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-London Express Service)

ITALY HAS SWORN TO KILL HIM

po pr

ROME.

AM the only journalist to have interviewed Salvatore Glullano, Sici- lian bandit king who has mocked the Italian Govern- ment for five years, and who is now hunted by a force of 3,000 men, including tanks.

I was escorted to the modern Robin Hood among the bare, groy mountains near Montelepre, honour bound not to divulge the various steps by which I finally established contact with his most trusted lieutenant, a sort of Little John.

**

Criminal Harvest

TANKS

BUT EVEN CAN'T STOP

By

HIM

.. MICHAEL STERN

Two paces in front of them stood a barrel-chested man, his head held high, his thumbs hooked behind his belt.

This was Guiliano,

teeming with more, members of the merry band.

"The hope of my poor op pressed people," he repeated, "is in America, President Tru- man and I havo so much common

*Ye both bato Cam- munlam And love demo- cracy. I havo explained that

I need more machine guns and especially some anti- tank guns."

In

Submarine-man

goes hunting the octopus

by John Godley.

LA CAPTE (South of France).

HAVE spent a fascinating day exploring the sea-bed of the Mediterranean here.

Equipped with a glass-frented mask and a tube like a periscope, I have swum for hours among scintillating beauty in the warm, crystal-clear waters.

The waterproof mosk fita Ughtly

over eyes and nose.

Ts tube, through which you breathe, has a rubber mouth- pleco; grasped firmly between toeth, it projects above

the

the

water, so that you can swim indefinitely just low the surface.

You must hold your breath If you dive. down deeply, for your "periscopo" la short, and. soon becomes submerged.

Floating magic

When you regain the surface, you breathe out sharply and dis pel the sea-water from the tube, The water is so clear that each grain of sand can be seen to depth of twenty or thirty feet. You have the sensation, since the sen itself is invisible, that you are floating magically in the air, above golden sands of grassy fields.

Ja an ever-

The sea bottom changing panorama of hills and valleys plateaus and mountains and plains.

Sometimes it's smooth, silver sand, sometimes rocks and craga overgrown with marine vereta- tion, sometimes cool and green, luscious with tender KERSZES like an English meadow.

Silver flashes

A bunter

15 to

ing into the dark recesses his nest and dragging him out by a writhing-tentacle.

He'll be no more than Suddenly there are a thousand Inches from tentacle-tip silver flashes as a aboal of inch- tentacle-tip, but beware of him, long

Ash

Swims

glittering for he is equipped to defend beneath you. And then, as you himself. watch, the sea-bed comes to

or yellow stripes

Then, blushing" with anger; a bright lime-green

As you approach ho may eject life; you see that it is moving, a great cloud of black "ink" in It was inte now.

alive with many crea We shook

creatures,

your direction. This is just to- hands and said goodbye. I took

Angel-ish and anemones and frighten you: it to harmless. a backward glance at the figure hermit crabs: green fish, and of this powerful, fearless crimson, and blue; silvery Angry 'blushes' youngster with the morals of a fish, with blue THE LETTER TO Truman Dillinger and the philanthropy or streaks, scarlet eyes, or demanded

with binck or violet; he turns shipload of 98 Rockefeller llar mountains,idly making their ways through and stares at you with his hard, arms to help Giuliano's fight to towards his famillar separate Slelly from "Com-

darling black eyes; but he will not at- the rippling grastes, munist-ridden" Italy, where-

suddenly this way or that, flee- tack, for ho knows that he is. upon Sleily, he promised, would

ing in terror if you dive down Immediately apply for annexa-

among them. Amerlen out the on to

as its 49th State.

The first impression of the man was that he was possesed of tremendous strength. His

thigh muscles filled corduroy trousers,

He had a handsome, swartly face, level browns eyes, anil

carefully groomed, curly, black

hair..

T

a man you would call in to

watch the baby.

I HAD HEARD all the stories about Giuliano, how he has robbed only the It was the frank, open face of rich to give to the poor.

So great has been his criminal harvest, in fact, that local economists say jokingly that feudal Sielly for the first time in cen- turics is experiencing a redistribution of wealth.

►

He looked like Turiddu, the rustic gentleman who is the hero in Pletro

Mascagni's Sicilian opera, "Cavalieria Rusticane."

Sun-tan Shirt

F

A Fight

I wanted to know why he was

an outlaw.

a policeman and .. He told tạo họ Bìa kien i

wounded

300 Crimos

In his pocket was an order of the day, setting up Stelty an Independent republic. -

* BACK IN PALERMO, stocky Inspector Messana, chief of the public security forces, showed me a closely printed ex-pogo folder sting Giuliano's crimes.

mottled

I watched one feed, flushing his white forked tongue among the seaweed.

Like a jungle

powerles

But watch those tentacles as you approach. He can sling, and chake him off. if he grips your arm you cannot

The

symmetry

become

Break one into six pieces and- cach

colour And exact of the alx-point starfish make him a thing of Through all this mysterious beauty. and glimmers. But sometimes two halves will go on Uving submarine vista the sun gatsBreak ono in two, and the the ocean's floor becomes

a wild another in a fight when thay

jungle or a dark forest, never Each half will grow throw now

and points,

Stain touched by the sun; overgrown arrested him for carting There were well over 300, the with seaweed and grasses,

symmetrical wheat to his starving family

majority murder, altempted

Over such terrain 1 floated to- In 2013,

murder and kidnapping, with

separate plece, previously · He

allow black the entire saw them

where day,

starfish crept on list covering just their thousand legs, and octopl just one point of the star, will marke'cers to pass after the about every crime in payment of a bribe.

criminal He has killed or ordered the on the pavement.

code except spliting poked their wicked eyes from live by itself as a separate be

their lairs.

Ing. It will grow five new points killing of many men since then,

You can hunt the octopus with and become a star again, he said, but he is jealous of his

-London Express Service) a yard-long barbed spear, prob. reputation Da an honest dis- penser of justice,

In the course of his Rumour had it that he went philanthropy this Robin about dressed in the uniform of Hood, who replaces the a general, but that day he wore longbow by a 14-shot-e G.I.-sun-tan-shirt, open at the SICILIANS WHO HAVE

Browning automatic worn from a swivel holster which permits him to fire from the hip, has taken somo 200 Ilves.

** THE BANDIT'S FATHER Was an im- migrant bricklayer in New York, but his mother returned to Montelepre for the birth of her son.

throat, and

tried

to betray him have been summarily put before a

wounded

owners,

In fair fight have.

but

has

them

hunting jacket. Holstered at a green corduroy, his side was his Browning. fing squad. Yet carabinieri

"I HAVE A matter of great been nursed and set free.

importance to discuss with He has kidnapped wealthy you," he said. "Here is a letter Sicilian Industrialists and land- which I have written to Presl

given enfo dent Truman,"

home after the safe passage payment of heavy ransom. We sat on the ground in the Ho robbed the Duchess of shade of

olive tree. Prateameno of her jewels as Giuliano's

-ચ machine - gunners she sat in her castle in the were deployed at a distance. Stellan hills, but treated her ⚫ with bowing courtesy and even One guard trained his bino returned a Steinbeck book he culars on a police check post barrowed. just few ปี

hundred yards

Another

an

the

-London Express Service)-

Haystack hotel costs

100

5s. a day

From WALTER LUCAS, Rome,

barrows,

night when it rained.· ·· I spent two nights in a van parkoeð in the main square of Avignon"

Joe has walked, thumbod rides in trucks and private, cars, and on the back of motor-cycles. He ate when he was hungry, buying eggs and milk from farmers, and' bread, 'chocolate, 'and' fruit from -ITH his His mother had waved him little

chopa

and ... hawkern elbows goodbye from Holly Bank, Head-

Ingley. She had lent him her His schoolboy French and his resting

beret, packed an inflatable mat- smile have got him where and I was escorted by armed men

wearily on the tross, a blanket and sheet, a what he wanted. in a jeep to a lonely formhouse.

tin table of the cafe, he look- spare pair of shoes, shirt, shorts, This is the way you we real Then we walked towards a

ROBIN HOOD posed for me ed sadly out along the dusty a towel and soup, and sent him people," Jos said. And how kind

they small olive grove where three

so that I could take pic-Vin Appia Antica. He took wig-wagged

off.

· Frenchman-and- persons stood. Two of them held signals towards the grey faca tures of him, his Browning in

Just in case, she had slipped Italian ailke. They'd do anything machine pls.ols in the crook of of the almost sheer cliff behirui

one hand, a hand grenade in a sip at his aperitif.

into his haversack a tin of for you when they see you are their armA.

UA which, presumably, was the other,

“You just can't do it," he cooked meat. tin of stewed poor and haven't any money.

"There was that old farmer sleak, and two tins of sardines.

in Bald. "You can't enjoy a holiday on the Continent on 1,500 miles from Leeds. He had passport away, just for safety's Joc lind covered something like Brittany who had never seen D. foreigner before. He took my the pittance Cripps allows, scen

Paris, wandered through I've been here a week, and Normandy and Brittany, had sake, before he

look at the chatesus on the sleep in I'm bust; got to catch to

bathed in the millionaire's Italian rivieras,

nway.

man

#

'Seek the sun' luxury trips

bring in dollars

AMERICANS SAIL THE BRITISH WAY

The Caronia is expected to take more than 500 passengers. During the 80-day voyago there will be many trips ahore.

Salling up the east coast of Africa, the Caronia will arrive In the Mediterranean at the

MERICANS are already pul- Africa" voyage unul January 12 beginning of March. Ating their money down to next year.. "sall British" on cruises in "Both the $20,000 cultes in the

Another British winter cruise search of sunshine in the ship-at about £4,000 her already on the American travel market is one by, the 27,000-tan

most luxurious accommodation

the

orel

would let me

his haystack.

morrow's train back home", Loice of the French and when there was the

I nodded.

Italian took me to dinner with his and fetched family because he had been a up in Rome with £15 worth of prisoner of war in England, and travellers cheques still in his enjoyed himself so much there." pocket, as well as a few crumpled dirty, lire notes.

A lail, slim figure came strid- Ing down the road in front of us, He was blond, dressed in khaki

Joe is hiking his way back from stacks and shirt, with a faded

Rome to his history and blue beret pulled raidishly over

geography lessons at school. He to cover one ear. English, I

hopes to arrive in Leeds with: thought. As he passed the heavy

210 still left in his pocket, pack on his back flaunted a

In three wecks Joe had slept Union Jack. It was Joe Hillaby, twice in a bed, once la Paris friends, shaking Joe by the hand luck, said thy gloomy a 10-year-old sixth-form school with friends and now in Home. and returning wearily to his pack boy from Leeds Modern School. "I have sort of got out of the ing in, his two-guineas-a-day

Cripps restrictions did not feel of beds," Jou said. "I've room in a Roma hotel

"Good

Jon arranged his berot, haaved"

middle of next winter. More than half the

mean a thing to Joe. He had left slept in ditches, in haystacks, accom-havo just been sold in New motor ship Britannic, Among a modation in Britain's newest York," a Cunard-White Star number of calls in the Mediter- home three weeks ago with £20 wedged between a bush and the

a pack the size of a mountain. luxury cruise liner, the Caronia, official said.

fanean will be visits to

worth of travellers cheques in rocks overhanging the Mediter on his back, and trudged off on: has been booked, although she'

his pocket. Here he was in Rome, rancan. Lowest price for

islands of Mallà and Rhodes.

I once slept in a barn his 65..a day sightseeing tour of- the all-

and was not due back till his with a litter of pigs and a dog Europe." is not due to sail on a "round dollar voyage is about £600.

(London Express Karoles) school holidays ended.

with: puppies-tint was the one --London Express Servios).

NANCY

OH, THERE'S BUSTER BINKS AT HIS HOTEL WINDOW

Man of Few Words.

HE'S EATING

A BANANA JUST LIKE ORDINARY,

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