Sig. Mussolini Tells How It Must Be Used Rome, Feb. 23.
Signor Mussolini has now detailed instructions as to the casions when the "Passo Romano, the new parade step of the Italian army and the Fascist organizations. is to be used.
According to Il Duce's orders, the new step—which the Italians claim was derived from the paid ste the legions of old Rome, though foreign observers prefer to believe that the Prussian army's traditional goose step" furnished a more recent model—will be used when ever regular troops, police units, Fascist militia, members of military academies and similar institutions parade in closed formation. The Alpini will be the only troops to retain their traditional step.
The "Passo Romano," Signor Mussolini's instructions point out, is to be executed at the rate of 100 steps a minute. The troops will chang from the normal step to the new parade step exactly 100 steps before reaching the saluting base and will return to the normal step when the t file of parading troops is 50 steps beyond the saluting t Ocean.
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