TWELVE
By the time you reached the harbour, the ships had been loaded with equipment and weapons, and loudspeakers had been set up in the streets and squares, which relayed the words of one of the speakers, who had come to bid farewell to the first wave of Libyan soldiers leaving to take part in the Abyssinian campaign.
The orator spoke in classical Arabic, expressing the pride he felt, on behalf of the families of the soldiers, for the civilized message these brave soldiers would convey to the friendly Abyssinians. For they were currently living in slavery, bought and sold at the will of the Abyssinian royal family and their slave merchants. Fascist Italy and her intrepid soldiers – which included these brave Libyan heroes – would rescue those people from their suffering and their arriv
