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AVOIDING SUSPICION
any
M
Why
THE WORLD'S
THE LION'S SHARE
TROUBLES
Mussolini won't go
to war
USSOLINI tells the world once more "Italy
and her people want peace. I want peace." We must accept these assurances. They are based upon realities. Mussolini is in no position to make war.
I estimate that standing military Italian strength is rather more than 1,000,000 men. Mussolini claims that he can call al- together 8,000,000 bayonets into the field. This figure seems high for Italy's total population of 43,000,000.
Now Mussolini's armies are divided into four parts. He has 100,000 men in garrison in Abyssinia. Another 60,000 are sta. tioned in Libya. His Spanish expeditionary force is reckoned to be between 60,000 and 80,000 men.
front that stretched from Mad- Lish
have at sea and
By
FRANK OWEN
11•1
At that time Britain's unemployed numbered 2,000,000 out of an indus- trial population of 12,000,000. The on industrial population of 3,500,000. italian unemployed were drawn from The dole rate varies from 9s. to 10s. per week for agricultural and indus- trial unemployed.
Mussolini has made vigorous efforts
£500,000,000 has! In twelve years
say that to provide work on public schemes. be expended. I connot the work has been very productive.
The cost hus worried successive Finance Ministers. In five years the Italian State Budget has piled up a of £270,000,000. Yet total defell
the
THE "VERY IDEA"
THE WAR AS SHE IS WROTE .
DISTINGUISHED WAR CORRESPONDENT AT THE BOTTLE LINE
By Edward "Scoop" Kelly
W
XE are now at the South China front; aurround- ed by Japanese who are in the throes of an invasion. No one knows how far they will throw it.
Major Domei and Admiral |Nichi Nichi are leading the land- ing parties. They are opposed by General Wah Kiu Yat-po and General Sen Tralnus.
Riot have broken out in the de- fending ranks and several Reuters] have been killed.
There was heavy firing at Ping Pong this morning, and a boom has been placed across the Sen Sen. The boom is quite. audible in Mah
Jongg.
Reports That Kwangtung has been invaded are denied.
Three beautiful young Chinese Firls named Yu Hag, Ants Pants, and Kow Face are leading band of amazon guerillas. The guerilla, it will be recalled, is the ancestor of man.
B. SHARP ENCOUNTER
A Japanese landing party hastily evacuated Kwangtung when a Chin- ese band approached from the cost. Anyone who has heard a Chinėse band wilt realise the significance of this retreat,
Bombs were dropped on a porty of journalists travelling from Sum Bull to Wat Muk. The bombs were severely injured.
The
Chinese front at Tum Hee has a distinct bulge. General Gaw Blime will be shot for deserting his
Corps. A court martial found him rotten to the carpus.
General
Mainicht is confident that an invasion of Kwangtung has taken place.
A large force of Japanese troops are stationed at Formazone, awaiting a favourable moment to launch the Kwangtung invasion.
OVER THE FENCE
A report from Gin Sling states that two tom-cats were killed during a noisy battle.
An Invasion. of Kwangtung commenced this morning.
Air ruid sirens are shrieking at Sam Pan. The sirens, who are be- be beautiful spies in lieved to Japanese pay, are presumably shrick- ing for their first month's salary. The Japanese who landed Kwanglung at 0a.m., withdrew at 7.30 after a four-hour battle.
In
A ChinesC ertiser han been locked up at Stan Lee. She was convicted of cruising along the Na Than roadway.
London newspapers are publishing stories of outrages-on-junks-Thes: are also publishing a lot of junk on There is no possibility of Kwang- tung being invaded unit 0.45 p.m. on Friday.
It must be apparent to observer that United States is doing. its utmost, officially and unofficially, to prevent the rivalry of the world's naval powers from carrying them into .Gracic Fields
jan armament race. On top of .Gracie Fields
the spirited denials of high ....Vera Lynnaval officers at Washington .Vera Lyn that America has any secret
All of them require replacements, and are served by supply naval alliance or is in any way Primo Scala Accordian Band committed to help with any
and service corps. The rest of his troops are retained in Italy. Six Hits of the Day No. 14.
other nation's war, whether de- IF Mussolini intended stroyers the Italians have an ap- many items which should stand in ferred to the ledgers of the muni- Complete Supplements sent on request.
fensive or not, the best-informed
war he would not be proximate equality of strength the national account have been trans-
on the now standaal£1,000,000,000.- newspapers of the day are d-cattering-his-forces-over-a with the French, but the Bri- cipalities. The internal debt of Italy Mussolini dressing Japan
The gold cheat that in placatory rid to Addis Ababa, a distance stocks 200.
outrages. in built up laboriously for ten years is! terms. Editorially they urge of about 5,000 miles. These are The French have superiority
August 1935, before that Tokyo listen to the request not the dispositions of a min submarines of something like 100 to getting low. It contained £80,000,-
to engage in a major 70. The British submarine strength 0 in
Abyssinian war. Belore Christmas of Britain, France and the about
is below that of the Halians.
the monthly account of its condition United States for information struggle.
Should Italy and any ally of hers was no longer published. regarding the Japanese battle- Nor would Italian naval
go to war with Britain and her utly
The statutory limit of advances by ship programme. They stress strength permit him to supply, mad this ally in present conditions the Bank of Italy, to the Italian Gov- the point that the question is reinforce and succour his forces must almost certainly be the French ernment has been raised by decree then the harbours and foreshores from 450,008,00 lire to 1,000,000,000 over such a wide-flung area. it is. When
of that country would be opened up re. fair; and so
The gold cover for Treasury issues has been abolished. nation commences building ships. The Italians have four capital for the use of the British Navy.
Marseilles and Toulon, in France, and guns in secret she is bound ships (with two more building)
and Algiers, on the to arouse suspicion. There against the French seven (with Tunis, Bizerth
African littoral, would be the links two building). The British have in a chain of harbour-fortresses that from must be some motive, her neigh-fifteen capital ships (with five included Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, und Abyssinia. That
£150,000,000. bours argue; and set themselves building). The Italian have Cyprus.
The total trade of the country Is to meet any possible emergency-seven heavy cruisers, the French
£2,000,000 per Of course, it has not yet been seven, the British have fifteen. of hostile sea bases, the more posts at present worth
that Mussolini added to his own com- armum. The Duce is raising by cnpi- proved that Japan is contemplat- The Italian have ten light mund, such as Majorca or Spanish tal levy of 10 per cent, about £70,- ing battleships of a tonnage cruisers, the French have thirty- Malaga and Melilla, the mese hos- 000,000 to pay for this,
the British have forty he would have more points to defend people is just one third of that of The wealth per head of the Italian greater than the present London | seven,
In de- with his slender resources. Treaty allows, much less that (with sixteen building).
Great Britain. Yet the adverse trade balance of this hard-working but ahe has them actually under con-
ND very slender are Musso- still Impoverished country is over struction, as some quarters sug-fortified bases against which
lini's resources. Italy is £50,000,000. gest. If it is impossible for her they are a potential threat. poor country, and all the genuine
creative effort which the Fascist rc- Indeed, it is only the simple, sober to say she does not intend to It seems a far-fetched sug-gime has called forth has not over- hablis of the Italian people them- scives which keep the country going. hild such craft, she might at gestion that Japan may come her poverty.
be
Their devotion to the family life,
of friends of this beautiful land, their kindly help
and Hleast indicate whether or not building ships with any idea of
distress, their Kay gative answer to the powers' America in a struggle for naval ports 9 per cent. of her cotton, cop- honest determination to repay debt notes in this connection would supremacy in the Pacific. It is per and oll. 95 per cent. of her coal, these are the great moral factors that
the natural conclusion, then, 80 per cent, of her wool. clear the air.
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Against this overwhelming strength
tages he would give to his enemy, for
The soil
SEE now that Mussolini is said to be seeking a lean Creat Britain to develop
annexation
cost
they are on the stocks. A ne-ultimately engaging Britain or except in the north is, miserly in crop neighbours In
yield and mineral wealth, Italy in bravery in a life of hardship, their
sustain Mussolini's Italy.
But though he does not want war. Mussolini is ready to play
to the
that Tokyo's fears, if any, are Her colonies, Libya, Eritrea, This is not the picture of a country Bearing Somaliland (total population 2,300- able to fight a great war against grent No-one is going to deny Japan of a Russina menace.
Power with any hope of victory.. the right to arm to meet any in mind the fact that it takes 000) bring her little proft.
Mussolint desires pence because he They bulk large on the map. But desperately requires pence. possible threat to her commerce, perhaps two years to commis-
sion a capital ship for active as Mussolini himself sald bitterly on for instance, and if Tokyo be-service, it may be that the posst the eve of his Abyssinian conquest. lieves that Russia's efforts to ble building of super-battleships they are mostly scrub and desert. limit the game of threatening it. He create a strong submarine fleet in undertaken with a view to The Hallan standard of life is al constantly brings forward the bogey in the Pacific are directed forestalling a Soviet challenge ready the lowest In Europe. It is of the Rome-Derin Axis.
He presents to the world the ter- against her she is surely, justi- in this category. On the other Spain. The Italian workers' general
of an Italo-German fied in constructing defensive and no peace-loving nation wage rate, is to-day 10 per cent. less rifying uspect
combination, emphasising his soll- Jamong the democracies can be than before the March on Rome. weapons. But 40,000-ton shipsquito at case while all the sig- Mussolini himself sald fit the Italian demands for colonies on iltler's be
It was on June 22, 1028, that darity with itler, oven by making not the thing for fighting stories of the anti-Comintern Senate, "There are places in Sardinia half. submarines, nor are they iden] Pact are rushing armaments on and South Italy where for months for convoy work. Rather are land and sea. Work conditions the inhabitants have had to live on they weapons of attack, built to simply
Are
lower than that of Poland or even of
Some uneasiness is being felt at Gum Boll regarding reports of a Kwangtung Invasion.
STOP PRESS-A major offensive
well under
way, Inst was
night. Both sides are at grips.
FLASH.-Previous message should read: "An offensive major was well under way at the Gripps last night.
LATE NEWS—An Invasion of Kwangtung is imminent.
ranean, even if they wished to make trouble.
True they might make a diversion in Northern Europe, but the prob abifiles are that the Italians would be crushed in the south long before the German attack engaged the com- plete attention of the countries con- cerned,
Remember this, too. A broken Italy would leave a vacuum in the Mediterranean.
That political space might well be Germany, bent upon Niled by dominating south-eastern Europe. Indeed, the Germans might hasten this day by making their diversion not in favour of Italy but against her, European conflict should seem imminent.
The Germans would wish to as- sume control and authority in rela- tlon to Austria, thus realising Bitter's dream of a Teutonie racial bloc with the country of his birth.
Then they would also be tempted to claim back the Southern Tyrol now under the Italian dog, but torn war and from Germany after the
of
still containing a predominantly Ger- man population.
And, lastly, Germany, Intent on pushing Into
the
Mediterranean, the restoration would require Flume to Austria.
So thint if Italy went to war she might be bidding fair to play the role in the twentieth century that fell to Poland in the eighteenth century- namely, to be the victim of partition between the notions of Central
THE truth is thint the Rome-
Europe. Berlin Axis is already bad- which hit Italy as ly creaking. It did not support the
pact to sweep the Mediterranean the official Fasciat clear of pirates. The reality of
do not allow it. The world slump,
wild plants." That was before the smash other capital ships or to appeal of Britain, France and heavily as any other country. pressure of the Franco-British naval bombard shore positions at long United States for reassurance should be understood in this
1933 Inguren sot unemplo, in range. As such they would light In Tokyo. It would be too create a certain amount of doubt bad if their request for informament at 1,000,000. The Fascist Parly not go to war to make a Roman holi-.
Relief, however, claimed to be giving day. in the minds of peoples owning tion was interpreted as being in soup, brend, shelter, to 2,320,024 The Germans have neither milltary
"needly persona." powerful fleeta and strongly. Inny way threatening,
+
nor naval strength in the Mediter-
Mussolini suid to the Daily Express
警 recently,
am not n drama.. tist. I am realist." Of course, he In bath. lle understands the great drama of our times. He lives it.,
Mussolinl does not propose to figure as the principal in a tragedy. He is a Man of Peace beenuse he date not be a Man of War.