FASCIST WOMEN
MILITARY PROCESSION IN ROME GIRLS WITH RIFLES AND FIXED BAYONETS. SIGNOR MUSSOLINI ADDRESSES PARADE. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) ROME. May 28. Seventy thousand Fascist women, in massed and military formations, marched past the Duce on the Via Del Impero. A cohort of helmeted and khakidressed girls, carrying rifles and fixed bayonets, got a special ovation from the crowd. The parade finished up with a complete Red Cross division of cars and ambulances, all driven by girls, followed by a squadron of women cavalry. Signor Mussolini later addressed a great crowd of shrieking and cheering women from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 6
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