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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1941.

Lovely Linda Darnell, as "the outsider," has the top feminine role in Darryl F. Zanuck's pt. duction of "Brigham Young." by at the King's Louis Bromfield. The 20th Century Fox film.

Dean Jagger Theatre, stars Tyrone Power, while Brigham Young.

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Hitter didn't invent the Concentration Camp. The Lipari fslands have been Mussolen's Isles of Hell ever since he came to power, and the man who writes this was there for five ghas ly years.

LAUGH AT THE Duce if you like, but do not let pity enter into your laughter. You are too gener- ous, you British.

Remember, if Hitler is the father of Nazism, of the concentration camp, of torture and of lies, Mus- solini is the grandfather of all these things.

to

He is an old man now, but do so openly. My sentence was con-

di politizia, deportation not pity him for that. He sends fino

Lipari, for live the best youth of Italy to die in Italy's Siberia, a fruitless attempt to save his years.

An Empire

(after Empire.

built

When I arrived there

to make the skulls. Yesterday he was sending paying £15 so as that same youth to the Islands of journey by train and not by "pri- Hell which dot the southern seas son wagon"), between Sicily and Africa.

taken off my wrists.

on

They have beautiful names, these islands: Pantelleria, Ustica and Lipari. But to many thou- sands of my countrymen names have only one meaning: Banishment. Torture. Death.

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Dishonourable Place

Mussolini copies the Romans in everything, so he says. The little Caesar has not their in- vincibility. Ho has collected their vices, their tortures and their places of banishment. Lipari is such a one.

It is a dishonourable place of exile where murderers, pimps and the lowest dregs of the Ita-

the chains were

The light burnt into my eyes like acid. For six hours I had been stuffed into the hold of a small ship together with my "brother criminale." Without food,

the without water for whole journey. We were glad to leave the rolling hulk and set foot on land.

Land? It was lava. Mard, crumbly lava. Everything crumbled before the fierce wind. Houses, roads, trees and men. A bitter sun added to the dis. Tomfiture.

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truncheon," and when the tim obeyed they hit him over the head with it.

vic- hard

This dainty amusement was child's play for their fertile im- At the police station a bull-aginations. A militiaman need not

lians cities are sent. together with faced imitation of Mussolini, the the political prisoners - men Fascist Commandant, told us that whose only crime is that they be- we were free. "Of course, there

lieve in democracy.

are the rules," he said.

Of course.

With his rise to power, Mus- solini took the insignia not only

Ten There were ten of them. of the Fasces, but the truncheon

joke of our and the castor oil bottle. But he rules which made

not kill all who could

opposed freedom. To disobey any one him. He preferred to send them of them, even so much as to take to the islands, which Italian a walk beyond the prescribed tourist blurbs proclaim to be boundaries, would mean instant "generally considered amongst punishment or a prolongation of the most beautiful spots in Italy." our sentence.

the Even the flowers which grow Life on 1s. ld, a day, on Lipari are bent. Not for humi-amount allowed to us by the lity or shame at Fascism's black authorities, was not easy. We ate deeds, but because of the dreadful together to economise. sirocco, the mad wind which And we suffered together... - It smites this island day and night made us braver, sometimes.

and autumn, through winter

At other times we hated the making life, already intolerable, proximity of our fellow-sufferers. more terrible than ever.

They showed up our powerless- ness, our humillation.

It was a' long time ago, ton ́ycare ^"precisely. My offence? Does it matter? 1 was guilty of being loyal to a friend. I placed flowers on thơ gravo. of Matteotti, one of the most loved and most noble of men. Oppon- ent- of Fasciam, Mussolini had ordored his death. it was touch and go whether Mussolini him- self would be overthrown by the outery which rose in Italy at this dastardly act.rpm

The cliffs ware high, how- ever. The brave and the coward- ly made thoir exit that way. The rocks, down below were hard, black, and the sea was merciful.

He

like the look of your face. could accuse you of dangerous thoughts. He could, for instance, refuse to let you go to hospital to be treated if ill You were a politico. Less than a dog.

Frequently orders came from Rome to extort confessions from the prisoners. We knew what that meant, and we dread each sum- mons to the police station.

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Confessiona are hard for sane man to fabricate. So they made men insane. It was easy; you do, so many against one. Men came out of that prison screaming with agony; begging. to be shot. The bastinado and. the whip, the whole murderous regalls of dictatorship, threat" ened us every day.

Fortunate

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When electricity was Install- ed on the Liparis 1 was chosen to "officlate"; at the opening. My guarda amused themselves.by making me hold, the ends of two live wires. But I was for- tuns te, 1 fainted too easily.' What good does it do to tell old story? To avenge the It was ordained that our ward-methods of the Empire of Hooli- ers should be sadists. Who else gana is impossible. would take on the Job? If a breach There are victims on the Liparis of regulations did not find them now. To-day. They must be full

Sadists

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I was young, just graduated a victim, they did their best to to overcrowding. If the story of as a barrister-at-law, I knew provoke opposition, retorts or the Lofoten Islands, of the battle Matteotti My gesture had no rebellion amongst us. When none of Cape Matapan, should ever political implication. I was of these provocations worked, they reach their cars, they will take foolish to have shown my affection, played a-gamo called Kids my 'hopdi

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