| Show italy builds hom community for new coal mining industry industry 4 i te y Y i i j 1 Ke lw V vy r A t prepared d by national geographic c so society ety washington a agog ton D C W service e r V 1 italy has a new coal bi bin from which to draw energy tor for her he r developing industrial life according to reports of extensive coal fields recently inaugurated by premier mussolini at cartonla Carb Car onla bonfa sardinia across the sea f from rom the italian boot shaped roughly in the form of a giant parallelogram more than square miles s in ex extent the island province of sardinia is one of italy chief mining cen cant rs in addition to lead zinc copper silver and other mineral areas are the new coal districts along the southwest coast of the island first industrial town to appear al war in the wake of black gold is carbonia coal city whose surrounding mines ire are already employing an average of workers producing coal olt I 1 at the rate of to tons n s a month town made arder to dorfler 1 linked by narow aw gauge gaug railway w with the nearby port of sant antioco also being expanded as a result ri of increased shipping demands carbonia Is at present a town of somi some inhabitants made to order were its city hall school hospital li flieeter flie ater eliter and nearly buildings to house workers technicians and administrative officials mineral deposits of iron fron copper and silver plus the fertile soil of its western plains attracted phoenician 1114 clan colonists to this island long before the birth of christ later the romans came and made sardinia one of the mediterranean part of the crowd of black shirts and miners who listened to the speech of premier mussolini didi dedicating cating carbonia rhonia Ca southern sardinian Sard inias model mining community gra granaries narles that fed ed the empires armies and citizenry its geographic location along the path of mediterranean exploration and conquest gave sardinia an inevitable n role id in the continuous drama of war and exploitation that followed Aft erthe romans the goths goehs byzantines Byzant yz antines ines vandals and arabs overran sardinia in successive waves of conquest english came in 1708 pisa bisans s and genoese drove out the saracens Sara cens ins and then disputed between twe en themselves for the prize spain took over over around the end of the thirteenth century and kept ah the 0 island until in 1708 the english sect beet captured the port of cagliaro Cag llan and turned sardinia over to austria later in return tor for sicily bledy sardinia was ceded to the dukes of savoy who id adopted opted the title 0 of f king 0 of f sardinia eventually exchanged 1861 for king of italy today the strategic location ot ol S sardinia ard I 1 ni a brings ditmor it more and more into the spotlight of european al affairs about miles west of af the nearest point of italy it is one of at the stepping stones between africa and europe it lionly ls only seven and n a half miles south of corsica and not mach more than a hundred miles north of tunisia tunis Is both ol of which french possessions havi have been lately in news headlines as ai italian objectives |
