NOT TO INTIMIDATE ITALY.
FRENCH NAVAL PpNCENTRATION. '-. ', LdjiTDON, September 20. . The French ■ $*-)"», indignantly repudiates; the -Germany Suggestion that tho i transfer of the. fleet -from Toulon to the Mediterranean .jsdntended to intimidate Italy. ' yyy-yy. ■■>..;• The Paris papers y declare that Germany, is merely trying to provoke a rupture of Mediterraheari agreements for her own profit. .-. -'■ Discussing the /adoption by Fi'an'oe of a tw.o-Pow r er standard m the Mediterranean, the Italian., "-press ;the other day, pointed out that the aim of Prance was to create a naval strength superior to that of Italy and Austria combined. Tlie Rome journals ;fiirther remarked that Italy must anticipate the possibility of Britain using 'Egyptian surpluses to build an Egyptian fleet, and that it was" therefore necessary that Austria and Italy should hasten to maintain the equilibrium of naval forces m the Mediterranean. .^A;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 9
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