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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 18, 1941.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

by loved wife of O. Sadlek, this

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, fo 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 plies 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 water. Another result of Iraq and Persia.

By Lord Strabolgi

The Boy Who Started Life on a Shoe-string!

SURE- PELSAVE YOU,

FINITO!

HELP

ADOLE

ITALY

THE FARCE OF THE REICHSTAG

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 sca Higher Command believed expeditions to operate in the The family and relatives of the Inte that the same object could Aegean.

No, for Hitler there must be Bertha Maria Noronha d'Azevedo be achieved by evasive or A third important result is THE great shadow show with

much noise has again been a far more imposing setting. The kind sympathy in their recent querilla tactics. They hoped that the blockade of Italy con- th: fimeral, letters of condolence, to lure the British Flect tinues. The Italian Admirals acted in long-suffering Berlin. big Kroll Opera House provides Hitler, having returned from one it. Here is a vast expanse floral tributes and Huly Mass within striking distance of may attempt, diversions with of his tours to the defeated, call-

their own Air Force and their submarines or by using ed the Reichstag to tell his hire where you can erect really fino rostrums and hang gigantic ban- thus to win a naval battle their fast light cruisers for lings all about his adventures.

ners which are meat and drink sporadic attacks and threats. What a farce. Just a

few to 21 true gauleiter. Strange Hongkong Telegraph. without risking their six But unless these are successful yards away from the Kroll Opera metaphor you may say, but I

battleships, the backbone of beyond all normal prospects of House is to be found the original have never yet seen

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 bunting as long as

the ground by the dastardly a battleship's "paying off This was a strategical mis more the lessons of history are Communist conspiracy in the is used by the tengkong Te seraph to take of the first order, and made plain for us in this war. early days of Hitler's dictator under the provisions of the Telecommuntis similar to the blunder Outside the Mediterranean the ship. Actually in that same fire

wish to express their thariks for bereavement, for attendance at

Offering.

The

Tuesday, March 18, 1941. ·

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calion Ordinance, 1935. Such news as Hongkong on the date of pobheation by the United Press Associations, re-

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district

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But this solemn farce, which hears the indication UI is received is made by the German High economic pressure of the blee-only a very small portion of the takes the place of the one time

kade continues on Germany, and great building was burned out freely elected Parijament, is

affair. And 09- serve all rights and torbid hobisations Command at the beginning any attempt at invasion of the that of the original democrali- sad lawdry filher who ty or in part without previous of the last war. Then there British Islands will always be

arrangement.

HITLER'S HEADACHE

was

By Norman Hillson

cally elected chamber of de- pecially for those of us who knew a So many Parliaments have top- are many who think it was putics, In point of fact there the Europe of a happier hour,

more pled in a decade, in far less. pity the flames did not do damage. for, although Berlin The Reichstag was a real contains very

hideous

Parliament. It was elected by buildings, there is surely nothing

male time popular suffrage of both so grotesque as the one

and female adults, and the

many

a favourable period an operation of the greatest when the British Fleet could danger so long as Britain dis CHAPLIN may have intended have been engaged with poses of superior naval power. solely to satirise. Hitler in "The Great Dictator, yet Charlie's some-hope-of-success, but it had been widely held by imaginative study of the Fuchrer the same mistake was made students of war that superior ai as a spoilt, bad-tempered little of trying to preserve intact power would be able to counter boy who screams and raves

act superior naval power. This has not happened in practice when things don't go as he wants the main German Fleet, them to, comes very near the

In the event it was the except in the abnormal case o truth judged in the light of Hit-

the invasion of Norway. There ler's intest speech to his people. Italian Fleet which was the threat of air attack pre German Parliament, house. people retained the right of re- It consisted of nothing but damaged by air attack, vented the full use of British Hitler is well aware of this. If ferendum and the initiation of vagne, generalised boastings and threats of what he and his mili- three, or possibly four, of and French naval power on the

Gernuan 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 could never in Nazi eyes have To-day the Reichstag is just a Britain and her Allies. And

Berlin to cheer the these boastings were the product aged at Taranto; and an- experience in countering air at- been a worthy setting for the body of Nazi nominees who

tack on warships at sea while the fulminations of Adolf Hitler. For travel to not of confidence, but of irate-other one in the brief long- German air superiority has been that reason the burned out Leader no matter what latest chamber is kept in its charred line of hyperbole he is putting ness and desperation caused by range action off Sardinia, much reduced."

state as a reminder to good citi- out. It they do not applaud frustration of his magical 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 leaders, 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 Fuehrer are noted and a convenient op

the effectiveness of superior explains this away to his friend portunity la week-end, but which, to his own the command of the Eastern naval control.

Stalin across the border. people. he would not admit: Britain had forestalled him in his Balkana quest by placing a formidable armny th Greece ready 10 invasion from Bulgaria;

any

undoubtedly encouraged by this fact, had told Hitler, to

to go and play in his take at Berchtesgarten before they

would sit

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Mirandaperative and already new

Last of the Biplanes

taken to remove. them to another sphere of use- fulness.

This document established Italy as a

The system, even with the volatile Italians, worked very well, but it was not good enough for Mussolin! and his Blackshirts. He swept the old Chant- ber away while slili nominally rotnin in the Senate. The Cheraber to-day in are supposed to be the

"syndical-corporation."

Its members elected. What

Mussolini, like all dictators, also deprived the Italians of constitutlanul parliament. One of the dearly prized privileges of those Italians, who laboured for and Aur- But never was a combat air- fire-and the single Bristol Mer- the unification of their land was launched under the personal tralian fighter pilots have re- craft more appropriately named cury engine of 340 hp. gives it the written constitution known of Mullai has become a fasco and cently been gaining glory in than the Gladiator, calling to a top speed of around 255 m.p.h. as the Statuto.

have encounters over the Western mind the fighter in the arena.

During the Norway campaign constitutional monarchy with a Senato regained an inch of territory; the Desert with fighter and bomber Although speed is not its great Lend and Lease Bill has become in aircraft of Italy's Regia Aero- asset, probably no aircraft has 4 squadron of Gladiators distin-of 385 members and a Chamber, elected

nautica. Among the aircraft ever been designed more suited guished itself in an epic fight by adult suffrage of 830. supplies aro being rushed across the

the close and intricate against immense climatic dif- Atlantic to Britain; Hiller's night they have used is the Gloster to

ficulties and overwhelming odds. of Gladiator, last of the long line manoeuvres air fighting. raiders have been given the worst

Operating from an improvised beating fresh emphasis to the fact the R.A.F.

since the start of the was, of fighter biplanes adopted by Some of the most spectacular landing ground, 17 out of 18

aeronautics and breathtaking int the Luftwaffe is being slowly,

formation flying seen at Hendon Gladiators were lost in two days but surely driven out of the

Names of British fighter air- Displays before the war were continuous fighting: but heavy

"Hur carried out by Gladiatora. And, losses were inflicted on Ing. Already there are signs that ricane" and "Spitfire" have as the first British fighter to enemy.

Gladiators have since exacted losing his caught the imagination of friend mount more than two guns- dležator in initiative; actions are again giving and foe, typifying, as they do four being the Gladiator's stan- their full revenge, in combat precedence to words, and his pro- the great speed and devastating dard armament-it was the first against the Italian invaders of Now this roseal Quisling in Norway mises are becoming more and more generalised. A few months

ago ha

fire-power of these modern eight- multi-gun fighter to go into ser- Greece and Egypt, though often is also oping the game of the more vice. Gladiators were also used fighting against superior, num-successful adventurers. Ile is in pro- Assured the German nation that the gun monoplane types.

gress of abolishing the famous Stort- Invasion of Britain was almply

A

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

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 180 mem- and routed 18 Fiat C.R.42. One quarter of these sat in an upper chamber known as the Ladting nive: Invasion of

Is that his blusterings are capable of pre-war days. England

fighters; in another, four Aus-and the rest in a lower house called instend he is "rendy to meet toring the British lenders into a false

the Obelsting. This last body was the Gladiators, more important for ns in our own sys- flying Technically, the Gladiator tralians. Britain on any soil, on any sens and nove, he displays a typically naive

formation of 17 tem it controlled all money bills. over any territory", which suggests understanding of British intelligence. may be described as a single- smashed a that he is waiting for Britain to The situation is developing quite

One day a better time will return choose the venue, in the hope, pre- nicely for Britain and she can afford seat,, equal-span biplane with C.R.42's; whilst the exploits of motal structure fuselage and "Lucky B" flight in clearing sumably, that she will choose one to wait before she makes the which gives the Nazis the most ad-remo move which will overthrow wings. Wing apan is about 32 Egypt's air of the Italiana have

Ifect-five feet less than the Spit- already made history. vantage. It is a striking example of Hitler.

These are sober, uncha

facts; to Hitler, horrk and

the neurotic

craft are singularly apt.

actually happens is that the voters as a whole are presented with a list of candidates, all naturally Ardent and nctive Fascists, whom they must elect, or reject, willy-nilly. Of course they always efect.

to the world. Let us hope that that better time will bring about a revival

of the great Parliamentary institutions, Pyes, even the Reichstag.

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