Big}; untry. It describes Italy's great swe- ep; the transformation of the war; the ten weeks of victory and the end of the Ethiopian Empire. The Montreal Standard publishes from the pen of the celebrated Edi- tor, J. L. Garvin, the first connected account of the great Italian reorga- J. L. Grvin's Story of a Most Astonishing Colonial Campaign And the Swift Termination of the 2000-Year-0id Ethiopian Empire Despite sanctions, writes Mr. Gas vin, in the London Observer, the for- mer Ethiopian Empire is dead. Their victories in the last few weeks have been beyond their dreams. It is a wonderful tale. The true account should help the British people to re- alize how they have been bamboozled and misled. Look back. Look back through four months from the pitch of delusion to the shabby disen- ehantment of today. It is an almost unbelievable story. In the egregious week before Christmas the Hoare- Laval proposals were wrecked by a fatuous stampede in the House of Commons. They were better propo- sals for Abyssinia, Britain, and for the wire-worked League itself, than could be offered again. CONFUSED by dissension and pa- nic, the Cabinet turned tail. The late Foreign Secretary resigned. He fol- lowed that signal act of public 00.. _urage by as memorable a speech of Warning. The Sanctionists of all colours and stripes were still too blind. For weeks and weeks more they flattered themselves to the top of their bent. TOWARDS the middle of January they reviewed the situation, as they supposed it to stand after a hundred days of war. What did they say? They estimated that the Italians, al. ready hindered by the little rains, would be paralyzed and jeopardized by the annual deluge in early sum- mer. At the best Badoglio could do nothing much for nearly a year. Ita, lian fighting-power, meanwhile, W0- uid be undermined by sanctions. Knuekling under to Geneva and the Negus would have to be the finish 'of it. The inner counsels of Rome, it was said, were full of gloom. The rumour ran that Badoglio in his turn had already proved a helpless failure in a hopeless task; and that he, too, was about'to be recalled. That was three months ago-just before the whole fabric of sanction- ist credulity began to sway and crash under the pounding Italian Anno VIII, No. 19. zation and triumph during the Ist few months. It is the first stu- I of its kind published in this co- Per provare un piacere nuovo gustate Salada Orange Pekoe Selezionato c, 'lllNlllllllA, IL NOSTRO GIORNALE tt VOSTRO Essa é di Tutti, ma non é di Nessuno tt per Tutti, ma non é per Nessuno. Published by: The ITALIAN PUBLISHING CO. 12 Elm St. - Toronto-Canada H hammer-blows, which have made an end of the former Ethiopian Empire. Some of our Sanctionists said that Ras Desta had done it on purpose. Others were brought by degrees to recognize the brilliancy and extent of Graziani's feat. But they clung the closer to their major delusion. They prophesied that the more por- tentous problems in the north were insoluble except by a "long war" -.r- which sanctions might well prevent the Italians from waging. First Aet--Graziani Destroys Ras Desta. THE first blow came in the south. General Graziani, though a born fighter, had been held up pending reinforcements of men, munitions, and transport. His left flank near Dolo seemed to be ominously mena- ced by Ras Desta with 50,000 men. Our dear Sanctionists speculated that this force might invade southern Somaliland itself and drive the Ita, lians to the sea. For a fortnight, with mechanized speed, the victors swept on and on up the Dava river to Neghelli, 240 miles from Dale. A flying column reached Wadara, forty miles further again. The Italians made enormous captures of arms, munitions, cattle, sheep, stores of all kinds. The chiefs and notables of the Galla Boran hated their Abyssinian tyrants. They made ready submission to the new conquerors. Towards the end of Ja. nuary, Graziani was halted by dis- tance, rain, and rising mountains; but in the south he had cleared his left flank for good, and won the lar- get part of the area conceded to Ita, ly by the Hoare-Laval proposals. On January 12 Gratiani fell on Ras Desta; smashed up his front in tht valleys of the Dava and the Ga- nale Doria; and annihilated his ar- my by battle and pursuit. The Greater Task And Triumph THAT noble genius the Emperor, we were told, still held the initiative. "He strikes as he likes." He was represented as a Solomon in e011n- sel and a Fabius in the field. Did not Ras Imru's host near Aksum and Adowa haunt the Shire range with impunity? The armies of Ras Sey.. yum and Ras Kassa-were they not impregnable in their terrible strong- hold of Tembien, with its maze of crags and fissures; and growing every day more confident and ag-. gressive? What could Badoglio do? THAT masterly soldier held his hand and bided his hour. When he moved in earnest his notice was a thunderbolt. And it was but the swept away all Abyssinian forces and hopes. In less thari ten weeks Badoglio has transformed the whole war. Everything considered, these astonishing operations rank beyond question as the greatest achievement of their kind in the annals of coloni- al campaigns. 0LI_EI_II'I N0 ONLY ITALIAN WEEKLY PUBLISHED IN ONTARIO AND WESTERN CANADA Entered at Ottawa Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. ITALO " CAhiAEMEtiiiiEii: Second Act-Amba Aradanr--The Key Battle MONDAY, February 10 saw the launching of an offensive calculated and executed with equal power. Badoglio began by attacking stra- ight. There his advance along the great north road of Abyssinia, stret- ching on from Makale, was hugely blocked by Amba Aradam-a mighty massif five miles broad and tower- ing 9,000 feet high. The caverns of this natural citadel were the head... quarters of Ras Mulugheta, a hap- less veteran, chosen by the Negus to command his strongest army. The week's battle was the biggest of the war up to then. Assailed from two sides and then encircled, Amba Ara- dam was stormed on the Saturday. Heavily bombed while in wild flight, the Abyssinians suffered nearly 20,- 000 casualties altogether in the bat- tle and its aftermath. Their cause never recovered. Now came the culminating sur- prise. Along the great north road the Abyssinians made no further stand. The Italian advance became a sweep. Provisioned by aircraft-- which had supplied a whole division in Ttbien-their vanguard at Eas.. ter covered 120 miles in six days. Then Dessie was taken without a blow. Thence the Emperor's own good motor road-and another fair- ish road by a longer traek-runs for about 180 miles to Addis Ababa. That name, as we all know by now, means "New Flower." Most of our Sanctionists in Great Britain refused to recognize that anything very remarkable had hap- pened. Some said that before the great rains the Italians, after all, could not hope to get farther than Amba Alagi, the next crux ahead. Others invoked again inverted com- mas for the "victory". The Italians would be forced to "pause"--in the sense indicated by more inverted commas. Or else the farther they advanced the more vulnerable they would be. Third Aet--Abyssiriian Debacle--- The Drive to Dessie LESS than another fortnight suf- ficed to demolish this sort of stuff, and to pulverize every particle of it. The Italians never paused. Spread- ing out as well as advancing, they conquered right and left. Swinging round they cleared Tambien partly by attack, partly by enveloping stra- tegy. From all this region far and wide the three broken armies or Ras Seyyum, Ras Kassa, and Ras Imru poured away pell-mell. The Italian right flank was freed at last from every peril and encumbrance. The whole of Tigre was solidly in their grip. Still there was no "pause." Thro- ughout March the .main advance pressed on at accelerating speed. Beyond Amba Alagi the Italians fo- Light and won, at the beginning of April, the battle of Lake Ashangi. It proved decisive with a vengeance. The Emperor's Reserve Army, com.. manded by Haile Selassie in person, was totally routed. SOON, even this seemed little mo- re than a prelude. On the main road Amba Alagi loomed up-another ex- traordinary obstacle like Amba Ara- dam, but worse. By the end of February the Italian tricolor stre- amed from the top of it. SO much for the great ten weeks' drive along the main line of campa- Fourth Act -- Gondar and Lake Tana - Harar Next? astxoiiIBe,JlliLlLEy'rllitlttitt ign from Makale to beyond Dessie- 200 miles forward, and with cumuL ative rapidity. Yet this is but the picture. No less astonishing and perhaps not less important have been the parallel operations. it rather to epic road-making un- matched in military history-to air power-to mechanized transport--to machine guns and artillery-to com. summate political direction and mi., litary leadership together-and to the prowess and endurance of the troops, both Europeans and Askaris. In all the annals of our diplomacy there has been nothing like it. We deeply fear that for a long time yet its further consequences will have to be felt and paid for. Meanwhile Ministers are at least struggling heroically to keep out the gorgonzola. Or as much of it as has not been turned already, by an unex- pected chemistry of sanctions, into French green cheese. La vittoriosa avanzata delle trup- pe italiane sulle rive del Iago Tana aveva fornito agli inglesi il pretesto per creare, negli ambienti egiziani, un'artificiosa agitazione. I Si deve subito riconoscere che 1a stampa cairota e alessandrina non ha, questa volta, abboccato all'amo del vecchio pescatore britannico, e la subdola manovra ha avuto forse l'ef.. fetto contrario a quello che Albione si riprometteva; essa ha servito a ri.. mettere sul piano di una ragionevole comprensione e di una reciproca lealta' le nostre relazioni con l'Egiu to. Sanctions have doubled the force, hardness, and cohesion of the Italian people, and brought them to the top of their spirit and powers. So far, as we said, they have conquered be- yond their dreams. The great rally from mid-June, will be far more ad., verse to Abyssinian connections than first of a series. They burst up and to Italian. For all that Geneva can do, Duce has won his war despite the League. He will not make peace through the League. Never will he accept its tu.. telage. Never can the barbarous medley called the Ethiopian empire be restored to its former shape. GRAVE INSUCCESS0 BELLE MANOVRE INGLESI IN EGITTO Moving easily along the Anglo.. Sudanese frontier, the Italians 0c- cupied Gallabat, where they are now cheeks by jowl with our own dank troops. Two audacious columns ma- de from different quarters for a mo- re historic objective. One of them crossed the gorge of the Takkazze river and dared the march through the outer part of the tremendous mountain country of Semien. These columns met at Gondar. Once a le- gendary capital, it still regards Ad- dis Ababa as an upstart town. Gon, dar is near Lake Tana. On the north shore of that famous expanse-one of the head sources of the "river of Egypt"-the Italian tricolor was ho- isted on Easter Sunday. in Great Britain are as mistaken as before when they vociferate that the Italians owe their advantage chief., 1y to poison gas. These Italians owe In Abyssinia, the Sanctionists ha.. ve doomed the victims of their pa- tronage. Through Europe they have spread mischief and danger. This is the situation a few short months af.. ter the wrecking of the Hoare-Laval proposals by the stupid stampede. For ten months the British Gov- ernment has pursued a policy of unique ineptitude equally inglorious and injurious. THE remnants of the Sanctionists Venerdi, 15 Maggio 1936 - Inutilité delle Sanzioni Echi ai Comuni Canadesi "Permetteremo alI'Inghilterra di parlare per noi nei consigli del mon- do? Non avremo una voce indipem dente? Dobbiamo solo aderire dope Pevento e si deve aspettare da noi il contributo dei giovani canadesi Che possono essere chiamati per i possi- bili errori degli uomini di stato bri- tannici, o perché un partito politico, che ha la ventura d'essere a1 potere oggi, persegue una politica Che non é negl'interessi della pace mondia- le?" Con queste parole il leader del C. C. F. ha chiesto ai Comuni Canadesi una discussione sulla situazione eu- ropea, rifiutata dal capo del Gover.. no, d'aceordo con il leader de1l'oppo- sizione On. Bennett, per la ragione che la delicata situazione in Europa potrebbe aggravarsi con una discus. sione pubblioa sulla questions delle sanzioni al1'Italia. La scusa di sostenere la Lega, oggi che si é vista quanta la Lega sia oziosa e dannosa eosi' com'é, non pu6 ricevere l'appoggio d'un paese neutro come é il Canada, che ha una coscienza civile da permettergli di guidarsi da solo, senza' falsi senti- mentalismi. "WW" ----- Coloniale della Vittoria. PER I GIOVANI CHE VOGLIONO 29 Maggio--- Serata della Famee PARTECIPARE AI CAMPEGGI 21 Giugno-- Parata del Santo Nome ESTIVI e Cresima nella Chiesa di St. A- I giovani che parteciperanno ai gnese. campeggi estivi in Italia, partiranno Furlane, nella sala St. Agnese. da New York, il 3 Luglio p. v., sul 28 Giugno- Pienie della Parrocchia "Conte di Savoia" e faranno ritorno di St. Agnese. probabilmente sul "Roma", il 17 A- 1 Luglio-- Picnic della Societa' Italo- gosto da Napoli, in arrivo a New Canadese. York il 27 dello stesso mese. 5 Luglio-- Picnic della Societa' li'riu.. Quest'anno vi é un certo numero lama. di posti a meta' tariffa, che impor. 12 Luglio- Pienie del Fascia e Com- ta la spesa di $53, pia' $8 di "Head battenti. tax" che peré sara' rimborsata. Di 19 Luglio - Picnic della Sodeta' Ca- questi posh" possono usufruire tutti boto, i giovani italiani. 26 Luglio- Picnic della Soeieta' SteL Per informazioni rivolgersi al Ci. la Alpina. po Gruppo dei Fasci, o direttamente 2 Agosto--- Pellegrimggio italiano a al R. V. Consolato d'Italia in Toron- Midland. to. Quelli delle Scuole Italiane si Ultimo lunedi di Carnevale--. Ballo devono rivolgere ai loro insegnanti. dei Figli d'Italia. mmmmuwmoowwmmomm In altri termini, questo gignifiea che fino a giugno il Canada manter- ra' 1e sanzioni, ma é assai problema- tico se dopo tale data dara' il suo appoggio ad un'azione inutile, che aggrava la crisi europea, e pu6 coinvolgere il paese in una guerra, solo per salvare la faccia di qualche politieante inglese. Malgrado la stampa di Toronto, piu' codina di quella inglese, il pae- se sente che ha ben altri problemi da risolvere Che non sia quello di la- I giovani che parteciperanno ai campeggi estivi in Italia, partiranno da New York, il 3 Luglio p. v., sul "Conte di Savoia" e faranno ritorno probabilmente sul "Roma", il 17 A- gosto da Napoli, in arrivo a New York il 27 dello stesso mese. Quest'anno vi é un certo numero di posti a meta' tariffa, che impor. ta la spesa di $53, pia' $8 di "Head tax" che peré sara' rimborsata. Di questi posh" possono usufruire tutti i giovani italiani. sciarsi dinesi . EBANCHETTO i Della Vittoria lmperiale 'ooo-too-oo-ot-to-tooo-ol- Coperto $2.00 q------.--.--------'-.""-"-""-"'---. t KING EDWARD HOTEL-Crystal Ballroom , 24 Ill/Silo,., 1936 IL BANCHETTO ehiudera' la Grande Celebrazione, che comincia con un SERVIZIO RELIGIOSO '11 S. Agnese, Memoria dei Caduti per la Patria, seguito dalla CERIMONIA CIVILE nel Madison Theatre, il pomeriggio alle ore 2 precise. Le manifestazioni commemorative saranno presenziate daile R. R. Autorita' Consolari. Tenuto Dagli Italiani Di Toronto Ad Iniziativn Doi Combattenti Con La Presenza delle R.R. A. CONSOLARI impegolare nelle beghe Ion. Telefono: WA, 7306 Domenica Noi edifichiamo! I nostri monumenti-piu' belli sono l. PERI LLI, Edit. T. La Scuola Italiana di Toronto. Il Comitato Economico Italo..Canadese Non meno fieri essi sono dei Duco, che del cuore nostro ha il dominio complete. L'uomo, tanto ingiusta- mente vilipeso dai nemici d'Italia, vivra' imperituro Rel cuore degl'ita- liani oggi e in quelli a venire, fine alla consumazione dei secoli e sara' il timore di tutti i nemici degl'italia- tu. La notizia é stata accolta dagPi. taliani nel Regno e fuori con un giu- bilo, un entusiasmo indescyivibili. ou. vunquc si sono svolte feste e molte ancora se rte preparano. Telegram- mi sono stati inviati a migliaia in Italia. Il Gran Consiglio prima, i1 Consi- glio dei Ministri poi e infinie i1 Par., lamento Italianb, hanno proclamato l'Impero Italiano 'l'Etiopia, anmm- ciato dal suo artefice, il Duce,- sa- bato scorso agl'italiani e al mondo. zione della Vittoria a St. Agnese. 21 Maggio--- Banchetto a St. Agne- se in onore dell'Arciveseovo. 24 Maggio-- Grande Celebrazione Essi sono-fieri del loro Re Solda., to, divenuto Imperatore degli Etio. pi; gioiscono, con le lacrime agli oe.. chi, perché Dio ha concesso a Lui, che tanto ha date per il suo popolo, la gioia di cirtgere la Corona Impe- riale, tra gli osanna degl'italiani e- sultanti. MPER0 ITALICO Gl'italiani all'Estero si uniscono a quelli del regno in quest'ora di glo- ria coronata di Vittoria che aleggia supra la Patria e nel cuore d'ogni italiano. - (lhlfillllMlll (llll.Mlhlf .17 Maggio- Messa per la Celebrs. Evviva l'Irn pero Italicod Ore 8 P.M. "Daylight Saving Time" Coppia $3.00 TORONTO, Canada l