FASCIST ANNIVERSARY

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 12

FASCIST ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATIONS AT ROME. [by CABLE —PKESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] ROME, October 29. Signor Mussolini, in his message to the people on the eleventh anniversary of his march to Rome at the head of the Fascist!, on Saturday, challenges democracy and the party government method. Signor Mussolini says: The old doctrines are capitulating everywhere. The Italian papers print maps showing that Fascism has crossed the frontiers of Italy. Germany and Austria are coloured grey, and a grey arrow also points questioningly towards Britain.

Italy must lead the world in air, on land, and in the realm of the spirit. ■ declared Signor Mussolini, speaking . from the balcony of the Plazzo Vene- : tia, at the climax of a glittering march . by 16.000 of Italy’s war veterans and Black Shirts, in celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the Fascist' March to Rome. The march inaugurated the “Imperial way” which Signor Mussolini restructed through the historic city of Caesar's, on which the Roman soldiers l marched 2000 years ago. As the Fascist eagles and other emblems dipped ’ under the ancient Arch of Constantine, ' which has newly been revealed by ex- , cavations, the cheering thousands reIgarded the spectacle as the revival of ; the ancient triumphant march of the i Roman Legions, which impression was i heightened by the presence of the j King, taking the salute for the first | time in the Anniversary celebrations, i The whole of Italy was on holiday, bands playing in the squares, and bonfires blazing on the peaks of the Alps and the Appennines throughout the I night. A huge public works pro- | gramme, which involves £40,000,000, I was inaugurated among the day’s cele- ' brations. CZECH INDEPENDENCE. I, LONDON, October 28. Europe is now celebrating three important anniversaries, namely, those of the Fascist State of Italy, the Republic of Turkey and the independence of Czecho-Slovakia. President Mazaryk presided at the commemoration of Czecho-Slovakia s fifteenth Independence Day. TURKISH REJOICINGS. ANGORA, October 28. The Soviet is presenting Turkey with five fighting planes, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Re-

public, which Turkey celebrates with three davs : holiday. The arrangements reflect a striking testimony to reforms. President Kemal Pasha takes the salute in a mammoth parade of soldiers, sailors, police, boy scouts, and students on the Angora racecourse. Houses throughout the country are glowing with illuminations, and a national anthem, specially written, exI tols Kemal’s leadership. Medals bearing his head are selling at sixpence each. The official summary of national progress shows that £48,000,000 of an unfavourable trade balance in 1926 had been converted into a £15,400,000 favourable balance in 1932, and that Turkey has been connected with an air mail. Numerous international guests include M. Voroshiloff, who has arrived escorted by Soviet cruisers. The British Government hast sent a congratulatory message to Kemal Pasha.