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May 24, 1940.
Italy entered the World War as an ally of Britain and France 25 years ago to-day. The article below is newsworthy in ́· vie
of her present attitude.
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I can speak with personal knowledge of naval” conditions in the Mediter- ranean because, shortly before the Abyssinian crisis,
Was an official guest first of the French, and then of the Italian, navy.
In the course of my Italian trip I had private interviews with Signor
MILID
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ITALY'S WAR GAMBLE
Mussolini, Count Ciano and Admiral Cavagnari, 'Naval Under-Secretary of State. I visited many naval bases treated and was warships and throughout with courtesy.
As stated, my Interview with Mussolini was private, but as he has declared publicly, before and eluce, that "freedom of the sea" is essentlai to Italy's exlatence, it is no breach of confidence to say now that he im- pressed this point on me during our talk at the Palazzo Venezia,
Friday, May 24, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015 THE preax "Special to the Telegraph Is used by the Hongkong Telegraded to
Italy, he anid in effect, was strategi- indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Kolwcommu- cally is Island, with an extraordin- cations Ordinance, peare the indication Used in arily long and vulnerable coastline. Hongkong on the date of pubicadon by "She cannot live without sca-bome the United Press Associations, who imports, and it is primarily to safe serve all rights and forbid republication, elther wholly or in part without previous guard these that we are building a
powerful navy." What he then pro Arrangemen
ceeded to tell me is still confidential.
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The same thesis was politely but firmly hammered into me by Count
By Hector Bywater
Here are some significant figures:: from North America she, takes an- of cereals, nually 3,000,000 tons cotton, copper, zinc,oil and ils deriva..
Ciano and Admiral Cavagnarl. But attack. Even Rome itself lies with- tives; from South America 2,000,000 the facts speak for themselves too in reach.of long-range naval guns, tons of cereals, coffee, sugar, wool. be completely and frozen meat, and from Northern. loudly to tempt me to break my vow Thirdly, Italy could of silence to these three gentlemen, blockaded in her inland sch, the Europe 12,000,000 tems of iron and all of whom, I must repeat, were Mediterranean, by the closing of the cool. All but a fraction of these im- Gibraltar Straits in the west and the porta come via the Gibraltar Straits. extremely courteous.
Gulf of Suez in the cast, both com- Here are some of the facts that will
13. she would be cut off from her
Wheat and oil in millions of tens probably make Holy's leaders pause paratively simple equipment. Fourth- ere they plunge their lovely land new empire in Ethiopia. Fifthly, and into war with Biltain and France. most important of all, she would be reach her from the Black Sea, which First, the combined naval forces deprived of most of the 25 million. means that they must pad through which these two Powera are able to tons of goods she imports every year. the Dardanelles that Turkey could. deploy in the Mediterranean would be superior, to those of Italy,
on French though I heard disparaging (but quite undeserved) "comments naval prowess while I was in Rome, A very wholesome respect for the British fleet was expressed,
and
UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF
con-
From India.. close at any moment Australia and the Far East she imports. 1,300,000 tons of cereais, fats, Jute, These imports, of which 88 per- cotton, wool and tin, which can reach
sen, are absolutely her only through the Suez Canal. cent, come by essential to her even in time of
No rhetoric can obscure these in- peace. In war they would have to be Secondly, no part of the Itallen enormously increased, and if the sea- exorable facts for long. They
were eliminated stitute an unanswerable argument safe from aero-naval bome percentage peninsula is
as in all humani probability it would against Italy's going to war with the be, her power of holding out would Allied Powers. be limited not to years but to months.
It is not unnecessary to tabulate the Despite her fine fleet and her naval combined, strength of the Anglo- bases in the Dodecanese, Libya and French Navies available for imme Pantelleria, she could not possibly diate, service, in the Mediterranean retain even partial control of her and compare them with Die Italian. that she โ Mediterranean life-line. She might Navy, Suffice it to or might not take Malta, but even if would be heavily outnumbered an she did it would avail her nothing battleships, cruisers and destroyers,
and matched la submarine tonnage...
possess Only by destroying or immobilis- In aircraft, she might
that would, ing Anglo-French sea power in the initial advantage, but
Germany could not. Mediterranean could she escaps soon disappear. DEATH OF FUEHREN'S GREAT-NIECE J.B. Firth economic strangulation, and does any help her at all except, perhaps. by sane Italian believe this to be dispatching submarines in sections:
overland or through the dangerous Gibraltar defile.
HITLER'S PAST
-OTTO_STRASSER'S REVELATIONS
SOME day-and
that
ABOUT
By
of a
his word
an..
Another sore handicap is that the standard of living amongst the bulk I write in no unfriendly spirit. But
Italy's frugal, hard-working the best service that British writers. If this person, who is and has been of
it could scarcely be lowered further. form is to remind her of the appall
incur it sho enemy of Hitler, had not been a man
In other words, Italy cannot tighten ing dangers she will for years a dedared and implacable populace is already co modest that who know and admire Italy can per of standing and repute,
ment of Hitler's megalomania. would go for itle. But Otto Stras-her belt to meet the exigencies of allows herself to become an instru It secret following in Germany. He ser, though living in exile, has a large was a Hitlerite for some years but always with deep misgivings as the megalomania of his leader.
war.
throughout the far-flung British commonwealth of nations with no Jesa fervent
of expressions loyalty to the King than hereto fore. Empire Day and all that it stands for means more to us, especially in Hongkong, than per
before the in a fit of mad fury, and brings for-possible? haps ever before,
Great Assize-there may well be ward circumstantial evidence The greatest bulwark of demo- another inquiry into the death of a startling character. cracy, freedom and civilisation young-Austrian girl who was found faces the ruthless threat of a dead in mysterious circumstances in maniacal demagogue, whose lust the house of her great-uncle at for power, as Mr. Duff Cooper Munich in 1931.
was Angela Raubat. rightly pointed out, knows no Her name bounds. Therefore, Empire Day They called her Gely. Austrian by this year implies much more than birth, she was pretty, attractive and a holiday and the opportunity to gay, and possessed her full share of pay tribute to the memory of the the charm and vivacity of her coun- trywomen. Such at least were her greatest Queen of all time. It is outstanding qualities when she went an occasion for re-dedicating to live, about 1920, with her Uncle ourselves to the tremendous and grave task of crushing, once and Adolf Hitler-not then, of course, (National-Socialist and for all, the scourge of Natiom the Fuehrer of the Reich, scarcely which aims to overthrow, not only even Thane of Cawdor-was already Europe's hard-won democracy, but fully conscious of his coming destiny, the entire civilisation of the and already furiously impatient of world, and notably of the British all who crossed his path or withstood
his slightest wish. Empire.
Adolf.
CHARGE QUASHED
to which, right or not, at any rate fits fact that I gave her Christian burial, you will be able to draw the precise in with imown facts.
conclusions which I am forbidden to- communicate to you direct"
He says that when he was living Hitler sent him to Berlin to rally
If this astonishing story is true, of attention fiction once more limpa lamely be the party there after the Munich in Munich in 1928 he paid the attrac Putsch and he met with great success. tive Gely a good deal
an intellectual, a fervent ("Je lui faisais la cour; elle n'etalt ni hind fack. But is it true? Readers. He was
an ardent prude ni beguele") and took her out
too. admittedly, is Hitler's mortal cothusiast for the Socialist side of to dances and masked balls. Une must judge for themselves. Strasser,. A brother Gregor burst into his the programme which Hitler progres- day as he was dressing for a dance admitted
room, saying, "Adolf does not wont avenge
damned. As he sively abandoned.
with Gely." to you
out
STRASSER AND GELY
-his
There was no .need to ask hier
murdered brother a and wishes him dead and.
On the other hand he is a...
to..
But is the charge
has fought with clean weapons. against foul. He often engaged in lively alter-spoke, the telephone bell rang and non of character and repute, who itscit credible The Empire to-day is facing a
Gely was found one day shot dead. cations with Hitler on the latter's Hitler shouted into the instrument: Strasser, whose intimacy with that little hussy Gely, I won't Gregor critical-hour, but as-in-1018, the The finding of the court was suicide, lust for power and his brother, "I hear that you have an appointment Empire standa rock-like in its but to many it did not-eeem-al-Hitler was much closer than his have her going out with a married against Hitler apart from the credi
together satisfactory. Young women
against a paranolae. Nothing can bo determination to
ruled out as incredible or impossible. Yesterday the seeking death rarely, if ever, shoot own, frequently intervened to restore man.-I-won't-stand your fitby Ber- bility of the person who makes r forces of evil. Yesterday we themselves. Nor do they play with Peace between them. But if any twolin ways in Munich." So there was! As to that any charge-li credible ·
men had opportunities to show Hitler no party and dance that night. heard the news of yet another frearms,
Next day Gely came to see Stras-He admits no moral code. To him t loaded or unloaded.
as he really was from 1923 to 1931
else in the wide world.. who are women contingent of Canadian troops Attractive young
ser, her eyes red with tears and her- to no one it was the two Strassers.
nihil vetitum. He is like the Roman the victims arriving in the Motherland. Aus- found shot are usually
Emperor who, as a boy, said to his. Gregor was murdered, shot in an self almost in a state of collapse. tralia is still pouring more and not of accident but of crime, due to
"He had locked me up," she cried. mother, "Remember that all things: underground cellar during the party more men into the theatres of jealousy, rage or passion.
"purge of June 30, 1934, Otto was "He locks me up every time I say are allowed to me against all men." war on behalf of the Empire.
persistently shadowed and hunted by No"
ONE FORM OF ECOTISM New Zealand is making a wonder-
and even on French soll and
A man who could ruthlessly blot. Was this girl's death suicide or-It the gangsters of the Gestapo on Aus- ful effort with men, materials and
People trian money, and India' 1B
forgetting is an ugly word--murder?
With anger, disgust, horror, she out some of his oldest friends in a peroxysm of terror lest they should. her civil strife in this great in Munich wondered and passed on, i had many escapes which he describes many questions.
Munich to the Moi," published recently by the Paris told me of the strange proposals in moment when her sympathette It was decidedly dangerous, even in in an astonishing book, "Hitler et
casily in a fit of thwarted fury, shoot. with which her uncle pursued herbe plotting his overthrow might. 1931, to gossip
down a woman who denied his evil. assistanco is most needed.
prejudice of Adolf Hitler. Besides, house of Bernard Gasset. The Empire is more united than had he not seemed broken-hearted Otto Strasser, in fact, is the leader the story, continues. over, a fact which gives this that such an accident should have of the anil-Hiller National-Socialsts, "I was quite aware of the impossi-will. A paranolac may feel even Empire Day a now and more happened to a close relative living in
to outrageous demands to which Mile-nights and talk, without meaning it,.
over. significant meaning. It is also a his house under his protection? True, and if Hitler and his gang disappear- bilities of Adolf. I had heard of the acute remorse for three days and warning; a warning to Hitler and be has the faculty at will to start the ed to-morrow he would aspire
militarists, the Junkers and the big submitted. I had not credited them, from his mind for
I thought Mile--was hysterical and It may be objected that Hitler has his masses of fanatical adhorchts tears coursing down his face, but it power opposition to Goering, the (an earlier name of Hitler's) had of sufelde, and then put it firmly
industriallets.
lied at random. But Gely, who wan that the British commonwealth of genuine sorrow it was here,
affairs, and that, as Professor, Ro-- -nations-will-never--concede-to-
It la no obscure and irresponsible completely ignorant of this other over had any amorist adventures or them the right and love for douto- Still, there was ugly talk, and the person, therefore, who now declares adventure of her uncle's confirmed berta wrote in The House
Procurator-General actually entered that Hitler shot his great-niece Gely point by point what the imagination Hitler Buil" "he is too immersed cratie liberty. To-day there is a a charge against Hitler. It was not in 1931. He adduces, in corrobora of a sane man can hardly believe," in himself to be anything but aloof union in arms and spiritas for heard, because the Bavarian Minister ton, what another brother, Paul, teld future purposes of peace-of all of Justice, one Guertner, quashed him at their last interview in the the Empire,
Curious that it was this same Guert spring of 1933. ner who had pressed. for the release
A.R. PHITNESS
over there was an
Décasion for
It.
that
Such la Strusser's story. Hu break to women. His sexlessons is the with litier followed soon after, measure of his own colocal egotism, When he heard of Gely's tragic and he positively enjoys strengthen- his mind naturally Ing the rayth of his difference from
·disregard for of Hitler before he had completed Paul, whole a Benedictine, monk, death in 1031
fill women." his sentence for his share in the revealed to him that his brother travelled back to the earlier and un- other men by his
If he were not a paranotoc that.... Putsch of 1952, and the same Guest-Gregor had tonded to him, under forgettable incident. It was not
last Paul's story. It was not till might well aland as true, But the ner who had saved him from sentence pledge of secrecy, that after Gely's four years after that that he heard
Bavaria, which death he had spent three days and November, after he had revealed part story told by Strasser obviously re- of expulsion from Hitler dreaded even more than Im- nights with Adolf Hitler dissuading of the story in a French newspaper, intes to ho ordinary "adventure." of Richmond; prisonment. Perhaps it is not so him from turning against Surrey, are to be taught folk dancing curious that Gueriner was allerwards the revolver with which he had.com-that, he received the following mes- The background: is black with ab-... to keep them on tip-too for their prornoted Minister of Justice of the mitted the deed. Gregor had told
Reich, NY
him nothing of the circumstances of
fact.
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"It is I who buried Angels Haubal, penetrate. But credible or incredi Who is it who now recalls these the crime and nothing of its cause the little Cely of whom Otto Hirasser ble? Neither, more credible, I should apenka. They pretend that the cam-say, nor more incredible; then a hun- byzones, it may be MARUI is one who lived in clown association with But it so happened that Otto: was milled suicide.wout over Have dred other monstrasse meie og ikillar **"But "T"am hoping that both the Jiller at that time, Hoopenly himself able to supply of his own permitted the interment of a suicide monstrous carter of egels and lust. men and the women will join in. charges him with having shot Gely personal knowledge an explanation In consecrated ground. From the for personal domination and power.
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