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Show Page The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2' Saturday, December 14, 1940 Fascist End Of Axis Near: Collapse BY DEWITT MACKENZIE The wobble of the Fascist end Axis Is inof the Berlin-Rom- e creasing dangerously. A fortnight ago when the British signaled a major offensive in against Mussolini, this column that many military experts found it difficult to see how Italy could escape disaster unless Germany was able to save her. What was true then in the midst of the Albanian debacle is doubly true now in view of the Italian rout in western Egypt Grazianii Marshal Fascist army Of invasionis definitely smashed, with huge loss in prisoners and jnaterials. His main still remain intact in forces their heritage is t but Libya, . doubtful one. The Italian' humpty dumpty i Facing Crisis A . t Premier Mussolini, said to be facing crisis with de feats in Greece and Egypt. of Egyptian conquest has had his fall, and it will take more than the kings horses and men to put him together again, Unconfirmed rumors that Hit-ie- r and Mussolini are about to meet are not surprising. This is the greatest military crisis the Axis has encountered thus far. DEPENDS ONPDANES The British, after their initial success in the desert battle, said that the question of whether they could capitalize their smashing victory by an immediate inwould depend vasion on air supremacy a very sound observation. It begins to look, however, as though the Anglo-.Allie- d forces might.be drawn in some distance on the swirling wake of the fast retreating Fascists.- A slowing down of the advance in the immediate future, though, transported. Terrible death lurks would be the normal procedure. in an empty canteen. The temptation to chase a fleeing NAVY ASSISTS We may assume, I think, that enemy right, into his own dugout British wont alis almost irresistible, but its the desert-wis- e low themselves to outrun their fraught with grave danger for the pursuer. He may find that he communications. , Considerable has drawn his communications 'will depend, of course, on the out too thin and is cut off from decree of enemy demoralization. As a matter of historic fact supplies and reinforcements. This .threat is the greater In the British navy by a curious the blazing desert wastes where circumstance has been enabled every drop of water has to be to do a mighty good job of as- - Vichy Orders Art Returned MADRID, Qf-U-bya Dec. 14. (API-F- ifty thousand art treasures and historical documents taken from Spanish museums by Napoleon are being returned by the Vichy the order of fovemment atof State Philippe Petain, it was disclosed here today, The treasures Include several of Murillo's works, among them the' Imaeulada, jeweled crowns ' and tapestries." the Inreturn for the archives, send Spanish government ofwillthe goldback to France part en tent which King Francois of France used at the battle of Pavla in 1925. That relic is made' of golden doth studded with gems. sitting the Royal Air Force, and may also be able to help provide new bases those .for the advancing infantry. The story is fascinating, The military highway along which the Fascists are retreating -runs close to the isea in both Egypt and Libya. Thats the only motor road there is, and the armies are largely dependent on motor transport. British warships are nosing in close to this highway and are blasting the unhappy Italians and their supply trains as neatly as any warplane could do. They also ai e bombarding Italian coastal bases, and there would seem to be no reason why they shouldnt be able to assist the quick transport of essential supplies to keep up with the progress of the British vanguard. EFFICIENCY SHOWN The daring efficiency of the British navy in an emergency is being well demonstrated in the Egyptian show. Larry Alien, .Associated Press correspondent aboard a destroyer In this action, gave this grSphiq report The destroyer on which this is being written and other units of the British navy swept over mine fields to within hall a of the hastily prepared (Fascist) shore batteries and threw heavy fire at the Italians." This act of charging over a mine field fin a matter of extreme urgency) is typical of the British navy. 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