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Mr Churchill Reveals Total War Casualties

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the buck or not it cannot possibly keep ita eye on the enemy.

"Anollier point of some difficulty which presents itself to me whenever tam osited to make a statement to the House is whether 1 ought encourage good hopes of successful outcomes of particular operations ought to

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against us in the world and a very alarming impression was produced. couldn't you have reinforced with when Mr Hore-Bellsha invited him do, but it is much easier said than flight in the Mediterranean, which

Apart from the losses incurred in the; 17,000 men to carry on the battle?" to say something about air-arm codone, especially while the enemy were serious, the months of Any was "The mument that it was proved operation. Mr Churchill declared possesses vastly superler recourers the best we have had for some time thut we could not crush the borne landings before the Fleet losses multiply fighters and bombers.

air that last year the great need was to and many strategic advantages. on the Atlantic. became too heavy to hold off sea- became

IL "For all those reasons, I have never Lorne landings, Crete was lost and it matter.

"Prodigious efforts were made tu! au enormously important encouraged any hope of a short and bring in cargoes and to protect ships; "Nevertheless, a proportion easy war. None the less, it will be and these exertions have not foiled. would have been thought what was of Army co-operation squadrons were a mistake to go to the other extreme it is much easier to sink

have been successfully defended, he already reached, the Delta of the possible of the

"It is one thing to take off 17,000 but not on a scalo which was desir-ments of our country and its armed nerons the ocean. Or

associated with the military forces and belittle the remarkable achieve to build them or to bring them safely foolish visionary. But

ships than

Very Nile. that is the "It would be most unfair and nien with side arms and another to able. It was of the utmost con- forces.

We have lately position at the moment.

wrong and very silly in the midst of land them in fighting condition with

sequence

division, Uiat

been taking a stronger hand in this To be Thankful For

"It is more than three months a defence which so far has been runs and material. It is a wonder- especially every

every

sinking process ourselves. It is armoured division,

aained the Germans gave out that they crowned with remarkable success, to ful thing that as many as 17,000 pat should have a chance to live Its daily fore, for which we may be thankful. menth of May we rank and captured were telling the Spaniards that when an excuse and pretext for branding many things, there most natonishing fact that in the would be in Suez in a month. They select the loss of the Crete salient as away in face of the enemy's over-life and training in close and whelming command of the air. relationship

precise

"Alr attack on this island has not or caused to be scuttled no less than Suez fell they would have to come with fallure or faunt the great cam- The British nation is unique in "We should not regret the Battle that it can call upon at need,

Losses Compared

with the particulur overwhelmed us. Indeed, we have 257,000 tons of enemy shipping al-into the war. number of aircraft that it knows and risen through it strengthened and though they present us with a target

paign for the defence of the Middle "Two months this respect that they are the only people who like to be told how bad of Crete.. The fighting there attained

ago many people East which has so far prospered be- lorified. "It was not possible last year to

which is perhaps one-tenth as great thought that we should be driven out yond all expectation and in now things are, who like to be told the severity and fierceness which the provide it on a large scale without that productivity in our factories is

There is no truth in the statement as we present to them.

of Tobruk or forced to capitulate entering upon an even more intense worst and like to be told that they

Germans had not previously frenching on other domains which falling off at an alarming rate.

Our World Traffic

there,

and critical phase. are very likely to get much worse countered in their walk through were more vital to our safety, but it

"While they slinks from port to port the war, one instructed commentator "The last time we had a debate on In the future and that they must pre- | Europe. In killed, wounded, missing was the intention to go forward on would like it to go, and if anyone umbrellas our whole

may not be going na fast as wa

under the, protection of their tir pare themselves for further reverses, and prisoners we lost about 15,000 that path immediately and provide can tell us how to make it

warned us gravely of the danger of world "But when you

wide laster to EO

other men

German thrust nt Assiout ni sterraffle proceeds with never less than

"I give no guarantee and make no the the Army with a considerably larger he will be rendering a great service, 2,000 ships on the sens or less than of the ite countries-oddly enough I kaw "This takes no account of the losses number of aeroplanes sulted entirely but it is not simply a question of 10 per cent in danger zones on any

promise or prediction for the future, message from the outhorities are most concerned with our Arab with the utmost bravery and suffered above all to the development of that mands. There is much more than them in May were in the nature of and children were evacuated by air, should find us in no worse position

who of Greeks and Cretaus who fought to the work that they had to do and giving very strident orders and de- day.

"Six weeks ago all Iraq was in but if the next six months, during Yet the losses we inflicted upon

flames and Hubbaniyah was declared which we must expect even harder problem at present, urging that we so heavily.

wireless connection between the thist in making the whole of our fac-three-quarters. of the losses they

to be in direct Jeopardy Women ghting and many disappointments, should be careful not to indulge in "On the other hand, from most ground forces of the air and military tories go properly. But it is the infticted upon us. This also has a too gloomy forecasts. The Arabs do careful and precise enquiries we be- which the Germans had carried to exact reverse of the truth to say that bearing on the possibility of an air-urters into four not understand the British character lleve that about 5,000 Germans were such an extraordinary point of per-productivity is falling off at an al-borne invasion because the destruc- ment ruled in Baghind in the closest of Germany antrian and treachery than that wherein we stand to-day; was reported from army enemy the

would be after having fought so long alone of meeting trouble long before drowned in trying to cross the sea fection.

forced. A hostile insurgent govern- and sin

ra- and single-handed comes, and I think it is much better and lost 12,000 killed or wounded

against the might No Difference In Crete

arming rate. to go on pulling a bold face on things

"In guns and heavy tanks, for in- at a most rapid and catisfactory rate. issociation witors were pinned in of Vichy we should still be found the

tion of enemy tonnage is on the island fiscif.

proceeding

the Germans and against the intrigues and treachery and then meet lisaster when it "In addition, the airborne

"If this had been done in Crete, Itstance,. the

monthly average for the

"Nor need these solid grounds for narrah having only just Pessimistic Statements

which the Germans employed sus-to the events there because the num-greater than in the last quarter of look at

would not have made any difference Arst quarter of 1041 was 50 per cent thanksess fall from us when we Kirkuk und Most were in

landed. flthful and unbeaten guardians of tained

extraordinary losses, about bery there for the purpose of co- 1940. The output for the month of Middle East. We have been at war hands,

aspect of the war in the: "Any statements of a pessimistic 180 fighters and bombers being des-

enemy the Nile Valley and of the regions that le about it, then I say a famous character used here are calculated toroyed and about 250 troop-carrying have altered the roops could not Alay was the highest-yet reached, and for 21 months, Almost a year

operating with the

chapter discourage our friends and to spread planes. This, when our air strength

vil have been written in the more than double the monthly rate events, Replying to a question as to who for the last quarter of 1940, alarm and despondency over wide is overtaking the enemy's, f Import- | decided that the air force on the overwhelmed by air attack and our the "nybody had said in June' last Our front al Mersa Matruh In

und Commonwealth." regions

"In the first place we had not been: affect nicely-balanced ant. 10 neutrals and encourage the enemy, "I am sure that it will be found who, nt course, seizes upon any that this sombre and ferocious battle phrase or any gloomy allusion and repeats it myrind-fold in its strident propaganda.

arrives.

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force

drawn

Mr Churchill

pasted sitten

italy came

has and

It

in Force.

the

All Regained "All has now been regained. We martial history of the British Empire are, advancing into Syria

After the Prime Minister's speech, defensive lines

the House of Commons adjourned Western Desert is unbroken and our without a vole. than ever. The large forces which were occupied in the conquest of there are stronger

The closing date of the exhibition Abyssinia are now set free with an of pictures by Miss Li Pal-ming, of immense mass of transport and large din Ling College, at the Hotel Cecil, would numbers are on their way to or have has been extended until June 14.

France deserted us me in against us, in Crete were to bet tas of territory for which Britain if

we should to-day

lny hold every by the Commander-in-Chief down by disorganisation of attack, has responsible in the Middle East, that

salt that it was which was last upon no great margin of the Air Force in the Middle East been increasing at a very high rate. we should have conquered the whole was well worth fighting and will play on the recommendation of General an extremely important part in the Freyberg, and concurred in by the

Enemy Ship Losses of the Italian Empire of Abyssinia whether Members of Parliament throughout year.

Moment have wrote out the present via Valley Commander of the Fleet Air Arm on beinit well maintained. In January Egypt, Palestine and frag

"The Battle of the Atlantic is also eltren and East Africa and that

It makes me feel

not got to pick their words very care- fully. In this deadly war, wherein

Lessons Learned

the

Mr. Churchill continued that the

mareluding a New Zealand | degree, to affect the course of events. |

are already approaching

tire

country.

Mr

we

"It is naked: Will the lessons in numbers were small and it we are gripped with dangers that are Crete be learned and will they affect not been withdrawn, they would have as measureless

they had 19 they are unpreced- ented, closing in upon us, in so many the defence of this island?" Officers been blown off the nerotrone with quarters with so much to defend and no participated in the thickest of out having been able, in the slightest such imited resources, se churces which may turn ill against us

is a great

Churchill

repeated that made which add nothing to the In-made by the Staff in the Middle East We seek no colonies or advantages

pity if statements are

no "Very full appreciations have been or anywhere else in French territory. territorial designs in Syria formative critician which is "50 valuable but which can be taken and are being made in a more of any kind for ourselves in this war. from their context and placarded all lengthy form. This material will be "Let none of our French Friends be

exumined by the Staff here and will deceived by blatant

over the world as

.

us this

German

and

not united or that our case is much Sir Alan Brucke, who commands we shall do all in our power to res- sign that we are be placed at the disposal of General Vichy propaganda. On the contrary, worse than it is.

the several millions of armed men in fore-the-freedom, independence and this island, including the Home rights of France. Guard.

French Must Help

"Every effort will be mute to pró- A by it.

"There are two fets to be borite in our power to restore

"In a letter I wrote to General de Goulle, I said that we shall do all France's

"Brunt of "Fighting "One thing I regret very much is that the brunt of this fighting in the Middle East should have fallen so heavily on the splendid Austraitan and New Zealand troops.

In mind in comparing what happened freedom and her rights, but it will "I regret this for this reason among Crete with what might happen be for the French to aid in restoring others, that the German propaganda here. Firstly, we rely upon superio- machine is always reproaching us for rity in the air, certainly upon much that General de Gaulle is a mere her greatness. There can be no doubt lighting with other people's blood, greater nir power, both actually and zealous defender of France's interests and they mock us with the insulting relatively than was proved sumclent than are the men of Vichy, whose taunt that England will fight to the lost autumn. This sustains not only policy is that of utter subservience last Australian or New Zealander. the land defence but liberates again to the German enemy.

"I was very glad to see Mr Menzies the power of the Navy from the

to see that the intration into Syria

in his noble speech on Sunday, deal thraldom in which it was held round "It did not take much Intelligence with this vile propaganda as it Crete. -deserved,

"There have been, in fact since ID41, almost as many British as there

Scale of Effort

by the Germans and their intrigues

"Secondly, the scale of effort re-to the whole eastern finnk of our de- in Iraq constituted very great dangers quired of the Germans in attack

are Australian and New Zealand would have to be multiplied manye in the Nile Valley and the Suez

troops engaged in all operations in times over what was

Crete.

necessary in "The only choice before us in that whether to encourage the Free

the Western Desert, in Greece and in Crete and it might be that this would theatre for some time has

"Losses during this year compared be beyond the capnelty of their re- with the number engaged are slightly. sources for their schemes. heavier for the British than for the to meet an air-borne and sea-borne

"Everything, however, will be don Dominion troops. In Crete niso, the attack launched upon vast scale and numbers were almost exactly equal. and the British loss was again sight-maintained with a total disregard

ly heavier,

been

French to attempt a counter-penetra- heavier risk in delay, to prepare a tion by themselves, or whether at a considerable force as we have done.

Restoring Iraq

those two into any undue the position Ir. Iroq before any

Flosses. We not be lulled by "It was also necessary to restore "These Ogures include Idilled, wounded, missing and they include sense of security. Art attack by serious advance in Syria could be parachute troops and gliders may made. Our relations with Vichy and

likened to

10 แพ attack by the possibilities of an open breach "In order to tum the edge of this quickly extinguished one

incendiary bombs which, not with the Vichy Government evidently by ane, raised the military and strategic

Indian and non-British troops.

British Regiments

the

German propagando, I have asited may lead not only to serious fires but significance of these movements to

the Secretary of War to endeavour to an enormous conflagration.

to mention more frequently the uames of British regiments when

Improved Defences

the very highest point.

"Finally and above all, the formid- "We are making many Improve-able menace of an invasion of Egypt

this can be done without detriment ments in the defence of our nirfields by the German Army in Cirenaica to the operation

and in the mobility of the forces supported by large Italian forces, The following British regiments which will be employed upon that with this position in Syriu, was

units, for instance, fought in Crete: The Connaught Rangers, the and other tasks. Nothing will be nearly gone. Black Watch, the Argyll and Sutherstinted and not a moment will be

the

"German poison was spreading lund Highlanders, the Leicestershire is not true that

throughout the country and the Regiment, the Royal Artillery, the clothed their parachute troops who prematurely, enabled us to take the revolt in Iraq, perhaps Beginning Germans Royal Engineers and a number of attacked Crete in New Zealand uni- necessary measures to correct the Royal Marines who formed the reforma. I gave that report to thejevi, but we must not rejoice or give House as it reached me from the way to jubilation while we are Commander-in-Chiefs of the Middle engaged in operations of

amculty and when the reaction of

t the

arguard and suffered most heavily of nil.

"In fact, of the 2,000 Royal Marines East, but he now informs me that the Germans still remains to who landed in Crete, 1,400 become mista casualties or prisoners,

"Naval losses of ilfe In these opera parachute troops, after landing at

one point, drove

a number of New Zealand walking wounded before

.

mistake, arose from the fact that obscure and Deprecated

Clamour

this

133

troubling too much about our re- "It is very easy for crities, without sources and even without a sense of

itons exceed. 500 officers und men,ze and while this was going on wo also them and along with them in their lost 1.300 man in H.M.S. Hood."

The Premier continued, "Of 00,000 attacks, and consequently The lives lost so far in this wat at Home arose that they themselves were, in time, to clamour for action, now hore,

Zealand uniforms.

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and abroad at least 85,000 have come Now Zoo in no objection to the use examination of the Titan but the now there, without ̧ ̈'à cursory from the Mother Country. There- fore, I repel and repudiate German

ops in war so long of parachute troops

House taunts on behnit of the Mother as they are dressed, in distinctive from taking sweeping or superficial will, best regard. Re, dwó dignity and authority by refraining Country and the Dominions of Aus uniforms of their country This kind tralia and New Zealand themselves. of fighting, however,

viowa" Es bound, to

"Others have said, that we munt.

- Why Crate Was Left behind the fronts and lines of the We must regain the Initiative

become very, flerce as it breaks out that follow a hand to mouth crack "It might be well to be asked “Why, having begun the battle in Crete aldarmy, and the civil population impart to all our operations. Unt you not pernist in the defence of the almost immediately involved."

Island? You could bring 17,000 men safely to return to Egypt. Why

Traning tunda, den Syria

Mr Churchill then turned to Syria

sense of mastery and design, which the Gerhana so often display: No- body agrees with that more than I

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