Another point to be considered in the offensive against Ttaly is the maintenance of air ascendancy in Libya. It is an imperative need of the Axis to build up adequate forces to take the offensive in Libya and to be furnished "with tanks and human material sufficient to offer chance of success. Against thie effort the R.A.F. is operating with regular success. Tripoli and Benshazi are the bottlenecks. The more they are choked the less efficient they are made. These are the greater aificulties the Nazis and Fascists have to face. These two ports are not fully sealed. Repair and rebuilding goes on, ships come in and out. They don't all go to the bottom, but efforts are costly.
Communication Lines Hammered "When men and supplies are landed the adventure is by no means finished. To bring up supplies from ports alone the thousand miles of communication to the front. there is stil! the hazard of attacks to be run. Medium bombers harass shipping and mechanical transport in the daytime On the roads the RAF. pilots are maintaining their ascending through attacks on everything they see. A road tanker set on fire and exploded: other lorries were lifted off the ground by bombs. When troops jumped and ran for cover they were machine-turret. The persistence and variety Deploring the fact that has not yet realized the necessity of Winant, United. States Ambassador to Britain, emphasized that defeat in this war would mean British an^ American institutions and the way of. life in the two countries would he retarded permanently if not entirely destroyed.
"Even the language we speak will he verboten,'" he declared. stressing that freedom of the individual is the greatest issue in the war.
Mr. Winant received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and Litera. ture from Edinburgh University. and then was given freedom of the city, "A short while ago we were living in a world, partly cynical and at the came time generously naive, a lone time before we recognized we were compelled, not by choice but as matter of self-preservation. to face the brute forces of conquest and all of us have not yet realized it" he declared.
"Until the elements of democracy actually sre snatched from an. few ^f vs value the heritage. ro are too many who have forgotten the hard "rat that Ted to freedom and democra-fie Government and tro who are willing to walk with y only when it appears in sltoin the sunshine, and apday is a lively comedy of marital troubles experienced by the debonair Mr. Ronald Colman with his romance-seeking wife, played by Miss Anna Lee, an old favourite of the British screen, who makes her American debut in this film. The majority of cinema-goers will enioy the picture. although there will be a number—end a great number at that—who wil! wonder how the hero can forgive hi" wife continually for her love affairs even if she is innocent ps the script would heve one believe. The redeeming features of the picture are the situations and the acting of ita principal, who from the star down tthe last bit player perform creditably Mr. Colman, despite his venre. is ati" Mr. Colman end thie should xahe all who have seen him in the course of the last yamada or so. Mise T. has undoubtedly scored a sticcess and fans mav be assured of seeing her in more American films. The girl ie beautiful end talented, enacting her role so naturally that one wonders if any other Hollywood actress—of greater renute—rould have done hatter. Fine performances are also given Hy Messrs. Charles Winninger and Rogineld Gardiner, with the former simely delightful às the hermines father, chiefly "concerned with a place to live" and not with whom will live. Mr. Gardiner is the "other" man and he. too. "norek in his larrest role to date. The main feature is nreceeded by the nictoricl record of the Joe Louis—Biiv Conn world shamoionshin fight that is r thriller from the beginning to the fatal thirteenth round when Conn throws all caution to the winds in an effort tu knock the Brown Bomber out—onlv to be commuted out because he made the mistake of tre dine punches with the chemolon. No te purus. Conn definitely led on points Louis reeling in the twelfth—rm. of the RAF. offensive in the Medi- F terranean is not lost on Italians. Their morale, never very robust. does not take kindly to attacks on the homeland. The knowledge that their relatives across the Mediterranean are also sffering must provide bitter thoughts.
Demands for adequate protection increase. The Duce must send un Italian fighters, must provide more and more ground defences, The mu stopped. But the RAF. won't be L Instead. the bombers return. They core down most high or skim the too of trees to make sure. While soldiers guerre dri the sands and diamoue Um or supplies and more streng Marb at home talk, and talk spreads. A recent visitor to Palermo
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