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Mussolini's Mystery
Isles
By HARRY LEVIN
waterfront of Rhodes. Beside one..
one of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World.
stood the famous 100-foot Colossus,
The Dodecanese Islands have · Three small ports divide the suddenly sprung from their ob- scurity in the Eastern Mediter- ranean map into, the plure of the war headlines, Harry Lonin. who sketches them for you here, visited the islands not "long be. fore war broke out between
Italy and Grecer, -
COME
COME to Rhodes," the 'gay tourist posters were still bockoning a few weeks ago. "Gem of the Dodecanese, Italy's Ægean Isle of Roses!"
It had everything-beauti-- ful scenery, unrivalled climate, splendid hotels, magnificent antiquities: an earthly para- dise above the murmuring Mediterranean.
.
What they did not add was that it is also an island-for- tress.
The twelve islands of the Dodecanese, of which Rhodes is larger than the other eleven together, lic midway between Egypt and Greeco.
They form to-day a key point in the Mediterrancan
war,
ONCE TURKISH
From ancient times, when their first known conquerors were the Mycenenas and Phoenicians, their strategic value, has been recog- nised.
Before the Italians seized them in 1012, they were in Turkish hands. But the bulk of the is- landers are Grecks. Their ances- tors have lived in the Dodecanese since the down of history.
In Rhodes, the tourists is struck by the perfect ronds that run up. the hillsides to end abruptly, as though their destinations, had sud denly vanished.
Those ronds lend. 1o skilfully- shuttered nests, binsted out of the hillsides which shelter the Italian batteries.
The number of guns and the extent of the island's other for- tifications, ure, naturally, strangers don't find out.
things
Some of the hillside caverns, however, are known to have begun life as quarries. Now they are fitted with corridors,. unte-cham- bera, rotundas and ventilating- shafts.
Nearly 300 miles of roads have been Built in Rhodes by the Italians.
One of these highways, linking the aerodrome with the main town, Parallel runs along the shore. with it, along the beach below, runs Ine of barbed wire en- tanglements. On the ridges Just bove are Kreat coils of more barbed wire.
FOR THE "MERMAIDS"
The Customs guard used to ex- plain with u grili that this prickly barricade was to stop mermaids
landing...
Also in readiness for the "mer- malde," immense barracks and military hospitals have been bulit. The main streets, bars, and cinema swanned, when I was there, with green uniforms of the garrison?
Very youthful they were for the most part-short, dark and affable. Many come from the country dis- tricts of southern Italy, One, ut Tenst, was mightily bored.
The Italians have sunk millions
Continuat
of pounds in widening and im- proving these ports.
erneut has been in progress only in Rhodes but in Leros, Cos and Stampalia.
Particularly Leros-the serret island of the Dadecanese.
To make sure that the secret of
Livis island are kept, thousands of its
Greek and Turkish natives were expelled.
Italy's plans have been to twis Leros into + miniature Egean Gibraltar. The ne natural har- bour of Porto Lagu can hold some of the largest battleships. It has a scoplane base, with many miles of Ideal "ying-water," and naval arsenal.
The eastern side of the island, facing the narrow Dlaport Straits that separate it from Anatolia, has been strongly fortified.
MILITARY VALUE
Once, in 1925, two Italian de- putles became highly exclied about the possibility of settling Italians in the Dodecanese. Five mlition
Italians cou
could be established there, they said, probably more,
Mussolini wasn't interested. For him, in
in the words of an Italian spokesman, "the value of the is lands arises from their geographic military position, which enables us to make of then the base of our future
ure expansion."
So, out of a total population of over 140,000, there used to be only a few thousand Italians, most of them officials, professional ment and merebants.-
Still, Mussolini has been
prodigal
with
public buildings for them. In the Via del Littorio, near the Rhodes seatrout, you see Hallan constructive ambition at its height On each side of the brand street, with not a speck of dirt to mar their
severity, are the great clola- tered Government buildings, the Fascist headquarters, the cinema that is in truth a picture palace.
• Veneilyn, Skellion, Oriental styles are strewn together, designed not less to overawe the natives than to perpetuste in stone the greatness of the Fascist builders.
PRIVILEGED ISLES
Italy has given the Islanders bread and games, and some econo- mie benents, But it withholds freedom.
All the feeling and all the loyal- ty of the Greek population--which la nearly 90 per cent. of the total -are for Greece.
Despile concentrated efforts to make
them good Italian citizens. they consider Italian rule undesir able. Quietly, their Church, which has a long memory, and has not forgotten grave indignities to its Archbishops
far back as the time of the Venetians in the 16th century
teaches them to keep faith with Greece and Greek culture.
In 1922. for this offence, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Rhodes was expelled.
Under Turkey the islands en- Joyed many beneilts. They were known, in fact, as the Privileged Isles, Yet they joined the Greek War of Independence.
In the coming of the tallons in 1912 they saw promise of libera tion. At the Peace Conference, Venizelos fought for their “un- alterable and centuries-old aspira- tion to unite with Greece."
He obtained a compromise. It seemed that Rhodes, at least, might attain its goal, although the other Islands were ceded to Italy.
Then Venizelos fell from grace, In 1924 nil the islands were formally annexed to Italy, with the consent of Turkey.
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He missed the farm at home, he Bald. There was work to be done there now. And here ho wasting his time. But with shrug of the shoulders it wasn't his business. The Duce wanted him here, and the Duce must be right.
"Well, I don't suppose lo's bored and longer.
were
All signa of restlessness in the islands have since been rigorously
1930 thero In rlots. was the last expression
To-day, although they may seem resigned to their fate, the move- ment for. liberation atili stirs un- But it easily beneath the surface. has lacked all power-and' now the war has trapped once mara the Inhabitants of these isles of my- atery.
FUNNY SIDE UP
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By Abner Dean
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"About that money I lent your folks-shall 1 deduct it as charity or a bad debt?”
Why Grow Old?
By Josephine
Lowman
When you look into the mir For don't indulge in wishful thinking as the wicked queen in Snow White did. If we look only at our best points and
try to overlook the others, we will fall for short of our potentialities for love- liness.
Our mirrors should be so placed and so lighted that they will tell us the truth about our faults in complexion, hair and figure. If we are to overcome faults we must first recognise them.
The bravest men
I
ever
met
By C. G. Grey
JUST when the Blitzkrieg
on
Norway hud started I was staying with a friend at a Constal Command-station-of-the-R.AS. It was a queer stallon. It had started with Avro Ansons to patrol the coast and escort convoys of ships. Then it had acquired some fighters to drive away enemy, air- craft which altacked the Ansons.
After that some American Hud.
were
Sou twin-motor machines. given to it. They had more power and range than the little Ansous, and found out important things on the coast of Norway, which led to the borrowing of heavy and medium bombers from the Bom- ber Command. In fact, the place was a regular aeronautical men- ugerie.
The day I got there our news- papers had published maps of our new minefields round Denmark and right into the Baltic, far be- yond the Skagerrak and Kattegat (friends of our schooldays), block- ing the German and Danish har- bours frem which ships bud to take troops to Norway.
Very rightly our people said: "Wonderful
thing the
British Navy. But how did our mine- layers or submarines get through the German minefields, and past the German submarines and de- stroyers and air force to lay those anines?"
niess
WOR
THAT
cocktail evening about time into the ante-room of the dozen young come half a offeers in naval uniform, led by one who was himself led by an amiable but terrine-looking bull- dog-man and dog were much the same shape and ever so English.
My host told me that they were part of a Fleet Air Arm squadron which
at the station on a special Later, I was shown
job. what it was and how they did it.
On the airfield was a squadron of the Fairey Swordfish, which is a big biplane with a single Bristol Pegasus
motor
of 800 hp. Like all Fleet Air Arm machines, the wings fold so that they can go down the lifts in H.M.' nirerntt carriers from the flying deck to the air- craft holds, which the F.A.A. loyal to the air, colla
A colla hangars. The machine was built for Fleet
and as reconnaissance, ant
torpedo- dropper, so it is n weight-lifter, and its best cruising speed is about of the 130 mp.h.about that trainers which one sees floating around the sky.
These Swordfishes for the special Job
different. Where were
the navigator ought to sit was on enormous petrol-tank which stuck
up above the deck between the pilot and the aft cockpit. It took up all the second seat, and ended In a blank wall-high-above-where- the third seat should have been. There the navigator had to sit. with his legs underneath a mass of petrol, all ready to drown him in flames it an incendiary bullet caught it.
A bombing-up time, just before dark, Instead of the normal torpedo or bombs, huge flat-ended barrels were rolled out on trolleys and fixed between the wheels.
These were our magnetic mines for the Baltic, far more powerful and more magnetic than the Ger- man mines of which we heard sa much at the Ume, and now looked upon as a busted flush.
Those barrels brought the flying speed of the old Swordfish down to about 90 m.p.h.
That night, as the rest of us
going were peacefully to bed, we heard the growl of the Bristols starling up, and a few minutes Inter the drone of heavy stuff taking off, circling the C.O.'s house and heading seawards.
Next morning they all came back, bar one, who had to land at another airfield and bent Jils undercart. They reported results, had these suppera al a late break- fast-time, and went to bed, all ready to do it again next night. NOW Bigure to yourself that sort
Too many women go in for the becoming, rosy, dim lights which flatter them into care- lessness and neglect. We can have these in our boudoirs, but at some place we should have brightly lighted mirrors with which to whet our ap- petite for self-improvement." Four Mirrors Needed
use
A woman really needs - four mirrors to help her appraise her. self-and-cure for herself First- she must have one which she can at her dressing table. This should be large enough for her to see herself from her head to her walst. Next, she needs a hand mirror, one full-length one, and a magnifying glass. The utter is of the greatest ald in studying the skin; applying lipstick and weed- ing out stray hairs from the brows.
Lighting Some ladies
also Important. attempt to use the
bulbs which represent sunlight, electric light, or daylight. How ever, this is a rather risky bust- ness, except for experts, and it is usually better to use plain white bulbs and plenty bright!
The lights at the side of the dressing table should be about on n level with the nose, and should also have a light above the head.
One Convenient Place
It helps us immensely to have All of the necessities of good grooming and beauty care in one convenient spot. It is so easy to procrastinate if we have to look for the brush and hunt up the clemusing cream.
The most limited and meagre set of tools should Include moni- cure items, cleansing and lubri cating cream, eye cream, a long- bristled hairbrush, lotion, an eye- lash and eyebrow brush, a deo-
and dorant, a depilatory tweezers. Besides these, a which
woman should have a light pad on which to take her exercises and a board or cot (with end raised) to that she can reat for a period or so of time cach đay in the beauty angle position.
of courage the "three o'clock in the morning courage" which Napoleon admired in our people- the machine outrageously over- loaded, carrying a mine would leave nothing to pick up it exploded in a crush, and carry- lng a truck-load of petrol to the 1,000 miles range; its speed such that the worst anti-aircraft Kuoner
or searchlight operator could hardly miss it; its only pro- tection against fighters the fact that it was too slow for them to stay with it and shoot at it; pilot and navigator without the com panionship of a cabin, lonely ali night on the end of a telephone wire.
They had none of the exelte- ment of the single-seat fighter, or hls interval for refreshment after his three-hour patrol, and none of the crewship, as it were, of the big. bombera or the flying boats. If ever there was a solitude a deux, the mine-layers in the Sword- Ashes had Itfor most of twelve hours at a stretch,
They were the bravest men I have met. I have known a good many V.Cs and plenty of D.8.0.4.
Make It ensy to care for your- Kelli Don't put the obstacles of hecticness and lost time in your way. These simple, daily routines will keep you young lang after the loudest laughter of scoffers has died away.
our
None of these F.A.A. Inds had any decorations then. I hope they have got them since.
To-day the job is done by high- powered, high-speed, well-armed
Nobody admires bomber crows and constat recon- naissance people and our fighter pilots more than I do. But those couples in the SwordDahes deserva to be recorded in history, for they made so much history themselves.
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