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THE

INHE SINKING OF THE GERMAN BATTLESHIP BISMARCK is profoundly, al tored the balance of RAVA! power in Northern Europe. Ger- many had two recently completed battleships of the most... powerful typo. the Bismarck and her sister ship the Tirpitz. Two other wor Vessels of this type are under construction but the first can- not be ready for at least twelve months and probably more. The

August 11, 1941.

NEW BALANCE OF

NAVAL POWER

By Lord Strabolgi

large battle-cruisers Scharnhorst These are the Murat and the ships which could give a good Naval Staff was prepared to and Gueisenau are lying seri Oktiabrakaya-Revolutia (October nccount of themselves against risk her also, one battleship. ously disabled in the Brest Revolution) and four large mo- any vessel of war in the Ger- will be sufficient to act as a - dockyard. This means that dern cruisers of the Kirov class, man Navy with the exception of guard for even the most valu-

Germany has only one heavy There are a number of smaller the Tirpits. In addition the able fleet of munition ships. warship ready for action. warships, Including thirty mo- Swedish Navy has five old const As the British Fleet now com-

It will be necessary for the dern torpedo - boat - destroyera defence ships, twelve torpedo- prises 17 large ships-of-the-line, Tirpitz to remain available for and about hundred sub- bout-destroyers, ten large sub- oven after counting the loss of marines and six small sub- the Hood, it is obvious that the-

naval defence in the Baltic. If marines.

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she is sent on commerce" raid- Apart from the Tirpitz the marines. No doubt the Swedish whole problem of trade defence ing expeditions into the Atlantic German Fleet consists of two nation would only enter into against surface raiders has now and anything happens to her, pocket battleships, one of which conflict with their mighty Ger- been eased. then the Russian Baltic Fleet is known to have been badly man neighbour if hard pressed

SHIPS FOR PACIFIC will be in a position to exercise damaged by torpedo attack, and the German Air Force naval command of the whole of three heavy cruisers, one being erating over the Baltic would be a serious menace not only to

There will now be a larger mar- the Baltic.

the Prince Eugen, and four or the Swedish Navy but to the gin of large and powerful war- Ave light cruisers.

ships to act as a striking force RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET

cities and towns of Sweden There is also the Swedish well.

As against any attempt at invasion of

the British Islands, Ir Much money has been spent Fleet to be taken into account. It may be that there is a close more powerful warships are required Mag and trouble taken to make the For coastal work among the enough understanding between for trade protection more will be Russia-Baltic Fleet efficient in islands and straits of the Baltic the Governments of Berlin and available for actual defence of the recent years. and it is known the Swedish Navy is formidn- Moscow to relieve the German ships, with their strong deck-armour

British Isles. These

hese very large wate has been ble. It consists of one modern High Command of naval anxie- and powerful batteries of anti-air- Stubbs Road that great progress

made. At present it consists of cruiser, the Gotland; and five ties in the Baltic. Nevertheless craft guins, are less vulnerable to two old but powerful battleships. heavily armed const defence, German diplomacy rests so attac

attack from the alr than are the much on the argument of armed sunk in the Mediterranean by bomb- cruisers four of which have been' force that the loss of the Tirpitz ing from aeropiones since the first would seriously weaken the Ger- attack on Greece by Italy last Octo- man position in the North

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HITLER'S ARMY

OF HEATHENS

By Charles E. Hewitt

Former President of the

Foreign Correspondents' Association of Germany

a

"I believe in my Fuchrer not with my understanding, but with my heart and soul.

"GERMAN PRAYER"

ATLANTIC SAFE

ber,

Another result of the sinking of the Bismarck is that it will be pos- sible now for naval reinforcements

of to be sent for the British Flect in Pacific in case of trouble in that

the

ocean.

The

The ever-present threat German fast battleships reach- ing the Atlantic trade routes by For all the above reasons the making use of the Norwegian shiking of the Bismarck is likely to coast has had a serious effect on have wider results than the mere British naval strategy. There loss of n new and powerful battle- was always the possibility that hints the greement is xported be-

to the Bismarck and Tirpitz in tween the Soviet and Swedish Gov- company could appear on the ernments for the safeguarding of the former It is the ritual sworn to by trade routes and there attack their mutual interesis "ONWARD, PAGAN

Battle States. This agreement SOLDIERS!" is the cach annual muster of Storm- important convoys carrying war only be of limited scope, but it

may may battle-song to which Hitler's Troopers and party officials, and material from the U.S.A. to lead to closer co-operation for mutual

begins with the following oath, Britain.

defence and then, but for the Tirpitz, Juggernaut is rolling across paraphrased from the Christian' WARTIME ECONOMICS

It had been necessary to es will be in a predominating position the Russian and Swedish Navies the map of Europe.

Creat-where it denis with thecort the more important convoys in the Baltic. Saviour: LORD Moyne's instructions.to

with British battleships to meet But Nazi paganism has the Colonics

this very threat, Two of the ernment even if the German Gov-

managed to obtain posses on War time roused its own executioner

most powerful units in the sion of the remainder of the French economics make impressive-world Christianity unit-

British Fleet were in the middle Navy, this would only add to their reading, but just how far they ing to-day in holy anger

of the Atlantic on convoy duty strength two capital ships at

most. These urc The Strasbourg, when the Bismarck was first battle-cruiser. can be applied in Hongkong and a sacred resolve to

located in the Denmark Channel the Richelieu, which was damaged at Toulon, and without upsetting the Colony's and confound them for all smash Hitler's heathen hosts economic equilibrium is diflicult time. to anticipate.

Undoubtedly there has been an excessive consumption of what can be regarded ag non-essentials dur- ing a war, but unhappily, it is just these products which have hitherto contributed so much towards Hongkong's financial stability; they are not only revenue producing, but they are the means of employment which would be hard to replace.

עסת

A "GERMAN Prayer" has for between Iceland and Greenland. while lying at Dakar and is under- years been on the daily re- They were able to detach them- stood to have been repaired. Even gimen of all schools. It is re-selves from

with these two powerful war vessels their convoy and the German Navy since the loss of cited in unison by the class both take part in the strategical dis- the Bismarck would only be able to the first pagan soldiers to pour session.

Hitler's ruthless armies are at the opening and close of each positions for the interception place three large capital ships in across the map of Europe for

of the Bismarck.

the line of battle and would be in a centuries.

Now that only the Tirpitz is position of marked inferiority to the

British Fleet stationed left, even supposing the German European waters.

In North.

Hitler has laboured tirelessly for six long years to make them been as vital a part of his re- BO. For their paganism has

armament as any of Krupps' giant cannon.

Secret-Police Chief Himmler

"Guard Adolf Hitler every

day

From all our Fuehrer threaten

may.

..

Thou send'st him in our

greatest need; Preserve him, German God,

we plead."

Indoor services are regularly Roth,-and-has-organised his-ways in secular surroundings is leading pagan of the Third held throughout the Relch, al- army of 300,000 Blackshirts in in school-houses, gymnasiums, It is Hongkong's misfortune strict accordance. For three sport auditoriums, and in giant

years all members have had to beer-halls. that she possesses no great resign from Catholic and Pro- industries which can' be con- testant Churches and avow verted into essential war produc-paganism.. tions. Her commerce is that of

THEIR PAGAN CREED

retailing which depends upon HERE are three of the twenty.

imports. Restriction of those five tenets in the official

imports must have repercussions German heathen creed. likely to involve unemployment has mustered over a thousand To propagate the faith Hitler

and a consequent decrease in heathen chaplains into the ranks living standards. What local of the German Army. industries there are have already been severely hit by shipping restrictions and the gradual but consistent decline in trade figures must be recognised as symptomatic.

1. We believe no more in the Holy Spirit. We believe in the Holy Blood.

2.The Holy Land for us is Germany, And its ever- Insting Empire.

3-Life brings a Holy Ger- manic, trinity: battle, labour

CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

SAND

How to Win

y JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

Restraint Needed

Nevertheless, much of the traditional Christian forms has been retained. The official

defenders get a sort of fien- ace, but, to his great annoyance, he MOST "German Heathen Creed," for dish joy out of over-rufing the found that the 100 points thus se- instance, is couched in verses. declarer. Whether this over-tuff is cured gave him and his partner a Here are two of them.

ndvisable or not rarely interests tie for bottom on the board. The German people need no them; it is enough apparently that

There was excellent reason for

Bible, a book of Jews. Our Holy Scripture is the old they can take a trick which he ex- this bad East-West score. First, as

Nordic sagas and hero-tales.

pected to add to his plc.

noted above, West should have dou- that bled; second, he should have defeat-

In our hundred per cent. There are many situations Nordic heathenism and our call for stern restraint on the part ed the contract two tricks, for 500 thoroughly German Church, for a defender. To wit:

St Paul himself could not be admitted as pastor-nor even as a sexton. Neither could that other Jew-Jesus Christ.

WEDDING GIFT

CHRISTIAN marriage has been and love. For, these are one tossed into the scrap-heap. and inseparable: We love By law, every wedding must battle-which brings us our to-day be performed before a great work and our highest bust or picture of Hitler-and joy.

each couple presented, after the ceremony, with a copy of "Mein In 1933 nearly 50 per cent. Kampf." of all German schools were

Match-point duplicate. North-South vulnerable. Norih dealer.

AJ 10 9 7 VI

AQJ10 Ο 41002

points.

The over-ruft of declarer's trump ten had been West's fatal error. What was the point? Surely, West could not lose his queen of trumps, triply guarded, and there might be stefnite advantage in maintaining his trump position. There was! The proper play was to let declarer win with the trump ten. He then would probably lead the singleton club to ward dummy (not that any other play would help him). West would up with the ace and merely exit with

a

low

example. trump, for Dummy's ace and East's would nine. West fall on this trick, and now To-day

would have the Q8.5 of trumps over one the new Germany that it has Church school remains.

declarer's K 37 and others, In Fitting symbol to action, the obtained a deep and real hold

short, with three tricks home, West would still have two sure trump Reich under the orders of Hit on millions of German men and

South's Jump to four hearts was tricks coming to him, crucifixes which used to hang ler simultaneously removed the

Here is an extract from a bit of a stretch despite his seven- There is nothing complicated about this alluation, but since it

not

women.

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N WE $

AKQ4

KJ 197043 082

The bidding:

North ** ZA

East South West 10 1♡ PAGE 4♡

Pass Рава

Pass Pass

The sneaking regard which the authorities have always possessed for income tax in Hongkong will receive further stimulus from Lord Moyne's suggestion that taxation on Church schools giving Christian heathenism identified itself with So completely, indeed, has these lines be brought much education. closer to the United Kingdom level. In point of fact the only opposition to the introduction of income tax among the more enlightened members of the in each room of the old schools, speech, zle, in Southern Threes uit na strength in spades, secins to clude thousands of players, community is based on the and replaced them-by national master, Sacizle, in Three hearts would have been suf- I commend it to my readers, absence of guarantees that it decree-by a bust or picture of from the lips. of thousands of have doubled four hearts; his own

Germany, but it may be heard fielently aggressive; West should tion. will be applied equitably, or Hiller and a swastika.

One portion of the Reich German soldiers or any other hand was very fair and his partner without involving expenditure

fighting forces, the Brownshirts, group in the population-any had put in a diamond bid. out of proportion to revenue. has had its own heathenised day in the week: Fundamentally income tax will version of the "Ten Command- Nazism has brought us a new East correctly overtook and Fro

"The True Christianity of 'The diamond king was opened; always be regarded as the best ments" since 1935. form of taxation.

Gospel, the Programme of theed with the queen and Jack. From

declorer's point of Fuehrer.

view, the con- tract depended on finding the queer The Secretary of State for the facilities for purchasing war "Our religion creates strong of hearts, only singly guarded, in Colonies also desires a great savings certificates. Apparent-men, does not preserve and East's hand; hence, he correctly propaganda drive for investingly the original difficulties wore pamper the weak. The National ruled the third diamond with the in war savings schemes based used by thede of the sterling that our Lord God is he who verstuffed with the queen, and re-

caused the fact that Hong-Socialist takes the standpoint temp on the paramount need of avoid-bloc. She is now inside the bloc bestowed upon us Adolf Hitler." turned a spado,. The ace won and ing luxury expenditure, Hong- and the Colony awaits with some Yes! heathenism, like Hitler's the trump ace was cashed; then kong is at one with Lord Moyne, impatience for an official scheme own fanaticism, is one of the declarer led a spade to his king and

drew Weat's remaining Q-5 of How should this, hand-be played. over this, but the Colony still for the purchase of war savings factors in Europe's second world trumps with the K-10: Of course, at a four hearts doubled contract awaits ofclál announcement of certificates.

West sot, the contract with the club with South the declarer?

war.

lock. This created too much of a for West who promptly

To-morrow's Hand

Rubber bridge. Both sidee vulnerable. South dealer.

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