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CURRENT COMMENT.... By Scrutineer QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

The invasion of Greece by Italians because Hitler does not wish troops wore to be permitted to land only in Haiphong, was the Italy is the startling nows which to violate Spain for the time being. the Italian newspapers prophesi-

FRANCE IN COMA result of Chinese pressure in od last week. It is part of the

Kwangsi. The Japanese forces great plan which was foreseen a

France was put to sleep by were hold on three sides and had month ago by careful observers. the

administration of the their back to Indo-China, into The blitzkrieg on Britain had anaesthetic called an armistice, which alone they could escape. talled; the dictators had therefore to and from that state of coma The officer in charge chose tho strike in another quarter. Spain

wan sounded but did not seem to be she was wakened up to the fact less of two evils and advanced immediately ready to co-operate-the that she has already had one into French territory whers the rountry is poor, the Canary Islands limb amputated-Indo-Chinn opposition was weak, thus break- and Spanish Guinea 100 in Afrien might be lust and her trade with South and now she is confronted with ing the terms of the treaty on

She was under which the signatures America would certalaly disappear peace terms. while her political stock in U.S.A. the impression that these would scarcely dry.

were

would suffer a sharp decline. Spain have some relation to the armis- This retreat proves that the con- then for the present out of the picture, and so b new victim had to tice, but that is not so. It is quest of Chinn by bombers is not be found the destruction of which beginning to dawn upon France possible. Kwangsi can be bombed by Japanese planes, but cannot be would give access to the Mediter- that the sole hope of a restored held by Japanese troops. This is and independent French nation the lesson of the past three years.

conquered

ored the illaunited Mussolini has got to justify his depends entirely on the sort of Italy proud boast that his soldiers are what success Britain has in this war. Abyssinian forcen by the use

ranean.

they are proclaimed by Mussolini to If Britain selfishly made peace poison gas, but China is not disunited

be a tough lot. He in conscious of the

unbroken.

fact that Abyssinia was con- now, France's chances of recovery and therefore its will to resist is The ucroplane then cannot quered by the use of polson gus, that would disappear and her people now Albania was overrun by sheer weight realise that fact. For that reason it dominate China; it

Is Impossible to believe that Petain or

can destroy

AIR OUTRAGE

of numbers, that the military cam- even Laval would yield the French buildings not morale. It can destroy paign In Spalu whg nol un-

con fleet and so hinder Britain in her property but cannot conquer a nation's clouded success for Italian troops, self-imposed task of securing for spirit. The air force has to be backed There were regrettable lapses. Then

France as well as other nations that up-by Infantry, the accusation made by President

Independence and dignity which Roosevelt and endorsed by the free world that Mussolini had stabbed their history and culture demand. France in the back, rankles very If France cannot help us in her deeply. It will require some specta- present state, as the Prime Minister cular victory to obliterate such a says, she must at least not render plane near Kweichow border, is the Lasic of rescue more difficult. the sort of thing that rouses the stigma.

Killer and Mussolini are not, how-

The attack on the C. N. A. C.

the war do grow together'. A soldier who was merely strong and ferocious was known as a boar samural.'

Mussolini would hardly undertale ever, likely to press the French too ite of all right thinking people. a new campaign unless he had some far, since there is a potential force What possible glory or satisfaction assurance ol success. Italy's pro in the French colonies lying outside can fighting pilots get from attacking ttress has been arrested in Egypt, his of France which might swing over an unarmed plane? Nitobe, the claim that the Mediterranean is to the other side,

Japanese writer who invented the mare nostrum et clausum is demons- The paralysis which seems to have word Bushido as a description of the trubly, false, seeing that the British came over the French people is pro- high code of honour the Japanese Fleet traverses the same sen from bably temporary and will disappear warrior observed, quoted with ap East to West with far greater freedom when Italy is brought to book in the proval Shakespeare's line than Italian ships make the short Mediterranean.

Honour and policy like unsevered One thing is certain. journey to Libyn.

friends Britain as a sea power connat be The Halian fleet carefully avolds destroyed; whatever success Germany contact with the British Fleet and and Italy have on land they cannot on the British rightly so seeing that. It would Inevi- impose their will tably suffer 21 1 Inglorious end. Empire. Mussolini can make his assault on Greece knowing that in the event of initial failure he can count on the vast hordes of German troops lu help him in his hour of need. But as the conquest of Greece is partly a naval troops from Nanning is due to matter, and as there are many Greek the pressure exerted by the Ieyasu who said: "If thou knowest islands, the British tasks should be Chinese. The violation of the newest not what it is to be defeated, cased when these are occupied and terms of the treaty signed by used as naval and air bases.

Decoux with the Japanese re- woe unto thee. It will fare ill with thee Find fault with thyself rather presentatives in Hanoi, by which than with others”.

GREEK REACTION

It will be interesting to see the ractions of the large Greek popula- ilons settled in and round Egypt. Pierre Von Puassen, an American correspondent for the "World," was in Egypt during the time of the Ethiopian Campaign and this is what he wrote:

"I witnessed a sample of the almost unendurable tension be- tween Greeks and Italians in Egypt two months after the out- break of the Ethiopian war. The Italian Fascil of Cairo and Alexan- dria, fifty thousand men strong in ench city, were openly defying Great Britain to close the Suez Canal.

But the Grecks were If England gives the

arming he said, "we will see lai

it that not an Italian remains alive this side of Sicily," No signal came from England or from nny- body else and as the hopelessness of the Abyssinian cause became more and more apparent, the Greeks in Egypt calmed down and those in Ethiopia quietly left to seek their fortunes elsewhere." This antagonism will no doult manifest itself openly now and help .at least to prevent the large numbers of Italians who live in Egyp. from doing any fifth column work.

One gets the feeling on reading of Hiller's visit to Franco and to Pelain that he is not so much using threats as currying favour. He is soliciting help rather than demanding it. He is feeling the reaction of the success made by sheer brute strength which his mechanised

army gave. He is beginning to realise, perhaps, the enormity of the crimes he had com- mitted In

In Belgium, Holland, Norway. Denmark and France. He knows he has, incurred the odium of civilised people, and now he thinks Mussolini ought to take his share. Thus the violation of Greece is allotted to the

JAPANESE RETREAT

The withdrawal of Japanese

This wanton attack on the passen-- cer plane involving the deall of on American pilot and eight passengers is evidence not of military prowess but of demoralisation.

I was the great Japanese soldier

what it is to conquer

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