For three hours on July 9, [Signor Benito Mussolini. Premier of Ttaly, worked as a farm labourer in temperature of 94 degrees in the shade, threshing the frst corn grown jin the new settlement at Sabaudia, in the reclaimed Pontine marshes, says a Reuter exclusive message.
The Premier was clad in an open [shirt and wore a broad sun hat which a pretty girl harvester had lent him.
He worked tirelessly, with his usual energy, and later' drew the union rate of pay, equivalent to 26 pence, less one farthing for insure ance.' He then shared the workers" simple dinner which was served in tin platters.
Third City to be Lola Havas says that later in the day, from the top of a tower in Littoria [second Italian city to be built ithe former swamp-lands, Signor Mus~ solint announced that, on December 18, the first stone for the foundations fof Pontinia will be laid, thus mark ling the beginning of the construc-Htion of the third city to rise above aly's reclaimed marsh-lands.
'Addressing workmen who had been engaged in the project of ro~ claiming waste-land, the Premier said, "The century of corporations will' gee the end of intellectual work fand intellectuals who are sterile, who have no children and who are menace to the state.
"Rome was an empire of peasants," he said, "who probably neither knew how to read nor to write.
"The decline of the empire com-Imenced in the reign of letters and intellectuals," he concluded.
Near the threshing machine, where Premier Mussolini laboured, were the presidents of the Senate and [tie House, the Minister of Finance, [Signor Guido Jung; the Minister of Colonies, Gen. del Bone: the sect tary of the Fascist Party and undersecretaries of state and of wa
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