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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 27, 1941.

By Walt Disney

SICILY is a German Island Now

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NICILY is a German island now. In Rome a week ngo I learned how completely. the Nazis have taken posses- sion of it.

The crews and ground staff's of large numbers of German planes, among them many Stukas, have been installed on specially prepared airfields. They swagger around the towns and villages with an arrogant air of superiority,

"Here, your wop," says every German gesture, "get out of our way. Let us get on with the job you've been too funky to get done."

Main Job

The job those Germans and their Stukas have come to do is to prevent the British, send- ing their naval ships and convoys through the narrow straits between Sicily, Pan- tellaria, and Tunis, as they have been doing, and to escort Italian supply ships to Libya and protect them from British attack.

I do not suppose it is really more than partly the fault of the Germans that the Italian railways are at the moment in chaos, and that many pas- senger trains have had to be cancelled. That is just part of the general upheaval caused in Italy by this war.

All Italians, however, blame the Germans for this, as well as for everything else that is irking them.

The express train in which I left Rome was so crowded that even the washing com- partment was occupied by five people. I stood in a corridor so jammed that I could not move my arm to get out a handkerchief.

Nightmare Trip

It was a nightmare of a journey, this trip from Italy. They sent us a long way round by way of Turin, Modane, Chambery and Narbonne be cause, so the Italian railway- men suid, the direct line. through Ventimiglia was choked with trains carrying munitions and supplies for the Germans.

Nor has it made the Ger- mans any more popular In Rome that the A.A. gunners sent there to defend the city against British raids have re- fused to sleep in the barracks the Italians have placed at their disposal. The taxpayers have had to stump up for the privilege of establishing the Nazis in hotels and boarding- houses.

The Germans, who are much better paid than the Italian soldiers, stroll about Rome like the barbarians of old, sending home loot. Only once did I see an Italian sol- dier with them.

That was outside the bronze gate of the entrance to the Vatican, where two German officers, accompanied by It Blackshirt officer, asked that they might enter to sce around. One of the Pope's Swing Guards barred the way. "You Aro .not. allowed through here in uniform, gentlemen," he said. Italian bystanders smiled their plea-

SASTANAKAWA GATE JEPARAİNERACIONAREALER. NOWA OROMINTIE

The following report appeared in the "Daily Express" (London), and was sent from the Franco - Spanish fron- tier by a special cor- respondent.

Here he describes the conditions in Italy since the Germans were called in to help Mussolini, and the dis- tress and discontent at various centres.

sure at the discomfiture of the Germans and their guide.

The coming of the Ger- manns, whom many Italians regard as an army of occupa tion, is causing the rapid strengthening of discontent, even inside the Fascist Party. Uncomplimentary inscriptions have appeared, scrawled in black paint on the, walls of factories.

Heavily reinforced secret plain-clothes police are active. They go so far as to arrest on speculation people seen chat- ting at street corners. Then they ask them separately what they were saying.

If the versions do not coin- cide they clap them in jail. Despite this, people are be- coming more and more out- spoken. Even strangers, hear- ing that I was going abroad, said: "Tell the British to come and bomb us. That is the only way to finish the war."

Had No Tunic

When I was at a tobac→ conist's in Turin, buying stumps for farewell postcards, a soldier came in. "You look a real warrior, Francesco,” the tobacconist teased him.

"Warrior, my foot," said the soldier angrily, "I haven't even a tunic under my over- cont, no buttone for my pants, and my boots hurt me."

"You'd better be careful what you're saying," I sald. "I'm going abroad I might tell them what you say.”

"Go ahead, tell them," he said. "Tell them what equips soldiers like this," and he threw open his coat, revealing a dirty shirt, his buttonless pants precariously tied up..

Every one in Italy wants news. In the central quarter of Rome a cobbler is the chief

In the poorer streets of Rome I often saw women breaking up their furniture to heat the mid-day meal. And what a meal it is, with tho Italians allotted only ounce each of their beloved spaghetti, and that grey-black instead of white. The normal consumption is more than 3 Ozs.. a day,

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Secret Market

Coffee is unobtainable, un- less one is prepared to buy it at a secret market, at a penny a bean. People swallow a brown brew made of toasted barley, which passes now as coffee, adding a dash of aniseed or lemon rind to take away the taste.

The poap famine, caused by export of fats and olive oil to Germany, is having the most serious consequences for the army, which is overrun by a scourge of vermin, particular ly in Albania. Doctors com- plained to me that they were powerless to fight it.

Chaos in the medical ser→ vices is so great that many of the troops are being shovelled abroad hospital ships in Al- bania without having had their wounds dressed. They. are left just as they were, when picked up in battle. Many who could have been saved have bled to death.

The airmen were also full of complaints, chiefly on ac- _count_of_the_quality of their planes compared with the British.

"British machines are far superior to ours," said one who had returned from Libya on leave. "We have to fly old crates dating back sometimes to 1926. The propeller once dropped off my machine. I

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without the engine having dropped out."

He laughed, and said: "Be- lieve me, the Germans aren't going to find it a picnic, cither."

My last information before leaving Italy was that Mus- solini had recognised the strength of the opposition and the popularity of Badogilo, his sacked commander-in-chief, As a means of recapturing popularity he was planning, I was told, a theatrical purge of Fascist officials who had become particularly hated.

Now the first thing I hear on arriving on the Franco- Spanish frontier is the dis- misal of fourteen Fascist of- ficials and their despatch to the front.

news mart. He is a linguist, Wants To Help

knows. French and English, which he learned in Now York, and he has a powerful radio set.

Every day gossips gather in his cellar while the old man harmers at his last, and ho .tells them what he has picked up from the B.B.C. and other foreign stations. Ho also gives them his comments,

Mistresses send their maids to hear what the cobbler has to tell And: how they all grumble! One of the chlof complaints is the absence of charcoal, which the average. Italian uses, for his cooking.

The Negus

An Indian ruler wants to go to Abyssinia with picked troops to fight with the Abyssinian Em- peror, Halle Selassie, against the italians.

He is Nawab Saheb Sidi Armad Khun, ruler of Janjira, an indepen- dent native State South of Bombay. He is believed to be seeking British permission to fight with Halle Selas- sto.

Khan is a descendant of the Royal¦ family of ancient Ethiopia (Abyr- sinia).

An ancestor, Sidi Sur Khan, went to India from Abyssinia in 1000, or- ganised an army, and won control of Janjira.....

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