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HONGOKNG TELEGRAPH
Apt 8 1939.
Italy-Land of Discontented And Disillusioned People
Kent Canon Saw Economic Misery
Behind Fascist Facade
VASTLY different picture of from the one Fascist Italy which Mussolini seeks to impose on the world was painted by Canon E. J. Shirley, Headmaster of the King's School, Canterbury, in an Interview.
Canon Shirley has just returned from a three-months visit to Italy, undertaken for health reasons, and talked during that time he has
frankly with the common people in Rome, Naples, Syracuse, Gielly-and all over Southern Italy.
THREE MAIN CONCLUSIONS
His conclusions may be summed! up under threo heads
Economic
Conditions Miserable. Grim poverty is widespread and are wretchedly paid. multitudes Acute discontent existed among all types of workers he met.
Foreign Affairs.-Germans are dis- liked by the masses, who wish to be friendly with Beltain and France. They are not in the least interested in talk of "Fascist glory" and "the revival of the Roman Empire."
The Future--A Superman--some- one for renter than Mussolini- would be needed to align the Italian working classes with Germany in a war against Britain and France. has no money and The country
would be disrupted by war,
WIDESPREAD POVERTY Canon Shirley began by pointing! out that he had visited Italy several cnough of times before and know
the language to speak to the people openly ani without difficulty. "I dis cussed politics and economics". he said "with hotel proprietors, agers, clerks, wailers, porters, shop- keepers, guides, cab drivers and
they talked peasants, and surprising frankness.
with
"I saw some of their homes and their families, and there is no doubt! dreadfully whatever that they are poor and acutely discontented. One man even went so far as to say that Italy would be no good until "Jullus Caesar" was re-enacted,
Wearing a gray overcoat and uniform of the Fascist militia, Premier Mussolini of Italy leaves the church of Sant' Andrea Della Valle, Rome, after a memorial mass for the late Pope Pius XI. Foreign Minister Clano is in background, chatting with a priest.
providing work, and the employment for multitudes that does exist is
hotel porter wretchedly paid. An averages 200 to 250 lire a month, "Poverty is grim, miserable and your chambermaid 100, the autobus widespread. I had thought the driver 250, a good mechanic 400 to slums of Dublin were about as bad 500. Speaking in hundreds, these as they could be, but conditions in wages may sound imposing, but what The official the poorer parts of some of the is the value of the Hira? towns I visited are indescribable rate of exchange is 88 to the £, but and heartrending-you feel the in- I could easily buy lire at 150. So habitants can be scarcely human. 500 lire a month means something like £5, and it does not go for when UNEMPLOYMENT AND BAD PAY you pay 100 lire for a reasonable pair much unemployment, of shoes, 200 for a working suit, and "There is
netivities in 400 a month for renting 21 three- despite government
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"Married,' Shook Hands, Parted
Two persons were married", at al register office more than five years ago.
Immediately afterwards they shook hands and parted.
They never lived together.
Recently they faced one another in court at Feltham, when Thomas Evans, ugodi 22, a carpenter's im- prover,. of Viola-avenue, Ashford, Middlesex, was summoned--by 21-| your-old Violet Granados, for main- tenance in respect of her daughter.
A woman barrister who appeared for Miss Granados, sald her client
·was only 15 when she "married" Evans, although she believed she was 17 because of what her father had told her.
MAINTENANCE ORDER
The so-called "marriage" was vold. Since August, 1030, when Miss Granados obtained n maintenance order against Evans for 12s. Od. u week, Evans had paid £31 G.
married Evans sal tiut he had another woman and had one child.
"This young man has let himself in for considerable responsibility. Still, that is his nifair," said! the chairman of the Bench. "In view of expenses he has been put to we fix the sum at Os. a week."
NEVER SPOKE
Later, Miss Granados suki: "For more than five years we have lived within a mile or so of each other, and have passed each other in the street but have not spoken,
"I would not have gone through with the 'murringe' if I had known my correct age."
They are severely taxed, too, and discontent is rife in ail sections of the community.
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M. O. H. Gives It Up
Dr. Maurice Hounsfield, Medical Officer of Health for Stowmarket, near Ipswicht, complains that, since the Ministry of Health has taken over "It is sharpened by the fact that the administration of first-aid posts A.R.P. bas this la proving the worst season for from the Home Office,
to tourists they have ever had., become too complicated. elaborate meals, and meat is eaten Practically no English, French OF He does not know where he slands only Sunday. Coffee and bread Americans were travelling when for breakfast, maenroal or beans for was there, and while there was lunch, and potatoes for supper were fair number of Germans, these had the usual dally fare-hardly ever no money to spend.
varled.
plaints."
PEOPLE'S BITTER COMPLAINTS "People were bitter in their com-
"Everything now costs more, they said, and they were much worse off than they were 20 years ago.
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"Where on earth was Italy drift-
London recently staged U ing to, they wanted to know? A.R.P. parade ever held. Glory? What did the people want with glory-thes bad little to cat. Many M.P.s were M.... the lots of hard work to do, wretched crowds who watched near fire- wages, high rents, and were taxed fighting units and ambulan right and left. The fathers and by women volunteers, mintside brothers had died in Spain and County Holl. Africa-and what good was it all? Civilise Africa? Let
Mussolini
civilise Italy first. Why were they
never had liked?
GAPS TO FILL
riven
Fire-boat units of the Auxillary not in close alliance with Britain Fire Service gave demonstrations on and France? Why should thor the Thames in front of County Hall. ally with the Germans, whom they When the volunteers had paraded la front of County-Hall, L.C.C. Chter. "More than one
Herbert Morrison, who is chairman person asked me why Mussolini. should have wasted of the council's A.R.P. Committer, lives and millions in Spain, when climbed on top of a fire engine, and the public were starved and under-addressed them.-- nourished. And not one belleved the The large gaps still to be filled in i official protestation that the Fascists the personnel of London Auxillary would be withdrawn from Spain Fire Service and the police war re- without any quid pro quo,
FRIENDSHIP FOR ENGLAND
serve ure shown in a statement is- sued recently by the Ministry of Labour, giving the position he at
"I found a definite friendship in February 18.. the hearts of the Italian people, for Of the 17,500 auxiliary firemen England, and a tremendous respect needed there were 9,086 enrolled; for its solidity and might. Their
3.437 motor drivers, compared with attitude is almost one of worship-the 5,500 wonted; and for the other they regard England as standing for personnel for which 10,000 volunteers something more enduring than any are needed, 4,345 had enrolled. ather country."
In the county of Surrey the total Speaking of Italy's military value A.R.P. personnel authorised is 20,072, is an enemy. Canon Shirley said wille enrolments number 40,132; and he was not greatly impressed within the county of Middlesex the total the physique and discipline of the authorisod is 57,803, and the num- troops he saw. In # crisis theber enrolled $1,200. Government could count only on
the Fascist Party, and while this
numbered about 2,000,000, many ONE SHOT; 1,000 CROWS
were members from mere motivea of prudence.
SAN JOSE, Ill.
A biust of dynamite which dis- "Some of the youngsters are excit. turbed the citizens of nearby Delavan ed and proud at being put into un- and caused wonderment over the forms on Saturday afternoons," he countryside killed more than 1,000 said, "but my firm impression is that crows on a farm west of here, te- the people of Italy as a whole are cording to Harold Palmer, who set off worried and depressed, with no con- the charge. The birds were "In fidence that they are being led in the dense hedge north of his home, Pal- right direction and well knowing mer said, and several explosive that a major war would write charges had been set among the "finito" to the country."
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