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"But these Abyssinian huts made of clay and brushwood give the bomber no satisfaction at ali"

Bombing Is Such Fun

OU thought war from the air was horrible, that bombs were Stubbs Rd. deadly things, causing mul-

In this articlo DENIS WEAVER condemns the apostles of the New Civilisation.out of the mouth of ana of their leaders Vittorio, son and disciple of the Italian Duce, Mussolini. "I recommend war, to everybody," says Vittorio. Hore is the kind of war he recommends

Hongkong Telegraph. aerial torpedoes and incen- squadron was ordered to execute Abyssinian campaign.

"The

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930.

ONE ROAD TO PEACE

The news that M. van Zeeland, noted Belgium economist and former Prime Minister, is in London to discuss with Mr. Neville Chamberlain the results of his investigation of world trade ills, and their remedies, is heartening. The Belgian states- man is recognised as one of the authorities of the day in the economic field.

centre and the group opened, up It was like a flowering rose. most entertaining... (p. 48).

indeed. Vit- Entertaining, torio admits a tendency to com. pare this hunting of men with tilation and despair.

But you were overlasty; the fire brigades at home when tents? I can hardly believe my the hunting of beasts.

good fortune. I soar. We are.

"In the evening, between two you hadn't seen the other they were called out (p. 77).

"Perhaps because somebody above them. 1 drop my whole rubbers of bridge, we ventured side. It's all a question of got to know of this weakness of lond. The camp is the biggest 1 various guesses as to where the point of view. To drop mine, a machine of the 14th was ever to see during the whole Abyssinians were hiding. We did not know when that the is effect men and bombardment in the Abi-Abo

excellent. Abyssinian is like an animal and, diary bombs on beasts can be both enter zone exclusively with incendiary Several tents leap skyward. I like an animal, knows how to bombs. I don't think there were can see men and beasts trying hide and to spring out only when taining and exhilarating.

any other reasons.

to escape along the slopes of the he is sure to make an accurate In fact, it's tremendous fun.

We also carried grenades con- hill and, with joy, I see also some hit. But even in that case he is not much to contend with, if only Such, at least, is the opinion taining shrapnel, and as it hap- small white clouds." of Vittorio Mussolini, the Dure's pens these proved very useful. A day later his diary runs: the lion tamer is about" (p. 32). elder son, who at 20 has just About fifty brigands had a taste "The same as yesterday-e¦£

Speaking generally, he writes: "I can't say how many tons of written a book on his experiences of our splinters. It was most disorderly rout of as a war pilot in Abyssinia. entertaining work and had a beasts with our shrapnel right explosive our squadrons drop-

It is called "Voli sulle Ambe" tragic but (Flights over the Amba Moun- (p. 78).. Lains), but unfortunately it is not yet available in English.

There is a thrill in dropping day! (p. 35). "To the young," writes the- youthful author, "this volume hombs. Here is what Vittorio "On the 14th we made another may serve as a handbook for fu- has to say of one of his first bombardment round Makale especially the baggage carries, ture efforts."

flights:

with grenades and incendiary but many others were running Vittorio passed his tests us a "First I release some shrapnel boats. The small incendiary day and night in precipitous then two bombs bombs are satisfactory; at least fight for mile upon mile. pilot in 1934 when he was 18 grenades, years okl. His father signed weighing 60lb, each, then more one can see fire and smoke. We Enormous quantities of explo- the official diploma himself and shrapnel. How high we are! burn the whole region thorough- sives were thrown at them unin- pinned on the pilot's badge with notice with regret that every ly, but there are no people left" terruptedly. dis own hand. A year later time I score a hit, I produce only (p. 39). Vittorio volunteered for service slemler effects. with the Royal Italian Air Force in the Abyssinian war.

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It has long been admitted that the tendency anong the notions to set up tariff barriers is little better than a slow form of self-strangulation, and it was with a view to correcting Vittorio and his younger bro- the trade condition arising from ther Bruno were both enrolled as boys.in.the.Guards Corps of the the tariff war that M. van Zee- Milanese region of "Balilla," or first approached. Bay Blackshirts, and had thus Britain, France, Belgium and all the advantages of a thorough the United States were particu- Fascist education. LTD.arly interested in discussions

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They represent the finest ideals of Italian youth, ander the Mussolini regime.

of an international character which, they hoped, would even- >tually lead to some

It is thus illuminating to read understanding and at least the at first hand the impressions partial destruction

the of one trained in the Fascist of obstacles to frear commercial method when he won his spurs as a bomber. He found it great intercourse.

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Let us follow Vittorio in the Thinking people recognised

air. He had never had the luck the relationship between re- to see a big fire, he says, al re-armament and trade reces- though he had always followed sion. Lack of markets prevents] ---

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men and

on Abbi-Addi. Every effect" in the middle of them. They ped

lon't seem to know which way square yard was bombed. That to run next. But they needn't was a beautiful opportunity for worry, we have finished for to- the air force: thirty thousand

men on such a limited front.

"Many fled in orderly fashion,

"Perhaps I expected to see

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Enough has been quoted to indicate the exhilaration of nit raids-from the air. I recall a

explosions of the American type Obviously Vittorio deplores remark made to me by a young (as in the films) but these the absence of human targets. Italian in the centre of the Co- Abyssinian huts made of clay But not for long.

losscum arena one moon-light I had mention- and brashwood give the bomber "I still remember the effect I night in Rome.

no satisfaction at all (p. 28). produced on a small group of ed that the shattered remains of We are now 3.500 metres up. Gulla tribesmen massed round a the amphitheatre in this dim What are those white dots, laid man in black clothes. I dropped light had a barbarous-and-nav-- out so regularly? Abyssinian an aerial torpedo right in the are look.

These women all found fame

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"We want more of that sav- agery today," replied my friend carnestly. "Young Italy is too soft and the Duce is rightly teaching us to remember the Romans our glorious ances tors."

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Vide Vittorio Mussolini

"War certainly educates and NOWADAYS women have Just as in big ones to show everything in (1937):

big a chance of success as men in connection with winter sports, or nearly every sphere.

cruising, or gardening collected to- ripens, and. I recommend it to Chicago's Candy

Orn gether.

everybody because I believe it to Snyder, started in a kitchen with a

Dodle Smith has become known as be the real duty of every man to cup of sugar and a kettle of water. the playwright who never falls.

Rose Raymond proved such

Six years ago she was a buyer In a take part in at least one war."

I Personally I envy Vittorio. husband gave up his job to be successful business woman that her department of a London store. Now

week to have seen air raids only from partner in her Johannesburg timber

the ground-in Madrid-and my firm. She started out as a city lyplat.

impression differs from his in Dalsty McDuell started as a book-

several respects. keeper in a safely glass company,

£500 a a she has refused

work in Hollywood.

Designer Schiaparelli is counted

the payment of debts, restricts Mars, is made impossible by the

one of the "big five" in Paris. imports, causes depression. fear of non-co-operation, just as a director. Christiana Hartley Writer Dorothy Sayers is a country

I found it less "diverting." I daughter. She found has been chairman of a Liverpool parton's

didn't These conditions give rise, as in disarmament is blocked by the and London, jum firm since her poetry

pay. Her

thrillers was quite unable to derive any nre mostly translated Into six entertainment from the spectacle father's death. Germany and taly, to a desire same cause.

languages. What about Mary Lewis, New

of men and women blown to Dorothy Sprieer learned to fly with for colonial possessions, Colonial

death all statesmen and York's £12,000-a-year business wo-

crushed to pieces or nations arm to protect their diplomats have not given up getting Ideas before other peope? to hold all the.

man who attributes her success to Amy Johnson. Is the only woman

Air Ministry's beneath their ruined homes.. possessions and already over- hope that the world can be ruled then with black sports both aircraft and engines,

She came in first with cotton frocks licences for inspecting and repair of Groaning, wounded civilians fail- ed to exhilarate me to the same face burdened ratepayers

There's a lot you can do it you try.extent. by intelligence rather than by clothes, then with having little shops The

But then I hadn't the advan- steadily growing taxes.

force in politics as in com-

tage of being trained in the re-armament germ breeds quick-

merce. M. van Zeeland is one)

Balilla. ly. As arms pile up so increases of those who remains sane and the danger of their owners, who hopeful. There are many more carry them, tottering into col- like him, though their voices are not always the loudest in lision.

these days, of spell-binding and drum-thumping.

Thus, the American Ambas- sador to Germany comes home to-day to New York, wailing against his impotence to assunge the increasingly bitter national- ism in Europe and the danger nearer the goal of peace-lovers

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A beauty specialist states that Statistics recently prepared Trade treaties are not the women have been known to pay show that seventy pounds of ideal cure for the world's econo-as much as £316 for a new nose.beef were eaten per head during mic ills, but they are a step in We should say that a nose of 1936 in the United Kingdom. It the right direction, just as the this value is not to be sneezed just shows what a large number League of Nations is a little'nt.

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of war which must result. in the political sphore. If, by This seems to be the coldest Nationalism all very well in opening up sources of credit and snap we've ever had this year. Hongkong's hillsides are being denuded of treca. A liberal sup- its place--can be abused. In a the raw products of the world

to those nations, which require? A tourist passing through the iply of birch appears to be in- commercial sense it is time it them we can remove just two Colony this week wore a coat [dicated. was forgotten to a great extent, of the causes of distrust and said to be made from elephant without the progressive nations hatred, we are that much nearer hide. Surely somewhat redun- being forced to sacrifice their to real understanding between dant

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