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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 27, 1941.

ITALIANS CRUEL CLERGY

TO GREEK WOMEN, WOUNDED

(From A Correspondent)

A GREEK GENERAL told me of Italian atro-

HIT AT

SHELTERS

All-round 'condemna- tion of air raid shelters is made by clergy of the Rural Deanery of Ham- mersmith (London) in a statement.

the

"The shelters." declare clergyman, are in some case be-

cities. As we talked behind the lines Italian 'planes coming uninhabitable." high overhead tried to harrass the Greek advance. It was in this sector where the Italians were bril- liantly trapped and checked.

Not a

I saw villages where there was nothing. house remained. Women and children were forced by the Italians to stay at home, so that Greek artil- lerymen had to fire on their own homes where their womenfolk had been brutally raped and murdered.

The General told me of how he himself had five times seen Italian tanks drive deliberately Greek wounded.

over

Greece, he said, -44 needed more British aircraft

"If you only send them, we'll

do the rest." he sand

Behind us the Greek artillery was pounding the main road, their

'retreat toward. Argyrokastron

BLONDES

WILL GO BROWNETTE

The statement continues:

"The unantisfactory nature of the surface shelters is shaking public morale, An example of this is the

of fact that many

these shelters (known to many of our parishioners as 'brick coffins') remain unused." Referring to tube shelters

statement says

the

"A new type of mosquita or gnat, nossessing a dangerous bite, terms to have evolved it.

scif."

Deep bomb proof shelters had been found practicable of construction in Spain and by the Counclis of Edinburgh, Fins. bury and Hackney.

"Thaty

shelters are the only which provide the maximum of security."

Ent the wands mound, where Gentlemen may stilt prefer¦ MHE hundreds of italian dead still he unburied, Greek machine-gun tire soured from every side, prong that anothe Itahan unit has been cut

IT.

Tragic Letters

Here are all the relies of war ene would expect Lambs of men kill- ed by tank heil erafels, suimed farmhouses, riv, hor: ta, ditched

Jotries.

But here one abso fints - thing one doesn't expect to find letter from Italian homes.

They have been written from mother to son: father writing proudly of Italy's greatness; bro- ther asking for news of Italian fighters in this strange war no Italian understands. Irched Albama to-day after two days and night travel over mountaina 7.000ft. high

For 100 miles last night my ear squcored forward among the Greek POSETAC

Each unit recognised Union Jack.

blondes, but as the war gues on they will find them more difficult To opet Blondes are getting rare. They ittl giving place 10 brownettes, the kindlier name for TIK HANY heads, because business and Service women find they can't keep pace with the mereased cost Leng "blunded up" once every ten days.

The men who are so anxious to take out blondes don't realise that it costs as much as 7s 6d a time tor a golden hair-do, aml every ten days the roots must be touch- ed up to cover the dark parting. Of course, original applications of dye, and reconditioning of ham before it can be permanent- ly waved, costs a great deal more.

The girls in the Services

dyed

in offices cannot afford the time or the HRY to visit us so fre utently. a West End hardresser told me

"And if they slacken off their visit they and a darks parting our appen, S.

And for hour after hour the Greek infantry cheered us on In English as our car slithered in

mud beneath the stars.

Another reason is

it hairdresser difficult to visit the now that the blitz starts in early evening.

that

is

the

are

One man told me: "It is part- ly paychological. Women to-day more sincere, constructive, The previous 'good-time' girl is now going all out for war work. "We blondes think it's just question of money," said a blonde go

1 del come to the front along a road on which the Halians had already dropped more than a thou- sand bombs without a d reet hit. This road 15 used at night by raptured Italian lorries and motor- cycles running dispatches and sup-worker. "The spare pennies plies the Greek front line.

into National Savings."

HE WAS OPPONENT OF MUSSOLINI

(By VERNON BARTLETT)

THE RESIGNATION of Marshal Badoglio is of great importance from the Allied point of view, for nobody could doubt either his patriotism or his military qualifications.

The suggestion that he has retired on account of age in the middle of Italy's most critical cam- paign is nonsensical.

Although he took over command, which would be won solely for in Abyssinia when Marshal de Herr Hitler's benefit.

Bono proved a failure, he was op- posed to Mussolini's act of aggres- sion, And rightly so, since the difficulty of sending supplies to

,

Italian Discontent

From various sources comes de- Italian troops in that unfriendly tailed evidence of rapidly grow- territory may still be the prining Italian discontent. This dis- cipal cause of the coming Fascist content will certainly develop now collapse.

that the man who was best suited

It is unbelievable that Marshal to conciliate the ambitions of Fas- Budoglio would have resigned at cism with those of the Regular this critical moment unless he be. Army, always resentful of the lieved that Signor Mussolini had way in which Fascist leaders rank led Italy either into a wur that because of their enthusiasm for the she would not win or into a war Duce, has been eliminated...

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