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Mussolini's Mystery Isles

By HARRY LEVIN

Healde one stood the Tammys 100-foot Colossus,,

waterfront of Rhodes.

one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Dodecanese Islands have Three small ports divide the 'suddenly sprung from their ob. scurity in the Eastern Mediter, ranean map into the glare of the war headlines. Harry Leviu, who sketches them for you here, visited the islands not long be- fore wear broke out between Italy and Greece.

"COME

66/1OME to Rhodes," the gay tourist posters were still beckoning a few weeks ago. "Gem of the Dodecanese, Italy's Ægean Isle of Roses!"

It had everything-beauti- ful scenery, unrivalled climate, splendid hotela, magnificent antiquities: an earthly para- dise above the murmuring Mediterranean.

What they did not add was that it is also an island for- tresa.

The twelve islands of the Dodecanese, of which Rhodes is larger than the other eleven together, lie midway between Egypt and Greece.

They form to-day a key point in the Mediterranean

war.

ONCE TURKISH

From ancient times, when their first known conquerors were the Myceneans and Phoenicians, their strategic value has been recog- nlsed.

Before the Italians seized them in 1012, they were

Turkish in hands. But 'the bulk of the is Janders are Greeks. Their ances- tors have lived in the Dodecanese since the dawn of history.

In Riodes, the tourists is struck by the perfect roads that run up the hillsides to end abruptly, as though their destinations had sud- denly vanished.

Those ronds lend to skilfully- shuttered nests, blasted out of the hillsides which shelter the Italian batteries.

The number of guns and the extent of the island's other for- tifications, are, naturally, things strangers don't find out.

Some of the hillside caverns, however, are known to have beguri life as quarrles. Now they are Atted with corridors, onte-cham- bers, rotundas and ventilating-

shalts

Nearly 300 miles of ronds have been bullt in Rhodes by the Italinus.

One of these highways, linking the aerodrome with the main town, runs along the shore, Parallel with it, along the bench below, line of barbed wire en- runs a tanglements. On the ridges just above are great coils of more barbed wire,

FOR THE "MERMAIDS"

The Customs quord used to ex- plain with a grin that this prickly barricade was to stop mermaids

landing...

Also in readiness for the "mer- malda." immerse barracks and military hospitals have been built. The main streets, bars, and cinema swarmed, when I was there, with green uniforms of the garrison,

Very youthful they were for the most part-short, dark and aftable. Many came from the country" dis- tricts of southern Italy, One, at lenal, was mightly bored.

He missed the farm at home, hu said. There was work to be done there now. And here he was wasting his time. But with

a

shrug of the shoulders-it wasn't hla business. The Duce wanted him here, and the Duce must be right.

Well, I don't suppose he's bored and longer. AWT

The Italkans have sunk iniltions of pounds in widening and im- ports. Continual proving there Improvement has been in progress not only in Rhodes but in Leros, Cos and Stampalin.

Particularly Leros-the

ision of the Dudegonese,

secret

To make sure that the secret of this island are kept, thousands of fts

Greek

and Turkish natives

were

expelled.

Italy's plans have been to turn Leros into

miniature Exten

Gibraltar. The fine natural bar- bour of Porto Lago can hold some of the largest battleships. 11 has a seaplane base, with many miles of ident "nying-water," and a naval arsenal.

The eastern side of the Island, facing the narrow Dinport Strails thul separate it from Anatolia, hus been strongly fortified.

MILITARY VALUE

Once, in 1923, two Italian de- pulies became highly excited about the possibility of settling. Italians in the Dodecanese. Five million Italians could be established there, they said, probably more.

Mussolini wasn't interested. For him, In the words of an Italian spokesman, "the value of the is- lands arises from their geographie military position, which enables us 1 make of

the base of our

ure expansion."

So, out of a total population of over 140,000, there used to be only a few thousand Italians, most of them officials, professional men and merchants.

Still, Mussolin has been prodigal with public buildings for them. In the Vin del Littorio, near the Rhodes seafront, you see Italian constructive ambition at its height. On each side of the broad street, with not a speck of dirt to mar their severity, are the great clois- tered Government buildings, the Fascist headquarters, the cincinn that is in truth a pleture palace.

Venellin,

Sicilian, Oriental styles are strewn together, designed not less to overawe the natives than to perpeluate in stone the greatness of the Fascist builders.

PRIVILEGED ISLES

Italy has given the islanders bread and games, and some econo- mie benets, But it withholds freedom.

All the feeling and all the loyal- -ty of the Greek population-which is nearly 50 per cent. of the total

are for. Greeze.

Despite concentrated efforts to make them good Italian citizens, they consider Italian rûle undesir- able. Quietly, their Church, which hoa long memory, and has not forgotten grave

indignities to its Archbishops as far back as the time of the Venetians in the 18th century, teaches them to keep faith with Greece and Greek culture..

In 1922. for this offence, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Rhodes was expelled.

Under Turkey the Islands en- joyed many benefits. They were known," in fact, as the Privileged Isles. Yet they joined the Greek War of Independence.

In the coming of the Italluns In 1912 they snty promise of libern- tion. At the Peace Conference, Venizelos fought for their "un alterable and centuries-old aspira- tion to unite with Greece."

He obtained a compromise. It seemed that Rhodes, at least, might attain its goal, although the other islands were ceded to Italy,

Then Venizelos fell from grace. In 1024 all the islands were formally annexed to Italy, with the content of Turkey,

All signs of restlessness in the islands have since been rigorously repressed. In 1930 there were rlo. That was the last expression of dissatisfaction.

To-day, although they may seem resigned to their fate, the move- ment for liberation still stirs un- easily beneath the surface. But I has lacked all power-and now the wae has trapped once more the Inhabitants of these isles of my- story.

FUNNY SIDE UP

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By Abner Doan

3-14

"About that money I lent your folks-shall I deduct it a3 charity or a bad debt?"

The bravest men

was

I

ever By C. G.

JUST when the Blitzkrieg on

Norway had started I was_ staying with a friend at'n Coastal Command station of the R.A.F. queer station. It had started with Avro Ansons to patrol the const and escort convoys of ships. Then it hnd nequired scene fighters to drive nway enemy air- craft which attacked the Ansons.

After that some American Had- son

twin-motor machines

were given to it. They had more power and range than the little Ansons, and found out important things on the coast of Norway, which led to the borrowing of heavy and medium bombers from the Bom- In fact, the place ber Command. was a regular aeronautical men- ngerie,

The day I got there our news- papers had published maps of our new ininefields round Denmark and right into the Baltic, for be- yond the Skagerrak and Kattegat (friends of our schooldays), block- ing the German and Danish har- bours from which ships had to take troops to Norway.

Very rightly

our people said: "Wonderful

Thing the British Navy. But how did our mine- layers or submarines gef through the German minefields, and past the German submarines and de- stroyers and air force to lay those

nines?"

THAT evening about

cockinil

time into the ante-room of the Inicss come half a dozen young officers in naval uniform. led by one who was himself led by an amiable but terrifle-looking bull- dog-man and dog were much the sume slupe and ever so English.

My host told me that they were part of a Fleet Air Arm squadron which was at the station on a special job. Later, 1 was shown what it was and how they did it.

On the airfield was a

a squadron of the Fairey Swordfish, which is n bin biplane with a single Bristol Pegasus notar of 000 hp. Like all Fleet Air Arm machines, the wings fold so that they can go down the ifts in H.M.'s' drcraft carriers from the flying deek to the nlr- craft holds, which the F.A.A. Joynl to the bir, calls hangars,

The machine was built for Fleet recannulasance, and as a torpede- dropper, so it is a weight-lifter, and its best cruising speed is about 130 mm.p.h.—about" that of the trainers which one seen floating around the‘

tky

These Swordfishes for the special Job were different. Where the navigator ought to elt was an enormous petrol-tank whilch stuck

met Grey

up above the deck between the _pilot_und_the_uft_cockpit. It took up all the second seat, and ended in a blank wall high above where the third seat should have been. There the navigatur had to sit with his legs underneath a mass of petrol, all ready to drown him in dames it an incendiary bullet caught it.

AT bombing-up time, just before A dark, instead of the normal torpedo or beenbs, huge flat-ended barrels were rolled out on trolleys ind fixed between the wheels.

There were our magnetic mines for the Baltic, the more powerful and more magnetic than the Ger- cran mines of which we heard so much at the time, and now looked. upon as a busted flush.

Those barrels brought the flying speed of the old Swordfish down to about by mpit.

That night, as the rest of us were going peacefully to bed, we heard the growl of the Bristols starting up, and a few minutes later the drone of heavy stuff taking off, circling the C.O.'s house and heading seawards.

came

Next morning they all inck, bar one, who had to Innd at another airfield und bent his ferment. They reported results, had their suppers at a late break- went to bed; all ready to do it again next night.

fal-line, Buw

Now figure to yourself that sort

over-

of courage the "three o'clock In the morning courage” which Napolcon admired in our people the machine outrageously loaded, carrying a mine which would leave nothing to pick up it It exploded in a crash, and carry- Ing 11 truck-load of petrol to give the 1,000 miles

its speed range; such that the worst anti-aircraft searchlight operator BunBer could hardly miss it; its only pro- tretion against #ghters the fact that it was too slow for them to stay with it and shoot at it; pilot and navigator without the com- panionship of a cabin, lonely all night on the end of a telephone

wire.

or

They had none of the excite- mont of the single-seat fighter, or his interval for refreshment after his three-hour patrol, and none of the crewship, as it were, of the big bombers or the Bying boats. If ever there was a solitude a deuz, the mine-layers in the Sword. fishes had f—for most of twelve. hours'at ́a streich.,

They were the bravest men 1 have met. I have known n good many V.C. and plenty of D.§.0.4.

Why Grow Old?

By Josephine Lowman

When you look into the mir- ror don't indulgo in wishful thinking as the wicked queen in Snow White did. If we look only at our best points. and try to overlook the others, we will fall far short of our potentialities for love- liness.

Our mirrors should be so placed and so lighted that they will tell us the truth about our faults in complexion, hair and figure. If we are to overcome faults we must first recognise them.

Too many women go in for the becoming, rosy, dim lights which flatter them into care- lessness and neglect. We can have these in our boudoirs, but at some place we should have brightly lighted mirrors with which to whet our ap- petite for self-improvement.

Four Mirrors Needed

A-woman-really-needs-four- mirrors to help her appraise her- self and care for herself. First she must have one which she con use, at her dressing table. This should be inrge enough for her to see herself from her head to her waist. Next, site needs a hand mirror, one full-length one, and a magnifying glass. The latter is of the greatest aid in studying the skin, applying lipstick and weed- ing out stray hairs from the brows.

Lighting Jy also important. Some Indles attempt to use the bulbs. which

represent sunlight, electric light, or daylight. How- ever, this is a rather risky busl- ness, except for experts, and it is usually better to use plain white bulbs and plenty bright!

The lights at the side of the dressing table should be about on a level with the nose, and should also have a light above the head.

One Convenient Place

Il

It helps us immensely to have of the necessities of good grooming and beauty care in one convenient spot. It is so easy to procrastinate If we have to look for the brush und hunt up the eleansing creum.

The most limited and meagre set of tools should Include mani- sure items, cleansing and lubri- cating cream, eye cream, n long- bristled hairbrush, loliun, an eye- lash and eyebrow brush, a dco- dorant, a depilitary and tweezers. Besides these, a women should have a light phd on which to lake her exercises and a board or cot (with and raised) so that she can rest for a period or so of time each day in the beauty angle position.

Make it easy to care for your- self! Don't put the obstacles of hectleness and lost time in your way. These simple, dully routines will keep you young long after the loudest laughter of scoffers has died away.

+

None of these F.A.A: Inds had any decorations then. I hope they have got them since,

To-day the job is done by high- powered, high-speed, well-armed bombers. Nobody admires

our bomber cre

crews and coastal recon- naissance people and, our fighter pilots more than I do. But those -couples. In the Swordfishes deservo to be recorded in history, for they made so much history themselves.

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