Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encouraging for the families of the colonists was the news printed last week by Armed Forces (Benito Mussolini's official military paper). It gave an account, presumably not exaggerated, of the difficulties of pacifying Ethiopia. During the rainy season (mid-June to mid-September) 113 Italian bombing planes were kept busy supplying isolated Italian outposts. Armed Forces described as "characteristic" the "episodes" of Lalibela, Bilbala Gorgis, Debra Brehan and Debra Sina...
Coincident with the opening of the looth session of the League of Nations Council, the Ethiopian Legation in London announced that during the past two months Ethiopians have killed 6,009 Italians and Italian-trained askaris. This was presumably an exaggeration for diplomatic effect. As Italians were quick to point out, during the whole original war of conquest they did not have so many killed...
...Italian papers referred for the first time last week to the passo romano or Roman step, said it is done "by keeping the leg rigid and striking the foot violently against the ground...
Married. Marta Abba, 31, Italian-born actress (Tovarich), to Severance Allen Millikin, 42, poloist, director of Cleveland Trust Co., grandson of the late Steelman John Long Severance; in Cleveland...
...WARS AND MORE TO COME-Herbert L. Matthews - Carrick & Evans ($2.50). Direct, unphilosophical reporting by one of the ablest New York Times correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...