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CRUDE OIL FOR ITALY.— ltalian oil experts are confident of being able to obtain 300,000 tons of crude oil from Albanian wells before the end of the year. An 8-inch pipeline has been completed at Valona, where huge reservoirs are being constructed, enabling shipments to Bari, where the Government has voted a subsidy to build a refinery. The company proposes to build hydro-generation plants on German lines enabling distillation of 80 per cent petrol from crude oil.
MAILS FOR BRITAIN.—No letters posted at Auckland since Monday last will reach England before Christmas, owing to the interruption of trans-Tas-man services, consequent'on the Australian shipping strike.
WARSHIP OPENS FIRE.—For an unknown reason an Italian destroyer patrolling the neighbourhood of Leros fired at a Greek fishing boat, killing two, women and wounding 14.
SETTLEMENT TERMS.—It is stated in a usually well-informed quarter in Paris, that M. Laval handed to Signor Cerutti, Italian Ambassador, suggestions to convey to Signor Mussolini as a rough outline of what Britain and France consider a possible basis for settlement. He emphasised that they were not definite proposals to be refused or accepted. The “News Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent states that Signor Mussolini has refused to table his own terms for peace to M. Laval.
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Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 7
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