Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-12-21 | Page 6 | Adding Insult to Injury

Adding Insult to Injury GOT OT lOT a map of Europe Take a look at the he i J Adriatic sea which lies to the east of Italy It t runs up from the Mediterranean for about miles All around the top of the Adriatic is Italy also all down the western side For about miles mlles on the eastern side is Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugoslavia Yugo Yugo- slavia with Italy holding several ports and islands along the coast At the end of the eastern eastern east- east ern em side is Albania The sea varies in width from about 50 to miles mUes Narrowest part partis js is at the lower end where it opens Into the Mediterranean There on one side is the bottom of the Italian boot on the other Italian held Albania and the Italian fortified island of That pretty well vell justifies the Italian claim that the Adriatic is an Italian lake They ought to control it so 50 tightly that no vessel would dare stick its nose Inside the entrance at the Strait of Otranto without Italian permission But what happened the other day Accord j 0 1 ing to British admiralty admiralty reports the British Mediterranean fleet battleships cruisers and destroyers penetrated a good hundred miles into the Adriatic The battleships shelled the Albanian port of Valona and the cruisers and destroyers ranged further up the Adriatic to points off Ban Bari Italy and Durazzo Albania without meeting any enemy opposition That put British warships directly athwart the sea communication lines between Italy and Albania It blew up the myth about the Adriatic Adriatic Adri Adri- being an Italian lake It flaunted British sea power right under the nose of Mussolini Mussolini- right in his own back yard What the British are doing to the Italians in Africa and the Greeks are doing to them in Albania is bad enough but for the British to flip their naval skirt skirts in il ii duces duce's face like that thatis is really too muc much That's adding insult to injury in In- jury jury and and injury a dictator may suffer but insult Never We wouldn't blame Benito now if he quit playing picked up his soldiers and went home