MOUNT MUSSOLINI.
EMINENCE OF LAKE TSANA. Received April 20, 1.10 p.m. ROME, April 19. Details have arrived of the Easter Day ceremony on the highest peak overlooking Lake Tsana. General Starace said: "I hoisted the colour in the name of the King and the Dnce, saying, 'Let us swear that the wafers of the lake will be sprinkled with the blood of anyorto who may try to take it from us. Do yon swear it?' The troops shouted, 'Yes,' whereupon a Black Shirt stepped forward and asked, 'Can we call the peak Mount Mussolini?' I replied, 'lt shall be done'."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 8
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100MOUNT MUSSOLINI. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 8
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