MISTRUSTFUL OF GERMANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 9

MISTRUSTFUL OF GERMANS

GOOD FAITH DOUBTED. MUSSOLINI RENEWS ATTACK 'AN APPEAL TO FRANCE. DEFENSIVE COMBINE PLAN. COMMON PERIL TO FACE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.35 p.m.) Times.-Sun. LONDON, Feb. 28. A representative of the newspaper Le Petit Parisien interviewed Signor Mussolini, Prime "Minister of Italy. The latter said his now famous speech of February 7 was tho act of a responsible statesman drawing; attention to an unsuspected peril, lie was sending thousands of Italian exservicemen for the purpose *of thickly populating the Adige region in order to combat tho pan-German menace. "Nothing has changed in Germany, whero military reviews continue and where military preparation is going on everywhere," said Signor Mussolini. "German aviation, ostensibly civilian, is being developed arid perfected, and the railway militia has been re-established. "This means that tho German General Staff is again in control of the railways. Tho possibility of the common danger of France and Italy Bhould bring tho two nations together, to combine their population of 80,000,000 so as to equal the German bloc, and thus establish a balance of tho masses."

Sigxior Mussolini said ho supports the application of Poland for membership of the Council of the League of Nations. If Poland were not admitted for membership of the Council of the League of Nations, Germany would later bargain for concessions such as the evacuation of the occupied territories and for colonial mandates. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says that Signor Mussolini's latest anti-German tirade is interpreted as an attempt to mobilise the opinion of all the border States against Germany to prevent a union between Austria and Germany.

Messages from Belgrade state that, as a result of recent negotiations, a defensive pact between Italy / and Yugoslavia has been practically completed. This aims at preventing a German thrust to the southward. „

AUSTKIANS AKOUSED. \ ANTI-ITALIAN AGITATION. DEMONSTRATION IN VIENNA. (Received 8.35 p.m.) (Renter VIENNA. Feb. 28. Speeches urging a boycott of Italian goods and of the tourist traffic to Italy were made at a demonstration at the Vienna Rathaus (Town Hall). The gathering was organised by a league named after the Tyrolese patriot, Andreas Hofer. Attempts to hold a demonstration outside Parliament buildings and the Chancellor's residence were prevented by the police •