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Nazi Intrigue

some

OUT OF THE BLUE

“What

Mussolini did

to

us

This is the plain story of Mussolini's pilless persocu- tion of one Italian family. Yet It exposes the gangstar-like methods ho used throughout Italy to tighton his grip on a nation.

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man, is office was raided and de stroyed by n Fasetst band. His hous was guarded day and night by police.

He travelled secretly from Milan to Turin, and from Turin back to Milan. But the spics always hunted him down

Filippo Turatl, his father's great friend, was also shadowed.

7 HERE is one name which

It became known to friends that nobody Italy dare

in breatho-Matteotti. It is the lives of these leading Sectalists er. Their only hope a name which has haunted were in danger. alf man- Mussolini ever since that August would be to flee from Italy.

After long and careful planning. day, in 1924, when the Socialist Claudio Treves was smuggled across leader's mutilated corpse Was the frontier into Switzerland. found buried in the mud of the Flippo Turati made an adventurous

escape by sea-to Corsica

Scarcely a day posses but new evidence is brought to light to the world-wide ramifications of the Hitler conspiracy against kind. The latest is to be found in which the vast Fifth Column plat was being hatched on the soil of -Uruguay-with-typical-Nazi-treachery Italian countryside,

and thoroughness. A mass of docu- mentary material captured by the police and examined by the Chamber

of Deputies is stated to show that the plan was to seize the administru- tion and to reduce the country to the status of a German colony. The Putsch was to be curried through by locally organised Nazis with the aid of reinforcements from heross the Argentine border, and even the pro- spective Gauleiter had already been appointed. Strong evidence points to the German Legation being the centre of the plot and abusing Its diplomatic immunity in order to All the subver- sive role which is now the principal business of Germon Legations every- where.

It is not dieult to piece together the brood strategie scheme within which the Uruguayan plot Was designed to 1. Hitler would like, if ho could, to turn most of Europe into a German Protectorate, to annex

of Afrien and most

many of the British naval bases in the five seas. It is an ohm which he will certainly be prevented from achieving. But he calculates that if it were to succeed the moment would shortly be

ripe- for a grand onslaught on the Western Hemisphere. To this end he must

โปร prepare

advanced post American soll, and what more fitting buse than the little Southern Re-

on

to

public on the estuary of the River Plate? Uruguay was, in fact, play a part analogous to that of the tanks in his field tactics which estab- lish and hold a forward position in the enemy's territory until his main

För All" Italy knew ang still- £1.200 a year to

knows that Mussolini was the murderer. And Mussolini knows that freedom-loving Italians, inside are living and

shadow them

writes

the

Italy and the day when they can author, was sixty-nine years old;

Filippo Turati," working for the avenge his crime.

he had given fifty years to Socialism Оло of these freedom-loving and to Italy, and he arrived like Italians WAS A afteen-year-old that, like a criminal, in the land of Schoolboy when the news of his exile." Matteotti's fate swept across Italy. 11s name is Paolo Treves.

Terror after death of Matteotti

Paola's father went to Paris, where he was soon editing the anti-- Fascist paper, La Libertà."

But Paolo, his mother, and his young brother Plero, were still at the mercy of the Fascists.

In What Mussolini Did to Us, They were Mussolial's hostages, published by Golinez (12x, Gd.), Everywhere they were shadowed by he gives an intimate and moving the police. Bochinni, the Himmler account of the reign of terror which of Italy, sent reports on their ineve followed the death of Matteotti,

direct to Mussolini himself.

o Treves estimates that the To fifteen-year-old Paolo the

Italia State must have spent more murder was a bitter personal blow than 200 a year an shadowing For he had known Matteort well,

Years of police persecution were From the cradle he had lived them. among the great figures of Italian beginning i have their effect on the Socialism, from the veteran Filippe health and nerves of Signora Treves and Turati to Carlo Rosselli, the bell her two sons.

In 1928 they made plans to escape. Hant young leader who was mur- dered in Paris by the Fascists in But It proved impossible to give the

police the slip. 1937.

its own father, Claudio Treves.

Feigned madness was u Member of Parliament and

to escape editor of a great Italian newspaper.

From 1924 onwards Mussolini, the

Then, without warning, and without ex-Socialist waged violent war on

any charge being made against him. his former comrades. His dictator Paola was Blung into jail. After many ship had almost toppled because of days of solitary cominement in his complicity in the Matteotti narrow cell, he was accused of having crime,

slaned a complimentary letter to Bene Paolo Treves reveals to us how the detto Croce, the great Liberal philo Fascist terror relentlessly pursued his sopher. family and friends, driving them to He was sentenced to imprisonment prison, exile or death.

on one of the dreaded penal islands. But In doing this he also throws much Faolo outwitted the prison authorities" all active Italian Socialists have had to mental home, and later released. endure since Mussolini seized power.

BRITISH PILOTS' HATRED forces are able to follow ups and con- light on the trials and sufferings which fe feigned madness, was sent to a

LONDON, Aug. G (Reuter),--The changed attitude of his men because of the way the Gormans had treated one of their comrades was described in London to-day by Squadron-Leader Donaldson, D.S.0.

He said that two R.A.F. planes DEFENDERS ARE

collided off Dunkirk. The Flight Commander escaped and was sent home on a ship which was torpedoed. Hundreds of people were in the water. The Germans machine-gun-

ned them.

DECORATED

Duce invented "frame-ups"

THE

RICH MAN

and the

PENSIONER

A

The Man

Who is

The Voice of Free France

-De Gaulle

URING times of crisis men

Dunknown to the world come

to the fore. Such a man is General de Gaulle, the new mili tary leader, who has now sprung Into fame by his courageous efforts to rally all Frenchmen outside the control of the Petnin Government to the CLUBO of freedom.

General de Gaulle remained un- discovered by blu military leaders simply because they could not ep- visage a new type of wartare, Hav ing built the famous Maginot Line which seemed to offer all the security necessary, the French milt-- tary leaders remained oblivious to the fact that present war de- manded new tactics and ICW machinery.

General de Gaulle had this "new machinery" in mind long before the war started. He wrote a book on the subject of tank warfare, as ho recognised that mechanised unlis would prove the deciding factor in Enture wars.

But it is only now when France lies trodden underfoot that his utter- antes carry a real message, it is truc Reynaud "discovered" this ob- scure "tank expect", and made him Under-Secretary for War, but it was too inte to save France from the debacle in which she now fals her- sell,

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It is, however, not too late to continue the fight for France's freedom and this is the task General de Gaulle has set him- self.

The General has every claim to receive the respect of his country- men. Though a comparatively young man he is in his fieth rear-e has served in the two world wars, Passing out of Saint-Cyr--the school for officers in 1911, the twenty-one by Dudley Barker

year old sous-lieutenant Charles de MAN got up suddenly Gaulle was posted to the 33rd. In- funtry Regiment: he was wounded at a National Savings near Dinant in August, 1914, but meeting at Ipswich, recovered in time to take part in und Ver- made his way on to the the desperate lighting around platform and whispered some-dun. In March, 1910, he was taken

prisoner. After the war he was thing to the Mayor.~

staff of Marshal. pointed to the pointed Palain, who should have then taken. this young man's ability into account. and have called upon him to-day. But for some revson Marshal Petain. decided to follow the line which has thrown France to the wolves.

The Mayor smiled, and stood up to announce that the man had offered E350 to the Govern- ment, free of interest for tho duration.

He was anxious to know, bow- ever, if the Government would mind It had taken him 25 years to save up taking it all in small change. that £350. and it was all in silver.

In : love an old woman went up to the local campaign secretary. She had only the Old Age Pension, she said, but would be accept a contribution of 6d, a week towards National Savings?

At the other end of the scale is an anonymous Yorkshireman who owned a private acroplane. The Air Ministry took it over, and sent him a cheque for £1,200 for it.

He handed the cheque to the Government, saying he wanted no interest while the war lasted.

During the week. Indeed, Leeds reported the offers of two individual contributions of £10,000 each, and two of £1,000.

onc

of

It is also not generally known that de Gaulle sent a memorandum to General Gamelin in January thin year in which he analysed the new-warfare, condemned-the-policy. of possive defence and foretold the disaster it would bring about, Game- lin regarded the memorandum as an impertinence and threw it into the waste-paper.

Pointing out in his book, written in January last, that the events of the war of 1914 to im- 1918 foreshadowed the potence of the system of mussed armies, General de Gaulle con- tinued:

"Once the front was established from Switzerland to the North Sea we saw, through four years, the strongest armies in the world clash. in furious battles at the cost of im- taense losses and colossal expendi- without making ture of munitions, wil any appreciable advance over the ground.

There was a terrifying

Let me conmend the action of

Worcestershire. torture Arm In Instance. They used to have a system of penalising a workman for being late-five minutes late and he disproportion between the losses suf lost 16 minutes' pay. They havefered by the nation in arms and the scrapped that and substituted a tactical, strategie and polliica! re- bonus system for punctually. Thesults that system could 'cbtain." bonuses are paid into the employees' National Savings accounts.

Two London firms have urged their employees to save paper, which is then sold in bulk, The Into National money is turned Savings certificates. for which the employees ballot every week or so.

"The fighting motor," restores and multiplies the qualities that have always been the basis of the often- sive. Acting In three dimensions, moving in each of them faster than any living thing, able to carry great weights of arms or armour, it now occupies a preponderating place in scale of war values and is ready to renew the fading art

So I could go on, naming town

"The Germans have approached a after town, city after city, village rational conception of war. Thus after village. In Leyton, Essex, the they started the present conflict with borough has set up a savings group attack squadrons and armoured units of which the local Labour Party

whose combined action enabled them. leader is secretary, the local Con- to pulverise Poland in two weeks.

"Tied even more sirongly to servative leader treasurer.

anti- School-chile

-children at Moricy, York-que ideas, we began to war

with shire, are competing in an essay five million soldiers, but with a mero

of which the

the subject is nucleus of aviation and tanks very competition. National Savings, and for which the insufficient in numbers and in power. Even this modern force was built, prize is National Savings stamps,

Well-known people of Chatham organised and directed not to strike are touring the streets and the pubs, far, fust and hard, but only to act giving talks on enving. The cinemas as part of the mass system display rolls of names of people who: Practically speaking, we had only

light tanks. are helping in the campaign.

South

Staffordshire boroughs

"The system of the nation in arms have savings competition for a

which by its very nature permits shield, given by the Mayor of Wol only a strict defensive, could only be verhampton to the borough with the justified by the theory of a peaceful highest savings per head of popu-France, whose sole war problem was iation cach month.

to protect her territory. Provided we took no interest in what happened to the rest of the world wa might. conceivably have been content to Already the special week has pro stand on our forti cations. By adopt duced grand results, and its effecting once for all a strategy consisting will accumulate for several weeks. in receiving frontlers for a time. But the iden behind the special Even so, this result would have been week was to draw attention to the

precarious. campaign, which must not stop there. The nation needs the "If the enemy has not already- money.. "As Ernest Berin sold, the formed a mechanical force suf- nation must have the money. O

From now on, every week inficient to break our defence special National Savings Week, PA MET Fairfax

solldale. From this advanced post

Freedom was now hear at hand. one after another of the South

Through the intervention of the Into American Republics ull riddled by

Arthur Henderson, Bignora Trevca was his Fifth Column, would be dragged

allowed to join her husband in Paris. into the

the Nazi rict.

Paolo and Plero soon followed.. In an interview with an American

Nelther Paolo nor Piere became a journalist a few days ago Hitler pre- He 4taries now, driven from publle permanent exile. They slipped back to tended to laugh off the Fifth Column life by police sples, agents-provocateurs Italy more than once. took part in na "stupid and fantastic" and attri- and armed Blackshirts, rank-and-fle illegal activities, and were imprisoned

were compelled to meet by the Fascists as recently as 1935. buted the whole story to the imagi- Socialists

as secretly at churches and at funerals.

Their father, and Filippo Turati, and nation of

of propagandlets". That was

He tells us how Mussolint, long before Carlo Rossell all died in exile. audacious enough after what all the

Hitler's rise to power, invented " frame- LONDON,

But these two, bravo young Italiana Aug. € (Reuter) world knows, on the most irrefrag-

upa" very much like the Reichstag Fireare still in die vanguard of the fight Awards to the captain and members able testimony, about Norway and When Zumboni, a mad Fazolat. at- of the crew of the steamer High-Holland. In the light of the Urugua

tempted to assassinate him, Mussolini Against Mussolint To-day they are our

nilles. lander, who successfully defended yan revelations, no less so was his denounced the Bocialists as “organisera”

"Many young Italians," writes Paolo against an allick from Two German declaration that; his polley was of the outrage.

Traves, "aro anti-Fascist solely becauso aircraft on August, 2 in the North America. for the Americana and Here is an even more interesting they are men of honour and feel that to Sea, have been, anhounced.

Europe for. the Europeans," It is parallel Geering, you remember, at the be or to become Fasciat would mean Captain William Gifford has been clear for all to see that he is in- Reichstag Fire Trial, shouted at renouncing their integrity. It 15 8-con- given the OBE, as were Bert triguing against America with the Dimitrov: You wait until I got you viction which is dearly paid for and This made a tremendous change Whymn a remon, and George same unscrupuloumess and perfidyutside this court!"" In my squadron," sald Squadron Anderson, oble

In 1027, when Ostia. Rosselli and which brings with it certain reciprocal the Three which he employed against

were being tried responsibilities, and certain duties on Leader Donaldson, "Up to then they others, including the stewardess, liberties of Europe. Whoever refuses other Italian Bocalize we bei Fascist the part of free countries to those that work as fun, when they learned, of Miss Cockburn, were commanded. to acknowledge "this" simple truth is

oficial, Bucarelli showed " almilar are enslaved

These young Italians who are look- this they were determined to do........

merely putting his head. In the sand. contempt for the large ba everything i their power to LONDON, Aug. 0 (Reuter)—The Fortunately the whole world has now

*These gentleman in the box, and ID to France, to England and to revenge"

Maharajah of Bikaner hus given had ample warning, and America, others and wave to Americs as really fraternal nations Because of that incident, he said, à 3,000 rupees for the comfuria of the the last refuge of freedom outside the reckon wills, no 'afterwardsi”, tem should count for something in the, the Germans had suffered very much fighting forcer, Both Indian and British Empire, is fast drawing the rom the time of the alatteotti mur binne of the world. NANK worse than they might have... British troops will beneft, r

inescapable conclusion,

Str, Paolo Treves, father was 8. marked

Deliberate Murder When the Flight Commander called for help, the Germans turned a searchlight on him and shot him dead.

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