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Today, so swiftly does this new modem warfare move, the Germans are already in Amiens; not only that, but in Abbeville, on the estuary of the Somme. If they can stay there, the last thread of rail and road communications be tween the French and the British Belgian armies is severed. The great questions, therefore, are: (1) Can the Germians hold their gains? (2) If th$y can, then con the troops in Belgium and Northwestern France be saved? As to the first question, there can be no definitive answer today. The situation is one of tremendous con fusion. There is no indication that the Germans have advanced to the sea with anything save swift-mov ing armored units. They are far-' from their base, even from such advanced bases as they may have established. The extent to which they can "live off the country” is unknown. Certainly there are gaso line and oil in Northern France, and food; but Just as certainly there is no German ammunition, unless with the painstaking care which has distinguished the Ger man preparations for this war, there are even hidden ammunition dumps in the cellars of Amiens and Arras. Tremendous Decision. There seems a certainty that a French counter-attack must come now. Yet it may not The first re sponsibility of a French general is the security of his country and his capital. If Gen. Weygand thinks there is no hope of saving the beleaguered British and Belgian and French troops (for the French 7th Army, on the coast, is probably caught in the same trap), he has no right to throw away valuable lives in a useless endeavor. It is a tremendous decision to make. It may not yet be necessary to face it. but Gen. Weygand must be think ing of it even now, turning it over in his keen, clear mind. If there is a ghost of a chance, he will attack. Of that we may be sure. It is a decision which has a re verse side. It is a decision which the British, too, must face. The Germans report that already the British are moving down to Calais, Boulogne, Ostend for re-embark ment. for return to England. Are the British to abandon the Con tinent, leaving France to her fate? It seems hardly possible. Yet the British Expeditionary Force now in Belgium and France is all the really ready army which Britain has; and she may face invasion herself before many days are over. Again, the first responsibility of a commander in chief, of a government, is to its own nation. Command of Straits. I can offer no better exposition of the situation than an extract from a paper submitted by Sir John French, as chief of the imperial de fense shortly before the outbreak of the last World War: • • * “I think it will be allowed,” wrote Sir John, "that, in a war be tween ourselves and a great Conti nental power which is in possession of the eastern Channel coast line between Dunkerque and Boulogne, submarines, assisted by aircraft, would effectually deny the passage of the Straits of Dover to any war or other vessel which was not sub mersible. In fact, the command of the sea, in so far as this part of the Channel is concerned, would not depend upon the relative strength of the opposing navies, but would remain in dispute until one side or the other effected practical destruc tion of its adversarys’ aircraft and submarines. "The way would thefe lie open to the power which had gained this advantage to move an Invading force of any size in comparative safety across the Straits at any part of the coast between (say) Ramsgate and Dungeness on the one side and Dunkerque and Bou logne on the other. “The command of these Straits would be a contest between sub marines and aeroplanes • • • “If the Continental powers secured the command they would possess the great advantage of menacing us with a 20th century edition of the stroke Napoleon intended to deal against us from Boulogne in 1805. Strong Bridgehead. “To put the matter briefly: I hold that the Straits of Dover, regarded as a military obstacle to the in vasion of this country, will, in the not far distant future, altogether lose their maritime character, and the problem of their successful pas sage by an invading force will pre sent features somewhat resembling those involving the attack and de fense of great river lines or opera tions on the Great Lakes in a war between Canada and the United States. “The main object to be attained in trying to secure the passage of a great river line is to gain possession of the opposite bank and establish a strong bridgehead. “In accordance with the views enunciated in this paper, I apply the same principle to the Straits of Dover, and hold that the only reli able defense against a powerful attack by hostile aircraft and sub marines in vastly superior numbers, is to possess a strong bridgehead on the French coast with an ef fective means of passing and re passing across the straits which would only be secured by the pro jected channel tunnel.” In quoting from the above paper in his book, “1914,” Sir John adds: “It was just about now (September 16, 1914) that I began to conceive the idea of disengaging from the Aisne and moving to a position in the north, for the main purpose of defending the channel ports.” Later on, in the same book, after this Shift had been effected, he says: “The stakes for which we were playing at the great Battle of Ypres were nothing less than the safety, indeed the very existence, of the British Empire.” Message to King, These are solemn words and well weighed. It is only necessary to add that yesterday afternoon, accom panied by the Prime Minister, Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the Imperial general staff, was received in audience by the King at Bucking ham Palace, after dispatches had k GIVET, FRANCE.—AMERICAN COMFORTS REFUGEE—This picture, sent by radio from Paris to New York, shows, according to French caption, Noel Murphy (right), an American volunteer, comforting a crying French refugee while her husband is asleep from exhaustion. Picture was made at the refugee center or ganized by Anne Morgan. —A. P. Wirephoto. arrived from the commander in chief in France, Lord Gort, of such con sequence that Lord Gort thought fit to send them by no less a hand than that of the King's brother, the Duke of Gloucester, his chief liaison afflcer. At the moment the bulk of the British expeditionary force appears to be fighting fiercely and on the whole not unsuccessfully, in the Mons-Valenciennes area. Here they are holding one shoulder of the Ger man salient, preventing it from ex pandnig, from widening, keeping the Germans from using vital rail and road lines by which they might pour in the masses of infantry and artillery which would consolidate their threatening position. Will those British soldiers stay there? Will a British government, faced with the peril of invasion, dare to keep them there? By all military calculations they ought to stay. Thig is not time for faint heart, or kualms about home defense. If Brit ain is to be saved she must be saved in France, by the holding, at the very least, of the bridgehead of which Sir John wrote. She might be better saved by the breaking down, by stout resistance, by ulti mate counterattack, of the great German drive which has imperiled her, and which cannot, despite all the terror of its raiding and air planes, yet have established itself in force much west of the line Cambrai-St. Quentin-Laon. Morale of French. That important decisions are be ing taken in Great Britain seems unquestionable. Few who are ac quainted with the characters of the Prime Minister, of Gen. Ironside, of Viscount Gort, will doubt that the decision will be to go on fighting in France, to keep up the struggle until it is decided one way or another on the battlefield; always provided that the French do the same, that there is no cracking of morale on either side, that the truly great qualities of both peoples rise to this emergency as they have risen to so many in the past. But there are disquieting reports about French morale. The French 9th Army (composed largely of re serve divisions, it is true) seems to have broken badly. The Premier speaks to the Senate of fate re served for traitors, saboteurs and cowards. The Germans have their Trojan horses In France as well as elsewhere. The great names of Weygand and Petaln may suffice to turn the tide. Or they may not. Their tools may turn in their hands. It is necessary to face these un pleasant facts, while weighing as carefully as possible the more purely military characteristics of the situ ation. In the last analysis, if the Ger mans make good their grip on Amiens and Abbeville and drive the British and Belgians up against the Channel ports, it is Britain which has been defeated more than it Is France. On the line of the Somme and the Aisne, or even farther back, the French armies might yet stand to cover Paris and the heart of the country. Barring a stab in the back from Italy, they might make it cost the Germans dearly ere they were overcome; too dear to be worth the effort and the risk. But the Ger mans on the Channel, plus the Ger mans in Norway, means the blockade of London and all the east coast of England and Scotland by German submarines and aircraft; it means the impelling of all cross-Channel communication, shifting all contact between Britain and France to the Atlantic ports of the latter country; it throws upon the western ports of Britain the whole task of handling and distributing the food and the raw materials which Britain must have if she is to continue to fight and in the midst of this confusion’ privation and disorganization, it ex poses the whole country perhaps to invasion, certainly to relentless air attack, the defense against which has been gravely weakened by the thi WCATHft SKIMII SAYS; Continued Warm ^.COOL Off fin i CATCHER Galvanized steel bottom. Col lapsible wire frame. Strined heavy duck aides. Save AQ— now! ___ «fOC HEDGE SHEARS Forged steel blades, keen t" eut, mahogany stained handles. TfQ. 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If it is withdrawn, can it do anything to save Britain from invasion, or should it be landed again at some other i>oint in France and take up the struggle anew? These are grave and terrible decisions to have to take. It is well they are in the hands of men who, whatever betide, will not yield easily to panic. (Coprrlcbt, 1940. Mew York Tribune, Ine.) Dr. Brewer to Lecture An illustrated lecture on the "Ap plication of the Isotope Technique in Tracing Plant Food Absorption” will be given by Dr. A. Keith Brewer, Department of Agriculture physicist, at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Commerce Department auditorium. BE MOUTH HAPPY Ysur mirrsr tsils YOU IT’S A QUALIITY PLATE No matter how much you pay for dental work or plates you can not art better materials or more care ful attention than is aiven you by Dr Preiot's graduate dentists. Forty years of practice stands be hind his work. Free examination. 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