THE 'PARATROOPS' OF TROJAN LEGEND
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FoR ten weary years, so ancient legend says, the Greeks laid seige to Troy; still -the great bastions withstood all assault. Then Agamemnon, their iesourceful leader, withdrew his army to Tenedos, feigning defeat. Cautiously at first the Trojans crept out from their city to wonder at the monstrous figure -of a war-horse which their enemies had left behind in their retreat. Boisterously they dragged their strange tri)phy within the city gates, and there was feasting until far into the night.
But when the last reveller was sleeping, Agamemnon's men came down from their hiding place in the bowels of the giant effigy, disarmed• the wine-drowsed Trojans and flung wide the great gates of the city for the Greek legions returning stealthily through the night. Thus fell the city founded by the immortals of antiquity.
This present war is as much a war of resourcefulness as of resources. When its final history is written it will be found that Britain has never lacked re= sourceful leaders, either in the Forces or in the Factories behind the Forces.