ITALY WAS READY TO FIGHT WITH REICH.
COUNT CIANO REVEALS MOBILISATION MEASURES (Bv Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) ROME, Nov. 30. The Foreign Minister, Count Ciano,told the Chamber of Deputies that Italy had mobilised 300,000 additional troops to light on the side of Germany if war had broken out in September. . 1 He added that the Anglo-Italian agreement was an effective contribution to the consolidation of peace. Lt took account of the new realities of the European, Mediterranean and. African situations, settling on the basis of the most absolute British and Italian moral, political and military equality.
An Independent cable from Rome states that Count Ciano revealed for the \ first time that during the Czech crisis Mussolini informed Hitler that in the event, of a general war Italy would aid Germany, as she would feci iierself menaced.
I Referring to Mr. Chamberlain's 'appeal to Mussolini to intervene in the Czech crisis, Count Ciano said the Duce immediately phoned the Italian Ambassador in Berlin, instructing him to tell Hitler that Mussolini advised him to delay action for 24 hours. "That telephone message saved humanity from a tragic trial," he concluded.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1938, Page 5
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