DUCE AS HORSEMAN
JUMPED 19 HURDLES
LONDON, July 27. Mussolini will celebrate his fiftyseventh birthday next Monday. He showed correspondents how he was keeping fit.
A message from Rome states that riding in a ring at Villa Colonia, he cleanly jumped 19 hurdles, including an obstacle of five feet two inches though cavalrymen following dislodged the top bar. He was mounted on a Hanover cavalry horse.
Speaking subsequently to newspapermen m German, he asked: "An I sick' n£* J Sf- d?" He smiled and galoped ott. This was the first Press interview in three and a half years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 25, 29 July 1940, Page 14
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