visitors," a book which. cani supply an apt quotation for every conceivable circums- tance, says "The Times." The more noteworthy, then, is the topicality of its Chapter Five.

The chapter begins with small economics. In the reign of King William IV they were matters of taste, not of compulsion, or next door to 1, as they are in 1940; for no war had come to strain the re- sources of the country.

The old gentleman who took the failure of fila bank with stoical mildness, but worried over

waste the

of the blank leaves over his now uselers passbook, and always turned en- velopes (newfangled things then) inside out and used then again, had no stern oficial warning to back his pet economy.

The narrator of "Cranford" con- fessed that her foible was hard- ing string, and that sort of deifi- cation of string" which she called an Indiarubber ring and we call an clastic band. She hoarded an elastle band for nearly six years

and never learned that it must have perished in the time, because she could never bring herself to tise it.

And so with certain people's anxiety over butter,

Miss and Matty's duriness of candles, Sukh economics were a pleasant hobby, no more.

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There was no one then to insist that, though one elastic band is worth nothing, all the

elastic bands used in London on any ene day would muke tyres for two hundred thousand Army lorries, or something like that. No ready hunda were outstretched. then to

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nuch treasures as our pet collections of what we insist shrapnel, because all culling The pet utile collections of shrapnel put together would make enough scrap to build umpteen tanks, Cranford could hoard to please it- self. We must hoard only to see our precious goods.go down the

raventog maw of a creature, more Insatiable than the daughters of the horse leech.

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And then comes the burning of the old Jenkyns family letters yellow bundles of love-Jetters, some of them sixty or seventy years old. It seems incredible in 1940; but Miss Matty and her friend sat night after night burning one by one- burning in the open coal fire- dozens upon dozens of letters.

It is not that they were wrong lo destroy the letters. Ilow run Dr Inge's quatrain?

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By George Slocombe

TWO years before

war broke out the French General Staff,

in its lectures

on

"Lives" af great men oft remind strategy at the famous "School of Marshals" in Paris, the Centre des Hautes Etudes Militaires, had actual- ly foreseen the exact in circumstances

We may suffer in our turn, And departing leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn-

thus, or something like it. Times like these are no times in which to

on keeping letters that either writer or recipient er bott would hate stranger's eye to see, a stranger's hand to de- or even 2 stroy. But to burn them would be even worse than to hoard them. All that puper gone into smoke and ashes instead of being collect- ed and pulped and used all over again the thought would turn any town councillor frantic.

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These Cranford people thought themselves economical, and judged by present standards they

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were

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We know, too, that they made spills of paper. Miss Matty's specially was spills of coloured paper cut so as to resemble feathers. And statistician. could have told them that in

every hundred thousand spills there was enough paper to But we must not be hard on Matty and her extravagant

friends,

It was many years since Miss dinner party in Jenkyns, at a Newcastle, had heard the signal which neant invasion, and Miss Matty had woken in the night to think she heard the

tramp of the entering Cranford. The French Miss Mattys of to-day, indomitable souls, have sterner calls to economy, and they wake in the night with no need to fancy noises that are not there.

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which the German Blitzkrieg of May 1940 took place.

More than that, it had worked out a plan of operations which included the advance of the Allied Armies into Belgium, the pivoting of the whole

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Allied front on point near Sedari, and the occupation of a new defence line from Antwerp through Namur to the river Disle.

These facts, hither- to unpublished, were revealed to me by General Lege ntil- homme, late comman- the der-in-chief of Allied forces in and French British Somaliland, who has arrived in London to. join General de Gaulle, after, inciden- tally, escaping drown- ing in the Empress.of Britain.

the Future,” just published in English by Hutchinson, sug- of the gests some reasons. Here is the explanation advanced by

his latest lieu- tenant.

was

wrong,

"The original strategy continued General Legentilhomme. "We ought never to have advanced into Belgium. We ought never to have left our strong positions along the Belgian frontier to advance into a country with which we were un familiar, in which we had no prepared positions, and which, once pierced by the attempt to defend a line enemy, would have to be abandoned."

"We were wrong also in thinking that the dense forest of the Ardennes and the steep ravines of the river Mouse would prevent the enemy from breaking through opposite Sedan.

This alert and con- fident commander replied forcibly to Marshal Pe- tain's broadcast complaint that the French Army was overwhelmed by the enemy's superiority in men and machines.

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September 1939," he said, "the French Army was the most magnificent, the best armed and equipped, that France had ever possessed. Marshal Petain states that suffered from enemy superiority machines of four to one. But in 1914 we fought it German mechanical 'superiority not of four to one, but of sixteen to one. To every nfantry bat- talion in the French Army were allotted to machine- guns. The German 'bat- tulions Ger-

had thirty-two. And in the artillery we had only our 75's, where as the Germans pounded us with 105's and even 155's.

"WHAT is even

1937

more remark able," added the general, "the French strategists in assumed that many would attack with sixty-five divi- sions, of which six would be armoured. Actually the Blitz-

krieg was fought with N numbers the Ger- sixty-three divisions, five of which armoured."

· were

The element of sur- prise, on which Hitler has so often counted with success, was lacking in the case of France. Why, then, were the French de- feated? General de Gaulle, in his brilliant book, "The Army of

mans in 1914 were two to one. In the first two days of the war we lost in killed and wounded as many as in the total duration of the French campaign of 1939–40. The history of the French de- feat makes it clearer than ever how great a soldier Joffre was.

"When he was beaten in Belgium he did not retiro on the Somme like Wey gand. He retreated all

before

the way back to the Seine and the Marne and pre- pared his resistance on these rivers. If necessary he would have defended Paris, house by house and street by street, as Wey- gand should have done last June, and as the French nation expected of him.

"In December 1914 when Joffre was told that the guns and shells he had been clamouring for could not be delivered before December 1915, what did he do? He did not remain idle in his trenches like the army of 1939 in Maginot Line. He kept. the fighting spirit of his army active by constant nibbling at the enemy, with the result that when the full force of the Ger- man machine was exerted

the

against us at Verdun in the following year we had an army already hardened in warfare and ready to take the sternest blows without flinching.

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"In September 1939 the New Wonder

morale of the French Army was good. It re- mained good until January 1940, and after that it diminished steadily. It had been mined from with- in by idleness, lack of military activity, boredom and the propaganda of the Fifth Columnists aniong the soldiers' families. The French soldier is not like the British soldier. Cinemas and football are not enough to keep him cheerful in inactivity.

"The destruction of the morale of the French Army was one of the causes of its defeat. The other was the deficiency in leadership, the reliance on an old general out of con- tact with modern ideas. The last act of folly was to send for an old man like Weygand, who had been five years in retirement and who could not possibly realise the needs of, the

· situation. The obvious man to succeed Gamelin was General Georges, but I am told that Daladier did not like him.”

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JENERAL LEGENTIL-

HOMME had shrewd things to say about the war in the Eastern Mediterranean. The key to desert strategy lies in one word-water, -.. The first man to scize a well and to deprive his enemy. of it wins the battle. The difficulty in supplying a large army with water, brought hundreds of miles over exposed roads in tank lorries, is enormous.

Vitamin Discovery

NEW-BORN babies in Singa pore hospitals are being saved from death or paralysis by the administration of a new vitamin, known as "I," which stimulates blood-clotting. Fortunately the use of this vitamin is infre | quently required.

Doctors in Singapore, Aus- tralia, England and in America I are agreed that the new vitamin, discovered by a Danish scientist, Dr H. Dam, ranks as a major discovery in medical science.

Quantities of Vitamin K In syu- heile form have been received_in Singapore from England, and its Arst use in the maternity hospitals has been extreinely successful,

For unknown reason, probably half the new-born infants Have abnormaBy small amounts of prothrombin, with- out which surgery or even relatively minor wounds can cause fatal bleed- log.

Consequently, the slightest injury during birth or in the first few days I on life can have fatal consequences.

In Spinach

Vitamin K is known as the coagu- lant vitamin, and it is present in the green leaves of alfalfa, and in cabbagʊ. spinach, strawberry," ripő" tomatoes, soya beans, bran and potatoes.

Chickens were the "guinea pigs" used by a group of American, cientists to isolate the mysterious X in its pure form and see what could be done with it.

Not for Haemophilia

Vitamin K however, will not remedy haemophilia, the bleeding disease, of | the Spanish Royal family. This is a rare disease, and is traced to a deficiency

of a blood-clotting factor other than prothrombin.

Vitamin K within a few hours stops

from seo pages surgical wounds: in even less time, surgeons have found,

haemorrhages of a ..type. formerly fatal.

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Patients are fed with extracts of synthello K, and new-born bables. bleeding for some reason or other,

have K hypodermically injected Into them.

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Bomber Fund Supported

Donations To Causes

A total of 31,530,440.40 was reached yesterday by the War Fund Inaugurated | by the 5, C. M. Post, Ltd, with the fol-

lowing donations:

Central Falico Canteen (naventh

donation)

318

Alt Ranks, 11.q. Coy, 2nd Du Tho Royal Scots (eighth donation) .. Pollca Club, Boundary Street.... Sale of Calendars (sixth danallon) 303.30 In laying memory of Mother from

Lenore Winfield » . "tifast 'Em"

Lane, Crawford, Ltd. (Proceeds of Silverware donated by Mr Crommelin, Mrs J. P. Waltham, ACER A. 1. Pile, A. E. Man- waring and B. V. Hutchinson), Kowloon Cricket Club (proceeds

of Raftic at Danca on 25.1.41) Mr LA. Storting (monthly dona

tlon)

Craigengower Cricket Club

143.17

500

THE B. W. O. P. The British War Organisation Fund wishes to thank the Aiddlesex Real- meat for their donation of $1,000 collected by all Ranks.

In connection with the B.W.O.F. Dance at the Peninsula Hotel on January 31. the following prizes Inve not been claimed and are awaiting collection at tho Penirsuta lolol:

Ticket lucky numbers-719 three bot tles Black Label Whisky: B03 enn enrton Schiltz Beer: 1126 three bottles Grant's Whisky; 1210 Bourjois Perfume; 113) (wo bottles John Halg Whisky; 077 Toant Rock. Programme lucky numbers--673 $50 Compradoro Order on the Dairy Farm; 574 gentleman's Wrist Watch; 7 Lady's Silver Compact. Cigarette case and Comb; 339 Cut Glass Powder Bowl; 120 Electric Iron; 527 magnum of Champagne,

Canton Residents

Conlon, Feb, 5. The contributions to the British War Fund in Canton still continue to come in. So far, about £178.9 have been received, and these have. been remitted to the British Embassy in Shanghal-Our Own Correspon-. dent.

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