THE MEDITERRANEAN.
IMPORTANT QUESTION RAISED BY BRITAIN. REGARDING FRENCH SUPPORT. (Received Tuesday, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. “The Times’! Paris correspondent says a question the British Government has asked the French Government is whether it can count on French support should tension in the Mediterranean lead to an attack on the British Fleet, and whether in fact the French Government is prepared to make paragraph 3 of Article 16 of the Covenant immediately effective. The question in' no way presupposes individual British action in the Mediterranean or elsewhere. The sole aim is an assurance that a sudden and unprovoked attack on Britain would not find: her isolated. The French reply, which could Only be negative if French policy were reversed, is expected to point out that in agreeing to the British request, the French Government would be committing itself in advance to automatic action. It may also take advantage of the occasion to press for a closer exchange of ideas on defence in general. The correspondent Jidda that as far as Italy is concerned, such purely precautionary exchanges are not taken too seriously.
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Wairarapa Age, 2 October 1935, Page 5
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