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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1939
Library, Supreme Cour
FOR
SIX CRUISERS DUTCH INDIES NAVY
MÁRCH OF A DICTATOR
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around his father's forge, which was
THREE YEARS
PROGRAMME
TERRORISTS TRY TO BLOW UP
The Netherlands Navy in the Indies is to be L.N.E.R. BRIDGE
increased by six 8,000-ton cruisers during the next When, he was not at school he hung
London, To-day----- three years, according to message from Batavia. something of. a. forum too. Here. ho
Two men attempted on Satur- first imbibed the revolutionary Ideas This follows the announcement by the Queen day morning to blow up with and phrases which fifty years have of the Netherlands, in her speech from the Throne hill in Durham County, on the dynamite a bridge near Ferry- not torn out of his make-up. When his father took over a tavern it only that special steps would be taken for, the defence main railway-line from London meant that young Mussolini gavo up blowing the great forge bellows to of the Netherlands Indies.
in controversy. And very soon
arguer and orator at the bar. He
the first sign of opposition or criti- cism of his expressed opinions.
One day his mother heard him bel-
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to Edinburgh, but were disturbed- by an unemployed miner who
expand his own lungs more frequently Alleging weaknesses in the Dutch naval position tried in vain to hold one of the - became known as the most inveterate in Malaysia, Batavia papers have recently conduct-men till the police arrived on the would denounce, affront, or fight at ed strong campaign for stronger naväl units. scene.
The authorities believe that The "Jaya Bode" pointed out In criticism of the inadequacy ed by the illegal Irish Republican this is a terrorist attempt instigat- that the Indies had "not a single of naval units in the Indies the Army. proper cruiser.”
Java Bode last year referred to the
Holland for aircraft and light vessels as opposed to cruisers.
The Indies are in the course of modernising the military air and
lowing alone from behind a locked
door. "Are you mad, my son?” she asked him. "Only lunatics talk to themselves. What is the matter with You?"
"I am practising oratory," replied Young Hopeful. "The time will come when all Italy will HAVE to hear me
talk,"
-
the
"We have the modernised Java preference held by some circles in er "St. David," belonging to
In the drawing room of the steam- and the de Ruyter, both under
Great Western Railway Company, armed and too slow. Two new cruisers are expected, one already
carrying, a large number of Irish- under construction in Holland and one to be started next year."
"In 1942, these cruisers will be
When the good Fathers of the Col- lege for Boys had finally disposed of their turbulent. pupil he was sent to ready but what are we doing from the Royal Normal School of Forlim- then popoli.
on," While he studied, his mother wrote to the prefect of Forli province, journal.
asked the
Batavia
who had been kind enough to visit her The Java Bode went on to re- own little preparatory school and praise it. Now she appealed to the commend the construction. of six
land forces.
JAP. SAMSHUI FAILS
official to grant some small bonus to cruisers instead of two pointing THRUST
her so that the studios of her twelve-out that the new type has guns of year-old son might yet continue "for 15 cm. calibre and could thus oom- the economic crisis in this little town
with Japan's Aobe class: pare is at its height owing to the small harvest of crops and total lack of This class, of which there are six grape, the sole prodoce of these parts." is armed with 20 cm. calibre guns.
The request was ignored. But Mus- solini remained at school
GET OUT—OR STARVE! In July 1900 King Humbert of, Italy was assassinated by an Anarchist Mussolini improved the hour--it was his seventeenth birthday by deliver ing a paper on the defence of regic des. His name was already notorious as a contributor to Avanti.
Ho graduated as a licensed elemen- tary school teacher in July 1901. The best post he could land was one of substitute teacher în an elementary school.
BETTER BASE ADVOCATED
Szewui, To-day.
Another. Japanese thrust across the river from Samshui was beaten
men from Ireland to England for the rugby match Ireland versus . England, an incendiary bomb was discovered shortly before explosion and rendered harmless at the very last moment.
All trains bringing Irish specta- tors to London for the rugby match were searched at Paddington Sta- tion by a large number of police and plainclothes men for arms and explosive material. Five men were arrested.-Trans-Ocean.
back with considerable losses by SHARE RETURNS
Chinese forces yesterday afternoon.
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An application for extension The expansion of the headquar The Japanese made the crossing time to file an allotment of shares ters of the Netherlands Indies at dawn in a dozen steam-launches was granted by the Chief Justice, Navy at Sourabaya has also been and landed at many points south-Sir Atholl MacGregor, to the Hong advocated, particularly the pro-west of old Samshui City. Brisk Kong Dairy Supply, Limited, at vision of new docks.
fighting broke out. A hand-to-hand the Supreme Court this morning.. The most powerful, coast bat-struggle continued till early in the Mr. D, J.. N. Anderson, instruct- teries in the Indies were completed afternoon, when the invaders re-ed by Mr. W. A. Mackinlay, appear- last year in the neighbourhood of tired to Samshui,-Central News. led for the petitioning firm. Sourabaya.
Mussolini did not choose this pro- Besides the Java and the de fession for himself. He would have Ruyber, Dutch ship in Indies watera preferred a more active task. The included the flotilla leaders Tromp, machine in their district had already eight destroyers and 12, large stirred his imagination. With his submarines.
advent of the new steam threshing
father, ever hungry for knowledge, Last year there were one flotilla the boy learned to work the thresher. leader and four destroyers building What power lay in the machine! A wonderful new world. era was about and there were proposals for the to unfold!
increase of the submarine fleet to
to
AIN FORCE
Described as perhaps the star
Then again he was acutely conscious 18. of the deep-and deepening-rift be tween the owning and the working classes in Italy. The sketchy capita- list development which had come Italy so late had produced the most crude social clash. He writes in his item of the navy's equipment by a autobiography: “An abiding and se= cret grudge darkened the hearts the common people. A country gon~ try of mediocrity in economio useful-scheduled... fleet of 72 nces and of limited brains were hang- DO-24K flying-boats. ing upon the masses a weight of un- justified privileges." Here was a field for political ability!
of special
"Straits
correspondent of the
Times"
be the Dornier
1:
will
Equally suitable for bombing and reconnaisance work, each of Meantime, the problem was: how to the flying-boats can carry a ton of cat? Missolini's mother had - faith; in bomba”
him. She knew he was better than a In the naval air force, there are more manual labourer. "He prominas 2 something. Mussolini took the teach- also 24 Fokker T4:seaplanes, 12 of ing job. The my was 11s. 6d. a the new type and the remainder wook, and no allowances
bf the old gy
The futuro Dace, noted (1) that Less modern, but still very use- disciplines in school was best-main- tained by arousing interest and not ful are the 40 Dornier Wal flying- by the rule of terror (2) that a de- boats, used extensively for patrol cent standard of cleanliness was not work. to be expected, from, children dragged back every night to slums (8) ^ that the "exam" system was so mugh bunk. Mussolini's ministrations to Young Italy, however, came to a sharp stop when his temporary Job closed down. He had to get outdör1 starve:-
memployed Italian immigrants who left their mother country that year to try their luck on foreign soll."
Mussolini was at this timo exactly
He telographed to his mother, and sho sent him 108. Thus furnished, 19, 20GITA Mussolini set forth for Switzerland. (TO-MORROW: When Bfussolini] He was one of thousands of poor: and
bagged his broad.)
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of Reichsbank President) meeting Mr. Mortagu bearded
of the Bank of England-visited:
from the fost
an" when the