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In Rome a week ago I learned how completely the Nazis have taken posseR- sion of it,
The crows and ground staffs of large numbers of German planes, among them many Stukas, have been installed on
specially prepared airfields. They swagger around the towns and villages with an arrogant air of superiority.
"Here, you wop," says every German gesture, "get out of our way. Let us get on with the job you've been too funky to get done."
Main Job
The job those Germans and their Stukas have come to do is to prevent the British send- ing their naval ships and convoys through the narrow straits between Sicily, Pan- tellaria, and Tunis, as they have been doing, and to escort Italian supply ships to Libya and protect them from British attack.
I do not suppose it is really more than partly the fault of the Germans that the Italian railways are at the moment in chaos, and that many pas- senger trains have had to be cancelled. That is just part of the general upheaval caused in Italy by this war.
All Italians, however, blame. the Germans for this, as well as for everything else that is irking them.
The express train in which I left Rome was so crowded that even the washing com- partment was occupied by five people. I stood in a corridor so jammed that I could not move my arm to get out a handkerchief.
Nightmare Trip
It was a nightmare of a journey, this trip from Italy. They sent us a long way round by way of Turin, Modane, Chambery and Narbonne be- cause, so the Italian railway-
men
said, the direct line through Ventimiglia was choked with trains carrying munitions and supplies for the Germans.
Nor has it made the Ger- mans any more popular in Rome that the A.A. gunners sent there to defend the city against British raids have re- fused to sleep in the barracks the Italians have placed at their disposal. The taxpayers have had to stump up for the privilege of establishing the Nazis in hotels and boarding- houses,
The Germans, who aro much better paid than the Italian soldiers, stroll about Rome like the barbarians of old, sending home loot. Only once did I see an Italian gol- dier with them.
That was outside the bronze gate of the entrance to the Vatican, where two German officers, accompanied by a Blackshirt officer, asked that they might enter to RCO around. One of the Pope's Swise Guards barred the way ""You" aro not. allowed through here in uniform, gentlemen," he said. Italian bystanders smiled their plea-
The following report appeared in the "Daily Express" (London), and was sent from the Franco - Spanish fron- tier by a special cor- respondent.
Here he describes the conditions in Italy since the Germans were called in to help Mussolini, and the dis- tress and discontent at various centres.
sure at the discomfiture of the Germans and their guide.
The coming of the Ger- mans, whom many Italians régard as an army of occupa- tion, is causing the rapid strengthening of discontént, even inside the Fascist Party. Uncomplimentary inscriptions have appeared, scrawled in black paint on the wails of factories.
Heavily reinforced secret plain-clothes police are active. They go so far as to arrest on speculation people seen chat- Then ting at street corners. they ask them separately what they were saying.
Had No Tunic
If the versions do not coin- cide_they_clap them in jail.. Despite this, people are be- coming more and more out- spoken. Even strangers, hear- ing that I was going abroad, said: "Tell the British to come and bomb us. That is the only way to finish the War."
When I was at a tobac- conist's in Turin, buying stamps for farewell postcards, n soldier came in. "You look a real warrior, Francesco," the tobacconist teased him.
"Warrior, my foot," said the soldier angrily, "I haven't even a tunic under my over- coat, no buttons for my pants, and my boots hurt me."
"You'd better be careful what you're saying," I said. "I'm going abroad I might tell them what you say."
"Go ahead, tell them," he said. "Tell them what equips soldiers like this," and he threw open his coat, revealing a dirty shirt, his buttonless pants precariously tied up.
Every one in Italy wants news. In the central quarter of Rome a cobbler is the chief newa mart.
women
In the poorer streets of Rome I often saw breaking up their furniture to heat the mid-day meal. And what a meal it is, with the Italians allotted only one ounce each of their beloved spaghetti, and that grey-black instead of white. The normal consumption is more than 3 ozs. a day,
Secret Market
Coffee is unobtainable, un- less one is prepared to buy it. at a secret market, at n penny a bean. People swallow a brown brew made of toasted barley, which passes now as coffee, adding dnsh of aniseed or lemon rind to tako away the taste.
The soap famine, caused by export of fats and olive oil to Germany, is having the most serious consequences for the army, which' is overrun by a scourge of vermin, particular- ly in Albania. Doctors com- plained to me that they were powerless to fight it.
Chaos in the medical ser- vices is so great that many of the troops are being shovelled abroad hospital ships in Al- bania without having had their wounds dressed. They are left just as they were when picked up in battle. Many who could have been saved have bled to death.
The airmen were also full of complaints, chiefly on ne- count of the quality of their planes compared with the British..
"British machines are far superior to ours," said one who had returned from Libya on leave. "We have to fly old crates dating back sometimes to 1925. The propeller once dropped off my machine. I
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He laughed, and said: "Be- lieve me, the Germans aren't going to find it a picnic, either."
My last information before leaving Italy was that Mus- solini had recognised the strength of the opposition and the popularity of Badoglio, his sacked commander - in - chief. As a means of recapturing popularity he was planning, I was told, a theatrical purge of Fascist officials who had become particularly hated.
Now the first thing I hear on arriving on the Franco- Spanish frontier is the dis- misal of fourteen Fascist of- ficials and their despatch to the front.
He is a linguist, Wants To Help
knows French and English, which he learned in New York, and he has a powerful radio set.
Every day gossips gather in his cellar while the old man 'hammers at his last, and he tells them what he has picked up from the B.B.C. and other foreign stations. He also gives them his comments.
Mistresses send their maids to hear what the cobbler has to tell. And how they all grumblo! One of the chief complaints is the absence of charcoal, which the average Italian uses for his cooking.
The Negus
An Indian ruler wants to go to Abyssinia with picked troops to fight with the Abyssinian Em- peror, Haile Selassie, against the Italians.
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He is Nawab Saheb Sidi Armad Khan, ruler of Janjira, on Indepen- dent native State South of Bombay, He is believed to be seeking British permission to fight with Haile Selas- ale.
Khan is a descendant of the Royal; family of unclent Ethiopia - (Abys- sinia).
An ancestor, Sidi Sur Khan, went to India from Abyssinia in 1860, or- wanised an army, and won contral of Janjira,
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