THE NEW ITALY
"DISPLAY BY ATHLETES. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 29, 1.30 p-m. ROME, Oct. 28. Fifteen thousand sportsmen and athletes, from golfers to polo players, paraded in Rome to mark the twelfth Fascist anniversary. . Signor Mussolini declared that the march past gave a profound impression of the new Italy. Athletes and sportsmen had a duty above all others to show tenacity and chivalry. Another celebration took the form of a prize-giving for the 70 best farmers from the 70 provinces, each representing a family who had cultivated the same holding for at least a century. The ancestors of one prize-win-ner had tilled the same area for 1000 years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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113THE NEW ITALY Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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