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THE Prefix "Special to the Telegrapha"

RIDDLES OF

THE

Seventh Article in This Historic Series

Can 1941 The

E question in the headline might be answered simply with a "yes". But to answer it adequately wo mint begin by defining whint we mean by "the offensive,"

We Take

Offensive?

By Capt. Liddell Hart

the necessary

desert,

superiority in

and land

both air strength, leaves a natural doubt about the value of such expectations.

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

ples, and winning a military victory No. term connected with war haa'

ihere, would seem to depend on the given rise to more misunderstanding.

power and virtue of the offensive in vance across the desert to. Sidi Bar. possible discovery of some revolution- or to such perious misunderstanding.

Pie lis superficial form.

rani, and the accumulation of troops hry new wanpon of paralysing effect, In the usual military senso

It has come to be regarded by public in that exposed spot where it was or the creation of an army of radically offensive" is a term spolled, and ro-

their supplies, new model, which stricted, to action

the opinion in Britain and American as a difficult to maintain takes form of advancing upon the enemy, universal solution for all war problems. which gave the British the chance of

And neither of these possibilities is This craze for "furious assault" is the striking a blow ut, far inore fa- This is a convenient, but not a precise

Such a conclusion does not rule out description especially in modern con- craziest notion that has ever been born yourable conditions than if they had likely to be realized in 1043.

taken the offensive initially, of unreasoning emotion.

of amphibious ralds, ditions of war.

Because a direct alincic is obviously still strategically unbalanced after the and

They struck an opponent who was the possibility

other strategle querilla opera. While it sulted, the days when men Loughi with swords and spears, it does the most direct way to victory, in jump which, had landed him in mid- tions, not altogether A warlare which is stinctive pugnacity has the only way,

In Africa And In The Air carried out with Arearms and other regardless of whether

Their conditions of success were assured--and fundamental advantages of the coun- takluk the offensive millarily this year offensive thus enjoyed the Outside this area, the prospect of our long-range missiles.

Gran forec, lying in a covered thus it has too often proved the short ter-offensive-which is apt to be the may turn on whether same fresh move on position may appear to have taken up cut, lo disaster.

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

offensive. For, as in ju-jutsu, It uti- for an effective local counter-offensive, n defensive attitude yet his or a fre

for 1011, provides little ground for the tiscs the opponent's own effort as the And in Africa, at least, the pure offensive la operating offensively,

Abuld become increasingly practicable in Offence In Its Wider Aspects resurrected belief that, on land, attack lever of his overthrow

When considering the military pro and tallat morale declines enn bent defence under anything like

proportion as Italian oil supplies dwindle The significance of this distinction is equal conditions.

spects of 1941, as regards an offensive The combination air and mechanised most simply illustrated in the case of The opening months saw the amaze on our part, it would be wise to take force on an increasing scale offers a definite a sniper, who always RÜSUMOS the ingly prolonged resistance the account of this experience of 1940- solution of our military problem thorn and static posture that is associated, with Finns in face of a vastly stronger as that, except where the attacker had a foreshadown the dissolution of Mussolini's defence, whereas his purpose is es- sailant, The Impression and the lesson tremendous superiority of force, all the African Empire.

Turning to the question of the air offen- sentially offensive.

were obscured, however, by the shock successful offensives came as a sequel give against Germany, it has to be recon- So is that of any faint or with of Hitler's victories in the West.

to the opponent making a false move nised that the prospective results of fis But few people pause to reflect that which drew him out of position. drawni which entices an opposing force

continuation remain highly speculative. to advance to spot where it can be 1tler was careful to wait, before It is necessary, too, to face the fact While a decisive effect is a possibilty, more effectively smitten by your Bre, striking at France, until he had a 4 that our Army is much smaller than the balance of probability is against such the German, and that even the utmost in the gist of experienco hitherto, a

anticipations. or more easily upset by a treat to its to-1 superiority in tanks and aircraft.

development of our That was amply sufficient by any pro- possible self-exposed tank. And this is one of

Inhambing match between two sea-separated the most profiable gamble of the art war cateutation to justify him in ven- power would not go far to bridge the countries such as Germany and England of generalship.

in fundamentally a foreleaf contest-how- turing an attack on the Maginot Line.

Bellain and the ever tragic its sprending effects-niess In the wider sense, the offensive may Yet even then he did not take the risk. in the last war, be said to enibrace any form of selen Cause Of The Tragedy Last May Dominions together eventually than 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. the initiative-in designed to gain

ty divisions. Instead, by his threat

For otherwise they can only scratch operating against the enemy's will to Countries he lured the French out of

We could hardly expect to provide the scratches brings one of them to the each other-until the cumulative effect of continue the war.

Thus, naval blockade is an offensive their weaker defences along the Bel- as many in this war, however long it point of collapse,

they lasted-owing lo the increased "de- Swift Decision That's Real indirect action ns buying up neutral together with the British forces, hatt mands of the Air Force and of home defence, including anti-aircraft de-

Victory fence.

tions.

than ten

of

In this

123211

must

in the economic sphere; and so is such in frontier, and then, when supplies which the enemy might other advanced deep into Belgium. struck in heltind thein at the weakest point of

As we are suffering more seratches than wise abinin.

their line. For the same reason, air attack on

What the French Premier described Moreover, the total available for any Germany, it is obvious that for reme tune We shall run the greater risk of exhau- la Industelat pinnts is just as truly a

war of guarding And if we succeed in prolonging the form of the offensive as the bombing the incredible mistakes" of the campaign in Europe is diminished by we s French command-which were not in the

"scratch-as-scratch-enn" of his aerodromnes or troop concentra credible to anyone who had observed against a Japanese threat in the Far game of is used by the "longkong Telegraph so indicate news which is strictly copyright

nivell be almost as exhausted.. Where We Failed Last Winter their long and obstinate adherence to fast and of dealing with the Italian Germany collapses, it is likely that is under the provisions of the Telecommuni»

Neither a good peace nor a quick re- the methods of the list war-smoothed forces in Africa.

no great cavery could be entlelpaled from such a cations Ordinance, 1936, Auch news a

Is almed to the path for, the Germans new tech- Germany, in contrast, lins All propaganda that hears the indication "UP" is received in

navy and shipping feet to maintain condition.

Empire to guard. Centuries of experience show that a Hongkong on the date of publication by

weaken the will of the enemy people. nique of mechanised infiltration.

That technique, Incidentally, had nor any overseas the United Press Associations, who re- ns distinct from stiffening the will of Kerve all rights and forbid republications, your

constitutes an originally been evolved by British ex- And she is reported to have between victory obtained by a long-drawn atiriilon. own. likewise

years 200 and 250 divisions raised and equip. struggle is apt to be almost as damegink either wholly or in part williout previous offensive in the psychological sphere, perimenters more

ped-so that her present land strength to the victor as to the loser. Arrangement.

In all these ways we can certainly earlier. take the offensive in 1941-and in. most should have been allowed to outstrip strength.

It was bad enough that the enemy is immensely larger than our potentia! be swiftly decidedly the qua

The delivary of the decisivo stroke or of them with much greater force than the Allies in developing these new "We Want No More Dunkirks" trent may have to be prepared by a A GREAT DECISION

hitherto,

menns of attuck, but it was even In so far as that strength lies in widespread skirmishing but no atrategist lengthy period of manoeuvring, involving While waiting 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 TO Britain, China and Greece might be strong enough to take the of creating the appropriate counter.

a blg nne..

to be drawn into a slogging mateli or Info offensive in the military field we badly means.

Furthermore, to considerable force a scrutching match. yesterday came the heartening failed to develop the offendive possiblli. While attack was beyond their

The only protracted type of offensive other strength there was all the more rea of the present type could be landed pts that can prove profitable la a psychological ties that were open to us in news that the United States spheres,

son, and urgency, for providing the the Continent without securing ports UNE

of Ruccessful de. for the disembarkation of its heavier This truth was evidently appreciated by Senate,

Indeed, the way that the leaders of modern necessities by & substantial

France and Britain talked last winter fence. And their neglect to do so was material and the maintenance of Is Lenin when to defined the principle that

supplies.

"the roundest strategy in war is to post- majority, had passed the. Lend of the victory they were going to win, the nexessable cause of the tragedy And here we are faced with the fact one operations until the moral dis- render the when their strength had grown, was of May, 1010.

integration of the enemy This has brought more evil in its that we have done our utmost to make delivery of the mortat blow beth possible and Lease Bill practically in Its worse than follsh

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

Hitler's grasp of it was Impled in t original form. Thus has been their existing strength and prompted nation. struck for Democracy in its the enemy to forestall them, but tend- Facts That We Have To Face xent has been. Die bigger the obstacle remark, years ago, that the millary ed to block the way for a psychological By fostering the delusion that attack we must have raised to our own ult problem which interested him was "how to achieve the inoral break-down of the could beat fights against Totalitarianism,

defence regardless of mate military nims,

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

And his solution was shown in offensive whether the conditions were favour.

Use one of the greatest blows of the action to that of direct military assault able. It may have prompted Mussoliniowever many German divisions are "bloodless campaigns against Austria and dispersed in occupying the conquered Czechoslovakia. and Inter in his actual is an absurdly narrow conception. It to lunch his invasion of Greece.

นาย Low understanding of

bad in itself. but has countrleg, it would seem probable that impaigns in Scandinavia. a shallow

This was past decade. The United States abows

could soon concentrate countries and France, modern warfare.

changed the general altuation for the the Gerinas

sumelent to outweigh henvlly any Only when he came directly up agahist has thrown down the gauntlet; Too many of our leaders, like those beller.

that of France earlier,

But it is important to realise pre still Ilving By taking the offensive without due force that we could land. We do not the British was he bamed,

Hitler's grasp of the principle wan 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 based on his knowledge of the

of land

farce might be derman people's psychological weaknesses. partners know precisely what The Craze For "Furious Assault" phir to his mechanised superiority, he

gave the Greeks an opportunity to en- superiority Unfortunately for the prospect of a trap his advancing columns in moun- discounted by our attainment of uit Hero's A Now Field To Exploit lies ahead of them-unstinted broader conception, the collapse of thin delles, und to follow up their superiority.

Unfortunately, Britain's leaders have not France face of the German Blitz recall with a counter-offensive.

But-apart from this being not yet yet shown an understanding of the prin American aid in

Likewise on the southern side of the in sight, his failure to overwhelm our ciple, and have failed to exploit the terms of krico, after nine months of Sitzkrieg

last May, despite his great psychological opportunity offered.

It is all the ingre unfortunate because money and materials for the has produced a false picture of the Mediterranean, it was the tailan ad- ormy

* Our resources in this sphere are superior Democracies.

Chips Maguiret I was kind of dumb not is the enemy's. la guess it, wasn't 11"

There is a great opportunity, and an Bemediate one. for a psychological counter-offensive.

of

offensive.

To confine our

Iden

of

In the course of his numerous An Absorbing Tale of a Torch Singer, President A Piano Thumper and a Gangster Boss

"Fireside Talks"

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.

LOUIS BROMFIELD'S

"IT ALL CAME TRUE

The people of the United States have no illusions about the Fuehrer's vaunted "New. Order". They know that if he found it practicable to attack the United States he would soon A Warner Bros. picture coming to Hongkong next week. find a protext, as in the case of the Inoffensive small countries he has overrun. Moreover, the American people are now con- vinced that, however scrupulous- ly neutral the United States

might remain, that would not

Tho

cast includes ANN SHERIDAN as Sal; JEFFREY LYNN as Tommy; HUMPHREY BOGART as Mr Grasselli; SAZU PITTS as Miss Flint; JESSIE BUSLEY as Mrs Taylor and UNA O'CONNER as Maggio

Ryan.

Sorialized by HARRY LEE.

The more effective our bombard

"A incopy dame, ain't you?"

"I only wanted to know what Tommy Find got mixed up with. I know it was something that would get us all in troublel Give me a cigarette. Chips-I've been walling behind that curtain for an hour with nothing to smoke!"

and easy,"

་

In pursuing their military attacks the.. Nazia have weakened Germany's moral defences. Already there in evidence that Blaillusionment has followed in the wake of conquext.

The German troops, through being brought into contact with the people of the occupied countries, have been made "I suppose," he said. complying and aware of the feelings they Inspire us Bolding match for her, "that you'll go Invaders. Indefinite separation from home right out now and tell everybody up and deepens the longstg for home, down Broadway!"

"Think I'm polag around bragging that we're harbouring a fugliive from justice? But I don't run you out, it's only be- Cause Ma and Mrs Taylor need your real pretty bnd-flow's Tommy mixed up with you?"

"Why don't you ask him?"

Together with the sense of being friend- less, it opens the way for the inflliration of war-Weariness-as well as of counter- idens.

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

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

arouses the fear of a peace worse than This ominous combination naturnity Versailles, and thus plays into Fiiller's hands.

"I will" She started from the room, "Aw, wait, Ball Now that you know it's me, will you come in sometimes and chew the fall I'm going dairy: These monkeys on the wall paper are beginning to make faces at me" "Why don't you make faces right back and searo them to deth?" she said, and went out and closet, tie door. Tommy must have heard might go far to dispel such fears.

13y clarifying our sims on this score wo her for be alood at tilä door, angry and But to go farther zill we need to disbaveled, "What were you doing in develop a positive appeal Uint will convert there?" he asked, roughly Jerking her the common people of Europe, including into

him her room, Bhy whirled on

the Germans, into Allies against Ititlorisni, furiously, 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 blous maternal pity. "Tommy

are you sentiments.

WE MUST CREATE A NEW ORDER IN BRITAIN, READY von EXTENSION ABROAD, THAT WILL BE SUPERIOR IN NATURE AND ATTRACTION TO THE NAZI ORDER

WE MUST GIVE MEN A NEW VISION, To beat the doctrine that the individual

in trouble?"

"What did he tell you?" "Llaten, mister.. I'm just trying to THE STORY THUS FAR: Mis Minnie left her brownstone house, its sell you a friend

I've got a friendi"' ho sold doggedly. furnishings, and its four ancient boarders, to Maggie Ryan, the cook, and "He knows everybody that counts, He

AND A NEW HOPE,

count' in the balance if Hitler Norah Taylor, the maid. Neither has the heart to evlet the old roomers, was going to help me to get my mu exists for the Blate, It must be shown that saw the U.S. as the only obstacle / Maggie's beautiful, hard-boiled daughter, Sarah Jane, a singer of torch Dubtlaked! Now, I suppose that you she we can evoke a scheme of national life in

CHAPTER 3.

Tommy, you poor baby lambi

work!"

Spearhead Of Countor-Offensive The new "free State" must secure its citizens, all the benefits that die National- with the advantages that the latter, of tir Hociallet Stale promises them together "I very nature, cannot even offer...

kind, but she thought better of think you might give me an idea of one of your sanget" she said casually, seating herself in use one easy chair and lighting a olgarette.

combine a guarantee of economic security, In other words, our naw order should based on the free provision to everyone at the material necessities of life, with the largest possible measure of individual freedom-pulside the economic spilero,

The tuldiment of such a canception is the necessary spearhead of our paycha logical counter-bitensive.

songs, comes home after losing her job and beating up the boss. Norah's was thinking how vastly more win in which the state of every individual is in his path to world dominion, on Tommy, who has been away for five years, has been playing the plano the ways of the world the wax than ht. better than it could ever become an a 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

see one?" Then, wistfully, "Listen, first measure of protection the place is raided, snatches the gun from Tommy, free and hits a man, if you'd only take me on your doorstep,

and practically forces Tommy to bring him to his mother's, boarding house, maybe I could against such an eventuality. as a hideaway. Sarah Jane reads of the raid and suspects the mysterious to bed and let me get back to The Bill is a piece of inspired boarder. She loves Tommy but quarrels with Aim when they meet again. free Arat impulse was to retaliate in statesmanship, no less valuable to-day than it will be in the difcult years after the war. THE clucking, her-mother atten-

THE For Great Britain and her

two officious old tlons of his friends it promises to solve a landladies, Maggie and Norah, made Mr Grasselli want to throttle Diem. whole cluster of problems.

It was only when Roberts, the shady Financial questions will not be gent who pretended to be his doctor, permitted to impede the flow brought word that the shooting affair across the Atlantic of all tho was about to blow over, that his weapons that Britain needs for manner toward them became slightly

more tolerant. her victory and America's

Tommy sicutly refused to give Barah accurity. Yesterday's voting, Jane any information about the strange which complemented the Mr Granell. So she decided to do some decision of the House of Repro- sentatives, proved that the commonsense and goodwill of her presence for his hand want

the American people are behind that masterly conception.

alouthing on her own. She hid behind a 10.coms from the bathroom. Ile emerged at inst, hat drawn low, to must have ewictly to his hip. When he saw that it

curtain in the upper hall waiting for him

was bar he amlled grimly,

"Bol" she snoored, “the mysterious Mr Gramolil in none other than good old

Mr. Graselli

I didn't suppose you were interested

he sald and began to play, 11 songs delighted her, she told him

and was soon singing. For the Arst time he was the gay, twinkling Tommy of the old days.

Sarah Jane ran to her mother's room wild with the nowe. "I did li, Ma!" she cried "I kept my temperi taybe it'a lovel Maybe love makes you keep your temperi I just kept looking at him and telling him how wonderful he was-and he it, of course! And we didn't get mad and insult each other and

"Go away and let "me" "leep. Sure, - you're a raving lunaticr

As though wonders would never coRNE, bolls Maggie and Norali anngunced to the astonished boarders at breakfast that no less a personage than the mysterious Me Gruselt had accepted an Invitation to Dine with the household that very evening.

To be concluded to-morrow.)

.TO-MORROW:

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

who wie in the Navy for thirts years, Was submarine commander in the last war, and for two years Command+ ad'the antisubmarine trejning. Rosilla,