ITALIAN SHARE IN WAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 7

ITALIAN SHARE IN WAR

INCREASING ATTENTION IN ROME (Received 30th March, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 29th March. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” says increasing attention is being focussed on the Italian share in the Spanish war. Long accounts of the feats of the Italian legionaries give the impression that Italy is engaged in a national war. Signor Mussolini presented medals to the mothers and widows and schoolboy sons of air force members who had fallen in Spain. ARMS FOR LOYALISTS MOVE BY FRENCH COMMUNIST DEPUTIES (Received 30th March, 2 p.m.) PARIS. 29th March, The Communist group in the Chamber of Deputies resolved that in view of the terrible consequences of non-inter-vention which is imperilling the security of France, international law must be re-established and freedom of trade accorded loyalist Spain, whose frontier should be opened to enable the entry of defence material. Thirty thousand metal workers in a Parisian suburb declared themselves ready to support any Government action to raise the blockade of the supply of arms to the loyalists. The Bleriot factory workers agreed that if this is done the suspension of the forty-hour week law would be conceded.