“ITALY’S ENEMY”
BRITAIN ASSAILED NEWSPAPER’S VIRULENT CRITICISM READY FOR CONFLICT (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) Rome, June 6. The newspaper Ottobre has been sequestrated for a- virulent attack on Britain who, it declared, was Italy’s enemy in East Africa as much as Abyssinia, having pushed Abyssinia into attacking Italy at Ualual under the eyes of Colonel Clifford, also inspiring the Abyssinians’ overweening policy of training Abyssinian troops. The paper declares: “Britain risks provoking a European, even a world, conflagration. If she is looking for war she shall have it. Italy does not wish to fight Britain’s hired assassin, but prefers to settle the account with whoever remains in the shadow of arming Abyssinia. We have no fears, having long meditated the consequences of conflict with a great naval Power oppressing, three-quarters of the world and trying to secure the other quarter. Aeroplanes could within a few hours make Malta an uninhabitable rock. Moreover, the last word has not been said regarding Gibraltar and Suez.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 5
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