ENGLAND AND ITALY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 872, 25 November 1916, Page 2

ENGLAND AND ITALY.

NEW LEAGUE FORMED. TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP Australian and N.£. Cable Association. (Received November 23, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. A British-Italian League, to foster closer economic, intellectual, and political intercourse, was inaugurated at a Mansion House meeting. Mr W. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade) said that Italy had developed amazingly in industry. If, in the future, she turned more to London than to Berlin, it was certain that Great Britain would respond. Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs) paid a tribute lo the gigantic achievements on the Northern Italian borders. The absence of Anglo-Italian friction would be hereafter noted as a most remarkable feature of the war.