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Seventh Article in This Historic Series

RIDDLES

OF Can 1941 The

E question in the headling might bo answered simply with a "yes" But to answer it adequately we must begin by defining, what we mean by "the offensive."

We Take

Offensive?

By Capt. Liddell Hart

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desert.

Offence in Its Widor Aspects resurrected bellef that, on land, attack lever of his overthrow

can beat defence under anything like When considering the military pro

195umes

and

land

both Alr superiority in strength, leaves a natural doubt about the value of such expectations.

turing an attack on the Maginot Line. Sap the last war, Britals and the ever tragic its spreading effects-Unters

fence.

inn.

In sum, our chance of invading the territory which Germany now accu- the world-famous writer on military affairs

ples, and winning a military victory No term connected with war has

there, would seem to depend on the siven rise to more misunderstanding, or to such perilous misunderstanding, power and virtue of the offensive in vance across the desert to Sidl Bor- possible discovery of some revolution- rant, and the accumulation of troops ary new weapon ot paralysing effect, "the is superficial form.

spot where it was or the creation of an army of radically In the usuni milltary sense

It has come to be regarded by publle in that exposed,

their supplies, new model. offensivo" is a term applied, and "ro-

the opinion in Britain and American as a difficult to maintale strleted, to action which takes

And neither of these possiblities is form of advancing upon the enemy, univeran solution for all war problems. which gave the British the chance of This craze for "furious assault" is the striking a blow under for mere fa-

Such a concluialon does not rule out This is a convenient, but not a precise

taken the offensive Initially. description especially in modern con- craziest notion that has ever been born yourable conditions than if they had likely to be realised in 1941,

of unreasoning emotion.

They struck an opponent who was the possibility of amphibioua raids, dillons of war.

strategle uerilla opera- direct attack is obviously Because While it sulled the days when men fought with awards and spears, it does the most direct way to victory, in- still strategieally balanced after the and other

In Africa And In The Air not altogether warfare which is stinctive pugnoelty has the only way, jump, which had landed him in mid- tions.

offensive - thus enjoyed the

Outside this area, the prospect of our entried out with firearms and other regardless of whether the necessary Their

conditions of success were assured-and fundamental advantages of the coun. taking the offensiva militarily this year long-range, missiles.

mall, or a force, lying in a covered thus it has too oflen proved the theri ter-offensive-which is apt to be the may turn on whether some fresh move on position may appear to have taken up cut to disaster.

The evidence of 1940, when analysed most effective and easiest form of the the enemy's part gives us the opportunity

offensive. For, na in ju-jutsu. It uti for an effective Incal counter-offensive,

And in Africa, at least, the pure offensivo for 1941, provides little ground for the lises the opponent's own effort as the should became increasingly practicable in a defensive attitudo-yet his or its fre is operating offensively.

proportion ns Italian oil supplies riwindle and talian moralo declines, apects of 1991, as regards an offensive The combination air and mechanisca The nignificance of this distinction is equal conditions.

The opening months saw the annz an our part, it would be wise to take force on an increasing sente afters a definite most siniply iustrated in the case of

resistance the ingly

of the account of this experience of 1940 solution of our milltary problem thern and prolonged who always naalper. static posturo that is associated with Finns in face of a vastly stronger as that, except where the attacker had a forrshadows the dissolution of Musolini's

Turning to the defence, whetens his purpose is es- soliant. The Impression and the lesson tremendous superiority of force, all the African pin question of the air offen-

were obscured, however, by the shock successful offensives came as a sequel Rive ngainst Germany, it has to be recog sentially offensive...

to the opponent making a false nove nised that the prospective results.pt is So is that ut any feint or with of Hitler's victories in the West.

But few people pause to reflect that which drew hint out of position. continuation remain highly speculative. drawal which entices nu opposing force

It is necessary, ton, to face the fact While a decisive effect is a posibility, to advance to a spot where it can be Hitler was careful to wait, before more effectively smitten by your fire, striking at France, until he had a 4 that our Army is much smaller than the balance of probablity is against Buch

the German, and that even the utmost anticipations,

tu the Eght of experience hitherto, o ar more easily upset by a threat to its to-1 superiority in tanks and aircraft.

DUT That was amply sufficient by any pre- possible development of

mat bombing match between two sea-separated- self-exposed flank. And this in one of the most profitable gumbits of the art war calculation sto justify him in ven- power would not go far to bridge the countries mich as Germany and Hagland is fundamentally a farcicaf contest-how- of generalship.

In the wider sense, the offensive may Yet even then he did not take the risk. be said to embrace any form of action Cause Of The Tragedy Last May Dominions together eventually man- one or other can cross the water, or gain

to the Lowed to place in the field about seven- a definite mastery of the air. designed to

For otherwise they can only scratch initiative-In Rain the

Instead, by his threat

ty divisions,

ench other-until the cumulativo effect of We could hardly expect to provide the scratches brings one of them to the operating against the enemy's will to countries he lured the French out of continue the wor.

Thus, naval blockade is an offensivo teir wenker defences along the Bel as many in this war, however long I point of collapse,

when they insted-owing to the Increased de- Swift Decision That's Real Indirect action as buying up neutral together with the British forces, had mands of the Air Force and of home In the economic sphere; and so le such in frontier, and then,

into Belgium, struck defence,

Victory Including anti-aircraft de-

An we are suffering nioro serniches Qian supplies which the enemy might other advanced deep

in behind them at the weakest point of wise obtain.

their line.

Moreover, the total available for any Germany, it is obvious that for some time For the same reason, air attack on Wyndham St., Hongkong

of the campaign in Europe is diminished by we shall run the greater risk of exhaus And I we succeed in prolonging the as "the incredible mistakes" Telephone: 26015

his industrial plants is just as truly a What the French Premier described form of the offensive as the bombing French command-which were not in the need in this war of guarding Til: brefix "prelay to the Telegraph of his aerodromes or troop concentra credible to anyone who had observed minst a Japanese threat in the Far game of scratch-as-scratch-con" unti

aluill be almost na exhausted. Is used by the ongkeng Teiegrablef to

Neither a good peace nor a quick re- Indicate news which is stricity copyright

Where We Failed Last Winter their long and obstinate adherence to East and of dealing with the Italian Germany collapses, it is ikely that we

the methods of the last war-smoothat forces in Africa.

Germany, in contrast, has no great every could be anticipated from much a under the provisions of the Telecommuni- eations Ordinance, 1916. Sneh news as

navy and shipping feet to maintain condition, aimed to the path for the Germans' new tech- bears the indicatión “UP” is received in

All propaganda that is

hal nor Any oversean Empire to Kunrd. Centuries of experience show tint a Jongkong un the date of publication by

That technique, incidentally. wenken the will of the enemy people, nique of mechanised infiltration. The United Press Associations, who res distinct from stiffening the will of originally been evolved by British ex- And she is reported to have between viclery obtained by a long-drawn attrition serve all rights and forbid republications,

constitutes own, likewise

perimentern more thin ten years 200 and 250 divisions raised and equip struggle is aut to be almost an damnging either wholly or in part without previous offensive in the psychological sphere.

For a tenuine victory the lasue must ped-so that her present innd strength to the victus as to the loser. carlier. Arrangemeat.

In theke why we can certainly "It was bad enough that the enemy is Iminensely larger than our potential e swiftly decided.

The delivery of the decisivo stroke or take the offensive in 1941-and in most should have been allowed to outstrip strengih. of them with much greater force than the Alles in developing these new "We Want No More Dunkirks" threat may have to be prepared by p lengthy perlas of manoeuvring, Involving In so far means of attack, but i was even

as that strength lies in widespread skirmishing but no strategist While walling for the time when we worse than the much less exacting task mechanised force her balance is also worthy of the name should allow himself might be strong enough to take the of creating the appropriate counter-

to be drawn into a slogging match or info

Feratching match. offensive in the military field we badly means.

Furthermore, no considerable force While attack

The only protracted type of offchive мля heyond their falled to develop the offensive possibili ties that were open to us other strength there was all the more res of the present type could be landed on

Continent without securing ports that can prove profitable is a psychological spheres.

son, and urgency, for providing the the

of successful de- for the disembarkation of its heavier

This truth was evidently appreciated by Indeed, the way that the leaders of modern necessities

"the soundest strategy in war is to post- France and Britain talked last winter fence. And their neglect to do so was material and the maintenance of its Leuin when he defined the principle that operations intil the moral ~ 29- And here we are faced with the fact pone of the victory they were going to win, the inexcusable cause of the tragedy supplies. when their strength had grown, was of May. 1940.

This has brought more evil in its that we have done our utmost to make interation of the enemy renders i

delivery of the mortal blow both possible worse thon folish.

and easy." It not merely exposed the weakness train-but not without some compen these ports unusable.

more effective our bombard-

Iller's grasp of it was implied im his that the military of their existing strength and prompted nation.

Facts That We Have To Face ment has been, the bigger the obstacle remark, years ago, the enemy to forestall them. but tend-

to achieve the moral break-down of the struck for Democracy in itsed to block the way for a psychological By fostering the delusion that attack we must have mised to our own alti problem which interested hith was "how

offensive.

could bent defence

regardless of mate military alms.

Perhaps It may be as well. For enemy before the war has started"

And his solution was shown in the fights against Totalitarianism,

To confine aur idea of offensive whether the conditions were Invour-

dispersed in occupying the conquered Czechoslovakia, and later. In actual one of the greatest blows of the action to that of direct military assault able, it may have prompted Mussolini however many German divisions are bloodiess campaigns against Austria and Scandinavia, the Low Is an absurdly narrow conception. It to launch his invasion of Greece.

of n shallow understanding This was bad in itself. but has countries, It would seem probable that campaigns past decade. The United States shows

changed the general situation for the the Germans evuld soon concentrate Countries and France. modern warfare,

Only when he came directly up agalnet_ su:llelent outweigh heavily any has thrown down the gauntlet;

that Too many of our leaders, like those better.

But it in important to realiko are still lvlos By taking the offensive without due force that we could land. We do not the British was he baffled.

Jutler's grasp of the principle France carlier, henceforth Hitler and his junior mentally in the last century.

calculation, and in country unfavour- want further Dunkirks.

It is often suggested that the enemy's originally Eased on his knowledge of the Innd force might be German people's psychologient weaknesses. Kave the Greeks an opportunity to en- superiority partners know precisely what The Craze For "Furious Assault" able to his mechanised superiority, he

Unfortunately for the prospect of a trap his advancing columns In moun- discounted by nur attainment of air Here's A New Field To Exploit lies ahead of them-unstinted bronder conception, the collapse of tain defles, and to follow up their superiority.

Unfortunately. Britain's leaders have not But, apart from this being not yet yet shown an understanding of the prin- France in face of the German Blitz- recoll with a counter-offensive. American aid in terms krieg, after nine months of Sitzkrieg. Likewise on the southern side of the in sight, his failure to overwhelm our eple, and have failed to explalt the

-of-the-Mediterranean.-it-was-the-tailan ad- army Inst May, despite his great paychologient opportunity offered.

it is all the more unfortunato-because. nur resources, in this sphero aro superior money and materials for the has produced false picture-

Chips Moguirol I was kind of dumb not the enemy's. Democracies.

to guess it, wasn't Ir

There is a great opportunity, and an immediate one.

psychological counter-offensive. "A snoopy dame, ain't you?"

In pursuing their military attacks the Nazis have weakened Germany's moral defences. Already there is evidence that disfusionment has followed in the wake of conquest,

Á GREAT DECISION TO Britain, China and Greece yesterday came the heartening news that the United States Senate, by-

substantial majority, had passed the Lend and Lease Bill practically in its original form. Thus has been

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An Absorbing Tale of a Torch Singer, "Fireside Talks" President A Piano Thumper and a Gangster Boss

Roosevelt has bluntly told Hitler and Co., that neither he nor the American people will be intimi- dated by threats that come from the Axis capitals. Now, Mr Roosevelt and the peoples' representatives have gone fur- ther; they have thrown Hitler's threats back into his face and declared that they are prepared to go to almost any length to stop him from fulfilling his Machiavellian machinations.

BROMTELD'S IT ALL CAME TRUETM

Tho

A Warner Bros. picture coming to Hongkong next week. cast includes ANN SHERIDAN as Sal; JEFFREY LYNN as Tommy; HUMPHREY BOGART as Mr Grassolli; SAZU PITTS as Miss Flint; JESSIE BUSLEY as Mrs Taylor and UNA O'CONNER as Maggio

Ryan.

Sorialised by HARRY LEE,

s big one.

The

10

"I only wanted to know what Tommy kind got mixed up with. I knew it was something that would get us nil in trouble Give me a cigarette, Chips-I've been waiting behind that curtain for an hour with nothing to smoke?**

"I suppose." he said. complying and holding a match for her, "that you'll go right out now and tell everybody up and down Broadway!"

Think I'm going around bragging that we're tarbauring a fugitive from justice? But it I don't run you out, it's only be. Cause Ma and Mrs Taylor need your rent pretty bad-ilow's Tommy mixed up with you?**

"Why don't you ask him?”

one.

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for

A

Wan

troops. The German

through being. brought into contact with the people of the accupied countries, have been made. aware of the feelings they inspire as Invadera. Indefinite separation from homa deepens the longing for hotu.

Together with the sense of being friend- tess. It opens the way for the infiltration of war-weariness as well as of counter- Ideas

With a clearer conception of grand strategy, we should have a good chance of turning this disillusionment to advant- ape for the salvation of elvillantion.

We have helped to fortify the German people's-war-wili and to check the spread of war-weariness by the haziness of our peace aime, coupled with the definite way we talk about seeking a decisive military victory.

This ominous combination naturally arouses the fear of a peace worse than Versallies, and this plays into Hitler's hands,

"I will". She florted from the room. "Aw, wall, Sail Now that you know It's me, will you come in sometimes and chew the fat I'm going day! These monkeys on the wall paper are beginning to make faces at mel" "Why don't you make faces right back and scare them to death?" ise kald, and went out and closed the door. Tommy must have heard her for he lood at his door, angry and

But to go farther still we need to disheveled. "What were you doing In develop a positive appeal that will convert there?" he asked, roughly Serking the common people of Europe, including into her room. She whirled on his Germans, into Allies against Illerism. furiousty, but his helplessness, made her To carry conviction that appeal must be love for him surge up in a rush of based on example, not merely on pious maternal

. are you sentiments.

By clarifying our alms on this score wa might go far to dispel nucli fears.

The people of the United States have no illusions about the Fuchrer's vaunted "New Order". They know that, if he found it practicable to attack the United States he would soon find a pretext, as in the case of the inoffensive small countries he has overrun. Moreover, the

in trouble "Tommy"," American people are now con-

"What did he tell you?" "Listen, mlater. I'm just trying to vinced that, however scrupulous-

sell you a friend ly neutral the United States THE STORY THUS FAR: Mis Minnie left her brownstone house, it've got a friend!" he said doggedly. might remain, that would not furnishings, and its four ancient boarders, to Maggie Ryan, the cook, and 10 knows everybody that count. c AND A NEW HOPE. count in the balance if Hitler Norah Tailor, the maid. Neither has the heart to evict the old roomers, was going to help me to get my music saw the U.S. as the only obstacle was thinking how vastly more in his path to world dominion. on Tommy, who has been away for five years, has been playing the plane the ways of the world she was than he better than it could ever become in a

see ang?" Then, wistfully. "Listen, kid. The Lend and Lease Bill is the in a tough joint and carrying the gun for the big boss. The boss, when "Don't you know a run-around when you totalitarian system first measure of protection the place is raided, snatches the gun from Tommy, fires and hits a man, if you'd only take me on your doorstep. Spearhead Of Countor-Offensiva

maybe 1 could and practically forces Tommy to bring him to his mother's boarding house, Go to bed and let me get back to ciuzens, all the benefits that the National- against such an eventuality.

as a hideaway. Sarah Jane reads of the raid and suspects the mysterious work" boarder. She loves Tommy but quarrela with him when they meet again.

CHAPTER 3.

WE MUST CREATE A NEW ORDEN IN BRITAIN, READY FOR

EXTENSION ABROAD, THAT WILL BE SUPERIOR IN NATURE' AND ATTRACTION TO THE NAZI ORDER

WE MUST GIVE MEN A NEW VISION,

To beat the doctring that the individuat exiata for the State, It must be shown that:

Maggie's beautiful, hard-boiled daughter, Sarah Jane, a singer of torch published Now, I suppose that you, she we can evoke a scheme of national life in

The Bill is a picco of inspired statesmanship, no less valuable to-day than it will be in the difficult yours after the war. THE clucking. hen-mother atten- tions of his two officlous - old- For Great Britain and her friends it promises to solve a landladies, Maggie and Norah, made whole

cluster of problems. Mr Grassell! want to throttle them. Financial questions will not be it was only when Roberts, the shady gent who pretended to be his doctor. permitted to impede the flow brought word that the shooting affair across the Atlantic of all the was about to blow over, that his weapons that Britain needs for manner toward them became slightly

more tolerant. hor victory and America's accurity. Yesterday's voting, which complemented the decision of the House of Repre- sentatives, proved that the commonsense and goodwill of the American people are behind that masterly conception.

Tommy, aloully refused to give Barnh Jane any Information about the strange Mr Grasselli. Bo aho decided to to Fomo sleuthing on her own. She hid behind a curtain in the upper hall walling for him at last, het drawn low. He must have. soned her presence for his hand went swiftly to his hip, When he saw that it was Bar he smiled grimly.

to come from the bathroom. He emerged

"Ba!" she sneered, "the mysterious Mr Grassell is none other than good old

Mr Graselli

"Tommy, you poor baby lamb"

The now "irea State" must secure ita.

Gocialist Blata promises them, together Her first impulse was to retallate in with the advantages that the latter, of its kind, but she thought better of it. "I very nature, cannot even offer, think you might give me an idea of one in ather words, our new order should of your songs!” she said casually, sooting combine a guarantee of economic securlly herself in the one easy chair and lighting based on the free provision to everyone.

elgarette.

of the materia) necessities of life, with the largest possible measure of individual freedom outside the ectmomie-sphere,

The tulment of such a conception in. the necessary spearhead of our paycho- logical counter-offensive.

"I didn't suppose you were interested he weld and began to piny. His Fongs delighted her, she told him 知。

and was soon singing. For the fitat me he was the way, twinkling Tommy of the old days...

Sarah Jane ran to her mother's room wilt with the news, "I did it. Mal" she cried "I kept my tempori Maybe it's lover Maybe love makes you keep your tempert Just kept looking at him and telling him how wonderful he was-and he is, of course! And we didn't get mod and insult each other and

"Go away and let me sleep. Sure, you're a raving tunailer"

As though wonders would never cease, both Maggio and Narah announced to the Astonished boarders at breakfast that no less a personage than the mysterious Mr Grassell had accepted an invitation to dine with the household that very evening.

"flo be concluded to-morrow.)

TO-MORROW:

CAN WE BEAT THE U-BOAT. ? BY CAPTAIN BERNARD ACWORTH, D.S.O., R.N.

who was in the Navy for thirty years, was a submarine commander in the fast war, and for two YURIT.COMmand- ed the anti-submarine training motilia.