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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 8

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"Hundreds of millions of lire go abroad every year in the name of feminine vanity. Enough! The Italian women must give up foreign products and be proud of their Italian nationality even in daily life. It •will be the first great victory they have won for themselves for the nation's sake."

Signor Gayda declares a crusade against foreign wines, liqueurs, sweets, dried fruits, textiles, tobacco, and cars to save the country's gold for coal, petrol, iron, and rubber, "the daily bread of our war industries." It is claimed that Italy will before long be able to substitute all British coal by electric power.

War communique, No. 25, reported: "All quiet" in East Africa. It said: "General do Bono telegraphs that there is nothing new to report on the front. Meanwhile the work of organisation and consolidation is actively proceeding. The surrender of combatants and civilians from the zones not yet occupied continues."

Italy's gas. warfare propaganda campaign started with the appearance in one of the principal Roman squares of a train of six large blue motor display vans.

The leading van was fitted with loud-speakers, which throughout the day repeated a series of lectures on how to behave in case of air raids and the dropping of gas bombs. The other five vans were opened up to reveal a series of graphic posters and tabulated figures relating to gas warfare.

The Borstal Institute's farm at Invercargill has been awarded the Bledisloe Cup for the highest points secured in the baconer class of New Zealand pork entered for the competition held at London by the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. The contest is held every year at the Royal Show in conjunction with the Meat Board's competition;'the present award being. for last year.