SPIRIT OF BLACKSHIRTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 929, 24 March 1930, Page 11

SPIRIT OF BLACKSHIRTS

SAME WILL AS EVER SAYS MUSSOLINI ITALY’S EYES ON AFRICA United P.A. —By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.50 a.m. ROME, Sunday. In a message to the Black Shirts throughout Italy, commemorating the 11th anniversary of the march on Rome, Signor Mussolini says:—“Let everybody know we still possess the same spirit and the as in 1919.”

The Rome correspondent of the London “Times” says the seriousness of the Italian ambitions in Africa was emphasised in a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Colonial estimates. Signor Pace insisted that the Italian occupation of Fezzan had not been pushed to the limit of territorial rights

He said: “Italy can-Siguor Mussolini not accept a boundary which does not leave Bardlai and Ainglakka far to the northward, and does not give her control of the important Fazzan-Chad and Kufra-Undai caravan routes.” Signor Fera said the African Continent would eventually be dominated by the Power which most rapidly attacked it from the Mediterranean. Therefore it would be a struggle between Britain, France and Italy. Britain, with her great lines of communication and the possession of the former German colonies, had a formidable base. Signor Fera added: “The star of the world’s greatest colonial Empire is declining, because it lacks ideas. The light that once came from Rome is now again burning in signor Mussolini’s enunciation of the principle of authority, order and justice.”