A COSTLY WAR
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£126,000,000 for Campaign In Abyssinia HOW WILL IT BE PAID?
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(Eeeeived 17, 8.45 a.m.) EOME, May 16. The war in Abyssinia cost Ituly £126,000,000, aceording to supplemeutary figures issued for the year 1935-36. This is the first indication given of the cost of the war, but no indication is given regarding how the cost is being met. Dangling the "fabulous wealth" »>f Abysinnia before his foRowers, Signor Mussolini, addres'sing the Grand and the Corporate Chamber Council, doclared that Italy would not give up h6r policy of self-sufficiency as it would ^mean that the richer nations v.«a::liV strangle her in the event of war. Economic nationalism guaranteed the peace that Italy desired. The difficnlties of developing Abyssinia were admittedly gigantic, but Italy would overcome them with Italian labour, working, if necessarv. "25 hours «. day."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 7
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140A COSTLY WAR Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 7
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