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In the course of my Italian trip I had private interviews with

FROM NORTH AND SOUTH. AMERICA

HAYAL BASES BRITISH-- FRENCH--| ITALY

GAETA

SARDINIA NAPLESTM

PALERMO

MALTA

ALEXANDRIA

BENGRAZI

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FROM FAREAST

ITALY'S WAR GAMBLE

Mussolini, Count Clano and Admiral Cavagnari, Naval Under-Secretary of State. I visited many naval bases WRS treated and warships and throughout with courtesy.

As

stated," my interview with Mussolini was private, but as he has declared publicly, before and since, that "freedom of the sca" is essential no breach to Italy's existence, it is of confidence in say now that he im- pressed this point on me during our talk at the Palazzo Venezia.

By Hector Bywater

Here are some significant figurer: from North America sho takes an- qually 3,000,000 tons of cereals. colton, copper, zinë,oll and its deriva- Ciano and Admiral Cavagnari. But attack. Even Rome itself lies with- tives; from South America 2,000,000. tons of cereals, coffee, sugar, wool the facts speak for themselves to in reach of long-range naval guns. loudly to tempt me to break my vow Thirdly, Italy could be completely and frozen meat, and from Northern the Europe 12,000,000 tons of iron and. of silence to these three gentlemen, blockaded in her inland sea.

All but a fraction of these im- all of whom, I must repent, were Mediterranean, by the closing of the coal. extremely courteous.--

Gibraltar Straits in the west and the ports come via the Gibraltar Straits.. Gulf of Suez in the cast, both Here are some of the facts that will puratively simple equipment Fourth- probably make italy's leaders pause ly, she would be cut off from her. ere they plunge their lovely land new empire in Ethiopia, Fifthly, and Wheat and oil in millions of tons into war with Britain and France, most important of all, she would be reach her from the Black Sea, which First, the combined hav forces deprived of most of the 20 million means that they must pass through Italy, he said in effect, was strategi- which these two Fowers are able under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cally an island, with an extraordin- deploy lu the Mediterranean would tons of goods she imports every year the Dardanelles that Turkey could cations Ordinance, 1936. Bach Barily long and vulnerable coastline.

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for the ceat, come by, co, are absolutely her only through the Suez Cana).. arrangemen

powerful navy." What he then pro a very wholesome respect

essential to her even in time of ceeded to tell me is still confidential, British fleet was expressed.

No rhetoric can obscure thèse'in-·· peace. In war they would have to be

con-- Secondly, no part of the Italian enormously increased, and if the sea- exorable facts for long. They

climinated stilute an unanswerable argument peninsula is safe from aero-naval borne percentage were

as in all human probability it would against Italy's going to war with the be, her power of holding out would Allled Powers.

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of Italy.

and

close at any moment From India, Australia and the Far East she imports> 1,300,000 tons of cereals, fats, Jute,.

be limited not to years but to months." is unnecessary to

UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF Despite her fare feet and hee naval combined, strength of the Anglo-

HITLER'S PAST

OTTO STRASSER'S

REVELATIONS

ABOUT

By

banca in the Dodecanese, Libyn and French Navies available for Pantellaria, she could not possibly diate service in the. Mediterranean. retnin even partial control of her and compare them with the Italian she Mediterranean life-line. She might would be heavily outnumbered in

Suffice it to say that jor might not take Malta, but even if

destroyers, she did it would.svall her, nothing. battleships, cruisers and

and matched in submarine tonnage.

might possess Only by destroying or immobilis- In aircraft she ing Anglo-French sea power in the initial advantage, but that would escape soon disappear. Germany could not

nn-

DEATH OF FUEHRER'S GREAT-NIECE J.B. Firth Mediterranean could she

economie strangulation, and does nny-help her at all except perhaps by

Her name

before the in a fit of mad fury, and brings for-possible? COME day and that

of a 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-unele at for power, as Mr. Duff Cooper Munich in 1931. rightly pointed out, knows no bounds. Therefore, Empire Day this year implies much more than a holiday and the opportunity to pay tribute to the memory of the greatest Queen of all time. It is เช occasion for re-dedicating ourselves to the tremendous and grave task of crushing, once and for all, the scourge of Nazism which aims to overthrow, not only Europe's hard-won democracy, but the entire civilisation of the world, and notably of the British Empire.

ari

ment of Hitler's megalomania,

sane Itailan believe this to be dispatching submarines in sections.

overland or through the dangerous Gibraltar defile. Another sere 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 for years a declared and implacable populace is already so modest that who imow and admire Italy can cr enemy of Hitler, had not been a man could scarcely be lowered further. form is to remind her of the appall

In other words, Italy cannot tighten ing dangers she will incur if she his repute,

word of standing and was Angela Raubal, would go for little. But Otto Stras-her belt to meet the exigencies of allows herself to become an instru

ser, the

though living in exile, has a large war, They called her Gely. Austrian by if secret following in Germany. He birth, site was pretty, attractive and was a Hitlerle for some years bulj

to which, right or not, at any rate fits[fact that I gave her Christian burial, gay, and possessed her full share of always with deep misgivings as

In with known facts.

you will be able to draw the precise- the charm and vivacity of her coun- the megalomania of his leader.

conclusions which I am forbidden to trywomen. Such at least were her

Hitler sent-him to Berlin to rally He says that when he was living communicate to you direct,” outstanding qualities when she went

the Munich in Munich in 1028-he paid the attrac-:

If this astonishing story is true,. to live, about 1928, with her Uncle the party there after

Putsch and he met with great success, tive Gely a good deal of attention netlon once more Impa lamely be Adolf.

He was 11 intellectual, a fervent ("Je lui faisals la cour; elle n'etult ni hind fact. But is it trust-Readers. Adolf Hillen-not then, of course, National-Socialist and ardent prude ni beguelo) and took her out must judge for themselves. Strasser, the Fuclirer of the Relch, scarcely enthusiast for the Socialist side of to dances and masked balls. One

He has ŭ murdered brother to even Thane of Cawdor-was already the programme which Hitler progres- day as he was dressing for a dance admittedly, is Hitler's mortal foe.

his brother Gregor burst into his avenge

and wishes him dead and fully conscious of his coming destiny, sively abandoned,

room, saying, "Adolf does not wont

damned. On the other hand he is a and already furiously impatient of

STRASSER AND GELY' you to go out

Gely," As he all who crossed his path or withstood his slightest wish.

clean weapons has fought with instrument: against foul. He often engaged in lively alter-spoke, the

Into the The Empire to-day is facing a Gely was found one day shot dead. Ications with Hitler on the latter's Hitler shephone bell rang and man of character and repute, who. But is the charge itself credible critical hour, but as in 1918, the The finding of the court was suicide, lust for power and his brother, "I hear that you Have on appointment Gregor Strusser, whose intimacy with that little hussy, Gely. I won't Empire stands rock-like in its but to many. It did not seem al-with Hitler was much closer than his have her going out with a married against Hitler apart from the credi determination to

is credible overcome the together satisfactory. Young women

seeking death rarely, if ever, shoot own, frequently intervened to restore man. I won't stand your flthy Ber- bility of the person who makes it? forces of evil. Yesterday

against a paranoiac. Nothing can be heard the news of yet another Brearms,

we themselves. Nor do they play with peace between then. But if any two in ways in Munich. So there was As to that, any charge

men had opportunities to show Hitler na party and dance that night.

ruled

out as incredible or impossible. Jonded

unloaded. as he really was from 1923 to 1931 Next day Gely came to see Stras-Ho admits no moral code. To him if contingent of Canadian troops Attractive young women who are It was the two Strossers.

ser, her eyes red with tears and her to no one else in the wide world, arriving in the Motherland. Aus- found shot ofe usually the victims tralia is still pouring more and not of accident but of crime, due to Gregor was murdered, ahot in an self, almost in a state of collapse. nihil vetitum. He is like the Roman. Emperor who, as a boy, said to his more mon into the theatres of jealousy, rage or passion.

underground cellar during the party "He had locked me up," she cried. mother, "Remember that all things. war on behalf of the Empire.

"purge of June 20, 1934. Otto was "He locks me up every time I say are allowed to me againat all men.”. Now Zealand is making a wonder-

persistently shadowed and hunted by Ne

ONE FORM OF ECOTISM ful effort with men, materials and Was this girl's death suicide or-it the gangsters of the Gestapo on Aus-

There was no need to ask heri People trian and even in French soil and

A man who could ruthlessly blot money, and India is forgetting is an ugly word--murder?

out some of his oldest friends in her civil strife in, this great in Munich wondered and passed on. had many escapes which he describes many questions.

It was decidedly dangerous, even in fia an astonishing book, "Hitler et

"With anger, disgust, horror, she paroxysm of terror lest they should moment when her sympathetic 1931, to gosalp in Munich to the Mol," published recently by the Paris told me of the strange proposals assistance is most needed.

prejudice of Adolf Hitler. Besides, house of Bernard Gasset.

with which her unele pursued her be plotting his overthrow might easily. In a At of thwarted fury shoot The Empire la more united than had he not seemed broken-hearted

Otto Strasser, in fact, is the leader the story continues.

down a woman who denied his evil ever, a fact which gives this that such an accident should have of the anti-Hitler National-Socialists, "I was quite aware of the imposni-wil. A paranoiac may feel; éven Empire Day a now and more happened to a close relative living in and if Hitler and his gang disappear- bilities of Adolf. I had heard of the acute remorse for three days and significant meaning. It is also a

his house under his protection?' True, he has the faculty at will to start the ed to-morrow he would aspire to outrageous demands to which Mlle nights and talk, without meaning it, had of suicide, and then put it firmly warning; a warning to Hitler and tears coursing down his face, but if Power in opposition to Goering, the (an earller flame of Hitler's)

militarists, the Junkers and the hig submitted. I had not credited them, from his mind for ever. industrialista. that the British commonwealth of

I thought Milevas hysterical and It may be objected that Hitler has i Bled at random. But Gely, who was never had any amorist adventures or nations will never concedo to

It is no obscure and Irresponsible completely ignorant of this other affairs, and that, as Professor Ro them the right and love for demo- Still, there was ugly talk, and the person, therefore, who now declares adventure of her uncle's confirmed birts wrote in The House that cratic-liberty-To-day there is a Procurator-General actually entered that Hiller-shot his great-niece Gely point-by-point-what-the-imagination Hitler Builthe-la-too-Immerse union in arms and spirlas, for a charge against Hitler.

It was not in 1931. Ho adduces, in corrobora of a sane man can hardly believe." In himself to be anything but alont heard, because the Bavarian Minister future purposes of peace-of all of Justice, one Guertner, quashed it.on, what another brother, Poul, told the Empire.

Curious that it was this same Quert him at their last interview in the Such Is Strasser's story. His break to women. His boxlesancas, is the "with Hitler followed soon after, measure of his own colosal egotism; spring of 1935. per who had pressed for the

When he heard of Gely's tragic and he positively enjoys strengthen- of Hitler before he had completed Paul, who is a Benedictine monk, death, in 1981 his mind naturallying the myth of his difference from his sentence for his share In the revealed to him that his brother travelled back to the earlier and un- other men. by his disregard for

till women." Putsch of 1932, and the same Guert Gregor had conßded to him, under forgettable incident. It was not

he heard

he were not, a paranolac that.. per who had raved him from sentence pledge of secrecy, that after Gely's four years after that that of expulsion from Bavaria, which death he had spent three days and November, after he had revealed part story told by Strasser obviously re

Paul's

story. It was not ill last might well stand as true. But the Hitler dreaded even more than im- nights with Adolf Hiller dissuading prisonment, Perhaps it is not so him from: Lurning against himself of the story in a French newspaper, Intes to no ordinary adventure, it curious that Gertner was afterwards the revolver with which he had com- that he received the following mes- The background is, binck with ab- promated Minister, of Justice of the mitted the deed. Gregor had told age from an Austrian priest in normality into the polluted coverts Reich.

him nothing of the circumstances of exile:

hd bal

of which

sane men will not sock to the crime and nothing of its cause.the little Gely of whom Otto Strasser

"It is I who buded Angela

penetrate. “But crediblo pr incred!- Who Is it who now recalls these Only the bare fact

Ble? Helther .more credible, Ishould bygones, it may be asked. It is one

meaks. They pretend that she com- say, our more incredible, than a hun who lives in close association with But it so happened that Uitto was milled suicide. I would never have dred other monstrous ag aala Titles) "Hitler at that time. He openly himself able to apply of his own permitted the Interment of a suicide monstrous career of egolum and Jurtz charges him with having shot Gely i poreonal knowledge on explanation in" consecrated ground. From the for personal domination and power.

his masses of fanatical adherents

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ARP. workers of Richmond, Surrey, are to be taught folk dancing to keep them on tip-toe. for their duties.

There is no question of compul slọn, cald. Councillor E. W. Wilton, who is now in chargo of ARP wel fare work ******"But"|"am hoping that both the men, and the women will join in.”

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