The Archive · 1938

Bae Clamour For Nice, Savoy

Fascist Crowds Hail Duce, Demand Lands

"Back" from France Rome, Nov. 5.

The three territories of Tunis.

Savoy and Nice, formerly Italian and now French, were demanded ba yesterday when hundreds of thousands of people, gathered on the Piazza Venezia to hear an address by Signor Mussolini, acclaimed the Duce.

Hundreds of thousands of ex-servicemen from all parts of Italy had come to Rome to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Italian triumph. over the Habsburg dual monarchy.

King Victor Emmanuele III, Signor Mussolini, all troops of the garrison of Rome and flag detachments from all parts of Italy with over 8,000 flags, took part in a field mass service.—Trans-Ocean. n Duce Acclaimed Shortly afterwards, Signor Mussolini spoke from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia: "Ex-seryicewen, comrades! You have come to Rome from all 98 provinces of Italy to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the victory that the Italian defence forces on land, at sea and in the air won in November, 1918, and witn Which the World War was brought io a close after twenty battles and forty months of heroic and desperate struggle!

"Mey were necessary to destroy the Kaiserreich, the secular enemy of Italy, and to enable us to plant Our flag on the sacred and natural frontiers of the fatherland (loud cries of Tunis! Tunis!) The blood of 700000 comrades fallen in the war whose immortal spirit floats over us at this hour, was not shed in vain (new cries of Savoy! Save; "Nice! Nice!" Shouted "You passed through war day after day and bear with pride victorious recollections on your bodies but even more so in your hearts, (Further cries of Nice! Nice). This pride is justified for you did not fight against cowardly peoples but against traditionally military and warlike races. Our opponents of yesterday have repeatedly testified to the courage of the Italian soldiers.

"After 20 years Italy's victory experienced a revitalization through the victory of Fascism. The blue sky on the horizon of Europe seems as if it would spread. Responsible men are working for this result. It would be unwise end un-Fascist to give way to exaggerated and premature optimism. There are some people who through the human policy of the Berlin-Rome axis feel themselves particularly overcome and dream of daring and impossible retaliations. We must therefore stilt sleep with our heads on our knapsacks as we did in the trenches.".—

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*Quake Rocks Japanese

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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