1941-02-12 — Page 19

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD DUCK

AND REMEMBER. NOT A CHUCK ROAST FROM THE SHOULDER,

NOR A RUB ROAST

FROM THE SADDLE, NOR A....

OKAYLY YEAH, YEAH, I GOT IT...

A-CHEF'S POT SIRLOIN. ROAST FROM THE PART NEXT TO THE

· LOIN!

'A CHUCK. SHOULDER FROM THE CHEF'S SIRLOIN...

NO.. 'A ROAST.

SADDLE POT ROAST,

NOT FROM THE RIBS!

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ECONOMY

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

"The or

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

The copter begins with small economies. In the reign of King William IV they were matters of taste, not of compulsion, or next foor to it, as they are in 1040; for no war had come to strain the fe- sources of the country. The old gentleman who took the fallure of his bank with stoical midness, but worried over the waste

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

The ·'narrator of "Cranford" con- fessed that her foible was hoard- ing string, and that "sort of delfi. cation of string", which she called an Indiarubber ring and we call on elastic band. She hoarded elastic band for nearly six years

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

And co with certain people's anslety over' butter, and Miss Matty's chariness of candles. Such cconómice were a pleasant hobby, по моге,

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

bands used. In London on any one day would make tyres for two hundred thousand Army lorries, or something like that. No greedy hands were outstretched then to

such treasures as our pet little collections of what wo insist on calling shrapnel, because all the pet lile collections of shrapnel put together would make enough scrap to build umpteen tanks. Cranford could hoard to please It- self, We must heard only to see our precious goods go down the

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

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And ilten comes the 'lurning of the oid Jenkyns family letters- yellow bundles of love-letters, some of them sixty or seventy years old. It seems incredible In 1940; but

after burning one by one-- burning in the open coal fire... dozens upon dozens of letters.

February 12, 1941.

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Sun

By Walt Disney

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PICK IT OUT,

TOOTS!

A NOW-IT-CAN-BE-TOLD STORY

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By George Slocombe

Miss Matty and her friend sat night TWO years before war broke out the French General Staff, its lectures.

It Is not that they were wrong to destroy the letters. How runs Dr Inge's quatrain?

"Lives" of great men oft remind,

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We may suffer in our turn, And departing leave behind Leiters, that we ought to burn- -thus, or something like it. Times like these are no times in whileh to go on keeping letters that either writer or recipient or both would hate stranger's eye to see, or even a stranger's hand to de- stroy. But to burn them would be even worse than to hoard them. All that paper gone into smoke and ashes instead of being collect- ed and pulped and used all over again-the thought would turn any town councillor fruntic,

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were

These Cranford

people thought themselves 30 economical, and judged by present standards they

recklessly

We wasteful. know, too, that they made spills of paper. Misa Matty's speciality was spills of coloured paper cut so as to resemble feathers. And any statistician could have told them that in every hundred thousand spills there was enough paper to But we must not be hard on Miss Matty and her extravagant friends,

was many years since Miss Jenkyna, at a dianer party in Newcastle, had heard the signal which meant invasion, and Miss Matty had woken in the night to think she heard the tramp of the French entering Cranford. The

Miss Mallys of to-day, gentle, indomitable souls, have steraer calls to economy, and they wake in the night with no need to fancy

noises that are not there.

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just published. in English by Hutchinson, sug- of the gests some reasons. Here is the explanation advanced by his latest lieu- tenant.

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strategy at the famous "School of Marshals" in Paris, the Centre Etudes des Hautes

"The original strategy Militaires, had actual-

continued was wrong,' ly foreseen the exact General Legentilhomme, "We ought never to have circumstances in advanced into Belgium. which the German We ought never to have May left our strong positions Blitzkrieg of

along the Belgian frontier 1940 took place.

to advance into a country with which we were un- familiar, in which we had no prepared positions, and attempt to defend a line which, once pierced by the enemy, would have to be abandoned.”

More than that, it had worked out a plan of operations which included the advance of the

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Allied Armies into Belgium, the pivoting of the whole

Allied front on point near Sedan, 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- der-in-chief of the Allied forces in British and French Somaliland, who has arrived in London to join General de Gaulle, after; inciden- tally, escaping drown- ing in the Empress of Britain.

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the general, "the French

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

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This alert and 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.

"When war broke out in 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

from we suffered

an superiority enemy

in machines of four to one.· But in 1914 we fought

German mechanical superiority not of four to one, but of sixteen to one. To every infantry bat- talion in the French Army were allotted two machine-

talions 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.

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.

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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 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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IT'S A MOTOR-E. B. Myers, oxhibiting this acropland an gine at New York University, says it will add 85 per cent, to bombor loads and Incrassa fighter plane apced 200 miles an hour. It's a "jot impulag roaction" engine, using disul- phide.and nitrous oxide.

"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 among

the soldiers' families. The French soldier is not

like the British soldier.

Cinemas and football are" not enough to keep him cheerful in inactivity.

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"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

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."

strategists in 1937 guns. The German bat- and who could not possibly assumed that Ger many would attack with sixty-five divi- sions, of which six would be armoured. Actually the Blitz- krieg was fought with sixty-three divisions, five of which were armoured."

The element of sur- prise, on which Hitler has so often counted with

was success, lacking in the case of France. Why, then, were the French de feated? General de Gaulle, in his book, "The Army

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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 1989-40. The history of the French des feat makes it clearer than ever how great a soldier Joffre was

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

GENERAL LEGENTIL

HOMME had some 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 seize a well and to deprive his enemy of it wins the battle. The difficulty in supplying a largo army with water, brought hundreds of miles over exposed roads in tank lorries, is

enormous. :

Vitamin Discovery

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

Doctors in Singapore, Aus- tralia, England, and, în America 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 syn- thetlo form have been received in Singapore from England, and its first use in the maternity hospitals has been extremely successful.

For unknown reasons, probably half. the new-born infants have abnormally small amounts of prothrombin, with- out which surgery or oven relatively

· minor wounds can cause fatal bleed- ing.

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

In Spinach

Vitamin K is known as the congu- lant vitamin, and it is present in the green leaves of alfalfa, and lo cabbage spinach, strawberry, ripe tomatoes," soya beans, bran and potatoes.

Chickens were the guinea piga". used by a group of American scientists to isolate the mysterious K in its pure form and see what could be done with it.

Not for Haemophilia

Vitamin K however, will not remedy haemophilla, the bleeding disease of the Spanish Royal family.. This is a rare disease and traced to a deficiency of a blood-blotting factor other than prothrombin.

Vitamin K within a few hours stops see pages from surgical wounds. In even less time, surgeons have found, It stops haemorrhages of a type formerly fatal.

Patients are fed with extracts - of synthette K, and, new-born- þables bloeding for some reason brother, have K. hypodermically injected: Into them.

There will be a cinema abow for Servicemen in the Sallors Home and Seamen's Institute at 8 pm. to-day.

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PASTOR D. W. O. V. The British War Drganisation Fund wishes to thank the Middlesex Regt- iment for their donation of $1,000 collected by all Rank

In connection with the a.w.or. Dance nt the Peninsula Hotel on January 31. the following prizès have not beca claimed and are awalling collection at the Peninsula Hotel:

Ticket lucky numbers-710 three bot- iles Black Label Whisky: 802 one carton Schlitz Beers 1120 three battles Grant's Whisky; 1310. Bourjois Perfume; 1131 two bottles John Hialg Whisky: 071 Toast Ilack. Progtamme tucky *nambers."673||$50 Compradore Order on the Dairy Farm; 574 gentleman's Wrist Watch: 272 Lady' Sliver Compact, Cigarette casa and Comb; 654 Cut Glass Powder Bowl; 120 Electrid Iron: 527 magnum ot, Champagne,

Canton Residents

Canton, Feb. 6. The ... contributions to the British War: Fund "in Canton still continue to come in. So far, about £978.0 have been received, and these hava been remitted to the British Embassy, in Shanghal-Our Own Correspon- dent.

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