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Five years ago Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, went to the rescue of the wrecked airship Italia commanded by General Umberto Nobile, whom he cordially disliked. A French navy seaplane bearing Amundsen and five companions started from Tromso, Norway, towards Spitsbergen. It was never seen again...
Died. Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco. Duke of the Abruzzi, Prince of Savoy, 60, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne...
...violence of the language of the Franco-British note one may easily recognize the work of the Little Entente, for which France continues to act as patroness!" cried Giornale d'Italia. "This is an attempt violently and undeservedly to humiliate Austria...
Observers, remembering that Mussolini has created and continues to create a series of State-controlled super-trusts (such as his Italia Line, formed by merging the nation's three largest transatlantic carriers), assumed that he hopes to draw Italian capital into these huge, permanent units by preventing its dispersal into tempting ''exuberant industries" which seem to offer a quick profit...
Marquis Federico Negrotto Cambiaso, member of a potent old Genoa family, was elected president of Benito Mussolini's Italia Line, succeeding His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, who resigned (TIME, Oct. 24) With the replacement of all but two directors and the appointment of a new general manager, this step completed the long-awaited reorganization of Il Duce's great shipping line...