Italy's "Victories"
The only thing the Fascist Party in Moly gan so far congratulate fi self upon is Signor Benito Moamolints congo SE Uininge Aan renal of the Nan! victory" in France, ihe. Tailans," hough they. themselves have suffered nating but a erica of reverse ie Bfessolints entry: Into the war, have considerably benefited, without having "contributed "anything. but. strategic Ihveat to the Allied srinien in. Abyssinia they thave been beaten by" amall' patrols of African troupes aid. their peineieal Paerodromes have boom severely. bombed, with very Hire lose the atlackern In Eritrea risah-column contes 2 much stronger Talien force. fin Citys an Halon fort won captured and. cater, Detendared: tile the Ailes are heling something Tike 3806 Sauare miles. of "terrlory—vasless to either Sie mut be admitted but ey a the rerarecnt there' ber bees go sveeh: Dostteg, fal, tave tres n'Afrien pave been bombed und at Tenet gave large warship eeriowly demeged, The cent Flan Morgplane, facioried have teen deranged ty ale raiders: while munition factory have been sent up in sheets of flame, In actual com= bat "with British planes, the Italians, though it is admitted that their workmanship ig good, have been dismal failures. And to top a sorry list of engages ments is the surrender to a British trawler in the Gulf of Aden of a large and. powerfully armed Ballan submarine, which vessel has been, taken to Aden as a prize of war and will doubt-Jess be examined with the greatest interest by British experts, In return, what have the Halians done? On the southern French front they appear to have launched a few half-hearted and lunsuecessful attacks. They have repeatedly bombed Malta, doubtless doing a lot of damage But affecting the ultimate outcome of the struggle not a whit. There was news of an ate tack on French Somaliland, towards Dj Dut this, after meriting brie mention cables, hias disappeared from the news files. What has become of it? Surely the answer can be found in the bold stand taken by the French Djibouti in refusing to consider laying down their arms. The whole docs not make & pretty France and the Sea The map which appears in another column, showing how the German territorial demands Serve completely to cut France off from the Atlantic coast, indicates how clearly it ly the intention to evipple France on the one hand and provide more bases for the expected at~ tempt {o invade Britain. The argument appears to be that the more of such basey there are in German hands the more watchful will the Bute ish Navy have to be. Thus possession of the whole of France's western coast gives the Ger-ans extra points from which it-might be possible to launch attacks on the British Isles suge gesting that the western coasts might prove just fas attractive as the contemplated move against the Channel Ports, The only drawback to such scheme would be that the longer the German Jeonvoys have to remain at sea, in an endeavour British coasts, the
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