The appeal for funds for the orphanage is sponsored by many well known Shanghai personalities, including Lady Maze, who is the President nf the Society, Messrs. A. H. George, H. M. Consul-General, M. De.
Margerie, the French Consul-General, G. W. Bossevain, Judge Milton J. Melmick. W. J. Keswick, G. S. Henchman, G. E. Mitchell and A. S. Jaspar, who is the Honorary Treasurer.
Yesterday's meeting was attended by friends and members of the charitable institution. Besides general arrangements for. the ball many details were settled. Special decorations will be used, all in Russian style, M. de Margerie having promised his support in obtaining these. Vodka will be sold at a special counter. A number of young ladies have offered to help in making the function a "tccess, and will be selling tickets and ing during the ball itself, The meeting, which was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A Corrit, was well-attended, among those present being Mr. E. F. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. G. Findlay Andrew, Mrs.
Synnerberg, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs S. R. Nee, Mrs. C. S. Franklin and Mrs. N. MacBain, besides numerous young ladies and other members of the jetty. on a scale surpassing anything that has been seen so far. They kill, maim, destroy and disrupt, But th anger the British and make them ght all the harder.
Submarines and surface raiders today's biggest threat to Britalt. Must be beaten if Britain is to be fed and fight on more than a subsistence and defensive level. She needs destroyers and light naval craft worse than planes, considerably worse.
Niiht raids: a headache to both Germany and Britain, Neither side has the defensive answer and most Britons would rather go on with the present ineffective defences than find the answer and have it copied by Germany before they could give Be lin a thorough taste of what London has had.
Air power: British air power is on the up-grade. New, heavier bombers are expected to carry the war back to Germany in 1941, so that st really will be fel. "New Bghiers will make it harder than ever for the Luftwaffe to visit the Isles by daylight.
Neither side has an effective Whter yet.
Nazis Have Missed the Bus defences: the British Isi forts, secret defence wea-traps, hard-muscled, mobile de-The High Command is con-üdent that an invasion force would take a severe mauling. No Britisher believes an invasion could succeed today. That wasn't true last July, when Britai wide open to Chancellor Hitler literally. It didn't have guns. It didn't have trained men or defence machines, Last July was when Germany really "missed the bus" for a relatively east invasion.
British land offensive: It's hard to see how the British Army, even with its new millions of trained men, could beat Germany's crack clivis the continent unless an failure broke the Nazi machine yond repair and left the Briti-h powerful enough to whip across the Channel with lightning blows, Industrial production: not dis-estrously reduced. Because air losses on both sides have been low since last October, both Britain and presumably Germany are building up great reserves of planes which probably will see action in the spring.
Cost: Britishers pay income tax al the basic rate of 42% per cent, The loss in property destruction is terrifle, so terrific that nobody even attempt to add up the bill Britons think this is a cheap price, compared with the alternative,
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