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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,

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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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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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