ITALY AND GREECE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17856, 31 August 1923, Page 9

ITALY AND GREECE.

REPORTED GRAVE CRISIS.

THE FRONTIER MURDERS.

(BT ASSOCIATION —COPTEIOHT.) j (AUSTRALIAN AXD S.I. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ' LOXDOX, August 29. Tho Rome corresnondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the murder ot General Tollini has excited violent in digtiation in Italy. The- Greek Government profoundly deplores the incident and has promised to do sill in its power to obtain 6fltis fact km. Later. A grave crisis has arisen between Italy and Greece following on the murder of General Tellini and his colleagues. The Italian newspapers d<v claro that the murders were the result of a deliberate ambuscade by Greek natives of Epirus, wluch will leave an indelible stain. The Albanian Legation in London has received a telegram from Tirana affirming that Greek armed bands were the assassins, and that tho interpreter victim was an Albanian! Tiie "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent reports that tho Italian Government considers that tho crime affects tho Allied Governments as well as Italy, inasumch as tho officers killed formed part of an inter-AJlied Commission. Signor Mussolini remained at the Foreign Office the greater part of the night consulting with the Minister of War and others regarding the measures to be taken.

[Previous messages said: A despatch from Jn-nina states General Tellini, president of the Commission for the delimitation of the Greeo-Al banian frontier, and two members of an Italian delegation, were murdered by bandits. A chauffeur and a dragoman were also killed. Tho Italian Premier, Signor Mussolini, has demanded from Greece full reparation and a prompt apology for the murder of General Tellini, who was asleep in his lodgings when the murderers arrived.]