TERRITORY TRANSFERRED

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 1

TERRITORY TRANSFERRED

Terms of Franco-Italian Pact. United press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, January 8. The official Franco-Italian settlement gives Italy’ 43,000 square miles in Libya and also a tract of coast opposite the Bab-el-Mander Strait, while France recognises Italy’s sovereignty of the Island of Doumeirah. Italy is also to have a block of shares in the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa, which provides Abyssinia with its trade outlet to the Red Sea. The protocol regarding Tunis will be extended in order that Italians born in Tunisia until 1965 may retain their Italian nationality*. Italian school? will also be maintained until 1955. 7he pact of non-interference in the Danubian basin follows the lines foreshadowed, the Italian and French Governments agreeing to consult with each other and Austria if Austria’s independence is threatened. It is finally* announced that the Italian and French Governments have signed a general agreement stating that all questions between the tw< countries should be liquidated. They affirm their intention to develop the traditional friendships uniting the two countries, and the Governments agree to consult each other on all questions demanding consultation. The clause regarding the Danubian agreement states that it must be signed by Italy, Germany, Hungary*, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria. The disarmament clause reads: “The Italian and French Governments have agreed that no country should modify by a unilateral act its obligations regards armaments, and, in the case of such eventuality, should consult each other.”