PUERILE ACTION
ITALIANS DROP TRINKETS OVER LONDON (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, September 21. Londoners were amused to discover this week that rings, medallions and other trinkets had been dropped bv Italian pilots who took part in airraids over London. There was some speculation as to the purpose of this apparently puerile action. It is now believed that they were intended to encourage members of the Italian Fifth Column" in England. The notion is in conformity with the general course of Italian behavious on other occasions. D Annuncio, for example, dropped roses over Vienna during the last war. All these bits of imitation jewellery bore inscriptions in Italian. One ring, made of pewter, showed a head of Mussolini wearing a tin hat and a particularly grim expression. Underneath were the words, “tireremo diritti,” a punning phrase meaning: “We shall forge ahead” or: “We shall shoot straight.” A medallion had a long exhortation to Italians to preserve unity and follow the Duce.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21821, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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161PUERILE ACTION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21821, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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