LIBYAN GARRISON
RECENT INCREASE
REDUCTION LATER IF—
MATCHING FRANCE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 16. The British Ambassador in Rome, Lord Perth, within the last few days has had conversations with the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, on the question of the strength of the Italian garrison in Libya. The Anglo-Italian Agreement contained a communication to the effect that the Italian Government intended to reduce its forces in Libya to peacetime level.
Count Ciano informed Lord Perth that actually the forces had been re* duced to the level referred to, but recently they had been supplemented
again. This was stated to be because of increases in the French forces in
Tunisia.
' Count Ciano stated that it was the intention of the Italian Government to reduce its forces later, if and when conditions again became normal.
The inquiry was made by Lord Perth under the terms of the AngloItalian Agreement relating to the exchange of military information which was to be volunteered in January each year; but there was a further clause in the agreement whereby supplementary information could be volunteered or asked for at any other period.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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