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EPTEMBER, 1938—Munich and all that; the Royal Navy, mobilised; fleets out in the blue ready for action; Lon-. don breathlessly watching the drama of the Chamberlain- Hitler-Mussolini, talks; rapid hasty preparations for war; air raid trenches scarring the parks and open spaces-how amateur they would seem to-day-yet no sign of panic among the people. On the top of the bus, in the casual encounter in the grocer's shop, you heard the grim half rueful comment, "Well it's time Hitler was told where to stop, and if it has got to come It's got to come!"

September 3, 1941.

TWO YEARS

OF WAR

BY JOHN DENNY

THE WINTER of 1040 saw the chief Interest changed to Greece and Africa, Italy, stabbing Greece the back in approved Fascist fashion, had met with unexpected resistence which no trick of Mussolini could overcome. In Africa, Wavell broka the Italian armies and started the campaign which although adversely altered by German thrust back the Imperial forces to Tob had successful and brilliant results In the complete elimination of Itallon rule from Abyssinia, Somaliland and Eritros. To this victory, Empire forces, British, Australians, Indians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Sudaneso and African units on land and in the air, made a well-knit con- tribution.

Germany's advance through Yugo- stavia and Bulgarla against Greece la support of the pitifully outfought Italians was for a time strongly re- sisted by Brush Imperial forces in alliance with the herole Grecks, both 0/21 the Grecian mainland and at Crole. They could not, however, prevent yet another German occupa- tion in Athens and the evacuation of Creto, after a valuable time gaining I defence, followed,

Meanwhile, German submarines And atroratt had engaged in the Bai- tle of the Atlantic, and from Janu- ary, 1011 to the present time that buttle silent and gravely destructive of British tonnage, has been raging,

"held

Then came the dramatic' news of the Munich agreement. For the time, reality seemed, to be thought in the mind of a nation, forgotten. The uppermost-

which had long sensed the futility of war and its waste of young life, was of profound re- lief, of intense gratitude, to the Prime Minister, who had brought what, in calmer mv. ments, most people felt was only a respite. Chamberlain's landing in England, triumphant- In close parallel with the be- minute offer of an act of union There again, the Germans were ly brandishing the scrap of ginning of that other challenge between, France and England that by July British losses at sen paper pledging Hitler's fidelity to Germany twenty-five years from Winston Churchill, France ind been diminished. Although even now it is. fur too early to speak to a pact which was to prevent earlier, the last days of perco asked to be released from her of final conclusions, there is a con- war between Great Britain and were uncertain with apprehen- obligations to her ally. Germany, vividly illustrated the ion lest the country would be Phone 27778-9 amazing optimism which had confronted with another un- ON June 22, and June 24, res-. support of

emerged so swiftly and which, availing sop to an insatiable pectively, France had signed public, as well as the vigilance of alas, was to be so relentlessly glutton. On Sunday, September armistices with Germany and Force, the enemy will be worsted, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air shattered.

3, 1939, doubts were resolved, Italy. The latter was a bitter, In the process he has lost his finest The Prime Minister told his tragi-comical aggravation Illusions Destroyed.

of ship, the Bismarck-a loss which to people and the world that Great French distress. Italy had been Hood

him is for greater than that of the to Great Britain, however SIX MONTHS later, the Britain once more was at war biding her time, flambuoyantly much the destruction of that Ane thunder of German tanks with Germany. In the light of flourishing. Mussolini's spiritual battle cruiser and the loss of her through Prague destroyed all after-events, it is now recalled affinity with the gangster men have to be deplored. illusions left. There were not as a curious portent that her regime of Germany. Italy

GARAGE

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1941,

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FAREWELL TO AN ABLE ADMINISTRATOR

fidence that, thanks to tho Lenactly of the Merchant Navy, the unlimited

American re

"110"

Breat

so many then, because, during French ally delayed the declara- had since the outbreak of the Navy's Work

that winter, the Nazi gangsters tion for a few hours. Moreover, war profited by a false neutra- THE ROYAL NAVY'S task became showed themselves quite unable the sense of anti-climax was lity. Then, in indecent hast, Immeasurably enhanced by the to maintain for long the pose created by a prompt alert in lest she should be too late for loss of France as an ally, for the temporarily assumed at Munich. London which turned out to be the spoils, she had formally de- South of England and giving a clear-

French coast, almost enveloping the Through the summer of 1939) a false alarm. London was de- clared war on the side of Ger- field for submarines, became an ins the war cloud grew ever blacker stined to wait for a long time many on June 11-an assassin's portant German vantage point for It might be said that Eng before it felt the attack of the dastard thrust in a stricken despatching submarines and bombers land did not see it as clearly as enemy from the air.

neighbour's side.

to attack shipping in the Atlantic. people on the Continent, At

Germany's naval inferiority seemed First Four Months In the meantime British first blush after the

Italy Geneva in May I found the

forces in France, with incon into the war to be mitigated, but the Swiss Government already in-F THOSE first four months, parable skill and indomitable challenge the Royal Navy, which, Italian fleet showed no disposition to stituting + comprehensive the despatch of British forces bravery, had extricated them with the help of the Royal Air Force scheme of food rationing to France and their arrival on selves from an apparently hope- and the Fleet Air Arm, was able to wise precaution for a little re- the Maginot Line, the rapid or less position and managed, by redu

reduce the Italian Navy to insigni- public landlocked in the midst ganisation of the nation for de- the help of the Royal Air Force, cant proportions. Even when British THE departure of His Excel- of war-menaced Europe.

convoys to run the gauntlet in fence, the eagerness of men, and the Royal Navy and the Mer- the Mediterranean, exposed to at lency the Governor Sir Geoffry In July I had to tour London women to serve and the difficul- cantile Marine, which, for the tacks from the air, British naval and Northcote, is the occasion of the people of all kinds of interest fulfilment of their wishes, the Thames

the provinces, meeting ty they experienced in obtaining emergency, included even air supremaey was enough to ensure pleasure boats and the non-fulfilment of Mussolini's customary valedictory speeches and occupation. In the rarefied swift entry of the Royal Navy barges, seaside steamers and Italian fake.

dream of the Mediterranean as an and regrets which, in all com- atmosphere of Whitehall, I upon its occasions as guardan private yachts, to accomplish a The remnants of the Italian Navy" munities serve to bow out of found a quiet but almost settled of the British trade routes, its wonderful evacuation in the re- discreetly kept in harbour, public life the servant who has end of summer was inevitable. commerce and its relentless en-

conviction, that war before the stifling of German seaborne turn of 336,000 men to home though light British naval forces shores, at the price, heavy were on the sea. Malta showed the done his duty to the best of his In England generally there was forcement of the blockade with enough far less than had at that gallant istand, unce singly at way to disposing of Italian claims, ability. We join in the unanim-a stern determination to resist the co-operation of its French once been feared of 30,000 tucked from air, maintained its

Continent. There was equally write much in detail. any further aggression on the comrades, it is not necessary to killed, wounded and missing.

ous wish that Sir Geoffry and

Lady Northcote will enjoy their

retirement in health and pros-

ness of their lives here.

and

a profound belief that the

creature, he did not know the

Epic Of Dunkirk

even

on the eve of the outbreak

to

promise of

calm and integrity. Moreover, when In the summer of 1941, Italian light naval air craft, in a forlorn hope, By the turn of the year the

attacked Valetta, none of the assal- strength of Great Britain was battle between Germany and THE EPIC of Dunkirk, for lants lived to tail the tale, thanks to such that Hitler could not dare the Western Powers had not perity and in the confidence

epic it was, cannot be at- Royal Malta Artillery and the Royal the efficiency and vigilance of the to challenge it. If he did, as that they will find plenty of one sturdy East Anglian farmer been joined. Stagnation of the tributed alone to the gallantry, Navy. enterprises to replace the full-put it, it would be because, poor dismemberment of gallant Po- as in the days of Queen Eliza- sla gave Homeric Irony to the boast- chief conflict, after the tragic the men engaged. Once again the sudden German assault on Rus- resourcefulness and tenacity of Towards the end of the two years,

truth of the situation or was land, enabled the public to con- beth when the Armada was put an amazed Gennan-people-the-Rus

ings which had sought to justify to _Most_____of____their_achieve unable to gauge the conse-centrate on the exploits of the to-flight, the weather fought for amazed ments in Hongkong have to do quences of his own internal Royal Navy, especially in the Great Britain, and the calmness of war. Despite his declared Inten-- with cultural and relief activi- recorded, were signs of inten- Plate, which saw the Graf von a rescue on a scale quite incon- ght on two fronts. His

policy. Everywhere, my notes story of the battle of the River of the narrow sea made possible flons, Hiller was thereby forced ties--two branches of public life sive recruitment for civil de Spee come to an ignominious ceivable had the normal volati-

a quick victory was speedily fence and territorials. There end, her heroic Commander vin- lity of these waters prevailed, showed devastating powers of resis- which will always demand at-

ridiculed by events. The Russians was no hysteria and no particu- dicating his own seamanship This blow characteristically tention. The administrative side lar anxiety, for, to quote from and valeur by self-destruction. stimulated rather than coived mechanised might and masses of The tianic battle of of His Excellency's tenure of those notes which I have with

The United States of America the national spirit of Great Ocean to the Black Sea, continued troops, engaged from the Arctic office was largely dictated by the me still, "the underlying con- was probing the situation in the Britain. Apparently lying at to strain the German war machine exigencies of war; much of it

viction was that, although no early spring of 1940. Mr Sum- the mercy of the Germán victors to the uttermost. In the air the effort must be spared to con- ner Welles was the rapporteur on the continent, the British British were paunding In was necessary; some of it was solidate the country, war would touring Europe for President prepared to defy their fate with creasing weight on German towns ever-in- unpopular. The total picture not come."

Roosevelt whose second term of a vigour, phlegmatic driving the Russian

and industrial centres in support of cannot be judged in the light of

office was coming to an end. force Cry For Churchill

armies, and Berlin was electric team- given its temporary character and it

practical evidence of the War In Earnest work which carried the country reality of the double. front when must be accepted as 赴 con- THE London Press was de

through those weeks of grim Russian and British planes on altern- scientious effort to adjust a manding the inclusion of Mr IN APRIL, the drama began in peril The Home Guard sprang ate days rained bombs upon it. the artificial conditions created/ernment. This view was echoed, key pointa in Norway after The benches, the ronds, the CO the second year has drawn to a thriving business community to Winston Churchill in the Gov- real earnest, Germany seized out of the ground, as it were. Road To Victory. by potential war.

It therefore

appears

Denmark.

The

and

close. Vichy France has gradu-

Indeed led, by the "Yorkshire overrunning

streets, the towns were trans- Post" in Leeds, but generally Norwegians, who were taken formed into a network of obsta- ally come more ignominiously under that the provinces, and therefore the unawares, had to succumb to cles and defences under the the German yoke, and, after losing what has been achieved in the country as a whole, were con- occupation by their powerful had already announced the under Darian toward tuli colluborn- leadership of Churchill, who Syria and surrendering bases to the last few years is an ameliora-tent to rely on Chamberlain, neighbours, thanks in large

Japanese in Indo-China, is moving tion of the acute problems with If war could be avoided, Cham- measure to the sinister activi. shakeable determination of the ton va fan toward full collabora which the Colony is beset: dire achieve that fent. If he led the availing efforts of the British tive. The country had rallied ing dynamic force of material aid in berlain would be the man to tics of their Quislinga. The un victory as their sole preroga- United States of America the gather- Empire and its allies to regard losing American friendship. In the poverty, unrestricted immigra-

money and munitions, steadily pour-

Increase the

takable blackness. Parliament Jain followed and Winston Chur- July enemy reconnaissance in efforts to aid the Axis in the Pacine.

tion and over-population, cor- country into war, then it was a forces on sea, in the air, and on in carnest; nor was it too soon. Ing across the Atlantic, has been ruption, racial discrimination, war which no skill in statesman- land to give the Norwegians taxation anomalies, labour dis ship could have averted. It suficient support to prevent By the middle of July, the by

would be a war in which every the German occupation came as German air force began its ut occupy creen important decisions to putes, town planning and pros- itution--just to mention a few. shade of political opinion would a shock to the people of Great tack on London. Hitherto it United States, itseif, in tune with strength of the fighting forces in the The work of succeeding ad be united in prosecuting. . Britain.

had contented itself with occa- Great Britain and the Netherlands ministrators when peace re-

August followed with the

sional raids on Scotland, coast Government, as well as Australia, The resignation of Chamber towns and the like, but in mid- Washington has been lending diplo- turns to the world will be clouds banking up in unmis- brought more directly to bear on

matic

power to restraint of Japan's ention, chill, called upon to form a now the air showed that London was: Japan's southward drive carried as these evils if the promises of the adjourned for the

There must have been few administration, left, the nation to be the main object of attack. far as Indo-China,, with a. new democracy are to be ex- tended to this outpost

Members of the two Houses and the Empire in no doubt of On August 15. Croydon was Thailand, had impelled

a more im-. who did not realise that the the gravity of the task he had raided. Nine days later the first perative note in representations by His Excellency can take away vacation would be short: Hit- assumed. "Blood, toll, tears and enemy bonths fell eri central the Ailles and the United States,

The third year thus opens with the with him the conviction that he ler's attempt to secure the neu- sweat" would be the portion of London. By September has done as much as could be trality of Russia and his threats the British people and their "Battle of Britain" was well in and her allies have silil a hard row the grim recognition that Great Britain. done in these parlous times to to Poland brought the danger allics in their renewed pledges progress, and the R.A.F. had to hoe. But the plight of Italy, now ease the Colony into the now nearer. When the Invasion of to fight till victory was ensured. already shown the enemy a taste Gorman province, the bold resti- tempo, and his task in this re- Poland was launched, the die He entered office just when the of its quality. That story need cupied for peoples in German oc gard has not been aided by the

Germans had fallen upon Bel- not be told here, for it is on re- boration

territory, the weighty colla laissez faire attitude which has.

Russin, and the closing gium and the Netherlands and cord in burning words which of the ranks in the Far East against characterised Hongkong for so

let loose a fury of machanised have gone round the Empire all cul upholds the flag of freedom

Japan-while China, veteran long. While the administration to deny that His Excellency has columns which turned the flank and the world. Its climax was and refuses to how her hund-por- continues to bo the impersonal had to leave unsolved many of the Maginot Line, ruthlessly reached on September 15 when tend the beginning of a successful mouthpiece of a Colonial Office matters to which he would beat down the heroic resistanco 185 German planes were shot move to Ulwart the vile ambitions In London that tries to run all willingly have turned his hand of the Netherlands and Belgium, down by a force which the Ger- under way, the experience and de- of Germany. When that move gets territories it controls into one if time and circumstance had cut off the British Expeditionary mans outnumbered three to one..termination arrayed across the world mould there is little chance for permitted. For what he has Force and penetrated ao far into By the end of October the "Bat- by the democracies should show the an administrator oven of the done the Colony thanks him: French territory that, in the tlo of Britain" had been won, road to victory. For nothing less- personality of our own depart for what remains to be done we space of a little over a month, and on November 1 'the R.A.F than victory over the evil forces of ing Governor, to satisfy local de look with expectation to his suc- German troops were in Paris: staged what was, to that date, of any man who cares for borty and Nazism entertained in the minds mande. It would be hypocrisy cessors,

On June 10, despito last its heaviest raid on Berlin, civilised progres--ay, ille ladit.

was cast.

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