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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1838.

AVOIDING SUSPICION

any

It must be apparent to observer that United States is doing its utmost, oficially and the prevent unofficially, to rivalry of the world's naval powers from carrying them into an armament race. On top of

M

Why

THE WORLD'S

THE LION'S SHARE

TROUBLES

Mussolini won't

to war

go

USSOLINI tells the world once more. "Italy and her people want peace. I want peace." We must accept these assurances. They are based upon realities. Mussolini is in no position to make war.

I estimate that standing military Italian strength is rather Mussolini claims that he can call al- more than 1,000,000 men. together 8,000,000 bayonets into the field. This figure seems high for Italy's total population of 43,000,000.

Now Mussolini's armies are divided into four parts. He has 100,000 men. in garrison in Abyssinia. Another 60,000 are sta- tioned in Libya. His Spanish expeditionary force is reckoned to be between 60,000 and 80,000 men.

the spirited denials of high IF Mussolini

naval

----

By FRANK OWEN

At that time Britain's unemployed numbered 2,000,000 out of an indus- trial population of 12,000,000. The an industrial population of 3,500,000. alian unemployed were drawn from The dele rate varies from Ds. to 10s. per week for agricultural and indus- triai unemployed.

Mussolini has made vigorous efforts £500,000,000 bas In twelve years

I cannot say that to provide work on public schemes. been expended. the work has been very productive.

The cost has worried successive All of them require replacements, and are served by supply Finance Ministers. In five years the Italian State Budget has piled up a total deficit of £270,000,000. Yet and service corps. The rest of his troops are retained in Italy.

intended stroyers the Italians have an ap- many items which should stand in war he would not be proximate equality of strength the national account have been trans- |naval-officers-at-Washington.

scattering his forces over-a-with the French, but the Bri- ferred to the ledgers of the muni on the paties. The internal debt of Italy have at sea and

now stands at £1,000,000,000. that America has any secret front that stretched from Mad- tish

Mussolini The gold chest that naval alliance or is in any way rid to Addis Ababa, a distance stocks 200.

in built up laboriously for ten years Is committed to help with any of about 5,000 miles. These are The French have superiority

before the other nation's war, whether de- not the dispositions of a man submarines of something like 100 to getting low. It contained £80,000,-

to engage in a major 70. The British submarine strength 000 In August 1935,

Abyssinian war. Before Christmas, fensive or not, the best-informed about

Is below that of the Italians.

the monthly account of its condition newspapers of the day are ad. struggle.

Should Italy and any ally of hers was no longer published. dressing Japan în placatory Nor would Italian

go to war with Britain and her ally

The statutory limit of advances by terms. Editorially they urge strength permit him to, supply, and this ally in present conditions that Tokyo listen to the request reinforce and succour his forces must almost certainly be the French the Bank of Italy to the Italian Gov- then the harbours and foreshores ernment has been raised by deeree of Britain, France and the over such a wide-flung area.

of that country would be opened up from $50,000,00 ire to 1,000,000,000

lire. The gold cover issues has been abolished, United States for information The Italians have four capital for the use of the British Navy. regarding the Japanese battle-ships (with two more building) ship programme. They stress against the French seven (with Tunis, Bizerta

two building). The British have in a chain of harbour-fortresses thot from the point that the question is fifteen capital ships (with five included Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, and Abyssini That

£150,000,000. fair; and so it is. When a building). The Italian have Cyprus. nation commences building ships seven heavy cruisers, the French

Against this overwhelming strength The total trade of the country is and guns in secret she is bound seven, the British have fifteen. of hostile sea bases, the more posts at present worth £2,000,000 per that Mussolini added to his own com- annum. The Duce is raising by capi- suspicion. There The Italian have ten light inund, such as Majorca or Spanish tal levy of 10 per cent, about £70,- must be some motive, her neigh-cruisers, the French have thirty- Malaga and Melilla, the mose los-000,000 to pay for this.

tages he would give to his enemy, for bours argue; and set themselves seven, the British have forty he would have more points to defend to meet any possible emergency. (with sixteen building). In de- with his slender resources, Of course, it has not yet been proved that Japan is contemplat-

to

arouse

Marseilles and Toulon, in France. and Algiers, on the African Blitoral, would be the links

for Treasury

SEE now that Mussolini is sald to be seeking a loan Great Britain to develop nnnexation cost

The wealth per head of the Italian people is just one third of that of Great Britain. Yet the adverse trade

THE "VERY IDEA"

THE WAR AS SHE IS WROTE

DISTINGUISHED WAR CORRESPONDENT AT THE BOTTLE LINE

By Edward "Scoop" Kelly

W

VE are now at the South China front, surround- ed by Japanese who are in the throes of an invasion. No one knows how far they will throw it.

Major Domei and Admiral Nichi Nichi are leading the land- ing parties. They are opposed by General Wah Kiu Yat-po and General Sen Tralnus,

Riots have broken out in the do- fending ranks and several Reuters have been killed.

There was heavy firing at Ping Pang this morning, and a boom has been placed across the Sen Sen. The boom is quite audible in Mah Joug

Reporta that

Kwangtung has been Invaded are denied.

Three beautiful young Chinese #iris

named Yu Hag. Ants Pants, and Kow Face ore leading a band of amazon guerilins. The guerilla, it will be recalled, is the ancestor of man.

B. SHARP ENCOUNTER

A Japanese landing party hastily evacuated Kwanglung when a Chin- ese band approached from the cast. Anyone who has heard a Chinese band will realise the significance of this retreat.

Bombs were dropped on a party of journalists travelling from Sum Bull to Wat Muk. The bombs' were severely injured.

The Chinese front at Tum Hee has a distinct bulge. General Gaw Bile will be shot for deserting his Corp.

court martial found him rotten to the corps.

General Mainichi is confident that an invasion of Kwangtwig has taken place.

A large force of Japanese troops are stationed at Fermione. awaiting. a favourable moment to launch the

Kwangtung invasion.

OVER THE FENCE

A report from Gin Sling states; that two tom-cats were killed during a noisy battle.

An

Invasion of - Kwangtang commenced this morning. Air raid sirens are shrieking at Sam Pan. The sirens, who are be lieved to be beautiful sples In Japanese pay, are presumably shriek

The Japanese who

landed in ing for their first month's salary.

G a.m., withdrew at Kwangtung at 7.30 after a four-hour battle.

been cruiser has A Chinese lucked up at Stan Lee. She was convicted of cruising along the Na Than roadway.

London newspapers are publishing of outrages on junks. They are also publishing a lot of junk on outrages.

There is no possibility of Kwang- tung being invaded until 6.45 p.m. on Friday.

Some uneasiness is being felt at Gum Boll regarding reports of a Kwangtung invasion.

STOP PRESS-A major offensive night well under way, last Both sides are at grips.

FLASH-Previous message should read: "An offensive major was weli under way at the Gripps last night.

LATE NEWS-An Invasion of Kwongtung is imminent.

ranean, even if they wished to make frouble.

True they might make a diversion in Northern Europe, but the prob- abilities are that the Italians would be crushed in the south long before the German attack engaged the com- plete attention of the countries con- verned.

A broken femember this, too. ND very slender are Musso- balance of this hard-working but Alini's resources.

Italy would leave a vacuum in the still impoverished country Italy is n £50,000,000.

Mediterranean.

is over

ing battleships of a tonnage fortified bases against which poor country, and all the genuine greater than the present London they are a potential threat.

creative effort which the Faselst re- Indeed, it is only the simple, suber Treaty allows, much less that It seems a far-fetched sug-time has called forth has not over- habits of the Italian people them-

come her poverty.

selves which keep the country going. she has them actually under congestion that Japan many be

Their devotion to the family life, The soll struction, as some quarters sug-building ships with any idea of

of this beautiful and, their kindly help of friends

and except in the north is miserly in crop neighbours In cest. If it is impossible for her ultimately engaging Britain or yield and mineral wealth. Italy im- bravery in a life of hardship, their distress, their guy to say she does not intend to America in a struggle for naval ports 09 per cent, of her cotton, cop- honest determination to repay debt; build such craft, she might at supremacy in the Pacific. It is per and oil, 95 per cent. of her coul. these are the great moral factors that Henst indicate whether or not

sustain Mussolini's Italy, the natural conclusion, then,80 per cent. of her wool. they are on the stocks. A ne that Tokyo's fears, if any, are ifer colonies. Libya, Eritrea, This is not the picture of'n country gative answer to the powers of a Russian menace. Bearing Somaliland (total population 2,300- able to fight a great war against greet Power with any hope of victory. notes in this connection would in mind the fact that it takes 00) bring her little profit. clear the air.

perhaps two years to commis- They bulk large on the map. But Mussolini destres peace because he

desperately requires peace. No-one is going to deny Japan |sion a capital ship for activo na Mussolini himself said bitterly on

But though he does not want war, the right to arm to meet any service, it may be that the possi- the eve of his Abyssinian conquest,

they are mostly scrub and desert.

Mussolini Is ready to play to the possible threat to her commerce, ble building of super-battleships

The Italian standard of life in al limit the game of threatening it. Ife for instance, and if Tokyo he is undertaken with a view to

constantly brings forward the bogey rendy the lowest In Europe. It is of the Itome-Derin Axis. lioves that Russia's efforts to forestalling a Soviet challenge lower than that of Poland or even of create a strong submarine fleet in this category. On the other Spain. The Hallan worker' general

I presents to the world the ter Pacific tin

the

of an Italo-German directed hand

no peace-loving nation wage rate, is to-day 10 per cent, Jess rifying aspect

combination, emphasising his soll- against her she is surely justi. Jamong the democracles can bothan before the March on Home,

was on June 22, 1920, that darity with Titler, ever by making fied in constructing defensive quite at case while all the alg- Mussolini himself said in the Italian deraands for colonies on Hitler's bes weapons. But 40,000-ton ships natories of the anti-Comintern Senate. "There are places in Sardinia hait, are not the thing for fighting Pact are rushing armaments on and South Italy where for months submarines, nor are they ideal land and sea. World conditions the inhabitants have hud to live on wikt plants." That was before the convoy work. Rather are simply do not allow it. The world slump. they weapons of attack, built to appeal of Britain, France and heavily as any other country. smash other capital ships or to United States for reassurance in this bombard shore positions at long should be understood

for

range.

fre

An such they would light in Tokyo, It would be too

SHANGHAI'S SOCIAL CENTRE create a certain amount of doubt bad if their request for informa- in the minds of peoples owning tion was interpreted as being in powerful-floots and strongly- any way threatening.

2APH

IL

That political space might well be

bent Biled

Germany,

upon by

Europe. south-eastern dominating Indeed, the Germans might hasten this day by making their diversion not in favour of Italy but against her, If European confllet should seem Imminent.

The Germans would wish to ar- sume control and authority in reln- tion to Austria, thus realising Hitler's dream of a Teutonic racial bloe with the country of his birth.

оп

of

Then they would also be tempted to claim back the Southern Tyrol now under the Italian fing, but lorn from Germany after the war and still containing a predominantly Ger man population.

And, lastly, Germany, Intent

the Mediterranean. pushing Into

the restoration would require Flume to Austria.

So that if Italy went to war she might be bidding fale to play the role in the twentieth century that fell to Poland in the eighteenth century. namely, to be the vletim of partition between THE truth in that the Rome-

the nations of Central THE

Berlin Axis is already bad-

Europe. which hit Italy na y creaking. It did not support the

Mussolini said to the Dally Express pressure of the Franco-British naval recently, "I am, not

* droma- pact to sweep the Mediterranean

tist. I am a realist.” Of course, he in both. He understands the great TN 1933 the official Fascist clear of pirates. The reality of I

figures set Italian unemploy. European politics is that Hitler will drama of our times. He lives it.

Mussolini does not propose 10 Reilet, however, claimed to be giving day,

figure as the principal in a tragedy. The Germans have neither military

Ito Is a Man of Pence because he dare · ment at 1,000,000. The Fascist Party not go to war to make a Roman holl soup, bread, shelter, to 2.328,924 "needy persons."

not be a Man of War. nor naval strength in the Mediter