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ITALIAN HISTORIAN LIFTS VEIL IMPORTANCE IN RECENT CAMPAIGN (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received April 4, 6.30 p.m.) ROME, April 3. The possibility of a transfer of General Balbo to a more congenial post after his exacting service in Libya is being discussed in conjunction with an official historian’s account of the com-: pletion of the great Libyan coast road recently opened by Signor Mussolini. The historian lifts the veil and says the importance of Libya during the Ethiopian war in relation to the security of the Mediterranean, and particularly the Egyptian frontier and owing to Britain’s hostility, necessitated the employment of 13,000 men in tenhourly day and night shifts to rush the construction of the road The temperature was 120 degrees and there were perpetual sandstorms. The worst problem was the water supply. The men were tempted to drink from brackish wells from which intestinal troubles were rampant.
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Southland Times, Issue 23165, 5 April 1937, Page 7
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