REGIME IN ETHIOPIA.
ITALIAN COLONISATION. ROME, June 17. The Ministry of the Colonies has decided to proceed with a national colonisation of Abyssinia through authorised bodies with free grants of small areas to Italian peasants who will share farming with natives where whites cannot stand the climate. There will also be industrial colonisation and licensed public works. The Ministry will undertake a twoyear plan of road-building at the rate of three miles daily, totalling 2300 miles of roads on which 125,000 men, half of whom will he Italians, will be employed. The cost will be £25,000,000.
Though the Viceroy of Abyssinia (Marshal Graziana) has ordered all Abyssinians who are riding, driving or afoot to dismount or halt, and give the Roman salute, nevertheless, when he saw an aged equestrienne conforming with the edict he stopped his caf and assisted her to remount, remarking that women are frail creatures and that it is therefore sufficient if they salute without dismounting.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 18 June 1936, Page 7
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