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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

June 11, 1940.

IS

GONE

ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE.

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BLISS.-On June 11, 1940, at the Queen Mary Hospital, Evelyn Jane, dearly-beloved wife of A. W. Bliss and mother of Babs. Eileen und Sonny, Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at b. No flowers by request.

The

Rome.

MUSSOLINI A

Sawdust Caesar?

E was the son of a blacksmith, and he

He rebuilt the city of the Caesars.

But-

He never marched on. Roma He sat at home. When he went it was by invitation, and he travelled "soft" in a Pullman. He struggled into his black shirt as the train got into Rome station.

Once he fled abroad to dodgo military service, and was posted as deserter.

Once he led a riot against an Italian invasion of Africa.

And he opposed Italy's enter ing the war.

When he was drafted to the front he spent fewer than forty days in the trenches, and though he bears the mark of more than forty wounds, he got them in a training school, miles in the rear, when a hand grenade went off accidentally.

So George Seldes, former

of Rome correspondent

the "Chicago Tribune," says in a bitter, brilliant investive against Mussolini, "Sawdust Caesar" 12s. 6d.). He

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THE preax "special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Itongkong Telegraph ta indicate Lows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommual beats the indication "U" is received in Hongkong on the date of publicatian br serve all rights and forbid repubilestion, either wholly or in part without previous

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the United Press Associations, who ran

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seeks to strip away the Mussolini as her-leader, and to tell the story of an Italian gang- ster, rising by craft and violence to run a nation-wide racket.

The author specifically charges the Fascist regime with the murder of Matteotti, the Socialist leader. That is an old

charge and an ugly one. But

-it depends what

angle you take the picture from

tion, with plenty of blood, in it. Eleven times in all Mussolint went to prison,

He became editor of “Avanti,” chiet Socialist newspaper, lle rose to lead the Socialist Party of Italy.. War

come, and he called for neutrality In the foreign war, and civil war at: home-up to September 21, 1014. On September 25 he clamoured for all. Italy to march to save ravished.. France.

A howl went up from the Secialist ranks-CHI PAGA? (Who has paid?) He was accused of taking French gold.. The chargo has not been proved. Soldes repeats the story told by Maitre Torres in the French courts. that Mussolint was paid 15,000 francs down and 10,000 francs a month,

Mussollal was expelled from the" Socialist Party, "You hate me be- cause you love mel? he yelled nuove. the din, "You may tear up my Socialist cord! You cannot depriveĄ. ine, of my Socialist faith!"

On November 1 le launched a new- Journal, "Il Popolo d'Italia,"”, dediented" to urging war and savaging his late: colleagues.

Where was Fascism born? Оп September 24, 1914, in the brain of Mussolini. 'did not take a physical: form until October 1917, when with Gabriele d'Annunzio, the poet, he formed the Fascio di Resistenza to- organise defence after the collapse of Caporetto.

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But it was d'Annunzio and not Mussolini who carried the thing. trough after the war. It was the poet, not the politielan, who seized! Fiume for Italy, and prepared to hold it for Italy even against Italian royal troops.

Mussolini spent those hectic and fake-herole years organising his party: in the Industrial north. The Fascist. chlef at this time was talking red. revolution. He supported the seizure of the factorles and the general strike. He came out with a programmeof? land nationalisation.

Only when the Bolshevik menace: died away did Mussolini denounce it. By 1022 the Red forces were hope-. lessly split, and trade was rising again.

It was the army, says Seldes, not- Mussolini, who planned to kick out. the old Liberal regime and set up as dictatorship of Big Business. They offered the job first to d'Annunzio, who refused it. Mussolini was only third choice.

The army allowed the Blackshirts to march on Rome. Only about 8,000 went, not the 100,000 that the legend tells of. The rest arrived by rail.

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Since then Mussolini has consoli- dated, "eliminated from circulation" his enemies, side-tracked his friends. Ho has been the journalist 'who sup-- pressed free journalism. All that,. Rays the author, by ruthless gangster- ing, and yet the present state of Italy is. desperate.

Desperate indeed. If all this is truc.. For if Mussolini in really no more thon 1 ferocious boodlum, the- twentieth-century version of a. Renaissance condottiere, bow will you Government. measure the height of the great and cultured nation over which he lowers?

Naturally, it was violent.

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this is the first time to my him and took him in. He found the Austrian knowledge that Mussolini has him a job as bricklayer's mate. been accused of taking over the

Switzerland expelled Musso- Mafia, Italy's secret terrorists, lini as a dangerous agitator. He and employing them as An offelal Black Hand gang.

found refuge in Austria.

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Mussolin! most publicised figure in the world, always Ingists on being In the middle of it all, Mussolini photographed from below so that he And went back to Italy and served his looks like a glant... Seldes gives an-

like a camera.

BIGGER and deadlier surprises | If things can really go like there he began his career as the in the Bersaglieri, famous Alpine other shot, taken from above, to make have befallen the Allies in the past that in Italy you may wonder journalist, working with Cesure regiment. He returned to Austria, month than ever before in our his-why it is that Mr. Al Capone is Battisti. His paper was Social tory. The Nazis have invented a sitting in Aleantraz Jaii, Cali. Et, and Nationalist that is, it entirely new strategy of war. Petroffornia, instead of running the was pro-Italian

used simultaneously in the air and United States from the White

on the ground has disorganked the House. calculations of the Allied General Starts as completely as gunpowder

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copfused the tactics of commanders

Mussolini's father Was il

In the Middle Ages,

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We can be sure that fresh sur-Socialist and an atheist, and he prises will be sprung upon the named his heir Benito, after Allies by Hitler. And Hitler is apt Benito Juarez, the Mexican

to be apel. That is why, in this rebel. He beat Benito frequent- integral part of the British Empire,

Musso-

we must te more imagination in ourly with a leather belt. defensive ensures than we have inlini's mother was devout, and the past.

Hongkong, we can

was

ΟΙ

assure our renders, is quite safe for the pre sent. On the only occasion in its near-century of history in which it

menneed, we had plenty warning. There were massive con- centrations of troops on our frontier: we had time to demolish bridges, prepare roads

for dynamiting. evacuate many of our women and children. There will be no such warning again.

sent Young Hopeful to the school of the Salesian friars at Faenza.

He fought his fellows, and the good friars, in turn, beat him,

When his father took up inn- keeping, and turned the bar into a nest of Anarchists, Socialists,. and Syndicalists, Master Benito found plenty of scope for scrap ping in his spare time. The rest For the safety of the Colony It is of his day was taken up with! tine fur all of us, soldiers and teaching. As he made no bones civilians alike, to think ahead. Not about his disbelief in religion he because we believe that we may be got into frequent trouble.. menaced, but because we should be- The police kept their eye on lieve that we cannot be taken by him. His time was coming for surprise.

Our volunteers should be mobiilsed, military service. One day they even if only partially, as suggested turned their backs for a moment, by a correspondent. They should and Mussolini bolted over the wear their uniforma and carry their, frontier into Switzerland. as suggested by another correspon- Ho had two shillings in his. dent, unifoined volunteers would pocket and no friends. Ho fled look Impressive and would feel more and not because he feared ser- fully their sense of responsibility,vice, but because he hated. ser- but because it is sane common-sense

rifles to their offices. Not because,

to know that they are soldiers at vice. He slept under bridges, he moment's notice. An un-uniformed camo near, starvation. Ho was soldier or civilian who fires on or locked up as a vagabond. opposes in Invader in a frone tireur ; Serrati, the secretary of the and, as such, able to face a fring local Socialist party, had pity on squad.

More and more food should be con- served in the Colony. The Govern ment should appeal to householders to "ny in adequate supplies. Ole water supply is a matter to which loven greater nitention should be given. Hongitang depends entirely upon reservoirs, which (events in Europe have conclusively proved) can be destroyed by

bombing despite

A.A. defences. This is the time to put in order all the wells and pumps on which we may be forced to rely. It all the invasions which the Germans have so far carried out, the most disrupting and Alamsying : fnc- Mon' has been the sudden‹ appearance. of secret snemy agents in the heart of the Invaded country. We have many such potential fifth columnials in Hongkong who are not Germans de-- Austrians,--A -system-of-identity

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cards for all Chinese Inhabitants should be instituled. We should weed out those Chinese who might nid an enemy and not us. It le no use blinding ourselves, to

the fact that, whilst an overwhelming ma=; jority of the Chinese people are friendly towards the British, there are in our midst supporters of an anti- Chungking regime whose avowed object is the destruction of westerners, 'In China and who would support any

enemy who attacked us.

We want to be ready for any -emergency- because the more pre- pured we are the leas Ikely. Is that emergency liable to arise. It used to before-warned is fore-armed. In modern warfare to be fore-armed is to be fore-warnedón

and was jailed again.

When he left Austria for good it was to plunge into strikes riots and and against plots at home.

CARTOON

NAZI

FOULFELLOW

He advocated revolu-

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