Picture of Benito Mussolini giving a speech
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Mussolini Warns All Nations Plots On Life Must End

Premier’s Speech, After Futile Bomb Attack, Plainly Aimed at France.

100.000 CHEER DEMAND FOES ABROAD BE CURBED

Message Sent to Americans Contains Assurance No Peril Will Change His Course.

ROME. September 11.—”Tell the Americans and the Italians of America that neither pistols, bombs nor other Instruments of death can make me desist from my course.” Premier Mussolini declared tonight to the Associated Press correspondent, whom he received in his private office in Chigi Palace.

Excavated wine shop in Pompeii
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New Wonders Recently Unearthed at Pompeii

Relics of a Destroyed City that Astonish Archaeologists.

THE ANCIENT city of Pompeii lay on the shore of the beautiful Bay of Naples, at the foot of Vesuvius. It had various industries, but its distinction was due to its vogue as a seaside resort for the Roman patricians. The site of the city is now some miles from the coast, owing to the recession of the Mediterranean.

Pompeii’s most magnificent houses were the abodes of women who ministered to the luxurious habits of the time. They were two and three stories in height, the upper stories of wood, and were richly furnished.

The eruption of Vesuvius, which buried the city, took place on August 24th, A. D. 79. An overwhelming mass of red-hot ashes fired and destroyed the upper stories of the houses and all else that was combustible. This was followed by a deluge of hot mud, which covered everything left, and this, in turn, by ashes, which completed the turning of the city into a vast tomb.

St. Mark's Square, painting by Canaletto
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Italian Life Among The Better Classes

A VENICE correspondent of an American journal writes as follows: The most interesting object in the world is man, or rather women, and that we care most to have or to read of l society. I do not mean now that “society” which half the world could give everything it possesses, including self-respect, to “get into,” but I use the word in a broader sense. It seems to me that the social life which we know in America does not exist in Italy. The visiting, the entertainments, the reunions scarcely are known here, in the sense I mean.

A sketch of Musolino produced around the time of his 1902 trial
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Brigandage Increasing In Italy

Among the fruits of the unhappy condition into which exorbitant taxes, low wages, and other industrial evils have plunged the masses in Italy to-day is an increase in the number and activity of the robber bands infesting various parts of the kingdom. The excuse given by many of those who enter upon a life of brigandage is that the government takes every penny they earn by honest labor, and there is nothing left for them but to rob and plunder or die of starvation. Be that as it may, the brigand army is certainly being recruited at an alarming rate. It is said that in Sardinia alone last year nearly one hundred brigands were captured and some hundreds of followers arrested, including the mayors of several small towns! Southern Italy is infested, and the extent of the intimidation and robbery can hardly be grasped by the inhabitants of orderly communities.

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Mussolini Will Select Own Chamber in 1929

Italy Will Have No Election Until Then, When an All-Fascist Group Will Be Named.

By the Associated Press.

CREMONA, Italy. March 12.—Italy will not have political elections until 1929, when an all-Fascist Chamber of Deputies will be elected. This announcement is made by Secretary Farinacci of the Fascist party. The present chamber, he said, has carried out its work so well that it will be continued until 1929.

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Mussolini’s Threat Causes Consternation Among German People

Berlin, Feb. 7—(AP)—Official quarters decline for the present to discuss the speech of Benito Mussolini, the Italian premier, the complete text of which has not yet reached Berlin. Undeniably, however, Mussolini’s words have caused general consternation, and it is hinted that no other statesman since the war has presumed to address a message of such a tone to another country with which it was on a foot of normal relations.

The address is considered a most untimely obstacle to calmer judgment respecting the mutual interests of Germany and Italy, to which the federal government has recently given much attention.

Though Mussolini’s threatening speech is considered unjustified, it is not denied that it was inspired by the speech of Premier Held before the Bavarian diet.

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Premier Mussolini Delivers Stirring Address Before Fascist Party Following His Escape Yesterday From Assassination

CLAIMS ORGANIZATION MUST BE NEXT IN HIGHEST STATE OF EFFICIENCY.

ROME, April 8.—(AP) Benito Mussolini, premier of Italy having escaped assassination at the hands of a woman, is determined to fight for the principles for which he stands throughout the world.

“I have chosen as the slogan of my life, ‘live in danger’ and I say as an old fighter: ‘when I advance follow me; when I retreat, kill me; should I die, avenge me.’ “

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Rome Celebrates Sixth Anniversary of Birth of Fascism

Rome, Mar. 22 (By A. P.)—The sixth birthday of Fascism was celebrated today by a monster mass meeting and a parade of more than 20,000 black shirts through the Corso Umberto. But the great moment of the day came when Premier Mussolini, making his first public appearance since the beginning of his illness, emerged on the balcony of Chigi Palace and addressed a wildly enthusiastic crowd of 30.000.

Significant in the premier’s short talk was the phrase:

“What I want to say to you is that it is spring now, and now the fun begins.”