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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 11, 1940.
IS
MUSSOLINI
GONE
ARE THE HORSE
AND CARRIAGE
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Sawdust Caesar?
-E was the son of a blacksmith, and he became First Man in
H
Rome.
He rebuilt the city of the Caesars.
But
He never marched on Rome. He sat at home. When he went it was by invitation, and he travelled "soft" in a Pullman. He struggled into his black shirt as the train got into Rome station.
Once he fled abroad to dodge military service, and was posted as deserter.
Once he led a riot against an Italian invasion of Africa
And he opposed Italy's enter- Ing the war.
When he was drafted to the front he spent fewer than forty days in the trenches, and though he bears the mark of more than farty wounds, he got them in a
Thongkong Gelegraph. training school, milles in the rear.
Tuesday, June 11, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615
THE prefx "special to the Telegraph"
to
is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph indicate news which is strictly copright ander the provisions of the Telecomuni cations Ordinance, 1916. Bach new bears the Indicatión "Up is received Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Association, who servo Bit Tights and forbid repablication, either wholly er in part without previous
Arrangement
Fore-arm Hongkong
when aghand grenade went off accidentally,
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-it depends what
take the angle you take picture from
tion, with plenty of blood in IL- Eleven times in all Mussolini went to *prison.
Ho became "editor of · "Avant}," chlof Socialist newspaper. He rose to lead the Socialist Party of Italy. War come, and he called for neutrally In the foreign wár, and civil war ot home-up to September 21, 1014. On September 25 he clamoured for all Italy lo march",{o save “ravished France.
howl went up from the Sociallat ranks. CHI PAGA? (Who hna pald?), He was accused of taking French gold. The charge has not been proved. Seldes repeats ig story told by Mallee Torres in the French courts that Mussolini was paid 15,000 franca down and 10,000 francs a month,"
Mussolint was expelled. from the Socialist Party."You hate me be- cause you love me he yelled above the din. "You may tear up Socialist card! You cannot deprive me of my Sociallat falth!” -
was Fascism born?
my
On November 1 he launched a new journal, "Il Popolo d'Italia," dedicated to urging war and savaging his late colleagues. Where
On September 24, 1014, in the brain of Mussolint. It did not take a physical form until October 1917, when with Gabriele d'Annunzio, the post, he formed the Fascia di Resistenza to organise defence after the collapse of Caporetto.
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But it was d'Annunzio and not
carried Mussolini who
the thing through after the war. It was the poel, not the politician," who seized Flume for Italy, and prepared to hold it for Italy even against Italian royal troops.
Mussolini spent those, hectic and fake-herole years organising his party In the industrial north. The Fascist chief at this time was talking red revolution. He supported, the selaure of the factories and the general strike. He came out with a programme of Jand nationalisation.
Only when the Bolshevik menice died away did Mussolini denounce it, By 1022 the Red forces were hope- Icsly spilt, and trade was rising again.
It was the army, says Seldes, not. Mussolini, who planned to kick out "the old Liberal regifað and Bet Up In dictatorship of Big Business. They offered the job first to d'Annunzio, who refused it. Mussolini was only third choles,
The army allowed the Blackshirts. to march on Rome. Only about 8,000 went, not the 100,000 that the legend tells of. The rest arrived by rall.
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Since then Mussolini has conuli- dated, "eliminated from clrculation" his enemies, side-tracked his friends, He has been the journalist who sup-- pressed free Journalism. All that, says the author, by ruthless gangster- ing, and yet the present state of Italy is desperate.
So George Seldes, former Rome correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune," says in a bitter, brilliant investive against Mussolini, "Sawdust Caesar" (Arthur Barker, 12s. 6d.). He seeks to strip away the myth of Mussolini as her-leader, and to tell the story of an Italian gang- ster, rising by craft and violence to run a nation-wide racket.
The
author. specifically. charges the Fascist regime with. BIGGER and deadlier surprises the murder of Matteotti, the have befallen the Allies in the past Socialist lender. That is an old month than ever before in our his. charge and an ugly one. But tory. The Nazis have invented an this is the first time to my him and took him in. He found the entirely new strategy of war. Petrol knowledge that Mussolini has on the ground has disorganised the Mafia, Italy's secret terrorists, lini as a dangerous agitator. He used simultaneously in the air and been accused of taking over the him a job, as bricklayer's mate.
Switzerland expelled. Musso- calculations of the Allied Gonerstand employing them as an
In the middle of it all, Mussolini photographed from below so that he Staffs as completely as gunpowder official Black Hand gang,
found refuge in Austria. And went back to Italy and served his looks like a giant. Seldcs gives an- confused the tactics of commanders If things can really go like there he began his career as time in the Bersagileri, famous Alpine other shot, taken from above, to make in the Middle Ages.
that in Italy you may wonder journalist, working with Cesare regiment. He returned to Austria. him look a dwarf. Nothing can lie We con be sure that fresh-sur- why it is that Mr. Al Capone is Battisti. His paper was Social- and war jailed again. prises will be sprung upon
the sitting in Alcantraz Jail, Cali ist, and Nationalist that is, it When he left Auster_fur good it was to plunge into strikes, riots and Allies by. ler. And Hitler is apt fornia, instead of running the was
against plots at home. He advocated revolu-
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to be apel. That is why, in this United States from the White, integral part of the British Empire, House.
we must use more imagination in our defensive measures than we have in the past.
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Mussolini's father Was Hongkong, we Lon ASBUFC our Socialist and an atheist, and he readers, is quite safe-for the pre-named his heir Benito, after sent. On u only occasion in its Benito Juarez, the Mexican near-century of history in which it rebel. He beat Benito frequent- was metinced, we had plenty ofly with a leather belt. Musso-) warning. There were massive con-lini's mother was devout, and centrations of troops on our frontier: sent Young Hopeful to the school we had time to demolish bridges, of the Salesian friars at Faenza. prepure Toads for dynamiting, He fought his fellows, and the evacuate many of our women and good friars, in turn, beat him. children. There will be no such
When his father took up inn-i warning again.
|keepitig, and turned the bar into For the safety of the Colony it is nest of Anarchists, Socialists, time for all of 115, soldiers and and Syndicalists, Master Benito civilians alike, to think ahead. Not found plenty of scope for scrap-- because we believe that we may be ping in his spare time. The rest menaced, but because we should be- of his day was taken up with lieve that we cannot be taken by teaching. As he made no bones surprise,
about his disbelief in religion he Our volunteers should be mobiilsed got into frequent trouble. even if only partially, as suggested The police kept their eye on by a correspondent. They should him. His time was coming for wear their uniforms and carry their military service. One day they riffes to their offices. Not because, turned their backs for a moment, as suggested by another correspon- and Mussolini bolted over the dent, uniformed volunteers would frontfer into Switzerland. look impressive and would feel more He had two shillings in his fully their sense of responsibility, pocket and no friends. He fled, but because it is sane common-sense and not because he feared ser- to know that they are soldiers at a vice, but because he hated ser- moment's notice: An un-uniformed vice. He slept under bridges, ho soldier or civilian who fires on or came near starvation. He was opposes bá invader is a frine tireur locked up as a'vagabond. nnd, as such, Rable to face a firing: Serrall, the secretary of the squad,
locni Socialist party, had pity on
More and more food should be con- served in the Colony. The 'Govern- ment should appeal to householders cards for all: Chinese Inhabitantal- to lay in adequate supplies. Our should be instituted. Wo; should. water supply is a matter to which weed out those Chinese who might even greler attention should be aid an enemy and not us.. It is, no kiven, Hongkong depends entirely use blinding ourselves to the fact upon reservoirs, which" (events'. În} that," whilst an overwhelming -mu- Europe have conclusively proved) jority of the Chinese people are can be destroyed by bombing despite friendly towards the British, there A.A. defences. This is the time to re in our midst supporters of an anti- put in order all the wells and pumps Chungking regime whose invowed; on which we may be forced to rely, object is the destruction of westerners In all the Invasions which the in China and who would support any Germans have so far carried out, the enemy who attacked us. most dimbling and dismaying foc-
we
Want to be ready for any tor has bon the sudden, appearance emergency because the moto pro- (of socral memy agents in the heart phret we are the less likely is that of the invaded country. We have emergency llable to arise. 'It used to [many such potential" fifth columnists "be" fore-warned is foresarmed, tin In Hongkong who are not Germanı modern warfare to be fore-armed in vor: Austeland. An avuksan of Bderitiky babe-fore whened.
pro-Italian and
CARTOON
Austrian
Desperate indeed, ik all this is truc. For it Mussolini is really no more than
ferocious hoodlum, the twentieth-century version of A Renaissance condottiere, how will you Government, measure the height of the great and cultured .nation over which he tawers?
Naturally, it was violent.
REMEMBER. PINOCCHIO
WHAT HAPPENED TO AUSTRIA.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA,
POLAND
DENMARK,
NORWAY!
SIVEDEN
THE WARNING
Alm, Binocchio, is warned by his
Mussolini most publicised Sgure in the world, always insists on being
like a camera,
Frank Owen
By Strube
45
I MUST
COMPLIMENT
YOU ON
TRUE
YOUR
NEUTRALITY
MY BOY!
RIBBEON
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