THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1989
MARCH OF A DICTATOR
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and demonstrations were on the grand scale. Cavalry were called out. The editor of the The Class Struggle ful- minated that before Italy annexed any Tripolis abroad she should clean up her many Tripolis at home. He was arrest ed: In November 1911 he was set on trial.
sence-
Economic gain, Mussolini declared; was at the back of the imperialist aggressions of the Italian State in
He denounced "that Libya. less and useless bloodshed." The Vatican, naturally, is in the swim, too! Business is business! "Monarchy, the army, war! Here are three institutions. three absurdities! Moreover an Italian army has never won!"
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In court Mussolini appeared "clean- shaven, eyes alive and 'scintillating; He smartly dressed, even dapper. ..speaks with his habitual precision, in-
cisively."
At once his powerful personality dominated the scene. Did the Court hold him responsible for the General Strike at Forli? He would be only too glad to claim that responsibility and honour. But it belonged to the masses who spontaneously had resisted an attack upon their ideas. and stan- dards! Other witnesses, however, have testified against this oddly modest version of his part. They say that they saw Mussolini tearing up railway
lines with his own hands.
Mussolini's final speech from the dock was logical and defiant. "If you acquit me, you will please me because you restore me to my work and to so- ciety! If vou condemn me you do me an hozour!!
The court sentenced him on Novem-
ment.
Rise--And Fall
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Once he seceded from the party be cause it was not revolutionary enough. He expected as the prite of his re joining the expulsion of the more con- servative group. The editorship of the newspaper Agurti fell to him. In two years he raised its circulation from 28,000 to 94,000. At journalism as well as politics his talent was superb.
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Riots flared up in the villages.
Thus the Italian overture to the more tremendous opera that was about to break its thunder `upon the world. The Great Powers were already massing for "1914" and were about to march,
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HOP YAT CHURCH CHOIR RECITALS
· · Comparatively few music lovera have any real conception of the standard reached by foreign-train- ed: Chinese musicians and compos“, ers, and rare indeed is the oppor- tunity of hearing Chinese choral compositions ably presented. P
The public will have one such opportunity, when the choir of the Hop Yat Church in Bonham Road on Wednesday, Feb. 22, and Satur- day, Feb 25, at 8.15 p.m., present a special programme. The proceeds obtained from these recitals' will go to the church's fund for the relief of refugees. ...
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Items of the programme will in- clude the following:-"While the National Ensign is waving,” “Praise to the Shanghai Doomed Battalion," "Resist to the Bitter End," "March of the Guerrillas", "The Victory is Ours," "Aux Armes," "Red, White and Blue," etc., etc.
REFUGEES IN H.K. CAMPS
The following table shows the destitutes number of refugees and accommodated in various Hong Kong camps on February ~11.
The total was 6,964, compared with 7,070 on February 4!i
Mussolini stood up and battled like a giant for Neutrality. He was blood- I. Urban Areas thirsty in his pacifist violence. This (a) Civilians. was the very crisis, of capitalism he King's Park had foretold and warned against! Ma Tau Chung Avanti! baled:
"ITALIAN PROLETARIAT! RE- SIST THE WAR MENACE!"
"These years were filled with dif ber 23, 1911, to one year's imprison-ficulties for the Italian people," he
Two months later Mussolini was ad- wrote later. "Our lack of political un- derstanding brought us at least
vocating intervention. He, the magni. was shouted riot a week. During one Ministry Ificent Danton of Italy, remember thirtythree. They had their disapat upon, struck in the face harvest of killed and wounded, and of by on comrades, hounded out of the corroding bitterness of heart. My
Party.. ilc flung back their curses. own progress had been diverse, my
Next year saw him a soldier in the growth of capacity varied. But at front line trenches of the High Alps
Mussolini, actually served only five months in gaol. Socialists, anarchists and even Republicans combined to
press, for his release.
Avanti, the most intransigeant and most popular of all. Italian So- cialist newspapers, reported the re: lease of the martyr. "Comrade Mus- solini left the prison this morning more Socialist than ever. We saw him in his humble home with his small family, which he adores. Numerous telegrams of congratulation and praise from evely part of Italy have reached him."
Mussolini accepted these tributes with grace. He disapproved the bar. quet got up in his honour, though he resigned himself to it on the represen- tations of his old colleagues. Con⭑ gratulatory banquets have not been in Mussolini's line, either as Socialist or Fascist leader..
crest.
Mussolini rode now on the His hatred and contempt of Parliament mounted with his power and pride. male- "Dregs of the underworld factors
illiterates... Great Circlo
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least I
flattered: the crowd nor wheedled anyone. I spoke always of the costs of victories-sacrifice and sweat and blood!”
He renewed his denunciation of war. He prophesied war's approach. "Every day that passes the huge pyramid of lives that have been sacrificed rears its bloody summit upon which Mars stands waiting with his unsated and contorted-mouth in an infernal grin."
Power slid towards him like an the Liberal forces divided, the moder avalanche. The monarchy was weak,
ate Socialists discredited.
"Red Week" set all Italy in an A wave of strikes swept uproar. over the industrial-north. In Milan Mussolini led the workers on to the streets, Troops drove them off.
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