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July 15, 1940.
MUSSOLINI
AND
HIS
ITALIANS
IN
'N JULY 1988 there were, part of Hiller, to reconstruct divided INDEPENDENT Why not harvest and Mussolini made, wards the south-east, and which
rumours of a bad Italian Central Europe, which lay exposed
National Socialist to what would Hitler's next step be?- one of the thundering, ag at the special request of Mussolini try one
gressive speeches with which was once and for all to guarantee the
Independence of
of Austria, to-day he is accustomed to pacify The Fascista were enthusiastic
his people.
thia new grouping. All the .worthics among the Black Shirts, the VAUXHALL
of "Even should there. be no thin insignifiennt-looking
chier Rome's foreign
policy, Under- bread," he roared, we will Rom
Secretary of State, Fulvio Suvich, never I say never-humble our who came to attention each time the
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THE grenx "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the "flongkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni cations Ordinance, 1918. Such news. As hears the indication »UP!! li received in Itongkong on the date of publication by the United Preu Associations, who rË” Karve All rights and forbid repubication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
The Veteran
selves so far as to be help of
Duce spoke to him: the Party Secret-
any kind whatsoever from the ary; Achille Starace, dark and sien- so-called 'demo-plutocracies." "
der: the delegate to the League of On reading this, my thoughts Nations, Baron Pompeo Aloist, with his bald condottiere hond; the Lon- went back' to April 1935. Tren, don Ambassador Grand!, and the
so few years ngo, a friendly Duce smiled at the representa tives of these very
·by-
demo E. LENNHOFF
plutocracies' be-i
neath the won
derful paintings of the Palazzo on the back.
equally bearded General of Millia, ¿Terruzzi; all beam- ed, when Musso- lini, whose bowler hat was a strange ndjunct to his black shirt, cheeri- ly slapped Laval
Borghese on the Isola Bella in Even the people who, despite all Lake Maggiore and concluded efforts to shut them off, crowded in with them a peace pact-against front of the hotel railings, were Germany.
highly pleased with the newly form- ed friendship with the Western
At noon and in the evening Powers. Mussolini personally took his There was a genuine ring in their British and French guests, Mr. thunderous cries of 'Ducel Ducel MacDonald, Sir John Simon the Ducet and of this occasion there 'sky-scraper', M. Flandin, and really seemed no need for the cus gipsy-faced M. Laval, in a fast tomary signals for applause, given by
the little Heutenant" motor-boat to Stresa for lunch or
the Alpini who held the crowd back. dinner.
And each time, as the states- men, with the Duce in front, Come goose-marching ashore
1
command of
SIX months later I was 'in
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
ABNER
( Cope, 135 By Villar Fontes kinza,
"Look, Tony...
VERY
it's that police dog again!"
The HISTORY
of CONVOY
CONVOY is no new thing. It
be
The German Naval Authorities Was common at sen in the mid- were again pressing for an unrestrict- dle ages and at the time of the ed submarine campalga upon all ship- Napoleonic Wars.
ping, by which it was hoped to break Britain's resistance by the autumn of Convoys homeward bound from the 1917. If 000,000 tons of shipping West Indies might consist of 100 to were destroyed a month, and about along the narrow landing-stage Kome. The Stresa Front hadt 150 ships guarded against the enemy double this quantity of neutral ship- privateers by a few men-of-war ing were scared off the sea through There are records of Baltic conveys terrorism, the war should be won in to where the journalists an- collapsed during the debate on xiously
If America did enter the sanctions at Genova and the of over 500 sall. awaited them,
Bive months. At the present time, on any typical the war, they thought, it would little lieutenant was marching day, something over 1,500 British too late to be effective. On Decem- faces of all shone with the glow with his Alpini somewhere be merchant vessels are at sea in every ber 22, 1016, Germany decided to be- of friendly understanding.
tween Adoua and Adigrat in ocean in the world. Another 700 odd in too. For, at one of the first re- rounds not of applause, but of
There were positive results, Abyssinia, this time ordering are in harbours all over the navigable Bin unrestricted submarine warfare presently to resume Their upon the merchant ships of every ceptions the Italian delegation shot.
voyages. These ships travel on over nation found inside a greatly extend- 85,000 miles of ocean trade routes, ed war zone. gave to the press, Grazzi, the
In front of the Eden Hotel a crowd the Royal Navy to protect them.
and in time of war it is the duty of" There was no misunderstanding ber determination to use her U-boats versatile little Minister of Pro-
"Ger IN 1014 paganda, gave us a'slogan which of people were enjoying the sight of Its fl-omened name-plate being
found 11 sounded most hopeful-Stresa taken down, lest it thight arouse sus-
picion that England's Foreign Minis Front."
ter had some connection with the
hotel.
In a window opposite was a poster: French pertumes no longer sold here, and in front of the Cafe Aragno, the centre of international
many
new means of at- tacking trade. Submarings. had shown that they possessed. far greater powers of a-going endur-
-by TAFFRAIL
JA
ruthlessly and
defiance of all the
accepted rules of:
The Josses, mounted steadily.
December saw the sinking
of 1167
and Allied and Jan-
EVEN Shirley Temple has been put slightly into the back- ground by the war. But she is near the end of her tether in any case. Advancing years tell their relentless tale. Shirley has smiled through ten summers, and is beginning to feel the burden of stardom and of time.
HE throw the words, the ap- In another year or so, it is plicability of which unfortunate suggested, Shirley will retire.ly survived scarcely a month, The veteran, having scaled the Like an order at the heads of the life on the Corse Umberto, sat crowds them, and in February, 1918, the vessels of 400,000 tons were sent to
crowds, short and abrupt, just as of German exporters with swastika
badges in their button-holes, the day before he had an
Of the war enthusiasm, of which 'Cheerful tone, in nounced: equally monosyllabic parade-ground the Italian papers gave such glowing
description, I could see nothing. voice.
To be sure, the Via dell' Impero, While for us foreigners the an- nouncement of the 'Stresa Front' was that grandiose avenue leading from news, and highly important news at the Pantheon to the Plazzo Venezia, that, it was in actual fact a command the scene of Fascist marches and parades, echoed daily to the thunder- ing tramp of marching demonstrators, In the street,” the The press conferences held by the Yet "the man other delegations were means of get- simple, Industrious, modest Ikeable
greatest heights of the screen and had two hemispheres at her feet, will retire and relax after years of crowded effort. Having rested awhile say for five minutes-sho may begin to take up the Business of life itself.
for Italian newspapermen.
ננס
sing information, explanations, and Roman, regarded the war apethetical of asking questions, but there given ly and with some disapproval, by the Italians seemed to be for the sole purpose of handing out the day's
4
rance than had been credited to uary
189. During February 200
the waters surrounding Great Britain March 338 ships of 324,000 tons. German Admiralty declared that all the bottom by U-boats, and in and Ireland, including the whole of
All Allied American vessels were also held up gorded as a war zone. the English. Channel, would be re- and attacked, and for this and other merchant vessels found within the reasons, including a German proposal zone would be destroyed without "It to Mexico that she should invite always being possible to avoid danger Japan to attack the United States if the side of the 10 the crew and passengers....Owing the latter came in also to unforeseen incidents to which Allies, a wave of anger swept over naval warfare is table, it la im- America. On April 0 war was de- possible to avoid attacks being made clared upon Germany. on neutral ships in mistake for those of the enemy,"
A few days later Admiral Sims, This was the fret announcement of of the United States Navy, was see- two great seamen discussed the situa- IN the first quarter of 1915, ton, the American saying that it thirty-eight British merchant looked as though the Germans were winning Sir John agreed, unless the ships were sunk, including the shipping losses could be stopped, and liner "Falaba," outward bound stopped soon.
28 as passengers and crew for West Africa, torpedoed by
an unrestricted submarine campaign, ing Sir John Jeillece in Londen. The
turning out picture after picture which may find expression in the the war of defence against 'mur were embarking into the boats.
So far it is a queer sort of golden existence the charming child has led (in the cause of veracity, it must be noted that slogan. she is also the pet aversion of a This, too, Fascism and Nazism DESPITE all the horrible tales have in common: in Italy as in Ger told about the Abyssinians and section of cinema enthusiasts), many there is only one opinion
dictated derous bands of robbers' which tonel' Chcerful 'press, Minister Grazzi, and cheerful tone had been forced' on the Italians, which, with mathematical cer-
for the conference, for our French I met no signs of hatred among tainty, has swelled the bank and English friends, for the new the people.
front, was the unanimous refrain of balance of everyone concerned. every Italian paper. Even Shirley's warmest ad. mirers realised that this could not go on for ever. Into her life, as into that of others, a crisis must come, a parting of the ways. Not even the Holly- wood experts can guarantee that a child star will continue her ascendency through her teens. Then Shirley would be judged by other standards and have rivals it.numerable.
DESPITE a certain amount of
clouds
The Abyssinians are mothers' sons, loo, sald the common people, and turned a deaf ear to all the stories of atrocities committed by this robber people."
of
were
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"Absolutely none that we can sce Was there no solution, Sims asked.
now." Sir John Jellicoe replied. Men, women and children thrown into the water. There was a
ADMIRAL Sims wrote to the death-roll of 104. A worse fatality Secretary of the Navy in was to occur in May, when the "Lusitania" was torpedoed without Washington - "After trying warning. Within twenty ininutes the various methods of controlling great ship had plunged bows first to the bottom, to leave the sea black shipping, the British Admiralty with drowning people. Rescue ships now believe the best policy to be. picked up 800; but 1,108 perished, of one of dispersion. whom 201 were women and 94 in-
The Admiralty has had frequent The Itinerant musicians, however, fants or small children, nervousness the atmosphere in Stresa was really gratifying. sang a song, which faithfully repro- The explosion of those torpedoes conferences with merchant masters A month before, Hitler had made duced the real national character reverberated, throughout the civilized and sought their advice. Their most.
And let us look out for ourselves. that sensational speech, in which he stripped of all its marilal Fascist world. The people of the United unanimous demand is: 'Give us a gun
'Faccetta neral" they States were convulsed with anger.
practicable for merchant vessels to announced the reintroduction of con- trimmings. scription and in this way tore up song. 'Black Faces, a modest little American citizens had been drowned. They are also insistent that it is im
Abyssinian an
girl who,
in the Lusitania," and
and already one of the most important
pages of song
from a a mountain in her country American vessels had been attacked. Proceed in convoy, at least in any the Versailles Treaty
There was an exchange of notes considerable numbers,due principally Mussolini had made the demon looked with longing for the first strative answer of calling up a quar- silmpse of the approaching Italian between the United States and Ger- to dimculty in controlling their spccó ter of a million of his soldiers and soldiers, with whom she would march many, and for a time the unrestricted and to the inexperience of their sub- oven the French had multiplied the along the Via dell' Impero past King submarine campaign was abandoned, ordinate officers. With their view I that with a little expericnes merchant. the and Duce, once peace had been con- Germany feared bringing the United do not personally agree, but believe. number of troops manning
States into the war against her. had cluded.
vessels could safely and sufficiently Even
So, the situation was
From the out well steam in open formation." 'Black Faces' was not a song of sufficiently serious.
The merchant ship losses in April conferring that of many another artist-
But now they were
terrible, No fewer than 430 long delayed and punctuated there under the chairmanship of the hate, nor had it anything of the break of the war until the end of 1919
pathetic heroism or naked militarism Britain had lost through German were Stres
action $19 merchant vessels, and her ships were sunk by U-boats. On the with farewell appearances that Duce and building the new
Allies had lost 420. As Lord Jellicoe blackest day of that worst month, of was to write later...."It was clear the war, eleven British merchant. seem to stretch like an endless Front, which was to secure European of the offlelal songs of the Party.
peace by every practical, means
that some method of counteracting vessels and eight fishing craft were chain into eternity.
against any arbitrary action on the
the submarine must be found, and destroyed. One out of every four found quickly, if the Allled cause ships that left the United Kingdom. was to be saved from disaster... during that month never returned. The submarine campaign was the
The matter of convoy had been gravest peril which over threatened Cinema sent prices are likely to the population of this country, as considered at the British Admirally at various stages of the wor; but the rise as a result of the new Purchase well as of the whole Empire."
general consensus of opinion was Tax. which is to be applied to the
were insufficient: To combat the menace Lord against it. There
War warships to provide the escorts, while Jellicoe was appointed to the the dimculties of station-keeping at.. It is expected that the tax will be Admiralty as First Sea Lord at night or in bad weather were con
sidored the end of 1916,
merchant Insuperable in The tax will be Imposed direct German submarines were then steamers of varying types
be in- Stultart on Alm rentals, and the exhibitors ranging the sen from Archangel to speeds. Delays would also said that Finnic when charged at will have to devise their own means the West coast of Africa, from the volved in loading cargoes, while the The ground where the plane came the police station said, "That is quite of getting it back from the customers. eastern seaboard of North America, speed of the convoy was the speed of down is in the centre of a thickly right, but I did not think I was do This is regarded as a, matter of ncross the Atlantic and through the its slowest ship. Morever, the pro- populated district, No damage was Ing anything wrong. I am most de- considerable difficulty, If attendances Nediterranean to the shores of Asia. tection afforded by an escort was
Minor.. done to surrounding property?
are not to suffer seriously.
Turn to Page: 3, SĩxtH 'Cofümin: cidedly pro-British.
Shirley's finale may be like Maginot line. Heavy clou
Europe. gathered
'Plano Hits Barrage: 3 Killed
The pilot, navigator, and observer |
Over
Aircraft Engineer Charged
Film Fans To Pay New Tax
Charged at Kingston with distri of a bomber wera killed late one buting without permission copies of night recently when the plane, after the Fascist paper, Action, at an air-hire of films. striking the cable of a barrage bal- craft works, Thomas Madeley Finnic, loon over a Midland town, crashed in 41, described as an aircraft engineer. 15 per cent. flames in the middle of ericket field: of Oakley-street, Chelsea, was re-
Petrol tanks exploded and bursting manded in custody.
'Defective-Inspector ammunition shot into the alr.
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