ITALY CALLS UP MORE MEN

Southland Times, Issue 24113, 30 April 1940, Page 5

ITALY CALLS UP MORE MEN

SLOVENE MANIFESTO ABOUT TRIESTE

ALLIES ACCUSED OF INSPIRING MOVE

SIGNOR ANSALDO HOPES FOR GERMAN VICTORY

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.)

(Received April 29, 10.5 p.m.) ROME, April 29.

Italy has called up the 1906 class, while four other classes are to be called up soon. Dr Virginia. Gay da (the “mouthpiece of Mussolini”) in the newspaper Voce d’ltalia accuses the Allies of inspiring a Slovene manifesto which demanded the return of Trieste to Yugoslavia.

Signor Ansaldo, a director of Count Galeazzo Ciano’s newspaper II Telegrafo, in a broadcast to Italian troops, said: “Germany has now over 80,000 troops in Norway. We soldiers of Italy, while doing full justice and honour to

the valour of the Allied soldiers, hope and trust that the Germans will win. Signor Mussolini and Count Grandi in their speeches in the Chamber confirmed that Italy cannot remain indefinitely out of the conflict. We, therefore, are waiting for orders and arc ready.” The New York Times gives prominence to a story that business messages received in code in New York from Switzerland reveal that the sailing of the 50,000-ton Italian liner Rex from Naples on May 1 has been indefinitely postponed. Italian Line officials insist that they are not breaking the schedule. LATEST REGISTRATION IN BRITAIN

RUGBY, April 28. The Ministry of Labour and National Service announces that the provisional figure of those in the 26-year group who registered on Saturday is 312,912. Of these the number provisionally registered as conscientious objectors is 3838, representing 1.23 per cent, of the total registered, a decrease on any previous group in the proportion registering as conscientious objectors.