Evening star., 1940-11-18
kusso|ini Vows
10 Break Back
Pledges War to Go
On Till Britain
Is AnnihiIuted
(MuSSolini Te,rt. Page A-3.)

the Associated Press.
ROME. Nov. l8.-BenitO Mus
bllni broke the silence of his five
onths at war today to promise
pc will break GreoCe'S back if it
keS a year: to swear that Britain
Pd in reporting destruction of half
ItalV's battleships and to VOW
pa the conflict will 60 until Eng
nd is annihilated.
Bitterly, II DuCe called Britain
he modern Carthage" likening it
that ancient power which, by
beans of naval might, gripped both
lU;es of the Mediterranean. He
harged the Greeks with absolute
omplicity" in long standing
British plot to make Italy impotcnt,
He acknowledged that no light
ling war could be wagcd in the mud
nd mountains of Greece, but he
declared that Italy had the men and
neans to break that nation unas-
listed
Have Million Under Arms.
"We have million men under
rms he declared on the fifth
anniversary of economic sanctions
gainst Italy which grew out OF the
Ethiopian campaign, and We could
all 100000 more"
In denying British claims that half
bf Italy's battlCShiDS were put out of
fCtion for a long time in an air
laid on the naval base at laramie
: asst week, II Duce said only one war
khip was damaged so badly that she
tould not be repaired within a rela-
fively short time.
Speaking at his PalazzO Venezia,
be listed Italy'S losses in the Greek
campaign as 372 dead, 1,O81 wound
|ed and $50 missing in the first 10
days of the Greek war and shouted:
"They will be revenged. for what
over happens, I will never turn
back"
Plane Output Quadrupled.
Mussolini declared Italy was turn
ing out four times more airplanes
DC4OL I lIlt Nd4 anu NI4NN
I'm a short time. with mass pro-
duction. our new types Will be per
haps ahead and certainly equal to
the most modern planes Of other
countries"
In the British raid on Taranto,
Mussolini acknowledged that three
Italian ships we're hit but said
none was sunk and only one of
them-as the bulletin Of our armed
forces announced-WaS seriously
damaged and its repair will require
q long time
1T is false, I say, that two other
varships and two auxiliary vessels
were sunk, or hit or damaged even
slightly in any way" Mussolini as
serted 1T is a sign of bad con-
science, this enlargement and multi
plication by six Of the success which
we acknowledged"
Citing Italy's axis alliance, Mus
solini declared that from day to day
our collaboration with Germany is
really comradely and totalltarian.
We are marching side by side
our identity of views. both for the
present and for the future, is perfect.
MY meetings with the Fuehrer
are only conservation OF this COM
plete fusion of our conceptions.
The three-power pact among Ger
many. Italy and Japan, develop
ments in the Danublan basin, as well
as THE future position of France" ,"
resulted from those meetings, II
Duce said.
Charges Hate to Greeks.
Turning to the war against Greece.
II Duce said the Greeks hate Italy
as no other people although the
reason is a mystery
Greek foreign policy in recent
years was based on this hatred, he
charged. describing it as a policy of
"absolute completely with Great
Britain"
TT could not be otherwise" he
shouted, considering the King is
English. the political class is English
and the bourse. in both a figurative
and real sense, is English
Papers found by the German gen.
eral staff in France. he declared.
showed Greece had offered the Allies
all its air and naval bases since last
May.
The rough mountains of Epirus
and its muddy valleys do not lend
themselves to lightning war he
I do not believe
it worth the trouble to deny all the
news given by Greek propaganda
and its English loudspeaker.
Quotes Gen. Soddu.
That Julia Alpine division which
was supposed to have suffered enor-
NOUS losses, fled and been pull
verized by the Greeks, was seen by
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