SANCTIONS INTERRED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13310, 17 July 1936, Page 5

SANCTIONS INTERRED.

FASCIST VICTORY PROCLAIMED.

FUNERAL ORATION BY IL DUCE

United Press Assn.—By .Electric Tel eg ra i »ii—Go i»v ri gh t. ROME, July 15. Summoned by the display throughout the city of posters, thousands assembled before the Palazzo VeneW* saia, where Signor Mussolini, arrayed in white silk, delivered a funeral oration on sanctions this evening. Flags which had been flown in the streets of every important city all day were slowly hauled down by citizens at a broadcast command preceded by a trumpet call, but apparently Romans did not hear the broadcast, because all the flags in the capital, even that on Signor Mussolini’s balcony, were not lowered. Signor Mussolini, after sending a message to the Fascist directorate, recognising the consecration of Italy’s objectives with a victory which would incite the people to continue their march under Fascist guidance, appeared on the balcony to roars of applause and waving of tricolour handkerchiefs. He triumphantly declared that the sanctionist nations had hoisted the white flag. The Italian people were solely entitled to the merits of victory, as would invariably happen. The crowd induced the Duce to reappear on the balcony* five times. Three Italian divisions, namely, the Tranto, Assietta and Black Shirt Militia, are leaving Libya, though sanctions do not terminate before midnight. After declaring that the sanctionisfs had hoisted the white flag, Mussolini said: “We would like to see therein not only a sign of surrender but also a symptom of a return to commense.”