Khaki "Blackshirts"

Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs.

Viceroy Graziani meanwhile was busy whipping into shape plans for the Empire's new Government. Top dogs, all Italian, are members of the Council of Government headed by the Viceroy. They are advised by the Board of Consultors composed of six prominent Ethiopian chiefs and six leading Italian emigrant farmers and merchants. In Addis Ababa last week it was believed that some 400,000 of the Italian soldiers and laborers now in Africa will settle there, later bringing out from Italy their families "to colonize these depopulated lands with the fecund Italian race."

Freshly appropriated by Il Duce's order is $8,000,000 to build as rapidly as possible seven great arterial roads linking Addis Ababa for trade and strategic purposes with all key cities of the Empire. Merged under the Viceregal Government with Ethiopia are the onetime Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland.

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