Italian Peasants Given Free Grants In Abyssinia.
Press Association —Copyright. Rome, June 17. The Ministry of the Colonies has decided to proceed with the national colonisation of Abyssinia through authorised bodies. Free grants of small araas will ba made to Italian peasants, who will share the farming with the natives where whites cannot stand the climate. Industrial colonisation and licensed public works will also proceed. The Ministry will undertake a twoyear plan of road building at the rate of three miles daily, totalling 2300 miles of roads and employing 125,000 men, half of whom will be Italians. The cost will be £25,000,000.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 160, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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