A NEW ADDIS ABABA
Italy's plans to rebuild Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia, and make it a model city have been completed, and work has been announced to begin after the rainy season in October. It is estimated that the work will cost £33,000,000, spread over three years. Another £8,000,000 will be spent by private enterprise. All raw materials will have to be obtained from the mother country, but experts have been sent from Italy to find wood on the spot suitable for building purposes, for fuel, and for furniture. All business concerns which intend to have branch offices in Addis Ababa have already sent representatives to Abyssinia to draw up plans for their buildings in collaboration with the authorities. So far 43 business concerns have intimated that they will have branch offices there. Once Addis Ababa has been rebuilt it will become, it is claimed, the nerve centre of the Empire, and the clearing house for all business.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 10
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160A NEW ADDIS ABABA Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 10
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