MEETING SANCTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1935, Page 5

MEETING SANCTIONS

DECREES CAUSE DISMAY PROVISION BY ITALIANS DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES Rec. 11.40 p.m. Rome, Oct. 29. Signor Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador, had an hour’s conversation at Rome this evening. Official circles at Rome are silent about the matter. The spokesman says the diplomatic contact continues but no proposals are being discussed. The food decrees in Italy have caused dismay and apprehension, though great relief is expressed that bread is not restricted, thanks to large stocks of homegrown and imported wheat, says the Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The organisation controlling the fish industry has pledged itself to increase its annual output by 4000 tons to make up for the meat restrictions. The hunters’ federation has promised to put more game on the market. Signor Mussolini is drastically cutting the Government departments’ expenditure. Overtime has been abolished in order to save heat and light. In cinemas at Rome British scenes in newsreels are hissed and greeted with cries of “Sanctions!” while French scenes are passed over in silence. Arrangements, it is declared, have already been made to obtain coal from Germany and Poland, lignite from Austria, meat from Argentina, wheat from Hungary and oil from America. Italians are warned to note what attitude is being adopted by the various countries towards Italy’s vital needs and take betimes all precautions to counter in future the pressure of forces hostile to her.