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MUSSOLINI HASN'T

WON

YET

By

Sir John Harris -

THE Italian Press is

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now being used to dangle before the eyes of the Italian people the most fantastic visions about the golden era following upon the Abyssinian inva- sion.

Abyssinia is to be at once the and flowing with milk and

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ABYSSINIA: Price:

£5,000,000 a Month

honey, of gold and silver, pre sally forth and drive the dis- Stubbs Rd. tious stones and metals, gush- pirited 'invaders from the land ing oil geysers, thriving homes-no, Abyssinin is not yet wholly for happy Italian families, and conquered-and very far from apparently all to be had for the being even "occupied." asking!

The first illusion then, for The Italian monarch has been the Italian Government is that crowned Emperor of Abyssinia. the main armies cannot be The Mussolini family have re- brought home--they must now ceived a lavish share of honours. remain to conquer or perish. The shoutings of the captains Next, that armies in being have and of the people have awakened to be paid for, and armies are mixed echoes at home and machines that hunger and thirst Jabroad.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1936,

TUBERCULOSIS AND POVERTY

to measures

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The Italian armies need food

FACTS

Oct. 3, 1935-With no formal declaration of war, Italian

forces crossed the March River. Oct. 6, 1935-Italians captured Adowa. Oct. 5 and 8, 1936-Italians captured Gorahai and Makale. Oct. 28, 1935-Marshal Badoglio replaced de Bono. Dec. 6, 1935--Italians bombed Dessic.

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Dec. 31, 1935-Italians bombed Red Cross units. Jan. 12, 1936-General Graziani launched Southern offen- Feb. 15, 1936-Italians captured Amba Aradam. March 1; 1936-Ras Kassa's army smashed at battle of

Tembien.

March 3, 1936-Ras Imaru's army in flight. April 1, 1936-Emperor's army destroyed. May 2, 1936-Flight of Emperor.

sive.

July 28, 1936-Abyssinian counter-attack on Addis routed.

BUT whatever the people and mountains of it-they need One of Hongkong's biggest

have been led to believe houses and hospitals, they need and most difficult health

there is now good reason for a continuous supply of arms and pro- (DB-1762)blems was raised at Tuesday's ment is awakening to some very

saying that the Italian Govern- ammunition.

Above all they need transport meeting of the Urban Council, unpalatable truths about the to move men and goods over. the 2,000 miles of roads in a when a series of questions was Abyssinian venture. asked regarding

Apart from driblets, the country where there is no rail- Jarmies are not marching home; way or river transport except combat tuberculosis. Week after true they have done no fighting, the single French line from (DB-2367/8) week, the health returns show having left that nasty little job redawa to Addis, and a river death-roll of fifty or sixty from to mercenary native troops, with that runs west and north, not (DB2528/9) this disease; in other words, casualties have been few, but

the result that the Italian cast!:

Even if it were possible to statement which will have a pro- sible platinum mines in Abys some 2,800 people die in Hong-where are the "200,000 song" of bring the armies home, Musso- found effect on the Paris money sinia, for either of the South

lini knows they would only add market.

African companies or the Sierra Italy 2 (DB2600/2) kong yearly from this scourge.

to his tantalising unemployment The American money market Leone Government will pay But that is by no means the

problem, which, unlike that of is alrendy barred to Italy by the handsomely to Italians or any whole story, for not all the cases

THEY appear to be stuck other countries, is rising, not Johnson Act, and Italy is thus other nationals who will tell are notified; besides which, it is In the swamps and mud falling. In 1930 it was 425,000, placed in the predicament of them how to win almost in- a common custom for people in of Abyssinia waiting for that in 1932 over 1,000,000, in 1995 having the world money market exhaustible stores of platinum closed for any further expendi- at commercial prices from the defiant matrix in their terri- the last stages of the disease to distant day when they will be 1,011,721!

able to take up the unfinished from war employment-mounts

Ая unemployment — apart fure in Abyssinia.

tories. (Album: 68) leave the Colony, and die in task of conquest and occupation. higher so do the costs of war. London, Paris, has already- All three markets, New York,

Then the Italian people are their own country. There is,”

There are vast spaces in this Italian apologists are fond of noted

three eloquent financial told: "Our colonising. families as the Government spokesman country nearly twice as large as telling the world that the war decrees, issued in Rome; the will grow citrus fruits and cot

France which never have seen, has been a cheap one because first one

prohibited export of ton." What! Grow lemons to Italian!

their lives; that may be so, but bad enough, but it was followed land to compete with equally Then there is an Ethiopian the financial cost has been so few months later by another good Italian lemons on the sea- is to give palliative treatment in Government "in being" some- embarrassing that it has never cut to 2,000 lire. the hospitals. The problem is, where--and for what it is worth been disclosed to the public, there is that embarrassing probably because the bills have, as we say, one of extraordin-opian tradition which every not been paid!

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CHATER ROAD. in the Colony for the treatment

Elizabeth Arden

Beauty Preparations

of the disease: all that is done

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GREAT BRITAIN, .with to only 300 lire in paper and 60 her colonial experience

all her, expenditure, all

and

board of Genoa!

Cotton, it is true, can be grown in the Nile region, but again...... THEN immediately after there is the problem of road ary difficulty, and it exists child is taught from the cradle It has been estimated that it

the annexation of Abys- transport. mainly by reason of poverty, of how Lebna Dengel when cost not less than £10 millions sinia and the founding of the Of course all these miracles ruler of Abyssinia was driven a month; the Italian Exchequer new Roman Empire, just when may be performed, but at what which in turn causes overcrowd-utterly broken and ruined into may somehow have met this, the public hoped for some rc- price? fing, a potent factor both in the the mountains of the West to but, alas, the war is still for laxation, the money market contraction and spread of the await the day when he could from finished and must even now suffered the shock of a new de- be costing nearly £5,000,000 a cree actually reducing export disease. There can be no ques-

,month, tion of the need of large-scale tially below two dollars. These The illusion imposed on the lire in cash-value £51 slum clearance in the Colony, for are the type of people housed people of Italy will not

tradition, has after 30 years mes- "But," the Italian public is only been able to "settle" just both in the city and on the main-in the slums of the Colony-merise them much longer, for told, "think of the wealth that over 2,000 men in the neigh land there are human rabbit-people who cannot even afford as months pass by their misery Italian colonists will create for bouring colony of Kenya, few Jincreases the standard of us, think of the coffee they will of them, be it noted, at a cost warrens the existence of which a small cubicle, but have to be living point of Italy being taken produce for Europe and the of less than £2,000 a family. ought not to be tolerated. In content with a bed-space for the at 100 compares with the Ger- East

Germany, with her admirable England, the Government has needs of the whole familly. These man 234 and the British 435!

But the unfortunate Italian technique, was in 30 years able embarked on a huge scheme for facts suffice to show how dif

people are not told that this is to settle only 10,000 of her Banish those frown lines and demolition of uninhabitable proficult it would be to provide al-

one of the many "raw materials" 2,000,000 emigrants in the FRANTIC attempts are with which the world is sur 1,000,000 square miles of Ger- being made to maintain feited, as evidenced by the fact man colonies at administrative Sun-wrinkles from around your perty, using its compulsory pow-ternative accommodation with

ers to the fullest limit possible. in the means of the poorest of of fantastic promises.

the "home front" by the issue that the Federal Government of and other costs of nearly 100

The Brazil has destroyed since 1980 million pounds. eyes by an afternoon tratment There is equal need for drastic the poor. Yet it is clear that Piccolo announced two months

with East action in Hongkong, and it is to no effective attack can be made ago that Mussolini's programme over 36,000,000 bags of the best Italy herself, coffee in the world owing to African colonies the with ELIZABETH ARDEN'S be hoped that the Housing Com-on tuberculosis so long as these inclu

settlement of

more than lack of purchasers, even though twice the size of Italy, has dur (4,000,000 people in Abyssinia. mission will not hesitate to re-slum areas persist: even if free If the lowest known family cost prices had dropped from 54s. to ing 40 years failed to get more ANTIWRINKLE CREAM. commend strong measures with anatorium facilities were avail-of overseas settlement is taken, 235. a bag!

than 500 Italians to settle in this end in view. The immen-

"Never mind," answers a them, whilst in the colony of able, the patients would again namely £200, and the Duce in-

one million communique issued from Rome, Eritrea, similar in character to MUSCLE OIL will nourish the by the fact that the Commis-ments, undoing all the good the initial cost would be over covered in Abyssinia one of the dised colonisator schemes were sity of the problem is attested drift back to overcrowded tene families of four persons each. "Italian engineers have dis- Abyssinia, Mussolint's subsi- sion, although appointed many which they may have derived skin around the eyes and under months ago, has not yet got be- from their treatment. It will +200,000,0001

Even if the population in- world.”

farmers would settle there, with yond the preliminary stage of thus be seen that the problem crease of Italy of 400.000 per-

the result that the Duce de smooth

bristles. with difficulties. Tho the chin, leaving a

cited before the war to nöandon”” sons per annum were absorbed inquiry. One of the most seri-root cause is admittedly econo-in this way it would cost nearly THE Italian people were the schemes because they were

£26,000,000 a year.

not informed that there so costly; the two. colonial ter- texture. These are obtainable fous issues involved in any big mic, and whatever measures are scheme of slum clearance will be ultimately deemed necessary,

The cost of the war not hav, are a dozen others equally rich ritories of Eritrea and Somali- primary account will have to be the finding of suitable alterna- taken of this fact. The raising ing been met, the financial end in certain parts of the world land wero In fact costing in at the

tive accommodation, at a rental of the standard of living must of of this not yet in sight, the waiting for the day when some subsidies before the war 65,- within the capacity of the people necessity be a slow and laborious mounting costs of occupation, body will show their owners 000,000 lire per annum! displaced.. In this connection, it process. But meantime there is the settlement schemes re- how to extract the metal at a By making, great sacrifices certainly a call for such remedial quiring unestimated millions price, which will compote with tropical and, sub-tropical ter is illuminating to bear in mind measures as may at any rate make of enormous importance Russian platinum from the ritories give a modest return..

but that they provide any solu that in the cases dealt with by make some Impression on a the assurance given to Parlin Urals! the Society for the Protection scourge which takes such a ment by Mr. Neville Chamber. If any Italians can tell govern- tion for European troubles of dread toll and which must have lain, namely, that he would ments or mining corporations over population or lift the bur- of Children the average income adverse effects on the general give no countenance to public how to square that circle they den of debts is Indeed a great

or private loans to Italy need not bother about inacces-Illusion. per head per month is anbistan-health of the Colony,

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