ITALY: Caesar, Virgil, Augustus

When Benito Mussolini marched on Rome, the only first-rate ports on the whole Adriatic (back seam of Italy's boot) were Venice and Trieste. In recent years the Fascist Government has spent millions of lire building another great new port at the medieval town of Bari, with elaborate warehouses, tracks, and a model town, to serve North Africa and the East.

Traffic at Bari has not kept pace with the development. Last week II Duce went down to Bari to open the town's newest publicity scheme, a great...

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