HOME'S CLAIMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23233, 30 December 1938, Page 9

HOME'S CLAIMS

; AFRICAN AREAS WAR NOT EXPECTED TKOOPS FOR JIBOUTI 850 LEAVE FRANCE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Dec. 28 It is stated in 'all quarters that there is not the slightest danger of the dispute between France and Italy developing into war, says the. Daily Telegraph. It seems to be the general conviction in Government circles that Signer Mussolini, with German support, will obtain some sort of satisfaction. The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph says the departure from Marseilles of the liners Sphinx for tho Far East, and Chantilly for Madagascar, yns delayed in order to embark a battalion of 850 Senegalese Rifles for Jibouti. The destroyer Epervier, at present in the Eastern Mediterranean, ■was ordered to .Jibouti to join the Diberville, already en routo from Jleirut. The Paris correspondent of the Central N.ews Agency says the despatch of fthe Senegalese troops followed an appeal from General Deschamps, Governor of French Somaliland, says the Indcpendci.' Cable Service. Another message from Paris says •the Foreign Office announces that a topographical mission will be despatched to survey the ill-defined frontier between French Somaliland and adjoining Italian possessions. The Koine correspondent of the British United Press says sources close to it he French Embassy state that Signor [Mussolini will seek Mr. Chamberlain's j;ood offices with France to secure: (1) A largo measure of autonomy for Italians in Tunisia; (2) permission for Italians freely to emigrate to Tunisia .end buy land at present uncultivated; [(3) the cession of the port of Jibouti snd tho sale of tho Addis Ababa-.Tib-outi railway to Italy; and (4) Italian participation iu.the management of tho Suez Canal. According to the Independent Cablo Service, Signor Gayda, press mouthpiece for Signor Mussolini, says Italy does not want Tunis, but has a right to interfere to protect her nationals and'to maintain the status quo. Italy • opposes increased French control in Tunis, which she contends is not French territory.

DANGER TO ADEN FRENCH WRITER'S WARNING CONCESSIONS TO ITALY PARIS, Dec. 21 Discussing the visit to be paid to Rome next month by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, "Pertjnax," , writing in L'Ordro, Elates: — ' "We arc now prepared to believe that there is no longer any question of presenting British and French Somaliland to Italy. "Yet to grant Italy the free use of a port such as Jibouti would be as good a way as any other to prepare for such an event. "It is in Britain's best interests that .there should be no such concession, otherwise the fate of Aden would soon Ibe sealed." VISIT TO MOROCCO M. DALADIER'S PLANS Independent Cable Service PARIS, Dec. 28 The Prime Minister, M. Daladier, tokl a deputation of Algerian members of Parliament that he proposes to make a one-day visit to Algiers on January 6 to review troops and confer with military chiefs. He hopes later in the year to visit Morocco and make an expensive tour of Algeria.