Milan, May 22.
Signor Mussolini, addressing an mense crowd ata meeting here anted with the "Baton of Authority by wounded ex-Service men, said, AN the geese of Europe have been cackling in defence of their various, capitols as a consequence of my) speeches at Leghorn and Florence."
"There has never been such spectacle of human hypocrisy, he feontinued. "Anyone would think that only Italy has warplanes and that other countries have only pape kites, that only Italy has guns and other countries, walking-sticks, only Italy barracks while elsewhere there are only pleasure palaces and recreation halls, that only Italy ha: the effrontery to possess a navy and other nations have fishing-smacks rades! This baton is the emblem of my submission to the spirit of victory and the country'
Reuter.
Rome, May 24.
In another striking speech at Milan to-day before 300,000 people, Ti Duce said that the object of his recent specches—which had been attained to perfection—had been to prevent the Italian people being! fulled to sleep by the bleating of lambs which, in reality, were wolves, He declared that Italy's economic position was not worse than that of other countries Signor Mussolini added that some people were astonished at his style, but they forgot that his government was not_a Ministry but a regime evolved from the sanguinary efforts of the Black Shirts. He was the fereator and ought to be the defender of their revolution. "In connection with the attacks made on ferred to "the spirit prev certain of our and ended" certain burlesque reports in foreign newspapers."—Reuter.
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