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T

HE Italian Press is

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 land flowing with milk and

ABYSSINIA: Price £5,000,000 a Month

honey, of gold and silver, pre- sully forth, and drive the dis- Rd.cious stones and metals, gush- pirited invaders from the land ing oil geysers, thriving homes-no, Abyssinia 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

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The Italian monarch has been the tallan Government is that crowned Emperor of Abyssinia. the main armies cannot be The Mussolini family have re- brought home they must now Įceived a lavish share of honours, remain to conquer or perish, The shoutings of the captains Next, aut 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' abroad.

for many things.

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The Italian armies need food

BUT whatever the people and mountains of it-they need have been led to believe houses and hospitals, they need there is now good reason for a continuous supply of arms and saying that the Italian Govern- ammunition. ment is awakening to some very

Above all they need transport unpalatable truths about the to move men and goods over the 2,000 miles of roads hi a Abyssinian venture.

asked regarding measures to Apart from driblets, the country where there is no rail-

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Italy?

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FACTS

Oct. 3, 1945-With no formal declaration of war, Italian

forces crassed the March River,

Oct. 6, 1935-Italian captured Adown. Oct. 5 and 8, 1935---Italians captured Gorahai and Makale, Oct. 28, 1935-Marshal Badoglio replaced de Boud, Dec. 6, 1935-Italians bombed Dessie.

Dec. 31, 1935-Italians bombed Red Cross units. Jan. 12, 1936–General Graziani launched-Southern offen- *Feb. 15, 1936--Italians captured Aniba Aredam.

March 1. 1946-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.

July 28, 1938-Abyssinian counter-attack on Addis routed,

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BRITAIN, with

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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 week, the health returns show having left that nasty little job redawn to Addis, and a river death-roll of fifty or sixty from to mercenary native troops, with that runs west and north, not

Abys- this disease; in other

the result that the Italian cast! words, casualties have been few, but

Even if it were possible to statement which will have a pro sible platinum mines in some 2,800 people die in Hong-where are the "200,000 sons" 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 (DB2800/2) | kong yearly from this scourge.

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

problem, which, unlike that. of is already barred to Italy by the handsomely to Italians-or any (DB4424/5) whole story, for not all the cases!

THEY appear to be stuck other countries, is rising, not Johnson Act, and Italy is thus olaer nationals who will tell to win almost in- are notified; besides which, it is in the swamps and mad failing. In 1930 it was 425,000, placed in the predicament of them how a common custom for people in of Abyssinia waiting for that in 1932 over 1,000,000, in 1935 having the world money market exhaustible stores of platinum closed for any further expendi at commercial prices from the deliant matrix in their terris the last stages of the disease to distant day when they will be As unemployment -

able to take up the unfinished from way employment-mounts

apart ture in Abyssinia. leave the Colony and die in task of conquest and occupation, higher so do the costs of war. London.

tories. All three markets, New York,

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

Paris. has already There are vast spaces in this italian apologists are fond of noted three eloquent financial tokd: "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

rrance which never have seen has been-a-cheap-one-because first one prohibited-export--of-ton."____What! _Grow__lemons_to_ stuted on:Tuesday, no sanatorium and probably never may see, an fewer than 2,500 Italians lost tire in excess of 5,000; that was be transported 200 miles over- CHATER ROAD. in the Colony for the treatment Italian!

of the disease: all that is done

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 a 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 ure. the hospitals. The problem is, where and for what it is worth been disclosed to the public,

Cotton, it is true, can be grown there is as we say, one of extraordin-iopian tradition which every not been paid!

that embarrassing probably because the bills have

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 ginia and the founding of the Of course all these miracles which in turn causes overcrowd- utterly broken and ruined into may somehow have met this, the public hoped for

ruler of Abyssinia was driven a month; the Italian Exchequer new Roman Empire, just when may be performed, but at what

some re- price" ing, a potent factor both in the the mountains of the West to but, alas, the war is still far 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- disease. There can be no ques-

be costing nearly £5,000,000 a cree actually reducing export GREAT

all her expenditure, all tion of the need of large-scale tially below two dollars. These

to only 300 lire in paper and 50 ¡ her colonial experience and The illusion imposed on the lire in cash-value £6! slum clearance in the Colony, for are the type of people housed people of Italy will not mes-

tradition, has after 30 "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 |increases — 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 family. 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-

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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-

in the FRANTIC attempts, are one of the many "raw materials" 2,000,000 emigrants perty, using its compulsory pow-ternative accommodation with

being made to maintain with which the world is sur 1,000,000 square miles of Ger- Sun-wrinkles from around your

feited, as evidenced by the fact man colonies at administrative. ers to the fullest limit possible, in the means of the poorest of

the "home front" by the issue that the Federal Government of and other costs of nearly 100 of fantastic promises. The Brazil has destroyed since 1930 million pounds. eyes by an afternoon tratment There is equal need for drastic the poor. Yet it is clear that Piccolo announced two months over $6,000,000 bags of the best Italy herself, with Eagt action in Hongkong, and it is to no effective attack can be made ago that Mussolini's programme coffee in the world owing to African colonies more than

the settlement of with ELIZABETH ARDEN'S be hoped that the Housing Com-on tuberculosis so long as these included

4,000,000 people in Abyssinia. lack of purchasers, even though twice the size of Italy, has dur- 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 than 500 Italians to settle in commend strong measures with sanatorium facilities were avail- of overseas settlement is taken, 234, n bag!

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

tends to settle one million communique issued from Rome, Pritrea, similar in character to sity of the problem is attested drift back to overcrowded tone-families of four persons each, "Italian engineers have dis Abyssinin, Mussolini's subsi- 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 coloniautor schemes were

sion, although appointed many which they may have derived

richest platinum mines: in the so unsuccessful that only 84 skin around the eyes and under months ago, has not yet got be from their treatment.. It will Even if the population in world."

farmers would settle there, with the result that the Duce de- smooth/yond the preliminary stage of thus be seen that the problemerease of Italy of 400,000 per-

bristles with difficulties. The

elded before the war to abandon the chin, leaving a

inquiry. One of the most scri-root cause is admittedly ccone in this way it would cost nearly

THE Italian people were the schemes because they were not informed that there so costly; the two colonial ter- These are obtainable ous issues involved in any big mic, and whatever measures 325,000,000 a year.

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 were in fact costing in tive accommodation, at a rental of the standard of living must of of the war not yet in sight, the waiting for the day when some subsidies before the war 65,-

occupation, body will show their owners 000,000 lire per annum! settlement schemes re- how to extract the metal at a By making great sacrifices within the capacity of the people necessity be a slow and laborious mounting costs of

process. But meantime there is the

millions price which will compete with tropical.. and, sub-tropical ter displaced. In this connection, it

certainly a call for such remedial quiring unestimated

enormous importance Russian platinum from

modest return, the ritories give u is illuminating to bear in mind measures as may at any rate make of

the assurance given to Parlia-Urals!

but that they provide any solu- that in the cases dealt with by make some impression on

If any Italians can tell govern- tion for European troubles of the Society for the Protection scourge which takes such ament by Mr. Neville Chamber

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 Italya need not bother about inacces- illusion. per head por month is substan- ' health of the Colony,

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