1941-03-18 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 18, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE MUSSOLINI'S RASH ADVENTURE

It looks as though it may be the supreme irony! for Mussolini to have dir- ected personally the milit ary operation whica turn- ed into the debacle which, promises to seal Italy's vassaldom to Herr Hitler. ~ Fifty thousand casualties

were suffered in the fur ious seven-day offensive

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the short Tepelini front; fifty thousand men sacrificed to Il Duce's per- sonal prestige; 15,000 dead that Mussolini might turn! to Hitler and reclaim full partnership status. It is in the true order of things, according to Nemesis, that the gigantic effort should have failed igno- minously, and

that

be-

cause his power of inspira... tion was committed, Il

Duce's state is worse than his first. The prospect

for Italy now is the most

Zate

THE POW WOW'S OVER !

AID TO BRITAIN

AND TO CHINA

Communal

unhappy one, for more! War has this compensation; that municipal

UNITED

ретроскает

ADD TO

GRACE

Life