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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 18, 1941.

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The

SEA POWER

and the WORLD WAR

The brilliant military cam- Mediterranean, with all it paign which has ejected the means, rests with the Bri- Italian armies of invasion tish. The result is that Bri- from Egyptian soil and tish warships have been able thrown them back in dis-to bombard the Italian order into Libya was only forces in the rear from the made possible by sea power. sea, and the supply of rein- When Italy intervened in forcements and materials, the war her main task was including petrol and water, to assist Germany in defeat-by sea to the Italian forces ing the British Empire by in Libya, is made more dif- invading Egypt and secur-ficult.

On the other hand sup ing control of the Suez Canal. This would have plics can be carried by sea facilitated the German drive to the British advancing through the Balkans and forces, and their wounded Turkey to the oilfields of and prisoners evacuated by Iraq and Persia.

water. Another result of

By Lord Strabolgi

The correct strategy was this failure to risk all on a for the Italian Navy to be great naval engagement is concentrated and to seek a that the Italian Navy is un- decisive engagement with a able to help its army against numerically inferior British the Greeks by creating Fleet based on Alexandria, diversions on the coast of Apparently the Italian Greece or by sending sea Higher Command believed expeditions to operate in the that the same object could Aegear.

The Boy Who Started Life on a Shoe-string!

SURE- "'LL SAVE YOU,

FINITOT

HELP

ADOLE

ITAL

THE FARCE OF REICHSTAG

THE

be achieved by evasive or A third important result is THE great shadow show with guerilla tactics. They hoped that the blockade of Italy con-

No, for Hitler there must be ntuch noise has again been a far more imposing setting. The

of tours to the defeated, call-

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th: funeral, letters of condolence, to lure the British Fleet tinues. The Italian Admirals enacted in long-suffering Berlin. big Kroll Opera House provides Boral tributes and Holy Mass within striking distance of may attempt diversions with either, having returned from one it. Here is a vast expanse their own Air Force and their submarines or by using ed the Reichstag to tell his hire where you can erect really fine rostrums and hang gigantic ban- thus to win a naval battle their fast light cruisers for lings all about his adventures.

ners which are ment and drink What a farce. Just a few to a true gauleiter. Strange battleships, the backbone of beyond all normal prospects of House is to be found the original have never yet seen a district naval warfare they will not Reichstag building which was leader in Germany unless he was the Italian Navy.

affect the main issue. Once supposed to have been burned to surrounded by bunt.ng as long as

sporadic attacks and threats.

Hongkong Telegraph. without risking their six But unless these are successful yards away from the Kroll Opera metaphor you may say, but

Tuesday, March 18, 1941. Wyndhain St., Hongkong Telcolione: 26615

is used by the Hongkong Te egraph to

THE prefx "Special to the Telegraph" indicate news which is striety 10pyright

under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

cations ordinance, 1934. Such news ar

hears the indication Up" is received is

Hongkong on the date of publication hy the United Press

This was a strategical mis- more the lessons of history are Communist conspiracy in the nant.

the ground by the dastardly a battleship's "paying off pen-

take of the first order, and made plain for us in this war carly days of Hitler's dictator-

is similar to the blunder Outside the Mediterranean the ship. Actually in that same fire

But this solemn farce, which

And CS-

made by the German High economic pressure of the bloc-only a very small portion of the takes the place of the one time serve all rights and forbid republication Command at the beginning hade continues on Germany, and great building was burned out freely elected Parinment, is elthier who ly or in part without previous of the last war. Then there any attempt at invasion of the that of the original democrati- sad tawdry affair.

British Islands will always be was a favourable period an operation of the greatest HITLER'S HEADACHE when the British Fleet could danger so long as Britain dis-

arrangement,

boy who screams and raves

+

when things don't go as he wants the main German Fleet. them to. comes very near the truth judged in the light of Hit- ler's latest speech to his people. It consisted of nothing but

By Norman Hillson

The Reichstag was

male

CHAPLIN may have intended. solely to satirise Hitler in "The have been engaged with poses. of superior naval power.

It had been widely held by cally elected chamber of de- pecially for those of us who knew Great Dictator" yet Charlie's some hope of success, but

are many who think it was a So many Pärliuments have top- imaginative study of the Fuehrer the same mistake was made students of war that superior ai puties. In point of fact there the Europe of a happier hour. as a spoill, bad-tempered little of trying to preserve intact power would be able to counter pity the flames did not do more pléd in a decade, in far less.

ket superior naval power. This damage, for, although Berlin'

a real has not happened in practice contains very many hideous In the event it was the except in the abnormal case buildings, there is surely nothing Parliament. It was elected by

the invasion of Norway. There so grotesque as the one time popular suffrage of both Italian Flect which was the threat of air attack pre German Parliament house. and female adulta, and the people retained the right of re- damaged by air attack, vented the full use of British Hitler is well aware of this. If ferendum and the initiation of Vague, generalised boastings and threats of what he and his mili- three, or possibly four, of and French naval power on the

German lines of communication. the Reichstag had survived it laws. Hitler changed all that. tary forces were going to do to their large ships being dam- Since then there has been more on worthy setting for the body of Nazi nominees who could never in Nazi eyes have To-day the Reichstag is just a Britain and her Allies. And not of confidence, but of irate other one in the brief long- German air superiority has been chamber is kept in its charred line of hyperbole he is putting these boastings were the product aged at Taranto, and an- experience in countering air al-

tack on warships'at sea while the fulminations of Adolf Hitler. For travel to Berlin to cheer the the burned out Leader no matter what latest ness and desperation caused by range action off Sardinia, much reduced.** frustration of his magical

state as a reminder to good citi- out. It they do not applaud schemes to eliminate Britain, his The result is that the main

The great shipbuilding pro- zens of the dastardly methods of with sufficient vigour at the cry it is of the cheer lenders, their names greatest and most deadly foc. Italian battle fleet is serious- gramme in Britain is bearing Communism, although

For these are the facts which Hitler had to face up to during the ly reduced in numbers, and fruit, and every month increases difficult to see how the Fuchrer are noted and a convenient op the effectiveness of superior explains this away to his friend portunity is taken to remove week-end, but which, to his own the command of the Eastern naval control,

Stalin across the border.

them to another sphere of use- people. he would not admit: Britain

fulness. had forestalled him in his Balkans quest by placing a formidable army in Greece ready to withstand any invasion from Bulgaria; Yugo-Slavin, undoubtedly encouraged by this fact, had told Hitler to go and play.

in Inke at Berchtesgarten before they would sign away their freedom to

wour

him; The great Italian offensive

disaster--the Itallans have lost

scine

Atlantic 10

· rushed across the

that reason

Last of the Biplanes

the

of

Mussolini, like all dictators, also deprived the Italians of a constitutional parliament. Ono

of the dearly prized privileges of those Italians who laboured for

This document established Italy as a

British, Canadian and Aus- But never was a combat air- fre-and the single Bristol Mer- the unification of their land was launched under the personal direction tralian fighter pilots have re- craft more appropriately named cury engine of 840 h.p. gives it the written constitution known of Mussolint has become a fiasco and cently been gaining glory in than the Gladiator, calling to a top speed of around 255 m.p.h. na the Statuto.

encounters over the Western mind the fighter in the arena.

During the Norway campaign constitutional monarchy with a Senate 50,000 more men and have not Desert with fighter and bomber Although speed is not its great regained an inch of territory: the Lend and Lease Bill has become im- aircraft of Italy's Regin Aero- asset, probably no aircraft has a squadron of Gladiators distin-of 385 members and a Chamber, elected mediately operative and already newnautien.. Among the aircraft ever been designed more suited guished itself in an epic fight by adult suffrage of 530,

The system, oven with the volatile supplies are bein; Hitler's night they have used is the Gloster to

close and intricate against immense climatic dif-

ficulties and overwhelming odds. Ilatians worked very well, but I was not good enough for Mussolint and his rulders have been given the worst Gladiator, last of the long line manoeuvres air fighting. beating since the start of the war. of fighter biplanes adopted by Some of the most spectacular Operating from an improvised Blackshirts. Ho swent the old Cham- 17 out of 18 per away while still nominally relain- providing fresh emphasis

the fact the R.A.F.

aeronautics and breathtaking landing ground, that the Luftwaffe is being slowly,

formation flying seen at Hendon continuous fighting: but heavy are supposed to

Gladiators were lost in two days lng the Senate. The Chamber to-day

a "syndical-corporation." Its members but surely driven out of the skies,

be elected.: What Names of British fighter air- Displays before the war were losses were These are sober, unchallengeable craft are singularly opt. "Hur carried out by Cladiators. And,

inflicted on the actually happens is that the voters as a whole are presented with a list of facts; to Hitler, horrid and dispirit- ricane" and "Spitfire" have as the first British fighter to enemy.

candidates, all naturally ardent and Ing. Already there are signs that the neurotic dictator is lasing his caught the imagination of friend mount more than two guns Gladiators have since exacted orive Enchis, whom they must o'ect. or reject, willy.nilly. Of course they inliiniivo; actions are again giving and foc, typifying as they do four being the Gladiator's stan- their full revenge, in combat piwnys elect. precedence to words, and his pro- the great speed and devastating dard armament-It was the first against the Italian invaders of Now this rascal Quisling in Norway mises

are becoming more and more fire-power of these modern eight- multi-gun fighter to go into ser- Greece and Egypt, though often is also aping the game of the more generalised. A few months ako he Assured the German nation that the. gun monoplane types.

vice. Gladiators were also used fighting against superior num-successful adventurers. He is in pro

gress of abolishing the famous Stort- Invasion of Britain was simply a

for the high altitude "weather bers. In one fight in Egypt re-ing. Storting was the name given to question of him spiccting the time for

hers. One quarter of there sat in an it: now he has fallen back on the loss of confidence, but if he Imagines flights" which were a feature of cently, six Gladiator pilots met the Norwegian Parliament of 150 mem

and routed 18 Flat C.R.42. upper chamber known as the Ladting defensivo; invasion of England is that is blusterings are capable of pre-war days.

fighters; In another, four Aus-and the rest in a lower house called dropped; instead he is "ready to meet luring the British leaders into a false

Gladiator trallans, Technically, the

flying Gladiators, the Oblating. This Inst body was the Britain on any soll, on any seas and move, he displays a typically talve

more important for as in our own sys- over any territory", which suggests understanding of British Intelligence. may be described as a single smashed a formation of 17 tem it controlled all money bilis. Wint he is waiting for Britain to

The situation is developing quite seat, equal-span biplane with C.R.42's; whilst the exploits of · One day a better time will return choose the venue, in the hope, pre- nicely for Britain and she can afford metal structure fuselage and "Lucky B" flight in clearing to the world. Let us hope that that sumably, that she will choose ond to walt bofora sho makes the which gives the Nazis Ue most ndauoremo move which will overthrow wings. Wing span is about 32 Egypt's air of the Italians have better time will bring about a revival of the great Parliamentary Institutions, vantage. It is a striking example of Hitler.

Ifect-Ave fect less than the Spit- already made history.

yes, even the Reichstag.

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