THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Saturday, January 8, 1937.
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"But these Abyssinian huts made of clay and brushwood give the bomber no satisfaction at all"
Bombing Is Such Fun
OU thought war from
the air was horrible,
that bombs were
Stubbs Rd. deadly things, causing mu-
tilation and despair.
In this articlo DENIS WEAVER condemns the apostics of the New Civilisation out of the mouth of one of their loaders Vittorio, son and disciple of the Italian Duca, Mussolini.
War "I recommend to overybody," says Vittorio. Here is the kind of war he recommends
Hongkong Telegraph. aerial torpedoes and incen squadron was ordered to execute Abyssinian campaign.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1938,
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 ls, and their remedies, is heartening. The Belgian states- man is recognised as one of the authorities of the day in the economic lield.
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centre and the group opened uy like a flowering rosa. It was most entertaining...(p. 48).
Entertaining, indeed. Vit torio admits a tendency to com- pare this hunting of men with But you were overhasty; 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 I drop my whole rubbers of bridge, we ventured you hadn't seen the other they were called out (p. 77).
• "Perhaps because somebody above them. side. It's all a question of got to know of this weakness of load. 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 sue during the whole Abyssinians were hiding.
did not know when that the "The effect iN excellent. Abyssinian is like an animal and, diary bombs on men and a bombardment in the Abi-Abo 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 grenndes con- till 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 Duce's pens these proved very useful. A day later his diary runs: the lion tamer is about" (p. 32). Speaking generally, he writes: elder son, who at 20 has just About fifty brigands had a taste The sume As yesterday-a
and "I can't say how many tons of written a book on his experiences of our splinters. It was most disorderly rout of men
entertaining work and had a beasts with our shrapnel right explosive our squadrons drop- on Abbi-Addi. Every as a war pilot in Abyssinin.
They ped but beautiful effect" in the middle of them.
don't seem to know which way square yard was bombed. That 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. There is a thrill in dropping day" (p. 35).
"Many fed in orderly fashion. "On the 14th we made another bombs. Here is what Vittorio
round Makale especially the baggage carries. has to say of one of his first bombardment flights:
with grenades and incendiary but many others were running "First I release some shrapnel bombs. The small incendiary day and night in precipitous for mile upon mile. then two bombs bombs are satisfactory: at least flight
Enormous quantities of explo- weighing 60. each, then more one can see fire and smoke. shrapnel, How high we are! I buru the whole regian thorough gives were thrown at them unin- notice with regret that every ly, but there are no people left" terruptedly. time I score a hit, I produce.only (5. 39). slender effects.
It is called "Voli sulle Ambe" · tragic (Flights over the Amba Moun (p. 78). tains), but unfortunately, it is not yet available in English. "To the young," writes the youthful author, "this volume may serve as a handbook for fu- ture efforts."
Vittorio passed his tests as a
1934 when he was 18 grenades, pilot in years old. His father signed the official diploma himself and pinned on the pilot's badge with his own hand. A year later Vittorio volunteered for service with the Royal Italian Air Force in the Abyssinian war.
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Enough has been quoted to indicate the exhilaration of air raids-from the air. I recall a
It has long been admitted that the tendency among the motions to set up tariff barriers
explosions of the American type Obviously Vittorio deplores remark made to me by a young is little better than a slow form
(as in the films) but these the absence of human targets. Italian in the centre of the Co- losseum arena one moon-light it self-strangulation, and
Abyssinian huts made of clay But not for long.
I had mention- Vittorio and his younger bro- and brushwood give the bomber "I still remember the effect 1 night in Rome. was with a view to correcting
no satisfaction at all (p. 28). produced on a small group of ed that the shattered remains of the trade condition arising from ther Bruno were both enrolled as
-boys-in-the-Guards-Corps of the We are now 3,500 metres up. Galla tribesmen massed round a the amphitheatre in this dim the tariff war that M. van Zee Milanese region of "Balilla," or What are those white dots, laid man in black clothes. I dropped light-had-a-barbarous and яnv.
Abyssinian an aerial torpedo right in the age look. approached. Boy Blatkshirts, and had thus out so regularly? first laand 138 Britain, France, Belgium and all the advantages of a thorough the United States were particu-Fascist education. Balilla mem- bers are often described as
finest
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They represent the international character which, they hoped, would even-ideals of Italian youth, Ander
the Mussolini regime. tually lead to some understanding and at least the
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the obstacles to freer commercial
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It is thus illuminating to read at first hand the impressions of one trained in the Fascist method when he won his spurs as a bomber. He found it great
fun.
Let us follow Vittorio in the air. He had never had the luck to a big fire, he says, al
These women all
found fame
"We want more of that say- jagery today." replied my friend earnestly. "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 big a chance of success as men in connection with winter sports, or NOWADAYS women have just as in big ones to show everything in (1937): nearly every sphere.
cruising, or burdening collected to- ripens, and I recommend it to Candy Queen, Om gether.
everybody because I believe it to Chicago's
Dodle Smith has become known as be the real duty of every man to Snyder, started in a kitchen with u
the playwright who never fails. cup of sugar and a kettle of water.
Raymond proved such a six years ago she was a buyer in a take part in at least one war."
be she has refused £500 a week to husband gave up his job to
Separents and she was a buyer fo partner in her Johannesburg timber work in tollywood.
Thinking people recognised the relationship between re-armament and trade reces- though he had always followed successful busines woman that her sion. Lack of markets prevents
one of the "big five" in Paris.
She daughter.
Arm. She started out as a city typist. Designer Schiaparelli is counted
Dalsty McDuell started as a book- keeper in a safety glass company, is not a director. Christina Hartley Writer Dorothy Sayers is a country has been chairman of a Liverpool parson's didn't and London jam firm since her poetry mostly translated into.
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Lewis,
New languages.
Her pay.
six!
Personally I envy Vittorio. I have seen air raids only from the ground-in Madrid-and my impression differs from his in several respects.
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I found it less "diverting." I found thrillers was quite unable to derive any entertainment from the spectacle father's death:
of men and women blown to What about Mary
crushed to Dorothy Sprieer leaned to fly with pieces or
death But all statesmen und York's £12,000-a-year business wo-
man who attributes her success to Amy Johnson. Is the only woman
hold all the Air Ministry's beneath their ruined homes. diplomats have not given up getting ideas before other peope?
ed to exhilarate me to the same She came in first with cotton tracks licences for inspecting and repair of Grouning, wounded civilians fail-
There's a lot you can do if you try.extent.
But then I hadn't the advan- in the tage of being trained Balla.
to
the payment of debts, restricts Mars, is made impossible by the] imports, causes depression. fear of non-co-operation, just as These conditions give rise, as in disarmament is blocked by the Germany and taly, to a desire same cause. for colonial possessions. Colonial nations arm to protect their possessions and already over-hope that the world can be ruled In 1020, then with black sports both aircraft und engines.
face ratepayers burdened
The steadily growing taxes. re-armament germ breeds quick- ly. As arms pile up so increases the danger of their owners, who carry them, toltering into col- lision,
by intelligence rather than by clothes, then with having little shops force-in politics us in com-
merce.
M. van Zeeland is one of those who remains sane and hopeful. There are many more like him, though their voices aro not always the loudest in these days of spell-binding and drum-thumping.
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From the Office Butts
A beauty specialist states that Statistics recently prepared
of people have a steak in the country.
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Thus, the American Ambas- sador to Germany comes home
Trade treaties are not the women have been known to pay show that seventy pounds of to-day to New York, wailing ideal cure for the world's econo-na milch as £316 for a new nose. beef were caten per head during against his impotence to assuage | mic ills, but they are a step in We should say that a nose of 1936 in the United Kingdom. It the increasingly bitter national- 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 at ism in Europe and the danger nearer the goal of peace-lovers!
This seems to be the coldest of 14779" which must result. in the political sphere. If, by Nationaliam all very well in opening up sources of credit and, snap we've ever had this year. the raw products of the world;
A tourist passing through the ply of birch appears to be in- its place-can be abused. In a
to those nations which require commercial sense it is time it them we can remove just two Colony this week wore a contdicated. 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-
to real' understanding betweendant, being forced to sacrifice their nations. Reason tells us that
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