MORE BITTERNESS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 20, 5 November 1935, Page 5

MORE BITTERNESS

ANGLOPHOBIA IN ITALY.

INSULTS IN TRAMS AND TRAINS.

NO BRIDGE OR TEA PARTIES

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(Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) ROME, November 4

Many British residents in Italy are departing owing to the demonstrations. A crowd of 1000 tore down English and Belgian automobile signs from the Hotel Eden and invited passers-by to trample and spit on them. Students assembled at Thomas Cook’s offices and shouted, “What does England do?” The crowd replied, “Stinks!”

Passengers in trains and trams who were reading English newspapers were insulted.

Even the aristocracy are cutting out bridge and tea parties on account of their British associations.

SANCTIONS AFFECT LEAGUE.

NO MARBLE FROM ITALY.

(Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.)

GENEVA, November 4

The League itself is one of the first sufferers of sanctions. The Secretariat hoped to be able to move into the new building on November 5, but the work has been held up, as marble and stone work mosaics ordered from Italy under contracts involving £IO,OOO are now cancelled.

SANCTION’S BY EGYPT.

ITALIAN MINISTER PROTESTS. CAIRO, November 4. The Italian Minister formally protested against Egypt’s decision to adopt sanctions.

JAPAN REMAINS ALOOF.

COLONIAL EXPANSION ASPECT.

LONDON, November 3,

The Geneva correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that it is understood that Japan will not take part in sanctions. Her sympathies lie with Abyssinia, and she has no special love for Italy, but, it is stated, Japan feels that a League victory in the present issue would be interpreted as defeat for the principle of colonial expansion.