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AID FOR RUSSIA
THE announcement that a wing of the Royal Air Force is already fune- tioning in Russia is good news. This Intest contribution to the Soviet Union's war effort is perhaps the best answer to those doubters who were recently accused by Mr Churchill of
speaking "as though nothing were being done"
to supplement his
promise that Britain would assist Rusela as far as it lay in her power This aid would be given, though -11--would--mean _a...."'definite-^_re-- duction in military supplies from America on which we had counted," he declared,
The arrival in Russia of a wing of
the Royal Air Force, significant as it may be, by no means constitutes the Immediately
first or only step taken to assist Britain's
Ally. now after the outbreak of hostilities
September 17, 1941.
BENITO'S NEW JOB?
By Billiken
U.S. Has Right
to Convoy Ships
By LORD STRABOLGI
HEN the Lease- voying officers as to the inno Lend Bill was under cence of neutral ships in their charge. debate, an amendment was had the effect of preventing defeated which would have :::
What the German warships American warships convoy. will not have the right to do and ing American merchant what they never had the right ships. The State Depart to do, la to, attack merchant ment was on strong ground whether under convoy or sailing ships * of any nationality, here, as the right of a neu- Independently, without the re- tral state during war to cognised formalities of visit and convoy its own merchant search. ships under guard of its The right of American or any own warships is well recog- other neutral government to nised in International law. convoy its own merchant ships is undoubted and any departure The modern idea that all from the recognised procedure international law is abro- by German or Italian warships gated in wartime is errone- towards such convoy would be an act of hostility. Even if ous and this is particularly American merchant ships were true in regard to oceans, laden with weapons of war or The high geas are the high- aeroplanes, formalities of visit ways of all nations and neu- and search would have to be ob-
served. trals have every right to use them.
Returning to the right to convoy: The controversy has existed in regard to it for nearly 300 years. While recognising the right, suc- cessive British governments have claimed the privilege of making certain that con- voyed neutral merchant ships did not carry_contra- band or members of armed, forces of their opponents.
In 1918, during the World War, the Dutch Govern- ment proposed to convoy Dutch merchant ships to the East Indies. The British
According to press reports, Axis winter plans are believed to include the supply of cold-weather clothing for their
forces in Russia.
NAZI CONQUEST OF ROME
This article, describing conditions in Rome with the Nazis in full control, is by the “New Yorker's" correspondent in the Italian capital, whose identity must be concealed under the initials "J.S."
Some people here are
was dis-
THE Germans, as you
also, the way ́of shelters Government admitted the suspected; are getting into aid would
have perhaps already convinced that an all-out British couraging to the local authori
be followed by a ties. When the Germans arrived right to convoy but claimed the Italians' hair. There ever-enlarging group of active dors and benches, and removed stampedo to the ranks of the they ripped out all of the corri- the right to search, in order
The
the disintegrating sandbags,
About
to make sure that these are Nazis to right and anti-Fascists. merchant, vessels were not Nazis to left-from 15,000 At the beginning of the war leaving nothing of the Fascist engaged in enemy trade. to 25,000 of them in Rome there was much bustle over the handiwork except the outside
alone, counting both the building of air-raid shelters, and walls and the posters. smartly-dressed military when the excitement subsided the only Fascist air raid pre- Continental doctrine, and the civilians in their Romo had a number of them-parations with which the Nazis which has been stoutly main-ersatz mufti.
all made of wood! They were have seemed to be satisfied are. tained by Germany, is that the
the strips of paper pasted on the simply shacks propped up captain of the convoying war-| Uniformed Nazis, "heil- against walls, and one of the store windows to keep, glass that merchant ships in his ing" one another from table first things the Nazis did after from flying around in the ovent charge are not carrying goods to table, crowd such popu. arriving was to condemn them of bombs falling nearby. or persons rendering them liable lar restaurants and cafes as as useless and order them to be The Germans may not have to seizure, and no right to in- Alfredo's, the Fagiano, Ber- spect merchant ships can be claimed. The American Governardo's and Rosati's on the ment, therefore, would be with- Via Veneto. Italians still
ship makes himself responsible
̄in its full rights in convoying its
own merchant ships. This is frequent these places, but beyond dispute.
torn down...
Paper Sandbags
much faith in these strips, but they admire the taste of the Italian shoopkeepers who have arranged them to form swasti- kas and to spell out "Viva-Il· Duce""Der Fuehrer."
Can't Get Rubber
Now
by waggon-load after waggon- beside it on the showroom floor
BOUT-six-months ago, when the Romans were they do not like their guests, still trying to manage their own This recognised principle also For one thing, the Germans affairs, it was decided that the applies to the Vichy govern-are using their "tourist famous Galleria Colonna, with ---
that the Galleria has ment, if Admiral Darlan's pro-marks," which are worth its arcades, shops and cafes, would make an admirable com-
been-stripped of most posal to escort French merchanti ships is put into practice. The what Hitler says they are, munity shelter, and Mussolini's of its war-time trimmings it is British Government would only to buy up the little that the w.P.A. (Works Progress Ad- again possible to see the sitow military mission was sent to Moscow be following its own precedents stores have left to offer; for ministration,
which provides window of the Flat establish- and has been there, ever since. in claiming the right to visit Figures, for obvious reasons, are and search French cargo ships another, next to being work for the unemployed) set ment there. Of three magnifi- cent automobiles lined up in it withheld, but it is a known fact that so convoyed. There exists am- bombed by the British, the about fixing it up as one. large stocks of war materials have ple precedents' for neutral con-Italians greatest fear. is
for public, inspection, one, a First came carpenters who black sedan with red wheels, is already reached Russia. A combined voys and belligerent rights.. British and American economic
that this is the beginning of put down wooden floors and particularly attractive, and, by mission is also ready to go to the
a thoroughgoing occupation built a lot of wooden partitions American standards, reasonably U.S.S.R. In order to study the needs and problems from the point of view In 1668, England and Holland of their country by Berlin, and benches; they were followed priced. A neatly lettered sign of raw materials. In the meantime wool, rubber, Jute, etc., are even now were at war, Queen Christina Judging from the rumours load of sandbage which were reads "Prezzo 30,180 lire senza arriving at Soviet ports, including a of Sweden ordered her warships one hears, there are a quar- piled up around the outside and gomme," which means - that not insignificant cargo of 8,000 tons to convoy merchant vessels un- of tin.
der the Swedish flag and deter of a million German looked very impressive except since the Hirn is still worth five The problem of maintaining a
clared they were not to be troops, more or less, in Italy that they were made of paper. dollars. It also means that the cents, that car is yours for 1,509 continuous flow of supplies into the searched. This declaration was
Just before the place was to car is yours without tyres, and to-day. Soviet Union centres very largely not accepted by the English. upon the question of shipping. Thu The 1654 Peace of Westminster
open for Inspection it occurred here's the hitch for you simply shortage of shipping space has beca
Not Yet Bombed to someone that paper would cannot buy, a new tyre in Italy acute for some months past and will put an end to the controversy.
not last long in the spring rains to-day. You cannot even get not be eased by the new demands now being made. The Inck of
The Dutch in their turn WHATEVER their num- and there was a delay while the an Inner tube patched unless entry ports is another problem which claimed the right to convoy has to be overcome. Archangel in their merchant ships, and after running everything here right up wooden walls to protect the rubber, and some people are are carpenters came back and put you can supply the garage man with the necessary morsel of memories of winter ice, and the much controversy agreed that now. Their first job upon tak- sandbags,
papers should be carried aboard ing over was to teach the Italian
Anding that their old hot water the convoying man-of-war and Anti-Aircraft Corps how to The walls were more than the bottles come handy for this pur- exhibited to any English cruiser shoot. The Fascist gunners had Fascist propagandists could re- pose. intercepting the convoy. If the been having a terrible time of sist and there was a further wait
There is not much incentive papers showed that contraband it. They did not know how to while the signboard men went to own a car, anyway, for you was included in the cargoes, the set the fuses of their shells or about the premises pasting up are allowed only five gallons of vessels concerned might be otherwise get along with their Government posters. Finally gasoline per month (at one equipment, and they were being shelter signs appeared, the shel dollar 25 cents per gallon) and
good
the While Sea, carries unpleasant
difficulties of transport from there to the actual battle frent during the winter months, would be great in- that over 7,000 miles of railway must be negotiated before the needed sup- plies could be disposed of. There is
deed. The Vladivostok route, means
also the danger of this port becom ing cholted by an "accumulation of. material-Impossible to handle with the inadequate transport facilities offered by the Trans-Siberian rail- way. The Persian Gulf route, now
barkation ... are available. It is
seized.
bers, the Nazis
Crazy Maze
Some people are buying auto- mobiles and putting them up on jacks,, looking towards the tima.
The same principle exists in maimed and killed at an alarm- ter was opened and hundreds of you cannot operate it after 10 thirteen treaties concluded being rate by the bullets going the Romans, who had beon, given to o'clock in the evening, which is available, appears to give the tween the United States and wrong way! The German in- understand that this was to be when you might want it most as greatest promise of utility Report various other powers, including structors have done a good deal one of the city's finest shelters, public conveyances are hard to bar at that several points for discm- the American treaty with Italy to cut down these casualties, at streamed eagerly in from the and at night. aumfidently near to Malaya and of 1870. That is to say, the least in practice drills. Whether Corso Umberto to look around, making and it is also here, as Mr Churchill United States is neutral in a war membered under the trying con- India to give promise of good results, Italians agreed that when the or not their lessons wll be re- pointed out; "that American supplies wherein Italy is a belligerent, ditions of a real air rald re- can be carried luto the centre of
THEY Found
a crazy when the war will be over. Russia In an ever-widening flow Italian cruisers will accept as mains to be seon. Rome has
maze of wooden corri- There is little else in which to, is true that some 300 miles from surances of the captain of a yet to be bombed.
dors, twisting this way and invest money these days and Gulf across Iran to the Caspian convoying American warship Sen have to be traversed before the that his charges are not carry-rald, and with reason. The and usually winding up in a cars will increase in value It, The Italians dread an. that with no apparent purpose, there is always a chance, that soll, but once on the Volga a steady ing contraband Government has done practic dead end, and it was not long in the future Italy has even stream to every part of the front canNaval regulations were of ally nothing about protecting before ons began to hear fokes fewer than she has now. be maintained. This stream has ficially Issued before the present its citizens from such an at about people, getting lost in the
Of course, any purchaser commanders of German and that, - If Rome were heavily armeva sute Italian cruisers be directed to bombed, there would be a fear- The reaction of the Nazi ex- Government commandeer his accep rance-of-neutral con-Liful panic.
estate parts to "Rome's best effort in, car without warnin
the
materiál: "actually reaches" Russian
Already, started; flowing hand with
Britain and America's recognition war by Gormany and Italy that tack, and it is easy to belleve Galleria. A be prepared to have thes
that the Soviet needs must, Hat, Fall, carte te supplied her. I no fear. that any dimcullies will be allowed":
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