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BATTLE

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The

THE HISTORIC

Why

We

Shall

Win By Philip Jordan

THERE is now being fought on Egyptian

soil what may yet prove to be one of the decisive battles

WHO WAS "NEWS-CHRONICLE" WAR CORRESPONDENT IN EGYPT

Hongkong Telegraph of the world. We shall win and infantry are probably the

Friday, Aug. 22, 1941. ' Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20815

it.

length. It is a natural tank trap with sides 600ft. high; and because it lies where it does there is only one way for an at- tacking army to reach Alexan- dria; and that is slap through Mersa Matruh itself." I do not think we need fear that. Rash it may be to prophesy; but I will say here and now that the only Germans who will go east of Meraa Matruh will go as pri- Honers of war.

If, then, you hear of fighting at Buy Bug, at Sidi Barrani, do not imagine for a second that all or much is lost, Meran Mat- TOBRUK will take a lot ruh is the only place from which maximum number that could be

of silencing. It may a defence can be mounted. put into the field without never be silenced; but in the

If we decide to counter-at- Ho long as it holds tack, of course, it may be that But such a statement weighting the scales too violent- meantime, needs explanation, for it ly on the side of certain defeat. out, it delays the attack prop the Germans will never reach

on Egypt and thus gives us time has none of the frivolity

to mass troops and equipment at Mersa Matruh, where our which characterises the

'our

THE prenx "special to the Telegraph is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indleste news which is strictly copyright utterances of the so-called To mount a desert opera- commanders may well choose to are yet strong enough to take under, the provisions of the recomm military spokesman" in tion a more finely ad- meet the enemy.

cations Ordinance, 1916. Such news: A bears the Indition "UP" I received in

the United Press Associations, who co-

THE ACHILLES HEEL

Matruh. But Mersi generals alone know whether we the offensive. Indications date are that we will, for the. We hear stories of fier" time being, remain on the de-

to

Hongkong on the date of publication by Cairo. It is a serious state- justed balance between supply serve all rights and forbid republications, ment, made with no wish to and demand has to govern the

inhabited no doubt, it is; but not impor- will be made to isolate the in warfare across arrangement, of in part without previous underestimate the gravity directing brain than is the case fighting here and there. Fierce, fensive; and that an attempt

sense ex- enemy from Europe. of the situation or to sup- territories. In desert war the tant in the ultimate

the cept so far na it continually pose for one second that it land yields nothing to

it tests the extended strength of the enemy: delays his arrival THE latest news from Russia is of no importance that soldiers who fight across

closer to Mersa Matruh, and DISAPPOINTING German mechanised units, face. is not quite so encouraging handled by superbly trained Taken by and large, then, we makes it possible for the Navy

discouraging

and

the

it was two weeks ago. The soldiers, are now fighting may say that our troops have to play in defence as sound a news from Libya is, and us it Germans have admittedly made on Egyptian territory from probably already felt the full part as it played in attack last will be for a time, we must not

Soviet

troops are

Schools' Reforms After War

lose heart or criticise. without weight of the enemy's attack. It February. distinct advances and gained which the nearest enemy may slacken, but it is unlikely

The Navy is already in ac- the facts. When all these facts certain strategic positions which was more than 250 miles to increase.

tion, in fact. The annihilation are made public we shall know must necessarily prove a cot-only a few short weeks ago.

For the air no such correct of entire enemy conveys in the for certain that Wavell was right not, to have gone on to an narrows 18 respondingly serious blow to the We suffered a tremendous estimate can be made. In Lon- Mediterranean Soviet. But apart from this, set-back. Let us admit that don it is believed that the. Ger- indirect contribution of inesti. Tripoli. With the material at have moved something mable value to our land forces, his hand he did wonders: he destroyed an army with a hand- little is known of what is at once. But the situation, mans

aircraft-fighters, like 1,000

In slightly smaller degree so ful of men. And with that actually happening on the 1,200 as this article will show, 50 bombers and dive-bombers-into mile battle front. That the far from being irredeem-Southern Italy, Sicily and Tri- is its successful bombardments handful and a few more he des-

of Fort Capuzzo, where its well- troyed an empire. placed shells have destroyed retreating able, can and will be saved. poli. across the Dnieper may indicate Although the menace to British and Imperial pilots many enemy vehicles and in-

re- have long and valuable ex-flicted a number of casualties. that the German push is too Egypt has not been

Meraa Matruh itself is a powerful to resist, or it may moved it has been im- perience of desert flying, a cir- cumstance which adds to their mean that General Budenny is mobilised. The true danger mastery of the air, for desert strong fortress, aided not only anxious, to conserve his forces to our position in the Middle nying is altogether different by the ingenuity of man, but for later assault. He is well East and to our industrial from flying in Europe, which particularly by nature. This-is- aware that the further the interests to the east of the has so far been the sole training no time to speak in detail of its

Suez Canal is from the air, ground of the Nazis. Nazis penetrate into the coun- try the approach of winter will add to their difficulties and winter is now not far off along the greater portion of the Rus- sinn front. At the same time the actual strength of the two opposing armies is not known, and will probably remain con- jectural until the final stages of the war.

"Our educational framework and

The President of the Board of Education recently said that--bis- artificial defences. If the Ger. Department had completed a report on the methods by which post-war mans ever reach here they will educational reforms might be effect- The main consideration is no doubt learn something of

ed. He was speaking at the London of conference of the Association that this air superiority must be them by bitter experience. maintained if the Battle of

Education Commitices. not to be in doubt. WHEN the Germans ad- Egypt is

the enemy be vanced suddenly upon Not only must Benghazi in much greater force prevented from free operation BUT its natural defences machinery are old-fashioned already; are such that an attack after the war they will be obsolete," than our military intelligence over Egypt itself, but also from

to range with ing force could not reasonably had expected their ultimate aim being able

He suggested that the first grea!

to might be

make seniur Iwas the naval base of Alexan- fighters and bombers over

in the Nile deita. We can Mediterranean, where Germany hope ever to by-pass it and go on task take that for granted, If Alex- has no ships to challenge our towards the Nile delta, South elementary schools, secondary schools of it. a little to the east, lies the and junior technical schools all of andria were captured Egypt naval superiority.

great Kattara depression, equal status, and esteem and they would immediately fall.

marsh hundreds of feet below must set 18 as the age when State sea level, hundreds of miles in education should cease.

The Germans threw into Lib. ya, at considerable risk, far heavier forces than were neces- Bary to create merely a diver-

the

* BETWEEN Benghazi and

Alexandria there are

It has always been conceded that Russia's weakness does not lie in the direction of man- power-the known population of sion sufficiently strong to draw about 750 miles of comparative An army forced to north enough troops to prevent desert.

the former and the Union allows for this ad- us either from completing the abandon mission-but the actual armour-conquest of Italian East Africa charged with the duty of defend- ed strength of the country or or from sending adequate mili- ing the latter has a choice of tary assistance to Greece. only two places from which to Ma- of its air force has never been

What they launched against ght. Tobruk and Mersa divulged, and neutral observers Egypt was

a full-scale of- truh.

Tobruk and Meraa Matruh are still forbidden to visit the fensive, that is to say, an of-

two possible de- fighting zone.. Mr Harry Hopfensive built on a scale as large are the only

operate with ef- fence positions along this line kins, however, when in Moscow as they can.

ficiency under conditions that from- which a numerically smal- talked with Soviet leaders and make it impossible to supply ler and worse equipped army | unless their information wag-in-really large numbers of rapidly can offer any real resistance. tentionally misleading, he must moving troops with everything Tobruk and Mersa Matruh

that they need.

are still in British hands. have received sufficiently re

We do not know for certain

It is true that German mech assuring data to encourage the how many troops they have; but

have by-passed sending of British and Ameri- I see no reason to alter the es- anised units can aid to that country in large timate of about three mecha Tobruk: but so long as it re- divisions. These three mains in British hands they and increasing quantities. Pre-divisions there may be four cannot throw the full weight of sident Roosevelt, who probably together with ancillary troops their attacking force against

Egypt. have gained his information:

ex"

Winston Churchill, as satisfied trenny's consumption of this ca- nothing until

largely from Mr Hopkins' re- draw upon. But the question of oil Units that have gone on to port, expressed himself on his consumption is one that may deter- Sollum and descended the cs- return to Washington from his ming Germany's downfall. The

no doubt formidable; momentous meeting with Mr tent of Hiller resources in this res- carpment into Eggyptian terri-

pect signifies the extent of Germany's tory are

in armoured divisions. That but they can achieve little or Tobruk, the that Russia could resist almost Indefinitely. This is good nows sential commodity is enormous is an menace to their left flank, is

known in the face of the Russian re-ucknowledged fact. It is also kno

that

cannot hope to obtain silenced. treat which can, therefore, be all her

from Rumania rom synthetic

So far from being silenc more easily listed as a strategic or from move rather than a defent. Nazi lender is straining every nerve Tobruk is giving evidence Germany's strength, in spite of to reach further supplies of oil is great vitality. From its many statistics and expert opinion, equally cloor. If these supplies had fences Imperial troops have ts as unknown a quality as Russia's been adequate, why did he invade made Bortles which have ro to-day, Germany's armbured equip Russia at this Ume instand of attack sulted in a great deal of damage ment, fail to bo enormous and ing Britain before her strength grows

to the enemy forces. Hitler has the whole of Europe to too formidable?

Germanyplies. That the

de-

he said.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

**You never argue with me, Harold one would think wa'd

been married for years