ITALY'S PLANS.
SETTLING ETHIOPIA. Colonists to be Organised on Semi-Military Lines. HIGH TARIFF ON FOREIGNERS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) ROME, June 26. The first zone in Abyssinia to be opened to colonists will be territory round Addis Ababa, and thereafter, Harrar, Jimma and the Lake Tsana area. Plans are being drawn up to provide that settlers will not grow produce to compete with Italy but to concentrate on coffee, cotton, wool, hides, sugar and grain. The first colonists will be organised in a semi-military fashion, ready to use rifles wherever there is need. Industrial workers will come later, but there is no intention of establishing industries that will compete with the home country. Italian exports will be accorded the predominant place on the Abyssinian markets by means of high tariffs against foreign goods. Plans are also to be drawn up to make Addis Ababa a model African town, and a commission will be sent to Kenya and the Sudan to study agricultural methods. Experts estimate that between a third and half of. Abyssinia is unsuited for cultivation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1936, Page 9
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