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By “Runnymede”

“The ‘invincibility of the German

the hysterical spinster, paralyzed
wicked man under.the bed, And t

planes, ships and sobkliers,

(Reprinted from The Legionary,

But those elements are of the.

might’ Is the most colossal fake,

the most gigantic piece of Teutonic four-flushing that ever dazzled
a world which has allowed itself to

be frightened into the role of
with horrible imaginings of a
hat statement is made with a full

realization of all that has befallen Europe, and all of Hitler's tanks,

magazine of the Canadian Legion)

very bone and fibre of the Royal
Navy. They are in the airourmen
breathe, in the free, adventurous
and arduous lives they live, in
the glorious traditions of liberty
and heroism with which they and
their fathers before them have en-
riched our inheritance,

These hell-clicking, mechanical
robot-scuttlers—“supermen?” For-
get it.

Part Five
IN THE AIR

So much for the navy. What of

the air?
Here is a sphere in which the
Nazis have an enormous numer-
ical superiority in both men and
machines. Long before now,, even
months ago, these automatons of
the Fatherland if they had had
any guts in them, ought to have
established complete mastery of
te air. Have they done so? 5

On the contrary, day after day
as the war proceeds, the Nazi pi-
lots see their initial advantage
steadily diminishing. Why, with
all these overwhelming odds in
their favor, did they permit this
deterioration of their own posi-
tion? The answer is just be-
cause the Nazi air force, numer-
ically strong as it is, simply is
not what Goering and his fellow-
trumpeters have boomed it to be.
The morale of our own young
fighters is better. They fly their
machines; they don’t flee in them.
They do not hesitate to pit them-
Selves against odds of five or even
ten to one, They know the sort
of young wash-outs they are up
against. They are better fliers be-
cause their physique and training
are better. They are bolder fight-
ers, and they fly aircraft that
are in every way superior to the
Nazis’.

One may ask what the future
holds for Goering’s “knights of
the air’ when anything like equal-
ity in numbers ‘is approached.
Those Teutonic paladins of the
skies who so chivalrously bomb
and machine-gun women and
children, who gain terrific victor-
ies in the slaughter of helpless re-
fugees, but who make off at the
first sign of opposition, bear a
marked resemblance to their col-
leagues of the Nazi navy. There
is no difference between the rats
who sink unarmed merchantmen
and their confreres of the skies
who massacre women and chil-
dren, .
The demeanour of the Nazi air-
men is less the demeanour of con-
querors and “supermen” than it
is the demeanour of cowardly.
craven-hearted young brutes witn-
in whom long years of malnutri-
tion and regimented robotism have
produced a subnormal strain of
viciousness and sadism.

Examine these things for your-
selves and -you will see why Hit-
ler needs his Fifth Column. N,
ther his navy nor his air force
has given him that dazzling tgi-
umph which the sycophants about
his predicted. Wherever they have
Met resistance they have fallen
down, and fallen down badly. And
that is why the Nazis need their
emissaries in the neutral countries
—emissaries w§ose success so far
has been out @f all proportion to
the actual, unvarnished facts of
the situation, They need the Fifth
Column for the sole reason that
their armed forces, of themselves,
just cannot deliver the goods.
These observations having been
made on the Nazi naval and air
arms, there remains the army
the real “German sword.”
WHAT OF THE ARMY?

From the days of Frederick the
(Old Fritz) the Prussians

Great

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manded the destroyer Fraser from
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sels based there.

have surrounded their armies with
ever-deepening veneration. Freder-
ick was the 18th century proto-
type of a certain species of mo-
dern Big Business Man. His par-
ticular racket was to raise con-
script armies and sell their ser
vices to the unmilitary pricelings
who needed them and had the
money to pay for them. Much the
same sort of an enterprise was
uncovered’ some months ago by the
District Attorney of Brooklyn, L.I.

Old Fritz’s Prussians and Bran-
denburgers, his Pommeranians and
all the rest of them, were made
to order. History records that, as
fighters, they were no better and
no worse than one can ever ex-
pect mercenaries ‘o bé. But as
their $s or d in the

Do You Remember?

Fifteen Years Ago
In the #1.H.A. Area

From the A. S. & M.
October 1, 1925

News of

Mrs. M. Hougen and daughter,
Esther, returned last week from
a 3-month tour of Erope. Their
itinerary included England, France,
Denmark, Sweden and Mrs. Hou-
gen’s native home in Norway.

The new Aldergrove Elks’ home
is practically complete, and plans
are being made for its formal
opening and dedication, to take
place this month, probably.

The home of Mr. Harry Hill, Jr.
was completely destroyed by fire
on Monday afternoon. Cause of
the fire is unknown.

Arrangements have been made
to run an International News reel
at the Abbotsford Theatre every
Saturday showing the interesting
topical events of the world.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Fowles, Jr.,
were guests of honor at a shower
held in Gifford hall Friday even-
ing.

Seven first prizes and all spec-
ials in Clydesdale class were won
by the fine animals of Mariner
Smith at the Mission fair last
week.

and rats. He was, however, an
ardent apostle of “war to the
limit.” He believed that “to intro-
duce into the philosophy of war a
principle of moderation would be
an absurdity.” In War, he wrote,
“the errors which proceed from
a spirit of benevolence are the
worst.” To put it briefly, there
was no doubt about this Director
of the General Academy of War
at Berlin having been thoroughly
orthodox in his Prussiaism.

Does one have to apologize for
having introduced Frederick the
Great and ‘Clausewitz into this
discussion? It is to be hoped not.
All we are striving to do is to
establish the origin and the de-
velopment of all the “hoopla” with
which the Prussians and the Nazis
surround themselves as soldiers
and supermen.

The foregoing observations are
introdctory to an examination of
some of the Great Principles pro-
pounded by Clausewitz. We are
concerned particularly with the
recipes he gives for finishing off
a defeated enemy, for putting the
last bit of polish on the destruc
tion of an army that is in retreat.
And we are also greatly interested

same’ system and were perhaps
just as scrubby a lot as the com-
modities Frederick dealt in, the
Prussians acquired a terrific re-
putation for themselves.

Wars were the popular outdoor
port in those spacious days. “Stat-
egy and tactics’ were the fancy
names given to whatever ideas
succeeded in obtaining lodgement
behind the thick wall of Teutonic
bone whereof were fashioned the
skulls of the commanders-in-chief.

And the Prussians having a pas-
sion for reducing things to a form-
ula, for regimenting everything,
and for laboriously and at great

length explaining the obvious,
there arose among them a Great
Prophet—General Carl von Clause~
witz.

It is doubtful if many people
read Clausewitz nowadays. That's
a pity, for the doctrines of this
really readable Prussian, who at-
tempted to reduce war to an ex-
act science more than a century

ago, are still the foundation of
the military education of the
Prussian officer.

In Germany's present day plan
of things Clausewitz'’s ‘Vom Kriege’

is, to the feeble-wristed brandish-
ers of the German Sword, akin
to the Old Testament Seriptures,
with Hitler's Mein Kampf occupy-
ing the relative position of the
New Testament. One marked dif-
ference between Calusewitz and
Hitler would seem to be—as re-
vealed in their published works—

that Clausewitz was a person with
a really balanced mind,
WAR—A SOLDIER'S TRADE
Clausewitz had no ideas what-
ever on the Fifth Column, Wars
were for soldiers, not for weasels

in ining just how the Nazis
did that special job when the su-
permen had the British Army in
retreat in Flanders recently.
THE THREE PRINCIPLES

We have -no desire to be pedan-
tic, but we do wish to recall that
the Nazi—Prussian has been school-
ed to carry out certain of Clause-
witz's principles. Three of these
relate to the conditions precedent

to absolute and unqualified tri-
umph once an enemy has sus-
tained defeat in the field. They

are concerned with the pursuit,
which ought, if properly conduct-
ed, to wind up with destroying
the retreating foe and playing
ducks and drakes with his base.

FIRST, the retiring enemy, dis-
consolate and the stuffing knock-
ed out of him, must be given no
rest.. He's got to be driven from
pillar to post until, in sheer des-
pair, he quits cold.

SECOND, when the triumphant
“supermen" see the disheartened
lads dusting for their base, the
trick is to make for that base
along the lines parallel to the
retreat, get there first and just
gather in the prisoners.

THIRD, when the disorganized

rabble are being scattered all over
the

prairie one way of shooing
them to the place where you want
them to go is to envelope their
flanks, get round behind them and

put on a boa constrictor act. This,

of course, annoys the retreating
and beaten enemy tremendously.

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