WAR OR NO WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 7

WAR OR NO WAR.

MUSSOLINI HAS SAY. Symptoms Of Impending Trouble. CONSCRIPTS CALLED UP. United Press Association.—Copyright. XKW YORK. April IS. Reports received in official (|unrtrrs in Washington indicate that Spain's understanding' with Italy is extremely close, says the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times/' There aro increasing indications that Italian, forces which nro opposing entry into the war against (he Allies \vi!| not prevail if Sigilor Mussolini is ileteniiined to act.

The State Department is conferring about the possibility of a rapid sioii of the active war fronts.

The Koine corre-pl.ndent of the "New York Times -, believes the continued losses in Italian iiulllM: in] Mocks indi-i-ate impending trouble, and su;j»ests that, cither they arc the result of accumulated war worries, or else influential "insiders' , luxe knowledge which is denied to the public.

A decree issued by the Italian Government empowers the calling-tip of four Army conscript classi* previously rejected but re-ex mined and now pronounced tit for service.

The Adriatic port of Ruri lias been declared a prohibited area.

This news has not been published in the Italian Tress. The reason given for the step is that gunnery practise is beim: carried out. It was from Bari that the Italian forces sailed n \ear ago to invade Albania.

From Vatican City, the Pope hnappealed to Catholic* all ever the world for special prayers for peace throughout Mα v.

MILITARY MISSIONS. ITALIAN-GERMAN PARLEYS. (ReeelviHl noon.) LONDON, April IS. It is officially announced in Koine that an exchange of military niU.-ioiis is taking place between Italy and Germany. Some missions have already arrived in Koine. The exchanges form part of :i general programme, the object of which is the maintaining of contact between the armed forces of the two nations.