“NEW SLAUGHTER”
. THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN PROTESTS IN ITALY (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 29. . The Sun-Herald Service reports that the Abyssinian campaign is not popular with thousands of Italian families, who are indignant that their sons are being sent to Abyssinia to risk fever and dis ease and possibly war against a coloured race. The Manchester Guardian publishes extracts from numerous letters from Italians throughout Italy referring to the discontent, culminating in antiFaseist demonstrations led by workers and students who complain of poverty, unemployment, and high prices. The miners at the Caltanisetta sulphur mines called a general strike and massed in the streets as a protest against the “ new slaughter into which Fascism is throwing Italians.” Soldiers and public < > monstrated against war in Florence, Messina, Milan, and Bologna.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22585, 31 May 1935, Page 13
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