Second Edition. THE WAR.
France
OCCUPATION OF RHEIMS.
FOUR MILLIONS DEMANDED IN RETURN FOR ENVOYS.
(Received 10.40 a.m.) Paris, September 25
An interpreter at Rheims states that Prince August Wilhelm demanded four million sterling if the two missing envoys who’ were sent with the flag of truce to discuss terms of occupation were not found. The envoys have not been traced. SWIS? NEUTRALITY:.
REFUSAL TO ALLOW PASSAGE OF GERMAN TROOPS; '
ITALY THREATENED.
(Received 10.‘40a.m.) * Rome, September 25
The Giornale d’ltalia has received a telegram from Basel reporting that Germany has asked Switzerland for permission to send three army corps across Swiss* territory, and that Switzerland emphatically refused. The telegram also stated that the Italian Government was prepared to defend Swiss neutrality. Germany recently threatened Italy if oven she showed signs of abandoning her neutrality.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 6
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