The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15

men as well as directing multi tude of other military and civil preparations in his capacity as high commissioner for the Italian colonies in East Africa.
 De Bono has been assiciated with remier Mussoliin since the birth of fascisrn. He was the military or ganizer of the historic march on Rome and one of the original qua drutnvirate which established the fascist regime in power.
 His friends say that his outstand- ing ability is to see things simply and then act with a sense of reality. military one. He entered the Milan military one. He enetred the Milan military academy as a boy of 12 and was in Eritrea in 1887 as lieutenant with Gen. Marzano's ex- petition into Ethiopia. After that he gained much credit for si part in the Libyan campaigns.
 Career in World War
 His career in the World war, first as a colonel and later as gen. eral, was brilliant. He was award- ed three medals for valor and went through dozen severe battles.
 One of his most enviable char acteristics that have observed per- sonally is that flies seem to avoid him. At the Maskal celebration, when De Bono had to stand at salute for an hour, his arm raised as he reviewed the troops, and later while he awarded decorations, everybody around him was mad- dened by myriads of flies, con- tinually flicking at the pests with their hands. De Bono never twitch- ed a muscle, prompting one cor- respondent to comment, there are no flies on De Bono"
 Shot at Young Mussolini
 Asmara, Eritrea, Oct. 13-Delayed -Oct. 15-(UP)-Bruno Mussolini, Premier Benito Mussolini's IT year old son, returned from an airplane flight today with four bullet holes in his plane.
 Bruno is a member of the "des- perate" squadron of Count Galeaz- 70 Ciano, Mussolini s son-in-law, as is his older brother Vittorio, 19.
 Plane Was Struck
 On a reconnaissance flight, Bruno flew low several times over Makale 50 miles south of the Adigrat- Aduwa-Aksum front. When he re- turned 1t was seen that his plane had been struck by four rifle bull lets, presumably from a detach- ment of Ethiopian soldiers. Other aviators had seen a detachment of soldiers in khaki uniform, probably of the Imperial Guard of Emperor Halle Selassie, near the town. Mak- ale is the next objective of the Italian troops, on the caravan route to the south.
 Ordnance experts have found that a number of the soldiers of Ras Halle Selassie Gugsa, governor of southern Tigre province who surrendered to the Italian com- mand with 12,000 men, are armed with modern Japanese rifles.
 Japanese Arms Used
 Japanese mercantile penetration into east Africa generally is evident here, the capital and chief war base of Eritrea. Many shops are filled with Japanese gods, some labelled with British tags and bears ing trade marks resembling those of well known American products.
 Fiften hundred of Ras Gugea's men, al armed with the Japanese rifles and possessing also 150 ma chine guns, are to be incorporated in the "Sela" regular army division now en route here from Italy.
 Another 800 have been concen- trated beyond Adigrat, on the front and will be used as irregulars.
 Wild Stories Circulated
 Continued circulation of wild stories regarding events on the northern front may be attributed largely to congestion in telegraphic communication between here and Europe. Improved tranmission would permit quick disproval of rumors. Now 1t takes from 12 to "A hours for our messages to reach Europe and one, two or three days for inquiries from Europe to reach us-with consequent disastrous de- lay in Killing runors.
 An urgent message to me from the Rome Bureau of the United Press Saturday was 35 hours in reaching Asrnara.
 (An urgent message from London to New York frequently takes one minute or less in transrnission)