MONT BLANC COMEDY.
FRANCO-ITALIAN DISPUTE. RIVAL FLAGS PLANTED ON PEAKS(Received August 17, 7.5 p.m.) Sun. LONDON. Aug. 16. The Chamonix correspondent of the Daily Mail says incidents on the FrancoItalian frontier have developed into a harmless but spectacular dispute about Mont Blanc. A party of Italian Fascists, headed by Signor Turati, general secretary of the Fascist Party, climbed to the highest point of that part of the mountain which is on the Italian side of the frontier, and solemnly planted the Italian'flag upon it. The Italians then named the peak Monte Benito Mussolini. This action roused the ire of French patriots. They engaged a party of Mont Blanc guides and equally solemnly proceeded to plant a tricolour on the top of the highest peak, which is actually in France. The Frenchmen took oaths to the effect that Mont Blanc, which is French, should always remain French.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19718, 18 August 1927, Page 9
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