MYSTERY SOLVED
TRUCE IN ABYSSINIA
FAVOURED BY ARMY
XL DUCE’S COUNTERMAND
ORDERS MISUNDERSTOOD
(Elec, Toi. Copyright—United Press Assn.)
(Reed. March 11, 12 noon.) ROME, March 10
The mystery of the suspension of hostilities in Abyssinia has been cleared up.
Authoritative quarters explain that a truce was actually called by mistake. It appears that the Government considered a truce last week, as the Italian high command in Eritrea favoured it for military reasons, because a halt would not endanger Genera! Badoglio’s positions.
Political developments on Saturday led Signor Mussolini to decide against a truce, and he conveyed his decision during a wireless telephone talk on Sunday. Atmospherics, however, were so bad that General Badoglio misunderstood Signor Mussolini's orders, leading to . the announcement of a truce and its subsequent repudiation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 5
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