REQUESTS TO ITALY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 10

REQUESTS TO ITALY

3.15 P.M. EDITION

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT. ASSAULT ABOARD VESSEL. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! Received February 26, 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 26. The Minister for External Affairs (Mr W. M. Hughes) has _ announced that diplomatic representations will be made by the Commonwealth Government to the Italian Government “for an appropriate expression of regret” at the assault made on a resident of Australia in the Italian cruiser Raimond Monte Cuccoli. Mr Hughes, who made the announcement after an interview with the actiug-Consul-General for Italy (Signor Cavaliere Arrighi). added; “I think it would be a gracious as well as an appropriate gesture between friendly peoples if some financial recompense was made for Signor Orlando, the man who was assaulted.” Mr Hughes said lie intended to submit this vifjw through the British Foreign Office and the British Ambassador in Rome. • A message from Melbourne on February 17 stated that a series of incidents relating to Fascism marked the visit of the Italian cruiser to Melbourne. In addition to an assault on Wednesday on board the cruiser on an Italian resident of Melbourne, Signor Ottavio Orlando, Italian sailors brandishing knives were alleged to have caused a disturbance in a club used by the Italian community at Carlton, and two city men who visited the cruiser stated they were ordered to the commander’s cabin, where they were asked whether they bad made derogatory remarks about Signor Mussolini. An officer on the cruiser said the sailors had dealt with Signor Orlando because they had taken him for a man who had distributed anti-Fascist leaflets.