MILITARY GESTURE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 42, 30 November 1935, Page 5

MILITARY GESTURE

ITALIAN TROOPS TRANSFERRED. ON THE RIVIERA FRONTIER. AMMUNITION ALSO TRANSPORTED. (United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) INNSBRUCK, November 29. It is reported from Southern Tyrol that three divisions have been transferred to the Riviera frontier during the last 48 hours. Large quantities of ammunition are being transported to Southern Italy. Fewer than 30,000 soldiers remain in the Brenner Pass, compared with 500,000 during the summer, indicating a temporary decline of its importance to Italy. All leave for Black Shirt soldiers has been cancelled. OIL AND COAL SANCTIONS. VIOLENT REACTION BY IL DUCE. \•. . I A WARNING GIVEN TO FRANCE. LONDON, November 28. It is announced that in view of the Italian troop movements, and the Rumour from Rome that they are going to the French-Italian frontier, M. Laval has appealed to Signor Mussolini to confine the desperate game to words and to avoid making further Frehch and Italian co-operation impossible. Bignor Mussolini has summoned an emergency meeting of the Cabinet for 10 a.m., presumably to discuss oil and coal sanctions, which, it is understoodSignor Cerutti (Italian Ambassador) told M. Laval would probably cause Signor Mussolini to “react violently.” Signor Cerutti also said that oil and coal sanctions would result in Italy leaving the League, and in the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the chief sanctionist countries, which would further complicate tho attempts at settlement. Meanwhile the proposed new sanctions have aroused intense bitterness in Rome, where it is declared that the movements of troops were a warning to sanctionist countries of the seriousness of the position.