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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, '1941.

Italian Efforts To Explain Bardia

A COMMENTARY on the fall of Bardia was

transmitted yesterday by Rome wireless for the be- AUSSIE

nefit of Italians living abroad,

The Fascist propaganda machine tries hard to

VICTORY IN

minimise the importance of the defeat of a large THE DESERT

part of the army which was designed to effect the conquest of Egypt but in the face of facts which will be well-known to all Italians living in countries where the press and wireless are not mere tools of totalitarian propaganda it is difficult to see how much comfort can be obtained from statements given by the Rome broadcasting station.

AXIS LIES TELL TALE

OF FAILURE

MESSAGES REACHING LON- DON FROM AUSTRALIA IN- DICATE THAT THE EN- THUSIASM WITH WHICH THE CAPTURE OF BARDIA WAS RECEIVED IN THE COMMON- WEALTH WAS AS GREAT AS THAT WITH WHICH THE BRI- TISH PEOPLE ACCLAIMED THE TRIUMPH OF THE GAL- However much the magnitude LANT AUSTRALIAN TROOPS. of the defeat may be disguised from Mussolini's 'dupes living in ! A natural comparison springing Italy, Italions abroad know per- to the mind both of Australians fectly well the fact that over 30,- and British is that of Gallipoli, 000 italian soldiers were captured where a previous generation of in Bardia alone, and van hardly Commonwealth soldiers covered support the grandiloquent phras- themselves with imperishable eology of the Fascist announcer glory. that "the Italian soldier knows

Typical of expressions how to light and die as well as

heard on all sides is the remark of the the best soldier in the world"

Melbourne "Sun" that The brundenster

"Besides then contin-

the pride Australia feels in the ued: "Even if he (the Italian soldiers can foresee the outcome winning of this first big scale ac- of the struggle and has no hope the desert is the inspiring

ition by volunteers, the victory in victory from the very begin-

ample of Empire teamwork " British Wireless.

Not A Hope

During the Battle of France a wise man said:- "I don't like the way this is going. Have you been reading the German re-ing Italian courage in the Jast &

ports?

No British soldier, remember-

BELATED

DIVERSION

exm

war, will ever criticise the bravery of Italian troops when properly equipped and led and fighting for "They are all temperate a cause in which they can and do and credible, and where believe, but the admission that these unfortunate men knew they you can check them they had not a hope of either reinforce- Defeated in Libya, the agree with our own. Ger-ment or victory makes of the large Italian propaganda forces mans only tell the truth the extremely small casualties In- have attempted a belated number of prisoners, coupled with when they're doing so dicted {I} the Australian troops, diversion in Palestine. well that they don't need Italian regiments had no heart Rome radio stated yesterday to lie. I'm afraid we shall in the fight.

morning that Arab rebels are con- have

Knowing there was no some bad

other stantly, attacking lines of news prospect

than death or capture munication and military objectives soon," writes a corres- they well knew, as Italians abroad in Palestine. British armoured pondent.

also know, that they were being cars, it is alleged, were blown up offered as a human sacrifice on by land mines and military posts the altar of Fascist Party prestige. attacked and destroyed.

British Wireless.

I find it very cheering to think of that conversation now, writes

a correspondent, Applying the f

proof to demonstration that the

same principle, you can see very AIR ATTACK

clearly from the enemy's reports how badly he thinks he is doing in the Battle of Britain.

Before me lies a collection of extracts from German and Italian newspapers and broadcasts. Taken in sum, it presents a picture of London under the blitzkrieg in which the enemy's wish is not merely father to his thought, but its entire ancestry.

On Sept. 17, for example, the German wireless described French how nobody, not even a in foreign journalist, was allowed to leave London-though a visa to do so might be obtainable in very exceptional cases-and in Flemish how Londoners were tumbling over each other to escape from the duomed city. How a bilingual Belgian who listened to both these broadcasts could be expected to believe both of them at once does not seem to have occurred to their authors.

All Self-Control Lost

On Sept. 18 the German-con- trolled Radio Paris reached a high plane of imaginative fiction with this:

"The 7,000,000 Londonera have entirely lost their golf- control. They run aimlessly about in the streets and are the victims of bomba and bursting shells. Complete demoralisation prevalls

among the neeing

and breaking through the police cordone."

IN CHANNEL BEATEN OFF

com-

In this there is no truth what- ever. There has been no recent incident in Palestine and no con- flict between British soldiers and the civil population.

It is, in fact, nine months since an Arab shot a British soldier or a British soldier an Arab.---Bri- tish Wireless.

DOVER when a British fighter came up

Reuter,

THE

IT WAS BITTERLY COLD IN

CHANNEL OFF YESTERDAY, WITH A NORTH- EAST WIND AND DENSE MIST OVER THE SEA.

Bombs In London Area

bers were reported during

German 'planes in small num- the day and some bombs were drop-of ped.

only one did any damage,

Three fell in East Anglia,

there were no casualties.

An Air Ministry and Ministry Home Security communique states: "Bombs have been drop- but ped at a number of places in this and country to-day. Damage was done to houses at several points in the London area, in a town in the Midlands and in a few other places. A small number of people were killed and others injured."- British Wireless.

German bombers made four attacks on two trawlers off the Fouth-east coast.

machine-gun fire and made

They were greeted with fierce

off

PEER DISASSOCIATES HIMSELF FROM THIS "SNOBBISHNESS"

the

THE MARQUIS of Queensberry, in a letter to Editor of the "Daily Mirror," tlis-

population, screaming, shouting sociates himself from the "snobbishness" of Lady Cecil Douglas, his sister-in-law. Lady Cecil Douglas, who is an evacuee with her baby daughter in In all the collection I can find

Canada, sneered at “Mrs. Smith of Suburbia.” only one example of the truth being used for the purpose of legl-

She complained that Canadians failed to re- time propaganda. On Sept. 18 Loru Woolton said that the dam-

cognise British social distinctions. age to our food supply was not that Lady Cecil Douglas "would

In his letter the Marquis says) more than, could be made up it be well advised to practise her the population said they would

Lady Cecil iDouglas In her in- terview with your representa- tive."

Lady Cecil Douglas was former-

go without one meal. Next day self the breeding" to which she the German wireless made the appears to attach such ridiculously Mrs. R. St, B. Kirkley, second most of this remark by saying importance."

that according to the Food Minis- ter the population would have to go without 46,000,000 meals.

This, however, was not colour- ful enough for the Italians. Ac- cording to their broadcast, what Lord Woolton' had said was that the British henceforth will have to.renounce one of their meals."

Own Children Thero

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. de Vere Fenn. She married Lord Cecil Douglas in 1927.

The Marquis of Queensberry, "Bince my own children are who is forty five, is well-known at present enjoying the hospit. For his activities ality of generous Danaulane,” the world. His wife is "Cathleen in the Boxing Marquis addaj al would Hes to Mann, the artist. She now has dissociate, mymit.from xkhavuts Uttle time for painting, as she is garity and unobbishness which, an active member of the Mc- [legid, was expressed. by chanised Transport Corpa:

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