Show SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER THE OGDEN 1940 I STANDARD-EXAMINE- 5-- A R Here's Photo of Inner Toronto Horbor After British Roid C 1 5 1 ! 6 - G i i i t i o Is-- - - Everyone is thrilled by a lovely gift from Boyles Here you can find presents for each and every member of the they're alfamily Shop early for the best selections Xmas our Use "layaway plan Special ready selling fast terms easy f o - - - v is n 'm it! ptwi i y : - " — nimnn-i- 9 '"ruminiMiummgjiut r M j This official picture British sources said shows the Inner harbor at the Italian naval base at Taranto as It appeared on a follow up rer onnaissanre flight after a smashing British air raid British sources aid two damaged cruteers of theTrento Has and one other smoking: vessel surrounded by large quantities of fuel oil can be seen together with other Italian- warships This picture ' was radioed from " London to New York TARGET 1 ¥ 1 II ( I iort Her±— wWmJ miiin— x? '" L-- - vw " " - V " ni l l s Plight Desperate Hopeless Thinks Major r 5 1 if if COC: i x Army Routed CD y 3IAJ GEORGE F ELIOT ' '(Copyright 1940 New York Tribune Ind) "While there is notable in recent press dispatches and comments a tendency toward a more gloomy view of Great Britain's situation it i rather' strange that more attention has not been attracted to the aituatlon of another of the" belligerent powers: a situation which can only be described as desperate not hopeless That power is - Olf This state of affairs has "been brought about very largely by the offensive in Greece So far this offensive has had two results: U) It has permitted the British fleet and air force to occupy bases from which far more dangerous and direct attacks may be directed against Italy itself and against the Italian fleet and Italian lines of communication than:" were hitherto possible (2) It has brought about the first defeat by land which has been sus- the axis in this war Otained by Setback Is Permanent The first of these results does toot appear to be susceptible of re- versa! by any force now at Italian : -- I -- Greece is defeatVi a Tt a1 a n Ai4 an1 n atw and air force on the basis of past per fornyuicesV'1 cannot drive the British from the Greek islands and especially from "Crete ' The lines Italian ©f communication ' of the "army in- Libya thus seem likely to Even-i- f vn it i o vr cJLsrposaL 3 1 -- - be permanently impaired the ian island bases in the Dodecanese neutralized and British mand of the eastern Mediterranean indjAegean seas confirmed The second result may of course be reversed by an Italian counter-strok- e This possibility rests very on the ability of the Ital-- largely to maintain the eommunica- ians ' of their tions army (1) across the Starit of -- Otranto- under Anglo- Greek naval and air attack (2) through the port's of Albania likewise under constant air attack and (3) along the few and narrow roads of Albania harassed not only from the air but it would appear by increasing num-beof Albanian guerrillas They fVnust get this counterstroke under kJway before the troops available for tt are eaten up piecemeal in attempting to "withstand the Greek offensive operations which are still being boldly and successfully con- -t ducted and before the Greeks have succeeded in occupying the key points — ports and road junctions— the possession of which the upon counter-offensiv- e must depend for njts sucless sea-co- - m i ' - bomb-shatter- ed rs - Complete Collapse "Possible Unless Italy" can do this and there seems no assurance of the Italian case becomes so bad as to suggest the possibility of complete collapse Consider the factors now involved in Italy's milcer-—sAal- t periled by the establishment of the British in Crete while the British forces in Egypt are being constantly reinforced (4) In Albania an army of about the same strength has been decisively defeated in an attempt to invade Greece has been thrust back into Albanian territory and its communications are tenuous and under heavy attack Navy's Prestige Shattered (5) The Italian navy has been severely injured by the damage inflicted on its capital ships at Taranto and appears' to have been driven from that base and to be pursued and harried by the British fleet The prestige of the Italian navy is probably at the lowest point of that of any navy in any modern r war " -- Aloysus the office boy is so balmy he has bats in his belfry Isn't that Reich? asked the German Well the mercury's staying above freezing and the sun's - ed $15 Value 1- Little As $2 a Week Santa- Velvet Suites low as §59 :? 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xtremely popular All streamlined - (6) The Italian air force does not seem capable of obtaining any reOne year ago if: you care skies sults which would justify much were partly cloudy with 57 degrees greater confidence in uts fighting maximum and 34 degrees minidualities ' i mum (7) There are of course additional Italian troops at home but P S — An old man heard about a these cannot get to Africa or the treatment that would restore his Dodecanese and their ' ability to The medicine was a certain reach Albania is at least definitely youth extract'made" up in pills He bought limited a box But instead of taking one It is very probably consideration every day he swallowed the whole of these circumstances which has boxful one night before going to brought about or greatly influ- bed enced the decision of Bulgaria not j Next morning i the family had to j join the axis at this time has great difficulty in waking the old stiffened the Yugoslav determina- man At last he rolled over and tion to resist axis pressure and has rubbed his eyes "All right all right" :he: grumunquestionably been under consideration by - Gen Weygand But I won't go in bled "Til get: up French North Africa and by Gen to school — Franco at Madrid Another Italian reverse and especially the 'expulNEEDS PEP—--"You sold ' me a sion of the Italians from Albania car two weeks ago" or any great part of that country "Yes sir" "Tell me again all you said about might bring Weygand to the side of the BritLsh thus confirming Brit it then I'm getting discouraged" ish command of the whole Medjter-- f News Item — A rooster put to the 0 imgim nave sucn repercussions in the ax in Nebraska was found to have Balkans as to confront Italy with the necessity of eaten 59 parts of an alarm-clocsuing for German aid or acknowl(Few of us would go to such great ' edging complete defeat length to get rid of a competitor) Hard Pressed by Blockade It should not of course be for gotten that Italy is already suffering severely from the pressure of blockade and that no efforts of her i own seem likely to force reany laxation of this pressure' In my last article I pointed out the possibilities of a German offensive in the Balkan peninsula This possibility still exists but the position of Italy after having been rescued from defeat by her axis partner could not fail to become one of even greater subordination than that of Austria-Hungar- y last war Mussolini's choicein the seems therefore one between defeat by Britain and Greece and grave humiliation amounting to a loss of ependence- - A in Albania now might help victory him certainly a victory in Egypt would nelp very much more But the first is doubtful and he has by his — ( cally of course because of Italy's to blockade upon all her military calculations must be based tha"t the condition of Italv mav wpII present b dp- scribed as desperate Mussolini suessea wrongly when he assumed he was entering a short war — th only sort of war which Italy ccmld iidve aared venture upon he guessed wrongly again when he gambled on the ability of his air force to offset British naval com mand of the eastern Mediterranean he guessed wrongly a third time when he threw increasing stakes on a losing board in the hone of a quick "prestige victory" over Greece Whatever Hitler's military capacity may be it is becoming plentifully that his brother and those com- dictator doesplain port of an army not possess any gifts ' are now munications gravely im- - in that direction well-equipp- A superb cleaner uine Bissell's construc- tion Brand new eGen- Flew Modern By Kroehler Comfortable and ultra stylor ish Choice of loop-tustripe mohair covers" garnet dark rose dusty rose light blue Luxurious 95 Balmy daze reek adventure greatly reduced itary situation: (1) Italy has been at war since the possibilities of the second June Save for the occupation of It is for these reasons and basi"British Somaliland she has no military successes to her credit (2) In East Africa an army of jprhaps 60000 Italian and large Jfilunbers of native troops is cut off from any communication save by air with Its home bases is sur- all sides by hostile aounded on threatened from within by incipient if not immediately active native uprisings and from without by the growing British strength in Kenya Uganda and the Sudan (3) In Libya an army" of possibly £50000 men capably commanded is bogged down and at the edge of the worst desert in Africa which it must cross to get its objective Its communications Smart H M iO j Genuine Dissell's Flight Fleet Battered Supply Lines Con stantly Harassed" Total Collapse Not Impossible Prestige Gone £ XMAS TERMS era |